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.

Dorman ‘98 Reunion Photos

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)!

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!

Seriously the Reservations are looking kind of slim. We’re hoping more of our classmates are going to sign up and purchase tickets asap! Here are some considerations:

1. We need people to purchase tickets so that we can fund the weekend’s events!

2. We realize that these can be hard times for families financially, but we want as many people to attend as possible. Please consider making this an important date on your calendar.

3. Communication is key!
If you have contacted us via the web site or any of the other sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) and have not received a reply, I apologize. I (Kristi) am manning the correspondence of this particular site, and although I have tried my best to reply promptly to every email, I have a full plate and may have missed one or two. I just had my fourth child a few months ago, and our family has been considerably ill for the last few weeks. Please try again if you did not hear from me with your question. Billy Webber is also handling a lot of the responses to specific questions about the reunion.

Okay, hopefully we will hear from more of you guys soon and see your names on the Reservation list. Can’t wait for November 7th! Comments welcome below!

We sent out postcards directing people to visit the web site a month ago. I have a handful of people that didn’t get them for various reasons. I should have mailed those out a few weeks ago, but they are still on my desk at home. I will get them out by Monday. If you don’t see a post card by Wednesday or Thursday of next week, that means you are not on our mailing list and need to contact us with your mailing address.

The new ticket buttons on the web site have not been activated yet. I hope to get those up today sometime.

Some people are signing up on the Classmates Reunion Page to reserve themselves for the reunion. We appreciate Classmates going all out to help spread the word about the reunion, but that is not the reservation list we will be using. Unless you pay for your ticket (either here or by sending it to the PO Box in Roebuck), you are not reserved for the reunion.

I hope everyone is having a great Summer!

Amanda (Ramborger) Cassidy

“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!