Lehi High School's class of 1948 hosted its 60th reunion Friday at the Lehi Historic Hotel on Main Street. Not all 17 who attended the event were excited to share that milestone.

About half of the original 63 alumni have died. Those 78 year olds remaining remember a much different school than the current one.

"We can remember that but we can't remember what happens today," Marna Peterson Berry said and smiled.

The LHS campus was where the courthouse and literacy center are today on Center and 100 North streets. Students attended seventh through 12th grade there.

"We used to make rotten egg gas in chemistry and you could smell it all over," said Rial (Todd) Berry. He also remembers his favorite teacher, EB (Ernest) Garrett, who taught agriculture science.

"The boys thought a lot of him," Rial Berry said. "He did individual things with the boys."

Alumnus Jeri Brems said one time she and six other girls each bought a yard of cloth and made skirts out of it and wore them to school when they were done.

"They were so tight we couldn't make it up the stairs to get to class," Brems said.

Everybody knew everyone because the school population was so small. Some of the class sizes didn't even have 10 students depending on the class. The town was small too.

"That's the worst thing is the growth," said Phyllis Oxborrow Crookston. "The new people they say they moved here for the lifestyle and then they want to change it."

She distinctly remembers her graduation.

"We were the only class that didn't have 'Pomp and Circumstance' because the music teacher wanted the 'Triumphal March' from Aida," Crookston said. The students protested.

"We said we weren't going to graduate but they knew we would anyway," she said.

They graduated on May 25, 1948, to the theme of "The World is Ours." The Lehi Free Press May 14, 1948, edition published the commencement program with Robert Allred as the valedictorian and the ceremony taking place at the Lehi Stake Tabernacle.

Three of the 63 graduating were in military service instead of school and had passed their GED to receive a diploma at the ceremony according to the newspaper.

Styles were different. Boys wore slicked back hair and ties and the girls wore skirts and had curly hair.

"Girls from Cedar Fort could wear pants under their dresses, but they had to take their pants off once they got to school," Jessica Dutson Richey said. Their formal dance was called the "Senior Hop" and had a Chinatown theme.

Their high school band was 40 students strong and the orchestra boasted at least 30 participants. Football players used leather helmets and you could go to the movies then for 60 cents.

Brems said she remembers a fellow classmate would put a penny on her desk if she would let him copy her schoolwork. She did.

"There are really a lot of stories about this class that can't be told," Rial Berry said.

The biggest prank played during the year was the week of graduation, a prank no one ever 'fessed up to doing.

"Someone let calves loose in the school," said Robert N. Crookston. "And you can guess what was scattered up and down the hallway."

"We all take credit for it," Rial Berry said. "Nobody ever owned up to it."