Vincentian Institute

Class of 1968

 

“Through life a beacon from our youth, all hail the white and blue”

 

 

40th Reunion

(? September, 2008)

 

 

 

About Us   

 

We are the baby boom generation.  Growing up in Albany, Loudonville, Bethlehem, Delmar, Guilderland and other neighboring towns in the 1950s and 1960s we lived a life of promise secured by our parents in the Great Depression and World War II.  In grade school we learned how to “duck and cover”.  Most of us remember having our 8th grade classes interrupted on November 22, 1963 to learn of the shooting of JFK.  High school was a time of innocent adolescence – Sisters of Mercy, Brothers of the Holy Cross, shells in the cafeteria, school activities, athletics, canteens, derby day, short hair (boys), long skirts (girls)…….mixed with the stirrings of the world outside - civil rights marches/riots, LBJ, RFK, Vietnam. 

 

Many of us left VI in June 1968 for college, others to start careers and families.  By the summer of 1969 a few of us were experiencing Vietnam first hand while many more were at Woodstock.  By 1970 our world had changed profoundly, even more so a few years later in the turbulence of Nixon and Watergate.  Since then we have experienced all that life has to offer.  Now 40 years on it is time to share those memories of a different time and where life has taken us.

 

 

Reunion Planning

 

Check here to see details about the Reunion Weekend.

 

 

Class List

 

We were a graduating class of 234 in June, 1968.  How many do you remember?

 

 

Missing Classmates

 

We would like to reach out to as many of the class as possible.  Check the list to see if you know the whereabouts of anyone without current contact information available to the Reunion Committee.  Please forward any information to John Grant.

 

 

In Memoriam

 

Those friends who are no longer with us.

 

 

Pictures of the Times

 

Send in your pictures from those high school days and we’ll post them here.

 

 

Classmates Today

 

Send in recent pictures and we’ll all try to guess who it is!