Gem Consolidated School - Gems Yearbook (Colby, KS)

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Class Will We sophisticated Seniors of 1949-50 have solemnly declared this to be our last wiIl and testament. We hope that these people will take these things we've treasured so long and use them to the best advantage. Look where it got us Therefore with great glee and malice aforethought, we hereby bequeath the following Absolutely no inheritances can be returned or exchanged Duane's extra hundred pounds goes to Frog, he needs it Beverley leaves one of her bobbypins to Darrell Jerry's ability to get knocked around 1D a ball game is gratefully given to Al Treat leaves the credit for all the baskets she missed to Bond Joyce proudly presents all of her ink splotches in Mechanical Drawing to Kenneth Jean can hardly part with all of her wasted study halls, but she finally decided that Carrol should be the lucky owner Joyce leaves those lovely squeaks and squawks on her clarinet to Peggy, they mlght sound better on a sax The beaut1ful small feet of Duane are herewith the property of Marseal Bev's way of lous1ng up a checker game now belongs to Claud Jean's smooth, graceful movements go to L Vena Estelle's quirk for saying the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time 1S bequested to Phyllis It about broke Jerry' heart to have to give up his boots but he felt he had to leave something tangible so they go to Ilea He had wanted to die with them on, to So rejoice, all you fortunate people, you Now you can really engoy next years school work iha'D Signed this first day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty CThe Seniors! C lass Prophecy We had clear flying weather but the magnificent scenery of the Rockies the pert, good looking blonde stewardess It wasn t until we were over Denver that I reallzed I knew her, but then I wasn't certain No lt couldn t be yes, it was or was it? Since the stewardess' seat was behind me, I turned and said, 'Miss Woerpel? She snapped to attention and slightly wlthered me with her reply I beg your pardon, sir, but my name 1S Mrs Anthony Hewitt and that happens to be my husband piloting this plane and passengers aren't sup why Jerry Knudson, you ol' sonovagun, you, what drug you 1H?n And so the gab fest was on We talked all the way from Denver to Chicago where I transferred to a plane to New York She was surprlsed to learn that I owned a small ranch Hide Away Ho, in Idaho, about 75 miles from the nearest neighbors There I live with my wife, raise dogs and horses, and write mystery novels We both agreed that we had found in life what we had wanted As a matter of fact, I told her, I'm on my way to New York now to attend to the publishlng of my latest mystery MURDER IN THE BIOLOGY 11 ' v . . . . S L . , . . ' d. D 7 didn't particularly interest me, though. I was paying more attention to . . . , . , - . -- . . ' ' V1 ' , . r . H . H H E . . ,

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H1story of the 1950 Semors On September 5, 1938, three llttle g1rls and three little boys enrolled in the flrst grade of the Gem Consol1dated School They were J C Dean, Donald Mullens, Duane Saddler, Jackle Sm1th, Estelle Treat, and Jean Woerpel The teacher of these brlght eyed s1x year olds, who were wondering what lt was all about, was Frances Dechert The next year the very much grown up second graders agaln had Frances Dechert for their teacher Murry Pavllcek Jolned the group to make lt seven In the th1rd grade Mlldred Hays was our teacher Murry Pavllcek had left 1eav1ng the or1ginal s1x In 1941 our teacher was Lucllle Koons who had the Job of hold1ng down the same group of students Our flfth grade teacher was Eula Pryor who 1n 1943 gratefully turned the Job over to the slxth grade teacher, Maxlne Nelson In the seventh grade Jerry Knudson and Joyce Laurltsen from the Tully country school 1D RHWLIHS county, Howard Buford from Llncoln Kansas, and George Dresher were added, and we lost J C Dean to Colby whlch made a total of nlne students Tw11a Saddler was our teacher Under the guldance of Ila Saddler 1n our elghth grade, our class agaln was nine, havlng acqulred Bernard Haremza but loslng Howard Buford S'1ll eager to ga1n more knowledge the fol1ow1ng year, the elghth graders entered the Freshman class of the Gem Hlgh School w1th the except1on of Bernard Haremza who went to Hays, George Dresher who moved to Topeka, and Jackle Smith who moved to Brewster Although we lost three, we also galned three Beverley from Colby So w1th Mrs Treat as our Jerry as our Secretary Treasurer, our We returned to school on September Hopson who returned from the army and the place of Donald Mullens and Betty sponsor, Estelle as our Presldent, and Freshman calss numbered n1ne l 1947, w1th n1ne Sophomores Charles B1lly Hedgpeth who came from W1ch1ta took GO1embOSk1 who moved to Colby We chose Mr McArthur as our class Sponsor, Jerry was elected Presldent and Estelle was Secretary Treasurer The h1ghl1ght of our Sophomore year was lnitlating the Freshmen who were all glrls Last year was an eventful one for the same group w1th the except1on of Charles Hopson who became a Sen1or after the f1rst semester Agaln we Mac' as Sponsor, Jean was elected presldent, and Beverley was chosen Treasurer Wlth the except1on of th1s year, last year was our bus1est standlng event of last year was, of course the Jun1or Senlor banquet presented 1n the sprlng chose Secretary The out whlch we And so 1D our twelfth year of schoolln we have s1x students in our class Th1s 1S of hlgh Estelle through the same number we began w1th Shurl Decker who was wlth us three years school transferred to Atwood the last year Wlth Mr Beery as our Sponsor as our Pres1dent, and Jerry as Secretary Treasurer, we hope to come w1th flylng colors th1s sprlng and rece1ve our dlplomas 10 . . . - , . ,. . 9 Mentlick and Shurl Decker came from Tully and Betty Golemboski joined our group , . . . Il I ' . - ' II ' I V0 '

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ROOM or WE THOUGHT WE WERE DISECTING THE JANITOR'S DOG AND ALL THE TIME IT WAS PROFESSOR COSGROVE Neither of us knew anything about the rest of the Sen1ors of 1950 although Jean had kept in touch with Duane It seems he has one of the finest farms 1n Western Kansas His purebred herefords are famous all over the nat1on He's marr1ed lguess who?J and they have children He has hundreds Kcattle, that isl that have won top honors in many livestock expos1t1ons Jean said that he played basketball on the Gem town team Wh1Ch took f1rst 1D a state town team tournament last year Sounded as if the old boy was doing all r1ght for himself I grabbed a copy of the Chicago World Herald at the Chicago a1rport to read on the last leg of my trip Kit still doesn t seem possible that 1n 1963 one can travel from Boise to New York 1n less than four hoursl O opening the newspaper up I was astonished to see a plcture of my old schoolmate, Joyce Lauritsen, splattered all over the front page With her was a man w1th a great beard The headline read, SCIENTIST AND ASSISTANT ISOLATE NEW GERM The story told that after years of lntensive research this famous pathologist, Dr Schwe1tzburger, and his ass1stant, Joyce Laurltsen, had finally found this new germ, newremocopyanochlora sulfanllomlde Cbetter known as Germtl only to f1nd that the darn thlng was useless It created no disease nor combatted any Now all that they had to do was f1nd a use for their new germ and they would really be famous After three days in New York I was rarin to get back to Hlde Away Ho On the f1rst day I saw my publishers, they were w1lling to meet all of my demands except that they insisted on changing the title to GRANDMA S GOT OF AUNT SUSAN That n1ght I looked for a good play to see and dec1ded on THE FIFTH ROAD which starred that rising young character actress, Marie Kather1ne I was practically bowled over to learn that Marie Katherine was none other than Estelle Treat Her beautiful singing vo1ce has made lt posslble for her to play a much greater variety of parts, I could see that th1s young lady was going to go places 1n show business On the last day I had a disagreeable task to do, my wife had insisted that I bring her an exclusive gown from PIERRE S, swank Park Avenue fashion salon What in the world she wanted with an exclusive creat1on on H1de Away Ho was beyond me, furthermore, I knew as little about buying gowns as I did about most everything else The sales clerk was very friendly, though, and had her models show me the latest things I practical ly knocked myself out laughing when a fuzzy black evening dress was shown it looked like a Gooch s flour sack turned inside out and dyed black Only an idiot could deslgn a dress like that, I told the clerk I des1gned that dress, sir,H came a voice from behind me I turned around and stared face to face with Beverley Mentlick We both had a good laugh and then as I had to catch my plane I had to run I learned, though, that she was married to Pierre, himself, and was very successful as a dress designer Her goons er, I mean gowns were noted everywhere And so finally I was on my way back to the ranch Incidentally, that book was published under the name of N0 WONDER THE CHURCH BELL WOULDN T RING THE PARSON WAS HUNG T0 THE CLAPPER IZ ' l ' . n T0 BE MORE CAREFUL WITH HER SEWING SCISSORS-QSHE SNIPPED THE JUGLAR VEIN