Come and Gone!
Wow! I can’t believe 10 years have come and gone, and now so has our reunion! The last month was kind of a blur for all of us involved in preparing for the event because it was a little busy, but overall we agreed enthusiastically that the weekend was a big success. The weather could not have been more perfect, the food was great, and I think some fun memories were made.
It was wonderful for many friends to see each other after months and years of distance. I think one of the funny aspects of a ten-year reunion is that for the most part the aging process hasn’t hit yet; people look the same, but there are people with their children running around in circles. That is always funny to see. I guess at our next reunion we might be flipping the other side of the coin and laughing about how the aging process has started on all of us!
Dorman obviously isn’t the same to many of us who have been away for a while. My husband laughed at me Friday night when I asked him if he minded me going over to the Booster’s to get a “Dorman University” t-shirt. (I didn’t know they really made those!) We miss the old school in some ways, but it reminds me that it’s more than the buildings that make Dorman the special place it is. It’s the students, the faculty, the true blue spirit that runs through thousands of people who hold it dear to their hearts. I get sentimental and teary-eyed thinking about it, and then all of a sudden my mind’s eye darts towards the image of Super Wal-mart and Home Depot. Oh, well. At least I took some pictures my senior year!
Speaking of pictures, we have so many floating around Facebook and people’s blogs. Please leave a comment if you have posted your reunion photos online so that everyone can view them.
My photos are at Flickr, and you are free to download, print, etc. to your heart’s content.
If you didn’t make it to the reunion, please contact us anyway so we can have updated personal information for future reference. Keep visiting this site as weeks and months go by, and we will continue to try to keep our class connected here. Have a happy Fall and Christmas season!!! See you in 10 (or sooner)!
A few more days until our reunion!
Today is Election Day and four more days until our reunion weekend - a busy day for many! The sun has barely risen over my house while my four little ones are sleeping, so it is still a rare calm and quiet here. As I check emails I am reminded of how so many of us are living different lives in our different parts of the world. A good friend, Tiffany, who used to be a co-worker of mine in Spartanburg writes today as an deployed officer in the Marines in Iraq, and she shares news of what is happening around her there. Browsing Facebook reveals the many perspectives and life situations that people I know are facing today. Some of us are meeting goals for the first time, preparing for our weddings, raising children, sick or with sick loved ones, moving and taking new jobs, and all of us have quite a lot indeed to keep us busy and concerned.
To me it is great to think of getting together this weekend for some family fun and sharing an evening together over a nice dinner to catch up on our lives. I am thankful for the memories we will enjoy and recount of our days at Dorman and beyond. I still can’t believe it has been ten years already. Can you? See you soon!
Most Embarassing Moment
If you guys know me pretty well, you know that I am a very clumsy and silly person, so I have quite a few embarassing stories to tell. There is one however that sticks out the most! My freshman year Laura (Blackwell) Melton and I were on our way to a pep rally in the “new gym”. This is wayyyyy back when the Adidas sandals with socks, white jean shorts and tye-dye shirts with t-slides were cool, and I hate to admit it, but that was what I was wearing. We were walking down the steps from the D-wing to the gym. We decided to cut across on the grass hill beside the steps instead of wait in the long line. Well, I guess the grass was still wet from rain or something because I slipped on my butt, riding all the way down the hill with everyone looking on from the steps next to us. As I was slipping, I could hear people laughing and once I got up I felt like every eye was on me!! Of course, I was SO EMBARRASSED, and Laura, being the good and wonderful friend that she is, was trying to make me feel better by saying, “Amanda - don’t worry about it! Guys think that’s cute!” I just smiled with a bright red face and thought, “Well, the grass stains and grass clippings gracing my white shorts and socks didn’t make me feel that way!”. At least we were able to laugh about it though!
Amanda (Ramborger) Cassidy
Most Embarrassing Moments
Well okay, I’ll start this blog out with a post about good ‘ole memories. What were your most embarrassing moments of our senior year? I had two pretty bad ones. I bet you don’t remember them unless you know me well, but I sure do. The first was the last football game before the championship, and I was cheering on that cold night. We played Rock Hill at Rock Hill, and you know, I can’t even remember now if we won. I think we did, but I need to look it up I guess. I was talking to some friends on the field after the game, and I looked up to see our bus pulling slowly across the grass on to the road.
“That’s not our cheerleading bus,” I thought. “No, there’s no way it left that fast.”
Oh, but it was… and I started running behind it. I ran and ran the whole way out of the campus. It was dark, but surely they would see me. Nope. I ran all the way into the street with my pom pons, megaphone, and bag. And as fast as I ran it left me in the dust. I laugh thinking about it now, but then I was pretty mad. It wasn’t that terrible, but I had to wait about an hour for the football bus to take me back with them. The best part was Jacqueline Turner and Julie Rogers told me back at school that they never even noticed I was missing until they stopped at Hardee’s! 
The other one happened during cheerleading, too. I had some star moments when I was cheering I guess - haha. Coach Evans asked me thirty seconds before the announcement buzzer to sing the National Anthem at a home basketball game because the trio didn’t show up that was scheduled. How he knew I liked to sing was beyond me, but he shouldn’t have asked. Really. I went blank about three lines into the song, and everyone just stared at me. I remember Will Gaston and a couple of other people in the stands laughing and starting the song back for me, and pretty soon everyone joined in including me. If you were there, you had to remember. It was hilarious.
I guess it’s those moments in life that we all need sometimes to make us stop and laugh at ourselves. Some of us just have more to laugh about than others!
What did you do that made you want to run and hide? Do tell…so I’ll at least feel better!