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!