the natrona county high school annual, our senior year of 1959 when dick and i were classmates. inng with lynn, we were all the same class together. the first one we will look at is lynnture of dick and coming down the stairways at our junior-senior prom. this was when we were all juniors. the next page is a picture of dick when he was a junior also. that is dick. that was the group of individuals from our class picked to go to the conference every summer they had at the fairgrounds. he was picked for that. some of the better students, higher grades, boyd state is what was called. they had girls state also.

next page, that happens to be a picture of lynn when she was getting ready to go down to girls state. i moved here starting in the eighth grade. lynn wereen dick and moving in around the same time. we all met at the first of that school year and knew each other for the next five years. we would all go to the same parties and dances. they never dated until they were seniors because everybody kind of co-mingled with everybody else. it was not like it is today. they were very popular, of course. the baton twirling in front of the high school marching band. everybody knew them. the school was not that big. this is the student council page. dick happens to be right there. he was our class president.

down below is pat ellis. , who was an interesting figure in the u.s. military. he went on and made a military career. this is paula barry. the next thing we can take a look at is the beginning of our senior year. this was our class officers at that time. dick is backing here is a class officer that year and so was this young lady. these two our new class officers. this happened to be our two class sponsors. looking back, you can see where he was geared for where he did finally go. asthe time, i did not know much as they ran around with him that he was interested in politics. i think he got into that in college. he was always a class leader. he was one of the alternate team

captains in football. we rotated that position. he was always one of the leaders . this is dick cheney's senior class picture. i would guess at that time, dick was probably 17 years old. maybe 18. bes next page happens to some of the seniors, some of the football team. not all seniors but some seniors. in this picture, that happens to be myself, lucky enough to get in there with those guys. this is dick cheney over here. tom, who was one of dick's good friends he went to college with. they went to yell together and both moved back to wyoming together.

mrs. joe myers who ended up being secretary of state for the state of wyoming and state treasurer. he and dick longtime clinical friends. lynnr high school, dick and went off to college. they went their separate ways. dick went to yale. they kept in touch. he did finally transfer back to wyoming and finished his college career down there. that is when he went into the political circles. we stayed in touch with each other and would see each other at class reunions. once in a while, we would get together and go fishing in the summer or something. in two weeks, we have our 55th class reunion coming up. as of right now, dick and lynn will be there.

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