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BHS IN THE 50s

Cathy Daley
Class of 1950

“We [my family] had a place in McCall. My grandmother built a house there. We spent the summers there, that’s how I met him [my husband, who went to Boise High with me]. This man owned property down a ways from me. He had a long, long dock. He was handicapped so he couldn’t use his legs so he had to let himself down and into his boat. He said one day, ‘Yeah there are a lot of fish down there.’ So I said, ‘Well, I should go down there and fish.’ Well then he sold it, and I thought, ‘Oh dear, oh dear.’ Well guess who bought the property? His [my husband’s] parents. Then I found out his mother liked to fish. She had a cleaning lady every Thursday, so she would take off to fish. I thought, ‘Well, I probably should get in on that.’ Because my parents didn’t care one darn about fishing. That’s how we all got to know each other. I thought he was pretty cute. I really did. Younger, but didn’t matter. He liked to fish, so did I. [After the summer was over] it was wrong [to like him], because he was still in junior high and I was in high school, so when we had the junior/senior prom I had to get permission from the principal so he could come.”

Judi Lorraine Carpenter
Class of 1957

“I was wearing a dress that I’d made [at a dance], strapless and had white lace along the top. Of course we were dancing rock and roll, and moving pretty good, and I looked down at one point in between dances, and my dress had shifted [half way around my body]. It didn’t drop though!”

Howard Cobler
Class of 1959

“It was winter time, and instead of going to school, me and this other guy that didn’t show up, we decided to skip school and go duck hunting. So we’re driving down State Street and I slipped on the ice and ran into the physics teacher, Mr. Pantry! [In his car.] But he liked us so he didn’t even turn us in.”

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