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Updated: June 2025
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Our Reunion 2025 will be held at the Beach Cove Resort, 4800 S. Ocean Blvd., North Myrtle Beach, SC (www.beachcove.com. A Beach Cove is an oceanfront resort in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that provides a tropical paradise setting unlike any other. Guests will discover the best of North Myrtle Beach resorts with an indoor pool at Beach Cove, as well as plenty of amazing amenities to offer to ensure you will never have to leave the resort. DATES TO REMEMBER:
Deadline for room reservations is September 1, 2025, room rates are good until 9/1/25. The first night’s stay deposit is due at the time of making the reservation. Attendees may cancel at any time with full refund up until day before arrival date. Parking at the resort for our group is $10.00 per day. ROOMS AVAILABLE Special JHS room rates: a). Oceanfront one-bedroom suite with kitchen/dining room - $122.08 (includes tax) b). Oceanfront two-bedroom suite with kitchen/dining room - $217.28 (includes tax) c). Oceanfront three-bedroom suite with kitchen/dining room - $278.88 (includes tax) COST FOR ATTENDING REUNION There is a required non-refundable $50 Registration Fee to attend the Reunion. The cost for attending the two main events, Brunch Buffet on Tuesday morning and the Dinner/Dance on Wednesday evening, is $115. Total for Registration Fee and two main events is $165. The costs for the main events cover not only the food, but decorations, DJ, Photo Booth, and bartender, and the Registration Fee covers the cost of name tag, t-shirt, gift bag, large room rentals for our activities, snacks for the hospitality suite, and other reunion expenses. There are also three additional group activities listed on the Registration Form that you can choose to attend. Please mark your choices on the Registration Form, total the marked events and activities you want to attend, and send your check along with the Registration Form to Naomi East Young '66 to reserve your seats for the main events and optional group activities while space is available. The sooner this is done, the better for us to plan an enjoyable time for you at the Reunion! The deadline for Reunion Registration is July 15, 2025. Three Optional Group Activities:
Airport: Myrtle Beach International Airport is 14 miles away from the resort. Terminal Information Desk - Myrtle Beach International Airport.
Be sure to register early to ensure you get a room at the blocked rate. We were only allowed to block so many rooms. If it turns out we need more rooms we will attempt to adjust the numbers. |
Feeling Different -- Military Brat Identity
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Can You Identify This Place??
USAF Johnson Air Base FAC 3051
Links to Other DoD Schools in Japan
- American Schools in Japan (ASIJ)
- E.J. King HS. Sasebo, Japan
- Kinnick HS. Yokosuka, Japan
- M. C. Perry HS, Iwakuni, Japan
- Narimasu, Tokyo Japan
- Tachikawa HS, Japan
- Yokahama Japan (Yo-Hi)
- Yokota HS Yokota AF, Japan
- Yamato HS, Japan
- Zama HS. Camp Zama, Japan
Military Brat Links
- Military Brat Life - an online magazine - This website has articles, essays, poetry and blogs about growing up as a child in a military family.
- "Brats: Our Journey Home" Award Winning Documentary about Military Brats Funded and produced by the Nonprofit organization, "Brats Without Borders"
- Military Brats Registry Podcast Military Brats Registry sponsored a series called "Every Brat has a story." These are interviews with famous and not-so-famous military brats.
- 17 Things Only Military Kids Get - Third Culture Kids) from TCKID, the community for TCKs
- Brats: Our Journey Home - Teleconference An Interview with Donna Musil
- Poem: "I am a Military Brat" - written by Deborah W. Giusti
- Miliraty Brat, This ones for you - written by Robert Brescia in April 17, 2023
We're the Same Kids From Johnson High
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We are Johnson High Alumni. Our high school friends are everywhere; no where else do we call our high school home, unless it's Johnson. If we haven't seen our high school friends at the last reunion, we are sure to see them at the next. We grew up riding the red or blue line bus to the Tachi or Yokohama. Whether we lived in West Area, the quancets, Johnson Air Station, Washington Heights, North Area or off-base Fussa, Japan was home. Some of us had the bus rides to Johnson from Yokota as our high school way of life. We found happiness at a high school that provided our education and the opportunity to make long lasting friends in a place very far away from our previous home in the States. We wonder at the feeling we have when we meet these friends and teachers at a Johnson High School reunion, after so many years. The feelings we had growing up in a land with so many cultural differences. Trying to explain a place like Johnson to kids that grew up in the States -- it's impossible. Yes, we had homecomings, Yes we had proms. But did these kids get to go to the Ginza in downtown Tokyo or climb Mt. Fuji. What about our roots? Yep, strong and deep as you would find anywhere. We were nurtured by a Japanese culture, willing to provide us with life long experiences that you can't get from a two week vacation in a far away land. Like most of our fellow students, we learned the language enough to communicate and travel to the far reaches of our Service Club tours. Our moms' made us promise not to ride in the 60 Yen cabs, because they were too dangerous. We carried a matchbook with directions to the USO in downtown Tokyo, which allowed us to get from the train station to a familiar landmark by cab. We went to movies with Japanese sub-titles, we saw sumo wrestling and attended the Kabuki Theater. We bought lunch by pointing to plastic food in the window and had a thrill riding the Japanese trains at Rush Hour. These were just a few of the adventures we had as teens in Tokyo. Being a rolling stone that gathers no moss is true, but we do gain a certain polish, us kids from Johnson. Our travels have taught us to be open;. that not all people think and believe as we do. There is no wrong, just different. We have touched many and allowed their cultures to touch us. As Johnson High Alumni, we have learned to see the many things that make us all the same, which has also taught us to celebrate the difference in others. Just as there is happiness at the start of our JHS Reunions, so is there sorrow in parting as it nears its end. There is no way to prevent these eventual Good-byes; our tansportation awaits; the Farewells are ineventable and never easy. Yet, even in this state comes the strength to face tomorrow, knowing that another is just a few short years away. As a JHS Military Brat, we go out with an extending hand and heart, with friendships formed in hours and kept alive through decades, reunion after reunion. We will never know the feeling as a youngster living in one place, but we will have been nurtured by the many bases we called home. As we "Pay it forward" the help that we offer today will be returned. In the poem by Robert Frost: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by." Our paths may have been separate, as in the poem when we left Johnson High, but we have come out on the otherside of that wood and finally meet again, to find deep inside, we are the same "kids from Johnson." Hope to see you at the next reunion. |
DO YOU HAVE MEMORIBILIA FROM JHS??
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If you have memoribilia from high school and you would like to clean out your storeage bins, closets, cabinets or other places you have chosen to hide away thoses keepsakes from Johnson High, I have just the solutions. Send it to the American Overseas Schools Historical Society. (AOSHS) They already have a place set up for all things Johnson High School. If you want to send your keepsakes, box them up and enclose an inventory list of what you are sending with information about the contents, such as names, dates, and a story, if appropriate about the items you are sending. ADDRESS: AOSHS email: Office@AOSHS.ORG PH: 316.265.6837aoshs.or |