2nd All Class Reunion
It was a beautiful day, if warm and a bit humid, but we had a nice breeze most of the day. The venue turned out to be perfect for this kind of event so we'll try to go back to Cameron Park next year.
It's a lovely bunch of folks that attended this event today and I'm very grateful to all who were able to come and visit for any length of time. I was especially pleased to see so many spending time on "Memory Lane" going through all the memorabelia that was brought to the event. It prompted a lot of special sharing, some wonderful stories and I'm sure some new friendships. Thanks to all who participated!
First of all - total who signed in - a whopping 324! Up from 183 the first year and very respectable for a 2nd year, eh? Next, Class of 70 had 23 sign in and Class of 63 had 21 sign in.
And just from conversations I had with people today, we had at least two two-generation grads present (mom and kid who both graduated from EHS). Very cool!
There were several teachers but other than Van Dunahoo and Sue Lingenfelter, I didn't know them. I'll dig them out of the lists soon. I do know that one was Ward Wenner, a math teacher and Kay Zahrt - HomeEc? I don't remember her.
Anyway, there was also this amazing young guy who popped in out of the blue. Turns out he's a track coach at WCHS and he saw the signs while driving by. He pulled in and sought out the "person in charge" and said I have some stuff I've been saving from an old rummage sale years ago when Edgewood was turned into a middle school and I just hated to see it be thrown away so I bought it and have been saving it to find a nice home for it someday and would you like it? With that, he left for a few minutes and returned with a football jersey (number 64), some heavy weight wrestling warm-ups and later in the day an EHS baseball cap and some other kind of sweats. He then proceeded to hang around Memory Lane and started looking at the board I did of teacher pictures from back in my day (copied from Gordon's website). At that point, he began pointing out teachers who were still there, those who had retired, and a whole bunch of information about them. It was so cool! He was just a delightful young man! He's going to look for more stuff around the school and he has contact info for me so I guess I now get a new designation as EHS museum! Yikes! HAHAHA!
I just have one more thing to add. Last night at our 35th, Bruce Carr - one of my classmates and the owner of a trophy company, got up and started this long story about Oscars and how they were put together and all this stuff about how he was involved in that........ long story short - he made and presented to me my very own Oscar (which looks remarkably like the real thing) and says "The Oscar, Presented to Debi Elliott, For her hard work and dedication to Edgewood High School". I cried and was humbled beyond words. I will treasure this all of my life. Bruce, my friend - you touched my heart right where I live..... I came kicking and screaming because my parents moved me to EHS between my sophomore and junior years and I thought my life was over back then, but what I have found is that these are the people I still have in my life today and these are the people who are faithful and support all my efforts. I wasn't able to make an acceptance speech last night but I'll say now - I am privileged to offer the opportunity but it's all of you who make these events come to life!
Thank you for being such wonderful friends!
Debi
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