What You Said

The two most gratifying things about working on this project so far have been the positive attitude of everyone involved and the contact with those we saw every day and then never again for 30 years. Here’s a sampling of the reaction we’ve received from your former classmates.

If you’ve got something you’d like to say, post a comment on this page.

Our classmates write…,

I can’t face the idea of a High School Reunion. I didn’t have much school spirit when I was at Scona. Anyone I cared about, I’ve kept in contact with so it makes no sense at all to me. Gazing upon our collective aging; catching up on successes, misfortunes would be unsettling. I’d rather not. — signed ‘party pooper’

Please add me to your list of potential attendees —

I’ll dig up as many email addresses as possible for you. — signed ‘party pooper’

Thanks so much for your e-mail! Wow, it is so hard to believe that 30 years have gone by already! I would certainly love to attend the reunion and I’ll forward all my info to that e-mail address. It will really be exciting to see everyone again!

I’m hoping to make it, and I have contacted several people. It could be fun, weird, but fun…

And [we'll call him Joe], works for Corrections Canada. Ran into him years ago in Hub mall. Confessed to me he had had a huge crush on me in high school. Wild stuff. Nice Guy.

I will pass your email along the bits of the network that I still have from those days. I’m not in Edmonton, but perhaps could be of some help in organizing. Let me know if there is some way that I can contribute.

Here’s one for you to look for for me. [name withheld - to build up the dramtic emphasis-ed]. My god I owe that guy a few or few dozen apologies for how rude I was to him. Even if it was years ago, my conscience prickles me – I hope we all arrive at pushing fifty understanding just how young and immature we are at school age, and able to forgive unthinking unkindness. Still, he was a nerd and besotted with me, and wore a beanie to school once. But no doubt now a very nice man, as he was a very nice boy, and probably rich. That’s what happens to nerds.

I can’t believe it’s been 30 years. Makes me feel ancient. We just moved back to Edmonton last August, after 20 years in Ontario and 3 years in Calgary. I feel like a stranger here (there are so many changes).

Thanks for putting this event together. Should be very interesting to see everyone so many years later. Despite living in Edmonton (again), I am in contact with virtually no fellow classmates.

Thanks for tracking me down – yes I did attend Scona High – fond memories – would like to learn more about the event – been living in Victoria BC since 1985.

thank you! So exciting to think I might talk to her again. Just dispatched hurried and garbled email to her.

Place me down for 2 tickets.

I just saw his name on the list of students on the website. This is the first I knew of him being in our class- but it may be that he wasn’t – I’ll check and let you know.

Funny, I didn’t think I would remember anyone from Scona after 30 years, but I do remember you. And I’m alarmed to know that it’s already been 30 years! I haven’t been in touch with many of the Scona folk but I will pass your message to the few that I keep in touch with (though perhaps it’s through them that you found my email address in the first place…). Thanks for putting this event together. It will be good to catch up with people I have not been in touch with for a very very long time. I’m not living in Edmonton anymore, but would do my best to attend in any case.

Yes, I will be attending the Reunion for sure, so please reserve a ticket for me – I’ll just be coming by myself, so just one ticket.

How I found out about the planned reunion?? My son Steven played for the Allendale Boys Basketball team for the past 3 years. This year Max, a member of the coaching staff is [so-and-so's] son. Also, another member team is the son of [so-and-so], the brother of [so-and-so - the other so-and-so - ed.]. I recall a conversation I had with [so-and-so], talking about the “good old days” in high school. I’ve been told that a sure sign of aging is that you start reminiscing about you past more frequently. Among other things we mentioned it would be interesting to have a reunion of some sort just to see what became of the students. It’s a fantastic idea to organize a reunion. Hopefully the turn-out will be great.

Cool, thanks for the note. I have been and will continue to spread the word whenever I have the opportunity.

[so-and-so] I think is in Calgary, linguistics professor, and [another so-and-so] in Nanaimo, some kind of prof, and I want most of all to know where [still another so-and-so] is these days. Think about her often.

Sorry I’ve been so hard to reach. I’m looking forward to the reunion. Great website!

Just wanted to confirm that spouses are invited?

He’s in the Edmonton White Pages too. I will also contact him an encourage him to come.

Thanks for all of the great work you have done! She [The so-and-so] is icing on the cake!

I actually long for the day I could move back to Edmonton. I did my PhD at UBC and then ended up teaching there for a while after I graduated , then at the University of Washington in Seattle. I’ve been at U of T since 1999. I was never going into education and I was never going to live in Toronto so I can certainly relate to the never say never. I look forward to seeing you in the fall.

I will attend the reunion – just 1 ticket for me.

My wife and I plan to attend…

What a wonderful surprise to get this note from you. As it happens I’m scheduled to be in Edmonton just around October 6 so I’ll simply make plans to stay on. I’ll submit my information to the site as per your request. Unfortunately, I have not stayed in touch with anyone from high school – perhaps because I have not lived in Edmonton for the last 20 years – so I can’t pass the information on to anyone. I do look forward to reconnecting.

DUDE! 30 years, oh my lord. Until you wrote it down it just didn’t seem possible. Damn you.

Please put me down to attend. Can’t wait!

This sounds great and I will absolutely plan to attend.

I was just wondering if there is a list somewhere of the people that you can not locate. I have the information from our 10 year reunion and might be able to track down some people with that.