District #15 School, 1st Cambridge School - 1881

1923

C H S 1947

Cambridge Grade School

C. H. S. Memorial - 1992

Original Date Stone of 1881 School

C H S Superintendents

First C H S Teacher 1918

Mr. Flowers 1921-1922

Simon B. Mordy 1928 - 1932

OSCAR N. MADDUX 1933 - 1939

OSCAR N. MADDUX CREED

LENARD L. WOODS 1939-1948

WAYNE ADAMS CLARK C H S Principal 1948-1953

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WILL J. GREEN AND FAMILY

BURDEN TIMES CAMBRIDGE NEWS

ROSTER - C. H. S. HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADE TEACHERS

Geological HISTORY OF THE CAMBRIDGE AREA

Bit Of History

FRIENDS HONORARY CLASSMATES FOREVER

Cambridge High School GRADUATE ROSTER

A BIT OF HISTORY

The earth has spun in its orbit around the sun for countless millennia, its vast ecological areas have evolved and developed. We center our attention on one of these unique areas, a narrow strip of rock hills, tall grasses and special animal life that exists on our maps as the FLINT HILLS. It is located in eastern Kansas. A creek named Grouse runs through the western edge of this land. We zero in on this area because this is where our history is located...in a town called Cambridge, in a Township named Windsor, in a County named Cowley, in the state of Kansas, U.S.A.

The Flint Hills area is famous for its rich bluestem pasture lands. The transitional prairies and the upper high plains which lead into the mountains was home to the buffalo, antelope, deer and the men with the red skin. They all coexisted in a state of tranquility. The Indians moved through this land as easily as the warm, summer breezes, leaving the land as it was, when they were gone. The tranquility of this area was pierced by Western man...by the men from the European countries who came in search of the shiny metal and a fountain that spewed forth youthful vigor. Later, the men who came to harvest the skins and the hides of the animals did more than pierce the tranquility of the land.

In due time, men arrived who saw the beauty and potential of this peaceful Grouse valley...men who wanted to start a new life in a new place. These were the men who had lived through that infamous period of the great Civil War. One of these men, John TuII, had two fingers shot off during this war. He returned to Shelby County, Illinois in July 1865, a man not yet twenty two years old. On May 3, 1866 he married Miss Nancy Simpson who had been born in Indiana. On March 4, 1869, he and his wife moved to Eureka, Kansas, taking some household goods with them. They set up their household and planted crops.

He had heard about the Osage Nation from men of his acquaintance, deciding that this is where he wanted to stake a claim. Leaving his wife in Emporia, eventually Mr. Tull and four other men put up hay on Mr. Tull's claim at the mouth of the Walnut River in the fall of 1869. A foundation for a house had been laid at this location, in the vicinity of what is now Arkansas city. The Indians came and burned them out.

John Tull left the Walnut River area, going to Grouse Creek. He filed a claim on land two miles north of where Cambridge is now located. Lazette, Kansas, was built on land joining his property to the east. By the early histories, John Tull is credited with building the first house on Grouse Creek. Two sons were born to John and Nancy Tull. Braz D. Tull was born on July 9, 1871, and Bruce Tull was born on March 23, 1879. Mr. Tull possessed a receipt in the amount of $5.00 which promised him one year's protection from Chetopah, Chief of the Osage Indians. All settlers who located prior to July 15, 1870 were expected to pay this head money to Chetopah. Men with names like Sutton, Wilkins, Gardenhire, Todd, Simpson, Dwyer, Jackson, Phenis, Brooks, Clover, Craft, Fall, Booth, Dr. Chapman, Solomon Hisler, Gans, Stapleton, Sherman, Hicks, Sicks, Chapman...and yes, even Smith and Jones are some of the early settlers on Grouse Creek.

The early histories state that John Tull built the first house, then almost in the same breath, John Tull taught the first school. It is very evident that education received a high priority with these early settlers. Lazette School District #15 was moved to Cambridge in 1881.

This same high regard for education held true for Cambridge. A town company was formed in 1880 with Benjamin H. Clover as president, the site for the town was plotted on May 3, 1880. Mrs. B. H. Clover named the new town, CAMBRIDGE. We (yet) do not know why Mrs. Clover chose CAMBRIDGE as the name. Bonds were voted in the summer of 1880 to erect a stone schoolhouse in Cambridge. The native stone building was completed in the summer of 1881. The first school term in the new building was commenced in October 1881.

Everything was happening at once! The Kansas City and Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railroad first service began in February 1880. Joseph P. Craft is credited with completing the first building in Cambridge. It was a hotel located on south (West Main) street just north of the depot.

In those days Cambridge had a West Main Street and an East Main Street...matter of fact, it still does! Mr. Craft operated a hotel and livery stable at this location for several years. Most of the residents of Lazette relocated in Cambridge to be near the railroad. Many of the buildings were moved to Cambridge. Some of Lazette's residents relocated in Burden. Cambridge and the area flourished in these early days. Settlers came, and business men, who provided the stores and services for the needs of the people.

By 1916, many citizens of the area saw the need for establishing higher education in the area. One of these was Bruce Tull, son of John Tull, Grouse Valley's first settler, and first teacher. Bruce circulated the petition that brought the school proposition to the ballot. On April 9, 1917 the voters of Windsor Township voted to organize a rural high school which was to be situated in Cambridge. On June 17, 1917, the first school board meeting was held. W. F. Moore was director, W. B. Tull was treasurer and Albert Booth was clerk of the new high school board of education. C. C. Clover was director, J. J. Benjamin was treasurer and H. F. Hicks was clerk of district #15 school board.

The early native stone building was torn down, and a red brick grade and high school building was erected in its place. Although it was not quite completed, the building was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in 1917. All the rural schools around Cambridge were invited to help dedicate the new building, each contributed to the program. Leone Adkins Gailey remembers that the Cambridge school gave a pantomime. The flat roof of the furnace room was used as the stage for this dedication ceremony!

The first term of the new high school started in September 1918 with one teacher, Mrs. Annie Snow, and five pupils; Leone Adkins, Marie Ryan, Felix Davis, Thelma Davis and Opal Thomas. These five students made the big rock C on the hill south of town and painted it white so it could be seen from Main Street!

In the second year, 1919-1920, two new teachers were hired. Mr. W. A. McKnight was the Superintendent and Mrs. Crissman taught geometry, home economics and woodworking. The basement southeast and southwest rooms were used for home economics, woodworking and agriculture. Mrs. Annie Laura Snow was Principle and taught English. Hubert Gailey transferred from Arkansas City and was a member of the Sophomore Class. Leone Gailey remembers that plants were growing in the agriculture room and Hubert Gailey was to spray the plants. Remember, World War I was just over and the grade school classes were not aware that Hubert was spraying plants. When the spray fumes penetrated the grade school rooms, the students ran from the school screaming that they were being bombed! The Freshman were Paul Clover, Eva Crow, Ray and Jessie Booth, Ralph Hovey, Grace Belden and Eugene Evans. Mrs. Snow married George Faulton of Winfield on Saturday. December 17, 1920.

In the third year, 1920-1921, Lita Gailey transferred from Winfield to Cambridge as a senior. Miss Bates was added to the faculty for just the one year. Opal Thomas transferred to Burden High School. Felix Davis transferred to Winfield High School. Thelma Howard and Nettie Kent joined the junior class. Soon Nettie dropped out of class. The Junior play, THE LITTLE CLODHOPPER was staged. In addition to the showing in Cambridge, the play was shown in Dexter and other places. with the admission money, the class purchased class rings and the graduation announcements in the senior year. The Freshman were Vera Moyer and Nettie Simmons. Miss Lita Gailey became the first graduate of Cambridge High School.

The fourth year, 1921-1922, saw the graduation of the Charter Member Class. Two of the original five had remained and graduated in the class of 1922, Marie Ryan and Leone Gailey. About one month before graduation Thelma Howard died as a result of a mastoid operation. She died before the invention of Penicillin or even Sulpha Drugs either of which could have saved her life. The roll of the sophomore and junior class remained the same. The freshman were Louise Sheets, Louia Utt, Hester Self, Henry Razook, Eula Barger, Francis Kolde, Joe Ross, Ben Crouch, Persey Hunt, Earl Howard, Vivian Utt, Hugh Jack Bolack, Ernest Stewart, Lester McCrabb, Owen Ankrom and Ward Booth.

In 1923 a junior high school was organized in connection with the high school. The enrollment the first year was fifteen. Mr. Roy Darlington was the first junior high teacher.

School enrollments increased steadily and necessitated more classroom space. In 1927 school district #15 sold their interest in the building to the high school district. District #15 school board members in 1927 were; W. M. Harlan, director, J. N. Craft, treasurer and J. J. Benjamin, clerk. Mitchell Son, Builders, were hired to construct the two room red brick grade school building which was erected on lots secured from the Hammer property on the west side of Main Street. The new building was directly across the street from the high school building and housed the first six grades. Two teachers, Grace Belden and Annabelle Robards, were employed in the new facility. In April 1933, the grade school enrollment was fifty six pupils. In 1933, Cowley County had 138 school districts that employed 186 teachers!

Prior to 1936, the high school administration rented Horner's Hall for school activities. The auditorium gymnasium was built in 1936 with Mr. Thomas Larrick as resident inspector for the federal government. Work began on Monday morning, January 13, 1936 at the school location and at the rock quarry on the G. B. Kelly ranch south of Cambridge. The gymnasium was scheduled to be completed in seventy five working days. The work day consisted of two shifts: shift one began at 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; shift two worked from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Each workman on the project was allowed to work 130 hours per month. The I beams for the building were lifted into position by means of a gin pole. The graduating class of 1936 was the first class to use the gymnasium for graduating exercises, even though the building had not been completed.

The school bus service was started in 1943. W. A. Bonnell, Earl Fromm, Bill Cullumber, Ralph Sphar, Charles Mueller, Pat Hancock, Everett Howe, Archie Dwyer were the bus drivers.

In 1954, Box school house was purchased by the administration of the Cambridge schools and moved north of the high school building. It was remodeled and made into a modern school lunch room. Jewel Bolack was cook the first year. Mabel Ensley became cook in 1955 and remained until the school was consolidated in 1963. Her helpers were Mary Lou Ashcraft, Flora Booth Susie Brunton and Theresa Keplinger.

In January 1963, Mr. Walter Bynum, Cowley County Superintendent, met with the school boards of education of Cambridge and Burden to discuss school problems. Each district held an information meeting to discuss advantages and disadvantages of consolidation. Cambridge's meeting was held on January 31, 1963, Burden's meeting was held on February 2, 1963. Issue voting meetings were held on February 7, 1963. Burden voted to consolidate, 179-5. Cambridge voted to consolidate, 92-15. C7 Eastern Cowley Common School District was the name selected for the name of the new district. Mr. Bynum called an election to name board members for the new district. Thus, Cambridge High School ceased to be.

The life of this auspicious institution spanned forty six years. Three-hundred and thirty-six seniors received diplomas from C. H. S. There were this many or more who studied there, but did not remain to graduate. Its students have spread out into many areas of the country and are engaged in varied occupations. Its influence is still alive! The high school building was torn down in the mid eighties. Each year, on the last Saturday in May before Memorial Day, the C. H. S. Alumni Association holds an evening dinner meeting in the Gymnasium.

Lewis Pickens

Taken from THE WINFIELD DAILY COURIER, Monday, June 26, 1922

WITH THE FOLKS AT CAMBRIDGE - Little Glimpses Of Our Neighboring City and citizens

Nestling in a little valley surrounded by gently rising hills is the I little city of Cambridge, with its classic name and enjoying a splendid trade from the agricultural territory around it. No nicer folks can be found than some who reside here and in the rural districts around it and many of them are well fixed in temporal affairs. Some of the farms and ranches in this section of Eastern Cowley county range all the way from a hundred to a thousand or more acres and have been in possession of the same families for several generations.

The town of Cambridge has a number of business enterprises and an unusually handsome high school building lately completed and well located on a rising swell of ground in the north part of the city. Many of the homes have extensive yards and gardens around them and home grown berries and vegetables are found on the markets.

The Cambridge State Bank with J. J. Benjamin as cashier, has nice quarters and offers the community such facilities as are consistent with good banking methods. The new postmaster is Mr. Gailey with Messrs. Hammer and Smith as rural carriers. These boys are popular on the routes and although they wait for the 9 o'clock mail they make the rounds and the patrons are generally served by noon. The Cambridge hotel is under the management of Mrs. W. E. Dawson and the table is fairly loaded with good eats. Besides the hotel a splendid restaurant in charge of J. H. Adkins and wife is located on the corner and the genial folks are fast building up a nice trade.

W. E. Overman has a garage and is already needing larger accommodations for his fine business. W. M. Harlan is manager of the lumber yard, but enjoys home life out on a farm north of town. L. Lyons is one of the well known pioneers and has farm buildings in the county. Probably the largest general store in eastern Cowley county is the one conducted by F. G. Jabara. He has an extensive trade. Some of the popularity of the store should be credited to Miss Williams, his efficient and good looking sales lady. A young business man of the town is Geo. L. Adkins proprietor of the barber shop.

Perhaps no one around Cambridge can entertain you better with stories of early times in Kansas than G. H. Dwyer. He knows Cowley County like a book and remembers Winfield long before she began to put on airs. Mercantile or other industries conducted by Messrs. Miller, Davis, H. T. Fromm and others make up the business ensemble of this growing town. North of Cambridge is located the gas plant under the Superintendence of Mr. Lyman and adjoining it are the tasty homes of the employees.

Another familiar name to Cowley County people is that of Mrs. C. C. Clover who has a nice home in the eastern part of Cambridge. Just out of Cambridge is one of the best appointed poultry farms in the county with hatching sheds, brooder houses and other modern fixtures and the proprietor, C. B. Wiley knows the poultry game and seems to be making a success of it. The egg sales of this farm sometimes run $100 per month. Mention is also due to Mrs. A. T. Knowles who lives north of Cambridge and raises S. C. Leghorns. Mrs. Knowles runs several incubations and the spring hatches totaled about 1300 young chickens.

One of the attractions around Cambridge is the fine highways leading from it over to Burden on the west and to Grand Summit on the east, and the scenery along the routes is truly rural. The farms spread before you like a map and, the great free open spaces give you a taste of what the old time Kansas ranches must have been in the days of their prime.

ANNIE LAURA SNOW( Faulton )

First Cambridge High School Teacher 1918 - 1922

Gladys Jamison, Cambridge Teacher
1933-1934 Taught 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade
1935, Taught 4th, 5th and 6th Grade

Intermediate Teacher 1936

CHS English Teacher 1938 - 1941

DWIGHT E. FLOWER

Superintendent C H S 1921-1922

SIMON B. MORDY

Superintendent 1928 - 1932

Simon Blickensderfer Mordy was born in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, on 25 August 1873. ETTA SEREPTA (KETTERING) MORDY was born in Massilon, Ohio, on 03 November 1876. Simon and Etta were married in Lecompton, Kansas on 26 September 1898. This union produced four boys and one girl: Frances Earl Mordy, born 19 November 1900; Loren J. Mordy, born 10 February 1904; Horace Wendell Mordy, born 17 June 1908; Eula Mordy (Kolde), born 06 June 1910; and Lloyd Murle Mordy, born 09 November 1915. Eula Mordy married Francis Jimmy Kolde who graduated from Cambridge High School in 1925.

Simon B. Mordy received his grade and high school education in Ohio. He earned his B. A. and M. S. degree from Lane University in Lecompton, Kansas. His M. A. degree was dated 27 March 1919. Mr. Mordy was Superintendent of Cambridge High School from 1928 to 1931. When he retired at the age of seventy eight, he had spent fifty three years in the teaching profession. Other schools he taught are: Carbondale, Rexford, Segwick, Wakefield, Madison, Derby, Delia, Moline, Valley Falls, Protection, and Elwood. Mr. Mordy taught Latin, Biology, Botany, Physiology, Algebra II, Science, Physics, and Manual Training.

Mr. Mordy was an active speaker at Commencement exercises throughout his career. He was a hunter, and he loved to fish. Woodworking was his hobby. One of his pieces, a buffet, is on display in the home of his son, Lloyd Mordy, in Independence, Kansas.

Etta Mordy died 01 March 1959 and Simon B. Mordy died 24 August 1961. Both are buried Independence Memorial cemetery in Independence, Kansas.

Information and pictures furnished by Lloyd M. Mordy, 2520 Pennsylvania, Independence, Kansas 67301.

Wayne Adams Clark

C H S Principal 1948-1953

Wayne A. Clark was born 17 November 1919 on a farm near Rosalie, Kansas. His father, Lester Joshua Clark was born 24 May, 1884 at Rosalie, Kansas. His mother, Mabel Chloe Adams was born 02 October 1889 at Morgantown, Indiana. They were married on 22 December 1907 at Moundridge, Kansas.

Wayne Clark attended elementary school at Rosalie and graduated from Rosalie High School with the class of 1937. He attended EI Dorado Junior College, 1937-1939. He transferred to Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburgh, Kansas and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in January 1942. He received his Masters Degree from Pittsburgh in the summer of 1950.

Wayne and Martha Jo Coventon both started teaching at Cambridge High School in 1942. Martha Jo was born on 21 January 1922 at Muskogee, Oklahoma. They were married on 23 May 1944 at Wagoner, Oklahoma. Wayne and Martha Jo were shivered by many of their students before they were married. They threw Wayne into Cedar Creek, but just required Martha Jo to wade the shallow waters. This union produced five children: Frances Lee on 21 February 1945; Kenneth Wayne on 24 April 1948; David Eugene on 18 February 1952; Nancy Jo on 05 March 1955; and Robert Lynn on 01 November 1956. Nancy Jo was born at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in EI Dorado, Kansas. She weighed 14 lbs., 3/4 oz. at birth. This weight remains the record as largest baby born at that hospital.

After teaching and coaching baseball and basketball at Cambridge, 1942-1944, Wayne was drafted into the U. S. Navy on 01 June 1944. He received six weeks of training at Great Lakes Training Center. He attended Radio School at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. Upon completion of Radio School he was sent to Jacksonville, Florida Naval Air station to await further assignment. He served on the ship, CVE-103, aircraft carrier escort in the Pacific theater. Wayne received his Honorable Discharge from the Navy in February 1946.

Wayne returned as teacher and coach at Cambridge High School, 1946- 1948. He became Cambridge High School Principal, 1948-1953. Wayne served as superintendent of high school, and elementary principal of Rosalia from 1953 to 1963. He became principal of the Leon High School 1963.

In the summer of 1959, Wayne received a General Electric Fellowship to attend Stanford University in California for six weeks. In the summers of 1969, 1970, and 1971, he returned to Stanford on a National Science Foundation grant.

Wayne left Leon in 1967 and returned to Rosalia as Principal of Flint hills High School. It was comprised of students from Rosalia and Cassoday. He served as Principal of Flint hills High School until 1972. He returned to classroom teaching in 1972. He served in this capacity until his retirement from the Flint hills School District in 1985. Wayne and Martha Jo enjoyed a one week vacation trip to Hawaii in the summer of 1985.

Information and picture furnished by Wayne A. Clark, Box 67, Rosalia, Kansas 67132.

LENARD L. WOODS 1939-1948

LENARD LANDON WOODS was born February 27, 1904 near Fair Play, Cedar County, Missouri. He was the son of Oscar and Ida Frances Woods. He attended Collins School in Cedar County and was a Fair Play High School Graduate - 1923.

Mr. Woods taught 5 years in the country schools in Missouri. He acquired a B. S. Degree in 1931 and a M. S. Degree in 1933, both from Pittsburgh State University at Pittsburgh, Kansas. He was a member of the National Mathematics Fraternity.

He taught 5 years in the Dillworth High School in Oklahoma 1934-1939. He married Mae Louise Wright of Arkansas City, Kansas May 29, 1938. We had met while in college at Pittsburgh.

Mr. Woods was hired as principal and teacher at Cambridge High School in 1939. He served there for 9 years. While there 2 children were born into their home. Robert Wayne Woods January 15, 1941 and Dorothy Ann Woods February 15, 1945. Robert lives in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Dorothy lives in Bloomington, Illinois. They are both married and have a family.

From Cambridge, we went to Norton, Kansas where Mr. Woods was Superintendent of the city schools which included kindergarten through the eighth grade 1948-1953. A community high school was there.

In 1953, we moved to Phillipsburg, Kansas where he was Superintendent of schools until 1959. Robert graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1959. Mr. Woods was in the Wilson Schools for 2 years as Superintendent.

Mr. Woods was hired as Superintendent of Rozel, Kansas Schools in 1961 and served there until 1968. Dorothy graduated from Rozel High School in 1963.

In 1968, Mr. Woods was hired as Superintendent of the Lebanon Schools. He had his first heart attack in February of 1969. He recovered and served 3 more years as superintendent. He had another heart attack in September of 1971 and retired in 1972

Mr. Woods spent 10 years teaching in Missouri and Oklahoma. He was in school administration in Kansas for 33 years.

Mr. Woods liked Winfield so when he retired we landed in Winfield. We lived at 2012 Crestline Drive where he had a garden and spent much time fishing.

We took a tour to the Holy Land in 1974 and went to Ireland, Wales, and England in 1975. We went on a Mediterranean Cruise in 1977.

In August of 1978, Mr. Woods had another heart attack and passed away at William Newton Memorial Hospital September 16, 1978. Mr. Woods is buried in the Parker Cemetery east of Arkansas city.

Information for this biography was furnished by Mrs. Lenard L. Woods, 1500 East Tenth Street, Apartment C-1, Winfield, Kansas 67156, Tel: 620-221-0985.

OSCAR N. MADDUX

Superintendent 1933 - 1939

OSCAR NICHOLS MADDUX was born November 29, 1902 on a farm near Bronson in eastern Kansas. He was the son of Sherman T. and Alma (Billings) Maddux. He attended rural school in eastern Kansas, moving with the family at the age of eight to a farm in western Kansas near Deerfield. He completed his grades there and graduated from the Deerfield High School in May, 1921. He was the first Maddux to graduate from high school.

Mr. Maddux attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, received his degree in 1925. He chose teaching as his profession and taught mathematics and science in the Burden, Kansas High School for the next two years 1925-1926, 1926-1927. In the fall of 1927, Mr. Maddux began teaching in the Cambridge High School. He was principal until 1933, at which time he became Superintendent. He continued in that position until his retirement in 1939.

Mr. Maddux and Edith Viola Lowe were united in marriage at the Nazarene church in Wellington, Kansas, by the Rev. G. W. Dudley on August 9, 1928. Mrs. Edith Maddux parents were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lowe who lived in Grant county south of Caldwell, Kansas. Mrs. Edith Maddux graduated from Burden High School in 1927. She taught school in Medford, Oklahoma 1927-1928.

Mr. and Mrs. Maddux were parents of two sons and one daughter, all three were born in Cambridge. Howard Aubrey Maddux, a lawyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma was born September 2, 1929. Maynard Lee Maddux, a retired school teacher living in Pine, Colorado was born November 24, 1930. Marilyn Elaine (Maddux) Holdeman, a school teacher was born August 24, 1936.

When ill health forced Mr. Maddux to retire, he and his family returned to the farm in western Kansas where he had grown to manhood. They operated a successful turkey farm until 1950. They built a house in Deerfield in 1950, and moved to town. The house was across the street from the school, where he could watch the kids go to and from school. Mr. and Mrs. Maddux hosted many holiday parties for the school faculty. Oscar Maddux became a tutor and was close to the profession that he loved. winter evenings would find him cruising to the high school in his electric wheel chair to cheer the Deerfield Spartans on to victory!

Even though he was confined to a wheel chair the last 20 years of his life, Mr. Maddux led a very active life. He played chess by mail with friends world wide. Mr. and Mrs. Maddux took their expanding family of grandchildren on many trips throughout the united states...from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from Canada to Mexico.

Oscar Maddux was diagnosed as having cancer in November 1973. He stated that he would not live until Christmas. He died Christmas EVE, December 24, 1973 at the age of seventy one years. Mrs. Edith Maddux died March 25, 1987 at the age of seventy eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Maddux are buried in the Deerfield, Kansas cemetery.

(The information for this biography is furnished to us by Maynard Lee Maddux, 1669 Woodside Drive, Pine, Colorado.)

OSCAR N. MADDUX CREED

Edith, Howard  and Maynard Maddux

Oscar Maddux wrote his creed on October 6, 1972 and later wrote an article entitled,SHARING WHEELING LIVING. The following is taken from these writings and is being shared by his request.

I was born more than seventy years ago on a farm in eastern Kansas. I did not choose the time, the place, the color of my skin or my sex. Yet, I am happy to be living in the most interesting century of our time, the best nation in the world and to be the color and sex that I am. At the age of eight I moved with my parents, two older brothers and a younger sister to a farm in western Kansas. It was necessary to walk two and one half miles to a rural school. Later I attended high school by riding my bicycle sixteen miles a day. My second and third years found me commuting in a horse drawn wagon, and my senior year riding in a Model T. It was during the year when I rode my bicycle and was exposed to all kinds of weather that I experienced my first attack of rheumatoid arthritis. Having unimproved dirt roads in which half the distance was ruts the wheels of wagons and cars had formed as they traveled across open country, made it necessary for me to push my bicycle when it rained or snowed. During my high school years I played football, basketball and baseball even though my feet and hands were swollen and the pain was excruciating and continuous.

In 1921, I was graduated and entered college in the fall, and received my degree in 1925. My belief is, if a man empties his pocketbook into his head, no man can take that away from him. Teaching was my chosen profession, which I began in 1925 at high school level. In 1928, at the age of twenty five, I was married. The next twelve years brought two sons and a daughter, with many rewarding and challenging experiences in my work with my students, people of the community, and my family. During this time my disability slowly spread to other parts of my body. The joints of my fingers, elbows and knees became stiff and swollen, and finally have frozen into immovable joints. The year 1939 brought an end to my chosen profession.

My 26 years of immobility will cause some to ask, Are you happy with life? and I would answer, I am not dissatisfied. One must be reconciled to the facts of life as they are. We cannot live in the past, and lament the fact that fate may have cut short some of our hopes and goals. We must learn to live and live to learn. Nature quite often provides an outlet for an individual to become superior in another field when his capacity is thwarted in a given field. I would urge my friends to develop any skill they may have reading, writing, crafts, or just plain listening which becomes an education. Chess is my favorite pastime and I also enjoy card games at home and traveling.

I must live, is my creed. First, I must live with my God. Some may say God the Father, God the Son,; or God the Holy Spirit. Others may say the Creator, the Maker, the Master Mind or even Nature. In the beginning God in the midway God and continuing to the end of time it is God. God gives and God takes away, so if God gives you life, he also has the power to take it away. If he takes it away here on earth, he has promised to give a new life to those who do his will. The rules and regulations by which I must live are definitely manifest in the Ten Commandments.

Secondly, I must live with my fellow man. I am surrounded by four classes: The loftiest, who live by the Golden Rule, loves his neighbor and would go the second mile. The next man lives by the Silver Rule, live and let live. He says, you mind your business and I'll mind mine. The third adopts the Brass Rule and lives dangerously by cheating, stealing and defrauding people. The lowest chooses the Iron Rule and becomes a mobster, gangster or terrorist. I have the right of choice or omission in relating to these four classes.

Finally, I must live with my fellow man. This task tends to be the hardest of all three. Since I have lived in two worlds, my life patterns have varied from independence to dependence. Under the first phase of my life, my childhood was normal. During my grade school and first two years of high school, we lived in a two room sod house. We had the only sod house for miles around, but I did not feel inferior in relating to my friends and classmates. Out of college I lived an independent life, did the things that normal people do, and played their games. As superintendent of schools, I served as a leader in the community activities, and taught scores of young people in their effort to complete a high school education. I was in command of the boys and girls and worked with their parents, the teachers and the board of education. This task took a lot of patience, confidence and stability. The course of action was not always easy, but I had to live with myself so I kept it cool.

When fate took away my independent life, I suddenly realized how the world had changed, and for the past 26 years I have been dependent on others. Now within this state of immobility, the severity of life tends to amplify the third commitment I must live with myself. Because I am dependent on others, I realize that I must act or react to every situation in a way so that I will not be a burden to all. I could become a grouch and lambaste everybody and everything, or I could withdraw and live in a world of my own choosing. I could complain about how I feel, how fate left me immobile, how the world seems to pass me by, how I must live and when I will die. Choosing these negative views of life would make me miserable and everyone around me would suffer. The world I live in would become nothing with no future. I could only hate myself and everyone I had the opportunity of meeting. I think there is a far better way of living here in the present and with the future. I will let the past become memories, the good will give me pleasure. (The 14 years I taught in high school and the subsequent 26 years that I have been privileged to tutor both boys and girls in grade, high school and college level of classroom work,) this was a pleasure then, and now affords me great satisfaction, when these same individuals tell me how they appreciated the time and effort that I took to help and encourage them in choosing a better way of life. It is better to build men than try to reform them after they have gone astray. Too many want to stress the idea of the generation gap. Since I have reached the senior level of life, I must realize that my life is contingent, with the young, the young adults, the middle aged and the senior citizens. It is my responsibility to listen to each of these groups and offer my experience in solving their problems. I must also be willing to share in their ideas and encourage them to work for a bigger and better world to live in.

Some of my past memories that show up in the minus column are bad, and I must bury them. I would never be able to change them no matter how much I worry. It will do no good to worry about what happened a thousand years ago or what may happen in the future. Nothing is so bad but what some good may come out of it. It is the present that I am more interested in. I might help to influence the present with an idea or good deed. In life good deeds beget good deeds, a smile brings on a smile, a cheer starts another cheer and life produces life. We live so others may live.

I have had a great many pleasant things that have happened to me or for me, and these were promoted or produced by others. My wife has always been ready to help me twenty four hours a day. I have had help from all of my relatives and friends, and without having to make my wants known. Also the general public tends to show understanding in my disability, and will offer assistance and give me opportunities not afforded to normal people.

A sequel to the theme I must live will eventually end. And I would like to believe that I have not lived in vain, that I have not forsaken the three main themes of my creed.

First, I must live with my God.

Second, I must live with my fellow man.

Third, I must live with myself.

Also I would like to believe that I have fought a good fight, I have run a good race and that my posterity will give me a simple interment. And may there be no mourning at the bar when I put out to sea. (Oscar passed away Dec. 24, 1973. This article was read at his Funeral Service by the Minister on Dec. 27, 1973 and is presented to you in memory of Oscar N. Maddux by his wife, Edith Maddux. February 28, 1974.)

(Oscar Maddux son, Maynard Maddux, 1669 Woodside Drive, Pine, Co 80470, Tel: 303-838-4885 has granted us permission to publish this writing in this directory. 16 February 1992)

Taken from BURDEN TIMES: CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL NEWS,

12 April 1934, A pencil protector was removed from Howard Maddux's esophagus Saturday at Wesley hospital in Wichita by Dr. Seydell, a throat specialist. Howard swallowed this last week and it had been causing him quite a bit of trouble. Saturday Dr. Fall of Winfield advised Superintendent and Mrs. Maddux to take Howard to Wichita immediately and have it removed. They put Howard under anesthetic about seven o'clock Saturday evening and before eight o'clock he had returned to consciousness and was resting quietly.

Mr. and Mrs. Maddux remained at the hospital Saturday night and returned home with Howard Sunday afternoon. Howard is feeling much better now but the alimentary tract is still inflamed although most of the danger is past.

From the BURDEN (Ks) TIMES, 04 January 1923. CAUGHT THIEVES

The two thieves who broke into the F. G. Jabara store in Cambridge last Tuesday night by breaking the hinges were caught near Grenola and locked up in the county jail in Winfield. The thieves, two of them, were seen by section foreman Woodcock, placing two suit cases under a culvert as he and his crew were going to work. As soon as the suit cases were placed under the culvert the thieves left the hiding place immediately. Foreman Woodcock and the crew examined the loot and notified the Elk county sheriff who found the men hiding in an old house and placed them under arrest, later turning them over to the Cowley county officials. The thieves claimed they were orphans raised near Kansas City and had been working in the oil fields near Tonkawa. It is said they broke into the Sam Davis blacksmith shop and obtained an iron bar with which they broke the hinges on the back door of the Jabara store.

Taken from the BURDEN TIMES, 08 Jan 1925. Cambridge Won Meet

Very seldom a town as small as Cambridge can boast of a state championship High School baseball team but this time Cambridge holds the honors. Last week the team entered the tournament at Lawrence, Kansas, and brought home the bacon. The final and deciding game was with a team from Kansas City, Kansas, and Cambridge won by a score of 3 to 1. Jack Bolack was on the firing line for Cambridge and let the K C boys down with a lone hit. Cambridge has a perfect right to feel proud of their team as there was seven teams entered in the contest. This team has enjoyed victory in every high school game they have played in the past three years and their only loss was to a college team. A banquet was given the team last Monday to celebrate their victory and a rousing good time was had.

From BURDEN TIMES, 12 April 1934. CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL NEWS.

The juniors enjoyed a party April 9th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. o. Watson. Plans were made for the Junior Senior banquet. The evening was spent in playing cards and working jig saw puzzles. Refreshments of fruit salad, cookies and lemonade were served to the following: Misses Nadine Hillier, Audine Miller, Opal McClure, Pauline Logsdon, Ernestine Craft and Thelma Sumner. Messrs.; Frank Brunton, Bill Harlan, and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. G. o. Watson.

From BURDEN TIMES, 7 October 1937.
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL NEWS. EGG THROWING CONTEST

The freshman initiation took place at the high school building Tuesday, September 14, (1937). Wednesday morning when the freshman boys came to school, they came with their pockets full of eggs. They were planning on getting even with the sophomores, so they began throwing eggs. Emory Dwyer, one of the south paw boys, decided he would pop the Miller lad. George was standing near the English room window. Emory got his wind up and let go, and through the window the egg went sailing. He came closer to hitting Miss Levick than he did George, the Miller lad.

From BURDEN (Ks) TIMES, 30 July 1931. CAMBRIDGE NEWS.

Mrs. Boji of Columbus, Nebraska, Mr. and Mrs. John Jones and sons Bobby and John and friend, Miss Carol of Milton Junction, Wisconsin visited from Friday until Wednesday in the Glenn Edwards home. Mrs. Boji is Mrs. Edwards' Mother and Mrs. Jones is her sister. Monday, Mrs. Sicks, the Edwards family with their guests visited the Chilicco Schools and the 101 Ranch.

BURDEN TIMES 1 Janary 1931

Cecil Hendrickson and Mamie Bertrand were married on Tuesday evening at the home of V. D. Love in Winfield. Both were reared in Cambridge and both are graduates of Cambridge High School. Mrs. Hendrickson is the youngest daughter of C. P. Bertrand. Mr. Hendrickson is the eldest son of Chas. A. Hendrickson.

From the BURDEN TIMES, 08 January 1931 CAMBRIDGE NEWS

Mrs. J. J. Benjamin recently received word from their son, Felix Davis, that he had passed his final examinations which admits him to practice law in any court in New York.

From BURDEN (KS) TIMES, 15 February 1923. CAMBRIDGE NEWS.

HOTEL BURNED

The old Cambridge hotel that has stood its ground for many years was totally destroyed by fire early Saturday morning, together with almost the entire contents.

According to reports the fire was discovered by some of the basketball boys from Dexter who were returning home from Grenola. The building was a mass of flames in a few minutes after the alarm was sounded. There being no chance to save the building or little of the contents. Willing fire fighters set about to keep the other buildings near from burning and by hard work succeeded, although it looked like a hopeless case at times, so it is said.

Mr. C. D. McCord and family owned and operated the hotel, having purchased it about the time the oil boom struck the little city.

The burning of this structure does not leave Cambridge without eating and rooming accommodations as there are four restaurants and the Adkins rooming house which was just recently finished and opened to the public. Everything is new throughout and would be a credit to any Town.

From the BURDEN TIMES, 25 June 1925, FINED FOR SEINING

Deputy State Game Warden U. B. Reed of Wichita had the following Cambridge men in our city Tuesday afternoon to answer a charge of seining: Joe Price, Frank Moore, Levi Pickens, Sam Pickens, A. R. Brown, T. E. Graham, Claud Kingsbury, Floyd Hill and H. E. Dixon. The offenders were tried before Justice of Peace Robert Lake who assessed a fine of $5.00 and costs totaling $17.50 each. The sein was also confiscated.

From the WICHITA (Ks) EAGLE, 19 June 1979, MISS'N YA

Although he came from Wisconsin, he learned to fight like a Texan and speak with a southern drawl. John Wayne was 6 foot, 4 inches, and in his movies you could see that he was the strongest of all Americans. Some wrote that he was bigger than life itself.

To use the vernacular, Duke, you must have become the fittingest legend of them all, and wherever you are restin' these days smile down upon us when we go watchin' one of your movies. We'll be thinkin' about-cha and appreciatin' ya mor'n y'all evah know.

But we'll be miss'n ya and a wishin' we could metchoo in pussin and known ya ev'n bettuh wile ya were heah.

RICHARD L. JONES, Derby (Ks)

From the WICHITA EAGLE. 05 August 1986 SAM WALTON SETS EXAMPLE

We do want to spur employment and get the wheels of industry rolling once again, don't we? If you run a business or own one, you wouldn't mind building up your volume and the traffic, I'm sure. Take a lesson from Sam Walton, the richest man in the united States. Sam preaches a different gospel: loyalty, long hours, getting ideas from others, treating people right, cutting prices and margins to the bone, being friendly and stocking U. S. made goods when possible. When we take whole loaves, people won't care if we ever get another crumb. By taking half loaves and giving half loaves, they will be glad to see you.

Wouldn't now be a pretty good time to follow the gospel of Sam?

RICHARD L. JONES, Derby, Ks

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WILL J. GREEN AND FAMILY

We remember DR. and MRS. L J. GREEN

Dr. Green, with his wife Blanche and her twin daughters, Audra and Alice, moved to Cambridge in 1928. Dr. Green had a daughter, Margarette, and a son, William. Blanche had twins and a son, John. John Harrington came to live with the Dr. Green family in 1931.

Dr. Green was born December 01, 1885, and died November 22, 1961. Blanche was born May 01, 1899, and died August 17, 1970. Dr. Green graduated from a Kansas City, Missouri, Medical School in 1914. He was President of the graduating class. He had worked as a mail sorter on the Santa Fe Railroad night train to earn money for his medical schooling. One night, a band of Indians stopped the train, said they had sickness in their camp. Dr. Green went to check and diagnosed small pox. He, later, came down with the disease and was so sick, he was first pronounced dead. He rallied, recovered and continued his profession. He retired from his Cambridge practice in 1951. After his retirement, he, his wife, Blanche, and son, Ronald, moved to Mena, Arkansas. He, eventually opened an office in Mena when the Korean War enlisted most of the young doctors in the Mena area.

After medical school, Dr. Green opened a practice in Dighton, Kansas. World War I broke out. He tried to enlist his services, but due to a flu epidemic, he was asked to remain. He received a commendation from President Wilson in 1918 for his outstanding work during that flu epidemic. He practiced medicine for 47 years. During that time he delivered over 5000 babies (one of his last babies to be delivered in Cambridge was Robert Brunton). He was a Royal Arch Mason in Salina, Kansas, a member of the American Medical Association, and a member of the Methodist Church in Dighton, Kansas. Upon his death, Dr. Green, was classed as one of the last of the horse and buggy doctors.

Both he and Blanche were great fans of the Cambridge athletic department, always had a car for transportation to the other towns. He always took his little black bag to the games in case of an injury to one of the players. Blanche was active in the community, formed a women's basketball team, and they played several games. She was a star forward at her high school in Viola, Kansas.

John Harrington, Class of 1936, married Lee Ann Brooks from Burden in 1941. They have two children, Suzanne and John Brooks. Suzanne has two children, Laine and Jason. Brooks has two children, Katherine and John Clayton, and a step daughter, Elizabeth. Lee Ann died November 16, 1992.

Audra married Earl M. Kezer in 1946. They had no children. They do have dogs. Their interest is in airplanes. Earl Kezer passed away in March 1999.

Alice married Harold E. Schreider in 1945. They have three daughters, Audra, Marilyn and Sandra. Audra is the mother of Kimberly. Kimberly has one daughter, Laura. Marilyn has one daughter, Rebecca. Sandra has two daughters, Erika and Stephanie.

Before coming to Cambridge, Dr. Green and Blanche had triplets that were born prematurely, with none surviving. In 1933, son, Ronald (Class of 1951) was born.

Dr. Green and Blanche contributed much to Cambridge and were loved by many. They left Cambridge to retire to the mountains ~ a love they both shared. They are greatly missed!

(Submitted by Alice Green Schreiber, Class of 1939.)

ROSTER - C. H. S. HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADE TEACHERS

ZED CRAFT

C. H. S. GRADUATE ROSTER

Class 1921

CHARTER MEMBERS Sept 1917
LEONE BLANCHE ADKINS	LITA ANETTE GAILEY Pitman See Note
BEULAH MARIE RYAN	B: 25 Aug 1902
FELIX DAVIS	D: 14 Aug 1991
THELMA DAVIS	Bd: Dewey, OK cern
OPAL THOMAS

Class 1922

HUBERT HICKS GAILEY	LEONE BLANCHE ADKINS Gailey
B: 28 Jan 1904	B: 17 Jun 1902 See Note
D: 18 Mar 1987	D: 17 Apr 1994
Bd: Highland Park Mausoleum	Bd: Highland Park Mausoleum
Kansas City, KS	Kansas City, KS
THELMA HENRIETTE HOWARD	BEULAH MARIE RYAN
B: 31 Oct 1904	B: 02 Jan 1900
D: 04 Mar 1922	D: 15 Mar 1980
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern

Class of 1923

ERNEST EUGENE EVANS	CECIL ROBB
B: 06 Sep 1904
D: 17 Dec 1962
Bd: Tulsa, Oklahoma
PAUL FRANCIS CLOVER	EVA MAY CROW O'Daniel
B: 03 Oct 1904	B: 06 Oct 1903
D: 11 Sep 1974	D: 13 Sep 1973
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Highland cern, Winfield, KS
RALPH HOVEY	JESSIE BOOTH Callison
B: 01 Apr 1907	B: 25 Sep 1904
D: 16 Jul 1985	D: 27 Aug 1976
Bd: Crest Lawn cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cerm
Ellicot City, MD
	GRACE K. BELDEN
RAYMOND BOOTH	B: 03 Mar 1903
B: 20 Apr 1906	D: 07 Jul 1997
D: 19 Dec 1991	Bd: Highland cerm, Winfield, KS
Bd: Sun Lake, AZ (Cremated)

Class of 1924

VERA MOYER Young	ANNETA BLANCH SIMONS Tomlin
B: 11 Jul 1906	B: 02 Nov 1906
D: 27 Feb 1987	D: 10 May 1995
Bd: Rest Haven cern,	Bd: Memorial Lawn cern
Wichita, KS	Arkansas City, KS
LOUIA ANN UTT Hart
B: 25 Oct 1907
D: 17 Jan 1994
Bd. Beaumont East cern
Beaumont, KS

Class of 1925

FRANCIS H (JIMMY) KOLDE	LESTER McCrabb
B: 28 Dec 1905	B: 21 Aug 1907
D: Jun 198	D: 21 Dec 1987
Bd: Hamilton, OH cem	Bd: Cleora, OK cern
LOUISE SHEETS Cranston	NOLAN R. CHAMBERS
B: 18 Nov 1906	B: 05 Jul 1905
D: 21 Jan 1990	D: 05 Feb 1994
Bd: Cambridge, KS cem	Bd: Dexter, KS cern
IRIS DOHERTY Savage	EARL HOWARD
4831 64th St( Last	B: 26 Mar 1906
Sacramento, CA 95820 Address )	D: 09 Feb 1993
	Bd: Memorial Park cern
OPAL IRENE HENDRICKSON Ankrom	Bartlesville, OK
B: 14 Dec 1906
D: 20 Nov 1960	FARRELL RUSSELL HOLT
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	B: 13 Jul 1903
	D: 06 May 1968
WARD E. BOOTH	Bd: Highland Park cern
B: 09 Jun 1908	Pittsburgh, KS
D: 26 Aug 1965
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	ANDERSONBRUCE CLOVER
	B: 06 Sep 1906
OWEN ARTHUR ANKROM	D: 20 Apr 1983
B: 30 Dec 1903	Bd: Bellmont Memorial cern,
D: 25 Feb 1969	Fresno, CA
Bd: Cambridge KS cern

Class of 1926

ELIZABETH CLOVER Hancock	GLADYS GAILEY Johnson
B: 29 Nov 1907	B: 25 Jun 1907
D: Feb 1990	D: 11 Mar 1990
Last address- Gladewater, TX	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
ARTHUR BEN CROUCHSee Note	ERNEST STEWARD
B: 21 Jun 1904	B: 21 Apr 1906
D: 01 Mar 1991	D: 05 Apr 1995
Bd: Jerome, ID cern	Last address Midland, TX
BASIL LEE ADKINS	CECIL A. HENDRICKSON
B: 29 Jan 1908	B: 28 Sep 1908
D: 18 Aug 1976	D: 04 Aug 1995
Bd: Burden, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
HUGH JACK BOLACK	MINA V. BOLACK Dean
B: 07 Feb 1906	B: 14 Feb 1908
D: 18 Oct 1964	D: 16 Mar 1992
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern

Class of 1927

LETA SIMONS Davis	VELVA MAHAN
B: 24 Dec 1910	B: 18 Nov 1907
D: 12 Aug 1983	D: 24 Dec 1968
Bd: Memorial Lawn cern	Bd: South Prairie cern
Arkansas City, KS	Cambridge, KS
ALICE YARBROUGH London	MELBURN JOHN GAILEY
B:23 Feb 1905	B: 14 Jul 1909
D: Mar 1950	D: 20 Mar 1995
Bd: Livermore, CA	Bd: Alva Municipal cern Alva, OK
MARY LOVINA HOLT Hatchett	MURIEL DIXON Lockhart
B: 24 Dec 1908	5357 Belton
D: 03 Sep 1995	Abilene, TX 79607
Bd: Augusta, KS

Class of 1928

JESSIE JANE FROM Ellis	ROSS BELDEN
B: 07 Aug 1909	B: 01 May 1912
D: 16 Jan 1999	D: 15 Apr 1944
Bd: Orlando - Mulhall cern	Bd: Memorial Lawn cern
Guthrie, OK	Arkansas City, KS
HAZEL BELDEN Clover
B: 19 Oct 1909
D: 27 Apr 2003
Bd: Cambridge, Ks cem
DORIS GRAHAM Killingsworth	VELMA BERTRAND Booth
B: 10 Dec 1907	B: 04 Apr 1909
D: 26 Jul 1984	D: 07 Feb 1997
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS Cern

Class of 1929

WINIFRED JACKSON Trenton	WILLIAM SUMNER
B: 14 Oct 1911	B: 29 Mar 1910
D: 13 Dec 1995	D: 08 Dec 1996
Bd: Hawley, OK cern	Last Address-Jerome, ID
EURENA J. FARRIS Tunison	MARGIE ARLENE BROWN Burge
B: 27 Apr 1912	B: 21 Nov 1910
D: 05 Sep 2000	D: 13 Nov 1971
Bd: (Cremated) Davisburg, MI	Bd: Cambridge, Ks cern
VERNON THOMAS CLOVERSee Note	MAYME BERTRAND Hendrickson
B: 22 Apr 1910	B: 15 Feb 1911
D: 29 Jul 1988	D: 26 Nov 2004
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, Ks cern
DON ROBINSON	HILWA RAZOOK Wehba
B:06 Jan 1912	B: 11 Aug 1911
D: 1929	D: 13 Mar 1974
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Fairlawn cem, Okla. City, OK

Class of 1930

KENNETH DANIELS	GLADYS SUMNER Wesbrooks
B: 15 Jun 1912	B: 16 Dec 1911
D: 18 Dec 1961	D: 16 Dec 1991
Bd: Blackwell, OK cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
EDMOND M. MILLER	CLAY JOSHUA SMITHSee Note
B: 01 Nov 1911	B: 11 Sep 1914
D: 05 Jun 1993	D: 05 Mar 2002
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, Ks cem
ORAN BERKLEY BOOTH	FLORA HANKINS Booth
B: 05 Oct 1913	B: 23 Feb 1912
D: 28 Nov 2002	D: 08 Apr 2001
Bd: Cambridge cem.	Bd: Cambridge, Ks cem

Class of 1931

BLANCHE LORAINE BEAMER Campbell	LAMAR CLIFTON BROWN
B: 18 Dec 1913	B: 08 Nov 1912
D: 05 Oct 2002	D: 04 Dec 1981
Bd: Highland Cem. Winfield, Ks	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
LEILA ANN HOLT	TOM HENRY BROWN
B: 09 Jan 1913	B: 31 Jan 1915
D: 09 Jan 1980	D: 03 July 1980
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
MARY HENDRICKSON Taylor	ALLENE CALDWELL Cooprider
B: 13 Jul 1913	B: 13 Feb 1913
D: 21 Jun 1972	D: 31 Jan 1993
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Chapel Hill cern
	Oklahoma City, OK
RUTH ALINE LOGSDON Benjamin
815 West 6th Street,	FRANK RAY BOLACK
Apt 7 Halstead, KS 67056-2157	B: 12 Nov 1912
Tel: 620-835-3555	D: 30 Jan 1986
	Bd: Mt Calvary cern Eunice, LA

Class of 1932

HOWARD BRUBAKER	VERN CLIFTON BUD SUMNER
B: 27 Feb 1914	B: 26 Oct 1913
D: 22 Dec 1997	D: 15 Jan 1982
Last address- Calexico, CA	Bd: Burden, KS cern
GEORGE LIONEL DIXIE ADKINS	ORVILLE B. SYMPSON
B: 14 Sep 1915	B: 15 Jun 1912
D: 31 Dec 1975	D: 24 Jan 1984
Bd: Salem, OR cern	Bd: Tisdale, KS cern
MARINE M. FARRIS	JAMES JACKSON
B: 18 Nov 1912	B: 01 Jan 1916
D: 13 Feb 1995	D: 12 Mar 1994
Bd: Wichita Park cern	Bd: Montrose, VA cern
Wichita, KS
	MILDRED BENJAMIN Beum See Note
LYLE HENDRICKSON	B: 04 Jul 1914
B: 18 Mar 1915	D: 07 Feb 1969
D: 18 Sep 2005	Los Angeles, CA
Texas
	MARGARET ELLEN WALDROUPE Scott
FRANCES SIMONS Langley	B: 21 Feb 1915
B: 14 Dec 1915	D: 13 Oct 2004
D: 11 July 1980	Bd: Winfield, Ks Mount Vernon Cem
Bd: Newkirk, OK cern
	THEODORE ROOSEVELT FROMM
	4947 Blue Water Circle
	Granbury, TX 76049-1752
	Tel: 817-573-4275

Class of 1933

VIRGIL JACKSON SUMNER	FLOSSIE BROWN Walker
B: 03 Nov 1915	B: 12 Nov 1915
D: 30 Mar 1992	D: 28 Oct 1995
Bd: Cremated -	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
ashes thrown off San Francisco bridge
	ROBERT EARL FROMM
	B: 13 Feb 1916
	D: World War II

Class of 1934

CHARLOTTE TREADWAY Wright	FRANK DOLAN COOK JR.
B: 09 Nov 1915	B: 23 July 1914
D: 08 Feb 1961	D: 19 Dec 1981
Bd: Old Mission cern,	Bd: White Chapel Memorial Garden,
Wichita, KS	Wichita, KS
EVELYN ALICE HAMMER Watt	MARIE GREISHAR
1502 Cherry
Winfield, KS	ROBERT CRAFT
Tel: 620-221-4355	B: 01 May 1916
ewatt@cox.net	D: 07 Feb 1976
	Bd: St Mary's cern, Perry, OK

Class of 1935

WILLIS L. HARLAN	HAZEL ERNESTINE CRAFT Newton
4014 Parkway Court	110 Pearl Street
Lawrence, KS 66046	Cambridge, KS 67023
Tel: 913-749-0994	Tel: 620-467-2775
GEORDON HALLET FROMM	DOLLY E. YINGLING Hillier
B: 03 May 1918	B: 01 Apr 1906
D: 17 Sep 1995	D: 03 Jun 1995
Bd: Parker cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
Arkansas City, KS
	AUDINE MILLER Cullumber
BLANCH NADINE HILLIER Williford	B: 20 July 1917
8420 Fernando Way	D: 27 July 1996
Elverta, CA 95626-9548	Bd: Osawatornie, KS cern
Tel: 916-991-5607
	FRANKIE GLEN BRUNTON
THELMA SUMNER Gallagher	B: 24 Aug 1915
B: 10 Mar 1918	D: 25 May 1972
D: 03 Jan 1967	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
Bd: Littleton, CO cern
	PAULINE LOGSDON Mosier
OPAL ELLEN McClure Fromm	B: 18 May 1917
B: 25 Jul 1915	D: 27 Sept 1997
D: 04 Nov 2000	Bd: Maple City, KS cern
Bd: Remains donated, Baylor
College School of Dentistry

Class of 1936

BETHEL DWYER Swan	JOHN C. HARRINGTON
Box 761	4173 Barcelone Drive
Hugoton, KS 67951	Ft Worth, Tx 76133
	Tel: 817-292-4503
ESTHER SIMONS Johns
B: 02 Sep 1919	FORREST SMITH BEAMER
D: 18 Nov 1989	B: 28 Sept 1917
Bd: Service in Conroe, TX	D: 16 Oct 1991
	Bd: South Prairie cern
CLARENCE RAMBO	Cambridge, KS
3828 Blue Ridge Blvd.
Independence, MO 64052	JAMESEDDIE FOX, JR.
	B: 23 Apr 1918
BROOKSIE A. FRANCE Peyton	D: 07 Oct 1992
3315 Tuxedo Blvd	Bd: Fort Worth, TX funeral
Bartlesville, OK 74006-2232
Tel: 918-333-6496	DALE DALE HENDRICKSON
	B: 07 Jun 1919
HARRY LEE GROOM	D: 30 Oct 1988
B: 10 Sep 1917	Bd: Highland cern Winfield, KS
D: 15 Dec 1996
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern

Class of 1937

LUCILE BRUBAKER Huebert	PAUL HAROLD BRUNTON
B: 12 Dec 1918	B: 03 Mar 1919
D: 31 Aug 1994	D: 21 July 1967
Bd: Halstead, KS cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
RAYMOND BRUNTON	ELSIE CARRIER Whiteman
308 West Grand Avenue	B: 25 Sep 1918
Tonkawa, OK 74653-3030	D: 09 Nov 1999
Tel: 580-628-3546	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
VIRGINIA JEAN LEE Yarbrough	MAURICE CULLUMBER
3884 263rd Drive	B: 12 Jun 1919
Atlanta, KS 67008-9054	D: 04 Dec 1989
Tel: 620-394-2439	Bd: Osawatomie, KS cern
IVA ALICE PRATHER CLOVER	JOHN HILLIER
B: 22 Jan 1899	B: 07 Aug 1918
D: 05 Apr 1970	D: 21 Jul 2001
Bd: Bellmont Memorial cern	Bd: Ogelthorpe Memorial Park
Fresno, CA	Hinesville, GA
	DEAN KYSER
	B: 15 Aug 1918
	D: 24 Dec 1948
	Bd: Grenola, KS cern

Class of 1938

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BETH LORRAINE EDWARDS	CLEO WILFRED CULLUMBER
B: 22 Jun 1920	B: 01 Sep 1920
D: 01 Jun 1990	D: 20 Jan 1999
Bd: South Prairie cern Cambridge, KS	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
CLETA LUCILE LUNDY Crawford	RALPH KENNETH ANKROM
B: 11 Sep 1920	B: 20 Sep 1920
D: 31 Oct 2004	D: 05 Jun 1961
Bd: Mooreland, OK Cem	Hanston, KS cern
LAVERNE NADINE COOK Burns	MARGARET JONES Yarbrough
B: 30 Jan 1920	B: 23 Mar 1919
D: 03 Sep 1996	D: 16 Feb 1999
Bd: Forrest Lawn Memorial Park cern,	Bd: Livermore, CA cern
Covina, CA
	FLORA ALDINE HARRIS McClure
GERTRUDE FOX Methvin	B: Apr 23 1920
4001 E Blake	D: Jul 20 2006
Wichita, KS 67218	Bd: Greenlawn Cem. Grenola, Ks
Tel: 620-686-0321
RICHARD LEE	JUNE ETTA RAMAGE Gillespie
3820 263rd Drive	Box 133
Atlanta, KS 67008-9054	Moline, KS 67353
Tel: 620-394-2321	Tel: 620-647-3412
ALFRED RAY BROWN, JR.	FAYE IRENE BEAMER Griffith
B: 29 May 1919	B: 13 Jul 1920
D: 09 Feb 2001	D: 25 Dec 1989
Bd: Cambridge, KS cem	Bd: Fort Smith, AR cern
	CALVIN ELWOOD WHITEY FRANCE
NOLA GROOM Neidert	B: 20 Mar 1919
B: 21 Sep 1920	D: 25 Apr 1991
D: 22 Feb 1998	Bd: Riverview cern
Bd: Wilmot, KS cern	Arkansas City, KS
RUTH YARBROUGH Bovard
B: 07 Sep 1918
D: 19 Sep 1946
Bd: Livermore, CA cem

Class of 1939

JEAN WADE Nibarger	ALICE GREEN Schreiber
B: 03 May 1922	8332 Georgia SeeNote
D: 28 Mar 2000	Kansas City, KS 66109
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Tel: 913-788-7459
CECIL CARRIER	AUDRA GREEN Kezer Se Note
B: Oct 17 1920	B: 19 May 1921
D: Oct 27 2008	D: 17 Nov 2006
Bd:	Bd:
DOTT NEWMAN Hillier	WALLACE BROWN
104 MacArthur Road	B: 30 Dec 1921
Hinesville, GA 31313	D: 17 Sep 1960
Tel: 912-876-3283	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
MARVEL M. PRATHER Knight	RENE VARDY
B: 29 Jun 1921	B: 17 Feb 1921
D: 14 Jul 2002	D: 09 Jun 1952
Bd: Cremated (remains to Hawaii)	Bd: Spring Township cern
	Anthony, KS
MARION PAUL MATHEWS
1810 E 13th St
Winfield, KS 67156	TAVIS KELSO Wilson
Tel: 620-221-0029	607 Idyllwiled
	Rialto, CA 92376
HAROLD BUD SUTTON	RUTH CLOVER Ashenfelter
B: 14 Jun 1920	B: 05 Jul 1921
D: 18 Mar 1988	D: 08 Apr 2003
Bd: Fairlawn cern	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
Hutchinson, KS
	ELIZABETH HIGBEE Wallace
GLENDORIS BRUNTON Mundy	B: 02 Jan 1922
2669 Indian Road	D: 05 Mar 1995
Sedan, KS 67361	Bd: Cremated
Tel: 620-725-5455
	STANLEY GIBSON HAMMER
VIOLET CRAFT Kunkle	B: 17 Jun 1921
B: 04 Apr 1921	D: 12 Jul 2007
D: 09 Apr 2001	Bd: Dexter, Ks Cem
Bd: Memorial Lawn cem
Arkansas City, KS
OPAL SOUTHARD Blizard
B: Mar 23 1921
D: Aug 06 2004

Class of 1940

	GENEVA JO HARRIS Todd
GAROLD PARSONS	Belle Plaine Apt. #6
B: 14 Sep 1920	Belle Plaine, KS 67013-9101
D: 22 Feb 1986	Tel: 620-488-1150
Bd: Floral Haven cern Tulsa, OK
	OPAL ORBISON Love
GEORGE MILLER	B: 07 Jun 1920
1314 Spring Circle	D: 04 April 1994
Haysville, KS 67060	Bd: Dexter, KS cern
Tel: 316-529-1622
	PHYLLIS HARLAN McEldowney
AVONDEL TURNEY Keith	1525 Medinah Road
B: 22 Feb 1923	Lawrence, KS 66047
D: 12 July 1990	Tel: 785-843-8568
Bd: Bellevue Memorial Park cern	PMceld5638@cs.com
Ontario, CA
	EVERETTE LEROY SOUTHARD
NORMA LUNDY Staton	2454 Fairmont Way
1816 Kensington Drive	Carson City, NV 89706
Carrollton, TX 75007-2621	Tel: 775-882-5041
Tel: 972-492-6095	Struzz1922@aol.com
	BILL LOREN LEDGERWOOD, Sr.
	B: 26 Oct 1922
	D: 18 Aug 2000
	Bd: Cambridge, KS cem

Class of 1941

ALVA BERNAUD	MAXENE SUTTON Champ
B: 23 Mar 1923	B: 08 Jan 1923
D: 17 Apr 1995	D: 31 Mar 2007
Bd: Higgins, TX cern	Bd: Cambridge, Ks Cem
GERALDINE CULLUMBER Peterson	EDNA ORBISON Heilig
B: 20 Oct 1923	B: 11 Jun 1918
D: 26 Nov 2005	D: 11 Sep 1993
Bd: Hutchinson, KS Fairlane Burial Park	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
CLEO IRENE ANKROM Brook	GEORGE WILBUR THARP
10209 241 st Road SeeNote	B: 21 Jun 1921
Burden, KS 67019	D: 27 Aug 2004
Tel: 620-438-2971	Bd: Winfield Highland Cem
EMORY ALTON DWYER	PHYLLIS PARSONS Binford
B: 25 Oct 1922	B: 23 Apr 1923
D: 27 Aug 2004	D: 14 Feb 1997
Bd: Whittier, CA Rose Hills	Last address-Broken Arrow, OK

Class of 1942

	HUBERT HOVEY
	B: 25 Nov 1924
	D: 02 Mar 1996
	Bd: Prairie Grove cern
	Cottonwood Falls, KS
LORNA JUNE EDWARDS Howes
P 0 Box 1213	WINIFRED LUNDY LeSuer
Arizona City, AZ 85223-1213	B: 24 May 1924
Cell Phone: 520-466-9226	D: 24 Nov 2001
Thehoweshouse@aol.com	Bd: (Cremated) Heart shaped
stone on Lundy Graves
JACK D. SUTTON	Cambridge, KS cem
4627 Monterrey Circle
Las Vegas, NY 89109-7123
Tel: 702-798-5285
EDITH PEARL WHITBECK Fedderson	BEVERLY
JUNE HENDRICKSON	2210 North Madison
Redford	El Dorado, Ar. 71730
B: 02 Jun 1924	Tel. 501-863-4353
NADINE VIOLA KELSO Peters	Bd: Cambridge, KS cem
NADINE VIOLA KELSO Peters	PHYLLIS JEAN BRUNTON Wade
BARBARA JOANNE BROWN	Ledgerwood
2794 4th Street	1401 E 3rd Avenue, #105
Livermore, CA 94550	Durango, CO 81301
Tel: 415-447-3072	Tel: 303-259-4364
	bledger@frontier.net
FRANCES O'DANIEL Long	LEWIS PICKENS
B: 13 Aug 1923	Cumbernauld Village
D: 06 May 1994	716 North Tweed, Apt 319
Bd: Oakdale Memorial Lawn cern	Winfield, KS 67156
Glendora, CA	Tel: 620-229-8301
	lewpick1@gmail.com

Class of 1943

RICHARD LEO JONESSee Note	ROBERT DEAN WADE
1712 North Walnut Creek	B: Oct 28 1925
Derby, KS 67037	D: Feb 16 2009
Tel: 316-788-0639	Bd: Greenlawn Cem Grenola, KS
PAULINE ROSS Lukl	MARTHA JEAN LOGSDON Asbury
220 North I Street	716 Tweed, Apt 310
Lakeview, OR 97630	Winfield, KS 67156
Tel: 541-947-3478	Tel: 620-221-8937
JAMES IVEN LEDGERWOOD	LUELLA SPHAR Finch
B: 06 Mar 1925	22 Rainbow Drive
D: 22 Jun 1997	Athens, IL 62613-9438
Bd: Whitewater, Ks cern
	LESTER BERNAUD
JIM TURNEY	B: 03 Jun 1925
B: 09 Apr 1925	D: 29 Jan 2001
D: 27 Aug 2001	Bd: Gate of Heaven cem
Bd: Greenwood cem	Trumbull, Fairfield, CT
Oatville, KS
	SHELTON RAY OLMSTEAD
	1020 Vanton Way
	Roseville, CA 95747
	Tel: 916-774-1022

Class of 1944

DOROTHY HENDRICKSON McConnell	VIRGINIA ASHCRAFT Snodgrass
PO Box 20125 See Note	307 Milky Way
Wichita, KS 67208	Guthrie, OK 73044
Tel: 316-682-3610	Tel: 405-282-7659
shoxfan@attg.net
ILA MAE KESTER Asbury	RAY BARGER
B: May 15 1823	B: 22 Aug 1926
D: Oct 22 2008	D: 30 Mar 1984
Bd: Burden, Ks Cem	Bd: Greenwood, MS cem
CHARLES ROACH
431 Aspen Drive
Ernporia, KS 66801-4669
Tel: 316-343-9855
laroach@valu-line.net

Class of 1945

ROBERT BURNS BRANSON	MARY LOU BROWN Ashcraft
Box 369See Note	JAMES ASHCRAFTSee Note
Abita Springs, LA 70420-0369	607 Sunflower
Tel: 504-982-6194	Agusta, KS 67010
HELLIK@aol.corn
CLAUDIA ANN BAIRD Barnickle	BILLIE LEE NAUGLE Foote
770 West McArthur #336	309 West Main Street
Wichita, KS 67217-3664	Cambridge, KS 67023-9761
Tel: 316-529-3225	Tel: 620-467-2460
NORMA JEAN BALLIN Wade	GLENNIS TURNEY Rothharnmer
14101 131st Road	B: 17 April 1927
Winfield, KS 67156	D: 18 Dec 1990
Tel: 620-221-3186	Bd: Resthaven Garden Wichita, KS
JOE McChesney	MELBA LOUISE LUNDY Walta
B: 03 Jun 1927	B: 05 Feb 1927
D: 29 Apr 1999	D: 18 Jan 2005
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	Bd: Afton Township Cem, Goddard, Ks
AMIL VINCENT LUNDY	MARILYNN LEE Vietti
221 Hawkins Street	735 North Leonard
Cambridge, KS 67023	Girard, KS 66743
Tel: 620-467-2323	Tel: 316-724-8408

Class of 1946

ELLIS HAWLEY
2524 Washington Street	BEECHER JOE BRUNTON
Iowa City, IA 52245	619 Oak Street
Tel: 319-351-1805	Burden, KS 67019
e-hawley@worldnet.att.net	Tel: 620-438-2528
RAY EUGENE ANKROM	BERKLEY CULLUMBER
B: 08 Apr 1928	: 03 Apr 1928
D: 22 Dec 2002	D: 03 Nov 1982
Bd: Burden, Ks cern	Bd: Greensburg, KS cern
VERLA SPHAR Whiternan	ESTA LEE HOWE Brunton
725 Elm Street	B: 11 May 1929
Burden, KS 67019	D: 30 May 2008
Tel: 620-438-2410	Bd: Cambridge, Ks Cem
	DAN CLYDE TREDWAY
	B: 25 Nov 1930
	D: 28 Aug 2003
Bd: Gunnison CO. Cem

Class of 1947

CAROL ANN TURNEY Huston	MARGIE CRAFT Fox
Box 151	1911 Fuller
Woodland Park, CO 80866	Winfield, KS 67156
Tel: 303-687-2146	Tel: 620-221-1444
cthuston@pcisys.net
	MARY A. JORDAN Ankrom
LLOYD IVAN BARGER	11785 181 st Road
1162 Andover Drive	Burden, KS 67019
Pearland, TX 77584	Tel: 620-438-2272
Tel: 713-436-2343
	WILLIAMGEORGE FOX
DONALD OLMSTEAD	5902 281st Road
B: 29 Aug 1929	Cambridge, KS 67023
D: 04 May 1974	Tel: 620-467-2625
Bd: National cern Ft Leavenworth, KS
	ELEANOR GOODRICH Bair
ALVIN EARL BALLIN	23819 152nd Road
31334 U S Highway 160	Burden, KS 67019
Cambridge, KS 67023	Tel: 620-438-2569
Tel: 620-467-2663

Class of 1948

	ROBERT WADLEIGH
RETTA ANN DINING Hess	(whereabouts unknown)
B: 10 Dec 1929
D: 25 Oct 1998	a name="MAXINE LOGSDON Tredway"MAXINE LOGSDON Tredway
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	1117 Menor
	Winfield, KS 67156-3541
	Tel: 620-221-9454
DUANE O. NELSON
B: 12 Mar 1930	MABEL ORBISON Critzer
D: 31 Oct 1977	B: 26 Oct 1930
Bd: Mt Hope cern Sumner County, KS	D: 22 Jan 1973
	Bd: Bixby, OK cern
ARCHIE EUGENE DWYER
12155 Main Street	RICHARD E. TREDWAY
Fort Jones, CA 96032	135 Redbud Drive
Tel: 530-468-2700	Winfield, KS 67156
	Tel: 620-221-9361
JUANITA GATELY Doolittle
B: 18 Feb 1930
D: 22 Jun 1992
Bd: White Chapel Memorial Gardens
Wichita, KS

Class of 1949

RUTH JANETTE BRUNTON	VIRGINIA HOWE Trogdon
8682 Wicklow Lane	317 South Main
Dublin, CA 94568-1148	Grenola, KS 67346-9719
Tel: 925-828-1486	Tel: 620-358-2325
ALBERTA ROWE McChesney	BERTHA YINGLING Anders
Box 207	1317 Shirley Street
Dexter, KS 67038-0207	Gonzales, LA 70737
Tel: 620-876-5637	Tel: 225-647-2458
bertiemac31@yahoo.com
	BEULAH Schooley McClintock
CAROL ANN WADLEIGH Kern	2128 Blue creek
1011 E 111 th Street	Parkway Norman, OK 73026-3919
Jenks, OK 74037-2055	Tel: 405-321-2800
Tel: 918-299-4635

Class of 1950

LAWRENCE HOLT	PATRICIA DOVE Kiley
113 South County Road 7	6907 Ponderosa Drive
Cambridge, KS 67023	Little Rock, AR 72116
Tel: 620-467-2773	Tel: 501-835-1021
MARY ANN WOOD Vidricksen	LOLA GOODAILE Neal
4667 State Highway 64 West	% Tim Neal
Henderson, TX 75652	1204 South C Street
	Wellington, KS 67152

Class of 1951

RONALD GREENSee Note	CAROL ROWE Jordan
806 Sunnybrook Lane	Box 68
Baytown, TX 77521	Grenola, KS 67346
Tel: 361-576-2438 ??	Tel: 620-358-2790
GEORGE L. CUB BAIR	CAROL ALLISON Stegelman
B: 18 Jan 1932	B: 13 May 1933
D: 19 Dec 1983	D: 05 Jan 2004 - Cremated
Bd: Highland cern Winfield, KS	Bd: Laramie, WY Cem
MARVIN HANCOCK	DONNA SCHOOLEY Hagen
327 Highland Drive	B: 20 Jul 1934
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-1112	D: 06 Oct 1979
: 805-546-9276	Bd: Kansas City,
BOB D. Bob LUNDY	SYLVIA COOK
701 Walnut	B: 31 Jan 1933
Burden, KS 67019	D: 03 Feb 1992
Tel: 620-438-2959	Denver, CO
	Bd: Cremated -
CHARLOTTE WADE Parker	Ashes scattered in mountains
B: 23 Feb 1932
D: 26 Feb 1979	MAXINE HOLT Anello
Bd: Elk Falls, KS cern	B: 23 Dec 1933
	D: 07 Oct 1990
	Bd: Ray town, MO cern

Class of 1952

DOROTHY HAWLEY Keplinger	RONALD ALLISON
2102 Road 2See Note	Rt 1, Box 87
Grenola, KS 67346-9011	Grenola, KS 67346
Tel: 620-358-3241	Tel: 620-358-3225
dmkeplinger@yahoo.corn
	ALMA JEAN TAYLOR Wallace
LYNN HIGGINS BROWN	1031 Bowman
8924 Grandview Drive	Borger, TX 79007
Overland Park, KS 66212	Tel: 806-273-5023
Tel: 913-381-8244	alma_jean@hotrnail.corn
BILL ATKINS	ROBERT ATKINS
3232 South Clifton	2923 South Serene
Lot 294 Wichita, KS 67216	Joplin, MO 64804
	Tel: 417-782-9136
DON BAIR
B: 29 Aug 1934	ALTA JEAN O'BRIEN Olvera
D: 31 Mar 1997	B: 25 Oct 1933
Bd: Laurel Land Memorial Park	D: 18 May 1996
Dallas, TX	Bd: Wichita, KS Rest Haven cern
CECIL SHORE	ARLENE BOOTH Thompson
408 Caney	Box 152
PO Box 431	Otis, KS 67565-0152
Cedar Vale, KS 67024	Tel: 785-387-2407
Tel: 620-758-2578
	RANDALL WATT
JAYNELL HIGBEE Feaster	12691 253rd Road
1010 E 11th Street	Cambridge, KS 67023
Winfield, KS 67156	Tel: 620-467-2715
Tel: 620-221-1394
jaynell@horizon.hit.net	FRED WADLEIGH
	(Last address Alabama)

Class of 1953

JANICE UTT HoagSee Note	ROBERT WAYNE BRUNTONSee Note
1916 Sharon Court	1939 Dallas
Winfield, KS 67156	Wichita, KS 67217
Tel: 620-221-0669	Tel: 316-942-5920
hoag@horizon.hit.net
	SHIRLEY HAWLEY Gardner
MARILYN HANCOCK Streater	809 MaresSee Note
6808 E 4th Place See Note	Winfield, KS 67156
Tulsa, OK 74112	Tel: 620-221-4804
Tel: 918-835-1752
	BEVERLY O'BRIEN WhiteSee Note
WAYNE HENDRICKSONSee Note	530 E Poplar Street
31706 Estate Rt B	Arkansas City, KS 67005
Garden City, MO 64747-8293	Tel: 620-442-0743
Tel: 816-430-5540

Class of 1954

MAX ALLI SON	PATRICIA BOOTH Gray
Box 91	Rt 1, Box 120
Grenola, KS 67346	11024 142nd Road
Tel: 620-358-2786	Winfield, KS 67156
	Tel: 620-221-3431
FRANK R. BOLACK
B: 10 Jun 1936	RICHARD WADLEIGH
D: 29 Aug 1979	B: 15 Aug 1936
Bd: Cambridge, KS cern	D: 29 Jan 1976
	Bd: Cambridge, KS cern
JAMES JOHNSON
9805 West 105 Terrace	JAMES ARTHUR GOODRICH
Overland Park, KS 66212	B: 31 Mar 1935
Tel: 913-888-0814	D: 01 Jan 1998
opgolfers@aol.com	Bd: Grace land Memorial Park cern
	Owasso, OK
ARTHUR BOOTH
5260 Shady Lane
Eustace, TX 75124	DORIS MUELLER Emmons
Tel: 903-489-3771	Chestnut Street
	Burden, KS 67019
BETTY TAYLOR Launchbaugh
2208 Green Avenue	DELORES HURLEY Hopper
Manhattan, KS 66502	1101 E 19th St, Apt 6
Tel: 785-776-8730	Winfield, KS 67156
	Tel: 620-221-3048

Class of 1955

BEVERLY HENDRICKSON Brown	JOYCE O'BRIEN Tucker
8924 Grandview Drive	2613 South Ellis
Overland Park, KS 66212	Wichita, KS 67211
Tel: 913-381-8244	Tel: 316-267-8684
DARRELL JOHNSON	MYRNA IRIS ROWE Walton
69 West Redoubt Road	612 Crabapple Court
Fishkill, NY 12524	Muskogee, OK 74403
Tel: 914-897-5494	Tel: 918-682-0232 (Home) 918-348-9296 (Cell)
sbjinfish@aol.corn	MRNABRD@webtv.net
CARL HAWLEY
107 Lazette St,
PO Box 35
Cambridge, KS 67023
Tel: 620-467-2525

Class of 1956

WAUNETA WESBROOKS Hicks	LEE COOK
1331 18th Street N E	11003 West 78th Street
New Philadelphia. OH 44663	Arvada, CO 80005
Tel: 330-339-3487	Tel: 303-423-6661
JEWEL SPHAR Hendrickson	ROBERT RHODES
31706 Estate Rt B	Box 1412
Garden City, MO 64747-8293	King City, CA 93930
Tel: 816-430-5540	Tel: 831-385-0220
	rrhodes@inreach.com
GARY UTT
13511 US 160
Winfield, KS 67156-9208	JUVENE HAWLEY Allison
Tel: 620-221-0894	B: 05 Mar 1938
	D: 10 Oct 2000
EVELYN HURLEY Wisneski	Bd: Greenland cem. Grenola, KS
205 Paseo de Granada
Redondo Beach, CA 90277-6720	ROBERT GERHART FABER
Tel: 310-375-7452	29688 162nd Road
	Cambridge, KS 67023
NANCY LOUISE BOOTH Bair	Tel: 620-876-5200
FRANCIS BAIR
6616 Sausalito	DALE WELDY
West Hills, CA 91307	10018 East Lincoln
Tel: 818-340-4404	Wichita, KS 67201
nbair@thezenith.com	Tel: 316-612-3626
ROGER LYKE	FREDDIE MAY BOLACK Johnson
502 Depot	69 Rockland Drive
Buffalo, KS 66717	Brockton, MA 02301
Tel: 316-537-3460	Tel: 508-583-2748
	frdjoh@aol.com
WILMA MILLER Hicks
B: 25 Feb 1916
D: 26 Oct 1997
Cambridge, KS cern

Class of 1957

CAROLYN ENSLEY Colburn	NORMAN HOLT
4130 S. E. 210th Street	Dexter, KS 67038
Atlanta, KS 67008	Tel: 620-876-5635
Tel: 620-394-2575
	LEROYCE JOHNSON Lather
RAYMOND G. HAWLEY, M. D.	670 Roselle Court
208 West l0 th StreetSee Note	Bay City, MI 48708
Coffeyville, KS 67337	Tel: 517-893-0102
Tel: 620-251-4681	latherl@home.com
BARBARA WADLEIGH Lohrding	LORNA LOU HAWLEY Reed
1109 Williams	113 Blue Jay Lane
Great Bend, KS 67530	Leesville, LA 71446
Tel: 316-793-3920	Tel: 337-239-6169
BEATRICE ALTEMUS

Class of 1958

JACK A. BOLACK	ARMAND HILLIER
6186 West Floyd Avenue	31 Ranch wood
Denver, CO 80227-5445	Augusta, KS 67010
Tel: 303-986-2475	Tel: 316-775-7530
jcarey@vsn.com
RITA ALLISON Baker	SUE DANIELS Smith
30 Harris Drive	9689 281 st Road
Rose Hill, KS 67133	Cambridge, KS 67023
Tel: 316-776-0129	Tel: 620-467-2901
Rita Baker@via-christi.com
	BETTY RHODES Kenum
RICHARD BOOTH	134, Co. Road 344
B: 02 02 1940	Danville, AL 35619
D: 12 01 2008	Tel: 256-350-0085
Bd: Cambridge, KS Cem
	ARTHUR DALE ANKROM
LARRY COOK	Rt 2, Box 13 1110 Grand
5217 Clear Run Drive	Winfield, KS 67156
Wilmington, NC 28403	Tel: 620-221-1289
Tel: 910-793-1969
	VALETA HURLEY Sanborn
FLOYD SMITH	1714 Chicago Avenue
B: 08 Oct 1940	Winfield, KS 67156
D: 08 Aug 2005	Tel: 620-221-3261
Bd: Cambridge, Ks Cem

Class of 1959

LYLA BETH COOK Olden	BETTY WILLIAMS Barker
16100 Van Akin Blvd, Suite 408	14447 S W 180 Street
Shaker Heights, OH 44120-5305	Rose Hill, KS 67133
Tel: 216-561-3436	Tel: 316-747-2600
JOE HAWLEY	MARILYN HURLEY Varner
4801 Trapp Drive	212 South Nevada
Del City, OK 73115	Wichita, KS 67209
Tel: 405-672-2436	Tel: 316-941-4049
VERNA ALLISON Brooks	DONALD J. FABER
518 North School Street	4124 Westport
Sedan, KS 67361	Wichita, KS 67212
Tel: 620-725-3653	Tel: 316-942-8598
willb@horizon.hit.net

Class of 1960

MICHAEL BOLACK	JAMES BOOTH
8639 South Allison Street	Box 941
Littleton, CO 80128-6202	New Strawn, KS 66839
Tel: 303-972-3272	Tel: 620-364-8015
	jbooth@kans.com
RONALD GENE WADLEIGH
B: 03 Aug 1942	JUDY HOWE Rakestraw
D: 11 Sep 2004	2215 Crestline Drive
Bd: Unknown	Winfield, KS 67156
	Tel: 620-221-4980
JUDY E. McChesney
2425 East Flower
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Tel: 509-326-4959

Class of 1961

MICHAEL ENSLEY	JERRY COOK See Note
20835 Liberty Lane	B: 01 Nov 1943
Claremore, OK 74017	D: 06 Dec 1976
Tel: 918-343-3405	Bd: Stafford, KS cern

Class of 1962

BETTY LUCE Hawley	RICHARD HAWLEY
646 Broad moor	9706 Aboite Center Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017	Fort Wayne, IN 46804
	Tel: 219-432-4636
RICHARD HAWLEY	yesimold@aol.com
Latham, KS 67072
	TERRY BOLINE
CARROLL KRUG	1106 East 19th St
300 MAPLE	Winfield, KS 67156
PO Box 100	Tel: 620-221-3215
Cambridge, KS 67023
	SCOTT PARISH
DALE BLANKENBAKER	Rt 3, Box 53
Box 219	Chanute, KS 66720-9140
Felt, OK 73937-0219	Tel: 620-431-0354
Tel: 580-426-2421
	ERNEST HULL
FLOYD BRUNTON	419 West Main Street
Wichita, KS	Cambridge, KS 67023
	Tel: 620-467-2723
VIRGIL DENNETT
711 E 17th St	VERNON DENNETT
Winfield, KS 67156	12097 201 at Road
Tel: 620-221-9485	Burden, KS 67019
	Tel: 620-438-2326
CHARLENE STEWART McFadden	vernandsuedennett@sktc.com

Class of 1963

SHIRLEY HENSLEY Bradford	SANDRA FRANK Staton
	PO Box 42944
CLIFFORD ALLISON	Tuscon, AZ 88573
B 1334, HC31	Tel: 520-321-1478
Roswell, N M 88201	sandrastaton@aol.com
Tel: 505-623-7555
	WILDA ALLISON Curtwright

In memory of Jerry Cook, Class of 1961

Jerry was the youngest child of Marion and Beth Cook. He was born November 01, 1943 in Cambridge, Kansas. He attended the Cambridge Schools, graduating with the Class of 1961. Older brothers and sisters who preceded Jerry in graduating from Cambridge High School were Sylvia in 1951, Lee in 1956, Larry in 1958 and Lyla Beth in 1959. Michael Ensley was the only other graduate with Jerry in 1961. He remembers the times he spent with Jerry as classmates, in church, baseball, basketball, scouts, etc. Michael comments that Jerry was extremely smart. The fact that he went on to post graduate work at U. T. speaks well for his abilities and the teachers he had while growing up in Cambridge.

Jerry received a bachelor's degree in economics and worked as a teaching assistant and assistant instructor at the University of Texas in Austin from 1966 to 1972. In December of 1977 he was awarded the Meritorious Honor Award by the State Department.

Jerry Cook died in an automobile accident near Antananarivo, Madagascar, on December 06, 1978. He was serving as a foreign affairs economic analyst with the American Embassy at that time. Jerry is buried in the Stafford, Kansas cemetery.

(Submitted by Lee Cook, Class of 1956, Bob Branson, Class of 1945 and Michael Ensley, Class of 1961.)

DEDICATION

We dedicate this publication to Jerry Bankston (Mrs. Vern M.) Case! Jerry attended grades one through six at the Plum Creek school south of Cambridge. She attended the Cambridge school system beginning with her seventh year through and including her junior year of high school. Jerry moved with her Mother to Dexter, Kansas at the end of her junior year, graduating with the Dexter class of 1942.

Jerry was one of the founders of the Cowley County Genealogical Society in January of 1979. She served two four year terms on the Board of Directors of the Arkansas City Public Library. Jerry is a Charter/ Lifetime member of the Friends of the Arkansas City Public Library. She served six years on the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Strip Museum. Jerry is Corresponding Secretary of the Cowley County Genealogical Society which meets monthly at the Cherokee Strip Museum in Arkansas City, Kansas. She has spent many years gathering historical information, working with this information, and helping other individuals who are seeking family history information.

Jerry is the guiding inspiration of this Cambridge High School directory project. with nostalgic ties to the Cambridge school system and with the knowledge of the need to preserve this type of history she has given unselfishly of her time and effort for the project! Her expertise at assimilating and publishing this type of historical information has made this project possible.

Thank you!

Jerry Bankston (Mrs. Vern M.) Case
1712 North sixth Street
P. O. Box 102
Arkansas City, Kansas 67005
Tel: 620-442-5635

ROBERT BRANSON, Class of 1945

Bob was born in 1927 while his parents, De and Alice Branson, were living on a farm five miles south and three miles west of Cambridge. He was the second of three children, having an older brother, Linc, and a younger sister, Mary Alice. The farmhouse where he spent the first five years of his life was removed fifty years ago and the home site is marked now by a grove of trees just north of Kansas Highway 38, slightly more than a half mile west of Grouse Creek.

In 1933, in the midst of the Depression and on President Roosevelt's inauguration day, he moved with his parents to a farm on Grouse Creek which was located eight miles southeast of Latham. He spent his first grade at the one room Glen Grouse country school as one of five students for the entire eight grades. The second through sixth grades were spent in the Latham school.

Another move occurred in 1939 when his parents moved to Cambridge when his father accepted a highway maintenance job with the State. Grades seven through twelve spent in Cambridge. The Bransons lived in four different rental houses in Cambridge during these years.

Bob entered the Army, along with classmate and friend Jim Ashcraft, in July, 1945 and both were stationed together at Camp Fann in, Texas near Tyler for their basic training. Mary Lou came to Tyler in October where she and Jim were married. So, for a short time there were three from the 1945 class in Tyler.

From Camp Fannin, Army travels took Bob to Germany in early 1946. Most of the time in Germany was spent near Bremer haven, a port on the North Sea. In one way this was a fortunate place to be stationed as it afforded the opportunity of meeting travelers coming in and out of Germany. Bob spent Memorial Day of that year with his brother, Linc, who had arrived in Germany as a crew member of a freighter with a wheat cargo. (Food had been scarce for the German populace during the winter of 1946). On Thanksgiving, Jim Ashcraft arrived at the Bremerhaven Staging Area on his way home from Germany to a discharge. Bob and Jim stood in line that holiday for hours waiting for the Army's 'elaborate' Thanksgiving dinner.

The school years 1947 through 1952 were spent at the University of Oklahoma acquiring degrees in geology. Following school in 1952, Bob began a 36 year career with Chevron as a geologist, working assignments in in the Rocky Mountains, the Gulf Coast, the Appalachians, Michigan and the Louisiana Offshore. Following retirement from Chevron he has worked part time for various companies and consulting firms.

Bob and Benjie Hodges were married in Pensacola, Florida in 1961. Benjie, in addition to being a homemaker, has also had careers in teaching and music. They have two sons, Fred and Reed, and two grandchildren. Besides enjoying their grandchildren, their retirement, and traveling, Bob and Benjie are engaged in volunteer work. At the present, both serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children and Bob does tax preparation for the elderly during tax season.

Finally, Bob would like to say that the Cambridge years and the friends he made during those times will always have a special place and meaning to him.

Information furnished by Bob Branson, Box 369, Abita Springs, LA 70420, Tel 504 892 6194

ROBERT BRUNTON

Robert was born Jan 11, 1935 in Cambridge, KS to Susie and Beecher Brunton. He was the ninth of ten children. He attended all twelve years of school at Cambridge.

After graduation, Rob served 2 years in the Armed Forces. After returning from the service, he went to work for Cessna Aircraft. He traveled world wide for them and he learned to fly all the planes they made with the exception of the big jets. He retired 28 February 1990 from his position as Manager of Spare Support in the Marketing Division.

Rob married Peggy Cousins on February 23, 1962. They have two children, Sandra and Lanny and two grandchildren.

Since retirement, he enjoys playing golf and traveling. His frequent travels include a trip once a week back to Cambridge to visit with family and friends.

Submitted by Robert Brunton. 3-13-00.

BEVERLY O'BRIEN White

Beverly O'Brien was born in Caney, KS July 3, 1935. She graduated from Cambridge High School in 1953. She married Troy D. White, Sr. on December 6, 1957. Since that time they have lived in Arkansas City, KS where she has been a homemaker. Her husband worked for 28 years at Rodeo Meat Packing followed by work in security until he retired. He is semiretired and works part time at the Public Library and the Union State Bank. They have a daughter, Tamara Gayle (Mrs. Steve Crawford) who lives in Arkansas. She and her husband serve in an Assembly of God Church where he is pastor. They have one son, Jason.

Submitted by Beverly White, 3-13-00.

JANICE UTT HOAG

Janice Utt was born May 29, 1935 in southern Cowley County in the area called the Irish Flats to John and ADDIE Utt, the first of four children (Gary, Jody Rickey). She attended the Gospel Ridge country school south of Cambridge, grades 1 through 5 until it closed. She attended Cambridge schools from grade 6 and graduated in 1953. She was married December 23, 1953 to Stuart Hoag who was in the Air Force so she lived in Texas, Maine, Nevada, Mississippi and in Europe. Higher education followed with the moves with attendance at St. John's College in Winfield, Univ. of Maine, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, St Mary's Univ. and finally Our Lady of the Lake Univ. in San Antonio, TX where she received a BA in Management.

She retired on 11-30-90 from Kelly AFB, TX after 28 years of civilian service with the US Air Force. She continued to work for several months through a national emergency, then worked probono on various special projects for the US government through Federally Employed Women's organizations and with the Federal Executive Board in San Antonio, TX. She served in various other volunteer roles which included being on the Board of Christ the Kin9 Missions to Mexico, worked at the U.S. Olympic Games and the Senior Olympic Games in San Antonio, TX, worked with her Homeowners Association, and various church projects until 1995 when they moved from San Antonio, TX back to Winfield, KS. She now does some substitute teaching in the local schools, has taken up quilting, does stained glass work and repair, continues to work in church, and works with family on many business and personal projects.

She and Stuart have two children, David and Teresa, and five grandchildren.

Submitted by Janice Hoag, 3-13-00.

AUTOBIOGRA OF THE LIFE OF RONALD L.'RIP' GREEN

First, I must say that being born and raised in Cambridge was the best thing that could have happened to me. I learned not only from my parents, my brother and my sisters and my teachers but from all around me. The people of Cambridge became my extended family. From them I learned a strong work ethic and the value of a dollar bill. Wherever I went the people of Cambridge were with me and they helped me to overcome whatever obstacle I may have encountered. I could ask no more.

My days in the small school of Cambridge allowed me to take part in sports, music, student government as well as helping with plays, school paper and the annual.

I graduated from CHS in May of 1951. My parents moved to Mena, Arkansas (long before it became notorious for gun running and dope smuggling) and both are buried there. I know they rest easily as they both loved the area. From May of 51 till Jan 52 I helped them get their new farm in order. I worked as a truck driver, a wheelbarrow operator, night man in a filling station and even on the green chain of a sawmill.

In Jan 52 I tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet program but at that time you had to be 21 and have two years of college. So, I joined the Army and volunteered for parachute training. I was sent to Ft. Sill (Lawton) Okla. for induction and testing. The tests showed that I had an IQ of 144. All the training I received in Cambridge paid off. Then I was sent to Camp Breckenridge (Hendersonville) Kentucky for basic training with the 101 st Airborne Division, the famous Screaming Eagles of the Battle of the Bulge. In May of 52 I was sent to Ft Benning (Columbus) Georgia for Jump School. In June I graduated and received my wings as a paratrooper and was sent to Ft Bragg (Fayetteville) North Carolina and joined the 82nd Airborne Division.

In my senior year a CHS I took typing so I could be around the girls. During my induction I had listed that I could type and with typical Military Methodology I was assigned to the Finance Office. A 195 pound, rock hard highly trained killer operating a typewriter and an adding machine.

In Sep I was sent to Ft Harrison (Indianapolis) Ind for Finance school. Finishing in Dec I managed to get a leave and visit my parents in Mena. When I returned to Ft Bragg the entire division was moved by motor convoy to Camp Drum (Watertown) NY for Operation Snowstorm. During my time off I visited in Ottawa, Canada and made many friends there.

After returning to Ft Bragg I quickly became so bored with the Office that I actually applied for combat duty with the I 87th RCT in Korea. I was turned down both times as the 82nd was being maintained at full strength for a possible deployment.

In May of 53 I became aware of the Anny's helicopter flight school. I applied, thinking it would be 6 to 8 months before I heard anything. But, that 144 IQ came thru and I had orders for flight school in Ft Sill, OK in 28 days. I wrangled a few extra days of travel time and hitch hiked from Bragg to Raleigh, NC to Dayton, OH, to Indianapolis to St. Louis to Kansas City and then to Mena. A fun trip and very interesting.

In Sep I reported to Ft Sill for Warrant Officer School and flight training. Having served in the 82nd Abn Div, the officer's school was a snap and the flight training was a ball. In May of 54 I was appointed a Warrant Officer Junior Grade (WOJG) and received my wings as a helicopter pilot. I was assigned to the 580th Helicopter Co in, of all places, Ft Bragg. I was not to pleased with this job.

But, luck was with me. A request came in for a pilot to transfer to Camp Stewart (Savannah) Georgia. As I was the only single pilot of the recent graduates, I volunteered for the job and was soon on my way to Stewart. It was to prove a very interesting assignment. A brand new officer, a brand new pilot with a brand new helicopter and a brand new mechanic on a post where they knew nothing about choppers. Needless to say, it kept me hopping.

It did have some advantages. I managed to explore the beaches from South Carolina thru Georgia into Florida. We used to fly over to Hilton Head long before it became the playground of the rich and famous and go skinny dipping in the Atlantic Ocean.

In Nov 54 I was injured in an aircraft accident with an L-19, a small fixed wing aircraft. My right leg was broken in 14 places and even my own father thought it should be amputated at mid thigh. Luckily for me, the doctor at Stewart knew me and what good condition and health I was in and took the chance and left the leg on. Two weeks later I was flown to Ft Benning where better medical facilities were available.

I was strung up in traction for two months. In Jan 55 they inserted a Hanson Street nail down the inside of the thigh bone and did a bone graft on the major fracture. I was told the damage was so great that I would never fly again and would walk with a limp the rest of my life. The doctors may have thought they knew the answers but they failed to reckon with a red headed therapist name Rusty. One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen she was also the toughest. She knew just which button to push to make me do what I had to do. In May of 55 I walked out of the hospital with my flight orders in my hand and I was not limping.

Quite naturally, I fell madly in love with Rusty. We spent some time together but in the end she wanted nothing to do with a smart alec chopper pilot. I returned to Stewart, happy to be flying again but broken hearted by lost love.

I served in Stewart until Jan 56 when I was transferred to the 13th Helicopter Co in Uijungbu, Korea. The shooting had stopped, at least the papers said so, and it became the manifestation of the old description of flying: Hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror.

While in Korea, I had to take thirty days leave or lose them as the Army would only carry over sixty days at year end. I used the leave to travel space available on any aircraft going in the general direction I wanted to go. I made it to Japan, Taiwan, Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore and on down to Australia and New Zealand before I had to turn around and return to Korea.

In Feb 57, a C-124 cargo plane took off from Kimpo AFB reroute to Japan. Just after takeoff, it chucked a prop thru the side of the aircraft cutting most of the controls. The ship crashed in the Han river north of Seoul. The Han is about three feet deep and two miles wide. In the Stygian darkness of a Korean night, they could not tell which way to go. The 13th was called in and we lifted over 150 men and women from the freezing waters to dry land and safety. For our actions we received the Winged S for rescue from Sikorsky Aircraft.

While at the 121st Med Evac hospital, I found Rusty. The old love flared anew. We spent some time together including a nine day R R in Toyko. But as before, I struck out. We parted friends.

In May 57 I returned to the States and was discharged at the Oakland Anny base. During the time there I spent some great times in San Francisco. In those days it was a beautiful, clean city filled with great people. After my discharge I flew to San Diego where my Sister Margaret and her husband ran a motel in La Jolla. I spent two fun weeks there getting used to being home.

I returned to Arkansas for a time before moving to Ft Worth, Texas and

My brother John Harrington worked as a Captain for American Flyers Airline and my sister Audra Kezer worked for Convair as an executive secretary. Both of them decided it was time for me to get married and they introduced me to any number of lovely young ladies. John introduced me to the woman who was to become my wife. Inez Leslie Pat Patterson was from Tifton Georgia. She had been a model in New York and an Airline Stewardess before settling in Ft Worth and working in operations for American Flyers. We met in July of 57 and after a wild and rambunctious courtship we were married in Dec 57.

I left Southern Airways and enrolled at American Flyers to obtain my instrument flight rating. Graduating in January of 58 I got a job flying men and materials to offshore drilling rigs. Pat and I moved to Cutoff, La (it was very aptly named.) My work schedule was 10 days on and 5 days of. On my off days we prowled the French Quarter of New Orleans. We met AI Hirt and Pete Fountain before they became household names.

In August of 58 we decided we wanted to work on a better life so we pulled our trailer to Lubbock, Texas and I enrolled in Texas Tech. Pat got a job as a cashier for a trucking firm and I worked nights at the post office. During the school years we took the only vacations we could afford; hiking and camping trips in the mountains of New Mexico and Arizona.

In May of 62, I graduated Texas Tech with 178 academic hours, a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Math. I got a job with Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford Conn so we packed our few possessions and moved to Trumbull, CN just north of Bridgeport. My job was as a functional test pilot, wringing out the aircraft as they came off the assembly line to see if they were put together properly. I also made sales and demonstration trips including one trip aboard a Navy aircraft carrier with the anti sub helicopters.

Early in 64, Pat and I took our long delayed honeymoon with a trip to Jamacia returning thru Bermuda. In Sep of 64, our first child made her debut. Terri Lee was born on 9 Sep 64. We spent a lot of time traveling thru New England especially during the fall.

In 68, Pat developed a respiratory problem and could not cope with the harsh New England climate. I left Sikorsky and got a job as an avionics systems engineer with Collins Radio in Dallas. I would live to regret this job as a pilot installing equipment in aircraft was pretty much like an alcoholic taking a job as a bartender.

Again, fortune smiled at me. An old friend from Sikorsky made me aware of a job with the Skycrane in Alaska. After one year of torture as an engineer, I went back to flying. Our team picked up two S-64 Cranes in Connecticut and ferried them across the Northern US and then followed the Alcan highway to Alaska.

The job on the North Slope lasted until the environmental whackos shut down the plans for the pipeline and the whole operation folded. I returned to Dallas to find that Engineers were three for a quarter and pilots even cheaper. I went to work as an electrician wiring new apartments. It was good to find reasonable work as our second child, Leslie Ann, made her appearance on 3 Aug 69. To supplement our income, I sold real estate.

I was very unhappy not flying and it began to affect the family. My wife threw an ad in front of me. I read it and told her it was in South East Asia. She said she would go with me so I called Washington D.C. and was soon on my way to SEA. I flew to Taipei, Taiwan for introduction and was assigned to the Air America base at Udorn, Thailand, 300 miles north of Bangkok, near the Mekong River border with Laos. At the age of 37, I became a mercenary soldier. The Chinese Commies called us 'Yankee Air Pirates' and put a bounty of two kilos of gold on our heads.

My family followed me three months later and we settled in where we would live for three years. My job was flying troops and materials to various installations in the mountains of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, both north and south. I found out what it is like to be shot at by other than a jealous husband and I can say for certain it is not something I got used to.

Due to my experience as a test pilot and my education as an engineer, I was involved in some special projects flying night missions into North Vietnam just off the treetops. We flew on electronic displays only. I became known as the Shadow Pilot among my fellow flyers.

Air America had over a 50% loss rate but I managed to survive without a scratch. With the war coming to an inglorious end, I sent my family back to Dallas and soon followed them. I had been asked to fly the Skycrane for a lumber and construction company in California. Pat decided she had enough of my childish wanderings and we separated. Guess you could rightly say she grew up and I didn't. I still haven't. I still have to see what is on the other side of that next hill.

She stayed in Dallas and I moved to Northern California. I was divested by the loss of my family. All I held dear was gone. I tried to find solace in a bottle of Old Crow. Believe me, it doesn't work. Luckily, an old friend from Air America found me and slammed me against the wall a few times and beat some sense into my head.

In Jul 74, I met the woman I would spend the rest of my life with. Jeanne Foshee Wilcox was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She served in the Air Force as a fight attendant and traveled allover Europe. She also visited Morocco and Saudi Arabia. She married her aircraft commander Billy Foshee from Bowling Green Kentucky. They were stationed in New Jersey Texas and the Azores. Unfortunately Billy died shortly after retiring due in most part to the strain of three years in a North Korean POW camp. Two years later~ Jeanne married another Air Force jock Bill Wilcox from Lincoln Nebraska. They were stationed in Texas and Colorado. Bill died just before retiring from the AF. Jeanne moved to Marysville California to be near her son Kern Foshee who was stationed at Beale AFB. She was suffering from her multiple losses and tried to find peace in a bottle of Smirnoff.

After losing two husbands in a row Jeanne swore she would never marry another pilot. We met one afternoon in an Irish bar named O'Haras. That was the 25th of July, 1974 and we have been together ever since. True to her vow she will not marry me so we have lived in sin for over 25 years

My job with Erickson Air cranes took us to many places. We logged in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. We did construction work from coast to coast, building high lines, laying pipelines and helping to erect buildings. Our biggest job was lifting the last 325 feet of the CN Tower in Toronto Canada. We lifted the antenna in 8 ton sections. We were treated like royalty by the people of Canada. Our names are permanently inscribed on the top of the tower which is the tallest free standing structure in the world.

In December of 76 we were building a transmission line in Colorado and Wyoming. On the 19th of Dec, the hydraulics on the main rotor head failed and the three of us (I was not flying at the time) became passengers in a freely falling object with the glide ratio of a smooth stone. We fell an estimated 250 feet straight down, landing on top of the tower section we were carrying. They later calculated that the section acted as a big bedspring and took up most of the force of the landing.

We all survived the crash with compression fractures of the lower spine. For me it was a career ending injury. During my recovery I studied Real Estate and joined Century 21 as an agent. It was a bad time due to high interest rates~ high unemployment and high inflation. In two years I went broke and I do mean broke. But hunger leads to innovation and ingenuity so I used my knowledge of weapons and ammo to sell sporting goods.

In 83 Jeanne spotted an ad for the US Post Office. I tested and was hired as a Letter Sorting Machine operator. I made it in spite of the fact no one fifty years old had ever made it thru the training. A steady, well paying job improved our life style well enough we spent two weeks in Hawaii in 89 and went on a Caribbean cruise with Rush Limbaugh in 91.

In 92 Jeanne and I visited Victoria, Texas and decided to retire there so we bought ten acres fifteen miles outside of town. We would build our final home on the acreage.

During our years in California we raised Cocker Spaniel puppies, worked with the Thousand Trails Reserve system, were active in the Moose Lodge and E Clampus Vitus. ECV is a historical and drinking society.

I worked at the post office for 13 years. I managed to combine that time with my military service and the four years in the PO during college and retire at a minimal level.

We retired in May 97 and moved to Victoria and had our final home built. We got three words of very good advice from a very active person of 86 years: Don't sit down. With the land to clear and the house to decorate we haven't had a chance to sit down.

In 98 we found time to attend the CHS reunion and visit my daughter Leslie in Wichita. In Sep. we flew to Stuttgart, Germany to visit my daughter Terri and her husband. They took us to the Oktoberfest in Munich. I have always considered myself as a pretty good beer drinker but I couldn't hold a candle to the folks there. On our way home from Germany we stopped in Ireland for two weeks. We rented a car in Dublin and just wandered with no destination and no reservations. We had an absolute ball. We did manage to find both of our ancestral homes. We will return.

In 99 we went to Louisiana for an Air America reunion in June and in Sep we flew to Baltimore Maryland for a reunion of American Legion Post #1, Shanghai, China and then up to New Hampshire to visit my granddaughter, Mary Wolfe.

In Nov we finally broke down and invested in a personal computer. It has proven to be boon for communicating with our far flung family and is assisting me in writing this as mistakes are so easy to correct.

This year we will attend the CHS reunion and then go to Colorado Springs for Jeanne's great nephew's graduation from the AF Academy. After that we will drive to Albuquerque to see our adopted daughter Morwyn and her husband. In June we will drive to Rhode Island to greet my daughter Terri and her husband when they return from Germany. Then up to New Hampshire to see my granddaughter again. In Sep we will drive to Omaha to visit family and then to Madison and Appleton Wisconsin to visit Jeanne's family and then to Milwaukee for a reunion. Staying busy is the key. We will not fly anymore as we are tired of being treated like cattle.

I have found only one problem with being retired: How did I ever find time to go to work?

Nature gifted me with a strong mind and a healthy body and the people of Cambridge helped to mold me into a person who has managed to overcome whatever obstacle was placed in my path. Wars and broken bones have been only speed bumps. I have visited all 50 of the states, half the provinces of Canada and many in Mexico. I have been able to travel to many foreign countries. I have loved and been loved. It has been a very interesting and rewarding life.

I have not returned to Cambridge many times but the people of Cambridge have been with me each mile of the roads I have traveled and will be with me on those yet to be explored. I am very thankful for where I was born and raised.

It has been said that all pilots do is sit around and drink coffee, smoke cigarettes and tell lies about their deeds of daring do and their amorous conquest. I don't smoke anymore but I'll pour a cup of coffee and ----- Oh Lord, there are tales I can tell.

Rip Green March 2000

D. WAYNE HENDRICKSON CLASS OF 1953

On Feb 10, 1935, Cecil A. and Mayme B. Hendrickson delivered their first child, assisted by Dr. will J. Green. This son was named Donald Wayne and attended all 12 grades in Cambridge.

After High School, he worked for the cities Service Gas Co, Earl Kielhorn (farming), Smith Moon Steel Fabricating at Strother Field and for the State of Kansas on highway maintenance, living in Cambridge.

On June 1, 1956, he married Jewel Sphar (class of 56). They moved to the MK O Ranch, south of Grenola, KS in 1957. On Aug 27, 1958, while at the ranch, their first son, Chester William, was born. In the fall of 1959, he left the ranch to attend Barber School in Amarillo, TX. After graduation, he was employed in Pampa, TX and at Jack's Barber Shop in Hooker, OK before starting his own shop. Stewart Roy was born Apr 1, 1961 and Shannon Ralphene was born Nov 25, 1966. Chettie took sick in 64 and died Aug 19, 1964.

In 1968 they moved southeast of Hooker where they lived until 1990 when Jewel's company informed her that they were closing. They opted to move to Mountain View, OK where a home was purchased and another Barber Shop built.

In 1997 Jewel took a retirement from her company and they moved to Garden City, Mo. Wayne put in a shop in Archie, Mo. In 1998 where he works 4 days a week. Jewel now works 2 days a week at a local bank.

Children Stewart and wife Rhonda, with children Charlotte Dusty and Shannon and husband Bobby Croy with their daughter Cassie Layne all live near Kansas City, MO. Great granddaughter Kaitlyn is daughter of Charlotte and her husband, Heath Cummins.

Submitted by Wayne Jewel Hendrickson, 3-13-00.

SHIRLEY HAWLEY Gardner

Shirley Hawley was born Apr 26, 1933 near Cambridge, KS to Fitz and Elsie Hawley. She received her schooling from Windsor Rural School and the Cambridge Schools and Graduated from High School in 1953. After graduation, she married and lived in Burden, KS where her two daughters, Cecilia and Sheila, were born.

After a divorce in 1964, she met and married (in 1968) Albert Gardner from Winfield, KS. They have lived in Winfield since that time. She retired from USD Food Service in Aug 1990. She enjoys being family to her daughters, two step daughters, five grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. Her hobbies include sewin9 and some traveling. She remains active in volunteer activities in her church and community.

Submitted by Shirley Gardner, 3-13-00.

LITA ANETTE GAILEY PITMAN, Class of 1921

LITA ANETTE (Gailey) PITMAN was born 25 August 1902 in Aransas Pass, Texas. She was the daughter of Belle (Hicks) and Harry Gailey. Lita attended the Winfield High School for the first three years. She attended Cambridge High School during her Senior year and was the first and only graduate with the Class of 1921. Lita was a member, and played the piano for the Cambridge Presbyterian Church. During the summer of 1920, Lita worked in the Newman Tea Roomin Arkansas City, Kansas.

Lita married Thomas J. Pitman, an employee of the Santa Fe Railroad. His employment remained with this company until his retirement. She was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma until she retired.

Lita Pitman, widow of Thomas J. Pitman, died 14 August 1991, at Jane Phillips Hospital in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Graveside services at the Dewey cemetery in Dewey, Oklahoma, were conducted by Rev. E. E. Butts. Lita was a member of the Dewey Eastern Star.

Lita is survived by one son, Dale Pitman, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; one granddaughter, Lynda Jones, of Bartlesville; one step grandson, Sam Powell, of Copan, Oklahoma; Two great grandsons, Dorian Boughman and Chris Boughman; one great, great grandson Joshua Boughman of Rockport, Missouri; one brother, Milburn Gailey, of Alva, Oklahoma; and one sister in law, Leone Gailey, of Axtell, Kansas. Lita was preceded in death by her parents, Belle and Harry Gailey, who are buried in Cambridge, Kansas; one sister, Gladys Gailey (Johnson), who is buried in Wichita, Kansas; and one brother, Hubert Gailey, who is buried in Kansas City, Kansas.

Information furnished by Mr. Dale Pitman, 1021 East Adams, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74003, and Mrs. Leone B. Gailey, 403 Elder, R. R. #1, Box 205, Axtell, Kansas 66403.

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LEONE ADKINS GAILEY, Class of 1922

LEONE ADKINS was born near Merrick Oklahoma, 17 June 1902. She was the daughter of James Henry and Bessie (Caulson) Adkins. Leone's grand father was James Columbia Adkins who was the first white man born in Oregon (on the Columbia river) on the Oregon Trail. Part of the city of Portland, Oregon is built on the original Adkins claim. Her father was a brother of George Adkins. Leone's mother died in July 1903 when Leone was thirteen months old. Jim Adkins moved to Cambridge when Leone was seven years old. He married Mary Clover and the family lived on Mary's farm north of Cambridge until the spring of 1918 when they moved into Cambridge. Mary and Jim had one daughter, Dorothy Lewis, who lives in Burden, Kansas. Jim worked at several odd jobs before they bought the hotel located just north of the depot. They ran the hotel for two years, sold it, and bought the restaurant located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Main Street and the highway. Leone worked in both places while she attended Cambridge High School.

Leone Adkins attended Shaw school until the family moved to town in 1917. She was one of the charter members of Cambridge High School, graduating in 1922. Leone received a Life Teacher's Certificate for elementary grades from the Teacher's College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She taught country schools each year until she married Hubert Gailey 06 June 1931. They kept the marriage a secret until she finished teaching in the spring in 1932. Hubert was employed by Kansas Unemployment Compensation in Kansas City, Kansas, for thirty years. He was a manager for several years, until he retired in 1969. He died March 18, 1987. Leone and Hubert have one son, David. David is Superintendent of Axtell and Bern Schools.

Leone's hobbies are hook rugs, oil painting, hand work and lots of different crafts.

Information and pictures furnished by Leone B. Gailey, 403 Elder, R. R. #1, Axtell, Kansas 66403, Tel: 913-736-2886.

VERNON T. CLOVER, Class of 1929

Vernon T. Clover was born 22 April 1910 to Thomas Henry and Bessie Howard Clover in Winfield, Kansas. He grew up in Cambridge, Kansas and graduated from the Cambridge High School in 1929. On 30 August 1929, he married Hazel Jane Belden at Hays, Kansas. This union produced three sons, Frank H., Thomas H. and Paul R., and one daughter, Carol Ann.

Vernon received his Bachelor of Science degree from Fort Hays Kansas State College in 1934. He received his Master of Science degree from Fort Hays in 1935. His Ph D degree was earned at the University of Colorado in 1937. His Doctor Dissertation was Some Economic Aspects of the Unemployment compensation provisions of the Social Security Act of 1935, 1937. His publications included Business Research Methods, 1974, Changes in Differences in Earnings and Occupational Status of Men and Women, 1947 - 1967, Compensation in Union and Nonunion Plants Res. Socioeconomic Significance of Number of Years of School Completed.

Vernon taught one year at a Junior College in Muskegan, Michigan. He became ill with tuberculosis and spent two years in the TB Sanitarium near Norton, Kansas. Vernon was Head of the Department of Economics at Northwestern State College in Sterling, Kansas 1940-1941. He was Associate Professor at Kansas State College in Hays, Kansas 1941-1946. From 1947 until 1975, Vernon was Professor of Economics at Texas Tech university at Lubbock, Texas.

Vernon had a great love of baseball which developed during his playing days at Cambridge High School and continued throughout his life. He, also, attended all the basketball and football games at Texas Tech.

Vernon retired in 1975. He suffered from Alzheimer's Disease previous to his death on 29 July 1988. He is buried in the Cambridge, Kansas cemetery.

Information and picture furnished by Hazel Belden Clover, 1920 West Lake, PIano, TX 75075, Tel: 214-422-7448.

CLAY J. SMITH, Class of 1930

CLAY J. SMITH was born in Cambridge, Kansas, on 11 September 1914, son and only child of Clay Joshua and Christina Jamieson (Wilson) smith. His paternal grandparents were Walter P. and Belle (Hastings) Smith, who came from near Bloomington, Indiana, and homesteaded an eighty acre farm north of Wilmot, Kansas. The land grant was signed by Ulysses S. Grant. Clay's paternal grandparents raised seven boys and one girl. Grandfather smith was a rural mail carrier. Clay's maternal grand- parents were John and Jane (Craig) Wilson, both being of Scottish descent. John came to America and worked eleven years, then returned to Scotland to bring Grandmother Jane to their new home near Rock, Kansas. John Wilson had joined the Masonic Lodge in Scotland, later in his life he would become Grand Master of the Douglas, Kansas, Masonic Lodge. Grandfather Wilson was a Director of the Rock, Kansas, Bank.

Clay received his early schooling in the Cambridge School system graduating from Cambridge High School with the class of 1930. He was only fifteen years old when he graduated from high school. clay attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, receiving his B. A. degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1935. Clay played baseball at Southwestern the first two years of college. The baseball program was disbanded at Southwestern at the end of his second year in college. Clay was active in the Debate Program at Southwestern.

In 1933, Clay pitched for the New Salem town baseball team. In 1934 he played with the Cedar Vale town team. In 1935 Clay was pitching for the semipro, Shell Ark City Dubs, who were Kansas State Champions. Early in the spring of 1935, the Ark City Dubs played a professional team from Des Moines, Iowa. with Clay pitching, the Dubs shut out the Des Moines team 3 to o. This game came to the attention of Mr. Cy Slapnicka, a scout for the Cleveland Indians. He came to see Clay pitch a Sunday game. Clay did not pitch that Sunday, because he had pitched on Friday evening at Enid, Oklahoma. The Enid team was State Champion of Oklahoma. On the strength of the shut out game against Des Moines, without seeing Clay pitch, Clay was offered a contract with the Fargo Twins in the Northern League. Clay signed the contract in the middle of June 1935 and reported to the club in Fargo, North Dakota. At this point in his career, Clay was 6 foot, 2 inches and weighed 185 pounds.

The Northern League covered a wide area in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Fargo Twins, a farm club of the Cleveland Indians, played their games across the Red River in Moorhead, Minnesota. The team traveled in an old 17 passenger bus. One of the benefits of being the pitcher was that pitchers got to lay on the floor of the bus to rest and sleep! Some of the cities in the league were: Winnipeg, Canada; Wausau, Superior, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Duluth and Crookston, Minnesota.

Clay was made opening day pitcher for the Fargo Twins in 1936. The first of August in 1936, he hurt his elbow. In the spring of 1937, Clay took Spring Training in New Orleans, Louisiana. He later reported to the Springfield Indians of Springfield, Ohio. They were another farm club of the Cleveland Indians. In the fall of 1937, management offered to give Clay his release, if he would sign a contract to go to Buffalo. He decided to go to Buffalo. The Manager at Buffalo in 1937 moved to Indianapolis in the American Association in 1938. At his invitation, Clay moved to Indianapolis in the spring of 1938. In the middle of June, Clay reported to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The first of September he was added to the Cleveland Indians roster.

Late in the season of 1938, Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers had 58 home runs. He was hoping to beat the Babe Ruth season record of 60 home runs. Detroit played a double header with Cleveland on the last day of the season. Cleveland had two ball parks, the League ball park which would seat 15,000 and the park on the lake where the last games were played. This park had a very deep center field fence, 450 ft. Humphries pitched the first four innings of this game. Clay Smith was called to pitch in the fifth inning with instructions to really bear down on Greenberg when he came to bat. Steve O'Neil, the Manager of the Indians did not want Greenberg to beat the season home run record in his park. The center fielder was placed extremely deep to eliminate any chance of an in the park home run. Greenberg responded by hitting two looping flies into mid center field in his last two times at bat, which became doubles. The next season Clay, as Hank Greenberg's team mate on the Detroit Tigers, was ribbed about the I two easy doubles that should have been easy outs!

On the 18 February 1939, Clay J. smith and Eldearia Rymph were married in Nowata, Oklahoma. Three children were born of this union: Floyd Duane Smith on 8 October 1940; Alan Lee Smith on 5 September 1943; and Christina Kay Smith (Hull) on 4 May 1946.

Within days of their marriage, Eldearia returned to her teaching job in Cambridge and Clay reported to Spring Training for the Cleveland Indians in New Orleans. Later, Clay reported to Buffalo, New York in the International League. Eldearia joined him after her school was out. In August of 1939, Detroit bought Clay's contract from the Cleveland Indians.

In 1940 Clay was on the pitching roster of the Detroit Tigers. This was the year that Cincinnati and Detroit played in the World Series. Clay's parents and an Uncle and an Aunt were on hand for the World Series. Clay was 45 minutes late getting to the stadium for games 4, because the uncle forgot his tickets. Dizzy Trout was the starting pitcher. He got into trouble in the first inning. Newhouser, a lefthanded pitcher, and Clay were sent to the bull pen. Trout got into trouble in the second inning. Newhouser and Smith both warmed up. Clay smith was sent in to replace him with two men on base and no one out. Clay continued to pitch until the fifth inning when he was removed for a pinch hitter. He had allowed one run and one hit in the four innings that he pitched. Cincinnati won the fourth game by the score 5 to 3! CLAY J. SMITH, a graduate of C H S had pitched in a World Series Game! Clay remembers getting a telegram with only one word, CONGRATULATIONS, and signed by people from Cambridge, Kansas, who had heard the game on radio. Floyd Duane smith was born on 8 October 1940, the day that the last game of that World Series was played.

In 1941 Clay played for st Paul, Minnesota, in the American Association. He developed a severe shoulder problem. After attending the Brooklyn Dodger spring Training in Vero Beach, Florida in 1946, Clay J. Smith retired from baseball. Clay has always been reticent about discussing his career in baseball, maintaining that he did not become a big baseball star. We can only have admiration for a man who sets a goal for himself, spends the countless hours of tedious work, improving his God given talents to achieve his goal. Clay's goal was to pitch baseball in the Major Leagues!

Clay became farmer rancher on the farm north of Cambridge. Clay smith, Senior was a rural mail carrier in Cambridge for 43 years. Clay J. became his substitute carrier. When Clay Smith, Senior died from a malignant brain tumor, Clay J. sat for and passed the examination and served 32 years as rural mail carrier in Cambridge. The last few years he has been a cattle buyer. Clay J. has served on both the high school and grade school Board of Education. He was an Elder and Trustee in the Cambridge Presbyterian Church. He has served as County President for the Farm Bureau.

The information for this biography was given by Clay J. and Eldearia Smith. Tuesday, 07 April 1992.

AUDRA GREEN (Kezer), Class of 1939

Audra was born May 19, 1921, in Clearwater, Kansas, and graduated from Cambridge High School as valedictorian in 1939, majoring in commerce and foreign languages. She also attended Arkansas City Junior College in Arkansas city, Kansas and took post grad work at St. John's College and Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. She was employed at the Har-Bour in Winfield for six and a half years.

Audra was married to Earl M. Kezer December 3, 1946. Mr. Kezer was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania. They moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1947, where she was employed at General Dynamics (then called Consolidated Vultee Aircraft), and retired from General Dynamics in 1987 as Executive Secretary and Office Manager of Technical Publications. Mr. Kezer retired from General Electric Aerospace as a Supervisor in 1982.

They moved from the Fort Worth area to Springtown, Texas (just north west of Fort Worth) in 1965, where they built a small airport called Kezer Air Ranch, which to this day they still own and operate.

Audra was a charter member and past president of the Alpha Delta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority of Winfield, Kansas. She is also a past member of the American Women's Business Association. She likes dancing, having taught tap and ballroom dancing, specializing in jitterbugging. She toured service bases during World War II dancing for the troops. She is an avid bowler to this day, bowling in 3 leagues a week, and has been president and/or secretary of several leagues during her bowling career. She was a Director of the Fort Worth Women's Bowling Association for twelve and one-half years.

Audra has a twin-sister, Alice Schreiber, living in Kansas City, Kansas, formerly a Captain in the Army Nurses' Corp, where she served in the Philippines area. She also has two brothers, the oldest, John C. Harrington of Fort Worth, Texas, a retired Colonel of the USAF. and a younger half-brother, Ronald L. Green of Yuba City, California, a former paratrooper and helicopter pilot in the Korean War.

Information and picture furnished by Audra Green Kezer, Rt. 3, Box 276, Springtown, Tx. 76082, Tel: 817-677-2282.

CAPTAIN ALICE GREEN SCHREIBER, Class of 1939

ALICE L. HARRINGTON GREEN (Schreiber) was born 19 May 1921 in Clearwater, Kansas. She was the youngest of twin girls. She graduated from the eighth grade in Cambridge, Kansas, in 1935. She graduated from Cambridge High School, Cambridge, in 1939. Alice graduated from Halstead Hospital School of Nursing at Halstead, Kansas, in 1942.

She was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and later sent to Sedalia Army Air Base, Missouri. In December 1943, she was sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, to join the 60th General Hospital leaving for overseas duty. Hospitals were established in Milne Bay, Finschafen, and Hollandia in New Guinea. Also, hospitals were establish- ed in Lingayen Gulf and Manila in the Philippines.

Alice resigned her Captain's commission in January 1946. Her awards include: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, WW II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal with 1 Bronze Star, and the Philippines Presidential unit citation. Badge given by the Republic of the Philippines. Commendation from Ft. Riley, Kansas. Commendation from New Guinea.

Growing up in Cambridge with the excellent Music Department, the Sports offered, and the teachings of the local M. D. (her step-Dad) enabled Alice to have a career in nursing and to pursue her love of sports and music. She played softball with Cambridge, Dexter, Halstead, 60th General Nurses, various Church teams and a Mother's team

Her slide trombone traveled with her; played orchestra in Cambridge, summers with the Winfield Band, the Halstead Summer Band, the Hal- stead Nurses' concert orchestra, Nurses' Dance Band, the Sedalia Army Air Marching Band, monthly broadcasts on radio, and at various times with the 60th General Band. Her trombone was lost en route back to the States.

Alice married in a semi-military wedding at the Cambridge Presbyterian Church in December 1945. This wedding was the very first wedding con- ducted from the Cambridge Presbyterian Church. This marriage lasted 33 years and produced 3 daughters, 4 granddaughters, and 1 great granddaughter.

Alice says she's had a very rewarding life - thanks to her many colleagues, family and friends.

Information and pictures furnished by Alice L. Schreiber, 8332 Georgia, Kansas City, Kansas 66109, Tel: 913-788-7459.

CLEO ANKROM BROOKS, Class of 1941

Cleo Ankrom was born on a farm south of Cambridge, Kansas on February 19, 1923. Her father, Dean Ankrom was born at Cedar Vale, Kansas on May 13, 1899. Her mother, Myrtle Cole was born at Cedar Vale on June 23, 1897. Cleo's brother, Ralph Ankrom was born on 19 September 1921. Ralph married Frances Linenfelder. They are parents of Diana, Peggy and Norman Ankrom. Ralph was killed in an auto accident in June 1960.

Cleo attended Pleasant Ridge School, District #112, south of Cambridge for six years. She attended junior high and high school in Cambridge, graduating with the class of 1941 in May 1941. Cleo Ankrom married Martin Brooks on October 2, 1943 in Winfield, Kansas. She lived in South Carolina, Texas and Delaware during World II. Cleo and Martin returned to Burden, Kansas in December 1945. They lived on a farm northeast of Burden for twenty-five years. Later, a home was built two miles from the first home. Cleo has lived in the later home for twenty-two years. Her husband, Martin Brooks, died on October 14, 1989.

Cleo has two sons. Wayne Brook and his wife, Bobbie, live in Hudson, Kansas. Wayne is an electrician, Bobbie is a P. A. Their daughter, Brenna, is a junior in high school. Their son, Bryan, is in the fourth grade.

Cleo's son, LeRoy Brooks and his wife, Linda live on a farm near Bur- den, Kansas. They both work for the State of Kansas. Their son Mike Brooks and his wife, Karen, live in Emporia, Kansas. Mike is a senior at Emporia College. Kathy Brooks Patumn and her husband, Sawn, live at Arkansas City, Kansas. Kathy is a senior at Arkansas City Community College. Angie Brooks is a senior at Burden High School.

Cleo Brooks is Vice President of the Cambridge Alumni Association for the year 1991-1992. Cleo is a member of the Winfield Legion Auxiliary, Cambridge Senior citizens, Cambridge Community Club, Grouse Creek E. H. U., Burden Senior Citizens, Burden Methodist Church, N. G. Club of Burden and Card Club of Burden.

Information and picture furnished by Mrs. Cleo Brooks, Burden, Kansas 67019, Tel: 620-438-2971.

MARILYN HANCOCK Streater

Marilyn was born on 6 January 1935 to Pat and Madge Hancock, rural Cambridge, and joined big brother Marvin (Class of 51) She attended grades one through five at Gospel Ridge country school south of Cambridge (until it closed) and Cambridge for grades six through graduation.

After graduation, Marilyn worked in Winfield and Arkansas City and attended one year of college in Arkansas City before moving to Phoenix, AZ. In 1956. She moved to Tulsa, OK in 1960 after the birth of her son Steve.

She was employed by the Utica Bank for 27 years and has worked for the FM Bank for 10 years, with retirement still somewhere in the future. She enjoys her dog, loves bowling, and is looking forward to her new grandson, about a week old as we go to press.

Approved by Marilyn Streater, 3-13-00

DR. RAYMOND G. HAWLEY Class of 1957

Raymond Glen Hawley, son and youngest child of Pearl Washington and Gladys Laura (Logsdon) Hawley was born 13 January 1939 on a farm east of Cambridge, Kansas. He attended school in Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge High School with the class of 1957.

Raymond received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Kansas State University in 1961. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from The University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1965.

Raymond G. Hawley and Phyllis Ann Williams were married 25 August 1963. Three sons are the issue of this marriage: Bradford Scott Hawley was born 27 January 1966; Anthony Craig Hawley was born 07 January 1968; Douglas Martin Hawley was born 04 November 1969.

Dr. Raymond Hawley served an internship with Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas, from 1965 to 1966. He was in Residency in Pathology with Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio from 1966 to 1970. He served with the U. S. Army, Camp Zama, Japan, as Pathologist with the Medical Corp from 1970 to 1973.

Dr. Hawley's Professional certifications include Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology 1971, and Hematopathology, American Board of Pathology 1980.

Dr. Hawley has served as Clinical Assistant Professor with The University of Kansas School of Medicine Wichita from 1979 to the present.

Dr. Hawley's License is with the Kansas state Board of Healing Arts, certificate #13527, and has been active from 1966 to the present. His Inactive License was with Washington state during 1982 and 1983. He is a member of Medical society of Sedgwick County, Kansas Medical Society, Kansas Society of Pathologists and American Medical Association.

Dr. Hawley's belongs to these Professional Organizations: American society of Clinical Pathologists, College of American Pathologists, American society of Cytology, International Academy of Pathology, International Society of Dermatopathology.

He was awarded the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award by St. Joseph Medical Center in 1978. In 1980-1981, he was awarded the Out standing Teacher of the Year Award by St. Joseph Medical Center.

Dr. Hawley was appointed Chairman of Medical Advisory Committee, American Red Cross, Wichita, Kansas in 1989 to present. He was appointed Co-Director of Mid-Continent Annual Diagnostic Cytopathology Workshop, Wichita, Kansas in 1989 to present. He has served with the Boy Scouts of America from 1975 - 1982.

Dr. Hawley has written these Scientific Papers:

The Tuberous Sclerosis Complex a review of literature and presentation of eleven (11) cases Medical Student Thesis - 1965

Sarcoidosis - experimentation with pine pollen in dogs. Residency Research Project - 1969

Malignant Mesenchymoma of Mediastinum - report of a case The Ohio State Medical Journal, Vol 69, No.8, August 1973, pp 614-617

Therapeutic Apheresis: The st. Francis Experience Candela, Sadler, Hawley and Palko;

Kansas medicine, Sep. 1990. Vol, 91. No.9, pp 233-235

Information and picture furnished by Dr. Raymond G. Hawley, 1451 North Woodlawn, Wichita, Kansas 67208, Tel: 316-683-9271

RICHARD LEO JONES, Class of 1943

Richard Leo Jones was born on July 4, 1925 in Owasso, Oklahoma, the only child of James Henry and Anna Elizabeth (Voeste) Jones. James Henry, better known as Jim, was the agent for the A. T. S. F. Railroad in Cambridge, Kansas. Richard attended the Cambridge school system all twelve years, graduating with the high school class of 1943.

Richard served in the Navy in World War II. Boot training was taken in Farragut, Idaho and gunnery school In San Diego, California. He was attached to the Armed Guard Center, Treasure Island, California. He sailed on the S. S. JOHN ROACH, S. S. FORT STEPHENSON, and the S. S. MISSION SAN JOSE.

Richard always liked things that flew: leaves, kites and model aircraft. As a boy, he would watch an aircraft until it was completely out of sight. He admired the local aviator, Lt. Col. John Harrington, who had buzzed the village. Richard deferred his ambition to become an aviator until after the war. Though military statistics stated that one service person in twelve would die even though they never reached combat, Richard volunteered for the armed guard and became a navy gunner on merchant ships. It became necessary to shoot at the Japanese aircraft and he saw them fall from the sky. The closest bomb from the enemy fell about one city block from his ship, the S. S. ROACH, while it was anchored at Hollandia, New Guinea.

Richard Leo Jones and Mary Ellen Thomas were married in Winfield, Kansas 01 February 1947. The eight children of this marriage are: Bennie Ray Jones, Modesto, Ca; James Henry Jones, Winfield, Ks; Carol Ann Estes, Wichita, Ks; Mark Anthony Jones, Modesto, Ca; Michael Lawrence Jones, Haysville, Ks; Joseph Mathew Jones, Rose Hill, Ks; Polly Ann Jones, Wichita, Ks; and Paul Richard Jones, Derby, Ks.

Richard's book states that he was schooled in both Cambridge and Oxford!...(Cambridge, Kansas and Oxford, Ohio). He received his B. S. degree in Mechanical Arts in 1949 and his B. S. degree in Education in 1954, both from Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburgh, Kansas. His Master of Education degree was earned at Miami of Ohio at Oxford, Ohio in 1962.

Teaching was Richard's chosen profession, but this is a misleading statement because he also chose many other fields of endeavor. These other fields of endeavor were required to burn up the energies of this extraordinarily versatile and talented man. He taught the intermediate class in the Atlanta, Kansas Public School for two years before moving to the Derby, Kansas School System where he remained for the rest of his teaching career. He taught school for thirty one years. with his boyhood dream still intact, Richard learned to fly. He achieved his pilot's license against enormous odds. He built up stick time by flying with an instructor after all passenger seats were sold out. Not employable when he received his commercial certificate, (he needed 500 hours to meet the insurance requirements of Floair) he shared expenses with anyone that wanted to go anywhere. The time was not building up fast enough, so he became a flight instructor and enlisted many students. In 1964, with the 500 hours showing on his license, he was employed by Floair and began his career as an aircraft delivery pilot. He delivered 350 new Cessnas domestically. All flights consisted of 580 nautical miles or greater. The planes had to be delivered in mint condition. The bulk of the domestic deliveries were made at New Orleans for the export trade. His delivery route was Wichita to Natchez, following the Mississippi River to New Orleans. He delivered two planes to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and thirteen planes to Antonio Trigo in Bolivia. On one of his Latin American delivery flights he distributed several hundred packets of garden seeds to the needy from Vera Cruz, Mexico, to La Paz, Bolivia.

Richard was one of the organizers and served as an advisory board member of the First National Bank of Derby, Kansas. He has served as treasurer for the Derby Education Association. Richard was a construction contractor and built sixteen homes in the Derby area, three of which were built for his own family. He was elected to the board of directors of Aircraft Instrument Development, Inc., and later appointed a vice president of the company. Richard served as President of the C H S Alumni Association for seven consecutive years. He wrote and published the book, THE MAGIC IN YOU. He has been a member of the Toastmasters Club. He lists beekeeping as a hobby. His favorite songs are It Had To Be You and San Antonio Rose with Bob wills. Richard's innate sensitivity and soul is easily discernable in a one-on-one conversation, especially if the conversation is about Cambridge and the early years of his life. This is where the boy, Richard, made a circus prop out of his bicycle...this is where the man, Richard, still returns to ride his bicycle in the Possum Run parade each year!

At this period of his life, others might be thinking of retirement. Richard is still working. He keeps as trim as a cardiologist. He is an agent for the Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Company of America, acting as financial advisor to many people in his area of endeavor. Richard and his company specialize in funding Living Trusts which allows the entire estates to pass to the beneficiaries.

ADAGE:

Man lives by habit, indeed, but what he lives for is thrills and excitement. William James, American philosopher.

Information and material for this biography was furnished by Richard L. Jones, 119 South Lakeview, Derby, Kansas 67037, Telephone (316) 788-0639.

Mildred Benjamin

Mildred Benjamin moved to Washington D. C. in 1935 and worked for the government. In 1943 she married Corlin O. Beum of Mt. Vernon Ohio and moved to Los Angeles, California. Mildred passed away in February of 1969 and Corlin in 1983 or 4. There Children are Dorothy Eleanor (Beum) DeCoster, Helen Humes Beum, Corlin O. Beum (III), and Elizabeth A. (Beum) Domike.

Dorothy DeCoster: July 2003

FRIENDS CLASSMATES FOREVER: Submitted by Janice Utt Hoag 3-13-00

LOUETTA GOODAILE Doolittle was born in Wilmont, KS in 1933. She attended school at Grand Summit and Cambridge. She moved with her family before graduation to Winfield and later to Oxford. She married and had 2 children, Bill and Marty Hindman, and in 1959 she married Frank Doolittle. They had one child, Frank Jr. She has four grandchildren and lives at 13113 134th Rd, Winfield, KS 67156, phone 620-221-9106

C H S ALUMNI HONORARY MEMBERS

GARY MAX UTT, Class of 1956, and wife Julie

Gary Max Utt was born on July 30, 1937 in Hoosier, Kansas to John B. and Addie Utt. He is the second of four children born to the Utt's. His siblings are: Janice Ann Utt Hoag of San Antonio, Texas; Nancy Jo Odell of Winfield, Kansas; and Charles Rickey Utt of Concordia, Kansas.

Gary attended his first three years at Gospel Ridge country school with four other children. The three teachers were: 1st grade, Miss Hartley; 2nd grade, Miss Nelson; 3rd grade, Mrs. Houghton. With the consolidation of Gospel Ridge into the Cambridge School District #15 in 1946, Gary started attending school there. His biggest discovery was the game BASEBALL! From that point on, baseball took priority over school and chores on the farm. He claims his inspiration for becoming a catcher came from his dad, who was a catcher, Ronnie Green, Don Bair and Barney Lundy who were catchers for Cambridge.

In 1956, Gary graduated from Cambridge High School. His fondest memories are participating in basketball and baseball during all four years in high school.

Following his days at Cambridge High School he worked various jobs until he joined the Winfield Police Department in February, 1960. There he came up through the ranks from Patrolman to Captain. He retired in June, 1987 after 27 years with the department.

Gary is the father of two children, Kelly Naegele and John Utt, and the grandfather of Shawn and Ryan Naegele. Gary and his wife, Julie, live on a farm east of Winfield.

Gary now enjoys retirement and has time to be involved in farming. And, given the opportunity, he won't ever pass up the chance to playa game of BASEBALL! Gary is president of the Cambridge High School Alumni Association for 1991-1992. He also served in this office in 1990-1991 and 1989-1990.

Information and picture were furnished by Gary Utt, Rt 4, Box 85, Winfield, Kansas 67156, Tel: 620-221-0894.

DOROTHY HENDRICKSON McConnell, Class of 1944, and husband, Jim

I Dorothy Arminta (Hendrickson) McConnell was born 20 August 1926, on a farm one and one-half miles south of Cambridge, to Charles and Hattie (Barger) Hendrickson. I am the youngest of eleven children.

I attended grades one, two and three in Cambridge elementary school. I attended Burden school for a part of the fourth and fifth grades. At that time I lived with my aunt and uncle (Mollie and Sanders Sumner). Later, in the fifth grade, I returned to Cambridge. My youngest sister, June, and I lived with our father on the farm until I was a sophomore in high school. We moved to the home of Emma and Edmond Hovey to help in the phone office. My sister-in-law, Mayme Hendrickson, ran this same office years earlier. A year later, I moved to Roy and Lois Harris's home east of Cambridge, where my father was employed. In my senior year I moved to Cambridge to live with my sister, Mary and her husband, Theo Taylor. I graduated in May of 1944. During my senior year, I worked in Carl Pointer's grocery store after school and on Saturdays. I really did consider this a great job and lots of fun. This seems to be a tradition in our family. Jim (my husband), our daughter, Marilynn, our son, Jim, our son-in-law, Terry, our grand daughter, Ashle and now our 16 year old grandson has his first job as a sacker in a Jenks, Oklahoma grocery store.

In July of 1944 I came to Wichita to live with my sister, June, on the third floor at 333 North Topeka. I worked at Fairmont Ice Cream Store, a small cafe on South Broadway and at a larger cafe on East Harry. I had to work several places to make ends meet, or until I got to be eighteen years old. I went to work at Boeing in September as a file and mail clerk. I drove a scooter part of the time. I was laid off at Boeing in March of 1946. I worked at Retail Credit as a file and mail clerk from May 1946 until March of 1948.

On New Years Eve, I had a blind date with Jim McConnell. I met him on a dare. Look where it got me! So far, forty-five years of wonderful, exciting married life. We were married on January 5, 1947.

We are happy to have two children, Marilynn (McConnell) Ely and James A. McConnell. We have five grandchildren; two grandsons, a sixteen year old and an eight year old; one granddaughter, twenty-one years old; and twin granddaughters, age four.

While our children were growing up, I was lucky enough to have the fun of helping with Boy Scouts, Bluebirds and Campfire. I felt it more important to be at home when the children got home, rather than being at work somewhere. I worked in our church nursery and taught Sunday School for 26 years. I belong to the United Methodist Women, Eastern Star Chapter #475, Ladies Auxiliary of Post 112 and Handbell Choir at Dellrose United Methodist Church.

I feel very fortunate to have traveled to all but five or six of the fifty states. We have been on three Caribbean Cruises to San Juan, st. Martin, st. Martinique, Grenada, Caracas, Venezuella, S. A., Curcao, Jamaica, Ocho Rios, st. Thomas, Aruba, Panama Canal, Columbia, S. A. and Nassau. Didn't get sea sick once!

We traveled to Maui, Kawai and Oahu in Hawaii in 1975. We spent seven days on Oahu, four days on Maui and three days on Kauai.

On September 12, 1992, I will have worked at W. S. U. Campus Activity Center for 25 years. I've worked in many capacities from head cashier, catering, Alibi restaurants in the building, manager of the faculty dining room and manager of the candy counter. Twelve foreign students are now employed there. I also helped with dormitories Vali Dine Meal system.

In 1968 I was elected secretary of C. H. S. Alumni Association. I have served in that capacity each year until the present year. I have served many years as secretary treasurer. I enjoy doing this work thoroughly. It affords the opportunity for me to meet and keep track of many people. Fond memories are rekindled with these contacts. Remembering the people and the incidents allow me to retain many fond memories of my high school days.

I plan to retire from W. S. U. sometime after September 12, 1992. Hopefully, I will work part time there for awhile.

Seven brothers and sisters in the Hendrickson family have graduated from Cambridge High School. Four nieces and nephews and two nieces and nephews by marriage are graduates of C. H. S!

Information and picture was furnished by Mrs. Dorothy A. McConnell, 1238 North Dellrose, Wichita, Kansas 67208, Tel: 316-682-3610.

DOROTHY MAY HAWLEY Keplinger, Class of 1952

Dorothy May Hawley was born May 8, 1934 on a farm about two miles east of Cambridge, Kansas. She was the daughter of Pearl and Gladys (Logsdon) Hawley. She attended school at Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1952.

She was married to Dean Keplinger on September 7, 1952. They are the parents of three children, Curtis, a civil engineer who is working as a field superintendent for Gateway Pacific Construction at Sacramento, California; Kay Kelly, librarian at West Elk High School in Howard, Kansas; and Rebecca Holt, manager of Product Marketing Services at NCR in Wichita, Kansas. Dorothy and Dean have four grandchildren, Christopher, Daniel and Anne Kelley and Wesley Keplinger.

The Keplingers live on a farm south of Grenola, Kansas. They are members of the Grenola Christian Church where Dean serves as an elder and Dorothy is chairman of the women's work.

Dorothy received a BS in Education from Emporia State University in 1968 and a MS in Mathematics in 1972. She taught mathematics at Dexter High School for five years, at Cedar Vale High School for two years, and has taught at Central of Burden for the past seventeen years.

Dorothy is interested in genealogy. She has researched and compiled family histories for the Hawley, Logsdon, and Keplinger families. Another interest is archeology. She is a member of the Kansas Anthropological Association. Every summer, during the first week of June, she participates in their annual dig.

Dorothy helped found the Grenola Historical Society in 1989 and serves as its president. The Historical Society purchased the old mill and elevator and converted it into the Grenola Elevator Museum. It was opened in May 1990. Dorothy spends most of her free time and summers working at the museum.

Information and picture furnished by Dorothy (Hawley) Keplinger, Rt 1, Box 99, Grenola, Kansas 67346, Tel: 620-358-3241.

JAMES ASHCRAFT, Class of 1945

Jim Ashcraft was born on a farm three and one half miles southeast of Cambridge, Kansas on March 2, 1927. The farm belonged to his grandparents, Joseph and Mary Ashcraft. When he was four years old, his parents, Roy Babe and Myrtle (Logsdon) Ashcraft moved the family into town. Jim had one brother, Paul (now deceased), and three sisters, Virginia, Waunita and Vedia. His father worked at odd jobs around the area, but mostly for Ross Horner, first running a steam engine, threshing and siloing. In 1939, Myrtle and the children moved to Grenola to live with Grandmother Logsdon while Babe was in California, driving a truck for Myrtle's brother Gus, and working in a logging camp in northern California near the Ross Belden family. In 1940, Babe returned and the family moved back to Cambridge. Babe resumed working for Ross Horner.

Jim's goals and interests in school were to do well academically and play baseball and basketball. He also enjoyed music. He worked at the Joe Ellis farm, milking 25-30 cows and chopping Johnson Grass and burrs out of the corn for 50 cents a day. He enjoyed fishing under the old stone bridge by the Ellis Farm and driving to Winfield to watch the Cambridge town team play baseball. In the fall of 1940, he stayed with the Garretson family who lived east of Cambridge. He helped with the chores for 50 cents a day and his room and board. In 1941, he worked for Jinks Hawley on south Grouse Creek. He enjoyed swimming and fishing with Leonard and Lloyd Hawley, and eating their catch! These jobs provided him with spending money and enabled him to buy his own clothes and shoes. At fifteen he began driving tractors on farms and worked in harvest fields, spike pitching and running teams of horses for the farmers. He worked up and down Grouse Creek for Ralph Sphar, Bill Bonnell, Hayes Ledgerwood and Jinks Hawley.

During these years, he attended Church and Sunday School at the Cambridge Presbyterian Church. In the summer of 1943, he worked at the cities Service pumping station, north of Cambridge, painting on the overhead crew. In the fall of 1943, his parents moved to Wellington. His Dad went to work in the round house for the Santa Fe Railroad. Jim stayed in Cambridge with the Ledgerwood family. He helped with chores and attended school. This year he began to date Mary Lou Brown, who was the daughter of Alf and Annabelle Brown. Later, Mary Lou would become his wife. Often they double dated with Berkley Cullumber (now deceased) and Marilynn Lee. In the fall of 1944 and the spring of 1945, Jim stayed with the Ralph Sphar family. He helped with the chores and attended school. The Sphar family treated him as a son. He remains close to the two girls, Verla Whiteman and Jewell Hendrickson. Ralph and Mattie Sphar are deceased.

Before graduation in 1945, Jim went to Leavenworth for his draft physical. He got a deferment until harvest was over. He was inducted into service on July 25, 1945 and was sent to Camp Fannin, Texas, for basic training. His good friend, Bob Branson, was in this group.

Jim and Mary Lou were married October 6, 1945 in Tyler, Texas. Mary worked while Jim completed his special training for office work. Bob Branson was in this special training, also. In November, Jim was sent to Finance school at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Mary returned to Cambridge. Following Jim's schooling, he was given two weeks leave before he was shipped overseas in January 1946. He was stationed with the 9th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany, working in the officer's pay section. He was immediately put in charge of that area because they were relieving the men who had gone through the war. The year was long and lonely. especially at night. Weekends were spent touring around Germany or going to Garmish, where once the Olympics had been held. The Army had turned it into a Rand R facility for the American servicemen. Germany was badly torn up at that time. Jim and Bob Branson phoned each other once in awhile. Bob was stationed at Bremerhaven, Germany. They had Thanksgiving dinner together in November 1946, after standing in a chow line for one and one half hours.

Jim was mustered out in Chicago in December. He was home by Christmas 1946. The term of service was 7/25/45 to 1/1/47. Mary and Jim bought the old Zed Craft place. They lived there until the fall of 1947, when Jim entered Southwestern College in Winfield. In the summers of 1947 and 1948, Jim worked for the Cities Service Pumping Station at Cambridge.

Jim and Mary's first daughter, Kathy, was born September 13, 1948 in st. Mary's Hospital in Winfield. They lived in Winfield and Jim worked afternoons and some week ends at the Winfield I G A store. Jim graduated from Southwestern in three years by going one full summer and carrying extra hours during the school year.

Jim's father was killed in a tractor accident in August 1950, shortly before their second daughter, Diane, was born on September 14, 1950. Jim had started his teaching career in Arkansas City as 6th grade teacher in 1950. He remained in Arkansas City two years, then moved to Cambridge where he taught and coached the 7th and 8th grades. He was acting Principle over grades one through eight for three years. He moved up to teaching and coaching Cambridge High School in 1955. Cambridge had a group of good athletes at that time, winning the boys league in baseball and basketball. Some of the boys were Lee Cook, Gary utt, Butch Bair, Norman Holt, Zane Smith, Raymond Hawley, Roger Lyke, Dale Weldy, Armand Hillier, Richard and Jim Booth, Floyd Smith, Arthur Dale Ankrom, Larry Cook, Joe Hawley, Don Faber, Jack and Mick Bolack, Allen smith and Mike Ensley. Girls who played and won their league were Barbara Wadleigh, Carolyn Ensley, Le Royce Johnson, Betty Williams, Judy Howe, Sue Daniels, Karen Lyke, Judy McChesney, Rita and Verna Allison, Lyla Cook, Valetia and Marilyn Hurley, Judy Stiner and Nancy Utt.

On March 2, 1958, Jim's birthday, the third daughter, Becky, was born. In August of 1958, the Ashcraft family moved to Augusta, Kansas. Jim taught Math (his major) and helped coach the tennis team for six years. He helped coach football and in 1961, he became the assistant basketball coach. Each summer was spent teaching drivers education. The summers of 1960 and 1961 were spent in Durant, Oklahoma where Jim attended a math institute.

Jim started work on his Masters Degree in 1961, driving to Emporia on weekends. He received his Masters Degree in 1965. He finished his work for an administrator's certificate in 1968, and was assistant principle and athletic director of Augusta High School in 1968-1969. He was appointed principle in the fall of 1969. In the summer of 1970, the high school moved to the new building north of town. Many hours were spent on the move, staffing and finishing the facility. Jim was Augusta High School Principal for eighteen years. He retired in 1987 at the age of sixty years.

Kathy graduated from high school in 1966, attended and received her degree from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma in 1970. She was married in 1967 and has two children. Diane graduated from high school in 1968 and attended Wichita State University until she got married in December 1969. Diane has two children. Becky graduated in 1976 and went to cali, Columbia as an exchange student. An exchange student from Columbia had lived with the Ashcrafts for one year. Becky was married in February 1977. She has one child.

Jim and Mary have traveled and fished a good deal since Jim's retirement. They have taken tours to the New England states, a three-week tour of seven countries in Europe, toured the northwest united States and Calgary, Canada, fishing in Colorado, many trips to Branson, Missouri where Diane lives with her family, three Canada fishing trips, and visits to many of the U. S. states. They plan to travel more as time allows.

Joining the First Christian Church in Augusta in 1958 has been a great source of comfort, love and joy in the lives of the Ashcraft family, adding deep faith and love for Christ who died and arose again for the salvation of each and everyone who believes in Him.

Information and picture furnished by James Ashcraft, # 6 Huntington, Augusta, Kansas 67010.

JUANITA WOOD Gallagher

(Nita) was born May 23, 1935 at Udall, KS and joined big sister Mary (class 50). She attended school at Cambridge her sixth through part of the tenth year before moving with her family to Wichita. She graduated from Wichita East H. S. On 26 Jun 53, she married Mike Gallagher. They moved to Washington state in 1970. They had three children, Brenda (1954-1988), Mikey 1956 and Maureen 1968. They have four granddaughters and are expecting their first grandson within a few days.

Mike retired from civilian service at Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard and they are enjoying traveling, grandchildren, hobbies, yard work and gardening, walking and taking care of private business concerns. Nita is artistic and does paintings and murals. They live at 121 N.E. Newkirk Rd, Belfair, WA 98528 PH: 360-275-3968

JOHN KIELHORN was born in Winfield, KS Feb 1, 1934 to Earl and Jeanette Kielhorn. He attended Cambridge schools until his sophomore year when he moved to Wyoming. Before coming back to the home place, he worked in the oil fields in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Kansas and in construction in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona. He returned to the family ranch north of Cambridge in 1987.

John married Wilma Raines on Oct 26, 1966. They have three children, Cecil and Dale Kielhorn and Ed Patton, eight grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. They live at 10688 281st Street Road, Cambridge, KS 67023. Their phone is 620-467-2141.

Geological HISTORY OF THE CAMBRIDGE AREA

WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS

Bob Branson

Human history of Windsor Township occupies only a 'brief instant of time, the last 150 years at most. Native Americans, of course, moved in and out of the area prior to its settlement by people of European ancestry but their presence is only in post-glacial time or the last 10,000 years. Their documented presence is much less than that. Relative to geologic time, 10,000 years is still no more than a moment. Given the great age of the earth, what do we know of Windsor Township's history before man arrived? This chapter attempts to probe into the pre human history and perhaps the best place to begin is to discuss what we see at the surface today. What kind of rocks are present? How old are they? Why does the surface look like it does? How do the rocks relate to the surrounding areas, etc.?

Geologists have studied this part of Kansas and adjoining areas for nearly a century now. These scientists, representing universities, State Geological Surveys, the US Geological Survey, and oil and mining companies engage and have engaged in a continual process of presenting, publishing and integrating the results of their studies into the overall geologic framework. It is through their efforts that we are able to understand the geology of Windsor Township and the Cambridge area and how it fits into the geology of the adjoining areas.

The exposed rocks seen in the creek beds, road cuts, and pasture uplands of Windsor township are sedimentary in origin, consisting about half and half of limestone and shale and are of Permian age, meaning that they originated about 250 to 275 million years ago (Figure 1). Figure 1 is in error, though, when it states, in referring to the Permian period, that this is the time that; The Flint Hills were formed. The statement should have read that it was the time that the Flint Hills' rocks originated. The Flint Hills, themselves, came into being much later as a result of erosional processes. Figure 2, an idealized diagram, illustrates some of the features that are seen on the Windsor Township landscape and are discussed below. The rocks which we see on the surface appear to be horizontally stratified but, in fact, dip ever so gently to the west at about one-half degree or 50 to 60 feet per mile. This being the case, as one travels east older and older rocks are encountered at the surface and conversely by traveling west the rocks become younger at the surface. The lime stones are more erosion-resistant than the shales and tend to cap the hills. One result of the westward dip and the resistant lime stones is that the eastward facing escarpments tend to be relatively steep when compared to the westward facing slopes. Such an example is the gentle westward-facing slope toward Grouse Creek on US 160 west of Cambridge when compared to the steeper eastward-facing slope on the west side of Grouse Creek. Diagrammatically, this is illustrated in Figure 2. The best such examples, though, are found farther east.

The Cambridge area rocks originated as soft sediment layers in a shallow sea, probably not too far from its eastern shoreline. The lime stones were deposited as lime muds and lime sands in a sea which was most likely less than 50 feet deep. The shales were deposited as clays. Burial of these sediments by succeeding sediment layers placed them under pressure and with geologic time they hardened into the rocks that we see today. The source of the lime was the abundant invertebrate life which lived in this shallow sea and, in fact, many fossils, especially brachiopods (bivalve seashells resembling clams), are excellently preserved in Cowley County rocks. One of the limestone beds in the Cambridge vicinity weathers in a characteristic fashion because of the sea bottom life which was present when it was deposited. This bed, the Wreford limestone, appears on the upland pasture outcrops to be vertically pitted or bored. This is explained by the fact that it was deposited as a soft lime mud in the sea and this sea floor bottom was bored by a population of boring clams. The vertical borings were subsequently filled with a lime mud, which had a slightly different chemical makeup than the host sediment, and was then buried under a succeeding sequence of sedimentary deposits. Eventually this clambored sedimentary bed, long since hardened into limestone, was exposed at the surface where it has been subjected to the usual physical and chemical processes of erosion. It turns out that the lime mud that filled the borings was less resistant to chemical (dissolution by rainwater) weathering than the surrounding rock with the result that it eroded away faster, thereby leaving the vertically pitted surface that we see today.

The Permian sea referred to may be thought of as a northward-extending arm of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma which in turn was connected to the Permian Basin of west Texas where thick Permian deposits are present. In Kansas, this northward arm of the Permian sea is sometimes referred to as the Hugoton embayment in southwestern Kansas. That term is not used in Cowley County even though the Cowley County Permian represented the near eastern shoreline of this arm of the sea. This shallow sea extended all the way across Kansas into southernmost Nebraska. Eastern Cowley and eastern Butler county were probably within a few miles of its eastern shoreline. In southwestern Kansas, the western shoreline was probably in the general vicinity of the present Kansas-Colorado state boundary and from there it trended northeast until it must have been almost halfway across the state where Kansas and Nebraska now join.

As a matter of further interest it might be pointed out that the Permian surface rocks in Windsor township which dip to the west, as mentioned, are the gas-productive zones at depths of 2500 to 3000 feet in the huge Hugoton-Panhandle gas field some 250 miles to the west, near the other side of the basin or embayment, as shown in Figure 3.

During the latter part of the Permian, the seaway into Kansas became smaller and more restricted. At times its circulation from the south was cut off leading to evaporitic conditions which resulted in the deposition of salt and gypsum. These salt deposits, though not present in Cowley County, are found immediately to the west, in Sumner County, and are mined at Hutchinson and Lyons (Figure 4).

Backing up a bit, we need to remember that geologists have divided geologic time into units called eras which are based on the dominant type of life in existence at that time. Eras, in turn, have been divided into periods, periods into epochs, etc. The Paleozoic era, for example, lasted from about 550 million years ago until 245 million years ago and is often called the Age of Invertebrates. The Permian is the final period of the Paleozoic and, as discussed, it is rocks of Permian age that crop out in Windsor township. The Permian surface rocks in Windsor Township belong to the Chase group which continues to crop out to the north-northeast into Butler, Marion, Chase counties, etc. Some of the limestone beds contain chert (flint), which of course adds to the erosion resistance of the lime stones. It is this near north-south, erosion-resistant outcrop belt which has come to be known as the Flint Hills.

Having briefly discussed the surface geology, let's take a look at the subsurface and start as close to the beginning as we can. There is a general consensus among scientists that the earth is about four and one-half billion years old. Rocks having an age of 550 million to 4 1/2 billion years are Precambrian and generally consist of igneous (rocks formed from the cooling of a molten mass such as granite) and metamorphic (rocks which have been highly deformed by heat and pressure such as marble or slate) rock types. It is these rocks that are thought to represent the original crust of the earth. A granitic basement of Precambrian age has been encountered in several Cowley County wells. In Windsor township, about 4000 feet of Paleozoic rocks rest upon this granitic basement, as shown in Figure 5. Geochemical age datings of Precambrian well cuttings from Central Kansas indicate ages that vary between 1.2 and 1.6 billion years before present and it is assumed that the Cowley County granitic basement is about of that same age.

Wells drilled in Windsor township commence in Permian rocks at the surface and encounter interbedded limestones, shales and sandstones of Pennsylvanian age at a depth of approximately 500', Mississippian age limestone at 2900', Arbuckle limestone around 3300' and Precambrian granite at 4,000. This sedimentary rock sequence ranges in age from a little more than 500 million years old at a depth of 4000 feet to 250-275 million years old at the surface, but it does not represent a complete sequence. Parts of the Cambrian, nearly all of the Silurian and Devonian and upper Mississippian are absent in this part of Cowley County. Their absence may be due to lack of deposition or rocks representing these time periods may have been deposited and subsequently removed by erosion. In other words, there are some significant gaps in the record. For example, the missing Silurian-Devonian interval represents the time from 438 million years ago to 360 million years ago.

The above mentioned subsurface rock sequence has been productive of oil and gas in many places in Kansas and Oklahoma. Locally, some of the more familiar producing zones, are the Layton and Bartlesville sands of Pennsylvanian age, the Mississippi chat and the Arbuckle limestone. Followed to the east, the Mississippi chat is encountered at shallower and shallower depths until it finally crops out in extreme southeastern Kansas where it is mined for extraction of lead and zinc minerals.

We began by discussing the Permian rocks which are exposed at the surface and are around 250-275 million years old. How do we account for this last 250 million years? During most of this long time span, it is assumed that Cowley County and the adjoining area have been above sea level and subjected to erosion. An exception may be the Cretaceous period. The Mesozoic era (the Age of Dinosaurs), which succeeded the Permian, is not represented in Cowley county. Most geologists would agree, though, that the uppermost period of the Mesozoic, the Cretaceous, was represented by sedimentary rock units in Cowley county at one time but that these rocks have long since been eroded away so that today the nearest Cretaceous to Cowley County is 80 to 100 miles to the northwest (Figure 6). The Mesozoic lasted from 245 million years before present until 65 million years ago.

Cenozoic Era (Age of Mammals) deposits are, for the most part, absent in Cowley County. The Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Age) lasted from about 11/2 million years ago to 10,000 years ago. During that time, the leading edge of a great continental ice sheet which covered most of the northeastern US pushed its way into extreme

The foregoing discussion has been brief and generalized. The following represents a partial bibliography and is recommended for those who would like to look into the subject with more detail.

Bayne, Charles K., 1962, Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Cowley County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 158.

Mazzulo, Sal J. etal, 1994, The Chase Group Facies of Southern Kansas and Northem Oklahoma: Kansas Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook.

Merriam, Daniel F. 1963, The Geologic History of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 162.

Williams, Roger B., 1975, Ancient Life Found in Kansas Rocks: Kansas Geological Survey, Educational Series 1.

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