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Class Reunion: The Podcast
by Addie Broyles
How did growing up and graduating high school in a small Missouri town shape the next 20 years of your life?
Episodes
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BONUS episode with Kim McCully-Mobley: "Let me introduce you to your hometown."
Nobody works harder than Kim McCully-Mobley to preserve the history of Aurora, Missouri. After a months-long break, "Class Reunion: The Podcast" is back with a couple of bonus episodes featuring people who are not my classmates but who have an interesting perspective on high school, high school...
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15: Debbie: "You have to heal the trauma. You have to heal that wound."
Welcome to the final regular season episode of "Class Reunion: The Podcast"! In this episode, I have a conversation with Debbie Zamparelli, now Debbie Howard, who was one of the folks who attended our in-person reunion in September 2021. We ended up hitting it off, striking up a friendship we...
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14: Bobby and Addie: "You have more nostalgia for Aurora than I do."
Bobby Johnson wasn't a classmate I'd lost touch with. Over the past 20 years, I've been in and out of contact with a handful of my classmates from Aurora High School, but Bobby has been a constant presence, so much so that my kids consider him an uncle. Bob, as he is known now, is the middle of...
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13: Sara: "He means more to me than volleyball."
Sara Williams became Sara Hamilton just a few years after graduation. She married her high school sweetheart, Caleb Hamilton, who was also in our class, and in this week's episode, she looks back on their early years together and what they've learned after 20 years of raising girls. (Three of…
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12. Travis M.: "Keep this between just us girls."
Travis Meeks has been on quite the journey over these past 20 years. He was an all-star athlete who lost a football scholarship, which led to some difficult years dealing with legal troubles and addiction. He finally found his way to the kitchen, where he became a chef who has traveled across the...
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11. Travis B.: "I was an &@# when I was younger."
Looking through old yearbooks is a trip, especially when reading the inscriptions from friends. The sauciest ones always seemed to come from Travis Boatwright, a class clown who knows he was a bit of a jerk back then. Fast forward 20 years, and "Boat" is now simply "Travis," and he's a family man...
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10. Abby: "It feels like things are coming full circle."
One of the best things about class reunions is that they bring together long-lost friends. That happened over the weekend when the Class of 2001 gathered for our 20th high school reunion. It was beautiful to see people reconnect with their friends from long ago, not unlike what you've been…
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9. Rawley: "With basketball, that was more of a long-term break-up."
It's almost reunion time! As the Class of 2001 gears up for its in-person reunion at the end of September, let's hear from the class president, Rawley Burbridge. Rawley is a third-generation Auroran (at least) and he now lives in Nixa with his two kids and wife, Lisa. You're most likely to find…
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8. Liz L.: "I don't know you, but what do you need?"
Welcome back to "Class Reunion: The Podcast!" This week's guest is Liz Lawson, a longtime Aurora resident who now runs a daycare in our hometown. She faced more obstacles than she let on when she was a kid, losing her mom when she was 7 and then losing her home to a tornado as a young adult. But...
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7. Jeff: "I was not an athletic kid, but I loved competition."
Jeff Harter answers questions all day. He’s an optometrist in Kansas City, so all day, he's answering people's questions about their eye health. It's an unexpected part of his job, but one he loves, thanks in part to his upbringing in Southwest Missouri. In this week's episode of "Class Reunion,"...
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6. Case: "We all come home in one way or another."
Case Howard never could have imagined that he'd run his own businesses one day. The welder-turned-coffee shop owner grew up on nine acres in the middle of town, and he didn't know many entrepreneurs until he met his wife, Christa. Together, they have six businesses between them, three coffee…
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5. Kathy: "Sports teaches more than win or loss."
Kathy Caldwell, now McVey, and I were teammates and friends growing up in Aurora. We played softball and volleyball together. We were both setters, short and scrappy and willing to do whatever it took to win. Now she's a teacher in Bentonville, Arkansas, a mother of two girls and married to her...
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4. Brandon: "Have you had anybody cry on this podcast yet?"
Brandon Weldy carried a heavy burden when he was a kid, but he rarely let it show. His dad died when he was five, and by the time he was in elementary school, his mom had lost custody of her kids, and Brandon and his younger sisters were being raised by their grandparents. But at school, Brandon...
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3. Liz M.: "Sometimes it's hard to have your own identity in a small town."
Liz almost didn't graduate from high school. A neighbor of mine since elementary school, Liz Cleek (now Mooneyham) had a baby our junior year, and she's overcome a lot in the past 20 years. She now lives in Republic with her blended family, and in this week's episode of "Class Reunion," she tells...
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2. Brooke: "It was a cool thing to get to try something outside your comfort zone."
In today's episode of "Class Reunion: The Podcast," we're catching up with Brooke Blake, a drum major-turned-lawyer who decided a few years ago that practicing law in a courtroom wasn't for her. Brooke lives in a suburb of Kansas City, where she's raising a daughter with her husband and returning...
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1. Shane: "I rode bulls for way too long."
Welcome to the first episode of "Class Reunion: The Podcast!" To kick off this show about high school, let's meet someone who couldn't graduate fast enough. This week, you'll hear from Shane Clinkenbeard, who graduated from Aurora High School a semester early to pursue a career as a bull rider.…
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Class Reunion: A Podcast About High School, 20 Years Later
How did high school shape you? That's the central question behind "Class Reunion," a podcast from Addie Broyles about growing up in a small town in Southwest Missouri. In conversations with more than a dozen of her classmates, Addie asks: What lessons did you learn then that you still use today?...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
How did growing up and graduating high school in a small Missouri town shape the next 20 years of your life?
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Addie Broyles
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How did growing up and graduating high school in a small Missouri town shape the next 20 years of your life?
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