That’s funny you said that about class reunions. I haven’t been to many of them. In the photos I’ve seen, the popular ones still showed up even years later, whether they looked good or not.
Maybe my comment was too broad.
I only went to one - my 35th - none, and I mean not one of the most popular kids showed up. I asked others (some who were in the high school entourage of the popular kids) about the class presidents, the prom kings and queens, the top athletes, et al ... the answers were they disappeared no one knows where they are, they inexplicably stopped after the 10th reunion, they have health or other issues, and the old “Trust me, you don’t want to see them”.
I takes people willing to organize a class reunion. I attended 1-11 at a school that had 54 in the senior class. The school I spent my 12th year at had 52.
The first school has always considered me a grad with them (landlord died, forcing my family to move to another farm in the neighboring school district).
The first school has a couple of women that love planning the reunions; there’s been one every 5 years (50th last year). I’ve only missed 3.
The second school managed a 10 and a 25 as far as I know (I attended the 10, but since I only went there my last year I felt like a stranger).
It is interesting to see big changes in appearance. Except for a gray head of thinning hair I’m about the same.
The sad part is the deceased number, 1/4 are gone so far.