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Subject: Re: Class of '76 30th Reunion

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Brina Rood

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Date Posted: 00:30:47 04/08/06 Sat
In reply to: Kathie Cooke (Harton) 's message, "Class of '76 30th Reunion" on 20:29:50 11/07/05 Mon

Class of '75 here. You guys are very cool to open up your reunion to other classes. I'm living in Minnesota but come to Vermont every summer, staying at the family cabin on Coates Island. This year we'll be there the last two weeks of July, so I won't be able to come to your party in August, but for anyone who's on the fence, I'd say don't be shy. I didn't know many of the '76 and '77 "kids" but now that I've attended the informal gatherings the last few summers, I have felt so welcome. Dave, Tim, Chick, Janice, Helen, Roy, every one of you boysweekenders are great.

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tim
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Date Posted: 21:20:59 04/08/06 Sat

Hi Brina,

Thanks for the plug for our party and our loose band of essex hooligans over at boysweekend.com!

I would never in my wildest dreams have thought I would be so active in high school reunion stuff back when I was actually in high school! I so couldn't wait to get out of there that I hardly even noticed the incredible resources all around us at EJHS. The athletic fields, the hockey rink, we even had some kind of greenhouse for horticultural education that I don't think I ever even went in.

I got an F in McGinty's photography class, senior year, because I was mostly out getting high, but we had all the equipment to do color slides and you name it. I was enrolled in college prep classes mostly, but somehow got directed into one full year of Jean-Claude Guion's building trades class, which probably saved my life. This was a two year program, mostly for kids who were not college prep, but Roger Prescott and I somehow got in for one year and we got to help build a house up off upper main street. This experience landed me a job in the trades out of high school, which later inspired me to get an architectural tech degree.

Ours was the first class ever, I believe that got a full four years at what they called then, the Essex Junction Educational Center. Today, I see the ads on television and it has an even fancier name, but it still provides a wide number of ways to get started in life. Growing up and watching the endless stream of IBM'ers going to work in the morning on my way to school, I remember saying a lot of bad things about that plant that made, who knows what over there by the river, but today I guess I owe a big thank you for much of my own success in life to International Business Machines!

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