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

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1041397 cfadd ,9 0Pl'eCff One warm summer day on the moon, in the year 1970, our chief scientist, Thomas Paxton was busy at work viewing the planet Earth, through his telescope. As he focused it on the United States, his attention was drawn to an island off the coast of California. Here he found Major Robert James Baker in command of a large troop of Marines. As a scientist, our old friend Tom has invented a super- interplanetary radio. As he talks with Major Baker,. he learns that another one of our former buddies is also in the armed forces. It is none other than Russell Lee Koch, Com ander of the U. S. Air Force. Speaking of the Air Force, suddenly a jet plane comes into view. Curious as to whom the pilot is, Tom uses his radio to get contact, and to his surprise, he found it to be our old classmate, Joe Martinez. After conversing with Joe about old times, he spotted Mar- lene Godwin walking into the Home Ec. Department of Texas Tech. Within a short time he learned from her that she was now teach- ing there. Not so very far away, our scientific friend spotted another old pal, Harold Ankenman, who has set himself up in business, and is now a very successful Registered Hereford Rancher. On a ranch near by he found Ada Mae, who is now married to a big cattle rancher. In case he is needed, Robert Feldman, a successful vet, is always around. As the telescope is focused northward, Tom finds that Ray- mond Seybold is still working in a saw mill, this time his own, in Silver Cliff. Finding so many of his old friends still around, the scien- tist decides to take a little trip back to Earth. As soon as he reaches Westcliffe, he stops in at the towns largest beer joint, of which Paul Montgomery is now proprietor. While talking to Paul, the conductor of the train through Westcliffe, Robert De- Gree, comes in for a few minutes during a ten minute stop. He talks Tom into going on a train ride with him. Their first stop lain Denver where they meet another old classmate, Margie Eakins who is running the world's largest baby sitting corporation. From her they learn that Dorothy Collier is to appear at Fitz- simmons Hospital with a professional dancing troup. As they talked to her, they run into one of the head nurses there, Mar- garet Comer. As they continued their journey, they stopped offai:Golden. Here they discovered that the old Coors Brewery had changed own- ership, and was now in the hands of Wesley Colvin. Now our old friend returns to the moon, and again takes up his work at the telescope. This time he focused it on Chicago, where he found Frank 'Lucky' Langston, the owner of a used car lot. Lucky said he was doing real great, selling some of those old '52 Mode1s'. He suggested to Tom that he look in on Chet Koch and his team of professional basketball players in West Virginia. He thanked him for the suggestion, and moved on. After watching the boys practice for awhile and talkingto their coach,

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1041397 Chet, he went on to Washington D. C. There he met the World famous wife of the newly elected president, Adlai Stevenson Jr., who before her recent marriage, was our old pal, Bertha Mae Kattnig. While visiting her he heard that Helen Millard was now employed as Bertha's private nurse. As he was preparing to leave the scene of the White House, he met Albert Kidder, a special agent for the F. B. I., busy in- vestigating a case on communist spies. He explained his work to Tom, who then moved on to New York City, where he heard that Sally Littrell was now appearing on television. She had taken over where Lucille Ball had quit, and was enjoying her job im- mensely. Also in New York, he saw Odetta Knuth, now the head fashion designer at Saks Fifth Avenue. She had finally made it after years of hard work. As Tom turns from his telescope, his chief assistant, Wayne Vahldick, brings him bad news about their latest experiment on an easier meansof'transportation between Earth and the moon. He went to work with memor1esof'his old days at C. C. H. S. running through his mind. He knew that his friends were successful and without them, the world would be incomplete. .Sznior Cfadd Jwdfory The history of the Senior Class began in the school year of l9h9-1950 with an enrollment of thirty students. They were: Thomas Paxton, Presidentg Paul Montgomery, Vice-Presidentg Mar- gie Eakins, Secretaryg Raymond Seybold, Treasure, Jessie May Littrell, Reporterg Robert Baker, Kathryn Ryan, and Thomas Pax- ton, Student Councilg Wesley Colvin, Ray Ryan, Albert Kidder, James Ingersoll, Richard Hobby, Jack Hobby, Russell Koch, Robert DeGree, Franklin Langston, Harold Ankenman, Robert Feldman, Vir- ginia Hartinez, Bertha Mae Kattnig, Ada Mae Jennings, Odetta Knuth, Margaret Ann Comer, Frances Oelrich, Joseph Martinez, Luz Sanchez, Chester Koch. And for a swell helper through year, we were given, Miss Gertrude Yeakey, for Soon after the beginning of the school Austin, Elizabeth Marlene Godwin, Edward Bates, and out our Freshmen our Sponsor. year the Seniors initiated us and afterwards we were honored with a party given by the Seniors. In November we lost one of our classmates, Luz Sanches, but gained another in March, Nancy Bennett. We lost another pupil when Virginia Martinez, left us. One day toward the last day of school we teamed up with the Juniors and enjoyed an afternoon party together. And so ended our Freshmen year. As Sophmores, we started out with twenty-nine students, Frances Oelrich left us after a few weeks, but we were fortunate enough to gain Helen Millard, so our attendance stood the same. Thanks to Mr. Manatos, our sponsor, we presented two very successful assemblies, both original ideas of Mlkesn.