Idaho Falls High School

Leslie Backstrom

Leslie and Lorranie Backstrom
Shelley, ID

After high school I went to trade school in Pocatello for printing. Next was the army,
then college at Moscow and St Louis. J.C. Penney in Wisconsin and then back to I.F.
I, then, worked for Ken Slusser for six years and then taught school for thirty at Skyline High,
the local competition for dear old I.F.H.S.

I married a local girl name Lorraine Leaf. We raised five children. When I started teaching, I wasn't in the building for two hours when in walked Mr. Ballard to welcome me into the profession. They system didn't have mentors, but Mrs. Longmore was across the hall and she took me under her wing. One spring morning two ladies walked in. They were Ethel Rottman and Ester Garland. They had hardly changed. Home for them was now a retirement center in California.

I was in the business department and had a desk next to Gladys Holmberg for twenty years. Although she wasn't around when I taught, Zuma Hale as an important influence in my going on to college. Isn't life strange and wonderful.

Today it seems as though everything about schools and education are criticized. I found our was very good and so were the people who worked there and all of you out there.

I look to see many of you at the reunion. Leslie

60th Class Reunion - August 20, 2010,

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