I attended my last two class reunions. I was never able to go before due to distance/work commitments/ young kids. I found many people who lived out of town made a big effort to be there and a lot of people who stayed there didn’t bother to attend.
At my last reunion, 5 of my closest friends and I had dinner together before the first night of the reunion ( the informal gathering). It was great having that time together.
However the next night, only 3 of us went to the dinner- we were the 3 who had travelled from out of town! My friends who lived there didn’t bother.
I was a nerdy student (my middle school / high school “sport” was Math Team). Moving to the district at beginning 10th grade was a little challenging, but I made some good friends. When my parents split up the next year, I moved to an apartment with my mother and sister but happily was able to stay in the same school district. I worked hard at my honors/AP classes, but I also made time to work at Thom McAn shoe store… glad to have had a high school job experience (something that was not as feasible for my own kids).
My friend and her H flew from OKC & NM to attend their respective 50th year class reunions over the past two years (they graduated a year apart from different HSs and met in college). That was the only reason I though I must be missing something because I have no strong desire to attend, having attended some in the past and found not much that I enjoyed about them. Our 50th is right around the corner. Haha!
I’ve seen some pics on FB (there is a class of 77 page - nearly all it has are obituaries though ) and the crowds aren’t big for a class of 555 and the majority are from that local town. I have not truly kept in touch with anyone over all the decades besides having just a few FB friends from HS - but haven’t seen them IRL since high school or maybe early College.
Let me put it this way…got to college and met a former HS classmate who informed me that I had unofficially been voted the “one person in the school who had never tried drugs”. Didn’t know if that was good or bad. I certainly didn’t get invited to parties.
My graduating class was less than 200. We were only the second class to graduate from the newly built school. My mom and both of my brothers and their families still live in the town I grew up in. I live about 100 miles away. I have never gone to a reunion. Both of my daughters still live in the town they went to high school in and have not gone to any reunions. Maybe if my class has a 50th reunion in 3 years I might decide to go.