Off Topic: Opheim, MT

This is not even close to being related to my stroke. This is just cool. Read this article. I’ve pasted it below as well. My parents grew up in Opheim. I’ve been there more times than I can count. I know this small town, love it and miss it. Reading this was like a flashback to all the family vacations and Christmas times we spent in that little city.

Oh sweet memories.

(Associated Press) GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Jeff Greenwood is in a class by himself. He was the only student to graduate from Opheim High School this year, but the small event Friday drew a big name. Gov. Brian Schweitzer gave the commencement address.

Greenwood, who plans to attend Dickinson State University in North Dakota, said the high school is the “hub of activity” for rural Opheim, a town about 10 miles south of the Canadian border. “The student-to-teacher ratio is pretty good,” said Greenwood, who is the student body president and, of course, the senior class president.

Greenwood had a few classmates before high school, but his last remaining classmate moved to Utah during freshman year. He took some classes alone his senior year while sharing others with juniors at the school. “You get to know everybody and you’re friends with everybody,” Greenwood said. “At the same time, you can’t get away with anything.”

Principal LeRoy Nelson, who has also been school superintendent, said he thought this was the first time the school graduated just one student. Six students graduated last year and 12 are on track to graduate in 2009. Nelson said he thinks single-member classes will become more common as enrollment drops at rural schools. Last year, one other Montana school had one graduate. Schweitzer spoke there as well.

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