50-Year Reunion!
August 23, 2025, 5:00 – 10:00 PM
at the Normandy Park Cove.
Mark your calendar, and we’ll see you then and there!
Follow the chatter here, and on our class Facebook Page
Yes! It’s already our 50-Year Reunion!
“Still Crazy After All These Years”
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Details
- Friday, August 22: An open day. (No planned event.) Why not form your own mini-reunion, such as the Gregory Heights or St. Francis 6th Grade Class? If you plan something, let us know and we’ll publicize it on the web and Facebook.
- Saturday, August 23: HHS School Tour at 2:00. See the new school! It’s incredible.
- Saturday, August 23: 50-Year Reunion, 5:00 – 10:00 PM,
at the Normandy Park Cove. - Sunday, August 24: No planned event. You could plan a mini-reunion with friends!
- Reunion Cost: Menu, itinerary, cost and payment method to be determined.
- Class Email Address: highlineclassof75@gmail.com
Saturday in the Park
THE BIG EVENT at the Cove
Saturday August 23, 2025 • 5PM – 10PM
Normandy Park Community Club: “The Cove”
1500 SW Shorebrook Dr., Normandy Park
OK. We’re talkin’ relaxed. Nothing formal for this class after 50 years away. Come comfortable and come with your stories to tell.
But most of all, just come and have a blast. Make new memories at this casual dinner together. Enjoy good food, rich conversation, your favorite 70s music and more. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
As we iron out details, we’ll post them here as well as on social media and in email. Keep your Pirate eyes peeled!
Friday Night or Sunday?
Small Group Get Togethers
We, your Reunion Committee, are working so hard to plan the Saturday night Big Event, that we don’t have space on the gangplank to also plan a Friday night event…
BUT! We suggest that Grade School classmates plan their own gatherings on the Reunion Weekend. Friday night? Saturday Lunch? Sunday Picnic?
How about a gathering of classmates from Sunnydale, Lake Burien, St. Francis, Chelsea Park, Sylvester, Seahurst… You get the idea! Wanna see your old buddies from way-back-when? Get ’em together!
Drop a line to the Reunion Committee with the details of your get-together and we’ll broadcast it so more of your classmates know about it.
Pirates’ Log
The Brand New HHS!
The redesigned and rebuilt Highline High School as seen in 2025.The original Highline High School from 1924.The new and improved HHS is incredible!...
Taste-Testing Pirate Crew
Highline Pirates' Class of 75 Classmates showing up to taste-test the 50-year reunion menu: (Left to right) Dave Hawthorne, Maureen Hoffmann, Laurie...
A Zooming Committee Meeting
Just some of the Reunion Planning Commitee Members zooming along as details are discussed… and there are MANY details! Seen here: Betsy Wildish...
Oldies
Walking down memory lane, I selected "Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night. My music collection then yielded "Mama Told Me Not to Come". Well,...
Highline Class of ’75 Commencement Program
What gets saved? Apparently, the program from our Commencement Exercises on June 11, 1975 has been tucked away, safe-and-sound, in Maureen's...
Pilates of the Caribbean
Highline Pirates' form of exercise.
Enjoy these photos from the 40-Year Reunion.
Seeing classmates from long ago really is a fun time.
(Click on each image to enlarge it.)
Click on the smiling faces above
to see all of our Senior Class Photos!
Memory Lane
There’s lots to see on the web site here, the Master Archive for our HHS Class of ’75.
Past Reunions
Want to see how much fun it was at prior reunions? Check out the 30-Year and 40-Year Reunions HERE.
Flashback Photos
Some of your old grade school class photos HERE!
Missing Pirates
There are many classmates we’re still trying to find HERE.
Sad to See Them Go
Sobering that we’ve lost so many classmates, listed HERE.
The Trusty Reunion Committee
“What?! We’re doing this AGAIN?!” Planning the reunion is a real labor of Pirate Love (and craziness?) WHO would DO this? Apparently, these and other classmates have stepped up to walk the plank and fly the pirate flag for our 50-Year Reunion.
Some of the many committee tasks:
- Cat Herding & Bean Counting – Meetings, treasure chest oversight
- Lost & Found – Finding missing classmates
- In Memoriam – Honoring our deceased classmates
- Decorations – Table and room decor
- Marketing, Graphic & Web Design – Imagery, web site, social media
- Cheerleading – Whipping up enthusiasm and adding two-cents’ worth
Above: Attending one of our first meetings for the 50-Year Reunion: Back row, from left to right: Mary Dafoe Brooke, Neil Ball, Betsy Wildish McQuinn, Jim Pray, Kitty Jo Larson Poland. In the front are Maureen Hoffmann and Linda Bradshaw Burfitt.
Also contributing to the committee efforts are: Eva Doherty Gremmert, Arden Gremmert, Dave Hawthorne, Mark Meyer, Richelle Ring Slater.