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Armed with photo albums and synoptic summaries about life after graduation, the hallways of Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) were flooded with 100 years worth of former students over the weekend centennial reunion. The celebration's co-chair Jennifer Teufel, whose last name was Fairfield when she attended back in the mid-'80s, estimated that 3,000 alumni visited the 1460 Devon Rd. school by Sunday's end. More than 2,200 had preregistered for a bevy of planned events from golf tournaments to a dance to an informal afternoon stroll down memory lane. It took two years and 12 people on the reunion's steering committee to put the centennial celebration together. "For the last two months it's been a full-time endeavour," said Teufel who shared the chair's chores with her schoolmate, cheerleading teammate and class of '89 fellow grad, Meredith Grove. "I know a lot of people look at reunions with trepidation thinking they have gained too much weight or too much grey hair since finishing high school, but I just loved my high school days so much I wanted to at least revisit the memory of them." It's been 25 years since Helena Shields (nee McDonald), Shirley Very (nee Taylor), Ruth Smith (nee Dovener), Rud Whiting and Sandra Green (who eventually married Rud, her high school sweetheart) have seen each other. The gang of five attended OTHS in the mid-to-late 1940s and last saw each other at the 75th anniversary celebration. As they posed for group photos they reminisced about the Friday night dances held at the curling club and talked about whom they had seen last from the old crowd. "It's the people who made this high school great," said Rud Whiting. Their school days were spent at the old OTHS site on Reynolds Street, which served the teen population well for more than 80 years until it eventually burst at the seams. The current Devon Road school opened in 1992. Evelyn Bullied (nee Savage) claimed the title as the oldest graduate to attend the 100th anniversary "I know a lot of people look at reunions with trepidation thinking they have gained too much weight or too much grey hair since finishing high school, but I just loved my high school days so much I wanted to at least revisit the memory of them." Jennifer Teufel, re-union co-chair reunion. She was among the graduates in the class of 1935. There were also several three-generation families who count themselves OTHS Devils alumnus. Alwyn Martin's family is one of them. She graduated in 1940 when "the very strict" Mr. Archibald was the school's principal. The septuagenarian's four children Marty, Cynthia, Tom and Jock also attended their mom's alma mater. Martin's two grandsons Trevor and Matthew Tyre finished their high school years at the Reynolds Road site just before it was closed. Martin's nostalgia is a daily reminiscence as she now lives in the condominiums right across the road from her old high school. But sadly, as Martin scanned the photos and memorabilia laid out decade-bydecade down the hallways, the faces on the images were of people killed in the Second World War. "A lot of the boys in my day were killed overseas. For years I couldn't go to Remembrance Day ceremonies because all those names read out loud were my classmates," she said. The whole champion football team enlisted in the air force and they all died, said Martin. A maple tree will be planted to commemorate all of the alumni and a hall of fame developed to honour 100 years worth of notable OTHS students such as: skier Meredith Gardner, magician Doug Henning, sports announcer Jamie Campbell, rock band The Kings, composer Hagood Hardy, track and field athlete Mike Mercer, NFL kicker Steve Christie, and skaters Otto and Maria Jelinek, and others. Proceeds from the centennial celebration will also go toward a scholarship fund.