"Catching Up After All These Years"

Photos: Carole Zak, Dave Worth, Yen King, Bill Manuel, Miriam Rich, Britta Sandblom

A Congratulatory Message to the Class of 1974
from the American School in Japan
on the occasion of your 50th Graduation Anniversary.

Saturday morning began with a sumptuous ohayo breakfast buffet …

Ohayo Saturday morning breakfast buffet.

… followed by a traditional cluster reunion “round table” centered about our shared third-culture ASIJ and Japan experiences, themed this time to “Catching Up After All These Years”. Facilitators posted discussion questions with much animated table talk following.

“Catching Up” discussion material. (Saturday)

Anne Ludlow, Bill Ashley, Mariam Rich, Dave Worth, Carole Zak, Bill Manuel. (“Catching Up”)

“Catching Up”. (Saturday)

“Catching Up”. (Saturday)

Britta Sandblom, Dean Panttaja, Irene Anderson, David Kelly, Brad Zak, Lynne Prudhomme. (“Catching Up”)

Becky Adams, Tracy Stephens Haughton, Lucy Ghoda, Mark Wheeler, Chad Harbour, John Greer, Mike Hellings. (“Catching Up”).

Yen King (Helen Hong), Dave Worth, Lisa De Young Jastram, Bill Manuel, Carole Zak, Mariam Rich, Anne Ludlow, Bill Ashley. (“Catching Up”)

Mirja Karikoski Hanson, Susie Stryker, Mary Yoko Brannen Mughan, Paul Kidder, Woody Sherman, Patti Harbour Kelly, Devron Hellings (spouse). (“Catching Up”)

Paul Nagata, Doug Roberts, Kris Bell Roberts, Marcia Sanoden, David Kuzara (spouse), Susan Schlegel, Nick Reid, Kelly Panttaja (spouse). (“Catching Up”)

You have been at ASIJ in the seventies too long when … Tap to enlarge.

You know you’ve been in Japan too long if … Tap to enlarge.

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