| Days Until Graduation |
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| Class of 2026 |
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| Class of 2027 |
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| Class of 2028 |
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| Class of 2029 |
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| Days Since Graduation |
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| Class of 1975 |
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| Days Since 5 July 1971 |
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Reunion Recap: It’s done. We did it. And we somehow survived the ordeal by drawing on the experiences of gutting out four years of seemingly endless marching in place by focusing on the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m not talking about the reunion, I’m talking about getting out of the stadium parking lot after the football game. I’m pretty sure many of our classmates’ hip replacement surgeries took less time than it took to move a quarter of a mile in the parking lot. Naturally, it’s Jeff Hackett’s fault. The rules of chairing a reunion clearly state that any successes are credited to the event leaders, and any less-than-successful occurrences fall squarely in the lap of the reunion chairman. It goes without saying, he’ll have to keep chairing the reunions until he gets it right.
Kudos go to the emcees, the event leaders, and the entertainers. Jim Burling and Duke Buhyoff deserve a special shoutout for playing and singing during the evening events. Duke normally plays in more intimate settings, such as hotel lobbies, officer clubs, and cruises, so playing in a large banquet hall with more than 700 people was a new experience. I thought he handled it with ease. As an ex-bugler and current bungler, I’m amazed that anyone can look at multiple notes at one time, play those notes with fingers on both hands simultaneously, and sing to the music to boot!
Jeff wanted everyone to know that, due to gracious donations by many classmates, our reunion finished modestly in the black. Jeff also casually mentioned he was on the winning team in the reunion golf tournament and said his shoulders were sore from carrying Dave Commons, Tom Popp, and Kent Traylor pretty much the entire way. Anyone who has seen Jeff on a golf course knows the only thing he actually carried in the tournament were the tees in his pocket.
