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Post by Chris Thom on Feb 18, 2006 15:43:57 GMT -5
LOL great there goes the budget....1 princess hat for Sarah  |
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Post by Trish Muir on Feb 19, 2006 9:50:43 GMT -5
The reunion sounds great, I will help in anyway I can.
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Post by Brian Bellmore on Feb 19, 2006 13:10:31 GMT -5
I would like know more infoon the reunion i am one of first Student Bayside
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Post by penneme on Feb 20, 2006 9:12:15 GMT -5
Maybe appointing teams from each era of Bayside to do something from their era at the school would be a good idea. They could handle things like music from the day or handle advertising the Reunion for classmates from their year.
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Post by John Fulton 71 to 75 on Feb 22, 2006 0:35:36 GMT -5
Hi Will help with the first 5 year crowd. Still have the 75 year book and have a couple of photos back then. I live in Whitby and Havelock, but still have acouple of friends in the area.
Can't believe it has been that long...lol
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Post by robwhite on Feb 25, 2006 18:50:21 GMT -5
hi all if there is anythings i can do to help plaese let me know a 2007 reunion would be great.
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Post by penneme on Mar 16, 2006 11:17:13 GMT -5
How goes the reunion planning?
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Post by penneme on Mar 28, 2006 7:46:00 GMT -5
One idea for the reunion.......a 35 year time capsule that can be buried on the school grounds. People from each era of the school can add something and Baysie students in the future can learn about the school, staff and students of the years gone by.
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Post by carol semczyszyn on Apr 13, 2006 8:32:02 GMT -5
hi, formerly carol semczyszyn and also a Bayside Student from its first days (remember sharing with Trenton High?). I think a reunion is a terrific idea - there are many people I would love to get in touch with again. I am currently in burlington, on but if I can help, I would be happy to
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 15, 2006 13:35:28 GMT -5
Great chat about a reunion - my four sisters and I were talking about it a few summers back, recalling the 20th anniversary held at the high school as well as one of the nearby provincial parks. I got a bad sun burn on the top of my feet from playing beach volleyball all afternoon (cooked the feet in the deep sand - was it Sandbank's Provincial Park?). The school has to be part of the reunion, as are any schools involved in a reunion (based on my experience covering reunions as a reporter during the past 25 years in different parts of Canada). It can be the starting point for registration. Meet and greet, especially with the large contingent I'd expect from the baby boomers who attended BSS starting in 1971, up to 1995. The school's numbers are considerably less compared to when I was attending from 76 to 78 (remember the portables? the house system for intramurals?). Reunions tend to attract those students who have been away from the classroom for a decade or more....memories! And hitting the base newspapers is a great ideal, moreover, from the perspective that BSS was filled with busloads of students for many years coming off the base, when parents had four, five and six kids. The base had its own feeder school with junior high kids attending once they became minon niners (those were the days). You can count on me helping out...you can draw on my expertise working in the media and how to get the message out via newsprint. I'm a member of Classmates, but notice there's little movement of former BSS grads/students using it. And drawing in any former teachers would be fun, too. I think Mr. Johnson and Mr. Harris (principal) were the last of my teachers to work in the school a few years back during a visit back to Trenton. Looking forward to seeing more feedback...brainstorming. I still have my beer mug for the 20th (1971-1991). Cheers, jules
julestassja@cablerocket.com or editor@wetaskiwintimes.com
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Post by Teresa O'Neil on Apr 16, 2006 11:15:45 GMT -5
A REUNION WOULD BE SO GREAT.
THERE MUST BE A DISTRIBUTION LIST SOMEWHERE FROM THE LAST REUNION.
THE MEET AND GREET AT BAYSIDE WAS FUN, THE BEACH PARTY AT PRESQUIL WAS A BLAST AND THE DANCE WITH I DO BELIEVE THE BAND THAT USED TO BE CALLED PHOTOGRAPH PLAYED IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY!!
PERHAPS WE COULD ALL RUN/WALK THE "TURKEY TROT"!!!
T.XAVIER
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 16, 2006 14:20:52 GMT -5
A great idea sis.....but my knees are no longer what they used to be when I was flying on the course. I can remember winning the first turkey trot and Mr. Pordham greeting me at the finish line and asking me to join the wrestling team (115 pounds soaking wet at the time, with a mop of curls on my head). Memories....the adage that your high school memories will stick with you moreso than elementary or post-secondary (the best of times I suppose as you begin to forge your personality) stands the test of time. With cyberspace available to us now compared to the computer classes offered at BSS in 1976, wow, we should be able to hit more people out there with access to the Internet. And use the media - Trentonian (I know the editor) and Intelligencer.
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 19, 2006 17:41:10 GMT -5
A 35th reunion got me thinking, so, in my capacity as editor of a central Alberta-based community newspaper, I composed my weekly column on said subject. It's called X-Rated, but that's just a play on words with my last name having an X ... it's catchy and draws people in thinking I could be writing erotica or something. Anyhow, thought I'd share it with the BSS alumni who peruse these posts on occasion - maybe pique more dialogue and planning. Sarah, your idea of a separate website for the 35th is an excellent idea - with a link to the this addy. I'm on classmates, too, with a gold membership. I notice I've had about 70-plus visits to my profile, but few people actually send messages. The below column will appear in the Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser on the editorial page, April 24. You can access the paper I have worked for since January 1998 by going to the following cyberspace addy: www.wetaskiwintimes.com• • • X-RATED COLUMN Attending a high school reunion can be a traumatic experience for some former students. It’s all about image, especially for women after the decades have changed the body after bearing children or not being as active as they were in high school. For the guy, he might worry about having a beer belly or a bald head compared to his athletic physique and perfectly combed Joe Namath-style haircut when he was 17 and the school’s top athlete in any sport he tried. Being successful is another worry for some. Your peers might have thought you’d become an accomplished professional like a doctor or lawyer based on your academic standing in high school. But instead, you pursed a career as a plumber or mechanic. No shame in that, I say, because you’re going to charge me big bucks per hour fixing a leaky faucet or a disabled transmission. For this journalism hack, I look forward to attending a reunion in 2007. Nothing is embossed in glass yet on reunion souvenir beer mugs or coffee cups, but it has been 29 years since I ran around the school wearing a garbage bag while training with the Red Devils’ powerhouse wrestling program. I relish the opportunity to catch up on lost times with former teachers and fellow classmates who attended and graduated from Bayside Secondary School, just east of Trenton, Ont. The two-storey structure welcomed its first students and teachers in 1971. I arrived in the fall of 1976 and graduated from Grade 13 in June 1978. While some might disagree with me, I thought high school was fun. I relished my three years at BSS. I played sports, whether varsity or intramurals. I learned how to develop my first 35mm roll of film in the school’s darkroom. I had crushes on Cathy Rumney and Andrea Tufts. All five Xavier air force brats who lived on CFB Trenton’s air based attended BSS. We were there for the school’s first reunion in 1991. I lost my voice on the first night while gabbing with old classmates and my favourite teachers like Ron Harris and Roy Ingram. I even talked to Ernie Pope, my 12th grade math teacher who I just passed his 451 course with a 52 per cent mark. The school’s table tennis champ even admitted 13 years later that his math classes weren’t the most exciting experiences the way he taught. O concur. Attending a high school reunion should not be approached with any trepidation. Instead, sign up, get involved and enjoy the moment. A 50th reunion won’t arrive until 2021 when I’m 62 and many of our peers will be but a memory as we lose a few each passing year. Like Paul Dassylva who died recently at age 50 from a heart attack. Or classmates like Tammy Johnston and Nancy Montrose, who died too young three days apart back in February 1978. They might be gone, but their memories touched many of us. |
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Post by penneme on Apr 19, 2006 18:20:41 GMT -5
Great column Jules. You really hit every worst nightmare about highschool reunions, while accenting the positives of them. Looking forward to meeting and reuniting with old friends you havent seen in years can be scary. Also seeing old "loves" can be just as scary. But in the end once in a while we all look back on highschool days with fond memories. And since most memories are connected with the people above, its like taking a pleasant walk back in time. And just think we all get to be teenagers again!!!!!!!!
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 24, 2006 22:48:26 GMT -5
www.wetaskiwintimes.com/story.php?id=226409Check out the X-Rated column appearing in the April 24 edition of the Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser, paper that I work for as editor/chief photographer/sports editor et al. Where are we at with plans ... anyone back in Trenton and area starting the ball rolling? What about a 35th reunion site like this, linked up? I'm ready to work the media, getting the word out. Lots of time to start working on the logistics. Perhaps incorporating the current crop of students and working in a yearbook as was done back in 1991 for the 20th. Any thoughts?
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