Gem Consolidated School - Gems Yearbook (Colby, KS)

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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

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Junzors Gil 1? 9 'Uh 'Q in-... I 3 Z 7 N-1 DARLLNL BOND As 1' nd 'V II Hnlfl PEGGY LANVING L VENA SPENCLR The blg four of 1949 50 Bond Spencer Lann1ng and Burke, enrolled on September 5 at the Gem Hlgh School We chose Mrs Crawford as our class sponsor We then elected the followlng Off1C9rS LVena, Presldent Darlene, V1ce Dres ldent Peggy Secretary and Carol Treasurer We all take part 1D mUS1C and athletlcs, and all but L Vena are 1n the band We all sang 1n Mlxed Chorus, G1rls' Glee Club and 1D the Chrlstmas program We plan to g1Ve a JUDIOF play sometlme th1s year We have sold magazlnes, cards, and we have served at all basketball games at home to P3159 money for our class fund We have been plann1ng our Jun1or Sen1or Banquet and our future Sen1or act1v1t1es We have ordered our class rlngs, and we hope to rece1ve them thls sprlng Along w1th other act1v1t1es we have been studylng our Government Economlcs, Physlology Engl1sh lll and all but L Vena are 1n the Typlng 1 class L Vena, Peggy, and Darlene are tak1ng Bookkeeplng 14 4-9 l , rx L 4: W 'A' l Q . Q r Z ' Q ' df Egg - N -1 Y I 4? , fran- -MV . f -,f VX 75.3 CARROL BURKE . ' ' + n . x A ' n ' n - ' ' 7 l 7 . . z . S . JA - S , S , - . . . - Y . . 7 . , . , . . .