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.In front left is the still living and still adorable Karen Lowe Adams.   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.