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Have a look at a photo album of events at the 30th Class Reunion held in Casper on August 3 and 4, 2001. The photos are more or less in chronological order.

The reunion began with an icebreaker at the Casper Petroleum Club on Friday evening. There was a dinner at the Parkway Plaza (the old Ramada) on Saturday evening. About 100 of our classmates were at the reunion.

Please note: I tried to get as many photos of everyone there as I could, but I just couldn't get everyone, and I apologize. And I couldn't identify everyone in all the photos. I also didn't used married names for the women. Let me know who all I've missed, or if I've made spelling mistakes, or if you'd like to see a better caption on any of the photos. Bruce

I have attended the 10th, 20th, and now the 30th reunions of our class. Certainly everyone has changed over these 30 years, yet we all share the formative time we spent together at Kelly Walsh what seems so long ago. I'd just like to share a few thoughts I have about the reunion.

In many ways, I thought that people seemed to have changed more between the 20th and the 30th than in the first 20 years. A lot of this certainly was physical. A lot more gray hair - at least in the men (and less hair, too). The hair colors of the women were more of a mystery! More wrinkles, more achy joints, and of course, more trouble seeing to read anything!

But the change I saw in many people was more than just physical. I think Ron Fields said it very well: people seemed to be content with themselves. Ron noted how easy it was to talk with everyone else, how we are all really much the same now, and all those little groups we had way back really aren't relevant any more. We are all more secure in ourselves, and we've found our niche in life. The more we've changed, the more we've all gotten to the same place in our lives.

We all do have our own lives now, and high school does seem like it was a long time ago. But there is no denying that it was one of the most important times in our lives. That is when we all first learned how to think, how to interact with other people, how to begin to face responsibility. And we learned it all together.

I think it is important to look back on one's life every now and then, just to get some perspective. And a high school reunion is just such an opportunity. Seeing our classmates again gives us a touchstone. After all this time, we can see where we came from, and see how we've all shared similar life experiences, both good and bad.

Even though we all have our own paths to follow, it is good to look back and see where that path started. And it is really good to see that for most of us, that path has led to self-acceptance and personal contentment as Ron noted.

I plan to come to the 40th in 10 years, and I hope you will, too. It may not seem like an important thing to do, but it does give us all a touchstone. And not only that, almost everyone at the 30th seemed to have a truly good time and were glad they came.

See you in 2011!

Bruce Wampler, August 8, 2001