The third annual Okotoks Upper High School Class Reunion took place last weekend.

The school once stood where Okotoks Junior High is currently located.

The event allowed students who attended the school, from when it opened in 1913 to when it closed in 1984, to come together and remember their school days.

Bob Airth was a student at Upper High School and says it was exciting coming from a country school to the town school, and getting to meet all the other students in the community.

"I started in a one room country school and then we got into the Upper School where they consolidated all the schools together which was fun."

Airth adds, back in those days school was fun.

Classmate Wendy Shingoose agrees, saying she went to the school when it housed Grades 3 to 12 while Grades 1 and 2 were down the hill where the courthouse is now.

"Okotoks was small. We had the Wigwom, the games room, Wentworth's General Store main street was pretty cool back then."  

Both Airth and Shingoose say the reunion is an event most look forward to all year.

It is something that brings old friends back together and allows those who don't live far away to come into town and see some familiar faces.

"There are those who have been to the event and will be at all the ones to come and then there are the people that came to this years, and you won't see them for the next four years or so."

Airth also says the reason they have the reunion annually is because there is always a class with a special year, whether it be a 40-year reunion or 50-year reunion, so this way everyone can be a part of it.

Shingoose and Airth both are looking forward to next year's reunion.

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