while his other siblings moved in with relatives, andy and harry stayed at milton hershey where theyssmates called lifers. >> some kids came in at kindergarten and went through the entire -- until high school graduation. and those were the lifers. >> hershey classmate michael macioni remembers the hard scrabble life of his fellow classmates. >> we were desperately poor and we had tragedy in our lives. one or both parents were dead. some of the parents were killed in serious accidents or murders or any type of sundry ways of dying. and either way, it was tragedy because we were all young children. >> daily life at the school was regimented. danny calfert roomed with andy during high school. >> we got up about 5:45 every morning. we had chores to do and the house parents would inspect our daily chores. we were on a merit system. you could get a demerit if your job wasn't done well. >> each of the homes would have their own dairy farm and we milked cows twice a day. and the only times we didn't milk the cows is when we were away on vacation. >> students were often teased when they ventu

so she enrolled them in the milton hershey school in 1963. andy was just 7. then another tragedy.months later. it was suicide. harry stack told the austin-american statesman she killed herself with a gun. while his other siblings moved with relatives, andy and harry stayed at milton hershey where they became what classmates called lifers. >> some kids came in at kinder garden and lived there the entire until the high school graduation. and those were the lifers. >> reporter: hershey classmate remembers the hard life of his fellow classmates. >> we were desperately poor and we had tragedy in our lives, some of our parents were dead. some of our parents were killed in serious accidents or murders or any time and sundry ways of tragedy and we were all young children. >> reporter: daily life at the school was regimented. david hafner roomed with andy during high school. >> we had chores to do, and the house parents would inspect our stayly chores. we were on the hmerit system. >> each of the homes would have their own dairy farm and we milked cows twice a day, and the only time we did

. >> reporter: built around milton hershey's chocolate company more than a century ago, there is perhapsamerica as iconic as hershey, pennsylvania. >> here's a job i'd go for. kiss inspector. >> reporter: but as it often goes in places like this, many jobs that built this town have been shipped out. how did you feel the day that you were told your plant was closing and you'd lose a little under half of your colleagues? what was the first thought that came to your mind, everyone? >> sick. >> reporter: sick? >> wanted to cry. >> reporter: you wanted to cry. >> the manufacturing jobs don't exist anymore. and to this generation now a $10 an hour job is a good job. it shouldn't be like that. >> reporter: the company has been shedding hundreds of jobs here since it began a major restructuring in 2007. and now, 500 to 600 more local jobs are being cut. but in june union workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of those job cuts, approving a contract that will end production at hershey's original factory and leave hundreds of their fellow union members out of work. in return, hershey committed to s