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PROFILE UPDATES


•   Maria Teresa (Tina) Arrabal (Crego)  6/6
•   Waldenize (Denise) Parsons (Araujo)  5/10
•   Wendy Elizabeth Bleiberg (Maybaum)  4/20
•   Rick Rice  8/13
•   Cynthia Louise Fields (Cross)  7/16
•   Alyssa Arlette Galanis (Huls)  7/15
•   Bruce Poulter  6/27
•   Dirk Haccou  12/29
•   Catharine (Kit) Ellen Maxwell  12/29
•   Ann Brown  11/22
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Palo Alto High School
Class Of 1972

Welcome to our own Paly Class Of 1972 web site!

"When we're connected to others, we become better people."
-- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that." -- Ally Condie
Greetings, Class of ’72!
Update: Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond. Based on the feedback we received, the most popular dates for our get-together are October 23-25.

We’re excited to begin planning activities and gathering ideas for those dates, including some rainy-day alternatives. We hope to share a preliminary schedule and options with you soon. Thank you as well for all of the wonderful suggestions—they’ve been very helpful.

Whether or not you’ve responded to the initial emails, please know that everyone is welcome. There’s no need to make a firm commitment just yet; we won’t need final attendance numbers for a few more weeks. We hope you’ll consider joining us!

All best wishes,
Patricia Cox and John Mustain

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Many of us have turned — or will soon be turning — 72 this year, and we thought that sounded like a wonderful reason to get together.

While our official 55th reunion will be in 2027, several classmates suggested we not wait another year to celebrate. We’re exploring plans for a casual “Paly ’72 Turns 72” gathering and would love to know who might be interested.

Please let us know:

 *   Whether you would like to attend
 *   Which of these weekends would work best for you

Possible dates

 *   August 14–16
 *   September 18–20
 *   October 23–25

Please email:

 *   John Mustain at jmustain@stanford.edu
 *   Patricia Cox at pacox2007@gmail.com

A reply by June 1 would be greatly appreciated.

We are also open to ideas for the weekend, such as:

 *   A casual no-host gathering or happy hour
 *   A Saturday dinner
 *   A picnic lunch
 *   A campus tour of Paly
 *   A commemorative T-shirt
 *   Any other suggestions you may have

Whether or not 2026 is your “72 year,” we hope you’ll join us. Most of all, this is simply a chance to reconnect, reminisce, and enjoy being together again.
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Help us find our missing classmates!

If you know the email address of a missing classmate, you can enter it in the space to the right of this screen, and it will send them an invite to join the website.

This will be an ongoing process:  if you have Class of '72 alums on your email contact list or on your Facebook friends list, PLEASE share this website with them.  Or send their contact info to me at  the "Contact Us" link.  We will want to contact as many as we can for our next event!

As of this post, there are 211 classmates who have yet to join here. That is 43.1% who miss out on reunion and class news!

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Check out the new tab to your left in the yellow sidebar:
Paly Authors!
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💚Our 50 Year Reunion was a success! Thanks to the committee who helped make it a memorable weekend.
If you attended, it was great seeing you!
If you missed it, we missed YOU! Stay tuned for future events!

Please post photos taken at any of the events on the
Our Photo Galleries 

Also - the poem and letter that were read are in the link "Thoughtful Words"
in the yellow sidebar.
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Have you changed your mailing and/or email address?

Please keep your contact info current by clicking on "Edit Contact Info" on your left.  Otherwise this website will receive a "bounced" message and we would have no way to contact you for future get-togethers or announcements.  Don't forget to SAVE the changes at the bottom of that screen.

 


REUNION PHOTOS

We have a Flickr site where all reunion photos and videos can be uploaded:
CLICK HERE
Contact Bennett Hall for information via the Message Center (or email him). You will be able to download photos from there as well, and if you sign on to Flickr, you will be able to add comments.

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Photos can be loaded on this site as well under "Our Photo Gallery" in the bar to your left
Choose 40 Yr or 50 Yr Reunion Photos. CLICK HERE

📚YEARBOOKS 📚>

Did you know you can view the 1972 Paly yearbook (along with other years) online?

Goto the all-class Paly website, log in, and click on "Paly Jouralism Archives"!

https://www.palyalumni.net/Paly-Journalism-Archives.htm

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Website Info:

This website is totally free to our classmates. We don't charge you for it, and we don't accept ads as a way to pay for it. We have received funds to keep it going until  2023.
At some future date we may ask for donations to keep it alive.

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Please enter this email address into your accepted contacts to prevent emails from going to your spam folder or being rejected:  noreply@classcreator.net    You'll not want to miss any news!

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Automatic Website E-Mails

This website will automatically send out an email every so often to make sure the email accounts listed for everyone are still active.

 

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