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Class Motto

Living life as life will come,

putting yesterday and it's mistakes behind

and working for a better tomorrow!

This website is so that we can connect, interact, plan and reminisce.  We are alumni of the Rio Wisconsin class of 1969.    Go to the FIRST TIME VISITORS tab at the top menu first.  It will tell you how to log in to our private website!  You MUST log in to view the whole website, see the photos that are added, and to send messages to each other.  We also are able to send announcements to those who are logged in and you can sign up for events here, once you get logged in. If you have forgotten your password or cannot log in contact Sandra Yaroch on Facebook or by email.  syaroch206@gmail.com  (25 have already joined but 26 have yet to join us!)

If you have photos or videos to share and don't know how to post them here...contact syaroch and she will assist you if she can.

     In my thinking about happiness, I've come to realize that staying connected to people from my past is an important happiness booster — and I've also realized that I do a fairly bad job of it. In each stage of life, I've had great friends and great experiences, but when I've moved to the next stage, I've found it difficult to stay connected to those people.
     Keeping these ties strong matters to happiness because, as research shows, a great way to boost happiness in the present is to remember happy times from the past. That's why photographs, scrapbooks, souvenirs, home movies, and other memory prompts are so precious and so worth the effort.
In particular, it's valuable to keep relationships strong. Ancient philosophers and contemporary researchers agree: A key to happiness is strong ties to other people. We need intimate, long-term relationships; we need to belong; we need to give and receive support (perhaps surprisingly, it turns out that giving support is just as important to happiness as getting support). Studies suggest that if you have five or more friends with whom to discuss an important matter, you're far more likely to describe yourself as "very happy." While new friendships that reflect our current circumstances are important, old friends are important, too.

In my experience, tech tools like Facebook and Twitter allow me to manage ties to a much larger group of people than I could possibly stay close to in a more direct way. Technology lets me effortlessly follow friends through many changes of e-mail and street addresses. It allows me to have brief, fun exchanges without expending a lot of time or energy. It gives me a quick way to reach out to friends and also a casual way to connect with people I don't know as well, whom I wouldn't feel comfortable calling or even e-mailing. Have you found that reconnecting to your past boosts your happiness? How do you keep those relationships active and vital?

If you did not come to the reunion, the following reasons have been tried and are unacceptable.

Excuse #1: I'm overweight.
Rebuttal: You're not alone.

Excuse #2: 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 #3 I don't look as good as I'd like. I (choose one or more) am bald, have wrinkles, saddlebags, grey hair and no one will recognize me.
Rebuttal: Guess what! You won't recognize anyone else, either. Using the reunion committee as a representative sample, 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 how much everyone has matured. We may be plump and wrinkled (see Excuse #3, above) but we're not stupid. Money is not success.

Excuse #5: I was not in a popular clique in school
Rebuttal: Now that we're old and smart, those cliques have dissolved just like the superficialities they were based on. The only cliques you'll notice at the reunion will be the sound of your joints as you walk around.