People in our class send stuff during the month to one of our members. He and his wife then organize it and send out a monthly newsletter. Pretty cool to have someone willing to do that for the last ten years or so. Unfortunately several months lately also include obituaries which is not so great.
The one person who always sends in something is a guy who is going around the country trying to save spotted owl habitats and is very active in tree hugger groups. Lots of articles about grandkids with many, many pics. One of our classmates had asked to be eliminated from the emails because he thinks we are all “out of step with the real world”. Turns out his one daughter is a Lesbian and lives in San Francisco. Funny how some classmates turn out.
My son’s senior high graduation class, also from Kansas, had well over 1500 students and it was one of five high schools in the area. Lots of them keep in touch but by Facebook or twitter, not by reunions or even email and certainly never by phone. Different strokes for different generations.
I would suspect that our group is the exception rather than the rule on keeping in touch. I thoroughly enjoy our monthly newsletters but do wonder about the coming years.
You are right about each generation doing it their way!
I stayed in touch with several close friends and bridesmaids etc. They are all gone now and I do not know if I would go again...maybe.
I probably would be about the healthiest and most fit in the group...some did not come because of weight or other problems. 1700 miles would be quite a drive.