Hi Class of 1964- I am starting to try to help get people together to organize a 50th reunion (Ouch!) –Don’t ask me why but I am feeling some old time breeze in my bones coming from the tepid waters of Quincy Bay, coming from the dusty old tree-named, Indian-named (oops, Native American-named) streets, and ocean-named streets of our town smacking me in the face. Coming too from some old bleeding Raider red nostalgia that I have not, well, have not felt since the day in June 1964 when we threw our collective caps in the arm at Veterans Stadium and went out to face the world, a world that were didn’t create and were not asked about but which we faced as best we could. Coming, hell, from mind’s memory of steamy summers at Wollaston Beach, HoJo’s ice cream, deathly school lunches, running around tracks in shorts subject to the whims of irate drivers and old lady pedestrians, cheering myself silly at those titanic football battles, especially senior years, on those granite-grey leafy autumn afternoons (nice, huh). And too reflecting to on that fresh clean breathe of the “newer world” that was in the air just then. (As I write this on November 22, 2013, no need to ask what happened on that date or where we were not with this audience, overwhelmed by that little sadness that our dreams, our outrageous over-sized youthful dreams, might have been shortened up just a bit, that that day some portentous ebb of history would hold us back.) All this telling me to help put this reunion idea together since this is effectively our last shot at coming together under the sign of a significant anniversary. To see our respective old gangs collectively for probably the last effective time that the clan would be able to gather on a significant occasion what with death, disability, forgetfulness and just plain fright at the idea of a next time taking their toll. That the next significant milestone, the 75th , assuming that the mania for oddball celebration years like 30th , 45th , and 60th , or worst 38th ,48th or 68th has no taken root we would all be at or approaching ninety-three. A very scary thought, the thought of holding a reunion at some assisted living site or nursing home. No thank you. Now or never. Are you up for it? Would you attend? Are you still in contact with 1964 NQHS in your social network (nice term, huh)? Let them know whats afoot -Right now this is just an idea I just want to see who is in, and who wants to help organize this thing. I have set up this event page on Facebook to see if there is any interest - North Quincy High School Class of 1964 Reunion- and other sites to reach out. Later Al Johnson e-mail [email protected]
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:56:40 +0000
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