MINNEAPOLIS — Did you go to your 20-year high school reunion? 50th? How about 75th?
We can all hope to be so lucky, right?
At Thomas Edison High School in North East Minneapolis, a handful of students were so lucky Thursday, 75 years after graduation. About 20 alumni showed up to the reunion gathering.
"We believe we have 60 living members," said Dick Anderson, who organized the event. "We have a lot of good people."
That's part of the reason why the group of 92 and 93-year-olds look back so fondly on their time.
Pat Hennen Myklebust remembers her first day of school, and worried about making friends. She wasn't as outgoing in 1949.
"They were warm," she said. "You felt like you belonged."
Still, her recollection is fading.
"There's a gentleman when I came in, he, he was my prom date," she said. "And I thought, and I can't even remember, but I'm 93 and there's a lot of things that I don't remember."
She wishes she had written more memories down. Her classmate, Lowell Ludford did.
"There was the lunchroom food fights." said Ludford. "A memorable one occurred when Stuart Lease threw a blob of chocolate pudding at me."
But not all high school experiences were so cheery.
Betty Boeser Silbernagel didn't go to games or join any clubs.
"We were so poor," she said. "I was the eldest of 10 kids and we had nothing."
But despite that, she says this school made her into the woman she is today.
"The lord's been good to me now," she said.
So she'll cling to those memories, and everything high school Betty endured.