Kindergarten teacher recognizes student 30 years later

High school reunions are typical but what happens when you are reunited with your kindergarten teacher 30 years later?

The Good News Network reports that Lorly Schik was watching KARE-TV in Minneapolis when she saw Cory Hepola, one of the kindergarten students from decades earlier.

Talk about a good memory.

Schik reached out to Hepola’s parents with a letter.

“It is with a great deal of pride that I am now watching my former kindergarten student telecast the news on KARE 11,” the letter read.

Hepola’s parents notified him of his very first teacher’s impeccable memory, and the two set up a time to meet at Schik’s home.

In the video the two greet each other with a big hug. They go through a box of mementos together including photographs and a letter Hepola’s mother sent to Schik after the school year had wrapped up.

“He enjoyed every minute,” the letter said about Cory’s first year of school with Lorly Schik at the helm. “And had tears on the last day when he realized he wouldn’t go back to you next year.”

With tears in his eyes, Hepola asked Schik how it feels to know she impacted so many people’s lives including his own.

“Well it makes me really happy that I became a kindergarten teacher,” Schik said.