Matthew Peterson

Hope the pandemic is long over so we can plan/produce our 55th Anniversary Reunion in 2014 - our 11th consecutive 5yr reunion. Few HS classes anywhere can claim an equally consistent effort. Sad to think of how many classmates are now gone.
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Thought our 2019 50th Reunion was a great event.
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10/28/17 - connecting with John Apitz this afternoon to drive to Mankato for an impromptu reunion-group-party gathering at Rounders - mostly to see Sally Beal, who has had a remarkable upswing in health after a months long period of low moments battling cancer. Hope we see a couple of dozen classmates.
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2014:
Looking forward to this reunion. Expecting a greeat turnout. Hope to exhaust myself trying to catch up with everyone - those I knew and those I didn't know.
Just this year, I have now lived at our house in Edina longer than I lived in Mankato. Does that mean my home town changes - I don't think so.

Sad that since my parents are both gone, we make the trek to Mankato only for MHS reunions.
I hardly recognize downtown and I struggle to remember the street names I used to know so well. I even worked for the City of Mankato for 3 yrs after college in the Planning Department.

See you in Mankato for our Reunion Weekend.

2001:

If I had to remember the two of the best and worst moments of high school, I might report as follows:

Worst Moments:
a. Sr. year, the morning my Dad thought I should go to school when the night before my mother barely survived a heart attack. The day only got worse.

b. Generally, I remember being sad that that when I was 17, I looked 14.
Best Moments:
a. Being Class Officer was a something of which I was proud - there was basically no work attached to the role. The ideal job - authority with no responsibility. There was just one time where I called on to represent our Senior Class and I wasn't there. During a homeroom-period football pepfest, I stayed behind to study. The seniors won the yell competition and the class prez was to run out and accept the spirit stick (or something) - luckily classmate Wayne Rudnick did the honors for the our class. He would be gone in a month from a fatal fall at Minneopa Park. I spent time with Mr. Rudnick, one of our HS janitors, trying to express how Wayne brought so much camaraderie to our class.

b. I was the last guy on the tennis team. The team played 5 matches each time we competed. So if the math was tied 2-2, my match (with my doubles partner) was the decider. I remember winning one of those 'decider' matches. The pinnacle of my MHS athletic career.