Reunited (virtually, anyway)

[owlmoose]

This was to have been the weekend of my 25th college reunion. Instead, there were a few online events, two of which I attended: a Step Sing (we gather to sing traditional college songs as well as songs chosen by each class) on Friday, and our class meeting today. Since I'm co-president of the class (I still don't quite know how THAT happened), and my other co-president was wrangling an 11-week old baby, I didn't just attend the meeting: I pretty much ran it. Not that there was much to run -- we had a few announcements and college business things to discuss, but after that it was just informal chatting. Since we had over 40 attendees, and that's a lot of people to just chat over Zoom, we spent a good chunk of the time in breakout rooms. Originally, we had planned just to do the one breakout session, but people enjoyed it so much we ended up doing two more, reshuffled into new groups each time. There were a few glitches since I've never done that before, but overall it worked out well and people seemed happy. Definitely not the same as spending hours hanging out in Pem East living room, like we did last year, but far, far better than not seeing each other at all. Although I didn't get to catch up with everybody, I did have what felt like quality time with a fair number of folks, and we generally agreed that we shouldn't wait five years, or even the one year until the next in-person reunion hopefully happens in 2021, to gather again. A number of folks offered their ZoomPro accounts, and I feel confident that a hangout/happy hour will be scheduled in the near future.

I've talked before about the strong connection I feel with my Bryn Mawr classmates, even those I wasn't particularly close to during my college years. It was a relief to see that the connection remains even when it has to be virtual, and that our bond only seems to be growing. And I can only imagine what it will be in the years to come.

Comments

[oracne]

I missed our class meeting, but I did Step Sing and the author presentations, which were really interesting. Apparently our class, too, is planning some more Zoom things.

[owlmoose]

I think I saw you at Step Sing! I signed up for the authors event, in part because a '95 friend of mine presented her work, but our class meeting ran long so I didn't make it on.

[oracne]

I think the list of books is supposed to be available at some point. Lots of interesting stuff. I want to read Michelle Mueller's upcoming book from Rutledge, and try out the cozy mysteries by Cynthia Baxter/Blair. Maribel Garcia's book also sounds good.