Celebrating their 68th Town of Webb High School Reunion on Wednesday, July 11, three members of the Class of 1944 met at the same spot as they did last year—at the picnic table in the Souvenir Village parking lot.
Reminiscing about their high school days were Charlie Kiefer, Harry Girou and Bob Crofut.
“They were good days and we got a good education,” Girou said.
“And there were some good teachers there,” Crofut added.
“We had a lot of fun but the sports programs were kind of tough because there was no gas. They couldn’t use buses for transportation so we didn’t have actual games with other schools, except for every once in a while,” Kiefer said.
All three entered World War II military service upon graduation. Crofut and Girou joined the Navy and Kiefer joined the U.S. Army.
But when the war ended they all returned to Old Forge.Girou, who later moved to Pennsylvania where he still lives today, said, “Living in this town was great. It helped us a lot. It made men out of us.”
The three gentlemen said they didn’t have any plans to go out for a formal dinner to commemorate their reunion.
They were having too fun just sitting at the picnic table in the center of town talking about the old days.
