REUNION UPDATE: It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye

BREAKING NEWS: We learned of our first known reunion-related injury when Mary Ellen reported that she was experiencing "vivid bright disco lights flashing in my eye" last Monday night, a mere 48 hours after actually dancing to disco music:




Convinced she was having a stroke and dying, she was taken to the ER only to learn later that she had a renegade "floater" in her eye that was bouncing merrily off of her retina, apparently still pulsating to the beat of Donna Summer's "Hot Love".
Fortunately, Mary Ellen is fine--she escaped the retinal damage that these potentially dangerous things can cause-- but it made us realize that, just because nobody fell and shattered a hip on the dance floor doesn't mean they didn't sustain any injuries. We hope no one else had any delayed after-effects beyond waking up with sore quads from squatting for the "little bit softer now" segment of "Shout."

In any case, we'd like to think that no matter how beat up our bodies get, we'll still be Breaking It Down Old School Style like our friend Richard here:



(And you thought you'd only have "Hot Love" stuck in your head for the rest of the day!)

More video (of the reunion, that is) to come--in the meantime click on the photo gallery link on the right to see some still photos. And send me yours to add! ( sandyhughes@verizon.net )

We Haven't Changed A Bit!!!

Thanks to everyone who made the trip to beautiful downtown Cranberry (Official town motto: "Every chain restaurant/store/strip mall/hotel you've ever heard of crammed into one convenient intersection!") for our fabulous get-together.

It was great to see so many old friends and connect with new ones. We were especially thrilled that so many of you came from so far--Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York City, Virginia, North Carolina...
It just goes to show you that ya'll can run, but you can't escape your Grover roots!

I would love to post any pictures you all took over the weekend here on the site and incorporate them into part 2 of the reunion slideshow/video. You can e-mail me at sandyhughes@verizon.net or post a comment below with a link to your preferred photo sharing site. (Flickr, Photobucket, Dropshots, Webshots, Snapfish, etc.)

Until then, here's the slide show we showed at the reunion dinner with its intended soundtrack. (All of the songs--plus some others--are on the CD we handed out).

It's quite long--20 minutes-- but that's what the FF slider bar is for, right? :

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR THE REUNION ONLINE

The deadline for online 25th reunion registration is TODAY, October 3rd, at 5 p.m. EST, so all you procrastinators out there who love to keep your options open as long as possible are going to have to make a decision!

See the previous post for the easiest way to do it..

Having Trouble Registering?

Most of you have already registered for the reunion this Friday and Saturday (We’ve already broken the GCC reunion record for responses—woo hoo!). BUT we understand that some of you have had trouble getting on the website to sign up.

Trust us, we understand: First of all, you’re old, and second of all, we know where you got your early technical training:

1981: A young Jim Palmer wrestles with the complexities of this newfangled computer terminal thingie in the GCC computer lab

The problem is that the impossibly-convoluted GCC website can make it seem like you have to be registered in the Alumni “e-community” to get to the reunion sign-up page, which is not the case. YOU DON’T NEED A USER ID AND PASSWORD TO SIGN UP FOR THE REUNION.

Just go directly to our reunion page here

and scroll to the bottom to fill out the registration form:

IF THAT DOESN’T WORK for some reason, here’s the long way to get there:

Go to www.gcc.edu

On the left side, click "Alumni and Friends"

On the left side again, click "Homecoming"

In the middle white part, click the link with the word "Here"

Go down to "25th - Class of 1982"

In the white part under the Dear Class of '82 member, click the link "reunion page"

The next page is "Events" and details the info about homecoming.

At the bottom of the page is the "Event Details" and the registration form.

Choose which events that you want to attend and register.

If you’re still having problems, ask one of your kids to help you, or contact or Tech Support Guru, Mary Ellen Brosek, at her e-mail address below.

Apparently the Alumni Office is still letting people register, so hurry!