Rockport High School Alumni Association

We're planning a School Reunion! Save this page to your favorites, and keep returning to see what's new.
Add your profile to the Classmates page, and feel free to upload some photos to be published on the site.  Click on the menu at the top right-hand corner.  This will take you to various website pages.
Share this website with as many classmates as possible and ask everyone to register.  This website will be here for at least four more years.
More to come!

Good Excuses?

Excuse #1:  I'm a different person than I was in high school.  
Rebuttal:  Lucky for you.  We  ALL are.  Let's face it, we could only have improved.

Excuse #2:  I'm overweight.                                             
Rebuttal: You're not alone!

Excuse #3: I don't look as good as I'd like. I (choose one or more) am bald, have wrinkles, have saddlebags, have gray hair and no one will recognize me.                                       
Rebuttal: Guess what?  You won't recognize anyone else either which is why we will be providing name tags.  Look at our yearbook and you'll realize our whole class looks like a "before" photo in a plastic surgery ad.

Excuse #4:  I'm not successful. I'm not (choose one or more) a lawyer, a doctor, or rich.                                                
Rebuttal: You'll be pleasantly surprised to find out how much everyone has matured.  We may be plump and wrinkled (see excuse #3 above) but we're not stupid.  Money doesn't measure success or happiness.

Excuse#5: I didn't know many people very well.            
Rebuttal: This would be a great opportunity to change that.  Unlike other high school reunions, our get-together is to celebrate all the things we have in common and share our experiences and adventures.  Our hometown isn't just a place - it's friendships and connections.

You know what they say about being in your 60s.... just when you get your mind in order, your body starts to fall apart!!!!   The only cliques you'll notice at the reunion will be the sound of your joints as you walk around!  So, if you're not in the best shape of your life, haven't become the millionaire you'd hoped to become, or don't feel comfortable with the way you look for some reason .... you are not ALONE!!

The Bottom Line:  Is there a "Good Excuse" not to attend?
The obvious answer is "NO!"

This is an excerpt from an article that Melinda wrote after her thirtieth class reunion.

In Hal Borland's When the Legends Die, a Ute man returns to the mountains of his boyhood to find the way back to himself:

He sighed, knowing why he had come back. And he remembered a chipmunk he had as a small boy, a pet that came when he called and sat in his hand. He had asked his mother the meaning of the stripes on the chipmunk's back. Those stripes, she said, were the paths from its eyes, with which it sees now and tomorrow, to its tail, which is always behind it and a part of yesterday. He had laughed at that and said he wished he, too, had a tail. His mother had said, "When you are a man you will have a tail, though you will never see it. You will have something always behind you."

Now he understood. Now he knew that time lays scars on a man like the chipmunk's stripes, paths that lead from where he is now back to where he came from, from the eyes of his knowing to the tail of his remembering...Nothing can erase the simple truth of the chipmunk's stripes, the ties that bind a man to the truth of his own being, his small part of the enduring roundness.

Beyond the backslapping, the squeals of greeting, and the jokes about girth, wrinkles, and hairlines, something profound and worthwhile takes place at a reunion: you experience the length and width of your own stripes. A reunion enables you to see the stripes from eye to tail, from now to way back then.

A reunion is a reminding experience. It touches a core, uplifts like singing --- never mind how off-key --- an old song whose lyrics and melody, although unsung for decades, are so ingrained as to seem inborn. A reunion is something which, to borrow a word from Dr. Seuss, biggers you. I came away from my reunion feeling biggered through and through. When all is said and done, that is the true and enduring value of a reunion: becoming reunited with yourself.

MELINDA WORTH POPHAM

PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID,

OR WHAT YOU SAID

~BUT~

THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.