What Have you found in Storage???

Finding high school dance photos has been just one of the entertaining things about going through my "stuff". What have you found in your attic? A soggy, musty lettermans jacket? Some nutty pictures? Your Prom "program"? Your diploma? Notes from SEARCH? Polaroids from the ranch? Band Retreat Toga Pictures? Notes from class? ASB Cards? (and yes Melanie, I have started to scan in your boxes of photos!)

I can't be the only one uncovering memories.... Share them with us! Post some photos, share some stories. If you can't post them yourself, send them to us and we will take care of it.

Now I need to ask the girls... Where do you think our dates went... twice?

Catching Up

Last night, I met up with Jinky and Anne-Marie for dinner at Saito's in Belltown. While Anne & I have kept in touch since highschool this is probably the first time that I've had a real conversation with Ms. Jinky since we graduated and OMG! I had the best time catching up with her! It was so much fun hearing about who she still talked to and the friends she made with classmates AFTER we left JFK. It's still hard to think that its been 20 years because it felt like just yesterday. I reminded Jinky about her custom made 501's where she would buy the dark stiff jeans that she would wash, bleach, wash, bleach... and then dye PINK! and then they weren't jeans anymore :) How many of you pegged your pants too? We wore them so tight that after you'd take them out of the dryer, you'd have to lie down to button them and then do a bunch of stretches to get them just right.

Its funny how you lose touch with someone you saw every day for 4 years even though you live in the same city, same state. There's really no excuse, just that we all change and grow and eventually, thankfully, we find one another again. I hope you find your friends too...

Lights, camera... action!

I've volunteered to make a video collage of pics and video of our class. Dig out your old homecoming, tolo, prom pictures, etc. If you have any that you would like to share please send them to me. If there is video floating around I'd be interested in that too. I will be mixing in some music from the 80's also.

Please send files to louloubox@mac.com

Please put Reunion Pics in the subject line so I don't think it's spam or it may accidentally go to my junk folder and I'll realize it's not junk.

Forever Young, Louie

Click here for a sample movie

Separated at Birth...

Hmmm, after looking over the blog and reunion site, I've noticed some similarities in our classmates. Perhaps they were separated at birth and secretly share the same parents? You be the judge!






If they didn't have the same parents, maybe the same hair stylist?





OR...

Red, Blond they're still the same!

Toni Eaves Fielder

OR...

Secret Agent Man...


Could Mike actually be working as a hitman for the CIA?

OR...

Could it be....
nah, they look nothing alike...
(lol)

J.C.

"J.C."

AND THEN THERE'S...

Doug Lemmon















At long last... brothers reunited :)



Check out what else Ken's been up to by going to the 'Crazy Things You've done' Album

Here's another celebrity look-alike:

Greg Martin and Jon Favreau

(Mike came up with this one)

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ASK MIKE AND MARK

Move over Oprah! Move over DR. Phil!!

Mike McCullough and Mark Terrana have teamed up and are ready to answer your questions!

Relationships? Life Issues?? Sexual Problems???

Combined we have over 72 years experience! No problem is too BIG or too SMALL!!!

This kind of knowledge would cost millions! But because we are still waiting for our certifications we will do it for free!

Lets hear from you.................

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The 10 Year offered a husband what can the 20 year offer...

Okay so I thought I would join in the fun with an amusing post. So I went to our 10 year reunion. I bellied up to the bar as soon as my feet hit the inside of the lovely Marriott hotel @ Sea Tac...oooh such a lovely venue that will always have a special place in my heart. The instant I made eye contact with the bar tender, sparks flew :) We both just smiled at each other because there was instant attraction...I just remember thinking "damn bartender is cuuuute". I only went back to him one more time that night and then he actually tried to talk to me later but I was kind of distracted by the event and catching up with old friends.

Well, 3 months pass and as luck would have it I ran into "the bartender from the 10 year" at Jalisco's after a Sonics game. I was well lets just say really really drunk...but I remembered him. His opening line was "didn't you just have a 10 year?". We talked a little...he was thinking he was scoring...then I asked if he could hook me up with his cute blond friend that I kept staring at while we were talking...I told you I was really really drunk. Lucky for me he didn't give up on me and asked me to go to the Apple Cup game the next morning...I didn't remember the invitation in the morning, luckily my roomate did and she reminded me of it. I did keep the date and ya know what...we haven't been apart since and we have been happily married for almost 7 years and have 2 children together :) I never knew that the love of my life would be bartending @ the Sea Tac Marriott (to meet "people" - it was a side gig he had since college) of all places!

I look forward to catching up with old friends I haven't seen or talked to in a long time and maybe even make new connections with people I barely knew in high school and I also look forward to introducing my husband that I met at the same event 10 years earlier.

P.S. I never take a good picture...I always have my eyes closed or a goofy look on my face and it is rare these days for JR & I to be photographed together (I'm always the one behind the camera, btw if you look closely I am actually the one taking the shot in the 2nd picture) anyway, these 2 are my favorites because it's just us :) Seriously, the only other good pics of us are from our wedding day.

Thanks for letting me share...Jinky Gutierrez Ruljancich

Secret Crush

Ok, thought I'd add some more spice to the blogs. I love what you guys have been posting and especially have enjoyed the yearbook one. Who in our class did you have a "secret crush" on? You know, that person you may have just flirted with occasionally, but never did anything about. Someone you thought was cute, but never asked out or dated. C'mon, fess up! I guess since I started this I should give up one of mine...Mike Dawley. He always had a great smile and I think he was in one of my classes!
See you all soon,

Korey (Garvey) Capizzi

Music past and present

I'd love some ideas of music to be included on the DVD slide show I'm creating. Music from the 80's and music you currently are listening to that would go great with current pics.

I have a pretty big catalogue of music to choose from so I might have your music. Although, if you're just dying to have a Megadeath song on there... I won't have that:)

Who's Your Birthday Buddy?

I just found out I have a birthday buddy! Jay Tando on June 12, me on the 15th! How's that for self promotion?

Ooh, and Eilisa Maranville Maes has her birthday on the 26th, is there a 10 day radius to qualify as a buddy? This is a picture of her in 1986 with her now hubby Randy.

When's your birthday? Maybe you have an unknown classmate birthday buddy out there.... I hear JerryV has us all beat, but maybe, just maybe he has a birthday buddy a year younger??

Who has a Birthday during the reunion? And do you have any good birthday stories? I went to Maui for my 30th and we are going back for my, ahem, choke, cough, 40th!

... and Steph, you may need to re-read the title - I said Birthday BUDDY, not suit.

Reach Out and Touch Someone...

... Don't get too excited Steph! I mean that you can send a message to a long lost friend via the CLASSMATES Page on the main reunion site. We're in the process of adding contact info along with your "Then" photo from the yearbook. And if you just can't wait for us to add you, update your info yourself. Check it out!

Sorry Norm, had to use someone's picture :)

REUNION ETIQUETTE!!!!!!!!

I thought this blog could use a little jump start! I was thinking of the "TOP 100 THINGS NOT TO SAY AT A CLASS REUNION". I will list a few, please add others! REMEMBER keep it clean and no personal shots! We dont want any hurt feelings!

Hey, were you a teacher in 1987?
Great! You're a Doctor! Would you mind looking at my rash?
So you're a VP.....Got any job openings?
My wife is out of town! How about dinner and breakfast!!
Hey, You still owe me beer money!
So...like after the reunion....could i crash on your couch?
Mark, this is a picture of my son. He's 20 and looks a lot like you! (kidding Nani)
No man! Teal corduroy pants are still cool!!
Ok, really! He never told you about me?

AND........Hey, I brought you those underwear you left a my house 20 years ago!

Ok, the rest is up to you! Please add to my list.