Mini Reunion Class of 1973!

Sitting: Maryanne, Ellen, Meg, Bernadette, Maria and me

Standing:  Marianne and Bonnie

Here are 8 women from Cardinal O'Hara's Class of 1973.  We are 8 out of just under 1,000.  Yes I said ONE THOUSAND!!!  We were right smack in the middle of the Baby Boomer generation and Catholic to boot!  It was unusual for a family to have less than 4 children.  I, myself, am one of 8 children.

Our school was co-ed, but boys and girls were separated, boys on one side of the school, girls on the other, until our senior year.  Even our cafeteria was divided, with lockers separating us.  Once a year, we had co-ed gym class when we all learned SQUARE DANCING!!  And we got to to see the boys, but we had to wear those awful awful bloomers to gym class!!!  Oh yuck!  hahahah!!!!

Anyway!  Last night the 8 of us met a local bar.  You would think no time had passed since we saw each other.  Marianne brought her yearbook, thank goodness, because some of us (me) needed to see a picture to identify one of the gals!  I didn't hang out with any of them outside of school, mostly because we all lived in different towns.  A few years after graduation, and after I got married, I moved away from the area.  Only 40 miles but it was enough to lose touch.  Some of the women have stayed in touch all these years.  Meg's sister, Eleanor was there also.  She's a few years younger than us.

I surprised one of the women, Ellen, when I admitted that I was so scared of her in high school because I thought she was really tough!  LOL!!!  And she's such a sweetheart and so nice!  

Meg still looks the same since first grade!  We've known each other for 48 years!!!  Meg, Margie, Olive Ann (I swear that's her real name) and me were always 1 and 2 in May Processions, Graduation and  First Communion because we were the smallest in the class.  I don't think any of us are taller than 5' maybe even now.

The weird thing was, the bar was playing all 70s music and it almost seemed like they did it on purpose, but I know they didn't!

Of course, we're getting to the age when we are losing some of our classmates.  The thing was, we talked about those who left us really young!  I can easily count 5 or 6 off the top of my head who passed on before the age of 40!! 

We have promised not to wait another 37 years to get together.  I hope we can plan another girls night out soon!  And maybe a few more faces will show up!

I'll be getting together with another group of women who went to grade school and high school together.  I'm hoping that materializes in the next couple of weeks.  Patty seems to be in charge of that reunion!


psst!  I have a friend who blogs here... her name is Vodka mom. It's also the name of her blog.  Her blog is one of the funniest I've ever read! Anyway, she was nominated for the Top 50 Mommy Bloggers.  It would be really cool if you could check her out, read some of her stuff and go over to Babble and vote for her!  Last time I checked she was ranked #24!  Simply click here to go to the site.  Check out her blog!  You won't be sorry!!