A unique gathering took place in March when 15 Hilo “kids,” men and women in their 70s, celebrated a 60-year fifth-grade reunion with their 86-year-old teacher and 92-year-old room mother. The get-together was co-organized by Margaret Hughes Woods, who said they were all classmates at the former Riverside School on Waianuenue Avenue, now the home of Department of Education offices across from Hilo Union Elementary School. “We were all 10-year-olds in 1957, and Hal Ely was a 26-year-old teacher from San Jose, Calif., who came here for a year as an exchange teacher,” Hughes Woods said. A grand time was had by all.
A unique gathering took place in March when 15 Hilo “kids,” men and women in their 70s, celebrated a 60-year fifth-grade reunion with their 86-year-old teacher and 92-year-old room mother. The get-together was co-organized by Margaret Hughes Woods, who said they were all classmates at the former Riverside School on Waianuenue Avenue, now the home of Department of Education offices across from Hilo Union Elementary School. “We were all 10-year-olds in 1957, and Hal Ely was a 26-year-old teacher from San Jose, Calif., who came here for a year as an exchange teacher,” Hughes Woods said. A grand time was had by all.
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