DERBY - Originally
conceived by Randy Ritter (pictured in back row in photo below) and the Cultural Commission, last Saturday was the 14th Annual All-Class Reunion Event.
It was run by the Cultural Commission for multiple years and continued by former classmates who wanted to keep the tradition alive.
It was not meant to take the place of an individual class reunion but if a class was not having one then this provided an alternative venue and was also a way of making contacts for individual reunions.
Facebook has become a big factor in promoting the event as well as a location to post photographs of the night which can be seen on Facebook at Derby (CT) Memories and Reunions as well as the Derby page link at http://electronicvalley.org/derby/2013/Reunion/index.html .
Alums pose for a photo outside the Elks Lodge on Elizabeth Street. / Contributed photo
It was run by the Cultural Commission for multiple years and continued by former classmates who wanted to keep the tradition alive.
It was not meant to take the place of an individual class reunion but if a class was not having one then this provided an alternative venue and was also a way of making contacts for individual reunions.
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| Contributed photo |
Facebook has become a big factor in promoting the event as well as a location to post photographs of the night which can be seen on Facebook at Derby (CT) Memories and Reunions as well as the Derby page link at http://electronicvalley.org/derby/2013/Reunion/index.html .
In the beginning there had been multiple venues classes could gather but
within the past couple years it has appeared to settle with the Elks
Lodge and Archie Moore’s Bar & Restaurant, although all were free to move about downtown. This year the weather was ideal to do
so or even to enjoy the outdoor patio at Archie Moore’s.
For the past two years DHS alumnus
Jack Walsh has brought forward a technology that
allowed for live video online broadcasting and still can be seen through
links at
www.electronicvalley.org/derby.
Video taken at the Elks can be seen until the camera battery died. For the past several years the DJs at the Elks were also
doing Karaoke and they were broadcasting live audio of the night and
sometimes rebroadcast at
http://www.megawattradio.com/ .
It appeared that classes from at least from the 1940s through the 2000s were in attendance and that a good time was had by all.
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