Class Reunions

I just received an invitation to my high school class reunion. It will be a combined class reunion for all classes prior to 1980.

How many here have been to class reunions and what are your experiences with them? Particularly for single vs. married vs. divorced classmates, what kind of interaction would you expect?

Thanks for the response.

This one is supposed to be a Friday to Sunday weekend event. In 1978, it was a small senior class of 72 students in a small high school in a small town. The reunion would be all the classes prior to 1980, so it would be 40-somethings and up.

In contrast, I had moved from a larger high school when I was in the 10th grade where the senior class was around 400 students and the setting was in a city. The atmosphere at that larger school was more of your typical clique-groups, like in the movie "the Breakfast Club". But the small high school in the small town in which I actually graduated was much more friendly and much less cliquish. I can't remember any bullies...but I'm sure there would be a lot of bragging and comparing marriage situations and careers at such a reunion.

I try to keep up with both high schools' classmates on the "Classmates" website.

I'm reminded of 2 episodes of the Andy Griffith Show where high school reunions are portrayed. In both reunions, Barney is crushed, first by Ramona Wiley, then by Thelma Lou. In the first one, Andy rekindles a romance with Sharon DeSpain (but later in the episode they remember what caused them to never get together).

see http://www.andygriffith.net/epguide.asp