Going Back
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Monday, July 26, 2010 7:24 PM
This weekend I was blessed to attend my college reunion.
Not my class reunion, but the reunion of my entire college, a now-defunct school that has a total alumni population of only a couple hundred people.
I helped organize the reunion, and we were excited to have over a hundred attendees, including several dozen children. If there’s anything better than seeing old friends and classmates, it’s seeing their adorable chubby-cheeked babies. We used to worry over exams and term-paper deadlines together, and now we’ve got new things in common. It’s fun to see how life goes on.
We started our reunion with a Mass, and I got goose bumps standing there with my classmates, singing the Mass parts a cappella just like we used to do at daily Mass back in our college days. What was amazing about this, though, was that the celebrant was one of my classmates. He was ordained just last year. Another classmate (ordained last month) concelebrated. A third, who’s currently a transitional deacon, assisted at the Mass.
There’s a lot of vocational diversity among my classmates, and it was really neat to see. Single people, newly married people, people who’ve been married for years (one of my fellow alumna already has five children!), and of course the priests. I loved catching up with everyone, hearing the stories of how things have been going for them. I’m proud to be living in the same Church, serving the same God as all these awesome people.
Sometimes it makes me sad that my college that doesn’t exist any more. We live near the old campus, and I try to avoid driving by it. I’d love to have a school I could go back and visit, and a real alumni association, and organized reunions instead of our cobbled-together affair. (Although it did go off pretty well, if I do say so myself.)
On the other hand, I guess it’s a blessing that I even want to go back. I’m also lucky that my high school years were happy enough that when my 10-year reunion happens this fall, I’m looking forward to attending. I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t have great memories from their school days, who have no interest in attending a reunion ever.
What about you? Have you been to high school or college reunions? Enjoyed them? Looking forward to going in the future, or skipping them from now on? Prefer to keep up on Facebook instead? How do you feel about the whole thing?
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