Gem Consolidated School - Gems Yearbook (Colby, KS)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the year 1936 ten students enrolled ln the flrst grade of the Gem Con solldated School They were the followmg s1x year olds D j Bugbee Ber nard Poland Bob Havlce Donnle Wexshaar Bobby Gene Haremza Mary Belle Mlller Mxrxam Morrxs Vesta Lee Schulte Esther Larsen and Wllma Purcell Our teacher was Rena Eversoll In the second grade because Mxrlam Morris Esther Larsen and Wilma Purcell moved away and john Dean entered our number was down to elght Our teacher was Frances Dechert We felt qulte grown up because we could read and there were flrst graders who couldn t The next year 1939 we had Lols Saddler for our teacher We were thlrd graders now and we picked up George Drescher whxch gave us nlne students By the next fall when we were fourth graders we were back to an enroll ment of seven havmg lost Vesta Lee Schulte and john Dean Our teacher was Mylclred Hays In 1941 as flfth graders we entered school wlth the same number of puplls havmg lost George Drescher and gamed Wayne Woerpel who moved to town l-Ie had attended a country school before transferrmg here Esther Pryor was our teacher In the sxxth grade seven students were enrolled D j Bugbee Bernard Poland Bob HBVICS Bobby Gene Haremza Wayne Woerpel Donme Welshaar The same seven enrolled ln the seventh grade ln 1943 wlth Frances Dechert as our teacher We lost Bob Havxce 1n the next year when sxx students graduated from the elghth grade wxth Twxla Saddler as teacher The next fall seven Freshmen enrolled nn hlgh school They were Bernard Poland D j Bugbee Wayne Woerpel Mary Belle Mlller Bob Ryan Patty Ryan and jlm Knudson ln 1946 jxm had an accident w1th a tractor and spent several months mn the hospxtal so was unable to be with us and Bob and Patty Ryan entered other schools so there were fnve of us Wilma Hopson havmg enrolled as a transfer from Eagle town Oklahoma At the beglnmng of the jumor year five students enrolled They were Wayne Woerpel Bernard Poland Wilma Hopson Mary Belle Miller and jlm Knudson was wnth us agaxn This year we were hosts to the Semors at the jumor Senior Banquet We used the circus as the theme for the banquet Q ' ' . 1 I P . Y I I U . i and Mary Belle Miller. Esther Pryor was again our teacher. .4 . : . . K A - ' ' ' .Q . .. '