LHS Update: 2-17-08

Check out the website. The new webmaster has done an unbelievable job. It took a lot of time to move everything to the new site but it will be so easy to navigate. When you send pictures to the webmaster make sure, if you can, to put names with the pictures. Does anyone have pics of the old bakery, Newsstand, Duckwalls, Fox & Star Theaters, Dairy Queen, etc.

Most of you know I’m in the travel business and my online website competes against Expedia, Travelocity, Cheap Tickets, etc. Our company, YTB, does not advertise, so this is the only way to get information out to friends, and in this case alumni. If you could send me your e-mail address I will put it in my Deals & Steals which is the top 5 travel deals every week. Because of spamming laws I have to have your permission. I believe you will receive an e-mail from YTB getting your okay. You can also go to my website www.SmartWay2Travel.com and put your e-mail address in yourself if you would like.

If any of the classes would like to do a cruise or a get away for example to San Diego like some of us did a couple of years ago, I can set that up. Contact me for information. Simon Cherpitel told me about the Hotel Occidental in San Diego. The General Manager at the Occidental said they would rent the whole hotel to our alumni if we wanted to do something there. We have had the Class of 77 from Holdredge, Neb., who is turning 50 contact us and we are working on a cruise to Alaska for them during the summer of 2009 and another trip for some people to Jamacia. We just had a trip offered to us for 9 days and 8 nights to China for $899 all inclusive out of LAX, certain requirements required on this one.

Thank you for allowing me to send you the best travel deals and also if you have friends or family traveling tell them about my website and if I’m comparable to the other booking engines to please travel with me. We can also add their e-mails to the website so they get the Deals & Steals. Your traveling on my website would help defray my cost for the time I put in on alumni updates, website hosting, picture taking in Lyons, picture taking at Class Reunions, and getting together with the webmaster to work on the site and other alumni activities.

This is a fantastic business for anyone interested in traveling for less or wanting to earn some extra income or both. Two alumni who checked the business contacted me and became involved. Lonnie & Cyndi Morris and Dan & Alphie Thompson. Their websites will soon be listed on the LyonsAlumni.com website. They first went to www.SmartWay2Travel.biz and checked out the Company Presentation and thought it made a lot of sense so they now have their own travel stores.

Talk about traveling, Juanita Danewitz Hennesy is in Buenos Aires for two months. She is getting a lot of Tango dancing in and said they celebrate Valentine’s Day just like we do.

Some of the people signed up for the All School Reunion are: Carolyn Sayler, Class 52, Janes Harris C-68; Kay Pederson C-73; Dwight & Kay Patton Classes of 51 & 53; Gwen Perschbacher C-46; Rosalie Danks C-52.

Let’s get signed up for the Reunion. It will be a lot of fun and renew a lot of old acquaintances.

The Class of 1954 is in preliminary stages of planning their 55th Year Class Reunion. It will be in Denver some time around Sept. 2009. Tony Wilcox is one of the alumns helping to put it together.

The webmaster is going to set the website up so you can search by name to find a classmate. He has put in a tremendous amount of work so if you haven’t subscribed for a year yet please do so soon. It is $25 and larger donations are appreciated but the $25 would suffice if we can get a large portion of the alumni to join. You can do it thru Pay Pal, credit card or sending it to the Alumni Club at the Lyons state Bank, Lyons, KS 67554.

I don’t have the number for the Ly-Kan Hotel but they do have rooms available.

1955 – Movies playing in Lyons, KS:
Star Theater – “Tall Man Riding” and coming tomorrow are “Unchained” and “African Manhunt”
Fox – positively the last night “The Seven Year Itch” with Marilyn Monroe starting tomorrow are Joel McCrea in “Stranger on Horseback” and Frank Sinatra in “Anchors Away”. All $.25 admission
Drive In Theater – Tonite is license nite, win $200, $100 or $50. Both movies in Technicolor, Rory Calhoun in “Powder River” and Gary Merrill in the “Black Dakotas.”
Star Theater – APPROVED Summer vacation movie, Thursday Aug. 18th 1:30 P.M., Doris Day & Ronal Regan in “The Winning Team.”

The Patio is open daily. Call ahead and we will have your order ready when you arrive.

Barbara Keesling Sherman and Tom Sherman have worked from the same address on the square for many years. Barbara for about 25 years has run and independent insurance agency and Tom has been cutting hair for over 40 years. Barbara and Tom are both in the Class of 1963 I think. I get these wrong a lot. Guess its age.

1955 – Only two teams remain undefeated in the Western Division Ban Johnson League and Lyons is one of those.

1980 – A group of young persons from Lyons returned late Friday evening from camps in Colorado, sponsored by Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Tim Colberg, Mike Rogers, Tony Fliginger, Shawn Galliart, Andy Parish, and Brent Bodenhamer stayed at the YMCA Camp at Estes Park. Staying at Colorado State U. in Fort Collins were Becky Turner, Julie Crane, Tamra VonLehe, Teresa Goodfellow, Bev Teeter and Sarah Hannah.

1955 – Fox theater – Cecil B. DeMille’s Mighty Spectacle of Tempestuous Love…Violence Under and On the High Seas! “Reap The Wild Wind” starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard. 2nd feature “West of Zanzibar.” Cartoon and previews start at 7:30.

Roger Caldwell Class of 1960 carded his 4th Hole-In-One at the Lyons Country Club. We know what Roger is doing.

1995 – The Lyons Middle School 8th grade Boys finished at the top of the Mid-Central Athletic Association and won the MCAA Tournament. They were Coach Dean Mantz John Quinn, and Paul Davis, Ed Spears, Matt Schwerdtfeger, Rassan Hines, Sean Feldman, Mark Howerton, Brandon Campbell, Benjamin Pound, George sanders, Sean Kadel, Brett Leiker, Travis Smith, Rex Kern, Shaun Bruce, Jeff Weis, Shawn Clark and their manager was Ben Kern. (How did this team do in high school?)

75 Years Ago – 1930 – LYONS – Home of improved Western Electric Sound – last time tonight the All Talking Ken Maynard in “Senor Americano.”
WHOOPEE! A Big, Gay, Love & Laughter Smash Hit “Sweetie” with Nancy Carroll. Ginger and Tabasco Red Head Singing the Heart Throb “Sweeter Than Sweet”, Helen “Sugar” Kane, the “Boop-Boopa-Doop” girl cooing “He’s So Unusual”, Jack Oakie, Wise Cracking Playboy
And here’s a treat Laurel & Hardy in their All Talking Comedy Scream “They Go Boom. Matinees $.10-$.25 and evenings $.10 - $.40.

Hope you enjoy some of the happenings in Lyons many years ago.

Again, get your reservations in for the All School Reunion. Go to the www.LyonsAlumni.com website for all the information. A few people have put in a ton of work. Let’s reward their efforts. Go on the website to see who the All School Reunion Committee is made up of.

Have a great week.
Bob “Sax” Drake class of 1961.