New (and completely free) US high school reunion website

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:56 am

I just found this site yesterday, and it's a heck of a lot better than places like classmates.com where you can't actually contact anyone unless you have paid a fee.

http://www.classreport.com

The only problem is that since it's so new (only established in the last year or two) it's not too well known yet. It needs more advertising, so this post is a word-of-mouth plug.

I don't really want to get back in touch with most of my classmates, though there are a few I miss. Mostly it'd be nice to let them know that the class misfit managed to have a good life after all

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:53 am

It's my experience that that sense of misfittedness can change with time.
I've been to 10, 20, and 25 year reunions and enjoyed talking to people whom I really had nothing to do with back then. Oddly, I even have several friendly acquaintances in town nowadays who were former cheerleaders. (I was a geek.)
I think that when you go to reunions, you find that that person who's changed is yourself, and you then hit it off with almost anyone else who has also grown in maturity and confidence, regardless of their former pigeonhole.
There is, however, always (even at 25 years!) an element of folks who seemed to get stuck at age 17, but you can pretty much overlook them and let them snigger amongst themselves.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:26 am

emmline wrote:It's my experience that that sense of misfittedness can change with time.
I've been to 10, 20, and 25 year reunions and enjoyed talking to people whom I really had nothing to do with back then. Oddly, I even have several friendly acquaintances in town nowadays who were former cheerleaders. (I was a geek.)
I think that when you go to reunions, you find that that person who's changed is yourself, and you then hit it off with almost anyone else who has also grown in maturity and confidence, regardless of their former pigeonhole.
There is, however, always (even at 25 years!) an element of folks who seemed to get stuck at age 17, but you can pretty much overlook them and let them snigger amongst themselves.

Very good observations, Em.