Melody Ames:  

Wow! GCHS and in the 60's! As a Freshman during Speech Class we learned President Kennedy had been shot. We heard about Martin Luther King conducting freedom marches and wondered why. None of us knew what it meant to be prejudice. An HONOR student, Tom Hess, was kicked out of GCHS because his hair was too long, he had a Beatles hair cut. (Today he is my brother-in-law and a retired VP at Xcel Energy.) We were required to address our teachers only by Sir and Ma'am. Girls were required to wear dresses/skirts. If you smoked, you were bad but we went to our share of woodsies. One 1966 classmate was killed in Vietnam, Junior Dalton. We honor you here JD. The 1966 class held two very important distinctions; the LAST graduating class, the school was condemned. The second honor was being the LARGEST graduating class since 1948, all bright enthusiastic young people eager to take on the world. Central City's Mayors Don Mattivi Jr. and Rand Anderson graduated in 66'. Since graduating, I have lived in Denver, Salt Lake City, Dall...Expand for more