KHS65 WAY BACK IN 1995, OUR 30TH REUNION - A FUN PHOTO COLLAGE BY TALENTED ARTIST TIM LAPPING

 Our recent reunion activities occasioned me to unpack some of our archives.  One of these years I need to go through and organize them - it's all eventually going to live at the Kirkwood Historical Society, but for now I will go through and try to pull things out to share.  This one is sooo fun, especially on the heels of our 60th reunion, it's been hiding in a storage box for 30 years ~ I'm thinking I must have had it on display at some reunion or other!!  The collage is composed of cut out segments from paper photographs, artfully arranged by Tim as a souvenir of our 30th Reunion, which took place in July at the Kirkwood Community Center.

 There are only 2 or 3 faces I don't recognize, one has a name tag so we do know his name.   If someone wants me to list the names, I will but for now I'll just let you all do your own remembering. I have no idea of the identity of the fellow in glasses next to me, if you know please post a comment to let me know!

 

 

 

• All I can say is that someone must have said "Say Cheese" and I took it literally in a big way, what a dumb pic of me!  You will see some of our classmates who have left us in this photo.  Below is a blow-up of the top center rectangular photo.  Pat Corpening Hoag is just to the left of that photo, she was also a Robinson Elementary classmate but not in the rectangular photo. At most reunions we have taken grade school group pix, and this one is the Robinson group from 1995.  See below for the sadness it brings to us.  

Top left to right - the late Roger Little, the late Doug McKelvey, the late Rich Mills,

Jack Toman, the late Larry Barnett, the late Sharon Lowe Zieroth, the late Claudia Margedant Schleuter, Priscilla Flint and our wonderful artist Tim Lapping. All of us, including me, in this photo were Robinsonites and many of us are still in regular communication; what a gift!

  Once I got to looking at the collage and realized the top photo was our Robinson group and that so many are no longer with us, I was compelled to pull that image out to honor those missing friends.  I have been in touch with Tim in recent weeks; he is well and busy in Texas and has no computer and no cell phone - and yet he thrives !!! There is a lesson in that I do believe!  Thank you again to Tim for making this collage for us and being such a great friend to so many for so long.

 

 

 

 

Updating some information on the blog - check it out, an update on the format

 Having recently enjoyed another reunion, our 60th anniversary, I've been in touch with many classmates, which is what I love to do!  I've updated our database (If you've moved recently or had other changes, or just want to check on how you are listed, please email me at leslie at khs65 dot com).  Additionally, I have added the names of more Veterans to my post in 2015 after that reunion, the list is more complete now.  I have also moved the SEARCH this blog utility up closer to the top of the articles on the right side, just scroll down right under the picture of our senior yearbook, which is a clickable link.  Type in a name, place or other term, such as Hall of Fame, and you will see the posts on that term.  There are multiple posts about our classmate Veterans, just type in VETERAN and you'll see them all. The 2015 list is complete now, as far as I know, but there may be more, PLEASE let me know if you know others, including yourself.  There is one post with comments from and about our veterans which has more information that the list itself...you'll find lots of interesting classmate information there!  Unfortunately, there are way too many listings when you type "obituary" OR scroll down to that label listing, on the right, where you can select several different categories of post subjects.

I've made it as easy to navigate as the site lets me!  PLEASE SEND ME your news or writings, poems, stories, memories, whatever you'd like to share!  I have a ton of things to add as time goes on but it's easy to add quickly when I receive an entry you'd like to share!  I recently used our yearbook to look up someone and spent time reading the signatures & greetings in my book, something I haven't done recently.  I had some great giggles, and of course some sadness, as I read the entries.  If you see something fun you'd like to share in Your yearbook, DO!  I must say, one that tugged my heart strings was M'Linda Jennings' comment, so sweet and light, just like she was, always smiling; reading it immediately brought her face & beautiful smile to mind.  So sad that she left us so early.

 Send news, pictures, whatever you'd like to share with the rest of us lucky folks who as Gary Schmidt, Esq. always reminds us, "Going to KHS was like winning the lottery!"

GO PIONEERS!!