Don't miss the all-school reunion

I am not a graduate of Royal High School, but I am looking forward to Friday night's all-school reunion, which will make up the first day of the 2015 Royal City SummerFest.

I've been to a few all-school reunions in Granger, and they were better than I expected. All of the people I didn't like or didn't like me in high school had changed.

Or I had changed.

Or maybe all of the things I had thought way back then weren't true. Anyway, all of the reasons I wouldn't go to reunions before simply hadn't existed.

So I'm looking forward to especially watching Royal High grads who get back together for the first time in years. And I'm looking forward to some of the planned activities.

The last time I saw a sock hop was about 52 years ago. I was a senior at Granger High and hadn't yet heard of Royal High. It hadn't been built yet, I learned when I started working in this area.

I still don't know why I went to that sock hop. There were girls I liked and wanted to date, but I couldn't work up the courage to ask even one to dance.

I did dance though; the shuffle. I just jumped into one of the lines and shuffled. Everybody was smiling. I have a feeling the shuffle Dale Roth has planned for Friday will have people laughing.

And I danced the Limbo. Anyone could get in that line, and we all laughed. I made it under the stick a few times. Well maybe a couple of times. Okay, once.

Sock hops were cool, as long as you had a pair of good socks. Can you imagine the embarrassment there would have been to take off your shoes and find a hole in a sock. I made sure I had a good pair by mixing my socks.

Some of the old timers may remember there were a few years back then when we wore an orange and a green sock anywhere. We had two pairs. And we had two pairs of black and white or blue and yellow. So I was cool with mixed socks.

I'm also looking forward to the Name That Tune contest. Despite the fact I'm not a Knight, I've been practicing. Every time Pat and I go somewhere in her car, we turn on XM Serius Radio and listen to music from the 50s and 60s. We guess who's singing and than hit the info button.

I do okay, but Pat says I really need to go back to the 40s to be an expert.

I'm looking forward to the pep rally. I was in the pep band back in the day. I didn't like it my sophomore year because I had a girlfriend in Wapato and couldn't get away on Fridays and Saturdays to see her.

I liked pep band the next year. My Wapato girlfriend had dumped me by then, and there was a sizable crop of cute sophomore and freshmen girls playing with us.

If you are a Royal High graduate, I can't suggest more strongly that you make it to this all-school reunion. It will be better than you expect.

And while you're there, make sure to stop by the R Club. Every school should have one.

This club promises to develop a history of Royal High sports. There were a lot of accomplishments the first 50 years that kids of the next 50 years will want to know.

You might just want to support this cause.