"Understanding our past gives us strenght for the present and prepares us for the future."
George Beach
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972
February 19th, 2010

Where there is Faith
there is Love
Where there is Love
there is Peace
Where there is Peace
there is God
Where there is God
there is no need.
Author Unknown
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972
February 20th, 2010

In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success.
Proverbs 3:6
The Living Bible
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

"Life loves the liver of it"
Maya Angelou

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972
February 22nd, 2010

"God enters by a private door into every individual"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972
February 23rd, 2010

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
Mark Twain

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972
February 24th, 2010

Phoebe,
Glad to be a member of the site and The Groups! I give God all the Glory, Honor, and Praise.
I enjoy all of your picts. Keep them coming.
You too, Have a Happy Wednesday and God Bless
Tawnette

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

William Allen White

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

"Happiness is the ability to recognize it."
Carolyn Wells

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

Our help is from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 127:8
The Living Bible

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Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

"Life is like a mirror, smile at it and it smiles back at you."
Peace Pilgrim

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.
Psalm 100:5

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105

God has truly been a great guide this week! People thought that the situation was hopeless. But, God came right on time.
God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton- Gilbert
Class of 1972

Members of Kaimuki High School's Class of 1975 perform the "Electric Slide" during their 35-Year Reunion at Hawaii Prince Hotel in Honolulu.




For people anxious about attending a 10-, 20- or 30- 35+ Year High School Reunions, veterans have this to say: Don't worry. It gets easier.


"I think when you're going to your 10 and your 20, you're trying to impress everyone with who you are," says Marlys Ahrendt, who has organized (Four) Multi-Year Reunions for her High School in Sioux Falls, S.D.


After that, it's more about grandchildren than grand achievements, she and others say.


So what is it about Class Reunions that draws us back?


Many factors come into play, says Stephanie DeLuse, a Doctor of Psychology at Arizona State University in Tempe. Among them:


• The Curiosity Factor. We want to find out how people turned out. We engage in social comparisons, sometimes without even thinking about it. And we want to see how people are doing so we can compare our situations with theirs.


• The Desire To Right A Wrong. A couple of examples are apologizing to someone that you fought with or confronting someone who made your life miserable.


• The Hope Factor. We might want to catch the eye of an old crush or track down old friends, DeLuse says.


• A Longing To Set The Record Straight. Especially if you voted for a friend as Prom or Homecoming Queen/King or ran for something in High School and was not chosen but someone else was who you did not select or like was. For example, someone who was chosen as the High School stereotype, like the person voted for Prom Queen/King or Homecoming Queen/King who becomes a scientist or someone who has gained weight or who has lost a lot of weight.


Still, the prospect of seeing peers from the early years provokes everything from anxiety to apathy.


Time has passed, but reality has kicked in: Maybe those 10 pounds weren't shed, true love got away or a business failed.


The pressure is enough for even a Prom Queen/King or Homecoming Queen/King to skip the whole thing.


"But there are some people who hated School," Ahrendt says. "They wouldn't come back if you paid them."


Some come back through thick and thin, every year. Cherokee County Community High School's Class of 1929 in Columbus, Kan., had its 75-Year Reunion in 2004, cementing a place in Guinness World Records as "The Longest Running Annual Class Reunion".


Ahrendt loves Class Reunions. For her, they're about making new friends.


Ahrendt graduated in 1957 with 450 people and says she has become close to Classmates she didn't remember in High School.


"You know, you never know who you're going to meet," she says. Through the years, Ahrendt has discovered the "Wild Girl" married a Pastor and the "Holy Terror" turned out to be a Successful yet Modest Multimillionaire.


"We put expectations on people. And when we've found out what they're really doing, you're so far off the mark," she says.


Before Angel Dietzen Anderson of Appleton, Wis., went to her 10-year Reunion last year, she was worried she wouldn't have anything to talk about with the five friends who had been her buddies.


"I've lost touch with all but one," she says. "Those are probably the people I'm most nervous to see again because it's so weird. We were so close. I know so much about them. They know so much about me. But we know nothing about each other now."


The mix of excitement and angst is typical, according to Edith Wagner, Editor of Milwaukee-based Reunions Magazine.


"The first notice of the next Reunion, which frequently comes a year ahead, tends to set off all kinds of things like diets and thoughts of hair color and new outfits," Wagner says. "It just triggers all this 'I'm going to go back so I've got to do all this changing.'"


But Reunions "are all about that reconnecting", she says.


"A lot of it is to go and recapture a bit of our past," she said. "The years that we were in High School, ... it really is a very significant slice of our lives. It's also a slice of our lives that can easily be forgotten because we really do go on to other things."


Cheryl Kunz of Rockford, Ill., who graduated in 1982, has yet to attend a Reunion.


"The only Reunion that I really wanted to attend was my 20th," she says. "It's more fun to see people after a long time, and much more interesting to hear how their lives have changed after 20 years. By the time I found out when and where the 20th reunion was, it was too late, you could not pay at the door."


Becky Coggins of Chandler, Ariz., who graduated in 1975, is married to her High School Sweetheart.


She feels sorry for people who choose not to be contacted. She "believes in the importance of reconnecting and maintaining old friendships".


"Even though we're 52 & 53, we're still 18 at ou Class Reunions," she says. "These are people who we shared our first life experiences with — first car, first crush, first heartbreak. Time may change on the outside, but not in the inside."




(Monica LaBelle writes for the (Sioux Falls, S.D.) Argus Leader; Emily Seftel writes for The Arizona Republic. Also contributing: Heather LaRoi, The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent; Elizabeth Davies; Rockford (Ill.) Register Star)

Nice post sis

OH, GIVE THANKS to the Lord, for he is good; his lovingkindness continues forever.
Psalms 136:1

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

"The man who speaks the truth is always at ease"
Persian Proverb

God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

THANK YOU GOD
For gently and safely waking me up this morning in my right mind.
For providing my every need.
For my family and many friends.
For the use of my body.
For Loving me.
For forgiving me of my sins.
For having Mercy on me.
For allowing me to think of others and help them.
And For most of all allowing me to consider others and Pray for them! Amen
God Bless,
Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert
Class of 1972

Go Lakers GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
And
Go Dodgers GO!!!!!!!!!!
Tawnette (72)

GO LAKERS GO!!!!!
Tawnette (72)