Yesterday, Desiree and I attended the 50-year reunion for the Helena High Class of 1974. We represent the largest graduating class in the school’s history, with students from across the entire valley, numbering over 600. The following year, the graduating class split between Helena High and the first-ever graduating class of Capital High, established in 1973.
We
could not have gathered on a more beautiful afternoon. Racks of soft-bottom
clouds slowly sailed over the Montana City venue, and the nearby Elkhorn
Mountains wore their best late summer colors.
The
years between our graduation and now have knocked all the hard edges off us.
Today, we are mostly a mingling of gray, and our voices don’t carry as far.
Dozens of us have found our way to the other side. But those of us mingling
together yesterday experienced a rare and complete reprieve from all local and
worldly complications. Yesterday, we were a great singularity: the Class of
1974. Perhaps you remember us.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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