I was in the first grade when I first met Kathie Hostetler. We were each the princesses from our elementary schools for the "Milk Fund Jamboree, sponsored by the school district. I was representing Lakeview Elementary and Kathie was representing Lincoln Elementary. We wore beautiful long formals and our partners were all decked out in their best suits. In the picture above I am on the far right and Kathie is the fourth from the left. My class was moved from Lakeview Elementary to Lincoln Elementary shortly after Christmas that year and thus began our life long friendship. We both have birthdays in August, so we would have joint birthday parties, & we were in Girl Scouts together,
we were the 6th grade "cheerleaders" for Lincoln together
Our lives were intertwined throughout those years. She lived in town and I lived 3 miles out in the "country" in our small town in Idaho. We ran around with the same group of friends all through Lincoln Elementary, West Junior High and Nampa High school. There were parties, dances, county fairs, sleep-overs, school functions, football & basketball games, and we were all one group together. The memories are wonderful and last week Kathie and her husband Steve, who now live in the San Francisco area were in town to attend some baseball spring training games. We got together on Saturday evening for dinner and memories. We sat at the restaurant for 2 1/2 hours and talked and laughed and remembered all those wonderful years. Steve was a good friend of Kent's so he had some fun memories to share on the guy side of things. It was so fun to reconnect and plan to do so each year they come to Arizona for spring training..what a great memory that evening was.
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I didn't know we had "royalty" in our family!!!! Milk Fund Jamboree Princess!!!! Holy cow, you have a good memory!!! ( Or was it written on the back of the picture??)
I remember thinking Kathie was soooooo cute--those dimples!!!!! I always wished I was as "old" as you two!! ;0)
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