Laura Speeth:  

Hi everyone, thanks for reading. So glad to reconnect with you! I loved the reunion June 11, 2022. It brought back a lot of school pride. I’m so glad I did the nerdy thing and brought a yearbook and got a few folks to sign it (thank you!). I remembered more people than remembered me, which makes sense because I was mostly hiding behind a pile of books back then. For some of my old friends I missed, maybe you’d share a ‘virtual’ note I could cut and paste, the way birthday cards are sometimes handled (especially during the pandemic). Though I was only at AHS a couple of years, I feel we all share a lot just by virtue of being from the same generation and living through the same decades, such as memories of what was on the radio, knowing what an 8-track tape player, a rotary phone, or an 8-inch floppy disc is… that sort of thing. I went by Laura back then, though my given name is Lauren. I joined Classmates.com after coming across the messages that friends had written at the end of the year… I started reading some of it during a health scare (behind me now, thank God), and it brought a wave of nos...Expand for more