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Athletes of 70s and 80s Organize Reunion and Community
Picnic
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
On Saturday, May 25, the
Athletes of the 70s and 80s hosted their first ever
community picnic at Ottawa Park and offered the public an
afternoon of food, music and networking. The group began in
2012 as an effort to start to reconnect with former
classmates and to reminisce – during the picnic, they had
the chance to do just that – among themselves and with
family, fans and friends.
The athletes initially
assembled a startup group of about 50 former high school
players from the 70s and 80s. Today the membership has grown
to include over 1,600 former athletes of Toledo area high
school sports teams – a membership that is spread all over
the United States, as well as in a few foreign countries.
The project got
jumpstarted, says Terry Crosby, one of the administrators,
when Rob Johnson, the co-CEO of the group, began posting
online which permitted members to interact with each other
and spread the word efficiently.
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