Do the Schools You Attended Still Exist?
@KuznVinny (768)
United States
April 17, 2016 12:22pm CST
As I wrote about the other day, my high school had its 50th reunion for my class, the class of '66.
So the organizers put up some 80 photos of the event, including some images of the school itself (I wish there were more).
Now I believe in an eternal future right here on earth. Notwithstanding, I won't pretend I was without emotion at seeing photos of the old school and of my former fellow students.
Youngsters have no clue what it means to have not seen something familiar for 50 years. Assuming pain is not the overwhelming emotion that was experienced, the heartstrings are touched at reunion. The old sentimentality kicks in, big time.
Have you ever experienced this?
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
19 Apr 16
We are having our 4oth reunion this summer, but I'm not going I see who I want to see now. As for the school it's still standing, classes are still going on and is on the National Register of Historical Places.
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@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
19 Apr 16
Not the National Register of Hysteric Places? Haha.
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@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
17 Apr 16
The high school I attended building still exists being use for school offices for overall county functions including keeping and repariring school buses since they built a new high school using the same name a few miles away (still go by the old scholl and have many memories). The middle (junior the first year I attended) no longer exists as the tore it down and bult a new elementary school for the one that was three blocks down the road. The elementary school was there til last summer when a new building ws erected on a portion of the same property and tore down after being there for close to a hundred years and it seems odd to pass the road ans see a modern two story building near where the old one story school stood.
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@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
17 Apr 16
I think, within ourselves, we feel like we should live forever. In fact, that is actually the case. We have "eternity" in our hearts, as Ecclesiastes says. So to see our world crumbling in front of us, is disconcerting.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
13 Jun 16
I am meeting up with a group of friends from school later this month. I am sure looking forward to that but I haven't gone to a reunion since the 20th. I didn't recognize people then, and didn't bother going to the subsequent reunions. My schools are all still there.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Apr 16
I know my high school still exists. I drive by once in a blue moon.
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@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
17 Apr 16
My earliest elementary school was torn down a few years after I last visited it. An inscribed stone in the ground, remains. I attended Kindergarten there in 1953!
