Geraldine Robillard Volker (DHS ’60) Passed away.
Posting from Gloria Robillard Patnaude (‘69): Belcourt, ND

My sister Geraldine (Robillard) Volker passed away today February 9th. She had a long battle with cancer but passed away peacefully in her sleep at home. She was the daughter of Bill and Elvena  Robillard. She was also a sister to myself, Jim, Bobby, and Raphael Poitra.

Her husband was Terry Volker and she was the mother to three sons; Bill in Washington, Jim in Montana, and Terry in North Dakota.  She will be greatly missed by all that knew her.

Gary’s Comment: Our condolences are with you and all of Geraldine’s family with her passing. Raphael, one of the nicest gentleman you’ll ever meet, was in my class

 

World famous Dales Jumbo Burger
Posting from Rod Hiatt (’69): Bottineau, ND

Gary, while having dinner at Dales, my wife asked me why I was taking a picture of the last portion of a Jumbo. I told her that I wanted you and Larry Hackman to see and remember what the last 4 bites of a World Famous Dales Jumbo looked like. Sure was good!!!!!!!

Gary’s comment
Yes indeed Rod. One of the best burgers ever. I can never eat the whole burger, especially with their golden crisp fries. Too much food. I think Larry Hackman can manage to make one of these disappear though.  

July 2015
Henry Hackman

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Blog (768) posted on April 9, 2010

Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND.

Posted with message 183 on 8/5/08

Message/News paper Article from Gary Morgan (54):

Gary & All, Attached is Garry Woodford’s writeup on the game Darrell referred to. Also his wrapup of the season. Any success I enjoyed on the football field has to be attributed to Virgel Vanorney. We had two weeks of football practice in the spring of 1950 and another two weeks before school started that fall. Since we didn’t have a football coach yet, Virgel drilled, and I mean DRILLED, us in the fundamentals. He instilled in all of us two basic principles: “Stay low” and “If you hit them harder than they hit you, you’re not going to get hurt”. I’m convinced that had Vidge stayed our coach, we would have had a more successful season that first year. This is evidenced by the fact that we thoroughly dominated Towner in a preseason scrimmage but they beat us during the season. I had another advantage. Being a freshman the first season Dunseith fielded a team in several years, I had just as much experience as the upperclassmen. This enabled me to start all four years. Dick should hang on to that helmet. It’s a relic of possibly the only undefeated seasons Dunseith ever had in football.

Gary Morgan

 

Posted with message 182 on 8/4/08
Reply 1950 football picture From Darrel Fassett (47):

What Gary Morgan didn’t tell you about that football team was that they turned into a very good team. I followed the progress of the team(via Turtle Mountain Star) and they and Rolla were both pretty good. Gary was the Dunseith running back and Rolla also had a very good back. Of course, the Rolla player got all the ink. Since I had worked with both Gary and Dick at the lumber yard I had to come watch the game when the two teams met. Early in the game the two met whie Gary was carrying the ball and Gary ran right over him. After that it was a rout. I don’t remember the score but it was large in favor of Dunseith. I bet Gary remembers the score. At that time there was an intense Rolla-Dunseith rivalry( maybe still is) so that made it even better. Gary was too modest to tell you that they became a very good football team.

 

Posted with message 182 on 8/4/08
From Gary Morgan (54):

Gary & All, Thinking back to my freshman and sophomore years in high school….we never had cars to cruise like you younger people. Mostly, we would hang out in the bowling alley or wander down to the Crystal Cafe. Some of the older guys might go to the pool hall. Once in a great while, Donnie Hiatt would get his dad’s pickup. He would pick up Jerry Williams and myself and sometimes Jimmie Footit and with the three or four of us jammed in the pickup, it would be off to Bottineau to pick up girls. Those Bottineau girls were really a bunch of snobs. There might be three or four of them walking down the sidewalk and we would pull over to the curb and throw them the only pick up line we knew..”Do ya want a ride?”. They never did and only once did one actually flee, but that was probably because she was alone. It could be thirty below and they still wouldn’t get in. Looking back now, I can’t help but wonder if the stock rack with the cow crap up and down the sides might not have been a disadvantage. I think it may have somehow intimidated them.

Gary Morgan

 

Posted with message 180 on 8/3/08
Message/Picture from Gary Morgan (54):

Gary & All, Attached is a snapshot of the entire 1950 football team that my mother took after we had beaten Belcourt in our first game of the season. We had previously thumped Towner in a practice scrimmage so we were on a roll. Back row: Billy Leonard, Marshall Awalt, Clayton McKay, Bob Leonard, Jerry Blake, Don Hiatt & Stephen Renault. Front row: Gary Morgan, Eddie Leonard, Dick Morgan, Jerry Williams, Glen Williams & Don Hosmer. White jersey: Barry Shelver. We only had 12 game uniforms so Barry, being only a lowly 8th grader didn’t get one. However, in the next game, against Leeds, Stephen got his nose broken, a not uncommon occurrence in those days, and was out for the season. This was a good thing for Barry cuz now he got a game uniform. I don’t know why Bill missed the team picture. This was the first football team Dunseith fielded since before the war and we took our lumps. We played Belcourt twice so got two wins but were humiliated by Leeds 60-13 and also beaten by Rolla, Towner and Bisbee twice for a record of 2-5. We were competitive in all but the Leeds game. The next year, we won our first two games but in the second one, against Rolette, Don Hosmer’s head met Eddie Leonard’s knee and they were both knocked out of action. Since we only had three subs to start with, including 90 lb. Barry Shelver and 75 lb. Gary Woodford, we had to cancel the rest of the season. Janice is right. Old school friends are special.

Gary Morgan

Back row L to R: Billy Leonard, Marshall Awalt, Clayton McKay, Bob Leonard, Jerry Blake, Don Hiatt & Stephen Renault.
White jersey: Barry Shelver

Front row L to R: Gary Morgan, Eddie Leonard, Dick Morgan, Jerry Williams, Glen Williams & Don Hosmer

 

Letter from Patrick Godfrey from the the class of 1950 – Phone (712) 322-8770Note: Patrick does not have email.