Mom broke her junior year high school prom date's heart when she started dating someone else - according to his brother reporting back at the high school reunion decades later (awkward)...She was then installed as "Job's Daughters Queen" for her senior year of high school - "chosen by a formal member vote before being installed" - so she led the weekly masonic meetings of the high school young ladies. My mom's family didn't get television till the last couple years of high school! Wow. Mom was the salutatorian (2nd highest GPA) of her high school class of 180 students. She was also on a debate team that went to a national championship at the red rock ampitheater in Colorado - her junior year.
The National Forensic League (NFL) National Tournament was hosted in Denver, Colorado, and held its final rounds and award ceremonies outdoors at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre...National Forensic League (NFL) National Tournament was hosted in Denver, Colorado, and featured events tied directly to the surrounding region. While individual debate and speech preliminary rounds were traditionally held in local classrooms, the National Speech & Debate Association historical records highlight that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent an official greeting...
The town yearly parade and festival featured a Tilt-A-Whirl, a carnival ride invented in Minnesota!
Mom's first boyfriend was a young man who became a Navy seal ...he was also a bread delivery worker while in high school.
Gene grew up in .... He enjoyed fishing, friends and sports and was fondly known as “Shamrock” during his ....High School days....He was drafted into the Navy and graduated from the Underwater Swimmers School (UWSS) in Key West, Florida. He traveled the world on Navy ships.
My mom had two other suitors who were officers in the military - one in the Air Force as an officer who got his undergraduate degree at Princeton (he later formed his own mechanical engineering firm after he worked for US Steel out of Pennsylvania).... Another was in Navy intelligence and he told Mom that the U.S. next war would be in Vietnam - that was in 1963....
My mom also dated an early rock band guitarist musician for a summer in the early 60s...and the hometown Hotel Owner also tried dating mom....
After my mom married my dad then my mom traveled to 38 countries (a couple of them a half dozen times!). Wow. Mom's local town newspaper announced that her husband got a high-level job. hahaha. That was only for two years as Chief Deputy Officer for the Attorney General of the state.
Meanwhile my mom's dad continuing building his successful HVAC duct installation company (taken over by the sons) that is still going strong today - it first unionized and now is employee-owned by kept its founder name.

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