This weekend I am going to my high school’s 10-year reunion.
A good friend of mine is flying from North Carolina to be my date. She asked me if I am looking forward to seeing my former classmates and if I’ve had a chance to reconnect with any of them.
In a way, yes. You see, I was not very popular in high school, and I made my share of visits to the principal’s office my senior year.
But I am curious by nature, and I am curious to see how the people I knew in high school turned out after a decade outside the school’s gates. Will there still be any animosity after all these years? (God, I hated Joel so much!)
I hope not. After all, we’re all adults, and 10 years is a long time; a lot can happen in a decade — marriage, kids, careers?.?.?.?jail.
I’ll tell you this: I am looking forward to seeing my classmates in a new light, in a way that was not blinded by the immaturity of our teenage years.
And I’ve actually had the chance to reconnect with one of my classmates who did not particularly like me. When I e-mailed him, he responded with an apology for being quite mean to me. So if that’s any indication of how the reunion will turn out, I welcome it.
If worse comes to worst, there’ll be booze and dancing, so it’s not all that bad.
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If you guessed that Church of the Lighted Window is considered the oldest church in La Cañada, you guessed wrong. La Cañada Congregational Church is considered to be the oldest church in La Cañada. The church, formerly known as Church of the Lighted Window, was founded in 1897 and changed its name to La Cañada Congregational Church in 2008, the original name under which it was founded.
When the church was founded, services were held in the home of pioneers Jacob and Ammoretta Lanterman.
Today, the home is the residence of former La Cañada mayor and state Sen. Carol Liu. The church has been known as La Cañada Congregational Church (1897), La Cañada Valley Community Church (1898), Church of the Lighted Window (1925, one year after the dedication of the present sanctuary), La Cañada Community Church/Church of the Lighted Window (1937), Community of the La Cañada Valley/Church of the Lighted Window (1940), and in 1954, simply Church of the Lighted Window, once again. I always joke that I’ve never seen a church with as big of an identity crisis as this one.
The church was declared a historic landmark in 1969.
