812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 20, 1988 °n being a farm wife -And * Joyce Bnpp No. This was just not possible. I’m not old enough - or at least don’t usually feel old enough - to grapple with this lifetime milestone. But there it was, all spelled out in black and white: “It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since we graduated.” Hard to believe, indeed. The Class of ‘63. Bom in ‘45, leading wave of the postwar Baby-Boom flood, washing across the nation’s sociological structure, and tum bling in its wake established demo graphic patterns, traditions, and lifestyles. Now, here it was, a quarter- SURGE SQUEEZES MORE PRECOOLING INTO LESSSMCE. Surge helps preserve milk quality and substantially reduces your milk cooling and water heating costs. And it does all this in less space—just a 22" cube Now dairymen with small milkrooms can benefit from efficient pre-cooling The Kube Kooler can be installed above the milk tank, suspended from the ceiling or wall mounted. 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And, as we have every five years, we gather for a few brief hours to laugh and reminisce, share pictures and problems, and compare graying and/or less hair, added pounds, and general satis faction with our lots in life. Notification first came while snow still covered the ground and freezing winds whipped south from the northern pole (hard to remember that, isn’t it?). A night of reunion in August sounded so far away. Now, so quickly, it’s history. And, 1 don’t remember when an evening passed so flcclingly and JIM’S SURGE SALES & SERVICE 215 Oak Bottom Rd. Quarryvilio, Pa. Ph: (717) 7M-1533 enjoyable away. “Gosh, you haven’t changed at all’’ was overheard frequently in snatches of conversation. But, of course, we all have, some are to very lesser degrees, and a few to the extreme where we indiscreetly (we hoped) look sidelong glances through the subdued lighting to read nametags. Many of us share the bond of children in college or recently mar ried. Some proudly mention grandchildren. A few are parenting toddlers. Our careers represent a true cross-section of employment available across our great land. We are truckers and teachers, vice presidents and foremen, secreta ries and social workers, real estate specialists, homemakers, manage ment specialists, consultants, inde pendent businesspersons, and at least one judge. A personal friend and classmate instructs midwifery at a prestigious hospital in Philadelphia. Some of us have scattered to homes and careers in Florida and Michigan, Utah and Texas, and the border states surrounding our Commonwealth. Several are scat tered across the state. By and large, however, a majority of our hundred and eighty have stayed within the boundaries of our beaut iful York County. THE CLASSIFIED LIVESTOCK SECTION HAS BEASTLY SELECTIONS! We’ve got your Building Machinery storage, dairy, farm buildings of all kinds. 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We are, perhaps, more open to one another now than we were dur ing the peer-pressure, circles-of friends, years of high school. Age and experience have diminished I'M NOT L10N... Come and get it! CALL TOLL FREE 1 800-537 0580 OR MAIL COUPON FOR MORE INFORMATION Name Address Town County those barriers which divided us into groupings by neighborhood, major studies, activities and inter ests which inevitably result in every class. Sadly, four of our number have died. Their memory, especially enhanced by such a significant occasion as a twenty-fifth reunion, is a poignant reminder of the rapid ly passing seconds ticking off each of our mortal ’ cv For probably numerous reason, we’ve lost touch with maybe a tenth of our number. Some still live locally; other’s lives may have carried them far distant Sad, too, that only about a third of us could be there. For no doubt a myriad of reasons, many were prevented from or chose not to be part of this gathering of memories. They were missed. 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