When are class reunions usually scheduled? Say you graduated in May 1995. Would your 10th year reunion be held in 2005, or late summer 2004? I just got an invite to my class reunion, but any way and every way I do the math this summer will only be 19 years and 2 months since we graduated. Is it common to do them year early, or did our not-so-bright class president screw up the math? Very confused.
Thanks to those of you who confirmed what I was suspecting...it normally would be held next summer. No one really thought anything of it until we heard the our friends who graduated a year before us discussing their reunion which is being held around the same time. Thus the question.
For those of you who think I'm being ungrateful questioning the dates, whatever. I guess half my class is ungrateful. And our self-proclaimed not-so-bright president is only doing his job by organizing the event. When we elected our senior officers, it was made very clear to them by the faculty that if they accepted the positions it would become their responsibility. And NO, they aren't doing it all themselves. Many of us local people are helping out. Heck, I'm the one who suggested the final venue. Nothing fancy, just a pizza barn in th middle of the country. And no, there weren't any date conflicts.
At least you were invited. I graduated 23 years ago and have never seen an invite. My parents have lived in the same house for 50 years so they could have found me if they wanted to. The class president even called my new house after I was married and I gave her information of others she was looking for but even then I didn't receive an invite. Who cares if its actually the exact time or not.
Don't feel bad, my only class reunion thus far was our 17th.
But to answer your question, it's usually in spring/fall of the graduation year + anniversary. For example, a May 2005 grad will have a 10 yr reunion in spring or fall of 2015.
The spring/fall is for the majority of schools that try to get you to come back for some activities (which then correlate to homecoming (fall) or graduation (spring). When the class decides on their own "hey y'all, let's have our reunion at TGI Friday's" - then it's typically in the summer, but really is whenever the organizer decides.
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I see - you graduated in 1994 and your 20 year reunion should be in 2014. The class prez wants to do this summer - say July 2013? He/she may just be thinking that you **started** your senior year in 1993 - but that is not the norm. Once we all graduated, we stopped worrying about when we **started** a school year and only worry about what year we graduated. They're wrong, you're right, but go anyway and have fun!
I think your class president screwed up the math or doesn't understand that it's 20 years after you finished your senior year, not started it LOL. That's a riot. I graduated in 1993 and our 20 year reunion was in April. My 20 year college reunion will be 20 years after my 1997 graduation, so 2017.
I graduated high school May 1996 and we had our 10 year in March 2006 and after seeing old friends and having a few drinks the 2 month gap really made no difference :)
You mean you graduated in 1995 and the 10 year reunion would be in 2005? Or you graduated in 2005 and the 10 year would be at 2015?
My high school reunions have been scheduled in August the 5th and 10th year of our graduation. Our 30 year reunion will be next year. Can't believe it's been that long. Feels like 5 years ago sometimes. I account for that because we keep in contact via e-mail and facebook. So there isn't some "shock" to see an older version of someone for the first time.
I'd just be grateful that someone else had taken the lead and done the organizing. They deserve thanks and congrats for putting things together for the rest of you. Seriously, unless you're part of the group organizing this -- does it really matter much?
It's possible that the "not so bright" class president and others had obstacles to matching your exact graduation anniversary date to things like available venues, caterers, entertainment, other events your old high school has going on....So the seemingly "early" 20th reunion date may be purely a factor of what venues they could rent, when they could rent them, when they could get the desired caterers or other vendors needed, and so on. It's great that they are organizing anything at all, so I wouldn't worry about the fact it's 19 years and not 20. As long as people turn up and are glad to see each other, the anniversary dates just don't matter, do they?
Ours is usually some time during the year and dated from graduation. We had our 35th in October but we didn't graduate until May.
I don't think it really matters. The invitation goes to the people you went to school with so it can be called whatever it's called. It's a reunion, go have fun.
Facebook has eliminated the real reasons to have reunions anyway.
If you graduated in 1995, or 20 year reunion should be in 2015. If you have it in the summer of 2014, you are having it a year early.
Is it too late to switch the date? If not, just make the best of it. My husband's high school missed their five year reunion and had a six year reunion instead. Not a big deal, kind of funny because they didn't pretend it was five years.
It's your class reunion. Does it really matter that it's almost a year "earlier" than the official 20 years? This would count as "so low on my list of things to complain about and criticize others about" as to not even trip my radar at all. I'm guessing you already dislike the class president and are looking for reasons to consider him/her "not bright."
Yes, usually it's around the actual anniversary of graduation but it really doesn't matter, whomever takes the lead in planning usually decides the dates based on their schedule, availability of the reunion site, and pricing/deals. It never works out perfectly for everyone. And I don't think you're being ungrateful, BTW, you have a value question.
My class graduated many moons ago. We had a 5, 10, 15 and 25, then nothing. The person who usually did the coordination took very ill. Almost 2 years ago my friend took the initiative to start a Facebook page to help find the remaining classmates and have a reunion, we've located about 160 and 130 of us are on the FB group page. Since we'd totally missed a 40 year reunion we did one last year in June, a 41st. We were originally from SoCal and many weren't able to travel back here, so we're having a semi-reunion more centrally located in the U.S. in Branson, MO this October, 42 years 5 months after graduation, about 30 so far are coming. And in our group at least three people concur when setting a date, we had one woman pushing for an earlier one last year, she didn't say why, she was dying from breast cancer.
The class behind me had their reunion 40 years, 6 months after graduation, the one after that at the same time, 39 years, 6 months.
Hopefully my rambling makes a point, in my opinion it's the actual reunion, not the timing, that's important, especially as more years pass :)
Not so bright class president? You do not know the circumstances that led to this date and really what does it matter. If you are not happy with the date, don't go. I would be saying thank you to him for organizing it. I know I definite would not criticize. Maybe next reunion you could run.
