Sunday, September 20, 2015

Today is Sunday, the last day of the three day event surrounding the 50 year reunion of the Juab High Class of 65, so thought we would show who attended church classes too.



Back in the 1960's Juab High School was located on main street between 1st and 2nd North in Nephi, Utah. The LDS Seminary building was on the west side, but as to many people were getting run over by the horse and buggy drivers, they built a new one to the north of the high school, which still remains but used by the Nephi Police Dept.  Those cops may not same as many prayers as we did back in our day, but all are still said.  The list of people who graduated from Seminary are taken from The Times News and show;





















The Juab High School won their Homecoming football game on Friday night, so three cheers to them, but do you remember the cheers from the Cheerleaders.


In connection with the Homecoming for Juab High School, we decided to throw in a little history of previous times when we cheered our teams on. The first photo shows a note of appreciation from the 1963 Junior Varsity Cheerleaders, and the second page is what the Varsity Cheerleaders used during the 1950's.



Today, I pay my respect for two guys from Juab County, Utah-both from the Class of 65, who have now passed but lived a life of honor and nobility while on this eartly sphere.

The Juab High  Class of 1965 has been having there 50th reunion. In yesterdays luncheon, several of the "young" students talked of how the class was very close, just like a family, even though there were hard times. In mentally going back in time, I couldn't help remember one of our class mates we lost a couple years ago. Michael Keyte of Mona was one of the true great guys of all time, and proved that throughout his life. If I recall correctly, we lost Larry Craig Higginson not too long after graduation. He was killed in Viet Nam. That seemed to have profound affect on all of us kids, and especially Mike, as Mike was in the Army, and a cousin of Higginson. Mike had the honor to be the escort in returning our classmate to Mona for burial. I therefore, give honor to Larry Craig Higginson for making the ultimate sacrifice, but for this Keyte. Mike was friendly to all classmates, and he embraced that same love with his family. He was very proud that his three sons all became Eagle Scouts. He was a hard worker, having worked for Geneva Steel for 34 years. Today, I pay my respect to all those who served our country. It wasn't something they particularly enjoyed doing, but they accepted their duty to their God and Country, as did the Juab High Class of 65. We still have Class.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Juab High School is preparing for Homecoming this week, so make sure you particpate in all of the activiites.

From what I have read and seen in The Time News, the Juab High School football team is going to have a great year, even though they had a heartbreaking loss last week. The first photo was taken by Heath Dopp and placed in The Times News. It shows it takes a lot of Grantsville guys to take down Shawn Nielsen.

The second photo is of the football Co-Captains Mike Anderson, Larry Ellertson and Steve Stowell, along with Coach Dennis Hansen.

The third photo is of the Homecoming Royalty which is Susan Johnson, center, with Melanie Swartz, left and Pattie Andreasen.

The night before the game, they are having the Homecoming parade, and I heard that the Juab "Class of 65" are going to be in the parade, or what is left of them. They were not able to afford a mobile escalator for them to get on board, so any help from the youngins is appreciated. On Saturday, they will have a noon lunch in the girls gym of the old high school. If you want to hear some old folks pretend like they are young, come and watch the carnival.

Oh by the way, artificial dementia has hit me, and I think the last two photos are from Homecoming of 1967.