New MHS Class of 80 Website

Our new website is nearing completion and you will soon be able to set up an account and make payments on the activities you chose to participate in during the reunion this year. Our next reunion planning / social hour is this Wednesday (Feb 3rd) 6:00PM at the studios of Viral Intermedia Production.

As usual - anyone and everyone is invited to attend. If you haven't attended one our meetings yet, now would be a good time to start. Most of the grunt work is done and we tend to emphasize the social aspect of the whole thing :)

See the new site at MHS80.COM

2009 0914 Reunion Committee Meeting

I'm not sure if this is or 5th or 6th meeting but we are definatley becoming much more laser. We were able to attend to business, visit and catch up and even have a few cocktails all before 9:00PM - that's gotta be a record for us. events, orices and an improved website wil lbe forth coming in the next 2 weeks. It was decided to have another 'public social' to preview Pilot Error, the band that we are considering for our Saturday Night Event. most of the committee has 'promised' to show up at Bad Irish Sept 26th (Saturday) to check out the the band. This an open invitation to all MHS Class of 80 - please come, we need your input and would enjoy reconnecting :)

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A Message From Lori Smith Nicolls

Lori Smith Nicolls August 27 at 11:24am
Hey Eugene,

A friend sent this to me and I thought this was cute to share with everyone who is sweating showing up "old" at the reunion.
Just a reminder that is so awesome that we can :o)

Use it if you want...or not....doesn't matter to me, just thought it was cute!

((Hugs to all))

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.

They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.

So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore.
I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever,
but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day(if I feel like it).

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!