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This
is the official web site for the Kennewick High School Class of 1983 20 year reunion!
NOTICE: Our domain name has been changed from www.kehs83.com to kehs83reunion.com (this is
still in the works), and we've also reserved kehsreunion.com for the upcoming All Class Reunion.
-- Todd Grigsby
Greetings Classmates
Please keep us informed of any address or email changes, as there's a good
possibility of a 25 year reunion! Our message board is still up and running
and we are happy to add on any news anyone would like to share.
Photos/Memory Book/Website
Betty Chandler Harris will be printing a memory book after the reunion photos
are in. Please send photos to Betty at bettyhrrs@aol.com or to Todd at
todd@tgesoft.com. It is not too late to be included and please don't forget
to update your bio -- you can do it yourself!!
Class Picture
A group photo was taken and is available for purchase for $10.00
Nostalgia piece
This s HILARIOUS - it really does make me feel old!!!! but it is funny!!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious! When I was a kid
adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard
things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles
o school every morning uphill both ways through year round blizzards carrying
their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they
maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the
local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep
their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when
I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that
on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But.... Now that
I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice
the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood,
you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know
how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet.
When we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it
up ourselves! There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter.
With an actual pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put
it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no
MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the damn record
store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it
off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and messed it all
up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had
to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those
were your options. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on
the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have
fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was
it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you
didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We
didn't have any fancy Sony PlayStation videogames, either, with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You had to
use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was
just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting
harder and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie
theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
height! If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were just
screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use
a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when
it came to channel surfing you had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV
to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get
cartoons on Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait
ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards! We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted
to heat something up we had to use the stove imagine that! If we wanted popcorn
we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot
forever. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Damn! I feel old!!!!! Submitted by Pam Miller Morgan
Special Thanks!
A big thank you to the reunion committee members - Sherri Beatte Manazanares,
Dennis Blumer, Betty Chandler Harris, Channa Chrisman Hobbs, Andy Hobbs, and
Valorie Padgett Hawk (and their spouses who picked up the slack and/or helped
out while they ran around in circles!!). Also, thank you to Cathy Reim for
the tour and picnic help, Richard Groen for the golf balls, Todd Grigsby to
the website, and Dennis Blumer for the wine. There is a list of sponsors
here.
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