Do you have a little extra time on your hands?? We could use some help with: 1) telephone calls to classmates to confirm new email addresses as they have changed; 2) scanning yearbook pictures and uploading to the website.
When you update your profile, you can trust that we have NO intentions to use it outside of alumni activities. You can "hide" this information from public view by clicking a security button on your profile if you are concerned. Please do not clear contact info as it sure was hard to find you & keep you & we will use the information for our reunion mail-outs. Please don't let us lose you! If you have no interest in reunions, no problem at all. However, we have interest to know where our classmates are and where ever you might have landed on the globe.
This website is paid for and maintained by your 1977 reunion committee. It is not linked to the Westchester Alumni Association, so unfortunately you will have to update profiles in both websites if you desire to be part of the alumni association.
If you notice one of our classmates has not updated their profile, we could use your help! Chances are that they have simply changed email addresses. If you would kindly forward this website and ask them to update, we certainly would appreciate it! You can email our classmates through this tool and upload your photos too!
This is YOUR website, Class of '77. Feel free to upload pictures, send in old photos or memories that we can add to this site, submit your thoughts on the memory pages of classmates we have lost, volunteer to help... We hope that you enjoy keeping up with your classmates through this tool and allowing us to stay in touch with you, too!
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From 2007: It's been over 30 years since we graduated from Westchester High School. Where in the world did the time go? For some of us, high school days were the best of our lives. For others, we walked out from beneath the arches and never planned to look back.
In 1977 had you told me that my future would involve having anything to do with Westchester reunions, I would have thought you were completely nutso. High school was just a "so-so" experience for me. But when the committee was planning our 10th reunion, I was sucked in to help out as my obsessive-compulsive organizational skills were somewhat helpful. During the course of helping with that reunion, I was hooked. Hooked on new friends. Most were not more than acquaintances in school. Some didn't know me, I didn't know them. But we have worked together beautifully thru the years and I have come to appreciate them as wonderful new friends post-graduation.
The class of 1977 has a truly unique bond thru Westchester. We share much more than we realized when we were kids ~ whether it was our music, what our dads did for a living, the restaurants or discos we all knew too well, hilarious stories about teachers, which neighborhood swimming pool had the hottest lifeguards...
I am a social animal, so planning a party is never a drudgery to me. But would I have dreamt that I would look forward to high school reunions? Nah... I'll have to say, though, getting to know the people who we became post-graduation has been a tremendous joy to me. Accounting for each classmate is fascinating, wherever we may have landed on the globe. Whether or not you have interest in reunions, I hope you will consider that neither did many of us either on your committee. But again, our classmates are bonded beyond what we realized at the time. It's where we came from and as we become a "wee bit" older, that revelation has become more important to me to appreciate.
Yours,
Lauri White (Ramsey) for '77 30th Reunion Committee
Here's a different perspective from another classmate. She articulates herself so beautifully and I asked her permission to share with you... Enjoy...
It’s funny about our high school class. I also just had an OK time in high school, and I don’t think it ever occurred to me to think of our class as a cohesive group that I was part of or belonged to. In the intervening years I didn’t think about it much at all, especially after I moved away and lost touch with old HS friends. But since getting the alumni directory and your email updates I’ve felt differently—sort of like finding out that there’s a whole branch of your extended family that you didn’t know existed, or had completely forgotten about. It also has to do with getting older and appreciating roots.
**See LINKS TO PHOTOS on the left side of this page. Do you have pictures you'd like to share from previous reunions or high school daze? Please send them to wildcats_1977@yahoo.com.
