WHO'S COMING - LOST & FOUND - WAS HOT - 1976/1996 GALLERY - ELEMENTARY GALLERY -  REMEMBRANCE

If you weren't there, you missed a great time!

GUESTBOOK NOTE / October 2007:  Due to problems with their service, the providers of the Guestbook are discontinuing this free service.  At this point, no further entries are possible, and the Guestbook will be taken down soon - HOWEVER - all entries have been saved, and they will be reposted as a Word document soon - at least we can read through the old messages and email addresses.  I will work on a further solution to this as time allows ` Steve

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Thomas Jefferson High School Raiders

Classes of 1977 and 1976

That's right, '76 - so we didn't have a reunion last year, big deal - let's just have a bigger party with the "77 crowd!

Friday, Saturday & Sunday - August 24th, 25th & 26th, 2007

Come inside and you will find more details and information about the reunion - schedule of events - registration information - people to contact if you have questions or would like to volunteer to help - a page of "lost" classmates we are trying to locate - and also a guest book if you would like to leave a message!

You can also find a photo gallery of the Class of '76's Twenty year reunion - another photo gallery of elementary school shots - and a page of remembrance for those classmates who are no longer with us...

We have arranged special rates with the Marriott SpringHill Suites in Renton for those who will be attending the reunion and need accommodations

We are also trying to gather photos to include in a presentation at the reunion.  If you have something that you would like to contribute, please contact Steve Gilchrist for details

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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

"Now consider this: Life is the coffee: the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee which is provided for us." Life brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly...