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Subject: Re: Class of '76 30th Reunion

Author:
tim

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Date Posted: 21:20:59 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

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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[> Subject: Re: Class of '76 30th Reunion

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Brina
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Date Posted: 20:42:53 04/09/06 Sun

Hi Tim,
I have to tell you that I think it's my sister's class, EJHS '74, that was the first to go all four years of high school in the "new high school." But definitely not your class, 'cause my class, '75, did all four of our years there.

I'm sure somebody knows.

I never thought I'd be one for Essex Jct. trivia. My father used to bore us to tears with his Essex Jct. history stories. I am only 48 and I hear myself doing it when I return to Vermont in the summers with my son. Somehow, he seems to find my stories funny, but I think it's more in the telling than in the content.

If I try to tell a serious story, it comes out like a stand-up routine, and if I try to tell a joke, I forget the punchline. Now that's something I inherited from my mother!

Anyway, you guys are a lot of fun and I'm glad I finally got to know you, all these decades later.

Hugs,
Brina

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