Who's Coming 2024

Can’t wait!

Thank you for putting together this event! Looking forward to it!

theres a party richard...........

theres a party richard...........

I miss all of you ! ! ! Hey Robert T.We are on the same wave brotherrrrrr ! I had it planed to check in today because i been thinking,still about how GREAT the reunion was and how much iv been missing every one since....Keep on posting peoples ! ! Lets not forget and try to do something in the future.

i figured i would break the silence, anybody home?

I\'m so glad I was able to make it to this reunion. It was like a step back in time. And certainly having it in the same building had a huge effect on the days events. It was an amazing day, and my thanks to those who made it happen. The day portion of this reunion was wonderful, and in my opinion, the best part. It gave a lot of us that extra time to get reacquainted with everyone. Having those who helped us navigate through this experience also attend, was the icing on the cake. I\'m honored to have been a part of that learning experience.   

I am truly sorry that I will not be able to attend this event. Thanksgiving always happens here at my house for my family, who travel in from the east and northwest, as well as northern California. I am especially sorry to miss seeing the entire faculty. Please take tons of photos for those of us who cannot be present. That was a terrific place to spend my high school years.

Sounds great!  Hope that I can make it!  Love the webpage:  great work.  -- Nancy

And to think, we almost did not come. It was beyond any words. Thank you for taking the time to make so many people so happy. I will remember this reunion for the rest of my life.  

Jerry Downs said it, and I wrote it. WOW! I really appreciate the opportunity to have been part of the planning committee, and see this event unfold. About a year ago or so, Bob Stirner had told me the concept of this reunion. Both  Bob Glass, and Bob Stirner had such a purpose of cause, viral in nature, that by sure association drew me in, as only one could characterize as a vortex. So the night before, like a kid awaiting Christmas, I stared at the ceiling, thinking, in anticipation. Flash forward 35 years, and then flash back in time 35 years. Everyone knows cause and effect. In the moment, in real time, when you can see the cause of action such as lighting, and blowing out a candle, you see the cause and effect of blowing. You have an immediate understanding of action. This is all so different when the results of action can only be measured by a life time. It is my opinion, having talked with, and listened to every member of our extended community during our reunion, that the grand experiment of Alternative Education was successful. I saw caring, kind, generous, moral, committed, active, involved, motivated, intelligent, productive, and directed, people. This I believe is a direct result of the exposure to the wide variety of our mentors during our education at the "A" School. The testimony to this surely is in the thoughts expressed during our community meeting. Our get together surpassed all of my expectations. I got kind of scared at the beginning of the community meeting, when there was some silence, that maybe the silence would continue. We all know the silence did not continue. The affirmation of this experience will strengthen our continued growth. This can be characterized by my good friend David Tannenbaum when he said during our community meeting, that our experience was like a stone in the pond that created a ripple continuing forever. It did................touching may people on its way outward. The following Monday morning while at work I got a call from Bob Stirner, and shortly thereafter John Blair. I was still a little fuzzy from the emotional roller coaster, getting back to all the real world responsibilities. Hearing both of their voices, and passionate recount of our collective experience made my acclimation back to the real world that much easier. My wife Mindy and I are both a graduates of the "A" school and only found each other by chance way after that experience. Figure that.

love to come. let me know if you need any help

The inspiration for this came to Jeanie and me on a long car ride back from Ithaca NY (one scene on the '73 college tour) to our home in Melrose MA. We got to talking about the 2 "Class of 74" reunions and how there were far too few A-Schoolers there. We brainstormed and came up with an initial list and took it as far as we could. Thanks to Bob and Bob for picking this up beyond belief!

Pure joy !  The whole day ... morning, noon and night was pure joy.  Seeing all of your faces, hearing all of your voices ... all set against the backdrop of the school itself ... caused the decades to dissolve and the space between then and now to feel as if nothing more than a long weekend had passed.  I\'m sure I\'ll have more words to express what the school meant to me and how the reunion with all of you impacted me ... however, for now ... it\'s just pure joy and I\'m content to leave it at that.

Thanks to the Bob's & Dave for all your hardwork. I'm afraid I may need nametags, with large type. See you next year.

This is great. I'm happy to help in any way. Please don't hesitate to ask.

 What a great event.  The planning, effort and execution of our visionary\'s did not go unnoticed. You guys did an amazing job.  Thank you to all of you.  My regret.....I wish I had gotten there earlier.  It was really wonderful to reconnect with old friends an to make some new ones.  Over the years I had forgotten the impact the School had on me and how it influenced me.  What an opportunity we had!. I hope there are other events in the future.

 A big thank you to all who help organize and all those who came out. Let\'s not wait another 35 years to see each other again.P.S. I took down Nancy Held\'s phone number and true to my condition at the time left off the last 4 numbers, if anyone can get me in touch with her let me knowThanks

The vision of the organizers (past & present); assembling people, music, documents, pix, table decorations; exchange of stories in meaningful surroundings...smells like teen spirit!Thanks for the chance to be alternative again. KK, now K2R

I had such a great time ! I can\'t say enough thank you\'s to Bob and Bob for making this happen !!  What a wonderful day !

wow............

Bruce and I had the best time ever. Pretty sure no renuion on this planet was ever as great as this one. Huge thanks to the organizers.

Thank you Bobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew it would be an incredible  night and it definitely was ! From the moment, I walked up that red staircase, I was taken back to a time that was nothing short of amazing . Thank you does not seem sufficient to those who worked so hard to make this possible.....but, from the bottom of my heart, thank you Love, Susan Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

thanks to all ! what a wonderful event. the planning and execution was nothing short of unbelieveable.

Thanks to the reunion committee for a fantastic evening!  Dave T. - start looking for those Bat Mitzvah pics! love to all-Char

WOW!!! Unbelievably cool too see everyone. What a blast! Best to all.

Greetings friends! Looking forward to seeing everyone.                                 JD

does anyone have a picture of me and my 60 bug. if anyone has any spectacular black and white negatives i have a dark room and can print

A light has gone out.  Rest in peace, Jack. 

I\'ve heard that the authorities are shutting down the N.Y. Thurway and from here on out it\'s a free concert!

there was a walk through of the "a" school 10/26/10 for planning, and to sort a few things out prior to the reunion.  during the walk through the ghosts of the past filled the hallways for certain, and it is kind of funny, fore at that moment, it could have been 1974. lee walked through the classrooms, and ray and i tried to find remnants of writing on the chalk boards in his classroom. I saw it in all their faces, chuck, cindy, ray, bob and lee, that they did return to that place in time. Can anyone name a school reunion that ever happened in the school that they went to? it\'s a trip for me because it\'s the same school that i attended kindergarten. I attended with buba bob perry. we were hoping to find the video tape player that has been long since gone, so we could view the many tapes that we have from the first years. no luck:(no one can live in the past, nor would you want to; but, for one fine day in November, the lucky ones will get the chance, to once again relive some formative years, and visit that place in time, when you had all the time in the world, and a lot of places to put it:)   robert tokarczyk

WOW............this is such a GREAT idea, and I am so looking forward to seeing all my old friends.  Some that I have not seen since I left for San Diego back in 1982.  It will be nice to see everyone all grown up.....well at least older! Thanks to the small group with the BIG hearts to get this reunion together.  The A school was such an inspiration and growing experience for me, I can't wait to see and party with all of you again!

Hey friends!Are people connecting tonight- where?I\'m at 206-406-2871.  Rita

Thank you!!!Bob & Bob for all your time &energy and devotion to this project...to making it happen, and inspiring help...so looking forward to a fantastic event!LeeAnn

Hope all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Just thought I\'d let everyone know that there are several people staying at the Sleep Inn in Minsky on the 27th. For those of you that are coming from out of town, that plan on staying overnight, you might want to join the late night get together at the Sleep Inn...

sounds like its time to P A R T Y  

Ohhhhhh Mannnnnnn.....Its getting close...."SMOKE UP JOHNNY" ! ! ! Thats from the movie"The Breakfast Club"anyhow,smoke up.drink up.eat up.chat it up....cant wait..Thank you again,Bob S.and Bob G. ...and Robert Tokarz. for all your help up loading all my old photos on to the site...see you all soon

I just wrote the check and it is going into the mail today for the CAS Reunion.  I should have done it long ago, so that our friends on this committee can keep things rolling along.  I suggest you take a minute and do the same.  We all know we want to go to this great event, so get your check in today so the committee can plan for a wonderful time for all of us.Looking forward to seeing all of you there!

let the fun begin, arriveearly, arive on time, arive late whatever you might like. What ever the case, bring plenty of love, plenty of jack, and what ever that will make ur experience that much more enjoyable.

 Hello to the Alernative School reunion people. I absolutely cannot wait for this event.... memories, memories, memories.  where to begin???  Henry the eighth  dinner party where we all dressed up and ate with our hands!! In Herman Tull's basement ! Chuck Mattern was the king !!! Does anyone have that video????  Would love to see it.  All the fun classes !! The Teachings of Don Juan, how to study the Mafia, and Edible plants. the list goes on and on.... Have a great thanksgiving to all. see you next year.

THIS FROM THE CLASSMATES PAGE.I should have done this months ago. Hello everyone! I want to thank you all for contributing to one of the most formative and important experiences of my life. You showed me what learning could be, should be, and didn\'t have to be - hence I left teaching. I learned to love learning; learning what I wanted to learn, and I found that that has no place in formal education/training - nor should it or can it. For years I couldn\'t think about what happened, I still haven\'t read Hinger\'s 30 yr old  Requiem for a School. I still don\'t want to relive the anger - the essay\'s here, somewhere in my office. I still can\'t justify our closing but I think understand it now; Big Education is about daycare, training, careers and retirement. "Keep the doors open and the lid on." There is simply too much at stake to risk the uncertain outcomes of individual exploration in a democratic environment. "That\'s Fourth-of-July\' talk." "And I should save it for the Fourth of July?" "That\'s right." (Part of a dialog from my one term stint on the local school board. I was not re-elected. I\'m not a cheerleader.) I\'m proud of everything we did, and every mistake we made. I\'ve come to see that if you\'re not making mistakes you\'re not trying hard enough - or you\'re already dead. Life is not lost by dying, life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in a thousand small uncaring ways.  S.V. Benet I\'ve lived in latte-land, the land of the terminally polite, for over thirty years. I\'m looking forward to at least a few days where discussion is a contact sport, ridicule-based humor is an art form and people can believe in something deeply enough to argue emotionally. I\'m looking forward to seeing Kyra jump up crying, and shouting "Go on, go on! Ignore this, ignore this!" I definitely should have done this months ago. See you all in November. Worse than ever.  jb

Love seeing the pictures of everyone getting together. PLEASE tell me we\'ll have name tags at the reunion....the only person I knew for sure in the St. Charles pics was Sue Gannon Ward. 

Fran, sorry for your lose... we all love ya\'

 Wow, this is really cool! Although I wasn't fortunate enough to be able to attend the A-School, thanks to my Mom. I would have loved going there, but that's ok I  left Jersey for Oregon in '76 after graduating from CHS in '74. I feel a kindred spirit with all that attended. Right on , Right on is all I can say. I'm glad the reunion is open to everyone because I want to come and get in on the music jam. I'll bring my harmonica. Randy Lippincott if you are reading this thanks for turning me onto Blind Faith. Let's jam brothers! David Bliss it was great seeing you at the CHS reunion in '94 and I am glad you got the ball rolling on this. 

Even though I have not been directly involved with planning this wonderful event, I have been lucky enough to be reaquainted with several folks from my A school past, and am looking forward to seeing those I have not. I got the most enjoyment out of school in general at the A school, and continue learning whenever possible...having learned about diversity, nutrition, diplomacy, friendship, nature, and so many other things, the Aschool gave me a firm foundation to help start my adult life. Thank you to all involved...see you April 9th...LeeAnn Hopkins

Never went to the A school but lived across the street and wished!!!! I remember all you guys! Hope you have a great time and let the "OTHERS" come. 

It will be a great time, thanks to the great group of folks making it happen. Songs I\'m hearing (in no particular order) as the reunion draws near:Can\'t Go Back to Jersey ........G. Love and Special SauceI\'m From New Jersey.............John GorkaRevival..........Allman Brothers BandWork for Peace.............Gil Scott-HeronChildish Things................James McMurtryWake Up.................John Legend\'s new versionImagine...........Herbie Hancock\'s new version

Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !