A cherished Culbertson School teacher, Miss Joy Kippen, visited with former student Tom Nelson, 90, at his home in Culbertson on Sunday. Kippen taught Nelson, a middle schooler at the time, during the 1947/48 school year. She was 21 years old when she came to Roosevelt County.
Kippen made an impact on several area students and provided a namesake for Joy Finnicum Johnson, who told the Community