Born in 1915,in North Bend, Oregon. I will be 93 years old on Aug 8, 2008. I graduated in 1940 from Colorado School of Mines as a Geologist. My first job out of college was working for an oil cdompany in the swamps out of Morgan City, Louisiana. In December 1940, I was drafted into the U.S. Army as a buck private. My year was almost up, when Pearl Harbor hit. They sent me to Officer Candidate School, where I became an officer at Ft. Belvoir in the Army Engineers., 4 years later, I left the service as a Captain. I then worked for HYumble Oil (Now Exxon-Mibil) in the Houson, Tx. office as a specialist in the study of underground oil and gas reserrves. In 1947 I returned to Coos Bay, Or. spent 19 years in the restaurant business, built a bowling alley, owned 3 service stations and 17 years in the real estate business. I retired at age 65 in 1980. I then got involved with the mining business in gold silver and zinc. Like the old saying, "what goes around, comes around." I started with mining and end up with mining. My wife, Kay and I celebrated our 65th Wedding Anniv. We have 3 fine kids, One girl and two boys.
Tom Hibbert on the left side, Stan Gibson and Jeff Whittey, hidden on the right side, readyh for the final drawing of the Otober Lion's raffle at the Pirate's stadium
posted by George Gebhardt @ 1:34 PM
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George E, Gebhardt, the world's greaterst salesman for the Coos Bay Lion;s Club, sold 20 Raffle books of 50 each or 1,000 tickets for a total of $4,345.00. Not bad for a 90 plus year old man. The contest ended at 6:30PM at the Pete Susick stadium on Oct 13, 2,005. Ray Gapp & Jeff Whitey were in charge.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 7:18 AM
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That's all folks. A great many man hours went into running this Summer Rally for the Lions Club. Leader, Ray Gapp tells us, we cleared about $5,000.00. Thanks, Lions.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 3:08 PM
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The last drawing. The queen of the Pirate Rally girls, reaches deep for the Downtown Coos Bay Assoc. gift certificate for $1000 to Tony Presto. Dean McCord watches the drawing. Well done, Lions and Rally Squad.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:57 PM
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We spun the wheel and Ray Gapp and the rally girl draw out Pony Village, $1000 gift certificate to Corrie Ball.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:55 PM
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Prize No. 4 for a $1000 gift certificate from WalMart goes to Anita Scott. I think George sold this one to her.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:44 PM
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Lion Ray Gapp helps the rallyh girl draw the 3rd $1000 gift certificate from K-Mart to Arley
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:42 PM
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George writes down the winner of the $1000 gift certificate from Farr's Hardware. It goes to Bob Allen.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:40 PM
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Back side of Jeff Whitey. Ray Gapp, Rally girl and George.Second prize for a 1000 gift certificate from McKay's goes to Renell Morris. Congrats to you.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:39 PM
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The drawings will be made by the Coos Bay Pirates Rally squad. No.l girl stands beside Dean McCord to draw the first winning ticket. Cash prize of $2,500 goes to Jim Langstrom, sold by Jim Middleton.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:34 PM
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Jeff Whitey is in charge of the rfaffle. Lion Stan Gibson helps in dumping in 3,000 plus ticket stubs, prior to the spinning and drawing.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:31 PM
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It is 6:30 Pm on Octe 13th and we are in front of the Pirates stadium, awaiting the spinning of the raffle drum. Tom Hibbert awaots bejomd me.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:29 PM
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George the super salesman, sells a $5.00 ticket to Joe Stoffel, commedian and great guitar player and singer. 5 minutes later, his girl friend returned and bought another one.
posted by George Gebhardt @ 2:27 PM
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