When we were young it was a very solemn, respectful occasion to the point where it was very quiet in the KH. Obviously that has changed.
Amen to that. I'm a few years younger than you based on your age there. I was also born in. It was always very solemn and respectful in my recollection. At the Hall I attended here, the chairman said something about the "solemn occasion". The speaker followed that up with a real winner. While the wine or bread (I forget which) was being passed he must have ran out of clever tidbits about how accurately these emblems mirrored those from the first century. So, he decided to CRACK A JOKE! Add this to his amazingly poor diction and sentence structure and the whole affair took a much less solemn turn.
Yee Haw!