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All things EDSS certainly make for a weekend to remember Organizers thrilled with the outcome of Elmira high school’s 75th anniversary celebration SCOTT BARBER
Carpenters with Country Lane Builders work on a new shelter at the rear of Gibson Park in Elmira on June 10. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
Organizers of the Elmira District Secondary School 75th reunion were pleased when all the dust settled after the weekend. “We’ve had so many positive comments from every group of students, staff, and even spouses who came up to us and said ‘I have nothing to do with this school, but I had a great time,’” Dave Conlon said. “That’s not normal at a reunion where a spouse says it was a lot of fun, and I think that’s a measure of how successful it was.” Mike Forler agreed. “Overall it was such a great feeling, people were just so moved and touched and it was just a very warm fuzzy feeling. Everybody got what they wanted to get out of it, I think, because we had such a variety of events that people took away what they wanted.”
From June 6 to 8 thousands of EDSS alumni congregated to celebrate the school’s 75th birthday. The weekend’s events included a roundtable with Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Roger and Terry Martin, drama productions by current students, an arts presentation, dinner and dance reception as well as a church service. Forler said guests were blown away by the quality of the program. “All of the performers and speakers were topnotch and everyone responded so warmly.” Things went even better than organizers expected, Conlon added. “So many things happened that we didn’t anticipate or plan for. We invited June Petty, who was a 1941 graduate to tell a small anecdote. She got up on stage REUNION | 2
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