Publication # 13

Relive Those Fabulous

Forties Fifties amp Sixties

With Your Classmates

All Aboardmdash2010 Reunion Prospect Valley Cardinals

13 October 15 2009

Marilyn Sargent Haffner

Treasurer gmacoolsixcomcastnet

George Davis

Chairman

Newsletter gdavis457livecom

Ken Vogel

Writer jacobvogelsbcglobalnet

Pat Ruhl Bass

Newsletter Assistant

patquiltsbresnannet

The PVHS Reunion Committee

Next Reunion September 11 2010

We have booked Weld Central as our Reunion

site More information will be provided as it be-

comes available We are planning a one day

event with more time to visit If you missed

2008 this is your chance to be there Please

plan to attend Someone wants to see you

Donrsquot disappoint them or yourself

Need Newsletter Articles

Suggested Topics

ldquoThe Fabulous 50‟srdquo

ldquoFamily Story rdquo

ldquoYour Family Historyrdquo

ldquoYour Life Storyrdquo ldquoWhat the 2008 Reunion Meant to Yourdquo

Email Hackers

My email was hacked and many

emails were sent with my name I

was supposedly stranded in West

Africa and needed to be rescued

Just to set the record straight I was not in Africa nor

do I have any intentions of going to Africa but I do

plan to be at the 2010 PVHS Reunion

George

Interested in PVHS

Group Travel There has been some interest in getting a group together to Bran-son andor Pasadena for the Rose Parade If you are willing to coor-dinator one of these trips please contact Donn Reid or any committee member

Thanks

A MAN IS NOT OLD UNTIL REGRETS TAKE THE PLACE OF

DREAMS

JOHN BARRYMORE ACTOR

Larry Erker Class of 1960 Larry will miss our phone conversations

reminiscing the days of our youth

ldquoMay the sun always be in your face and the wind

to your back and fair winds and following seasrdquo

George

httpoldfortyfivescom

TakeMeBackToTheFiftieshtm

The Things We Did During The Summer

Fair Time in Keenesburg

Former PVHS amp WC Ag in-structor Wayne Ball and wife Juanita enjoy visiting with former students

Ruth Yeager Trupp

had grandchildren

taking part at the

Fair

Proud Grandma

Marilyn with Abby and prize

winning steer

Herman Huwa Patty and Richard Huwa

Doris Ann Huwa Schlidt and

Jack Zimbelman all enjoying the auction

Marvin Zimbelman marching

proudly in the parade

Cody Baumgartner grandson of

Larry and Mary Kay at the auction

with his grand champion sheep

Velma Cooksey Ryan Vernon

Cooksey and wife Evelyn enjoyed

watching grandkids participate in

the Fair

Rodney Hofferber with his grand-

kids enjoying the activities

Larry amp Mary Kay harvesting

candy from the street

Love is to the heart

what the summer

is to the farmers

year - it brings to

harvest all the

loveliest flowers of

the soul

-- Author Unknown

The prize win-

ning sugar

beets at the

Keenesburg

Fair Brett

Arnusch is the

proud grower

Congratula-

tions to Lucile

and Hans Arnusch proud grandparents

Summer Vacation

Remembering things we did on our summer vacations from

PV Some of us just remember working in the fields

No big vacations for us

Maybe that is why I love to travel now

Marilyn

Hot August Nights in Reno

Heres a picture of just one of thousands of really cool vehicles on display at Hot August Nights in Reno This is a time when we host a family gathering for any and all who can make it Another picture (below) of some of the family Just one of our on-going summer time activities Ken Vogel lsquo56

Doo Wop

Summertime (To the tune of ldquoSummer time and the

livin‟ is easy)

Summer time and the Valley is hummin‟

Tractors are chuggin‟ not a cloud‟s in the sky

For the beets they are growin‟ and ditch water is

flowin‟

So toil all you Cardinals harvest time‟s nigh

Summer time and the full moon is shinin‟

Lovers parkin‟ under the star-scattered sky

For their summer is passin‟ and too soon it‟s all over

So love all you Cardinals harvest time‟s nigh

Summer time and the swimmin‟ is coolin‟

Kids are jumpin‟ in ditch water oh my

For the farmers ain‟t rich but the livin‟ is easy

So swim all you Cardinals harvest time‟s nigh

Summer time and it‟s August already

Barley is golden and corn‟s tall as your eye

Summer‟s most gone and there‟s clouds in the sky

So hurry all you Cardinals harvest time‟s nigh

Summer time and the memories still linger

Dusty farm roads and the smell of mown hay

Corn‟s ready for pickin‟ and the hay bales are stackin‟


Summer time and the stars are a-shinin‟

Lover‟s parkin‟ when the moon is still high

Summer‟s most gone and too soon it‟s all over

Annie Vogel in her dream car

- a 57 Chevy convertible

owned by friends This was a

year ago and we went cruising

with our friends

Ken

HOT (as in COOL)

Summer Gift Your hair worries are

over George Here is

your new look for

September 2010 With a

little ldquobutch waxrdquo you

could even sport a

crew cut

From your friends of

PVHS

Larry Mary Kay

Pat and Marilyn

The Fad 50rsquos

Column

Do you remember a fad during your school days If so send it

in for the Newsletter

I remember swimming in the Henry Lynn ditch that ran past our house made a turn to the east and then

back to the north and headed on towards town The water carved out a nice swimming hole as it made the

turn and the bridge over the ditch provided a place to jump off into the swimming hole And who could resist

the temptation to splash water on a passing car as it crossed the bridge and then hide under the bridge if the

car stopped Back then there wasn‟t awful stuff in the water - at least none of us ever came down with some

terrible illness as a result of swimming in the ditch Not in those early years anyway

Later on however rumor had it that Denver was bypassing some of its sewer treatment and the water that

came through Barr Lake was pretty nasty I can remember when the water went over the water falls (places

where water was diverted to farmers‟ ditches) the detergent in the water created huge clouds of foam that

even went out onto the road That‟s also the time when awful toilet objects floated in the water Made irri-

gating with that water not so much fun

But there was always the clear cool water that flowed from the deep wells and it tasted so good on a hot sum-

mer day We kids would ldquodunkrdquo our selves in the cold well water and then run and jump into the water in

the ditch and the contrast made the ditch water feel so nice and warm The cold well water also provided

cooling for summer-time beverages hidden in the ditches

Who can forget the irrigation boots or as they are really called hip boots We wore them a good part of the

summer irrigating beets beans corn alfalfa barley etc So much fun sloshing around in the mud and carry-

ing gunny sacks (burlap bags) full of plastic or aluminum irrigation tubes from one field to another Won-

derful invention those irrigation tubes and so much fun to ldquosetrdquo on a warm summer evening as mosquitoes

tried to eat you alive It was always a contest to see if you could get all of the tubes set before the water that

backed up against the canvas dam ran over the ditch banks Plastering your face with mud helped keep the

mosquitoes off that part of your body You prayed that those summer thunder storms would not cause an

electricity outage because if it did you had to go out and reset everything when the power came back on even

if it was in the middle of the night

Water fights were always a great way to cool off during those hot summer days and Dad Vogel was usually

the one who started them on our farm He loved to sneak up on you and dump a bucket full of the cold well

water on you Although our summers meant a lot of hard work on the farm there were times when it would

rain and Dad would load us up in the truck and head to the mountains for fishing and camping We even got

to go water skiing on Prospect Reservoir behind the boat that Dad got primarily for fishing

Wish I could remember who all was involved in a moonlight tubing outing on Lord‟s Reservoir one warm

summer night but I do remember that my inner tube started leaking air when we were out in the middle of

the reservoir and we paddled like crazy to get back to the shore before it went flat

Ah the memories of summers in Prospect Valley There was even time to park on a dark country road with

one‟s sweetheart More stories about that later on

Kenny Vogel Class of 1956

Memories of Summers in Prospect Valley

Summer Funmdash Sargent Family Reunion Rushville Illinois

Marilyn Chuck and Sherry at the 82nd Sargent Family Reunion held in Rushville IL Fredrick Landing is were Sarah and 8 of their 13 children landed in 1857 when they came to America from England They joined John Sr who had arrived in 1856 with a dime in his pocket a loaf of bread in his hand and a gun over his shoulder Our Great Grandfather John Jr was one of the 13 children Each year the reunion is held in a different part of the United States But every 5 years it is back to Rushville Last year New York City with Broadway plays etc The Lin-coln Museum was a highlight for those attending Also a hayride complete with wiener roast and games such as horseshoes played with toilet lids This family enjoys life no matter where they are Each of the family branches have a different colored shirt John Jrs branch is green

Black and White (Under age 40 You wont understand) You could hardly see for all the snow

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go Pull a chair up to the TV set Good Night David Good Night Chet

My Mom used to cut chicken chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no

bleach but we didnt seem to get food poisoning

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too Our school sand-

wiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag not in icepack coolers but I cant remember getting

ecoli

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring) no

beach closures then

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell and a pager was the school PA system

We all took gym not PE and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Keds (only worn in gym)

instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors I cant recall

any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now

Flunking gym was not an option even for stupid kids I guess PE must be much harder than gym

Speaking of school we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school

caught all sorts of negative attention

We must have had horribly damaged psyches What an archaic health system we had then Remember school

nurses Ours wore a hat and everything

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself

I just cant recall how bored we were without computers Play Station Nintendo X-box or 270 digital TV cable

stations

Oh yeah and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting I could have been killed

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt Mom

pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didnt sting like iodine did) and

then we got our butt spanked

Now its a trip to the emergency room followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom

calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat

We didnt act up at the neighbors house either because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we

got butt spanked again when we got home

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell

off Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house Instead she picked him up and swatted him

for being such a goof It was a neighborhood run amuck

To top it off not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family How

could we possibly have known that

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes We were obviously so duped by so many

societal ills that we didnt even notice that the entire country wasnt taking Prozac How did we ever survive

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA AND TO ALL WHO DIDNT- SORRY FOR WHAT

YOU MISSED I WOULDNT TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING

Contributed by Kenny Pierson bdquo57

Under Age 40 You Wont Understand

Fashion

I remembered when the girls would roll an extra top cut from a worn out

bobby sox to make a bigger cuff We also wore little dog collars with a small lock hanging from these cuffs Marilyn

50‟s Gas Station

Growing Up In The Fab 50rsquos

I remember Rock amp Roll being

played on 45 recordsbobby sox amp

penny loafersIce cream sodas amp

malts (milkshakes) 25cent at the

fountain drugstore (you know)

Metal roller skates with a key -

hula hoops - yoyos - jacks (played

with a golf ball on the cement)

and can cans starched very stiff

Crinolines school colorshoe

laces duck tails butch wax crew

cuts pin curls page boys up-

sweeps peroxide bangs fender

skirts white walls sack dresses

your daddys white shirts with the

sleeves rolled up Pat 59‟

Doctors made house callsBabies

were still being born at homehellip

Some of the roads on the outskirts

of town were dirtSchool dances

were held in the gym amp you could

only go on the dance floor in your

stocking feet (sox hops) Teach-

ers had FULL control of class-

roomsAll the young men opened

the door for their datesQuieter

times (Mr Serious)

Sock hops babysitting for people who had a TV getting 25 cents and hour to babysit Crinolines under the skirts to make them full Saddle shoes Sweater sets and Pendleton pleated skirts (Miss Cool)

remember the little lace collars and the sweater clips

Going to the airport runways and

watching the planes Drive in

movies Something I just saw out-

side that I see very few of them

now- lightning bugthe nights

use to be lit up by them and we

would catch them and I cant be-

lieve I just saw one (It might be you)

Going steady getting a boys class

ring wrapping it with tape to size it

to your finger and then paint it with

hot pink nail polish (You know me)

Steaming up the windows at the drive

-in I actually had a poodle skirt Oh

how I wish I had that now (guess who)

Sweaters or blouses with monograms

of our initial Wearing the boyfriends

sweater that usually made us a dress

Bottle cokes for 5 cents and when

they went to 10 we swore we would

never buy another one Spend the

night parties for all us girls so we

could discuss the new fellow in class

We were raised on dirt roads On Halloween we would go to some

folkrsquos homes and turn their outside toilets over For some reason ours never got turned over We pulled barrels out onto the road to block vehicles We put watermelons all

over vehicles now this was all in fun

Well this got my memory going Pin circles for the girls

American Band Stand

Lunch counter at Woolworths

Getting paddled at school

Black amp White TV with just 2 channels

and they signed off at 11 PM with the

Indian test pattern

Fabian sweaters (bulky pullovers with

a collar)

Sneaking into the movie theatre

Davie Crockett Coon Skin Caps

Hi-Yo Silver Awaaaaaayyyyy (who

was that masked man)

Look up into the sky Is it a bird

Hang down your head Tom Dooley

Kingston Trio

Sticking straw wrappers on the ceiling

The seven most feared words in the

English language

Just wait until your Father gets home

And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)

1 When did Little Suzie finally wake up (a) The movies over its 2 oclock (b) The movies over its 3 oclock (c) The movies over its 4 oclock 2 Rock Around The Clock was used in what movie (a) Rebel Without A Cause (b) Blackboard Jungle (c) The Wild Ones 3 Whats missing from a Rock amp Roll standpoint Earth _____ (a) Angel (b) Mother (c) Worm 4 I found my thrill where (a) Kansas City (b) Heartbreak Hotel (c) Blueberry Hill 5 Please turn on your magic beam _____ _____ bring me a dream (a) Mr Sandman (b) Earth Angel (c) Dream Lover 6 For which label did Elvis Presley first record (a) Atlantic (b) RCA (c) Sun

7 He asked Whys everybody al-ways pickin on me Who was he (a) Bad Bad Leroy Brown (b) Charlie Brown (c) Buster Brown 8 In Bobby Darins Mack The Knife the one with the knife was named (a) MacHeath (b) MacCloud (c) MacNamara 9 Name the song with A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom (a) Good Golly Miss Molly (b) Be-Bop-A-Lula (c) Tutti Fruitti 10 Who is generally given credit for originating the term Rock And Roll (a) Dick Clark (b) Wolfman Jack (c) Alan Freed

Continued on next page

Songs of The Fifties Quiz

Growing up as a teenager prior to World War II teenagers were ex-pected to take life seriously Males were expected to join the military or go out and get a job in order to help bring in money for their family or to take care of their future family by Erika Cox

The word Teenager was created in the 1950rsquos due to the tremendous popula-tion of those in this age category and because teenagers started gaining more independence and freedoms Teenagers were able to buy more things like food clothes and music because of an increase in spending

money by Erika Cox

It all started when Murial said ldquoWhy donrsquot we take the Miata (her car) on a road trip The discussion lasted for weeks on such things as the car is too small no luggage space amp foolish old people trav-eling in a small sports car After negotiating and re-negotiating the issues involved a vote was taken The vote was two in favor and one opposed I never could figure out how she got two votes We started in Arizona drove to Chicago then up through Wiscon-sin to Minnesota It was becoming apparent that this was really

fun traveling in this car We drove mainly on state highways and enjoyed the scenes of ldquoAmericarsquos Heartlandrdquo We spent time visit-ing old friends and relatives Most said ldquoWhy are you traveling in that sports carrdquo The next thing that was said ldquoI wish we could do thatrdquo ldquoIt looks like so much funrdquo By this time I was really getting into this adven-ture I relished the recent memory of leaving a young man completely in the dust in Kansas(zoom-zoom) The adrenaline is still pumping as flashes

of my youth race through my headhellipzoom-zoom Murialrsquos birthday is July 4th We had a time of celebration and fireworks to honor this great event in her hometown She was in her thirties before she realized that all the celebration on the 4th

was not entirely for her Then on to Colorado with a quick stop in Keenesburg We went into a restaurant and started talking to these people and soon found out she was Joan Tegtman Gustafsonrsquos daughter Our conversation with Dannette and her husband lasted several hours A quick hello to Jean amp Dean Kipp and sister Ruby Dell husband Harold and son Rusty Later that evening we met Marilyn Pat and Charlie Bass for din-ner Charlie introduced me to the infamous ldquoRocky Mountain Oystersrdquo Then off to Estes Park and the spectacular Rockies with the top down We finally got back to Arizona after being on

the road for over three weeks What a Trip Zoom-Zoom

Summer (July) Vacation - George Davis

5000 Miles in a Miata (Zoom-Zoom)

Growing Up In The Fab 50rsquos (Continued)

11 In 1957 he left the music business to become a preacher (a) Little Richard (b) Frankie Lymon (c) Tony Orlando 12 Paul Ankas Puppy Love is written to what star (a) Brenda Lee (b) Connie Francis (c) Annette Funicello 13 The Everly Brothers are (a) Pete and Dick (b) Don and Phil (c) Bob and Bill 14 The Big Boppers real name was (a) Jiles P Richardson (b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr (c) Marion Michael Morrison 15 In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr started a small record company called (a) Decca (b) Cameo (c) Motown

16 Edd Brynes had a hit with Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb What TV show was he on (a) 77 Sunset Strip (b) Hawaiian Eye (c) Surfside Six 17 In 1960 Bobby Darin married (a) Carol Lynley (b) Sandra Dee (c) Natalie Wood 18 They were a one hit wonder with Book Of Love (a) The Penguins (b) The Monotones (c) The Moonglows 19 The Everly Brothers sang a song called Till I ________ You (a) Loved (b) Kissed (c) Met 20 Chuck Berry sang Oh ___________ why cant you be true (a) Suzie Q (b) Peggy Sue (c) Maybellene

Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C

On a smaller scale wall-to-wall was once a magical

term in our homes In the 50s everyone covered his

or her hardwood floors with wow wall-to-wall car-

peting Today everyone replaces their wall-to-wall

carpeting with hardwood floors Go figure

Whens the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a

family way Its hard to imagine that the word

pregnant was once considered a little too graphic a

little too clinical for use in polite company so we had

all that talk about stork visits and being in a family

way or simply expecting

Apparently brassiere is a word no longer in usage I

said it the other day and my daughter cracked up I

guess its just bra now Unmentionables probably

wouldnt be understood at all

I always loved going to the picture show but I con-

sidered movie an affectation

Most of these words go back to the 50s but heres a

pure-60s word I came across the other day - rat

fink Ooh what a nasty put-down

Heres a word I miss - percolator That was just a

fun word to say And what was it replaced with

Coffee maker How dull Mr Coffee I blame you for

this

I miss those made-up marketing words that were

meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro

Words like DynaFlow and Electrolux Introducing

the 1963 Admiral TV now with SpectraVision

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped

out lumbago Nobody complains of that anymore

Maybe thats what castor oil cured because I never

hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil any-

more

Some words arent gone but are definitely on the en-

dangered list The one that grieves me most supper

Now everybody says dinner Save a great word In-

vite someone to supper Discuss fender skirts

Someone forwarded this to me I thought some of us

of a certain age would remember most of these

Just for fun pass it along to others of a certain age

IF YOU ARENT OF A CERTAIN AGE YOU

MUST KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS

The 50s were an era with style How about poodle

skirts Bunny shoes Saddle shoes Penny loafers Cardigan

sweaters worn backwards with small scarves tied to the

side Letter sweaters Angora sweaters (or just the angora

collar) Wool skirts Felt skirts Our boyfriends class ring on

a chain around our neck or with a huge wad of tape around it

on our finger Pin curls Tonette perms (stinky frizz) Tan-

gee lipstick or was it nail polish Evening in Paris cologne

Wow Hoop skirts could probably go on and on I had also

thought of the bobby sox with the extra top ( made my skinny

ankles look like chicken bones MS 58‟

I came across this phrase yesterday FENDER SKIRTS

A term I havent heard in a long time and thinking about

fender skirts started me thinking about other words that qui-

etly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like

curb feelers

And steering knobs (AKA) suicide knob Neckers Knobs

Since Id been thinking of cars my mind naturally went that

direction first

Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over

50 to explain some of these terms to you

Remember Continental kits They were rear bumper extend-

ers and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car

as cool as a Lincoln Continental

When did we quit calling them emergency brakes

At some point parking brake became the proper term But I

miss the hint of drama that went with emergency brake

Im sad too that almost all the old folks are gone who would

call the accelerator the foot feed Many today do not even

know what a clutch is or that the dimmer switch used to be on

the floor

Didnt you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come

home so you could ride the running board up to the house

Heres a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never

anymore - store-bought Of course just about everything is

store-bought these days But once it was bragging material to

have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy

Coast to coast is a phrase that once held all sorts of excite-

ment and now means almost nothing Now we take the term

world wide for granted This floors me

Contributed by Chuck Sargentrsquo63 FENDER SKIRTS

Teenage Life in the 1950rsquos by Erika Cox

Things were starting to change In the 1950‟s teenag-

ers where more inclined and encouraged to attend

college find a skill and seek a successful career Their

parents had more than likely gone through the de-

pression and a number of wars and now wanted

something more for their children This resulted in

teenagers receiving spending money and having more

time to socialize with other teenagers Of course this

newly found independence would often result in con-

flict between the parents and the child

Dating the Fifties and Sixties by Gary North

I am a man of the fifties When my generation thinks of the fifties we have a specific range in mind 1953 or maybe 54 to 1959 There is a reason for this and it isnt hormones Well not primarily hormones It is music A child of the fifties became self-aware when he heard these words Turn that thing down

I recently returned from a trip to Alaska A friend and I

took the inside passage cruise and the land tour up to Fairbanks Alaska is

beautiful and we enjoyed the entire trip immensely From Fairbanks we flew to

Anchorage then drove down to Homer to visit one of my cousins We were told

we must visit the Russian Village of Nikolevsk which was established in the

1960s The people in the community are of the ldquoOld Believers Branchrdquo of

the Russian Orthodox Church We found the church and went in to look

around The Priest heard us and came out and upon seeing us told us to ldquoGet

Outrdquo because we were wearing jeans and not a skirt The women still dress as

they did in Siberia in the 1700‟s This was the first time I was ever thrown out

of a Church

We were told that we should visit the local cafeacute We were met by Nina She

ushered us in and changed into her Cafe costume She then proceeded to

sell us things we really didn‟t need She served us tea which we could not

drink from a cup but rather a Russian spoon The next thing we knew she was

dressing us up in costumes and we were posing in front of a wooden doll All

we could do was laugh This was definitely one of the highlights of the Alaskan trip

SUMMER TIME IN WASHINTON DC By Dorothy Davis Green

Marcella and I set out for Washington DC on July19th There is nothing like being in our nation‟s capital during a hot

sultry summer We were in DC for a convention so our sight seeing was part of the trip Donning our touring attire

we set out to see the War Memorials

We visited the WWII Memorial the Vietnam Memorial the Korean Memorial and the Franklin D Roosevelt Memo-

rial They were all so breath taking and one could feel the emotion and could recall stories we had heard read or

seen made into movies during each of the wars I could not help but think of one of our elementary teachers Mrs Pyle

who was related to General Pyle a general during WWII

We found the huge WWII memorial so refreshing with the churning waters and multitude of graceful fountains A

picture taken here makes a beautiful screen saver and gives a reminder of the price paid for our freedom

Walking to the Vietnam Memorial where 25000 names of fallen servicemen were listed on the marble walls The loca-

tor showed the name of our cousin Jerry Davis A guide rubbed his name on a paper for us

The Korean War Memorial was next We saw this last year at night in the middle of a down pour The lighting gives

an effect of soldiers with rifles in hand walking through a rice paddy This year it had a different effect but was

equally moving and very interesting Portraits of our soldiers are imprinted on the lengthy wall at this Memorial

The last was a very large memorial of FDR having statues of Eleanor FDR and his dog Fala the world‟s most famous

dog If you want to read an interesting story regarding FalamdashGOOGLE the name

There were many statues that depicted the deep depression days of America It was overwhelming seeing the numbers

in the thousands of the lives that were given unselfishly for our freedom How different our lives would be today if each

had not fought so valiantly

Summer Time in Alaska By Marcella Davis

WWII Memorial Korean War Memorial Vietnam Memorial

FDR Memorial Listening Fireside Chat

Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend

HOW PATRICIA CONE NIELSEN SURVIVED A SMALL TOWN

OR HOW THE TOWN SURVIVED HER

In 1953 or thereabouts my father was offered the job of assistant manager at the grain elevator

in Roggen and without any chance to vote on it my younger brother mother and I were whisked down

the road to an unknown destination We arrived after dark pulled across some railroad tracks which

made us on the wrong side of the tracks and wound up at a house that came with the job An outhouse

came with the house The shower was under the house in what was not quite a basement Trivia Spiders

can swim Dad said ldquoWe‟re hererdquo and my brother and I asked ldquoWhere is hererdquo

The next morning we scoped it out It was as bad as we thought There was no here To the west of us was

Warden‟s house about two hundred feet away There was an artisan well spouting water up into the air along side the

road A train car some illegals had set up camp in a train depot and a train we were all trying to crawl under when the

train didn‟t move fast enough Across the tracks I could see a few stores One was Bertram‟s barcafe a small grocery

store and a garage that housed the school bus To the east was the elevator a small house and an older man who walked

down and got water from the artisan well That was it

This was going to be great I walked down the road met the Warden girls and got on a school bus that took us

to Prospect Valley

At the time my older brother was in the service and left his car with us Hallelujah I had wheels It didn‟t take

long before Barbara Warden and I were going to the drive-in over in Keenesburg or I was picking up Gloria Luna and

cruising past some guy‟s house she had her eye on I found out later he was married so we only looked at the house

Rolland Judd and I went to Prospect and used a BB gun to shoot out a street light Why he came prepared I don‟t know

We weren‟t too bad we left three

A friend from Burlington the great metropolis we had come from came and stayed for a few days In compari-

son to Roggen Burlington felt like a metropolis My father took us up to the top of the elevator in a bucket dangling

over the outside of the elevator A good strong wind would have blown us off It didn‟t take long to see everything there

was to see When my mother heard about this she gave my father one of those looks that say I never did think you were

too smart

My brother Rich got out of the service and he and two friends came out to see where we lived and pick up his

car While there they decided they would like to go coyote hunting We took dad‟s car as his old Buick had bigger fend-

ers and off we went to the sand hills out north of town On Ibbotson‟s property I think My brother and one of the Bills

(they were both named Bill) sat on the fenders and the other Bill stepped on the gas and we went flying and bumping

over the sand after they saw a coyote The silly thing kept running ahead of us instead of jumping off to the side Pretty

soon there were no more sand dunes just space in the head lights Bill slammed on the brakes the guys went flying

straight and then down We had come to a steep drop off If we had gone any farther it probably would have killed the

fender riders with the car landing on top of them After they realized they weren‟t hurt they stopped yelling at the

driver and decided they had had enough of the sand We backed up and turned around and there stood the coyote eyes

as big as saucers thinking it had almost worked He almost got us killed

On the way back to town lead foot Bill was speeding We spent some time at the police station Why not just a

ticket and let us leave Probably because they didn‟t have a license registration and they were from out of state It was

pretty obvious the car wasn‟t stolen Who would want that old Buick I was left sitting in a separate room looking at

gruesome pictures of accident victims When we got back in the car my brother passed the gun from under the front

seat to Bill in back and somehow it went off It zoomed under my chin and landed in the door frame missing the win-

dow My brother said ldquoOh--- I‟ve put a hole in dad‟s carrdquo I sat there my eyes as big as the coyotes We filled the hole

up with chewing gum The next day they all left to go back to Illinois leaving me to explain Luckily dad never noticed

the patch and stopped hollering at me for getting home late

This wasn‟t my only encounter with someone and a gun Mike L once shot out the headlights on his car because

he didn‟t want to walk out to turn them off Dale do you remember that

No I had to use dad‟s car and he was a stickler for checking the mileage Luckily I found out how to unhook the

speedometer and hook it back up Now all we had to do was pool our money and come up with the 19 cents it cost for a

gallon of gas We did run out a few times Usually close to town I couldn‟t sneak in late in that old car It had its own

unique rattle and you could hear it coming half a block away

Years later my friend from Burlington the same unfortunate one who saw the sights from the top of the grain

elevator wanted to visit and got a ride as far as Ft Morgan After I picked her up we made a loop down what had been

the middle of town and across the tracks She looked round and said ldquoWhat did you do with the houserdquo as if I had put

it on wheels and hauled it off The house wasn‟t there not even the foundation The depot was gone the water had

dried up and the stores were shut down The grocery store was closed and Bertram‟s cafeacute where Norma taught me to

smoke was also closed There was a motel on the north of town where a new highway now ran Why a motel there

Weird

I went to the reunion but didn‟t see a lot of my old cohorts Buddy Trautman who drove my dad to the doctor

in Keenesburg after he got a moth in his ear and couldn‟t get it out Rolland with the BB gun had tied his horse to

mom‟s clothes line and pulled it down Barbara and the drive in until her mother decided to came along Where is Glo-

ria Where is the principal who called me Patrick instead of Patricia when handing out diplomas With only 13 in the

class seems he could have gotten it right After graduation I went to Denver and attended a business college

I eventually married the man of my dreams who I met in Roggen and had a son As for Roggen it turned out to

be more fun that I had expected And Fred Seelhoff who gave dad the job as assistant manager of the elevator Guess I

finally forgave him I look back on it with fondness and the people I met there I hope you are all alive well and happy

Prospect Valley High School

Class of 1964 45th Anniversary

Class of 1959 50th

Class of 1954mdash55 Years Class of 1949 60th Anniversary

Class of 1944

65th Anniversary

Marilyn Sargent Haffner

Treasurer gmacoolsixcomcastnet

George Davis

Chairman

Newsletter gdavis457livecom

Ken Vogel

Writer jacobvogelsbcglobalnet

Pat Ruhl Bass

Newsletter Assistant

patquiltsbresnannet

The PVHS Reunion Committee

Next Reunion September 11 2010

We have booked Weld Central as our Reunion

site More information will be provided as it be-

comes available We are planning a one day

event with more time to visit If you missed

2008 this is your chance to be there Please

plan to attend Someone wants to see you

Donrsquot disappoint them or yourself

Need Newsletter Articles

Suggested Topics

ldquoThe Fabulous 50‟srdquo

ldquoFamily Story rdquo

ldquoYour Family Historyrdquo

ldquoYour Life Storyrdquo ldquoWhat the 2008 Reunion Meant to Yourdquo

Email Hackers

My email was hacked and many

emails were sent with my name I

was supposedly stranded in West

Africa and needed to be rescued

Just to set the record straight I was not in Africa nor

do I have any intentions of going to Africa but I do

plan to be at the 2010 PVHS Reunion

George

Interested in PVHS

Group Travel There has been some interest in getting a group together to Bran-son andor Pasadena for the Rose Parade If you are willing to coor-dinator one of these trips please contact Donn Reid or any committee member

Thanks

A MAN IS NOT OLD UNTIL REGRETS TAKE THE PLACE OF

DREAMS

JOHN BARRYMORE ACTOR

Larry Erker Class of 1960 Larry will miss our phone conversations

reminiscing the days of our youth

ldquoMay the sun always be in your face and the wind

to your back and fair winds and following seasrdquo

George

httpoldfortyfivescom

TakeMeBackToTheFiftieshtm




Ruth Yeager Trupp

had grandchildren

taking part at the

Fair

Proud Grandma


winning steer












the Fair






what the summer

is to the farmers

year - it brings to

harvest all the


the soul

-- Author Unknown

The prize win-

ning sugar

beets at the

Keenesburg

Fair Brett

Arnusch is the

proud grower

Congratula-

tions to Lucile


Summer Vacation





Marilyn



Doo Wop


livin‟ is easy)




flowin‟

























with our friends

Ken

HOT (as in COOL)


over George Here is

your new look for



could even sport a

crew cut


PVHS

Larry Mary Kay

Pat and Marilyn

The Fad 50rsquos

Column















































ecoli


beach closures then












stations




















Fashion



50‟s Gas Station




























times (Mr Serious)






























American Band Stand





Indian test pattern


a collar)







Kingston Trio



English language


And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)







money by Erika Cox











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary




Ruth Yeager Trupp

had grandchildren

taking part at the

Fair

Proud Grandma


winning steer












the Fair






what the summer

is to the farmers

year - it brings to

harvest all the


the soul

-- Author Unknown

The prize win-

ning sugar

beets at the

Keenesburg

Fair Brett

Arnusch is the

proud grower

Congratula-

tions to Lucile


Summer Vacation





Marilyn



Doo Wop


livin‟ is easy)




flowin‟

























with our friends

Ken

HOT (as in COOL)


over George Here is

your new look for



could even sport a

crew cut


PVHS

Larry Mary Kay

Pat and Marilyn

The Fad 50rsquos

Column















































ecoli


beach closures then












stations




















Fashion



50‟s Gas Station




























times (Mr Serious)






























American Band Stand





Indian test pattern


a collar)







Kingston Trio



English language


And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)







money by Erika Cox











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary

Summer Vacation





Marilyn



Doo Wop


livin‟ is easy)




flowin‟

























with our friends

Ken

HOT (as in COOL)


over George Here is

your new look for



could even sport a

crew cut


PVHS

Larry Mary Kay

Pat and Marilyn

The Fad 50rsquos

Column















































ecoli


beach closures then












stations




















Fashion



50‟s Gas Station




























times (Mr Serious)






























American Band Stand





Indian test pattern


a collar)







Kingston Trio



English language


And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)







money by Erika Cox











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary













































ecoli


beach closures then












stations




















Fashion



50‟s Gas Station




























times (Mr Serious)






























American Band Stand





Indian test pattern


a collar)







Kingston Trio



English language


And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)







money by Erika Cox











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary




























times (Mr Serious)






























American Band Stand





Indian test pattern


a collar)







Kingston Trio



English language


And finally Annette

(Guess Who PVHS)







money by Erika Cox











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary











Doo Wop Oldies

Quiz Answers

1 C 2 B

3 A

4 C 5 A

6 C

7 B 8 A

9 C

10 C

11 A 12 C

13 B

14 A 15 C

16 A

17 B 18 B

19 B

20 C
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary
























this









more

























curb feelers



direction first












the floor


































of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary











of a Church






























Eleanor Roosevelt

amp

Friend
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary
















to Prospect Valley










too smart































Weird











Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary



Class of 1959 50th


Class of 1944

65th Anniversary

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