The Reunion Committee is Hard at Work

Hello, fellow Andrew Warde High School 1976 graduates.

The 30th reunion committee, chaired by Tony Procaccini, is hard at work planning our event for this Summer. Tony "grabbed the bull by the horns" and spearheaded the drive to start the reunion. The festivities will take place Saturday evening, August 19, from 7:00 to 11:00 at Testo's Restaurant on Madison Avenue in Bridgeport. It is the former long-time home of the Three-Door Restaurant.

The committee met for the first time Saturday, April 29, at Three Corner Restaurant in Fairfield. So much has been accomplished in three weeks time, but much more needs to be done.

The most important item is spreading the word about the reunion to all the graduates of the Bicentennial Class of 1976. The work is time-consuming, tedious, frustrating, and overwhelming all at once. Please get the word out as we hope to have a successful reunion.

The most satisfying part of working on the committee for me has been helping to create the reunion Web page. It can be found at http://www.warde1976.myevent.com. Over the last three weeks I've begun scanning photos from the Flame yearbook, and I've created several photo albums. Flipping through the pages of the yearbook has been a special experience in itself. I don't think I had looked at the book in over a decade. Once I opened it, I couldn't put it down.

I've also been to Warde High School and taken 45 shots of the campus for a separate album entitled Andrew Warde Today. That was a lot of fun. I visited the high school one afternoon well after classes were dismissed for the day. The current headmaster, James Coyne, told me I had access to the school, so I spent at least a good hour inside and outside, snapping photos and reminiscing about "the good old days." The photos are now available in the photo album on the Web site, complete with captions.

A lot has changed in 30 years, but it will be good to get together again, at least for one night, to renew acquaintances, build on friendships, and re-live a special time in our lives. We were the 20th graduating class of Andrew Warde High School, and those years will never be forgotten.

Feel free to post your comments on this blog. The reunion is exactly three months from today.

Paul