Rachel Dunn, the director of the Central High School Show Choir is a distant cousin of mine. Cousin Rachel is also in charge of the Warlick family reunion each summer. Reunions are a lot of fun. They can also be quite awkward.

One feels especially awkward attending the reunion of a family to which one did not belong but simply married into. The same holds true for high school and college reunions. Most of you will marry someone who did not attend your high school Many of you will marry someone who did not attend High Point College. You and your spouse, to keep the peace, will go to another school's reunion.

My wife, Diane, and I journeyed to Augusta, Georgia, one summer to attend her high school class reunion. We waited patiently in a long registration line at the Holiday Inn. They had a…