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:
“To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.”
—Emily Post (1873–1960)
“What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one’s fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)