BRICK TOWNSHIP - Praying for sunshine. That's what Warren Wolf will be doing this week as he and others gear up for Brick Township High School's 50th anniversary picnic at Windward Beach, Princeton Avenue, on June 28. Anyone who ever had anything to do with the high school is invited.

"It's for all students," said Wolf, a former Brick teacher and administrator, and still the football coach of the Green Dragons. "It's 50 years of students, 50 years of teachers, 50 years of custodians, 50 years of bus drivers, anyone that had something to do with Brick Township High School."

The event will feature food, beer and wine. Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children and can be purchased at the door. A disc jockey will spin music from all of the decades, starting from 1958, the year the high school opened.

"There's not going to be speeches," Wolf said. "We are not going to get involved in politics. It's a day of fun, friendship and nostalgia. It's a day to be thankful."

The party plans have been in the works for almost a year. Organizers originally hoped to hold the event under a bubble behind the high school on Chambers Bridge Road, but the cost of the bubble, about $10,000, turned out to be a little more than they had planned for, Wolf said.

"The cost of a bubble would be out of sight," he said.

Anyone who is planning to attend the birthday picnic at Windward Beach, which will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., should bring beach chairs, Brick Township High School Principal Dennis Filippone said.

"One of our major concerns is we really can't get a handle on how many people to expect," he said.

The rule of thumb for class reunions is 10 people per class to attend, he said.

"Ten people from each class is 500," Filippone said. "People from the '70s, '80s and '90s are still around. You could end up with between 400 to 1,000 people."

There will be no shortage of food, Filippone said.

"We are going to buy a lot," he said.

And Filippone, unlike Wolf, is not worried about the weather.

"Nope, it's not going to rain," he said. "The long-range forecast is very positive. Hot and clear."

For Filippone, a graduate of the school, the high school means "everything."

"Ninety percent of my adult life has been spent here," he said. "It's hard to put into words. It means a lot."

The picnic is not the only event planned for the milestone anniversary. A five-day carnival that will run July 8-12 will be held in the west parking lot on the high school grounds.