It’s been 80 years since nearly 200 Anaheim High students graduated on the same day that 16,000 U.S. Troops landed on the beaches of Nazi-occupied Normandy, France.

Unbeknownst to these students in the small town of Anaheim, while this massive land, sea and air battle that changed the course of WWII was being fought on June 6, 1944, they were collecting their diplomas on the stage of Pearson Park Amphitheater and preparing to say good bye to classmates who would soon leave to join the fighting.

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America entered World War II six months after the Class of 1941 graduated Anaheim Union High School. From innocent youths who drove Model T’s through the rural community of Anaheim with a population under 10,000, the Class of ’41 Colonists were thrown into battle overseas and on the home front, their lives forever changed.

But it’s not the war years they talk about when 18 members of AUHS Class of ’41 met Sept. 21 for their 72nd reunion. Instead the group relived the idyllic days of their childhood by sharing memories of high school pranks, dances, favorite teachers and other stories from their years attending school together, some since elementary days. [Read more…]

Anaheim High graduates from the 1940s celebrated a multi-year reunion on Jan. 25, 2013 at Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel. Grads from 1940 through 1948 shared memories from their days at “Old AU.”