Florida Winter News
From Beth Noe
Dinners with Friends
all doing well!
NEWS FLASH.....
Tom Claflin runs the Boston Marathon
on Patriots' Day 2017!
Not his first time at Boston, but his first
run as a spry 69 year old. Kudos to Tom
for a race well run! He is not just our
web and video master, but an accomplished
runner as well. BGHS Class of 1966 says...
Congratulations Mouse!!
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Check out A few new photos from the recent
Florida get together in the
Photo Albums tab under
50 1/2th Reunion
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Class Gift !
Between a bit of money left after the Reunion bills were paid and the money thrown into the hat AT the Reunion, we felt we had $800 to contribute as a class to BGHS. The end result of much consideration is that the band is planning to purchase covers for their Sousaphones with something like a Bobcat logo on them that they can use for games and parades and concerts--something they've wanted for some time, but lacked funding. So, thanks everyone who contributed and pictures will be posted when we have them.
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So, as things stand, after the great time that we just had at our 50th, we're gonna plan on seeing if we can get back together again in TWO years. Some of us have spouses and/or siblings who graduated in the class of 68, including Beth Noe (Ron) June. Since they're planning their 50th (Ron the foremost and Principal Commander of their organizing commitee) for October 6, 2018, we hope to piggyback on their get-to-gather weekend and celebrate our 52nd reunion and for most of us, the 70th anniversary of our arrival on the planet.
So this is a two year "save the date" post. More to come. I hope you can join us!!
Additional info:
Barb Shrider, who fell and broke her arm at the picnic on Reunion weekend is on the mend, but I'm sure would appreciate good thoughts, white light and good wishes. Keep healing, Barb.
TC
Some new pictures. Please add more or email them to me at tomclaflin@gmail.com
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Terrific re-union of old 66 friends, last night. Awesome, everyone!!
Anyone else Still have dreams about heading to school with NO homework
FYI- Many new Pictures and Memorial Tributes have been added in the past few days, if you haven't taken a look lately.
Only days left now. It's really gonna happen. Time for even the procrastinators among us to be signing up. Come join the fun.
I know, it's a little sappy, but..........................,................ So what are some of the reasons nobody forgets their high school years?
-This was the place I grew up
-This is my spiritual home
-This is the land of endless sky
-This is the place where I was safe
-This is the ground where the seeds of later life were sown.
-These were the people who were the anvils upon which I forged who I was and what I would become
-These people were the caring teachers of all the really important lessons of living life
So the date is closing in on us now, and lo and behold you're still more or less ambulatory, the incontinence is under control and it's only a matter of will determining if you join us us for the Reunion. Buy your ticket and come giggle and sigh a little at where we all are now with life.. It'll be sobering...... but we'll buy you a drink. Come!...... you'll be glad you did.
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I would nevva, evva tink of treatenin anyone, ya know, but since some a yous seem to need a little extra "persuasion", I tink dat you should really want to be plannin on attendin dis Reunion ting, lest any errant hahm should come ta yous, capice?
Hey, I'm talkin'a you!
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Dat's right, we have ta do a little bidnuss in yaw vicinity dis next week and we could, an I'm just sayin could, pay yous a little call, ya know, to like "encourage" yous ta come ta dis here reunion. Seems to mean a lot ta some of owah mutual friends.
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A couple of '66 reunion dudes go into Howard's the day before the reunion and sit down across from a couple of old geezers drinking beer. One sez to the other, pointing at the geezers, "There, my friend, is you and me in another ten years." The other 66er pauses, looks at him with a pained expresssion and sez, "You moron, that IS us, that's a MIRROR."
Time to sign up for the Reunion!
A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said: "Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?" I said: "All right, but we won't get much done". Budda, Bing!
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I don't mean to brag, but I just finished my 14 day diet in 3 hours and 20 minutes.
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Seeing the light, you realize that attending our 50th Reunion is one of the best decisions you've ever made. When you are ready to commit, hopefully soon, return this form with your $55 per person check for the dinner to:
Tom Hoane
838 Lake Artesia Lane
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Sorry, that's a hardware problem.
A friend of mine was sitting in the waiting room at an Urgent Care waiting for a doctor to sew up a gash on her arm and saw the name on the diploma on the wall was the same as one of her high school classmates. She wondered if it could be the same, tall, handsome dark haired boy she remembered having a crush on almost 50 years ago. However as soon as she saw this balding, grey haired man with the deeply lined face, she quickly discarded any such thought. Still, once he started placing the sutures, she asked him if he had attended BGHS. "Yeah, yeah, I was a Bobcat", he said. Then she tells it this way. When I said, "You were in my Class!", this ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat, decrepit SOB looks at me carefully and says, "WHAT DID YOU TEACH?"
