56th Reunion Coming on October 2-5, 2022

Hello Classmates -

I am thinking of all of you.  I've just looked through all the reunion files I have from the 10th through to the 50th.  This is the list of the 6 times and places we've celebrated our relationship to each other:

 10th - Ohio, July 16-18, 1976

20th - Estes Park, CO August 22-24, 1986 (noted in an article in the local newspaper)

30th - Snow Mountain Ranch,  CO July 6-9, 1996

35th - Buchannon, VA,  July 26-29, 1991

40th - Estes Park, CO, July 27-30, 2006 

50th - Port Townsend, WA, July 15-19, 2016

So the tradition is 7 reunions strong counting the one we are planning.  Maybe the last.  I am awash in so many emotions, hard to separate them out.  First is marveling that we've kept this up for all these years - just the fact that I have persevered through all the organizing of 6 of them - the fine example set up Phil and Rajan of the first one was my guide.  I have such a vivid memory of being in the Miss Cressman's room where we girls were being taught to knit red Christmas bells.  I was frustrated because she couldn't really tell me how to do it because I am left-handed.  So I said I wasn't going to finish mine at which point she said "Cathy Whitcomb you never finish anything."  That did it.  I have finished everything for the rest of my life, from books I didn't want to read to finish my PhD whether I wanted to or not.   Some of you might point out that I didn't "finish" my first marriage, but as others of you have experienced, sometimes a marriage just finishes on its own and you have to move on.

Before all these times we've gathered and you wrote and told what your lives were like each time.   I am going to bring some of those letters with me to Amaicalola.  You can see your own or others - take them or pass them on to your kids.  Then we can have a bon fire of what's left and give them a dignified farewell.   Here is the first announcement from Rajan Kose with such great artwork - thinking we might want that CHPEBUH for our 56th reunion t-shirt. 

 

Followed by Phil's Directions - it was a great weekend in the Ohio countryside - 2-seater outhouse and all.