LHS Update - Feb 5th, 2008

The website is really taking shape. Make sure you go take a look and take your time to go thru it. The site is much easier to navigate.

Even though it is a sad part of the website, In Memoriam, we sure want to honor those classmates who are no longer with us. Make sure you read closely how to get information to the webmaster. I see we don’t have a number of our classmates of 1961 who are no longer with us posted.

The new webmaster has done a marvelous job and has spent a great deal of time so if you haven’t signed up for the year for $25 please do so and larger donations are appreciated. If you have made a donation and it is not in the right place or if we don’t have it listed in the next couple of weeks please contact us. We want to get you credited with your yearly subscription or in the proper donation slot.

We lost another parent. The mother of Mike Connell Class of 61, Dick Connell Class of 64 and Carol Connell Class of 68 just passed away. I’m so glad Dennis Bradford and I got to visit her a couple of years ago. I’m not sure I got the correct Class year of Dick and Carol. Contact me and let me know if I have them in the wrong year.

It is so important to get in and keep in contact with past high school friends and this website will help in doing that.

The All School Reunion is coming closer and closer so you need to get your registrations in which can be downloaded from this site. We will start listing those of you who are coming back on the website. Lets have a great turn out. The committee has done a fabulous job of getting this all put together. It will be fun and we definitely have a great place to have this size of reunion since we now have the Celebration Center on the east side of Lyons. Maybe they can start putting information about the Reunion on their big sign near the HWY.

I have told you about my online travel site and there is now a link on the website for those of you who are getting ready to book travel to the reunion or for any of your travel destinations in the future. If you have booked with Expedia, Travelocity, Cheap Tickets, Orbitz, etc. my website with YTB will do everything and more than those websites. My website is www.SmartWay2Travel.com and I would really appreciate your checking it out and if we are competitive which we will be 95% of the time, book with me. Booking on those other sites helps rich business people you don’t know, booking on my website helps a Lyons alum. Lonnie & Cyndi Morris have their own travel site with YTB and he told me last night it cost him over $700 to book flights to Hawaii last year and this year thru his own website he booked those tickets for just over $400. Do we say you are going to get those kinds of savings all the time, definitely not. Usually we will be within a few dollars one way or the other. Lonnie will also get other perks and totally write his vacation off his taxes. Contact me or look at the business presentation at www.SmartWay2Travel.biz.
A fun business if you are retired, just like to travel, or are young and need to set up a Plan B if Plan A goes south.. Contact me or Lonnie for more information.

Old news from Fri., Sept. 21st,2007. Justin Timberlake an LHS grad, I’m not sure of the year, announced his engagement and approaching marriage to Erin Mathis. They both live in Redondo Beach, CA. The wedding was Oct. 27th, 2007 in Seabrook Island, S.C.

Same paper had the Class of 82 gathering for their 25th year reunion. Those in attendance were, Lisa (Fundenberger) Unruh, of Kearney, MO; Donetta (Soeken) Birzer, of Lyons; Brad Hunt of Lyons, Bruce Snyder of Prairie Village, Bobby Howard from Colorado; Shane Goldsmith of Newton; Jon Klassen of Sterling; Todd McGlynn of Medora; Vilma (Williams) Gomez of Lyons; Aletha January of Lyons; Rita (Wilson) Smith of Lyons; Cathy (Porter) LaTourell of Great Bend; Lori (Miller) Varney of Lyons; Quen (Williams) McGlynn of Lyons; Bryant Wilder of Lyons; Diane (Miller) Moore of Lyons; Susan (Fankhauser) Lowe of Boerne, Texas; Lisa (Boedeker) Segura of Lyons; Bruce Wilder of McPherson; Doug Martinie of Manhattan; and Brian Friess of Lyons. Wow a lot of locals showed up. When we have a reunion we can’t get the Lyons alumni to show up. This is great and I hope all those people are getting signed up for the All School Reunion.

I don’t know if we have pictures from your Class Reunion but get them to us if someone has pictures.

The webmaster says he has been receiving a lot of pictures and information so please be patient with him as the change over on this site has been a tremendous undertaking and he should be applauded and compensated so make sure you get your yearly subscription in or any donation you may want to make.

Lets get signed up for the All School Reunion.

Thanks,
Bob “Sax” Drake
Class of 1961