“He was more of a father figure than anything,” said 79-year-old former Metzger School student Ray Burman, who helped plan a surprise reunion with his sixth-grade teacher at Beaverton Lodge Retirement.
102-year-old Lou Crucchiola taught sixth grade and was principal at Metzger Elementary School for 30 years. He now resides with his wife, Arlene Crucchiola, at Beaverton Lodge Retirement and was recently rediscovered by some of his students while they were visiting.
“He didn’t know this was happening until we showed up; it was really a shock to him, actually,” Burman said. “My wife Judy, her sister was in the facility, and one day we were just walking by looking at pictures, and there was Lou!”
Burman and two of his friends, Randy Volk and Terry Pederson, were all in Lou Crucchiola’s sixth-grade class in 1958 and surprised Lou and Arlene Crucchiola at dinner on June 7…