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Fairhaven High School Class of 1976

A Thirty-Five Year Reunion Poem

Original poem was written for the 15th reunion by our own Tom McGreevy. We modified it to adapt to our 35th reunion.

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OVER 30 YEARS PAST ON THE SIXTH DAY OF JUNE

WE MARCHED AS A CLASS TO THE BEAT OF A TUNE

LINED UP IN ROWS CLAD IN BLUE AND WHITE

THE DAY WE HAD YEARNED FOR WAS FINALLY IN SIGHT

WE SAT AS A GROUP IN THE JUNIOR HIGH GYM

CAUSE THE WEATHER OUTSIDE FORCED THE FESTIVITES IN

SO MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST THIRTY PLUS YEARS

LET'S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE LAUGHTER AND TEARS

STYLES WE WORE WERE LONG AND STRAIGHT AS COULD BE

WHO COULD FORGET THOSE HIP HUGGER JEANS

HAIR WAS WORN LONG AND STRAIGHT AS COULD BE

BY MOST OF HERS, AND SOME OF HE'S

FALL SATURDAYS' MEANT AFTERNOONS AT THE GAME

WE ALL SURELY THOUGHT OUR TEAM WAS DUE FAME

TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS WERE FOR B-BALL

THE HOMEWORK WE SKIP WOULD BE DONE IN STUDY HALL

THE CLASSES BACK THEN SEEMED BORING, MUNDANE

AND NOW LOOKING BACK WERE THEY REALLY A PAIN

TIME HAS A WAY OF CHANGING MOST THINGS

DOES ANYONE HERE STILL WEAR THEIR CLASS RINGS

ROOM SEVEN WAS THERE AS A LARGE STUDY HALL

NOT FOR YACKING WITH DEBBIE, KATHY, AND PAUL

ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE CIRCLE WE'D HANG

DRINKING STRANGE MIXTURES LIKE VODKA AND TANG

WHAT IS COMMON PLACE NOW WAS UNHEARD OF THEN

LIKE EARRINGS ON BOTH THE WOMAN AND MEN

IN NINTH GRADE WE THOUGHT WE WERE JUST SO COOL

WHILE BEHAVING LIKE MISCHEIVAS FOOLS

SOPHOMORE YEAR MEANT, JUST MORE OF THE SAME

WE USED SILLY SLANG WORDS LIKE WICKED AND LAME

JUNIOR YEAR MEANT CLASS RINGS AND A PROM

WOULD YOUR DATE BE WITH BETTY, SUZIE, OR TOM

JUNIOR DAY MEANT WE NOW RULED THE ROOST

GIVING INFLATED EGOS AN UNNEEDED BOOST

SEVENTY-SIX ALAS, THE BICENTENNIAL YEAR

RED, WHITE AND BLUE ON ALL OF OUR GEAR

PEASANT BLOUSES ON GIRLS, POLYESTER ON GUYS

OH WHERE DID WE PURCHASE THOSE FASHIONABLE BUYS

BELL BOTTOM PANTS WERE WORN BY EACH ONE

LOOKING BACK AT IT ALL HIGH SCHOOL WAS FUN

TO RAISE OUR CLASS FUNDS M&M'S WE DID SELL

DESPITE HIGH PRICES, I THINK WE FAIRED WELL

OUR SENIOR PROM HELD AT ORCHE COURT, GRAND

DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE BAND

CLASS FLOATS WERE BUILT BY A TIRELESS LOT

ALTHOUGH, FIRST PRIZE WE NEVER GOT

AND WHO COULD FORGET THOSE HIGH PLATFORM SHOES

PRESIDENTS NIXON AND FORD WERE THEN IN THE NEWS

TERM PAPERS AND TESTS WERE A COMMON EVENT

NOW, CAR & TUITION PAYMENTS, MORTGAGES, AND RENT

OUR VICE PRINCIPAL THEN WAS A GUY KNOWN AS ACE

HE COULD TELL WHAT YOU'D DONE BY LOOKING AT YOUR FACE

IF A CLASS YOU DID CUT MRS. MARTIN WOULD SEE

THAT AN AFTER-SESSION FOR CERTAIN YOU'D BE

OUR JUNIOR PROM THEME WAS STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

WITH DEBBIE COSTA AS QUEEN AHD HER DATE DAVID EVANS

THE CIRCLE GAME WAS OUR YEARBOOK THEME AND CLASS SONG

HOPED BACKED THEN SENIOR YEAR WOULDN'T BE LONG

CLASS OFFICERS CHOSEN EACH YEAR BY US ALL

BEFORE SCHOOL WAS SPENT PARADING THE HALL

HOMECOMING DANCES AND GOOD TIMES GALORE

DID YOU EVER THINK HIGH SCHOOL WAS A BORE

STREAKING BACK THEN WAS A SOMETIMES A FAD

DID LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL, EVER MAKE YOU FEEL SAD

OUR SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT WAS A GUY NAME KENT

THE ACTIVITIES PLANNED WERE TERRIFIC EVENTS

RECITATIONS FROM JULIUS CEASAR, MCBETH, HAMLET

LONG FORGOTTEN BY MOST, A REASONABLE BET

SCHOOL LUNCHES WERE CERTAINLY FAR FROM GOURMET

SENIORITIS HIT AROUND VALENTINES DAY

SOME THIRTY PLUS YEARS HAVE SINCE PAST SINCE WE LEFT F.H.S

LET US ENJOY THIS THIRTY-FIFTH REUNION, MAKE IT OUR CLASSES BEST