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The Glenbrook North High School Class of 1970 began planning their 50th reunion in early 2020. I volunteered to be on the committee.  Our initial meetings were long, involved emails and the first thing we had to do was try to find our classmates.  The co-chairs compiled a database using several online people-finder sources.  We emailed and called and asked people to help us spread the word.   Then came Covid, the lockdowns, and those weeks  and months of uncertainty.  The one benefit was switching to Zoom for real-time meetings.  In July we cancelled plans for the October celebration but held ...

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 The Glenbrook North High School Class of 1970 had not-quite a reunion on Saturday evening.  Early in 2020 we began planning.    Committee members (of which I'm one) tracked down classmates to get phone numbers and email addresses.  We created a Facebook group and used an online class reunion site to try to reach everyone we could.   In July, 2020, we realized that the pandemic wasn't going to be over by October so we cancelled the event. We began 2021 with the hope we could pull off a "Fifty Plus One" reunion for October, 2021.   Evites went out and ...

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