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Another 5 year has passed. Hrrmmph.

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:32:50 +0100

Wow, another 5 years. What has happened in your life in that time? So much has happened in mine. Have you stayed in touch with your friends? Has the time just gotten away from you? Did you get together with those you promised to see at the last reunion? I hope I've made more of an effort to stay in touch, and not just on Facebook, either! (It's a lot more challenging when you don't live in state, let me tell you! :-) ) It's so much more fun to get together, yes? So let's get gather and party and catch up and have a blast! See you there!!

Can You Believe It?

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:42:29 +0100

I have been talking to friends and classmates about this reunion, doing various tasks and trying to drum up enthusiasm for this silver celebration since October of 2009. I have said "25th reunion" more times in the last 8 months than I think I have said hello to my husband! It just never hit me. Never really clicked. Until this one afternoon in July. I was with Heidi at a meeting checking out a prospective venue, and while doing the walk through, it just came up and SLAPPED me upside the head!

It was absolutely unbelievable. I was floored by the brazenness of the whole idea of it! We have been out of school for twenty-five years. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, people! Oh my god! How did this happen? I mean, yesterday I was moving away from my parents' home, getting married, raising my family, going to school, changing careers or making family choices, and NOW....now I have been out of school for 25 years. That is an entire adult's life on top of the 18 years that we put into school!

A few pounds more, a few gray hairs more (OK, A LOT more for me, and less for some, hair that is ;-) ) 12 different moves and, now, I am a grandmother to boot. How did life fly by so quickly?

So I ask myself, "Why is this reunion so important to me, to all of us?".

Reconnecting with people of our past for most of us, is a reconnection to our youth. But even more, I feel that it is a reconnection to all that we have accomplished and to all those that we have touched in the last 25 years. When in high school, we are being molded, shaped and prepared for what lay ahead. Having no idea who we were to become, we based our opinions of each other on who we were and what little we knew then, and rightly so as we had no other frame of reference. Now, though some might say we don't really change who we are at our core, we are someone else. At the very least, we have more experience, more wisdom, more education, both formal and street smarts, and hopefully we are better than we were 25 years ago, and we need the opportunity to express our new selves to our past perceptions.

When people go to reunions, they don't normally walk in to show off what a schmuck they are; they carefully craft who they are by looking inward and pulling out all that they are proud of, polishing off all the ways they have done good in the world. In this sense, we reconnect to some very positive moments in our lives, we find that we really are more than what we were.

I have heard some say that they don't go to reunions because they kept in touch with those that they wanted to keep in touch with, and if they didn't keep in touch with someone, it was because they didn't really have a desire to in the first place. That may have been true in the first few years, but after 25 years, can we truly say that we have no desire to connect with so-and-so, or what's-her-name? How can we, we don't even know who this person is anymore. Do people even know who you are anymore? It is an interesting and exciting notion to realize that we can get to know each other on a completely different level, as long as we can put aside our preconceived stereotypes of who we used to be.

What reasons might you have for celebrating 25 years after high school graduation? I want to hear from you, they don't have to be as philosophical as I have presented here. Simple is great! Email me at enricofermiclassof1985reunion@yahoo.com and let me know. I will post them here and on Facebook anonymously. I love a good survey!

See you at the reunion!!

Wants & Needs

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:36:02 +0100

Please send us a current picture of you and your family if you wish (even if you are not able to attend) so that we can include it in our slide show! Send it in *.bmp or *.jpg format to the email address on our Contact Us page with "reunion pictures" in the subject line. Also include names of people in order of appearance and where/when the pic was taken.

Starting to collect donations for our raffle baskets. If you are crafty and make beautiful things, or if you have a local business and want to donate a gift certificate, or if you just want to donate an item that you have purchased we will accept anything as long as it is new. Please contact Pam Caplette Fowler or Patti Jensen Magnuson, both on Facebook, or email us from the contact us page to arrange pick up or delivery.

We are going to convert our old slides to digital pictures and add in current pics to create an electronic slide show to display during dinner. If anyone has or has access to borrow the projector (and connecting cables) that connects to a computer, we will greatly appreciate your lending it to us that night. Again, please email us from the Contact Us page.

Thanks!!

Date, Time and Place

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:34:19 +0100

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting our website.

We have a venue, room block and agenda now.

On Saturday, November 27, 2010, we are proudly holding our 25th (can you really believe it's been that long?) class reunion at the Doubletree Hotel in Windsor Locks, CT on Rte. 75. We have a block of rooms at a special rate of $69 per night, so if you want to stay over, please reserve early. You have until Nov. 6 to get the special rate. Go to the About Us page for the link to reserve your room.

Ticket prices are $50 per person and we have a paypal account for your convenience. Again, go to the About Us page for that link. You have until November 15 to buy tickets, as we have to give a final count and payment to the hotel on that day.

Our night will begin at 6pm, with a cocktail hour, open limited bar (beer, wine and soda) from 6-7 with an assorted cheese and cracker platter, coffee all night, and a buffet dinner from 7-8. Please let us know if you require any special dietary accommodations (vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, etc) as soon as you can. A dessert buffet will follow at 8.

After dinner we will have raffles and dancing with a DJ.

Email us on the Contact Us page with any questions. We are also on Facebook, search for Enrico Fermi Class of 1985 Reunion.

Please pass this info on to any classmate that you may see, but is not on facebook or classmates.com as we are not doing any postal mailings this year. It costs too much for too little return, so everything is being done electronically over the internet. Welcome to the 21st century!!

Check this site often for updates and missing classmates.