There was a very cute article in the local town paper last week -- it's a weekly -- about a school reunion. The group that met was the Class of '54, but that would be the Sixth Grade class of 1954 of one of the elementary schools in town. They must have graduated from the high school in 1960, but it was the 50th anniversary of graduating from sixth grade that they were celebrating.
They went back to the school and revisited their classrooms there, including the kindegarten. I think there were about ten of them in the group, but they email with many of the others, who just couldn't make it back to New Jersey for the event. Now get this:
They call themselves, as a group, after their teacher's name. Now, this isn't his real name, which is an Italian name, but let's say it was Mr. Kelly; they call themselves, even now when they're all in their sixties, "Kelly's Kids." It's very cute and very sweet. And ...
Mr. Kelly joined them for lunch. He had actually been the teacher for these kids for two years, for fifth and sixth grade, during his first and second year of teaching. They email him all the time; I forget how they found each other. He came up from his home down near the Jersey shore (where everyone in New Jersey over 70 lives, by state law) and had lunch with them. This was in the paper, too.
But I already knew that. Mr. "Kelly" is my father-in-law. He must have been a helluva teacher in his day if his students still remember him and want to keep in touch with him 50 years later, imagine that. The MIL drove him up (he can't drive anymore for a variety of reasons), he went out to lunch with his "kids", and she went out to lunch with R, which made the drive worth it for her.
Sweet, huh. They really are lovely people, the ILs, and I'm very glad I let go of the animosity I had toward them after my father died and they didn't say anything about it at all, which was so out of character for them and weird. It hurt me for a long time. I'm not saying I've forgotten it, but I have gotten past it. Way better.
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