BGHS81.COM | Bowling Green High School Class of '81 (1981) 40 Year Class Reunion

Early Bird tickets will be $45 per person or $90 per couple if received by August 15, 2021
(must be postmarked by this date). A limited number of tickets will be available at the
door for $50 per person. Price includes all costs for the Main event (Rental, Band and
Catering and associated supplies) and the meat for the Sunday picnic.

NOTE: There will be no Non-Meal Tickets sold for this event due to cost and planning
needs.

Lodging

July 03, 2021

For out of town guest the following Hotels have rooms available just let them know you
are with the BGHS Class of 1981 Reunion. Cutoff dates for the blocked rooms will be
August 10, 2021:

• University Plaza Holiday Inn in Hartland
8 rooms available,1st come 1st serve
270-393-8669 • http://www.hibowlinggreen.com • contact: Jade Mosgrove

• Staybridge Suites Campbell Lane - BOOK ONLINE
Must book before 8/10/21
270-904-0480 contact • Alexandra Meredith • Alex.meredith@dellisart.com

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July 03, 2021

Our 10, 20, 30, 40 year reunions.

Clay Shooting on Saturday for Non-Golfers

September 20, 2011

This is an event for any non-golfers that would like to go shoot clays!

Time: 12:301:30
Location: Wagoner Mills Sporting Clays. It's about 5 miles before Scottsville off of Scottsville road.
Details:The cost is $25 to shoot a 100 clay bird round. The ammo cost is about $25 at Gander Mountain for 100 rounds. They don't rent guns. Only one person shoots at a time, so if you don't have a gun, you can just use somebody elses gun.

For more information, you can contact Steve Morgan .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Wagoner Mill Road Sporting Clays
910 W. Old State Road
Scottsville, KY. 42164

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Two Events Prior to the Game Friday Night

September 12, 2011

Event 1 from Alan Simpson:
Prior to the actual football game, from 5-7, myself and a few other guys will be playing music at the SGA BBQ. It will be inside the stadium by the dressing rooms. It would be great to see all you guys and you can support the Student Government Association. BBQ will be great and you can marvel at my mid-life crisis, playing music.

Event 2 from Jamie (Bryant) Puckett:
Hey all, Friday night is the Big football homecoming game. Our 30 year reunion, WOW!!!! I live right behind the field. OK ? If you are going to the game you are welcome to park at my house, and walk to the game. I will have appetizers, but it is BYOB. We will mingle and have a great time. Someone bring a camera! The address is 1503 Woodhurst.

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There’s a reason why class reunions matter

September 10, 2011

CLARENCE PAGE
Published: September 6, 2011

Facing a class reunion can be daunting enough to make a teetotaler crave a bracing cocktail. But fear not. It’s worth the effort. For at least one sweet, nostalgic night you can revisit the best parts of high school without worrying about the silly stuff.

I used to wonder why high school reunions seem to mean so much more to people than college or other reunions. I think the late, great editor and columnist Meg Greenfield put it in her memoir: “So far as I have been able to discover, nobody, regardless of station, gets over high school.” Indeed, class reunions help you to get over high school, no matter how nervous you might be about getting over your class reunion.

High school is where we begin to shape the adults we are about to become for the rest of our lives. It is a monstrous task confronted by complete amateurs. I would not face it again if you paid me in Powerball winnings.

Class reunions are, by comparison, low stress. We become history detectives, probing our past to take a fresh look at who we were and what we put up with before we reinvented ourselves into post-graduates. Reunions have a therapeutic value. They prove how right your parents were when they assured you, back in the throes of teen angst, that time heals all wounds – and wounds all heels.

The bullies, snobs, hustlers and clowns who once brought you daily torment may be passed away by now – or in witness protection programs – or simply humbled as we all are by advancing years and slowed metabolism.

I graduated from the public high school in Middletown, Ohio, a classic mid-American factory town that, like so many others, doesn’t manufacture as much as it used to. It was 1965, a time that seemed to be “like only yesterday” until the stories that I used to watch on television began to appear in my son’s history exams.

Bill Cosby used to say that it is not hard to recognize your classmates at a reunion because they all look like their parents used to look. After 46 years? Try grandparents.

It took some of us 20 years to work up enough nerve to show up at a class reunion. It took that long for the residue of teenaged hubris, angst and embarrassing relationships to fade. In other words, it took long enough for most of us to have high school kids of our own.

After 40 years, you’re happy merely to see who’s still alive and able to show up.

“No politics tonight,” said Bob Hayden, one of the event’s organizers, with whom I have been debating politics since Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater. No problem. It was good to be back in the land of good Midwestern common sense after escaping Washington, which politics have turned into Mogadishu-on-the-Potomac.

I wasn’t sure he could hear me over the music, provided by a band of fellow alumni called The Intruders. They were a popular local garage band for a couple of years in the mid-1960s until they broke up like countless other aspiring teen legends to pursue more conventional lives.

Whatever hair they had left was gray and actually longer than it used to be in their old band photos, although these days it does not look nearly as rebellious as it used to.

Yet, decades later it was a delight to see that in these guys the old heart of rock-and-roll was still beating. They seemed to be thrilled to get together without anyone saying, “Stick to your day job.” As one band member, now retired, told me with delight, “This is my day job!”

Cool. We partied like it was, well, 1965. As Bridget Fonda’s character says in the movie “Singles,” “Somewhere around 25, bizarre becomes immature.” After 60, bizarre becomes merely “eccentric.”

Just a few words of advice if you’re facing a class reunion: Resist the impulse to ask your fellow alumni, “Do you remember me?” This is particularly true if there is any chance that the other person doesn’t remember you.

I used to find that question to be merely awkward or embarrassing. Now it can fill me with fear of early Alzheimer’s.

Copyright 2011 News Publishing LLC (Bowling Green, KY)

Corvette Museum

September 01, 2011

The Corvette Museum is allowing the Class of '81 to take tours until 6:00pm. The Main Event starts at 7:00m so this would give enough time to start the tour at 6:00pm and be to the event on time. They are discounting tickets for the people attending the event. Admission that day is $3.00 for the Class of "81.

Early Bird Rates Have Expired

August 29, 2011

The Early Bird price has now expired and all tickets are now $40.00 per person or $80 per couple and must be received no later that September 7, 2011 (Not
postmarked by this date) to guarantee your entry to the main event. If you are going to attend please send in your invitation and payment before September 7th, we want to include everyone possible at this reunion, but need your prompt response now. To avoid additional cost we will be turning in the numbers after the September 7th deadline and to keep the price of catering at the quoted rate. We will not be admitting over the number of the quota (based on the current responses we are looking at less than 20 tickets to be sold at the door) and there will be no discounted tickets at the door (meal is included. Price includes all costs for the Main event (Rental, Band and Catering and associated supplies).

Bowling Green High School Class of 1981 Committee has been working diligently putting the finishing touches on the 30 year reunion planned for September 23, 24 and 25th. In order to be fully prepared, we ask that you remit your payment by September 7th if you plan on attending any of these events. Reply even if not attending.

Note: The invitation can me found on this website on the yearbook page.

Early Bird Deadline Aug 15

August 04, 2011

The Treasurer has reported as of today, we have had a very sluggish response on invitations being returned. The Early Bird deadline is August 15th to receive the low ticket rate for the weekend event. We have a caterer that has to have a reasonable estimate of how many to feed (this is the largest single cost of the entire event) and if this amount varies greatly then the cost will change. The committee has worked very hard for the past 8 months to establish the weekend events and to try and contain cost and now we need your assistance to make this a success. As mentioned on the invitations, there will be only a limited number of tickets available at the door, this is due to the catering numbers. We have heard from many of you already and appreciate your prompt responses and support, all others if you know you are going to attend please get your invitations in the mail ASAP! The more responses we receive by August 15 will allow us to plan to make better choices on your behalf.

Thanks again and we look forward to seeing you at the reunion!