Monday, September 02, 2002

The Class of 1977 25th Reunion festivities are now concluded and at this time the committee and myself would like to thank anyone who helped in any way to make our reunion the success that it was. For those who really could not make it but really wanted to be there, especially A.M. Tribendis and Dave Serhan as well as L. Canfield, just to name a few, you were truly missed, but good news, plans are already underway for a 30th class reunion, so we hope your plans can change and you’ll make that reunion. For those who just didn’t want to go, that’s too bad, you really missed out, you missed Victory Pig and the waitress being a bit overwhelmed and asking us constantly to sit down, you missed playing miniature golf as well, you also missed out on the picnic that Doc had set up at Hamilton Park in Kingston, only a few families showed, but Doc, as usual, was ready with 100 water balloons, you importantly missed being in our group picture and having had it taken by Mr. Walko, and once he was done with the picture the music of “Welcome Back” came on from the famous Welcome Back Kotter show, you also missed hearing Mr. Lynch tell us at the Reunion itself that we’re a special class, a close knit tight class, you also missed Mr. Lynch tell us that he has only had 3 classes that he really recalls, but has only gone to our class reunion as well as hearing him tell us that the other invited teachers and spouses, Mrs. Obuhosky, Mr. Slusser, Mr. Uter and Mr. Walko have never been to other class reunions, only ours. You also missed the front table winning most of the prizes, a bottle of champagne, some of them even winning two bottles and Mary Pappas Kosin asking who was their designated driver, you missed Ralph Marsh being Gene Simmons of KISS, you missed getting one of Lee’s CD’s, and it’s awesome, you missed Jay Tobias getting a lot of attention that evening, afterall, he is our 1st. Grandpa, I really think we should have given him a bottle of aspirin instead of the Champagne, you missed Bee Harris being the life of the party, especially being our class representation for the evening, you missed the day after at the Mass for the deceased when Lee Devlin and Brian Judge had the honor of bringing up the gifts to represent our class, you missed Mr. & Mrs. George attending our after Church Social and telling us how she knew Paul would have been there if he was alive, you also missed Mrs. Kuhar and her family tell us about Sharon and how she did Sign Language, but most of all you missed the hello’s and goodbye’s, and most importantly you missed the fun and the laughter we all shared. We the committee tried to make the reunion a weekend of fun, it went from a somewhat high cost of $50.00 for the reunion itself to no cost which consisted of the social after mass, we even had a few family functions where the kids were invited, so it was a mix for the entire weekend, so unless you had something pressing such as L. Canfield, or a few others, there was no excuse, but you can redeem yourself, there’s always more reunions. Thanks for all that came, we really did have a great time, no one seemed to want to leave. I know there is just so much more that needs to be said and I know I’ve missed a few things here and there but maybe someone else will refresh my memory, I know that those pics that Lee promises to put up on this site soon will definitely help.

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