Overlake High School no longer exists, but that didn’t stop members from the class of 1950 from celebrating their 60th class reunion earlier this month.

The school later became Bellevue High School.

The “students” and their invited guests boarded Argosy Cruises Champaign Lady for a dinner cruise on Lake Washington.

Classmates reminisced about the years around their 1950 graduation, when Vuecrest was an apple orchard, Bellevue Square was only beginning and today’s Lincoln Square was part of a strawberry farm.

There were 76 graduates in 1950 – a time of saddle shoes, cashmere sweaters and pleated skirts. Most of the students rode a bus, their bicycle or walked to school – and everywhere else.

There were no stoplights in Bellevue then. What is now Bellevue Square housed the BellVue theater and students gathered at the Candy Kane soda shop to listen to music by Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller.

The graduates’ cruise this year came thanks to the generosity of Kemper Freeman and the Argosy Cruise line in underwriting part of the cost.