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Show back to an N. With that kind of allegiance to Nephi High School, its not surprising, then, that Mrs. Jorgenson had strong reservations when the school district decided to build a new high school and abandon the one of Main Street. It the new high school is flat! she said, with more than a hint of disgust in her voice. When I saw what it looked like, I was so mad I felt like bombing it, she said. of the oriForty-twmembers 63 class ginal o attended the reunion recently at the Nephi Juab High School building was 'palace' for NHS 'Class of 1925' Now-ol- d mates were the first and a swimming pool students to spend at (not even the new high least part of each high school in northeast school grade in tne Nephi has one of those). And, of course, there ly because there is modern faciltiies and nothing else available, thus were the first to was the big auditorium, you are staying in a realize the full impact of which we had never had cheap motel room with a what those facilities had before, Gadd said. He said school events requirto offer. kitchenette. was Then one day as you like a It ing a stage and seating palace, are wearily heating Gadd remembers. He for an audience had been chicken noodle soup on a said high school students held in various church hot plate, the motel had been attending halls prior to the opening manager calls to inform classes in the building (at of that new Nephi High you that all guests in the least what remains of it) School. motel are being transfer- that is now used as a city Oh, we were proud of red at no extra charge to equipment shed and fire that local the Marriott. station. He said the Clela high school, said Bailey Jorgenson, Members of the Class classrooms were so of 1925, who recently cramped that there was another class member. Mrs. Jorgenson, who held their 55th an- standing room only. moved to Salt Lake City niverary reunion in And he said it was soon after graduation, Nephi, must have felt as almost easier to hold it said she felt so strongly though they were check- and run home than it about the building that ing into a luxury hotel was to use the restroom and she some of her when, in the midst of the facilities in the old classmates rebelled when 1922-2school year, the building. new Nephi High School In contrast to what even the name of the high school was changed we had, it the opened. 1930 to Juab High in Fred IT. Gadd, who high school even though they School, acted as chairman for the was heaven, Gadd conhad been out of school reunion, said the Class of tinued. He said the five for She said years. 25 entered the new students had individual friends she and her which served lockers, a luxury they building as a high school until last had never known before, would routinely change a spacious library, and the J painted on a big year and is now undergorock near the high school ing a change that will facilities to learn the use turn it into a Juab Coun- of business machines-TherThe Times-New- s as was a gymnasium ty office complex Nephi, Utah sophomores. He said in the basement which Oct. 2,1980 that he and his class doubled as a lunchroom. by R. K. Jackson You are attending a convention in some city and, mainmid-Americ- Fine Arts Center. Though it was the 55th year reunion, the class has held only one other successful reunion and that was five years ago. They tired to have one a long time ago and I dont think anybody came, explained another member, Blanche Ord Sorenson of Salt Lake City. But now, because the classmates are feeling their pasts slip ever more quickly away as they head into an increasingly uncertain future, it was decided to hold the next reunion in two, not five, years from now. The high school build ing on Main Street, more Remember Last Years Big, Cold Snowstorm On Hunting Weekend? Remember How Cold And Wet You Were? than anything else, seems to represent the happiness of those receding pasts. When arrangements were being made for this years reunion, Gadd said there was an overwhelming concern about the fate of the old building. It was almost he said. a chorus, " What are they gong to do with our building? As class member Frank Morgan explain- If a building like that goes, the memories go with it. And when the classmates arrived in town for their they were invited to tour the ed, r, high school complex. Some of them, for whatever reason, didnt take the tour. But Gadd said those who did go, generally liked what they saw. One man was heard to say, after inspecting the business education department, The students from this school could step right into the most modern offices and go right to work. f new Insulated Underwear Raincoats Slickers - Rubber Boots - Wool Shirts Jeans - All The Best In Warm Clothing For The Hunt. thought the They new school was wonderful, Gadd said. But not, its - safe to say, as Check Us Andersons won- 720 South Main , f derful as their new school was on that January day in 1923. kJUVI Nephi, Utah STARTING TODAY NEPHI IS THIRSTY 3 Introducing one of the most automobiles in America one that's made in America. The totally new Lynx. . . the American l breakthrough. Lynx with drive for traction ... independent suspension for smoothness . . . and a special inner world of fuel-efficie- now-abandon- 1981 Lynx. See it at your Lincoln-MercurDealer's. And see how the nt . . . fuel-efficie- . nt Lynx can make the whole world a little less thirsty. 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