O'Rafferty-40th Reunion

Last night was the 40th class reunion at Reno's East for the 1969 class. Steve Morris and Mary Jo Maloney(Dehaven) organized the event that the previous reunion people had abandoned. With images scanned from the Silhoutte yearbook covering the wall screens of the nonsmoking area 30 class members had a great time renewing friendships from 7:00 until almost midnight. Many pictures were taken and those present agreed to try it again in 5 years instead of the past 10 year reunions. I did not go to the 10th and 30th ones as I had a party to celebrate my MSU graduation at he 10th and we had Simon's LCC controversy going on at the 30th. I got to talk with Ed Troshak, Steve Martin, Dan Richardson and Kevin Finnerty quite a bit as well as Kathy Gross(Assiff), Suzy Celentino(O'Dell), and Rosie Kain(Mehaffey). Bob Raby was taking lots of pictures and Suzy and Rosie wanted to have a picture with me. The only person who needed a designated driver was Mary Scully. John Kelley stayed for about 2 hours and snuck out as I had asked him were his coat was and he said he left it in his car. Many from our class are retired like me and Steve Martin reminded us about the severe weather going on during our graduation ceremony at Sexton. That's when I found out some boys had left on vacation instead from George Bridson. The only people I did not recognize at all was Cindy Prentler and Beth Oberlin. 13 of the attendees were from Holy Cross the most of all the parish schools. Jon was home for Thanksgiving which was at the Ybarras. Jane has been working extra hours and the boys have one more week of school and seem to be doing very good. Maybe the meek will inherit the Earth and blessed are the peacemakers. But it sure is great to have a head of hair and be within 10 pounds of 40 years ago!