The High School Reunion Lanyard Caper

The Class of ’64 High School Reunion
The tale of the wayward ID neck lanyards for the 25th high school reunion is one that will remain in class memory. Each reunion member was given several items as they walked into the large catering room: a program with the evening’s highlights, a song sheet with the high school’s class song, a CD with the most popular songs of those 4 glorious high school years and a neck lanyard with a small graduation class photo on one side and on the opposite side of the ID, the classmate’s name and the text written next to their name from the yearbook which was usually a prediction for the future, a career intention or an amusing anecdote.

The neck lanyards were prepared by several committee members and matched with the number of reunion classmates who planned to attend the function. Everyone was looking forward to the event with much anticipation of greeting old school chums, teachers and of course, the principal, who by now was in her dotage.

The lanyards were to serve a secondary purpose: part of a game where classmates read text beside their name in the yearbook. Among the classmates was a nun, Sister Mary Leona. When her turn to read came, she rose and read: “Future Plans: Marry happy and have at least one dozen kids.” Standing there in her Franciscan habit, her face flushed scarlet and said, “I messed up the “marry happy”; but, I have at least a dozen students.