MY BOOK……….LILAGCS B2 - 13

Tuesday June, 19, 2012
continued…………

Going to High School

My sophomore year

 

Sac City High School Building

Going into 10th grade meant I was going to be a Sophomore in high school. I am racking my memory to try and place some things in order. I remember specifically that I was a sophomore when mom and dad purchased our first television. I think I talked about that in a prior Blog when Kelley Hoskins sparked my memory about the TV set.
I am not sure what part of the year it was, but mom and dad also purchased our first house when I was a sophomore. (1957) see below:
 
                                                                                          Our first house in Sac City
I also now remember that I was active in our MYF (Methodist Youth Fellowship) and about 6 of us decided to go to church camp located up on West Lake Okoboji. It was our local Methodist church camp (the one we attended) and my grandfather’s sister, Matilda (aunt Matilda, I called her) owned a small cabin that was located with in the camp’s area. She would allow MYF students to occupy her cabin during the summer camping days.
A previous Sac City Methodist Pastor before I moved to Sac City also owned a small cabin in the same area of the camp as my great aunt Matilda. He had moved to Eagle Grove, Iowa from Sac City.
As we prepared to travel north from Sac City to the camp on Okoboji we were all excited because there were going to be three towns that would be sending MYF students to our same cabin. They were from Eagle Grove, Algona and Sac City.
                                                           
 Views of Lake Okoboji
We arrived there at the cabin first and waited for the ones from Eagle Grove and Algona. The 2 cars caring the kids from the other two locations arrived

                                                                                                                  
                                             Church MYF Members at Church Camp
As they filed from the cars into the cabin, one of the girls caught my eye as someone that I knew. She came directly up to me and said; “ Don’t I know you?” I replied without blinking an eye; “Yes, I kissed you in the cloak closet in 3rd grade at Reynolds grade school in Spencer, Iowa.” (See comment in the 3^rd Grade Section)
I was correct and we became inseparable the rest of the time at camp. We were always together during the classes and at meal time. In the cabin, the boys slept in the converted garage and the girls slept in the cabin. There was always the pastor and a girl’s chaperone present.
It was very difficult when camp was over to say goodbye. I remember my grandmother came up to the camp from Spencer to pick me up to take me back to her house in Spencer. The girl, Caye, and I wrote letters back and forth all the time. I became very stressed because I had no transportation to drive to Eagle Grove to see her.
 
One time, we attended a dance at WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa that was patterned after the national dance telecast “Bandstand”.
 
                                       
                                              Betty Lou McVay
It was called “Sixteen” and hosted by Betty Lou McVay, (also she was originally Mary Lou Varnum, a previous family name) a kids program called “The Magic Window”  and Dick Green another WOI-TV program host. We danced and people back in Sac City watched us on television. We had a great time.