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

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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

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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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the rest ofthesto y... Amy '91 and Rena '92 John McKeever f 69 Frank McKeever ’35 Mamie McKeever 32 My great grandmother, Mamie McKeever, was the first in our family to graduate from GCHS, but my great-great grand m other, Rena McKeever, started the high school in Cohagen and was County Superintendent for years. Mamie came to this area in 1913 to teach school at Steve’s Fork even though she had completed only three years of high school in N orth Dakota. After the first session she m arried Grandfather Frank. When her own children. Frank and Phylis, started high school, she moved to town with them and finished high school in 1932. Frank McKeever graduated three years later. He married Melba Saylor on August 29, 1942, and they settled on a ranch near Fort Peck Lake. They had four children: Mike, John, Judy and Maribeth. Frank passed away in 1985. Melba later married Jack Currey. During high school John McKeever was active in Boy’s Club, track and football. John married Cathy Burgess who graduated in 1968. They now live on the old homestead where he grew up. They have three children, Amy, Rena and Scott. By Amy McKeever Tne picture above was taken at Flat Creek in 1958. We think it is Leland Flint, Cathy Burgess, Karen Thomas, Mae Taylor, and Jo Ann Burgess. The picture below is Carl and Gary Uthaug. Lindsay Uthaug 89 Gary Uthaug '63 Carl U thaug ’ 34 Lindsay U thaug is a third f;eneration student on her ather’s side and a second generation student on her mother’s side. Her father, Gary Uthaug (’63), was born in Wichita, Kansas, and moved here when he was about 6 weeks old. He went to a country school for a time but found he didn’t like the teacher. So he started going to school in Jordan and continued all through high school. He stayed in the dorm during high school. Gary’s father. Carl Uthaug, went to high school in Jordan and graduated in 1934. Marcia Coil Uthaug (’64) was born and raised in and around Cohagen. Her father. Jack Coil, went to school in Cohagen, including hi£h school. The high school burned down, so Marcia was unable to go there and had to stay in the dorm during her years at GCHS. 9