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Still Alive and Kicking '72 and Friends

There are people in our lives who affected us in subtle and not so subtle ways.

Some were teachers, others friends, and others - those with magic in their smile and magnetics of the eye..

Life is fleeting.

And ...for many, the moments of magic from the past have an even stronger hold now than when they were children. Oh, they know that the light transfered by laughter from a boy to a girl or girl to a boy is but an echo. And yet the echo is forever in the heart and dreams of fancy somewhere in between the spaces.

Many are haunted by past moments, not just happy but tragic as well. As adults we know there are some things that cannot be put right or as we might prefer them.

But - there is still a lingering belief in those moments; treasured - even if we know that those dreams have wafted away on the breeze of lost opportunity and youth - leaving us as we are now, who we are now, as others see us today but on the inside still that magic being.

I discovered at the last reunion in 2007, well beyond the 30 something years since high school, some having  become parents whose children have flown, some have become grandparents, some having careers and perhaps success and money, or having experienced failure, degradation, divorce, disease, depression....

I discovered at the last reunion that when I met up with friends and acquaintances who knew me as a child of 15, or 18, or 20 - that the person I was then, still exists- in others. They remind me of the silly things but also of things I had not realized, the positive effect I had on some...I did not know. How could I - I was a kid!

I discovered that some people look to a moment when they can allow 'today' to blend into 'yesterday' to see who we are now, listen to the sound of our voices- laughter and be recognized with a rush of familiarity -the smile, handshake or hug, to share perhaps one last moment; the stories, buried, long gone -come rushing back, one last chance...

I came away knowing the value of the time spent in those days despite my attitude of wanting oh so desperately to get away from it all and to never ever come back.

'Reunion',  has long ago for most of us transcended from a silly show-off of materialistic name game, to a process- where people are eager to find out who the inner you is- and if the 'you' they knew still exists in there.

Are you ready for the next REUNION in Chateauguay /Montreal, Victoria Day Weekend 2013 for those who went to HSB during 1967 through prime 1972 and then on perhaps to 1975? The same group that put on the last big one ('72 & Friends) are doing it once again.

Check off your calendar. We sincerely look forward seeing you once again. Get all your big travel plans done next year but 2013 May, must be reserved to come HOME. We guarantee you will come away with more of yourself than you came with...even if you did not graduate, you were part of the family and always will be. You will have one last chance to make good!