I Just Signed Up for My 50th High-School Reunion

Jim LaBate
4 min readJun 5, 2019
Photos from 1969 BSHS Yearbook

The year 1969 was magical. Joe Namath guaranteed the New York Jets would win the Super Bowl — and they did. Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. Thousands of music lovers traveled to Woodstock for a weekend of rock and roll. And the New York Mets won their first World Series. Somewhat lost and overshadowed in all that national excitement was the fact that 120 seniors…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.