Thomas Wolfe said, “You Can’t Go Home Again.”

But on Saturday, July 17, the class of 1978 from MTSU Campus School, now Homer Pittard Campus School, proved that you can indeed go home again.

“The last time most of us had seen each other or been back in the school was when we left in 6th grade for summer,” said Suzanne Warner, reunion coordinator.

“I had this crazy idea to go searching for the children that I attended elementary school with from 1972 to 1978. I went searching for 61 men and women who I once knew some 32 years ago as children, along with the faculty that taught us, with the idea in mind to hold an elementary reunion. I wanted to know what had become of my old friends and where their lives had taken them.  
 
"I was surprised to find how many people wanted this reunion to happen and how many students and teachers wrote or called me afterwards to tell me what it meant to them to see everyone again,” Warner said.

"When we left that summer of 1978, I don't think I fully realized we weren't ever coming back. I'm not sure any of us really did. But to come back now after all those years shocked me as to how much I loved these people and how much they still mean to me today," Becky Wyatt Johns said.  
 
Although after 32 years, the class of 1978 found each other changed, they also found how easy it was to reconnect again. And for a few hours, they were transported back in time. “It’s not often as a teacher that you get a chance to see what became of your students and to hear them tell you the impact you had made on their lives, that is something I will always treasure” said Joan Mann, 5th-grade teacher.

“How often in life do you get a second chance to revisit your childhood? It was as if we had come back in the fall to resume school after a 32 year summer vacation and just picked right back up again. I don’t think any of us were prepared for how much that would mean to us.  And I know, we won't lose each other again,” Warner said.