Meeting folks who are eight decades older than her provided some revelations for Baldwin High School senior Aida Schmezer.

“It was cool that even back then, teenagers hung out at the same places. We all went to Kennywood, got ice cream at Page’s and stuff like that,” she said, referencing the landmark amusement park and the longtime treat stand at the corner of Carson Street and Becks Run Road.

Schmezer joined fellow soon-to-be graduates Emmy Cready and Chloe Dodds in producing portraits of three centenarian residents at Celebration Villa of South Hills in Baldwin Borough.

They presented the finished works to Irene Smith, Peg Cassidy and Nora Bealko during an April 29 luncheon at the senior-living community, where the portraits will be displayed on a Wall of Fame.

“We’re just so happy that they agreed to come up and partner with us for this celebration,” life enrichment director Amelia Greenaway said. “A lot of our residents are from the area, as well, and they have kids and grandkids who went through Baldwin.”

That includes Greenaway, herself, along with Nicole Flannery, who teaches art at her alma mater. She made arrangements for the students to visit Celebration Villa in the winter to meet the 100-plus-year-old residents and take photographs of them.

“When I got that message from Amelia that said, ‘Hey, we’re interested in doing this project with you. Would you like to team up,’ I didn’t even think twice, and I said, ‘Absolutely,’” Flannery recalled.

“Then I reached out to the administrators in the building. They are 100% on board, love the idea,” she said. “It allows our students to really connect with our residents in our community, and I think that’s the most important part.”

A fourth centenarian who lived Celebration Villa, Annabelle Livi, died Feb. 23 at age 102.

For their part, the Baldwin students enjoyed taking on the project.

“I really liked meeting them. I don’t think I’ve ever met somebody over 100 in my life before,” Dodds said. “We kind of just talked about life and what it’s like to be a teenager, and they still remembered a lot.”

Her subject was Bealko, who is 104 and graduated from high school in 1940.

“We had no bus service. We walked to school, no matter,” she said. “And they didn’t clear the streets. If it snowed, we still walked to school.”

As for today’s students whom she met: “They couldn’t have been any nicer. It was nice to meet them.”

Cready, who painted Cassidy’s portrait, welcomed the opportunity.

“It was cool to connect with someone older than me. I don’t really get a lot of chances to do that,” the prospective art teacher said. “It was cool to relate with them on a lot of stuff, too. Things are kind of the same in a lot of ways.”

Many of Smith’s family members joined her to celebrate and take a look at Schmezer’s artwork.

“They remind me a lot of my Gram,” she said of the portrait subjects. “So it was really nice to be able to paint them and do that for them.”