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

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 oftl estory... Roberta 0 ’ Connor ’ 92 Robert 0 T Connor T 63 Clell 0 T Connor 33 Laurel Hoverson 0 ’ Connor T 71 Norma Gallinger Hoverson 1 51 Ruth ViaU G allinger Stanton 26 Roberta’s mother. Laurel, was a cheerleader in high school and came in third in the Voice of Democracy contest. Norma, her grandmother, moved here from From berg after her sophomore year. She only went part time her senior year because she was married, but she graduated with her class. Ruth Viall Stanton, who graduated in 1926, was the Valedictorian of her class. During graduation she had the mumps and was as swollen up as a person can get. She still attended graduation and gave her Valedictorian address. The English teacher was giving a play and Ruth was given the part of a dancing flower which she dia not want to do. So off to the drug store she went and told the druggist her tale of woe. asking for something to make her sick. He gave her Spirits of Ipecac (an agent that induces vomiting). Needless to say, she was not in the play. She thought it was her secret until the Junior-Senior Banquet. When the Superintendent signed her program, he added Spirits of Ipecac. Ruth was a teacher here in the county for many years. Jason f 89 and Clayton 1 91 Nell 0 Connor Phipps 70 Lyle P. O’Connor '36 Her father. Bob, remembers that his Dad was in school when Mustangs became the school symbol. Clell had nominated the name Coyotes and the school voted between the two. Clell wrote the CLASS POEM OF 1933” which ends: If you really root out trouble. Y ou will find it’s just a bubble. And your trouble will not double. If you’re an Optimist All the way. Far right: Laurel, Norma and Ruth. Center: Clell and Lillian 0 Connor and Bob. 7

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We wanted to do something for the Montana Centennial. After a’lot of thought we chose this. There are 25 students this year who are third or fourth generation students at GCHS. On the next few pages we are going to present them and give a little bit about their parents and grandparents. We hope it will be of interest and maybe start some discussions about family histories. Luke Mumion f 92 Deanna Frady Mumion f68 Orville Frady f40 Hazel Maben Frady f17 Terry Murnion ’69 Barney Mumion '35 Loriene Buffington Murnion T39 Luke Mumion is a fourth generation GCHS student on his mother's side and third generation on his father's side. His Great Grandmother Hazel Maben Frady was half of the first class (1917) to graduate from high school in Jordan. The other half was Ethel Thomas. It was not called Garfield County High School until 1928. Hazel came to the Jordan area in 1914. She started school here but since it was not a full high school then, she went to school in Kansas for two years. Above left is Orval Frady his junior year and below him is Joan DeBock Frady. Above is Luke on Hazel Frady's lap. During her senior year here she worked at the Tribune office setting type for Mr. Parker. One of the stories she told was about sitting on a flat roof of a store and watching horse races down the main street of Jordan. After graduation Hazel started teaching in the area. One winter she had to walk two miles to school in weather 55 degrees below zero. Then she had to build the fire after she got there. Orval Frady played football all four of his high school years. He was also a very good artist. One time the teacher told the ra to draw a map. He did so well that she gave him an F because she thought he had traced it. Luke's Grandmother Joan started high school in the old frame building which was north of the County Library Building. Her senior year was spent in our present building. She also remembers spending all one weekend catching frogs for the biology class to disect which was not as much fun as catching the m. the rest, ofthestory. Donna Whiteside '92 Kay Rene Murnion Whiteside '69 Barney Mumion '35 Loriene Buffington Mumion '39 Donna’s mother, Kay Rene, re m e m bers going to a Junior-Senior Banquet. The Home Ec Department had made a fancy dessert that did not turn out right. It was hard and gross so her date put it in his suit jacket pocket. 6

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Wayne Shawver r 89 Phil Shawver 1957-58 Jessie Saylor Shawver 37 Claribel Saylor ?27 Scott Peeler 90 Marion Saylor Peeler 1 65 Woodrow Saylor f30 Claribel Saylor ' 27 Tyler '90 and Joye f 92 Murnion Cynthia Saylor Murnion '54 Woodrow Saylor f30 Claribel Saylor '27 dance. They were really pretty easy on us. I really enjoyed sports. We had no girls basketball, but played in P.E. and softball in the spring. I enjoyed school dances, also. During hall season, we had socks and sweater hops. Everyone tiled to have the most original or most fancy, etc. Some of the socks and sweaters were really different. We had a coke machine put in by the front door in 1952. Small bottles of coke cost us a nickel. We could have a coke for a nickel at the Drug Store and a float for a dime. Ball games cost a quarter and a show ticket cost 50 cents. When I was a Sophomore, our class wrote a play and put it on for the school. We had some really humorous times with the play. My Grandmother, Claribel Saylor, went back to high school with her son, my father Woodrow Saylor. My dad graduated three years later in 1930. I graduated in 1954 and have graduated seven children from GCHS with two more to go. Claribel Saylor Jessie Saylor Shawver Wayne Shawver, Scott Peeler, Tyler and Joye Murnion are all fourth generation students because of their great grandmother, Claribel Saylor. Cynthia Saylor Murnion sent in this letter. I started GCHS September of 1950, just in from the country and pretty scared. The seniors initated us with a program and Cynthia Saylor Murnion Claude, Cynthia, Woodrow, Ellen and Marion Saylor 8