Thomas Willard
The WHS Class of 1975 will have its 50th high school reunion in October. The main event is at Ferraro's at 7 pm on Saturday, Oct. 11. I'm organizing other things to do that weekend to make the trip worthwhile.
I've made arrangements to tour the high school on Friday at 3:30 pm. A group is capped at 25 people but they can have more than one group if enough people are interested.
On Saturday morning, there's a football game scheduled at Gary Kehler Football Stadium. I sure hope they still sell big pretzels.
On Saturday afternoon, I'm working on:
-- A visit to the newly rehabbed Westfield Volunteer Rescue Squad. (The person who answered my email knew my dad, who passed in 1994.)
-- A peek inside the old Rialto Theatre and a presentation about its capital campaign to become a world-class arts center.
-- A visit to the Reeve History and Cultural Resource Center sponsored by the Westfield Historical Society
-- "Meet Sy Montgomery's Cutout" at the Town Book Store. Sy can't be with us but a selection of her books will be on display.
-- The Westfield Public Library is already having a Sustainable Home Fair on Saturday that we can visit, and they will set up a table of 1975 artifacts to welcome us back.
Any other ideas for things we could do?
I arranged for the Westfield Inn to hold a block of 15 rooms for us at $200 a night (Oct. 10-12). Call them directly and mention our reunion - (908) 654-5600.
I want to experience Westfield again and relive my youth and spend some time in the places where it all began.
Does Baron's Drug Store still have that weird smell it always used to have?
Here's a FB group where I'm keeping track of these events:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/694492280414175
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