Donald G. Nelson Sr.:
CLASS OF 1969
Park City High SchoolClass of 1969
Park city, UT
Wasatch High SchoolClass of 1975
Heber city, UT
East High SchoolClass of 1975
Salt lake city, UT
Wasatch High SchoolClass of 1974
Heber city, UT
Donald G.'s Story
Life
I WAS WITH THE CLASS OF 69 UNTIL I JOINED THE ARMY IN 1968, I DID GET A DIPLOMA FROM PCHS IN THE YEAR OF THE LAST CLASS AT THE OLD SCHOOL, I BELIEVE THAT DON ALVEY WAS A MEMBER OF THAT CLASS.
I HAVE DONE THE BIOS 2 TIMES HAD PHOTOS DISPLAYED OF THE FAMILY, I AM GETTING OLD FAT GRUMPY AND FORGETFUL, BUT AS A WHOLE I AM STILL ALIVE, I DON'T FISH AS OFTEN AS I WOULD LIKE, HUNTING CAN BE A REAL PROBLEM, WHEN AT ANYTIME UP HERE YOU CAN RUN INTO BEARS, MOST JUST RUN BUT SOME OF THE BIGGER BROWN ONES SOME TIMES MOVE A LITTLE TO SLOW FOR ME REQUIRING A COMPLETE CHANG OF HUNTING AREA.
I GUESS THAT WHAT I AM GETTING AT IS, ARE WE SO OLD AND CHANGED THAT WE DON'T WANT OTHERS TO KNOW HOW WE LOOK OR HOW WE ARE DOING?
YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW I DO NOT THINK THAT I CAN NAME HALF OF THE STUDENT NAMES OF OUR CLASS, AND 99% OF WHERE OR WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
I AM NOT MAD OR CRAZY, SORTA OF A PLEA FOR IMFORMATION A LITTLE FOOT HOLD INTO WHERE I HAVE COME FROM, AND THE PEOPLE I USED TO KNOW, WHEN THERE WAS ONLY SNOW PARK, NO TREASURE MT., WHEN THE FIRST STUDENTS FROM SUMMIT PARK ARRIVED, WAS DAVE GARDNER THE FIRST?
EVERYONE HAS AN E-MAIL ME SIGN ON THEIR NAMES DO THEY MEAN ANY THING?
I GUESS THAT AT TIMES YOU CAN BE IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE AND STILL FEEL ALL ALONE. JUST MUTTERING I GUESS!
SO NOW THEN FOR THE REST OF THE WINTER JUST ENDED, I WAS ABLE TO GET TWO SPOTTED SEALS AND SHARED THEM WITH THE NATIVES THRU THE SEINOR CENTER, MOST OF THEM DO NOT HAVE ANYONE TO HUNT FOR THEM ANYMORE, SO NOW THEY HAVE A LITTLE SEAL MEAT AND OIL, I THINK THAT THE OIL IS PROBBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT, IT DOES ALOT OF GOOD THINGS FOR YOU JUST ONE IS IT LOWERS YOUR COLSTREOL (?) AND PROVIDES A LOT OF MINRELS AND VITAMENS (?).
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
THE BIGGEST HALIBUT I HELPED TO LAND IN THE BOAT WAS 175LBS. AND IT LOOKED AS IF IT WAS AS TALL AS ME.
THE BEST HALIBUT TO HAVE AS FAR AS I CAN SEE IS THE 40 OR SO POUNDERS, HALIBUT UP HERE CAN GET AS BIG AS 400 POUNDS.
THE SNOW IS GONE THE SUN IS SHINING AND THE NEW GROWTH IS ALREADY 2 FEET TALL, JUST IN TIME FOR US TO START WATCHING FOR BLACK BEARS IN THE YARD BEFORE PUTTING THE LITTLE DOG OUT OR LETTING THE GRANG KIDS OUT TO PLAY.
OK SO CLASS OF 69 LETS HEAR FROM YOU WHATS GOING ON AND WHERE?
DOES ANYONE STILL LIVE IN THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF PARK CITY.
IS THERE STILL A KIDS CREEK, A THREE MILE POND, KIMBALLS CREEK?
IS THERE STILL ANY WILDLIFE LEFT IN THE AREA?
DON..
AS OF 5/22 WE JUST FINISHED EATING THE VERY FIRST RAINBOW TROUT OR ANY FISH THAT OUR FIRST GRAND SON CAUGHT, THERE IS A LITTLE LAKE IN TOWN THE STATE STOCKED IT AND SATERDAY...Expand for more
IT WAS FOR LITTLE KIDS ONLY, LITTLE JACK MICHAEL GUNTHER IS ONLY 2 AND WILL TURN THREE THE DAY AFTER MY MOTHERS AND DAUGTHERS BIRTHDAY THE 30th OF MAY.
WE HAD TO PUT HALIBUT, DOLLYS, AND LAKE TROUT TO HAVE ENOUGH FISH, BECAUSE OF COURSE EVERY ONE HAD TO COME TO DINNER.
OUR SECOND GRANDSON LUKE WAYNE GUNTHER WILL BE 1 YEAR OLD ON JULY 4th, I GUESS THAT FOR A WHILE THAT HE WILL THINK THAT EVERYONE IS HELPING HIM WITH HIS SPECIAL DAY. ALL FOR NOW.DON
School
BIGGEST CRUSH IS STILL AROUND AND WILL REMAIN NAMELESS.
THE HAPPIEST TIMES AT SCHOOL WERE SLOW DANCING WITH CATHY WALLIN AND GIRLS #2 #3 #4 IN THAT ORDER.
THE CRAZIEST WAS IN NOV. OF 1967 BY THIS TIME I KNEW THAT I COULD SKI BUT WAS NOT GOING TO GRADUATE FROM PCHS WITH THE CLASS. I ENTERED INTO THE ARMY AND LEFT PARK CITY ON JAN.9th OF 1968,BEFORE 1969 I HAD ALREADY BEEN ALL OVER, HAD EVEN BEEN THE YOUNGEST EVER GENERALS ORDERLY AT FORT CARSON COLO. ENDED UP IN THE SAME COMPANY THERE WITH DEE WHEELER.
BY THE TIME THE CLASS OF 69 WAS GRADUATING I WAS ALREADY WITH THE FOURTH INFINTRY DIV. IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIET NAM, 18 AND INDUSRTATUBLE REPLING DOWN A ROPE OUT OF A PERFECTLY GOOD HELIOPTER WITH A CASE OF C4 PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, DET CORD AND BLASTING CAPS, ONCE THE CHOPPER LEFT IT WAS TIME TO BLOW DOWN THE TREES FOR EAITHER AN LZ OR A FORWARD FIRE BASE, ONCE COMPLETED WE WERE FLOWN BACKOUT TO OUR MAIN FIRE BASE, I WAS TRAINED AS A CONSTRUCTION ENGR. CONCRETE AND ASPLALT, BUT ONCE I LEFT TRAINING I NEVER SEEN IT AGAIN, IN FACT WHEN I FIRST GOT INTO VIET NAM I WAS PROMOTED TO E-5 AND GIVEN A COMBAT ENGR. FIELD BOOK AND MY OWN SQUAD THERE WAS A WHOLE SEVEN OF US COUNTING ME, AT FIRST WE WERE ASSIGNED PERMANTLY TO AN INFINTARY COMPANY AND HAD TO GO THRU THE BUSH WITH THEN AND THE SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING AND GOING OUT OUR DEPLOYEMENT WAS CHANGED TO WE WERE FLOWN IN AND EAITHER SET ON THE GROUND OR REPELLING DOWN THRU THE CANOPY, SOME OF THE WERE 80 TO 100 FEET TO THE GROUND.
SO I WONDER WHICH SCHOOLING DID THE MOST GOOD, I HAVE SEEN THINGS I DID NOT LIKE, DONE THINGS I MIGHT NOT BE TO PROUD OF AND SO I AM EXTREAMLY HAPPY WITH. I WONDER WHY I AM STILL HERE!
LETS SEE TALK ABOUT CARRING ON, ENOUGH FOR NOW. DON Sr.
College
DURNING A TIME OF UNEMPLOYEMENT, I DECIDED TO GO AND TAKE A GED AND SEE WHAT I NEEDED FOR A GRADUATION DIPLOMA, SO SINCE I LIVED IN HEBER AT THE TIME WITH MY WIFE AND THREE SONS, I WENT DOWN TO BYU AND ASKED FOR A GED TEST THRU THE VETS ADMIN.
BYU GAVE ME BOTH A GED AND A COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM, ALL OF A SUDDEN I HAD PASSED THE GED AND THE ENTRANCE EXAM AND SIGNED UP TO TAKE CLASSES, I TOOK THE GED TO WASATCH HIGH SCHOOL BUT THEY SAID THAT SINCE I HAD ATTENDED PCHS TO TAKE IT OVER THERE, AND SURE ENOUGH I RECIEVED A HIGH SCHOOL DIPOLMA, I GOT IT THE SAME YEAR THAT MIKE ALVEY GRADUATED, I KNOW THAT IT WAS HIM BECAUSE MY MOTHER WANTED A PICTURE OF ME IN THE RED GARMENTS, WELL I GOT THE PICTURE, AND PICKED UP MY DIPLOMA THAT NIGHT, AND I THINK IT WAS THE LAST CLASS TO FINISH AT THE OLD SCHOOL.
I FOUGHT THRU BYU FOR ONE YEAR AND MONEY BECAME SO TIGHT IT WAS FORGET SCHOOL AND GO BACK TO WORK, BUT I STILL WISH THAT I HAD FINISHED..END OF STORY
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