Cascade High School - Ketochi Yearbook (Cascade, MT)

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CLASS PROPHECY George Savoy and I, Darrell Wade, started from California for Cascade. Mon- tana, in our new Buick convertable on May 24, 1970. Although George and T just returned from the Amazon jungle, where for the last two years we have been looking for the Lost Amazon Mine, we were eager to be on our way again because we were going to a reunion of the Class of 1950 at the new million dollar Cascade High School. The present superintendent and coach is James D. Bergene. none other than our own Jim. It was just twenty years after our graduation on May 24, 1950. After a day’s traveling over super highways, we were soon in Helena. We stayed there overnight and left early the next morning for Cascade. At Wolf Creek we stopped to look at the scenery and whom should we see but our old classmate. Mary Sullivan, who was now the wife of a prosperous rancher. After chatting with Mary for awhile we headed down the canyon for Cascade. When we got to Craig we saw a beautiful Cadillac coming leisurely down the Craig lane and to our surprise we recognized the driver to be Jim Bergman, now State Recreation Super- visor. He lives at Craig with his wife, Mina, and their five kids. Yes, there were five of them. A real basketball team. We then headed for town and passed what used to be the Mountain Palace. It was now a palatial charm school and Little Theater, with Margaret Beecher directing a spectacular production with the mountains as a natural background. We bade her farewell and continued on. As we entered town we decided it looked the same except for a few new buildings and a few less old ones. We were getting pretty thirsty from our long trip so we decided to stop at what was formerly Bergmann’s, for something to drink. It was now known as HATTIE’S and was owned and operated by our old classmate, Hattie Hemminger. It was listed first in Duncan Hines and gourmets came from the world around to sample her famous food. As we left the cafe, we heard a plane zoom overhead and looking up saw the slogan, “Fly the Hastings’ Way ’ written on the fuselage of a large silver plane. We hurried out to the Cascade Municipal Airport in time to see our former class- mate, Shirley Hastings, alight from the plane. She had just flown her husband, Tom Corbett, back from surveying his vast lumber holdings in Alaska. Returning from the airport, George slammed his finger in the door. Since it was badly bruised and cut, we took him to the new Cascade Hospital, and there we found Marilyn Mattson, physician and surgeon, in charge. Across the street from the hospital we saw a sign which read, KENNETH TAGUE, REAL ESTATE BROKER, STOCKS AND BONDS AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF. That really interested us, because Kenny was also an old classmate of ours. And in Kenny’s office we found Van Fayler, making his second million on the stock market and preparing to retire soon. As we came out and stood on the corner again, we saw something zooming down the highway and when it came to a screeching stop, out climbed our old classmate, Frank Faller. Ah, yes. Speed-ball Faller! He said he was making a good living by selling hot rods of his own design and also that his wife, the former Madelyn Simpson, was very interested in his work, when not taking care of their twin boys. Now it was time for the highlight of the trip. The reunion banquet. As we all sat around the banquet table we talked over old times and the success each one had attained. After twenty years, we felt that each individual of the Class of '50 had proved himself ‘ The One Most Likely to Succeed.” ( i«)

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Horaee Anderson Donald Creveling Irvin Cooper Marjery Friberg John Hegland Vice President Marie Klock Darlene Loveland Tom McSloy President Anna K. See Maynard Simenson Jeannie Steele Sec reta r.v -Treasu re r John Woods Joseph Carroll Advisor l F 0 Donald Skites ( 20)