Schools
Creaky Old Cougars and Mats Gather for All-Orinda Reunion
The largest unofficial yet still really organized reunion for Old School Campolindo and Miramonte folks has been scheduled for the Labor Day weekend.
An all-inclusive reunion of local cats and kitties who managed to survive the 60s and who can still remember how to find Orinda and Moraga has been scheduled for this Labor Day weekend.
The All Orinda Reunion Oh One Oh - for 2010 - is drawing interest from expatriates and local Lamorindans who went to school here and never strayed far from the nest. Dance bands, a series of parties and "reminiscing sessions" have been scheduled at venues all over the two towns.
Organizers say that for the purposes of these parties, the term All Orinda is defined as: the group of people who attended Miramonte or Campolinodo High Schools and were in (or should have been in, ahem) the graduating classes between 1959 and 1975 - or maybe '76 or '81 (they can't recall exactly.)
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In keeping with the laid-back approach of those years organizers say attendees did not actually have to graduate from those school (there were distractions back then, like something called Vietnam) and folks who lived in Canyon, the "unincorporated environs of Bollinger Canyon, the caretaker's houses for the Upper or Lower San Pablo Reservoirs, Oakland, or Berkeley - can come.
In a rare display of bias and exclusion uncommon for mellow Matadors and Moragans, organizers have steadfastly refused to grant entry to any "member or past member of the Bulls Car Club of Lafayette." Apparently you have to come to find out why.
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The committee says it meant no disrespect to any past or current resident of Moraga when it took it's "All Orinda" sobriquet, but that they are content to "continue their disrespect for residents of Lafayette." More bad blood there, apparently.
Along with honoring the prehistoric classes of the 60s, the weekend reunion will take a moment to pay tribute to pre-1959 Acalanes High School grads, those who rode the "Toonerville Trolley" to Mt. Diablo High School prior to 1942 or perhaps to Richmond High during the war years are most welcome.
Parties are planned at the Orinda Park Pool, Moraga Commons, and the Orinda Country Club Pool. Tickets and vetting (they want to make sure you're really who you say you are) are available online.
Should be fun. Have a good time.
J.D. O'Connor/Campo '72
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