The 40th Reunion since the Leaving Certificate also marks the end of the schooldays and falls this year for the Graduating class of 1978. So, a Class Reunion offers that rare return to Clongowes Wood College for many of that graduating class. As well as a trip back to a place that at one point all of us thought we would never escape perhaps. Yet with the passage of time it has become the place we now feel that we left too quickly.
The occasion this year offers another chance to meet fellow class mates from the 1972 vintage and recall times inside those imaginary Gates of Hell up to the hazy the summer of 1978 when we departed for the last time as pupils. A place where most served the full six years before taking our leave to chase life’s great adventure. For those who never had further family attending the school it may all seem less familiar now if they never returned. With some sparkling new buildings and modern facilities now on show, as there have been significant changes since even our last return a decade ago.
The formal gathering will take place on Saturday, October 20th, 2018 with former teachers, members of the Jesuit Community and many past pupils. All of whom will gather in the Westgrove Hotel and Conference Centre, in Abbeylands, Clane, Co. Kildare.
"Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
'Relax' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'
Hotel California - the Eagles
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