SUNY Alumni

High school or college reunions are scary business, especially if your not married, have no intention of ever having kids and are still knee deep in debt after 15 years. But, hey, what the hell - there's also the beauty of not caring what people think as you get older and wiser. So, I attended my 15th year college reunion from SUNY Plattsburgh at the Italian American Club in Albany on Saturday night.

As usual, I was running late and I got there while everyone was lined up for grub at the buffet. Thank God for name tags - it was the only way I recognized my motley crew of 3 Mass Comm majors from my class of '93. It was pretty obvious we were the oldest students in the house; balding heads, wrinkled faces and cynical attitudes - yah, we looked and sounded more like our professors than the fresh classmates from recent years.

Still, it was a good time catching up with everyone. Derek works for 30 Rock, Brian is at Fox in NYC and Chris has been with Channel 13, like, forever. We all thought better of sporting tie-die YES shirts we wore during PSTV meetings or whistling our favorite rock song from the Pearl Jam "Ten" album.

The journalism professor responsible for my becoming a complete news junkie, especially of the New York Times on Sunday, was even there - Dr. Kim. Both Dr. Kim and Professor Peter Ensel would be happy to know that neither look a day older than the day we graduated.