50-Year Reunion!
August 23, 2025, 5:00 – 10:00 PM
at the Normandy Park Cove.
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“Still Crazy After All These Years”
Register Now for Our 50-Year Reunion!
Saturday August 23, 2025 • 5PM – 10PM
Normandy Park Community Club: “The Cove”
1500 SW Shorebrook Dr., Normandy Park
We want to see you there.
OK! We’re just days away from our big reunion! We’re in the thick of coordinating with the caterer and finalizing all the details, so we really need to get a head count. Please register NOW. That will help your Pirate classmates that are hard at work with all the planning.
We’re talkin’ relaxed. Nothing formal for this class after 50 years away. Come comfortable and come with your stories to tell. Make new memories at this casual dinner together. Enjoy good food, rich conversation, your favorite 70s music and more. Get reacquainted with your old friends. Collect phone numbers and email addresses. Sing the Alma Mater together one more time!
- Reunion Cost: Suggested price: $60.
Two drink tickets included in ticket price.
(Pay what you can. If you’re feeling generous and can contribute more, that’d be great!)
Online Registration & Payment
This is a two-step process:
First you REGISTER, then you PAY.
(Two separate clicks.)
1. Register
Click the button to complete your registration online.
2. Pay
Pay by credit or debit card. (A 3% charge will be added.)
Snail Mail Option
PRINT & MAIL PAYMENT: You may download and print the registration form, then mail it with your check. (Click on the form below, then print it out and mail it in.)
Pitch in a Few Extra Doubloons
PIRATE’S TREASURE CHEST. Your Reunion Committee keeps the ticket price as low as possible so everyone that wishes to can attend. But, ticket sales don’t always cover all the costs. If you’re inclined and able, and feel like tossing a few extra doubloons into the Pirate’s treasure chest, that’d be really great. Thank you!
Reunion Committee Email:
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Class Facebook Page:
Reunion Weekend Details
CLICK HERE for a list of Reunion Weekend activities.
Thursday – Sunday:
– Highline Heritage Museum 1:00 – 5:00 PM (a suggestion)
Friday, August 22:
– HHS Alumni Foundation Golf Tournament 7:30 AM
– Laurie Burchill Reception, Drama/English Teacher 2:00 PM
Saturday, August 23:
– HHS School Tour 2:00 PM
– Burien Uncorked Wine Walk 1:00 – 6:00 PM
– 50-Year Reunion 5:00 – 10:00 PM
Sunday, August 24:
– No planned event
Friday Night or Sunday?
Small Group Get-Togethers
We suggest that Grade School classmates or other friend groups plan their own gatherings on the Reunion Weekend. Friday night? Saturday Lunch? Sunday Picnic? How about a gathering of classmates from grade school… Band Class? You get the idea! Wanna see your old buddies from way-back-when?
Drop a line to the Reunion Committee with the details of your get-together and we’ll broadcast it so more of your classmates know about it.
Pirates’ Log
A Little Band of Pirates Pre-Reunion Party
"It is really a fun trip down memory lane! Part of our reunion journey, looking back, while reconnecting in present time." Left to Right: Jim...
Reunion Weekend Activities
So... You'll be here in town for our Big Reunion on Saturday, August 23...What else is there to do? LOTS! Read on… And if you arrange other...
Reception for Laurie Burchill, Drama and English Teacher
A reception for Drama and English teacher Laurie Birchill will be held at the home of Betsy Wildish McQuinn in Burien on Friday, August 22nd, 2:00...
Pirates Tee Off on Friday August 22
With thanks to the B-TOWN BLOG STAFFJune 27, 2025 The Highline High School Alumni Foundation will host its annual golf tournament on Friday, Aug....
Pirate Pickleball
Calling All Pirate Pickleball Players! Have you become a part of the pickleball craze? If so, it would be fun to get fellow Pirates together for a...
The Brand New HHS!
Come tour the new HHS on Saturday, August 23, 2025. Meet in front of the school at 2:00.The redesigned and rebuilt Highline High School as seen in...
Taste-Testing Pirate Crew
Highline Pirates' Class of 75 Classmates showing up to taste-test the 50-year reunion menu: (Left to right) Dave Hawthorne, Maureen Hoffmann, Laurie...
A Zooming Committee Meeting
Just some of the Reunion Planning Commitee Members zooming along as details are discussed… and there are MANY details! Seen here: Betsy Wildish...
Oldies
Walking down memory lane, I selected "Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night. My music collection then yielded "Mama Told Me Not to Come". Well,...
Highline Class of ’75 Commencement Program
What gets saved? Apparently, the program from our Commencement Exercises on June 11, 1975 has been tucked away, safe-and-sound, in Maureen's...
Enjoy these photos from the 40-Year Reunion.
Seeing classmates from long ago really is a fun time.
(Click on each image to enlarge it.)
Click on the smiling faces above
to see all of our Senior Class Photos!
Memory Lane
There’s lots to see on the web site here, the Master Archive for our HHS Class of ’75.
Past Reunions
Want to see how much fun it was at prior reunions? Check out the 30-Year and 40-Year Reunions HERE.
Flashback Photos
Some of your old grade school class photos HERE!
Missing Pirates
There are many classmates we’re still trying to find HERE.
Sad to See Them Go
Sobering that we’ve lost so many classmates, listed HERE.
The Trusty Reunion Committee
“What?! We’re doing this AGAIN?!” Planning the reunion is a real labor of Pirate Love (and craziness?) WHO would DO this? Apparently, these and other classmates have stepped up to walk the plank and fly the pirate flag for our 50-Year Reunion.
Some of the many committee tasks:
- Cat Herding & Bean Counting – Meetings, treasure chest oversight
- Lost & Found – Finding missing classmates
- In Memoriam – Honoring our deceased classmates
- Decorations – Table and room decor
- Marketing, Graphic & Web Design – Imagery, web site, social media
- Cheerleading – Whipping up enthusiasm and adding two-cents’ worth
Above: Attending one of our first meetings for the 50-Year Reunion: Back row, from left to right: Mary Dafoe Brooke, Neil Ball, Betsy Wildish McQuinn, Jim Pray, Kitty Jo Larson Poland. In the front are Maureen Hoffmann and Linda Bradshaw Burfitt.
Also contributing to the committee efforts are: Eva Doherty Gremmert, Arden Gremmert, Dave Hawthorne, Mark Meyer, Richelle Ring Slater.




















