THE DAY OF THE ALMOND
HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
July 29, 1984
A day to gather--meet old
friends,
Acquaintances, old classmates
too,
Talk over half-forgotten times,
Catch up on news--friendships
renew.
(How short the people seem to be
Who went to school some years
before;
How tall they grew--how old they
seem
Who came behind three years or
more.)
A day to see the old schoolhouse
The classes held there now
recall.
The rooms that once had seemed so
huge
Have lost their size--they seem
so small!
(Those rooms are different than
they were
For walls were built and walls
were changed.
Familiar things have disappeared,
Updated now, or rearranged.
The grove is gone--the hole is
dug--
The plans are made to build anew.
We hate to see the old school go
(Where hearts were young and
senses too.)
A day to hear the history told
Of how they strived for fifty
years
To build the school we knew so
well
Whose demise now so quickly
nears.
A day to know how blessed we are
For friendly handclasps,
greetings gay,
For good times shared, and
mem'ries too.
Thank You, God, for such a day.
by Harriet Grant
Shikoski
The grove was a wooded area north of the
school which we attended. At the time of
the reunion an excavation for the basement of the newer school to be built had
been made. When I went to school there
were no school buses. The grove was used
to park cars of high school students driving to school. Driver licenses could be obtained by students
sixteen years old. There were no
restrictions on how many other students could ride with them.
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