THE BIG CAPER
| Vacation at the Lake | Green Mt. Falls | Cogswell's | Stillwater | Back to Colorado At the Shearn's | Woodmen Valley | And Then... |
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In February of 1956 the whole family reunited at 43 Main St., Potsdam, NY, where Bill was teaching mathematics at Clarkson Institute of Technology. We decided that it would we nice to get back to Colorado, so Bill sought and got job offers at Colorado State University and Colorado College and accepted the one at CC! In September we moved back to Colorado Springs and rented a house in Stratton Meadows at 1926 S. Franklin Ave., and Bill started teaching mathematics at Colorado College. Then in August of 1957 we decided a move to a place in the country would be good. We located a house for sale in Green Mountain Falls and bought it.
This required a lengthy commute for Bill to CC (50 miles round trip) and also lengthy rides for Ned, Kithie and Chris who rode the school bus to Manitou Springs (16 miles round trip). |
| We vacation at The Lake - now known as Oakdene - in the summer of 1959 | ||||||
| Kelly & Chris | Debra in the woods | Brian & his grandmother take a ride | Brian & his grandmother take a walk | A cat in the bucket at Oakdene | Ponies | Kith & Bill with Kith's parents, Ned & Doris Ogden |
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| The canoe is launched | The canoe is christened | Kelly Rose & Chris Gateley have some lunch (map of Lake Ontario on the wall) | Kithie, Ned & Heidi Wahler take a ride as Kith watches. | Ned Ogden's grandchildren help him saw wood | A knitting party at the Lake | Doris Ogden and Kyle(?) take a ride in the woods |
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Green Mountain Falls
The spring of 1960 found our family - Bill (34), Kith (33), Ned (12), Kithie (9), Chris (7), Kyle (4) and Brian (2) - living in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. Bill commuted to Colorado College, where he was teaching in the Mathematics Dept., and Ned and Kithie commuted by bus to school in Manitou Springs (about eight miles each way).
| The Road to the Gateleys' | Bill gets a Fellowship |
The Cowboy Game* |
Ned plays the clarinet in the Junior High Band | Kithie sings the Chipmunk Song in a Variety Show | Chris gets commended | Chris's Report Card |
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* The paper: courtesy of their grandfather, Edward Ogden.
| The CC Faculty Wives |
We go on a picnic |
Kithie is commended | Kithie is promoted to the fifth grade | Ned's Report Card | ||
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When the possibility of Bill doing graduate work arose (see below), we sold the house to Harlan Nimrod. Because we failed to retain any records, whether or not we made any money from that deal is unknown...
Stillwater, Oklahoma
June, 1960, found Bill on a leave of absence from Colorado College, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, working on a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Statistics) at Oklahoma State University, living in Cordell Hall on the OSU campus, and Kith and the kids (Ned, Kithie, Chris, Kyle and Brian) staying at Oakdene. By September he had located a farmhouse on the outskirts of Stillwater to rent (during the first inspection of the place, he discovered a large snake inhabiting the living room, but with the help of an accompanying friend, the snake was moved to the great outdoors.) Soon after the entire family along with Helen Ogden Rose and her three children, Debra, Kelly and Gregory, were settled in for the coming year. In October some ponies were purchased - the start of a long tradition: Shadow, Murky, Kelpie (who produced Punch), Troika and Flip (horse)!
| Brian on the Porch |
We Buy a Pony Cart |
Kith, Kelpie & the Cart | Murky, Ned & the back of the house | Christmas 1961 | Bill on the Pony Cart | Ned in his band uniform |
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| Chris on Shadow | Kelpie, Chris & the Cart | Kyle & Shadow | Kithie & Kelpie | The Pond & the Old School | The Kids, Horses and the Pond West of the House |
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| Brian, Kyle & Chris | The Kids, Murky & Kelpie | Bill, Brian & Kyle Fly a Kite | The Kids at Christmas | Brian & the Tree |
Kyle & Santa |
The Cowboy Game* |
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* The paper courtesy of their grandfather...
| Kelpie produces a colt: Punch | ||
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Summer in Black Forest at the Cogswell's
During the following summer (1961) we and the Rose family returned to Colorado Springs and lived at the Cogswell's place
in Black Forest. I worked some more at Kaman Sciences to keep the wolf from the door.
| Kith | Barn & Kyle | Horses | Debra | Kithie | A Ride Across Kettle Creek | Kithie, Ned & Chris |
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We take a trip to a dredge pond on the Swan River (west of Breckenridge) |
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. At the end of the summer we all moved back to Stillwater for another year at OSU.
Back to Stillwater
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| Kyle & Santa | Brian & the Tree | The Kids and The Village |
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In the following August (1962) The Ph.D. was finally finished.
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At Last Bill's Ph.D. Thesis Examination |
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And - at last - back to Colorado!
We and the Rose family packed up and returned to Colorado Springs, living temporarily at the home of Don Shearn (Psychology Department at CC) which was located in Black Forest.
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At Don & Merr Shearn's* Summer, 1952
The second photo shows in the background a glimpse of a TB house where the Rose family lived. (The Gateley family lived in an ex-chicken house...)
The TB houses were originally used at a tuberculosis sanitarium in Colorado Springs for their patients. |
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* Don was a member of the Psychology
Department. at Colorado College.
Shortly after, we purchase a home in Woodmen Valley and move in on August 30th, which happened to also be the day that Toby was born!
Helen rented a home--the Cactus House--in Black Forest and moved in with her three children: Debra, Kelly and Gregory.
Woodman Valley - Route1, Box 205
This was our home from 1962 to 1976
Some highlights: Horses; 4-H; Woodman Valley Fire Department; Ned, Kithie, Chris, Kyle & Brian graduated from high school; Kith's mother joined us in 1969; we built on an annex to our house.
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Terms of purchase * |
The Golden Cycle land which we bought in 1962 for $11,200 | Purchase Terms |
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* The price for the property in 1962 - $19,500 - was exactly what we paid for our Subaru Forester van in 1999!
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A train at he Woodman Road crossing |
Kyle in school | Toby & Brian in the Dodge van | Horse, Colt & ? | ||
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| The Secondhand Dixieland Band | The band plays at the Community Center | A hot-air balloon gets launched | Carl Rosser jumping a pile of tires | Dodge van & the travel trailer (designed & built by Bill!) | The trailer opened up |
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| Brian, Greg Rose & Kyle | The Dodge van & horse trailer |
The Model-A truck with a heap of kids + Kith |
A train at the Woodmen Road crossing | Bill gives some lectures | The kids on the west porch | |
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| The barn gets built- with occasional help from the kids |
Chris in school 1963-64 |
Brian in school 1963-64 |
Kyle in school 1963-64 1964-65 |
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| The Opal | Polly take a picture | Wendy | Brian's birthday party | Off on a picnic | Kithie & Troika at Black Forest |
Debi & Kithie at Black Forest |
Terry & Noche Kithie & Troika Chris & Kelpie |
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We made a trip to the northwest during which we visited Kith's sister Betty and Bill's uncle Orville and aunt Alma Gately in Bend, Oregon. |
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| The House
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Chris, Niobe & Toby - June, 1969 | Toby & Brian
Spring, 1969 |
Flip, Troika & Kithie
1966 |
Niobe, Tango & Kith June, 1967 |
The Opel | Kids outside the west door |
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| Ned in the Army |
Looking south The Horse trailer |
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| In August of 1963 we made a trip to Oakdene and visited the Wahlers in Ohio on the way back. | ||||
| Eating lunch | Looking at the beach | On the beach | The Old Cottage | Polly & Aunt Sammy |
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A Knitting Party Kithie, Doris, Debra, Edward |
Betty & Polly | Debra & Dave Richards in the kitchen | Cricket, Mary Richards & Doris Ogden | At the Wahler's | |
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| The Tempo's |
The Plymouth Station Wagon New Old
(Kithie & Ned in in El Paso, Texas, in 1951) |
Troika - 1963 | Two kids in the van... | The Woodman Valley Drill Team | |||
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We take up sailing! |
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| The Gateley Lake Ontario Cruise of 1971 |
December 30, 1996 The Sunfish on Lake Dillon in Summit County, Colorado |
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We put 550 W. Woodman Road on the market.
This included that part of the Golden Cycle land which we had retained as well as the Hufft property (which had been augmented by the addition behind, including Doris Ogden's apartment).
It sold for $72,500!
(Note the realtor!) |
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And Then...
In August of 1977, I retired from my job with Kaman Sciences, we sold the house and the remainder of the family (Kith, Toby and Bill) moved to Delling Road, Wolcott, NY, for the Elsewhere Caper and finally back to Colorado Springs for the 3201 W. Platte Caper which is still in progress in 2003!
