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From the Tiger's Den

by Lakewood High School, Class of 1950, coordinating editor Elmer Koneman

208 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0168; ISBN 1-55369-355-8; US$20.50, C$24.95, EUR16.30, £11.30

From the Tiger's Den is a collection of remembrances and vignettes of 32 classmates from the Lakewood High School (Colorado) class of 1950, highlighting events as we lived through them during the last half-century.

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About the Book This book is a series of remembrances and vignettes of a 1950 high school class who were born during the Great Depression and spent their childhoods during World War II. Memories of these events are included in sections on the Great Depression and World War II. Stories are included from those serving in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The book ends with a legacy section in which we ponder what our accomplishments over the last half-century may mean for the future.

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About the Coordinating Editor Elmer Koneman is a semi-retired pathologist, medical educator and author of many scientific papers and textbooks. He has also written two stage plays, Koch, based on the life of the German microbiologist anad The Horse that Pulls, a clinical laboratory story with a court scene. Soon to be published will be The Open End of the Microscope - The Bacteria Tell Their Own Story (ASM Press). He lives with wife Doris in Breckenridge, Colorado, has four children and seven grandchildren.

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Excerpts

Title Page

From the Tiger's Den

Memories and Reflections from the
Lakewood High School Class of 1950

Coordinating Editor
Elmer W. Koneman

Editor
Jack E. Carver

Reunion Coordinator
Nancy Licht Battan

Class Historian
Suzanne Tebow Leaf

Editorial Assistants
Beverly Sparks Clifton
Carl Hups
Donna Sronce Malcolm
Louise Winters St. Clair

Table of Contents

Preface
Prelude to the 1950's: Roots and Remembrances
The Great Depression
War: On the Home Front
Lakewood Memorial Field: Dedication Stone
School Days--Pre-High School
School Days--High School
Teachers
War Returns: Classmates Who Served
School Days--Post-High School

Vocations
Anthropology
Architecture
Aviation
Baker
Banking
Civil Engineering
Corrections
Incarceration
Dentistry
Education: Teaching
Hotel Management
Law
Military
Mining
Mother
Nursing
Public Works
Real Estate
Secretary
Space Scienc
Television and Screen
Turkey Farming
Veterinary Medicine

Avocations
A Journey Through the Decades
Legacy
Final Musings
Epilogue

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Lakewood, Colorado is a prototype of thousands of other communities that developed in the suburbs of evolving major cities, representative if the "Americana" of the United States West, a land that was gradually tamed over a period of several decades. Most of the major settlements were founded during the mid to latter part of the 19th Century, beginning along river beds, in high altitude plains, or wherever gold was discovered in any abundance. Thus, to speak of Denver and its suburb Lakewood, is to speak of any number of other localities sprinkled over the western half of our great country.

The cry of gold discovered at the confluence of the Platte River and Cherry Creek enticed settlers to migrate west from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and other points east. The "Queen City of the Plains" came in to being in mid-century 1800, about 100 years prior to the vintage of these collected tales. The plat, called the Lakewood subdivision, located immediately to the west of the Denver county line, was filed by the Lovelands and Welsh in 1889. Our generation did not come along until the 1930's; however, within the tales of students from the high school class of 1950, are remembrances of parents and grandparents that truncates this period of time into a rapidly progressing continuum. The only difference in what you read here and from the experiences in your own home town, wherever that may be, is our effort to chronicle the events; to help our children and grandchildren understand the magic of that bygone era.

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