Grainfield Rural High School Alumni

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Class Reunions

CLASS REUNION

Every three years, as July nears,
An announcement arrives in the mail,
A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand;
Make plans to attend without fail.
I'll never forget the first time we met;
We tried so hard to impress.
We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars,
And wore our most elegant dress.
It was quite an affair; the whole class was there.
It was held at a fancy hotel.
We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined.
And everyone thought it was swell.
The men all conversed about who had been first
To achieve great fortune and fame.
Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses
And how beautiful their children became.
The homecoming queen, who once had been lean,
Now weighed in at one-ninety-six.
The jocks who were there had all lost their hair,
And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.
No one had heard about the class nerd
Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon;
Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain;
She married a shipping tycoon.
The boy we'd decreed "most apt to succeed"
Was serving ten years in the pen,
While the one voted "least" now was a priest;
Just shows you can be wrong now and then.
They awarded a prize to one of the guys
Who seemed to have aged the least.
Another was given to the grad who had driven
The farthest to attend the feast.
They took a class picture, a curious mixture
Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties.
Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini;
You never saw so many thighs.
At our next get-together, no one cared whether
They impressed their classmates or not.
The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal;
By this time we'd all gone to pot.

Author Unknown

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Kansas Towns Website Links

A State of Kansas Website
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas.html

A list of the Kansas Communities on the Web
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/

A Gove County Website
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/counties/GO/index.html

Another Gove County Website
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/

Grainfield Opera House
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/opera%20house/opera.html

2007 GRHS Reunion Pictures

We have 57 digital pictures taken by Doreen Boor of Great Bend, KS and 38 pictures contributed by Joyce Roberts Lott for a total of 95 reunion pictures. We owe a great deal of thanks to the efforts and kindness of Joyce Lott and Doreen Boor for taking the time to photograph and process these pictures. Doreen and her husband provided the catering for the event.

A Note of Appreciation

Joe Dinkel of Hill City and Rudy Dinkel of Grainfield are owed an enormous debt of gratitude for the assistance they provided in updating the GRHS Alumni database. Without their thorough knowledge of the living and deceased alumni, it couldn't have been done.

The Grainfield Rural High School Alumni Reunion Pictures are courtesy of Joyce Roberts Lott, taken July 28, 2007.

Joyce has web sites containing her personal photo galleries at http://community.webshots.com/user/joyceroberts64 and her new web site http://milleniumwebs.com/joycelott

Those who attended the reunion may remember her as the one taking all the digital camera shots. She has consented to making these pictures available to the Alumni. Her efforts are greatly appreciated.

2007 GRHS Alumni Reunion Attendees

Class
Year - Attendees

1937 - Richard Schmidt
1938 - Velma Gillespie, Vera Roberts
1939 - Houston Stubbs
1941 - Elmer Berens
1942 - Francis Cox, William Orten
1944 - Lenard Ribordy, Loretta Shaw
1945 - Victor Schmidtberger
1946 - Emma Kaiser, Ruby Bixenman, Sally Dinkel
1947 - Leona Carter
1948 - Elmer Heier, Bernard Deges, Virginia Wildeman, Jim Kepferle
1949 - Ann Weber, Geraldine Shaw
1950 - Adolph Dinkel, Florence Bayack, Bob Kepferle
1952 - Laverna Moore, Jim Brungardt
1953 - Ray Gagnon, Darlene Schwarzenberger, Mary Ann Feldt
1954 - Sylvester Engel
1955 - Delmar Kaiser, Betty Gagnon, LeRoy Dinkel, Marilyn Petersen
1956 - Jeanine Beamgard, Elaine Selenke
1957 - Norma Zerr, Louise Wildeman, Louella Zerr, Charles Reitcheck
1958 - Gene Deges
1959 - Wilma Geist, David Gagnon, Marlene Kaiser, Jim Ziegler, Freda Hunt, Leon Deges
1960 - Don Gagnon, Orvis Katt, Herbert Queen, Janice Arnhold
1961 - Fern Mader, Bill Goetz, Yvonne Palisfer
1962 - Virgil Deges, Martin Gagnon, Janet Downey
1963 - Shirley Kaiser, Doreen Boor, Verlene Feldt, Antonia Waldman, Louise Wildeman, Imogene Wildeman, Virginia Ochs, Ruth Ann Pracht, Lois Limes
1964 - Jim Arnott
1965 - Eugene Ziegler
1966 - John Stubbs, Judy Reinecker, Gary Gassman, Nancy Sumpter
1967 - Dwight Hartman, Wanda Thummel, Sylvia Tanner, Charlene Gassman, Denver Cox
1968 - Kirby Gillespie, Mary Lou Wiedeman
1969 - David Welton