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Paul Grandy shared this link to a website containing Montpelier and Bear Lake High School yearbooks:

https://www.blhs.blsd.net/yearbooks-4c3f6ff1#

 

Reola Phelps shared the following information regarding the Montpelier High School class of 1963 60-year reunion:

The MHS Class of 1963 held a reunion on August 25-26, 2023. Three intrepid classmate golfers, Renee Kunz Wuska, Reola Phelps, and Wade Peterson, were joined by Diane and Terry Bateman’s son-in-law, John Burton, and Paul Johnson, Class of ’63 Fielding High School, kicked the reunion off on Friday with a round of golf. The class then met in Peter Guyon’s Montpelier backyard for dinner. On Saturday, the group attended an interactive tour of the Oregon Trail Center, followed by photos in front of the old high school.

On Saturday night we returned to Peter’s backyard for a wonderful dinner catered by the Future Farmers of Americ of Bear Lake High School. We had nearly completed eating when the rain came, and we retreated to the warmth and coziness of Peter’s garage. Most classmates had written up something of their lives and memories and each person spoke, which was the highlight of the reunion. Common themes were gratitude for the wonderful youth we had at Montpelier High and the values we learned there, and for the relationships we had then that are with us today. We also shared some good and humorous memories of our time at MHS.

 

Lynn Roderick provided the following history of the origins of Montpelier High School:

Montpelier High School had its beginning in the basement of Washington School located on the northeast corner of 4th and Clay.

The first high school class was organized in 1906 with Fred L Willis as the Superintendent.  Eleven students were enrolled in the first year.  They were Jennie Barrett, Finch Ridd, Myrtle Conley, Mabel Pearce, Marguerite Whitman, Harold Toomer, Cecil Hull, Earl Jonley, Forest Stuart, Neil Gee, Raymond Reese and Mildred Whiteman.

Morning sessions were devoted to high school work which met in the one basement room of Washington School.  Courses were the same for everyone, Algebra, English and Literature, Ancient History and Physical Geography.  All eleven students completed the first year course.

By 1906 a building was under construction which was being built on the playground area of what is now A J Winters Elementary school, adjacent to the Purple Sage property.  High school classes continued to meet at the Washington School during the second year, but two rooms were then needed to house the students.  Carl F Banghart served as superintendent, principal and instructor, with another teacher Miss Lois V Stoddard. There were 25 freshmen and ten of the original group as sophomores.  This year the students chose the colors, banners and the Bear mascot.

At the beginning of the third year students moved into the new building.  The faculty included H S Stevens as principal and Georgia Bassett and Harold Sanders as teachers. Only five original students remained in the junior year, Mabel Pearce, Jennie Barrett, Neil Gee, Raymond Reese and Mildred Whitman.

By the fourth year the building was completed and the student body was at 48.  Only two Mabel Pearce and Mildred Whitman were in the senior class.  These two received their diplomas in the spring of 1910.  Both had identical grades and graduation was held in the Montpelier Theatre.  Rev James Laughlin, pastor of the Methodist Church presided and Dean Elliott, President of the University of Idaho was the keynote speaker.
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Ann Kunz Anderson shared this letter that AJ Winters wrote to her grandfather, SN Kunz, regarding Ann's father taking time off from school to hunt deer. Ann's father is Donald Kunz, a graduate of the MHS class of 1938. Ann is a graduate of the MHS class of 1961.

 

"Have you ever really had a teacher?  One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?  If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back.  Sometimes it is only in your head.  Sometimes it is right alongside their beds." Ross Peterson quoting from Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie." Mitch Albom had been a student of Prof. Morrie Schwarz at Brandies.  Schwarz was diagnosed with ALS and they met on Tuesdays for  many months until the professor died.

 


Coach Charles M. Grant, Gay Grant, A.M. Rich, Ross Peterson and Mary Kay Peterson at the 2014 Reunion

 


Marilyn Wilcox and Rosanna Combs, Dance Review

 


Peppettes Circa 1958 Lion's Club Fund Raiser "Catch That Tiger"
Louise Erramouspe (60), De Anna Roderick (58), GayeLene Booth (59), Marcia Meek (58), Anne Stuart (58), Lions Club representative Clair Barrett, Elaine Spencer (59) tiger trainer, Julie Shepherd (58), Karen Sleight (58), Emma Lou Schmid (58), JoAnn Alleman (59), Linda Buhler (60)

PROFILE UPDATES


•   David Dimick (1964)  2/4
•   Sasha Waechtler (2019)  1/8
•   David Ward (1974)  1/8
•   LaRae Rich (Allred) (1954)  1/5
•   Mike Talbot (1964)  12/2
•   Cameron Nield (Righetti) (1994)  11/4
•   Kathleen Michaelson (Dayton) (1961)  10/30
•   Marie Sparks (Rasmusson) (1993)  8/26
•   Laurence Crane (1973)  8/6
•   Renee Kunz (Wuska) (1963)  8/4
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WHERE WE LIVE


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4 live in Alaska
34 live in Arizona
29 live in California
9 live in Colorado
2 live in Florida
3 live in Georgia
213 live in Idaho
1 lives in Indiana
2 live in Iowa
3 live in Kentucky
1 lives in Maine
2 live in Maryland
1 lives in Massachusetts
1 lives in Minnesota
1 lives in Missouri
7 live in Montana
1 lives in Nebraska
14 live in Nevada
1 lives in New Jersey
4 live in New Mexico
1 lives in New York
5 live in North Carolina
1 lives in North Dakota
2 live in Ohio
2 live in Oklahoma
10 live in Oregon
1 lives in Pennsylvania
1 lives in South Carolina
2 live in South Dakota
3 live in Tennessee
8 live in Texas
187 live in Utah
4 live in Virginia
21 live in Washington
17 live in Wyoming
1 lives in Alberta
1 lives in Denmark
1 lives in Mexico
1 lives in Philippines
5,927 location unknown

MISSING CLASSMATES


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