Custer County High School - Broken Brand Yearbook (Westcliffe, CO)

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J' L. D v.'.,' CJ I2 na., G56 pl 0l0AeCy One beautiful su er day in the year 1968, we were taking a vacation in a flying saucer over the United States. Since we were former C. C. H. S. grad- uates we stopped to see our senior class president, Jack Hardin. We found that he is a millionaire oil man in Texas, and were very impressed with his exquisite ranch. After staying all night in Texas, we decided to visit our old homeland to see how things were there. Mrs. Coleen Camper and her maid, Ruth Erps, were shopping as we passed through Westcliffe. Coleen is running a large cattle ranch with her husband. It was very pleasing to see them again after so many years. Ruth delighted us by telling us that Zara Benson, another of our old classmates, owned a horse ranch. So we decided to spend a few hours with her. We found Zara happy because she had just won the world-famous Quarter Horse Race, taking place on the world's most famous racing ground in Westcliffe. We called a taxi to go back to Westcliffe, which had grown in population of l5,000, and who should we find at the switchboard but Leotus Schulze, head operator at the famous Bell Telephone system in Westcliffe, which covered three blocks, Leotus informed us that Jack Millard was the owner of the Red Cab Taxi Company and she had Jack come after us. We were very pleased to see Jack again, and on the way to the airport Jack told us Anita Ryan lived in the big three-story log house directly ahead of us. So we stopped to find Anita and her husband, Bill, very happy and doing fine as large cattle ranchers. We made a very special stop at good old C. C, H, S. and found there were l,5OQ,pupils attending school. We found that the literature teacher was no one but Kathleen Kuster who was in charge of eo pupils. When we asked her a- bout some of our other classmates, Kathleen said that Betty Paxton owned the world-famous Alvarado Ski Tow. We enjoyed a day of skiing before going to the airport for our trip to Washington, D. C, On our exciting trip to Washington we had trouble with our flying saucer. We had to stop in St, Louis and were over-joyed at finding the head mechanic of Flying Saucer Corporation our old nchumn, Charles Bauer. He fixed our engine trouble and told us about the famous Red-Headed Basketball Team that was starring Marilyn Erps, a former C. C, H. S. student, as the captain. They were playing in town that night so we decided to delay our trip to Washington long enough to see Marilyn. She told us that she had received a long letter from LaVerne Stacy saying that she held the position of teaching home econom- ics at Washington and Lee University in Washington D. C. We then told Marilyn and Chuckie goodbye and again started on our trip to Washington, but with a different view in mind of what we were going to do. Arriving in Washington, we delayed our trip to the Capitol to visit LaVerne. We found her very busy but happy as always. She told us that Ronald Anderson was campaigning for the Presidency. We were both very happy to hear that he was finally about to comp plete his life-long ambition. He was so very busy that we talked to him only a few moments, but he is fine and very sure of becoming President. Well, our trip is over and now we must return to the Mayo Clinic where we hope the doctors and patients will be glad that Nurses Mary Lou Manning and Lois Chockley have returned from their vacation. It will be a pleasure to think back and remember all the things we used to do in school. This trip has refreshed our memory and so we are satisfied with the way our ambitions in high school are being fulfilled.