100 YEARS

[mbhhofr]

I just returned from Winnipeg where my High School celebrated it's 100 year anniversary. It was spread over a four day period and it was a blast from the past. I saw former classmates and friends that I haven't seen in over fifty years.

Saturday night they had a dinner, entertainment and dance, that over 1600 people attended. A couple of former students, Monty Hall, of Let's Make A Deal television fame, who spoke, and Burton Cummings, the former lead singer of the Guess Who, entertained us. He has a new group called the Rug Frogs. They put on one hell of a show. Cummings sang some of the hits that he wrote and had with the Guess Who, plus other songs that he wrote but never performed with them. I guess that I'm one of those that enjoy going to reunions. I know others that want no part of it. Oh well, to each his own.

 

[puckhead]

I think the prairie towns tend to have more of a sense of community.... everyone knows everyone, or at least knows their families. I went to only one reunion, and it just reminded me of why i was so glad to move away from there after graduation.

having Burton Cummings entertain the troops doesn't hurt either!

 

[dash]

Speaking of prairie towns, my hometown of Medicine Hat is currently being washed away (at least the low lying parts). Thankfully, my parents live up on the hill.

 

[Dupster]

Medicine Hat. The actual town referred to as "all hell for a basement" by Rudyard Kipling.

 

[Jimmy_the_Tongue]

I just returned from Winnipeg where my High School celebrated it's 100 year anniversary. It was spread over a four day period and it was a blast from the past. I saw former classmates and friends that I haven't seen in over fifty years.

Saturday night they had a dinner, entertainment and dance, that over 1600 people attended. A couple of former students, Monty Hall, of Let's Make A Deal television fame, who spoke, and Burton Cummings, the former lead singer of the Guess Who, entertained us. He has a new group called the Rug Frogs. They put on one hell of a show. Cummings sang some of the hits that he wrote and had with the Guess Who, plus other songs that he wrote but never performed with them. I guess that I'm one of those that enjoy going to reunions. I know others that want no part of it. Oh well, to each his own.

That's funny...I heard Boss just celebrated his 100th high school anniversary too....

 

[HamiltonsDropped]

Dammit Jimmy... beat me to it.

 

[forty_three]

Very cool, hof'er

This prompted me to look at my own school and see what such a shindig would garner.

A guy who plays for the Jax Jaguars, and a guy (I remember him) who worked on George W. Bush's staff.

If they extend it to people who hung around in the summers, we can include Queen Latifa. Although I knew her as Dana.

 

[puckhead]

Very cool, hof'er

This prompted me to look at my own school and see what such a shindig would garner.

The only ones I can think of for my high school are:
- the guitarist for Gob (he ate a jar of pickles when he played at my house party once - drank the juice and all)
- a guy that was part of the Gretzky to LA trade, but he blew his knee out after 20 games in Edm.

 

[Vadered]

My high school lost the state championship because of this guy:

 

[Vadered]

Coincidentally, this is the same guy in college, though thankfully not against my team:

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If I'm an NBA coach, I hire this guy for the minimum salary and he plays zero minutes a game. Only time I put him in is if with under a minute in the game we need a tying/winning shot.

 

[elocomotive]

Speaking of prairie towns, my hometown of Medicine Hat is currently being washed away (at least the low lying parts). Thankfully, my parents live up on the hill.

There's only one?!?

 

[Comeds]

That 100 year anniversary sounds cool.

I never went to any of my reunions before. For the most part I kept in touch with who I wanted after high school and avoided those I didn't. I have grown a bit more sentimental in recent years and may have gone to my 20th two years ago, but it was canceled. The 10th and 15th did very well so it was thought that the economy was a factor in the 20th failing.

Maybe the 25th. I did sign up for Facebook in case any old classmates wanted to find me. Some did who I liked. Some did who I never got along with. Odd.

 

[dash]

There's only one?!?

lol...There's more than one, and for being on the prairies, it's actually quite hilly (Cypress Hills Provincial Park about 40 miles to the south of Medicine Hat is actually 4200 ft above sea level).

If you want flat, head east to Saskatchewan

 

[jstewismybastardson]

my highschool had its 75th anniversary in 2002 and the "d" list alumni that showed up were Bobby Lenarduzzi, Barry Beck, John Ferguson Sr, and the future owner of the Vancouver Canucks Francesco Aquilini (he made a big donation to the university scholarship fund that year)

dude (Knaans then manager) getting roughed up by Swedish police in this video didnt show up ... those racist swedes!!! (lol)

 

[puckhead]

dude (Knaans then manager) getting roughed up by Swedish police in this video didnt show up ... those racist swedes!!! (lol)

you had a black student in a highschool in Burnaby? that's a rare occurrence.
oh that reminds me, went to school with Craighead, too. he had about 5 games with the Leafs.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

you had a black student in a highschool in Burnaby? that's a rare occurrence.
oh that reminds me, went to school with Craighead, too. he had about 5 games with the Leafs.

I went to highschool in East Van ... very multi-cultural at the time, 57 different languages spoken by students

Id have an easier time naming "alumni" who are members of the local Hells Angels chapter than success stories

 

[mbhhofr]

When I was in my early teens, Burton Cummings lived just down the street from me. I delivered the newspaper to his house. He's 8 years younger than me and there were many times that I heard the little snot nosed kid practicing the piano. Who knew how those piano lessons would eventually pay off?