Name: Ronald Foster

Cayuse Prairie Graduation Year: 1961

Class Size: 7

Activities at Cayuse Prairie: Softball

Their Best Memory from Cayuse Prairie: 1. Hot lunch was when we occasionally brought potatoes to school, carved our initials into them, and the teacher would put them in the stove and they would be ready for lunch. 2. Ice skating on a pond in Snell's field at recess. 3. Softball before school and at recess. We would come early for workup; early arrivers got the best positions. We would go to other schools to play their softball teams. 4. It was a two-room school. The basement was used for school programs and community events. 5. We would build forts in the wood pile. 6. I almost always rode my bike to school.

High School Graduation Year: 1965

Attended High School at: Flathead High School

What They Did After High School: I went to welding school with Bob Snell in Spokane. After that school we both went to Seattle and worked in the shipyards as welders. We worked there for about a year. I returned to the Flathead and went to six-month Montana National Guard training. Then I worked at the Columbia Falls aluminum plant. I worked there for over seven years. Bought my dad's logging business, Foster Logging, which I operated until retirement in

Where They are Living Now: Whitefish Stage Road, Kalispell

What They are Doing Now: Retired. I married LaVera Tripp in 1968. We had three children: Debie (Foster) Paynter, Tony Foster, Tiffany (Foster) Weber. LaVera passed away in 2015. In 2017, I married Susan (Brueggeman) Foster of Polson.

Cayuse Prairie Impact: I have nice memories of a small school and friends.

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