Salt Lake City, Utah – August 7-9
From the newsletter report, “Cousins by the dozens enjoyed the time of their life in Salt Lake City. They met together, worked together, laughed together, wept together, and prayed together. The family resolved to leave behind them forever the difference that have kept them apart and, with the spirit of mutual love and respect, experience the “joy of being together” again and again and again.”
Anina Mackay shared her impressions of the ’75 Reunion:
- The gratitude felt when soup and sandwiches were produced for a famished family of latecomers at a very inconvenient hour of night.
- The feeling of welcome and warmth from our home stay family, cousins we had never even heard of before and now will never be able to forget.
- The beauty of the sweet shy smiles of girl cousins meeting for the first time and discovering they shared the same first name, Andrea.
- The hauntingly beautiful rendition of the “Old, Old path” given by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
- The yelps of laughter of 11 year old boys cousins trying to master the art of getting salt water out of their eyes while “swimming” in the Great Salt Lake.
- The sorrow felt when some of the historical articles brought too close the tragedy in our past.
- The laughter, glamour and talent that Buddy’s Jackson Hole Troupe brought to us.
- The soul lifting view of golden spires against a brilliant blue Western sky.
- The feelings of a family relaxing together, conversing, laughing, teasing, sharing slides and pictures, children, and experiences.
Anina continued, “There were tears in a few eyes as our plane lifted from the Salt Lake airfield.”
Anina finished by saying, “This to me is what a family reunion is all about and our memories of Salt Lake ’75 are cherished.”
Check out more reunion details:
- 1975 Newsletter Invitation
- 1975 Reunion Agenda
- 1975 Reunion Program
- 1975 Reunion Scrapbook
- 1975 Newspaper Clippings
