Gem State Adventist Academy early 1930s were 12 cents an hour for boys and 10 cents an hour for girls. At Gem State, the 1941 and 1942 yearbooks were dedicated to those students and former students who had gone to serve in the war, some of whom had been killed in action. After the war a bakery was built to increase student employment opportunities; it ultimately became the Rhodes Bake-N-Serv Company. In the 1960s, while President John Kennedy was planning to put men on the moon, and Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for civil rights, the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists were planning
Gem Pier to Port Melbourne from 1846 to 1886. The pier was rebuilt in 1992. Gem Pier Gem Pier is an historic pier on Port Phillip Bay, in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. The pier is in length and is currently home to the museum ship HMAS "Castlemaine" and Melbourne Seaplanes. The first pier was built in 1839 near the present-day Gem Pier. Originally known as "The Jetty", in 1853 it was renamed "Old Pier" following the construction of the "New Pier" (the Ann Street Pier). Throughout the 1860s and 1870s it was known as "Steamboat Pier". In the 1870s it was renamed "Gem