The Post War Years
Along with the rest of our nation, Gem State moved forward. A bakery was built to increase student employment opportunities. That bakery has continued to expand and evolve and is now the Rhodes Bake-N-Serv Company.
In the 1960s, while John Kennedy was dreaming of putting men on the moon, and Martin Luther King Jr. was dreaming of racial harmony, the people of the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists were working to fulfill the dream of building a new campus for the aging Gem State. The beautiful old buildings were deteriorating, there was not enough room, and the city of Caldwell had grown so close to the campus that it was no longer in a rural location. It was voted that a new school should be built in a more rural area. The land chosen had been bought in previous years and was ideally situated in the country on top of a hill overlooking the Boise Valley. By the fall of 1962, the administration building, dormitories, power plant and laundry were complete enough to start school.
This year marks 40 years of this campus on the hill, and 85 years since the original campus was built. Gem State is still full of life with over 140 students in attendance this school year. The primary focus of a faith-based education with real life work training has not changed. Gem State is continuing its long tradition of strong academics with students scoring at college levels by their junior year, and over 93% of students going on to college after graduation.
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Famous quotes containing the words post, war and/or years:
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavour to make an impossible peace with it—that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”
—Eric Gill (1882–1940)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)