LHS Alumni Update: 8-4-08

Send the Lyons Alumni Updates to other alumni. I have close to 400 alumni in my database and it is growing. Added about 6 new alumni for their subscriptions and donations to the website and LHS Updates. We need a lot more to join or make donations. Subscription fee is $25 per year and extra donation amounts are appreciated.

New item on the LyonsAlumni.com website. Click on Memories and then Lyons Alumni Today. The first is on Darren Fundenberger. and information about his woodworking abilities which are incredible. I want to get some pictures of his new venture on making the new state quarters. He is making one of every state. They are beautiful, I’ve seen them. I forgot Darren’s year of graduation 1978.

Let us know about other alumni and their accomplishments so we can get them listed. It is interesting to see what our alumni have accomplished and are doing.

Also let me know when alumni are having birthdays. I’ll start with mine, Bob “Sax” Drake Aug. 7th 1943. 65? Where did the time go and I sure don’t feel 65 or act it.

Let me know about your vacations. I’ll submit a couple of pics we took on our trip to Estes Park, CO. After finally getting there we had a blast. Tire man in Omaha was supposed to have sent us out on good tires. Got to Lincoln, NE and the car is shimming. Called the tire company and I have never heard so many excuses why the car might be acting the way it is. We ended up making three calls back to the tire company so they would know our displeasure. Finally start up the Big Thompson Canyon to Estes Park out of Loveland. It is raining and lightning. Start to pass a car and the tire tread comes apart. I finally find a place to pull over. I think I will have the little donut tire on in a few minutes as I’m getting soaked in the rain. Get the tire jacked up and the tire won’t come off. Now I’m laying on my back in the mud kicking the tire from underneath and I can’t bust it loose. Finally two road crew guys out of Drake, CO stop to help. There is still air in the tire and since none of us can get the tire off they follow us the rest of the way to Estes Park. They helped us find a tire company to fix our tires. The guys at the Big O were great and they said who ever sent you out on the road with those tires were not doing their job. I already had that figured out. Our car has a weird size tire so they couldn’t get another tire up to us until Friday and it was now Wed. We drove on the donut until then and we were staying about 20 miles outside Overland Park. Bad start to the trip but tremendous finish, we had a ball.

Getting ready to go to St. Louis this week for our YTB National Convention. They have built the exact replica of the Statue of Liberty and it will be unveiled in the Dome where the Rams play. Some guy in Indiana built it and it has taken 56 UPS big trucks to deliver it to St. Louis. I’ll have pictures of it. Should be pictures in the news media as they say there are a lot of news people there trying to get pictures of it when it is assembled. We’ll have 25-30,000 people at our YTB Convention.

Going to Florida this Fall hope to hook up with some of the alumni in Florida when we go. My brother lives there so I’m looking forward to seeing him and his wife. They live in Naples.

Let me know about your trips and birthdays and information about alumni accomplishments.

I will be putting a travel newsletter together that I will be sending out separately from the LHS Updates . I would like to have your stories and pics of trips and places to go and not to go. We can help each other on interesting places to see and the little out of the way places people often miss that are interesting or maybe a place to eat or a great coffee shop, etc.

LIONS LINGO by Carol Ann Irwin, late 50’s in the Lyons Daily News.
According to Robert Wahl, Camera Club prexy, all entries in the LHS photo contest must be in by Dec. 19th. The winning shutterbugs will be awarded either cash or photo supplies.
Hunting and studying seem to be the main activities of this three day week-end. But not to be forgotten are the parties, trips and church rallies.

I wish I had some of those pictures taken by the camera club. Again, if any of you have pictures from high school send them to us.

Lyons Daily News – “In the Good Old Days” -Friday May 13th, 2005
Friday – Senior Day Recognitions. Recognizedas 13 year students in the Lyons public schools were Lanny Brown, Barbara Campbell, Karen Conard, Rae Helen Dressler, Gary Fisher, Kenneth Hawkins, Pam Homan, Rachel Jaurez, Ronal Lehnus, Eugene Lucas, Roger Lucas, Paul Marshall, Treva Misner, Barbara Myerly, Phil Nolan, Delores Ortega, Benny Serbin, Sue Smith, Pat Stapleton, Dryden Swisher, Alice Voss, Marilyn Wiggins and Arenta Willms.
Second & Third Generation students in the senior class are John Cook, Ardis Ellis, Gary Fisher, June McKinnis, Ed Monroe, Dryden Swisher, Dale Dressel, Jeane Flora, Jack Hartle, Joyce Jenisch, Marilyn Markle, Treva Misner, Barbara Myerly, Anita Rife, Marilyn Wiggins and Linda Wright.

Lyons Daily News – May 24th 2005:
Gladys Ritterhouse, assistant professor of education and director of teacher education at Sterling College, was awarded the McCreery Teaching Award during the college’s recent commencement exercises at Smisor Stadium. The award recognizes and encourages excellence in teaching and is presented to a faculty member whose efforts have provided unusually noteworthy and innovative instruction to Sterling College students during the academic year. Gladys graduated from LHS in approximately 1959? Help me again.

School is about ready to start. A lot of action around the schools.

Remember if you are going to travel check www.SmartWay2Travel.comand check the website to travel with other Lyons alums. We thank you for choosing us when you decide to book online.

Bob “Sax” Drake Class of 1961