Garfield County High School - Remuda Yearbook (Jordan, MT)

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Garfield County Trumbo, and Ted Schmidt County commissioners are the administrative officials of the county. They administer the • county programs mandated by state law and also the county services desired by the residents. This includes county roads, airports, fairs, welfare, hosp- ital-nursing home, junk ve- hicle, aging services, mental health, county health nurse, alcohol and drug programs, and rural fire control to men- tion a few. As administrators, they are also responsible for setting the budgets of all departments, raising reven- ue, establishing the mill levies, managing the county revenue in- vestments, insurance, county buildings, etc. It is also the responsibility of the commissioners to see that other elected officials of the county complete the work which is delegated to them by state law. I figured that they were pretty busy, so I hurried on to the next room where Betty Stafford was frantically trying to organize herself on her first day in the job November election brings changes in Garfield County Kenneth Coulter, John Rath Almeada Fogle Garfield County was established on February 7, 1919. W. C. Hen- derson started the campaign for a separate county. At the time this area was the western part of Dawson County. Garfield County was named after President James Garfield. Jordan became the county seat. An old dance hall was temporarily used as the courthouse and is still being used today. This reporter toured the court- house January 3, 1983. In the first room bn the left, the com- missioners kindly posed for a picture. They are Kenneth Coul- ter, who has been in office 12 years, Ted Schmidt and John Trumbo, who were both elected this year. Lester Guptill Jr. Dorothy 20

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State John Ryan John Ryan is Garfield County's representative at the state level; he started his first two-year term in 1981, and is currently beginning his second term. Mr. Ryan says the most interesting part of his job has been meeting lots of nice people. He lives in rural Brusett with his wife, Shirley. They are the parents of five adult daugh- ters: Elva (Highland), Margie (Phipps), Nora Lou (Kreitel), Sharon (Nelson), and Shirley Kay (Jo) Ryan. Some of the people who work at the State level in Jordan include Norma Hov- ers on, Assessor, and Muff Engdahl, Deputy Assessor. Clancy Rich is the Class - ifier and Appraiser. Garfield County does not have a Welfare De - partment of its own; however, case workers from Miles City do drive out to Jordan to meet with the County Comm- issioners once a month. Bernie Hildebrandt is a Wildlife Biologist working for the State Fish and Game in Jordan. is our representative A unique event took place in Montana this November; a state animal was voted on in a primary election, with school students of Montana voting. Out of this primary election, the top two ani; mals were voted on in a general election. The two animals on the ballot were the grizzly bear and the elk, with the grizzly win- ning the most votes for state animal. At GCHS four students worked on a campaign for each animal and supervised voting pro- cedures. This project was done in conjunction with Mr. Kloker’s Government class, and the students working were Diane Kibler, Kent Clark, Debbie Graham, and Lori West. Working for the State Dep- artment of Highways are: Gordon Gould, of Cohagen, who is a section man; Jack Coil, also of Cohagen, is a truck driver. Jordan high- way workers include Norman Kerr, section man. Dale Bollinger, and Wes Watson. In the Flowing Well area, highway workers are Glen Bollinger, Dan Hansard, and Terry Mumion. at state level CLOCKWISE FROM BELOW: JOHN RYAN, ASSESSOR NORMA HOVERSON, DPT. ASSESSOR MUFF ENG- DAHL, STUDENTS VOT- ING FOR STATE ANI- MAL 19

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Garfield County Jim Ryan, Wayne Hunter and Karen Barnes are on the swimming board. Karen Watson, Marlene Shawver, and Betty Jean Cooley Lorraine Wright as clerk and recorder, Anne Rich and Marian Merlak are her helpers. Some of the jobs this office does are record deeds, do lien searches, water rights recordings, payroll and claims tand budgets for both high school and elemen - tary schools. Betty also takes cafe of tuition and transportation contracts. Betty Jean Cooley, Marlene Shawver and Karen Watson all work in the treasurer’s office which is in the third room on the left. In the treasurer’s office they register vehicles, collect personal and real estate taxes, receive all school money and distribute and collect all taxes. Linda Mallo, clerk of court, works in the room across the hall. She takes care of the filing of civil, probate, criminal and ad- option cases. She also issues marriage licenses, passports, and takes the court minutes. Almeada Fogle has been the librarian in the Public Library for a little over six years. The library is open from 1 -5 weekdays. Lester Guptill, Jr. is the county agent and Dorothy Rath is his secretary. Lorraine Wright is the Senior Citizens director, Margaret Rice is their cook. The road crew includes Philip Shawver, Elmer Sturtz, John Gib- soru Dale Stanton and Jack Brooks. Other people who work for the county are Arthur O. Bollinger, Tanna R. Hensleigh, Nancy Gould, and Miles A. Bateman. Still others who work for the county are on the following pages. Betty Stafford Ann Rich Linda Mallo 21