For the week of June 27 - July 3, 2001

’91 prodigals come home

WRHS students hold 10-year reunion

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"That’s not a lot of children. I thought there would be many more."

Tanya (Rosenstein) Gersh, reunion organizer

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By PETER BOLTZ
Express Staff Writer

Wood River’s High School Class of ’91 spent the weekend catching up with each other.

The festivities, which began with a party on the Sun Valley Lodge Terrace Friday night, ended Sunday morning with a gathering of class members, parents and faculty at the high school.

Graduates of the Wood River High School Class of ’91 take a time-out in their socializing Friday night at the Sun Valley Lodge Terrace. In the foreground, left to right: Chris Foster and Muffy Davis. In the background, left to right: Stefan Larese, Peter Schwartz, Tanya Gersh, Luke McDonald and Tannan Flora. Express photo by Peter Boltz.

Tanya (Rosenstein) Gersh, vice president of the Class of `91, organized the reunion.

"I planned my own wedding," she said, "and out of this experience sprung my business of corporate event and wedding planning. There was no one planning the 10-year reunion, so I did."

Gersh’s business, Affair Excellence, is in Whitefish, Mont. She said she credits a lot of her business moxie to Carol Knight, owner of the Toy Store in Ketchum, where Gersh worked while in eighth through 12^th grades.

Besides playing the role of reunion organizer, Gersh was also its informal spokeswoman.

About 65 class members, out of about 100, registered for the reunion, she said. From those 65 have sprung a total of 15 children.

"That’s not a lot of children," she said. "I thought there would be many more."

Gersh said most of the graduates still live in the West, with about 20 percent of them still in the Wood River Valley.

She said she thought many had moved away because of "small town syndrome. You know, you want to leave to find out what’s out there."

"Then you realize that what you left behind is exactly what you wanted all along."

 

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