Get Ready for the OOBE

OOBE? That's Out Of Box Experience. I just had one this past weekend. In addition to the Wayne Valley High School 45th Reunion in Wayne New Jersey, I also attended a get together of my 7 and 8th grade classes featuring our teachers, who married not long after surviving us. They had a profound influence on us then, and they did again this weekend.

This weekend was an emotional and intellectual roller coaster. There were too many people to talk to them all, and some I even missed until I saw photos later. Many of them were there because of Linda and my contacting them, some of them attending for the first time. They are only just beginning to see how reunions can be different. As you can see, I think Reitz 67 had almost as many people  for the April get together. Wayne Valley had 600 + classmates. So not the turnout one would hope for.

Now the Reitz Class of 67 has had a chance to see what can be done. Now the Reunion Committee is stepping it up a notch! By a whole $8 dollars. For $20 a head, you get fed, you can buy a drink and pull up a chair and talk with people you haven't seen in a while (sometimes a good long while) and share in the memories you made back then and the memories you will make in September. There are going to be teachers there too.

So presuming that you've already gotten your reservation forms, fill 'em in, send in a check and we'll mark you down for the t shirts you say you want. July 15 is the theoretical deadline (we're trying to be kind to our vendors by giving them enough time to do what they do.) September will be here before you know it.