Hey Folks-
Adding to Ginger's reflections the 50th was a tremendus success. Thanks to her and Jan for all the hard work in making it a reality. Wish more of you could have been there but those of us there thought about you all and represented.
We did our informal gathering at Rivara's resturant (old Owl & I). It was fun seeing folks start to reconnect with old classmates they in many cases hadn't seen in years. We had a big surprise in that Wendy Van Heest (a few years behind us) got her brother Jimmy to come. He definitely got the prize for the longest trip to get to the reunion, he lives in Thailand! Was fantastic seeing him.
Although Saturday was a dreary day weather wise it didn't dampen our enthusiasm! In the morning folks visited the Glen Rock Museum in the old train station done on Main St. In honor of our class they had made a special display of 1968 era memorabilia. Thanks to Bill Mitchell and his wife for arranging this. Anumber of us convened for lunch at the Glen Rock Inn, still owned by the Quinn family. Conversation remained animated and you could feel th good will among all the classmates.
After lunch a number of us toured the HS. Thanks to Carlo and Debbie Cella (also a few years behind us) for conducting the tour. Debbie is the Director fo the Arts program at the school. From the outside the school doesn't look too different, although some additions have been made. The halls also didn't look too different but there has definitely been allot of changes to classrooms. The students who go there have access to the latest technolgy and equipment. The old senior court looks like an outdoor patio of an upscale resturant. Was fun rememebring all the activity that took place in the confins of that building.
Saturday night was the reunion dinner at our home base the DoubleTree Hotel. The room looked great and the food was pelntiful. A number of folks who hadn't been able to attend other events were able to join us for dinner, so we had more classmates to catch up with. The 5 hour affair flew by. We had a photographer take pictures. I suspect if you check back here you will have an opportunity to see many of them. Also hoping classmates who used their phones to take informal pictures thorugh the weekend will post them here.
While I had hoped that more of you could have joined us, I have to say the reunion and seeing all the folks was fantastic. Really glad we did it.
Louis Canonico
