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Event Announcement!
Our Oswego High School Class of 1976 50-Year Class Reunion was held September 18-20, 2026
We did it! The reunion was great, and we have some photos to prove it. Check out the preliminary slideshow above. For those of you who were there and you have some photos you'd like to include in the slideshow, please send them to me via text or email and I'll add them. We are missing pictures of several classmates who attended and I'd love to have everyone included. I'm still looking for a great group photo where we can see everyone. I'll keep updating the slideshow as I receive more photos to add so check back every now and then. Feel free to also post your photos on our Oswego (Illinois) High School Class of 1976 Facebook class page. For those of you who could not be there, we missed you and hope you enjoy the photos.
Oswego High School has definitely changed and the amenities the students now have are incredible. There's a massive weight room open to all students, the field house has an inside track, the main gym has a different orientation from when we were there, there's a performing arts center, and so much more. After our brief school tour, we headed over to the stadium for the start of the football game.
We were lucky the rain subsided and we had a beautiful, clear evening, and our Oswego Panthers won the Homecoming football game handily against Plainfield South 35-6. We did receive a special welcome announcement for our reunion class. Many in our group proudly wore their Panther team orange and blue.
After leaving the football game, we started our pub crawl at Nash Vegas Saloon with food and drinks. The atmosphere was very lively, and it was so much fun getting together again. When the band started and we could no longer yell loud enough to have a conversation, we moved to the much quieter Oswego Inn patio where we ended our evening. We definitely had a lot of laughs there.
The rainy Saturday reunion at Northfork Farm may have kept us inside, but it didn't keep us from having a fun and memorable evening. The room was decorated beautifully. Pete welcomed everyone and recognized and thanked our many military veterans in attendance who received a tremendous applause. There was plenty of great food starting with the array of appetizers, followed by an abundant and delicious buffet dinner. Desserts included custom '76 cupcakes, cookies and more. Dave Baumgardner had our favorite 70's music playing and the dancing began. Lucky raffle winners took home gift cards, goodie baskets, wine and spirits.
We also welcomed some of our past teachers including Keith Drinkall, Erv Beckett, Marcie Rogers, Nancy Niles, Susan Strangland and Becky Hejtmanek. What a treat that was to get to visit with them after 50 years!
The reunion weekend ended with a fun-filled breakfast at the Riverview Diner in Montgomery. We had a really good time eating and reminiscing about the weekend and had an interesting game of class of '76 trivia (what was the name of the boys basketball enthusiasts, who has had the most body part replacement or surgeries, what was the spring musical performed our senior year.....). We all agreed we cannot wait to get together and do it again.
A special thank you goes to Pete and Laurie Pasteris for donating the use of their event space for this special reunion. It could not have been more perfect for us. And to everyone else involved in planning and executing this milestone reunion (and there were so many), we say thank you for a great time and for the memories.
If you live in the Oswego area, a group of locals get together every 2-3 months for lunch. The next scheduled date is Wednesday, November 11 at noon at Poor Boys in Montgomery. If you would like to be added to the invite list, please contact Terry Weber at [email protected]. This is the lunch group that worked so hard on the reunion planning from start to finish.
Wishing you all the best, and let's plan to see each other again in five years, if not sooner.
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