INTRODUCTION
The NHS Class of 1963 has always had the very best reunions -- beginning with the 10th class reunion at the Alpine Grove, followed by the 20th, 25th, 30th, 40th (really the 41st), then the "big one" - our 50th ("Say It Aint So") class reunion in September of 2013, then the 55th ("Now In Our 70's and Loving It") class reunion held in September of 2018, and most recently our 60th ("It Was the Best of Times") class reunion in October 2023. Each and every one of our class reunions has been very well attended and memorable (we really do click as a class). And we may just continue that great tradition (maybe, just maybe) with a scaled down 65th class reunion in 2028 (beyond that is anybody’s guess).
Click (or tap) on an image below to see a brief recap of that reunion as well as pictures (if available).
60TH REUNION
55TH REUNION
50TH REUNION
40TH REUNION
30TH REUNION
25TH REUNION
20TH REUNION
10TH REUNION
WHO SHOWS UP AT REUNIONS?
We end this section with an article written by the late humorist Erma Bombeck (without permission of course). Erma wrote:
"You can always tell when the high school and college reunion season hits. The streets swell with joggers. There are waiting lines surrounding the fitness center, and you can't find a piece of lettuce in the entire town. Everyone wants to go back to their school looking like they were 18 years old. Everyone wants to be the one who fulfilled the class prophecy. It's "deja vu".... with hairpiece, dentures and stretch marks. Some classmates never return to the school that unleashed them into a society armed only with a talent for diagramming a sentence and knowing three Spanish verbs. They have no curiosity as to how everyone turned out. Others are staples at every reunion and wouldn't miss it for the world. Who are they?
- INSURANCE SALESMAN. One class reunion is worth 300 callbacks. Show them a picture of your family and from somewhere they pull out an artist's brush and take Daddy out of the picture...leaving you with no income, and a $350,000 mortgage. They really know how to make a party fun.
- EVERYONE WHO IS PREGNANT --- They show up in the early reunions...and why shouldn't they? They have nothing to lose.
- TALL PEOPLE WHO USED TO BE SHORT -- At my reunion, I met a boy who had grown six inches since high school graduation and turned out to be a hunk. I told his wife (an outsider) it wasn't fair. We put up with him when he was short. He could have at least told of us of his plans.
- RICH PEOPLE WHO USED TO BE POOR --- They drive new cars, give you their "card" and hide out in the restroom from the high school fundraisers. They never bring their own bottles, but summon drinks from the bar at $10 a pop.
- PEOPLE WHO KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO THE CLASS SONG --- I have been to a lot of class reunions in my time.....and they always show up. Both of them.