Gloria Brinkman was born in Waupaca County to Earl and 
Leona Brickman.  The family was living in Chandler, 
Maricopa County, New Mexico where her father was an 
electrician.  She started high school in Wild Rose in the fall 
of 1946.  She participated in basketball and softball all 
four years. She was editor of the Wild Rose annual in 1950 
and on the newspaper as a sophomore and junior. Gloria 

was in the girls glee club for four years, played clarinet 
in the band as a sophomore and junior, as well as pep 
band as a junior. She was and extemporaneous speaker 
her first three years and received a first in 1949. She was 
Gloria Smith a Kanna Jamma sorority girl in "Campus 
Quarantine" as a junior and Barbara Sanford (Babs) in  

"Girl Shy" as a senior. Gloria served as Vice-President, 
Secretary and President of the class of 1950 in here 
last three years in that order. She won the Badger Award 
and the DAR award. She last two years she was a member 
of Future Homemakers of America. In 1947 she was 
involved with the beginning of the Wild Rose Youth Center 
which met at the Legion Hall on Saturday night. Gloria 

married Roger Hadden son of Dr. Shirley Hadden and 
his wife Mildred Gertenrich. They had three daughters 
and four sons.  Roger died in 1992. Gloria lives in Plainfield.