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Sporting with History
Activities at the Medicine Bow
Elementary School and Bow-Basin High
School were always great sources for news
and photos in the Medicine Bow Post. Here
is one of the many team photos of Bow
sports participants. This photo was taken
in September 1983 of the Bow-Basin
Volleyball Team. Standing, from left to
right: Coach Maggie Cason, Rosemary
Feather, team manager Deanna Fulps, Holly
Parr, Jeanne Perry, Danise Kraft, Debbie
Lewis, Darlene Yates, Colleen Cook,
Theresa Hinkhouse, Starla Paules, Lisa
Farwell, Debbie Stoner, and Mary
Jankowski. Front row, from left to right:
Stacey Curry, Tonya Lindbo, Traci Cowdin,
Kelli King, Tina Taylor, Michelle Love,
Lisa Woodward, and helper Shayla Parr.
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Remembering with Honor
During the days of the Medicine Bow Post, Alma
West was the eldest resident in Medicine Bow. This
is a photo of Alma in June of 1983, the year she
would turn 93 years of age. Born in 1890, Alma was
the new bride of Bill West when she arrived in
Medicine Bow in 1913. Upon their arrival, the
Medicine Bow people held a party at the Virginian
Hotel and gave the newlyweds a "shivaree." Alma
remembered seeing the first airplane land on the
Bow airfield in 1919. Among her service roles for
the town, Alma served as a postmaster for the U.S.
Post Office in Medicine Bow at one time. She was a
very nice lady, who would always help the Medicine
Bow Post's effort in collecting town news by
calling the Post with news notes about her travels
or her visitors. That was always greatly
appreciated.
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Looking Up to
Everyone
For the Medicine Bow Post scrapbook of memories,
here is a photo of Bill Young riding to the top of
the MOD-2 giant wind turbine in February of 1986.
With my camera, I (David Roberts the Post editor)
rode with him for this photo. Bill was the site
engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation at the
Medicine Bow Wind Energy Site. And he was also the
high bidder for the MOD-2 wind turbine, erected by
the Boeing Company years earlier. That makes Bill
Young the only person I've known (and probably the only
individual in the world) to ever own a giant wind
turbine. The MOD-2 wind turbine had a generation
capacity of 2.5 megawatts and stood 350 feet high
to the top of the tip of the blade. The elevator
inside the other giant wind turbine was enclosed,
but not the elevator in the MOD-2 turbine, allowing
for a view clear to the bottom. My thanks also to
Bill for not making me use the ladder to climb all
the way back down!
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Where Are They Now?
One of the best aspects of producing the
Medicine Bow Post was getting to meet and work with
so many talented people. "Amazing" is the word for
the talent that gathered together, as Bow Post
staff members and contributors, for those years for
what was one of the smallest newspapers in the
least populated state in the nation. The Post also
never had much money for its budget nor good
equipment, as its early days were before the
popular use of computers/desktop-publishing.
Nonetheless, the Post had its share of quality
writing, reporting, photos, columns, artwork and
other features. From time to time, this
retrospective web-page will feature some of those
former Post staff members. In this photo, Doug
Mellgren is shown typing a story in the "Bow booth"
in the early 1980s. (The Post had obtained the
black booth when the Virginian Hotel discarded it
for upgraded dining booths.) Doug Mellgren, who was
attending the University of Wyoming in journalism,
served as a Bow Post news editor, reporter,
photographer and columnist. Doug is now the
Associated Press Oslo correspondent, working out of
Oslo, Norway. His AP reporting assignments have
taken him to 25 countries. During the 1990s, Doug
covered the Kosovo conflict in Albania, the Afghan
war at the Pakistan/Afghan border, the
International Whaling Commission meeting in Monte
Carlo, the fall of Zaire in Africa, Arctic
radiation danger in the Kola Peninsula of Russia,
the World Cup Soccer tournament in America, Middle
East peace issues in Egypt, the 1992 Olympics in
Spain and France, the 1994 Winter Olympics in
Norway, soccer riots in Sweden, the failed coup and
independence in the Baltics, and other assignments.
Doug Mellgren was the first reporter to sail with a
Norwegian whaling vessel on the Arctic Ocean and
the first reporter to gain entry to the secret
Russian city near Moscow, Russia.
Thanks, Doug, for your great work for the
Medicine Bow Post!
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