Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to be a kind of biorhythm, perhaps not all that different from those that seize swallows and salmon. And it is now epidemic in the U.S. This year the National Association of Reunion Planners estimates that nearly 30 million of us will defy distance, age and pinched wallets and go home again to high school. Between Easter and Thanksgiving there will be 25,000 high school reunions. That is judged by some demographers to be the biggest institutional movement of people annually within the nation...
Last spring Marian Piper Thompson (class of '39) picked the notice of the reunion out of her mailbox in Townsville, Australia. There were 10,000 intimidating miles between her and her high school. "I'd decided I could not afford a trip this year," she said. "But when I got the letter I knew I couldn't stay away...
...WELCOME sign over his front porch, then walked across the street to the grounds where his grandfather ('11) and his father ('32) were schooled. "This is something," he marveled, noting that 2,000 people -- including more than a third of all the living graduates -- had come to the reunion. "Has to be a record...
...they had left into high schools, hoping to give their children a better life. About 82% of Americans now graduate from high school. There are 150 million grads alive and aging, and most of them at one time or another feel the inner tug and will go to a reunion, which in reality is a rendezvous with memory...
...Barbara Bush's family reunion and "Gampy's" casual arrival...