I took a group of scouts to the Florida High Adventure Sea Base on the Florida Keys near Key West in July. My son, Joel, came home and wrote an article for the newspaper. Our District Web Master liked it so much he posted it on the District Website.
http://www.scoutingpages.org/us/id/bigfoot/seabase.asp
While at the Florida Boy Scout owned Sea Base, we did ocean sailing, deep sea fishing, snorkeling, island camping, sea-kayaking and day on Key West and all sorts of other activities like night snorkeling. We consisted of two leaders (one of which was myself, two parents, and 12 youth. I think you will find Joel’s article interesting. We were snorkeling together when a 10 foot reef shark swam right under us. Also, we were caught out at sea in kayaks when a huge storm blew in. Memories for sure.
I have now taken a scout unit to all three BSA High Adventure Bases, Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico , Northern Tier (where we did a 100 mile canoe trip) in northeast Minnesota , and the Florida Sea Base. Myself and the few that went with me to all three high adventure bases will soon be earning the Triple Crown Award for have attending all three. We will be the first in our council to have earned this award.
Steve Jung
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Finding Classmates
Thanks for your notes and calls....
We are moving along in finding our classmates!!!
I believe we have about 35 planning to attend... 11 are dead.....WE STILL HAVE MISSING CLASSMATES.....
I have had emails or phone calls from:
Joan Mueldener
Vernon Soeken
Curt Keller
Dick Moody (will call Keith Johnson)
Ted LeRoy (said Mickey Bula was to attend) (will call Keith Johnson)
Karen Smith
Lynne Mitchell
Bob Swenson (conflict - but may work out) corrected his phone number)
I have left messages with
Arlona Byerly
Charles Cavenah
Sharon Haeske
Keith Johnson
Ann Tobias
Rod talked to Darlene Smith
information about Arlona
Still needing to reach:
Mike Brooks
Gary Durland
Sharon Haeske
Gregory Henry (Bob Swenson is going to check with K-State)
Maurice Martin
Sondra Sue Metcalf
Herbert Monroe
David Pyatt
Sue Morgan
Joyce Trowbridge
Thanks for helping call or find any of our classmates.
Ida told me the committee will meet in Lyons next Wednesday, August 13....please help us find our classmates.
"Lynne A. Bussell"
We are moving along in finding our classmates!!!
I believe we have about 35 planning to attend... 11 are dead.....WE STILL HAVE MISSING CLASSMATES.....
I have had emails or phone calls from:
Joan Mueldener
Vernon Soeken
Curt Keller
Dick Moody (will call Keith Johnson)
Ted LeRoy (said Mickey Bula was to attend) (will call Keith Johnson)
Karen Smith
Lynne Mitchell
Bob Swenson (conflict - but may work out) corrected his phone number)
I have left messages with
Arlona Byerly
Charles Cavenah
Sharon Haeske
Keith Johnson
Ann Tobias
Rod talked to Darlene Smith
information about Arlona
Still needing to reach:
Mike Brooks
Gary Durland
Sharon Haeske
Gregory Henry (Bob Swenson is going to check with K-State)
Maurice Martin
Sondra Sue Metcalf
Herbert Monroe
David Pyatt
Sue Morgan
Joyce Trowbridge
Thanks for helping call or find any of our classmates.
Ida told me the committee will meet in Lyons next Wednesday, August 13....please help us find our classmates.
"Lynne A. Bussell"
LHS Alumni Update 8-20-08
Summer is coming to an end and school is just starting for many. I remember those days. It was always good to get back with friends after the summer and basketball season was getting closer.
I know a number of you have paid a subscription fee for the website. I just checked the Alumni account and there is $12.04 in the account. I can’t ask the webmaster to do much for that. If you haven’t subscribed for the year please do so. It is $25 a year and if you want to make a donation that would be appreciated also.
Neva Smith is looking for Dianne Jacobs who she thinks graduated around 1969.
I’ll also post two articles sent to me from alumni. Please read.
Anyone looking for a good fundraiser contact me. Saxdrake@yahoo.com.
Thanks
Sax Drake
Class of 1961
I know a number of you have paid a subscription fee for the website. I just checked the Alumni account and there is $12.04 in the account. I can’t ask the webmaster to do much for that. If you haven’t subscribed for the year please do so. It is $25 a year and if you want to make a donation that would be appreciated also.
Neva Smith is looking for Dianne Jacobs who she thinks graduated around 1969.
I’ll also post two articles sent to me from alumni. Please read.
Anyone looking for a good fundraiser contact me. Saxdrake@yahoo.com.
Thanks
Sax Drake
Class of 1961
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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
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
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
LHS Alumni Update – 7-16-08
Haven’t heard much from LHS alumni. I know summers keep you busy. Reunions, family outings, vacations, etc. keep us busy but need your feedback to get new information on the website.
Are any of the LHS classes having reunions any time this year. I know we had a highly successful All School Reunion earlier this year but I think there will be some other reunions going on. Let me know.
Just Received: From Rebecca Latimer – 1970’s Girls Brunch, 8-9-08 in Lyons. Contact Revecca at 620-257-7978 or Sharry Smith Butcher at 620-825-4323. See attachment.
If any of you have pictures of your high school days please send them in.
Juanita Danewitz sent me the pictures of the All School Reunion and I forwarded them on. Juanita, can you send me the names to the pics, Thanks. If others have pictures please send them in.
Thank you to the couple of people who sent in subscriptions to the website. Check and make sure your name is listed on the website. If you haven’t sent in a subscription please do so. I don’t want to make the website so you have to have a password to get in but it is not fair for the few alumni that have subscribed to pay for all that haven’t. It is disappointing as the webmaster keeps doing work and not getting paid for all the work he has done. He would do a lot more if we could get some subscriptions in. Thank you.
I know it has been just because you are so busy so please get your subscriptions in and go to the attic and pull out your old high school photos. Also, talk to alumni about contacting me so they can get on my update list.
Let me know what you are doing this summer. I know Mary Kay and Ralph Voss are still in Lyons and I was hoping to get down to see them, but it is not going to happen. Michelle and I are getting ready to go to Estes Park, CO next week. When we get back I have a high school basketball clinic down in Kansas and then Michelle and I are going to St. Louis for the YTB Travel National Convention. They are expecting 30,000 people and some fantastic new things are going to be happening with YTB. Attached are a list of people who have bought their own websites just like mine. You will recognize most of them. We may be in southern CA in Sept., and Sanibel Island in FL during Thanksgiving. We almost bought tickets to Italy but found out Italia Airlines may be going out of business so didn’t want o get stuck with tickets. They had a ticket to Rome for $900 and the second ticket for a $1. This day and age that may be something to really check into when you see a really good deal. We will be kicking ourselves if they survive without govt. help , which in the European Union the airlines are not supposed to be subsidized by the govt.
Mark Mangino the KU football coach just signed a contract for 1.8 million dollars. Not bad for a guy that once worked in the toll booth at a turnpike.
The Good Old Days :
Lions Lingo by Carol Ann Irwin: Year 1959.
Ila Bennett, LHS Junior told about her recent trip to New York City.
Phyllis Swenson left early this afternoon for Manhattan where she will attend an informal fraternity party tonight as a guest of Jim Butts. She will stay overnight with Glenda Reed who is a Junior at K-State and will return tomorrow.
I got an e-mail from Bonnie Evans class of 1961 also wrote for the Lyons Lingo. She said she would see if she could find some of those Lions Lingo reports. I hope she does because Bonnie would have been great at this. We had some really smart kids in my class. What happened to me?
This was I the Spotlight, Sept. 26th 1952.:
Proof that the world is in the machine age can be seen in the LHS parking lot. About a dozen and a half new or used cars were purchased since the end of the last school year. Bob Burge, 52 Plymouth; Larry Wilbur, 35 Plymouth; Jack Byrd, 50 Studebacker; Paul Shepard, 40 Ford; Lary Gray, 37 Chevrolet; Phil Wright, 39 Ford; Glenn Colberg, 37 Studebaker; Howard Jefferies, 40 Plymouth; Paul Jones, 30 & 40 Chevrolets; Max Crowl, 42 Chevrolet; Dean Mandrell, 39 Chevrolet; David Eves, 37 Chrysler; Joneta Edwards, 50 Chevrolet; Leonard Sullivan, 47 Willys Station Wagon; Dale McNally, 39 Chrysler; Earl Sallee, 34 Chevrolet; Eugene Lucas, 37 Ford; Charles Sanders, 39 DeSoto; Jesse Cook, 38 Oldsmobile; Bill Monroe, 39 Plymouth and Tom Battershell, 36 Plymouth.
Out of The Lyons News:
Adam Drew Wilson graduate of LHS in 2001 and a 2006 graduate of Kansas State got engaged to Elizabeth Miller of Salina. She also graduated from K-State. Wedding is planned at the Country Club United Methodist Church in KC, MO. Sorry I don’t know the date but it was a couple of years ago.
Krista Koch a 1996 graduate of LHS she graduated from Colby Comm. College and Johnson County Comm. College Graduated. She is a licensed esthetician and employed at Associated Plastic Surgeons in Leawood, KS. The groom is a 1999 graduate of Kansas University. The wedding was planned for May 3, 2008.
Again, please send in your subscription or if you want to donate you can go on the website and use PayPal or credit card or send your check to the Lyons State Bank, Lyons, KS 67554 and make check payable to the Alumni Club.
I know a lot of you are traveling. Please compare the rates on my YTB website www.SmartWay2Travel.com to book your travel or go to the Lyons Alumni website and click on Lonnie Morris, Dan Thompson or Bob Moody’s website and book your travel with them. Our websites will be competitive with Expedia, Orbitz, Cheap Tickets, etc. for the same flight, same hotel room, same car rental, same vacation package, same cruise cabin and much more. Check the attachment to see people who have their own YTB websites and you will know most of them. There website is just like mine except for the name. The Kansas City Chiefs and many other professional sports teams are setting up websites with YTB.
If you’re going to travel you might as well travel with an LHS Alums. We will be competitive in price 95% of the time.
YTB is remarkable company and I’m putting my families future on the line with this company. That is how much I believe. YTB is a publicly traded 8 year old company. YTB moved from the 35th largest travel agency in the world in 2006 to 26th in 2007. I use this company to cut my travel cost and to have an unbelievable tax write off. We had a guy buy a website last year a few days before he left for New Zealand and Australia. He said it was the best thing he ever did. He said he had already booked his trip unfortunately but said he wrote $7,000 off his taxes and got upgrades through out the trip. I bought my website after a lot of checking into the company and the thing I liked the best is I’m going to use it and I liked that the owners of the company are incredible visionaries. They started this company two years before Barry Dillar spent 5.1 billion to buy Expedia.
Heard a great quote the other day and will phrase it as close as I can. The quote was by Helen Keller, “People with sight and no vision are the poorest individuals in the universe.” These owners have vision and they announced something last night I can’t mention yet at this time and they may not be able to make it happen but if they can it will be incredible.
I got certified to set up non-profits with an incredible fund-raiser thru travel. YTB has nearly 2400 non-profits set up at this time. If you know of someone wanting an incredible fundraiser contact me.
Again, I mention YTB because we don’t advertise. You see Expedia, etc on the TV all the time because they spend millions a year to advertise. We do it by telling you about it.
Michelle and I will soon be sending out a newsletter of our own a couple of times a month about travel. If you contact one of the alums who have a website they can put you into their Deals & Steals and the company will send you a weekly newsletter on the top five travel deals weekly coming up, or you can go to our websites and sign up yourself for the Deals & Steals.
Thank you for listening but I know so many of you travel a great deal, just want you to know what is available to you with Lyons Alumni.
Sax Drake
Class of 1961
Are any of the LHS classes having reunions any time this year. I know we had a highly successful All School Reunion earlier this year but I think there will be some other reunions going on. Let me know.
Just Received: From Rebecca Latimer – 1970’s Girls Brunch, 8-9-08 in Lyons. Contact Revecca at 620-257-7978 or Sharry Smith Butcher at 620-825-4323. See attachment.
If any of you have pictures of your high school days please send them in.
Juanita Danewitz sent me the pictures of the All School Reunion and I forwarded them on. Juanita, can you send me the names to the pics, Thanks. If others have pictures please send them in.
Thank you to the couple of people who sent in subscriptions to the website. Check and make sure your name is listed on the website. If you haven’t sent in a subscription please do so. I don’t want to make the website so you have to have a password to get in but it is not fair for the few alumni that have subscribed to pay for all that haven’t. It is disappointing as the webmaster keeps doing work and not getting paid for all the work he has done. He would do a lot more if we could get some subscriptions in. Thank you.
I know it has been just because you are so busy so please get your subscriptions in and go to the attic and pull out your old high school photos. Also, talk to alumni about contacting me so they can get on my update list.
Let me know what you are doing this summer. I know Mary Kay and Ralph Voss are still in Lyons and I was hoping to get down to see them, but it is not going to happen. Michelle and I are getting ready to go to Estes Park, CO next week. When we get back I have a high school basketball clinic down in Kansas and then Michelle and I are going to St. Louis for the YTB Travel National Convention. They are expecting 30,000 people and some fantastic new things are going to be happening with YTB. Attached are a list of people who have bought their own websites just like mine. You will recognize most of them. We may be in southern CA in Sept., and Sanibel Island in FL during Thanksgiving. We almost bought tickets to Italy but found out Italia Airlines may be going out of business so didn’t want o get stuck with tickets. They had a ticket to Rome for $900 and the second ticket for a $1. This day and age that may be something to really check into when you see a really good deal. We will be kicking ourselves if they survive without govt. help , which in the European Union the airlines are not supposed to be subsidized by the govt.
Mark Mangino the KU football coach just signed a contract for 1.8 million dollars. Not bad for a guy that once worked in the toll booth at a turnpike.
The Good Old Days :
Lions Lingo by Carol Ann Irwin: Year 1959.
Ila Bennett, LHS Junior told about her recent trip to New York City.
Phyllis Swenson left early this afternoon for Manhattan where she will attend an informal fraternity party tonight as a guest of Jim Butts. She will stay overnight with Glenda Reed who is a Junior at K-State and will return tomorrow.
I got an e-mail from Bonnie Evans class of 1961 also wrote for the Lyons Lingo. She said she would see if she could find some of those Lions Lingo reports. I hope she does because Bonnie would have been great at this. We had some really smart kids in my class. What happened to me?
This was I the Spotlight, Sept. 26th 1952.:
Proof that the world is in the machine age can be seen in the LHS parking lot. About a dozen and a half new or used cars were purchased since the end of the last school year. Bob Burge, 52 Plymouth; Larry Wilbur, 35 Plymouth; Jack Byrd, 50 Studebacker; Paul Shepard, 40 Ford; Lary Gray, 37 Chevrolet; Phil Wright, 39 Ford; Glenn Colberg, 37 Studebaker; Howard Jefferies, 40 Plymouth; Paul Jones, 30 & 40 Chevrolets; Max Crowl, 42 Chevrolet; Dean Mandrell, 39 Chevrolet; David Eves, 37 Chrysler; Joneta Edwards, 50 Chevrolet; Leonard Sullivan, 47 Willys Station Wagon; Dale McNally, 39 Chrysler; Earl Sallee, 34 Chevrolet; Eugene Lucas, 37 Ford; Charles Sanders, 39 DeSoto; Jesse Cook, 38 Oldsmobile; Bill Monroe, 39 Plymouth and Tom Battershell, 36 Plymouth.
Out of The Lyons News:
Adam Drew Wilson graduate of LHS in 2001 and a 2006 graduate of Kansas State got engaged to Elizabeth Miller of Salina. She also graduated from K-State. Wedding is planned at the Country Club United Methodist Church in KC, MO. Sorry I don’t know the date but it was a couple of years ago.
Krista Koch a 1996 graduate of LHS she graduated from Colby Comm. College and Johnson County Comm. College Graduated. She is a licensed esthetician and employed at Associated Plastic Surgeons in Leawood, KS. The groom is a 1999 graduate of Kansas University. The wedding was planned for May 3, 2008.
Again, please send in your subscription or if you want to donate you can go on the website and use PayPal or credit card or send your check to the Lyons State Bank, Lyons, KS 67554 and make check payable to the Alumni Club.
I know a lot of you are traveling. Please compare the rates on my YTB website www.SmartWay2Travel.com to book your travel or go to the Lyons Alumni website and click on Lonnie Morris, Dan Thompson or Bob Moody’s website and book your travel with them. Our websites will be competitive with Expedia, Orbitz, Cheap Tickets, etc. for the same flight, same hotel room, same car rental, same vacation package, same cruise cabin and much more. Check the attachment to see people who have their own YTB websites and you will know most of them. There website is just like mine except for the name. The Kansas City Chiefs and many other professional sports teams are setting up websites with YTB.
If you’re going to travel you might as well travel with an LHS Alums. We will be competitive in price 95% of the time.
YTB is remarkable company and I’m putting my families future on the line with this company. That is how much I believe. YTB is a publicly traded 8 year old company. YTB moved from the 35th largest travel agency in the world in 2006 to 26th in 2007. I use this company to cut my travel cost and to have an unbelievable tax write off. We had a guy buy a website last year a few days before he left for New Zealand and Australia. He said it was the best thing he ever did. He said he had already booked his trip unfortunately but said he wrote $7,000 off his taxes and got upgrades through out the trip. I bought my website after a lot of checking into the company and the thing I liked the best is I’m going to use it and I liked that the owners of the company are incredible visionaries. They started this company two years before Barry Dillar spent 5.1 billion to buy Expedia.
Heard a great quote the other day and will phrase it as close as I can. The quote was by Helen Keller, “People with sight and no vision are the poorest individuals in the universe.” These owners have vision and they announced something last night I can’t mention yet at this time and they may not be able to make it happen but if they can it will be incredible.
I got certified to set up non-profits with an incredible fund-raiser thru travel. YTB has nearly 2400 non-profits set up at this time. If you know of someone wanting an incredible fundraiser contact me.
Again, I mention YTB because we don’t advertise. You see Expedia, etc on the TV all the time because they spend millions a year to advertise. We do it by telling you about it.
Michelle and I will soon be sending out a newsletter of our own a couple of times a month about travel. If you contact one of the alums who have a website they can put you into their Deals & Steals and the company will send you a weekly newsletter on the top five travel deals weekly coming up, or you can go to our websites and sign up yourself for the Deals & Steals.
Thank you for listening but I know so many of you travel a great deal, just want you to know what is available to you with Lyons Alumni.
Sax Drake
Class of 1961
Saturday, July 5, 2008
LHS Alumni Update: 06-29-08
Wow!!!! We survived the storm that hit Omaha a couple of days ago. 115 MPH winds and hail. We got nailed. Michelle was so happy it didn’t hit a week ago but so sad with all the time and effort she had put into the yard. We have a few more alumni in Omaha, not sure how they faired.
I’m going back thru some of the Lyons Daily when it was a daily. This one is Thurs. May 19th, 2005. Val & Sal named at LHS. Cody Wiens and Alex Reed. What an honor. Didn’t say where they were going to go to college.
In the good old days: 50 Years ago 1955
WINDING THE MAY POLE - A new feature of the annual last day of school parade in Lyons today was a May Pole winding by the 7th grade girls. The pole topped by balloons, was the center of attraction at the southwest corner of the square.
25 Years Ago 1980:
8 individual members of the track team qualified for 14 places at the state track meet. Lyons won the regional with 124 points to the second place Colby Eagles with 52 points Wow!!!! Firsts were Donnie McKinnis in the Javelin at 216-6, Mark Fisher pole vault 14-7; Mark Hundley high hurdles 15.3; & intermediate hurdles 39.3; 400 meter relay team (David & Mark Hundley, Andy Parish & Donnie Campbell) 44.2.
Seconds: M. Hundley 6-2; Kent Teeter 100 meters, 11.5; & 400 meter, 50.5, Parish intermediate hurdles40.4; Mike Rogers 2-mile, 9:55; & mile relay, (Campbell, D. Hundley, Parish & Teeter)3:27.5.
10 Years Ago 1995:
Two senior girls were named top scholars for the Class of 1995. Sara Moses, valedictorian and Sarah Williams, salutatorian.
There are a number of new alumni added to the LHS Updates this time. Many of them were at the All-School Reunion. If you are a new recipient or have been receiving the update please let other alumni know about the site so they can contact me and we can get them the updates.
Our webmaster is doing a fabulous job and we want ot keep him. If you haven’t subscribed for the year please do so. If you want to make an additional donation that would be appreciated. Subscription is $25 dollars for the year and that allows us to do the website and the LHS Updates. Information is on the website or send checks to the Lyons State Bank, Lyons, KS 67554 make checks payable to the Alumni Club.
If any of you have pictures of when you went to high school, cars. Hang-outs, friends, etc. please send them to us so we can get them on the website. There is a blog on the website and much, much more. Check it out!
Anyone booking travel online? If so contact me (Sax Drake) or Lonnie Morris, Dan Thompson or Bob Moody. Their travel websites are on the LHS Alumni website. Any of you want to travel for less and write it off your taxes contact the above alumni, they can fill you in on the details.
You will soon be getting information on LHS alumni trips to San Diego, May of 2009 and a Cruise to Alaska in late August 2009.
We have lost another alum. Larry Pickerell, class of 1958, I believe. We want to honor all those alumni no longer with us; they were all an important part of Lyons High School.
I’m going to attempt to attach a photo of my wedding. If you have anniversaries, weddings, etc. contact me.
Bob “Sax” Drake Class of 1961
I’m going back thru some of the Lyons Daily when it was a daily. This one is Thurs. May 19th, 2005. Val & Sal named at LHS. Cody Wiens and Alex Reed. What an honor. Didn’t say where they were going to go to college.
In the good old days: 50 Years ago 1955
WINDING THE MAY POLE - A new feature of the annual last day of school parade in Lyons today was a May Pole winding by the 7th grade girls. The pole topped by balloons, was the center of attraction at the southwest corner of the square.
25 Years Ago 1980:
8 individual members of the track team qualified for 14 places at the state track meet. Lyons won the regional with 124 points to the second place Colby Eagles with 52 points Wow!!!! Firsts were Donnie McKinnis in the Javelin at 216-6, Mark Fisher pole vault 14-7; Mark Hundley high hurdles 15.3; & intermediate hurdles 39.3; 400 meter relay team (David & Mark Hundley, Andy Parish & Donnie Campbell) 44.2.
Seconds: M. Hundley 6-2; Kent Teeter 100 meters, 11.5; & 400 meter, 50.5, Parish intermediate hurdles40.4; Mike Rogers 2-mile, 9:55; & mile relay, (Campbell, D. Hundley, Parish & Teeter)3:27.5.
10 Years Ago 1995:
Two senior girls were named top scholars for the Class of 1995. Sara Moses, valedictorian and Sarah Williams, salutatorian.
There are a number of new alumni added to the LHS Updates this time. Many of them were at the All-School Reunion. If you are a new recipient or have been receiving the update please let other alumni know about the site so they can contact me and we can get them the updates.
Our webmaster is doing a fabulous job and we want ot keep him. If you haven’t subscribed for the year please do so. If you want to make an additional donation that would be appreciated. Subscription is $25 dollars for the year and that allows us to do the website and the LHS Updates. Information is on the website or send checks to the Lyons State Bank, Lyons, KS 67554 make checks payable to the Alumni Club.
If any of you have pictures of when you went to high school, cars. Hang-outs, friends, etc. please send them to us so we can get them on the website. There is a blog on the website and much, much more. Check it out!
Anyone booking travel online? If so contact me (Sax Drake) or Lonnie Morris, Dan Thompson or Bob Moody. Their travel websites are on the LHS Alumni website. Any of you want to travel for less and write it off your taxes contact the above alumni, they can fill you in on the details.
You will soon be getting information on LHS alumni trips to San Diego, May of 2009 and a Cruise to Alaska in late August 2009.
We have lost another alum. Larry Pickerell, class of 1958, I believe. We want to honor all those alumni no longer with us; they were all an important part of Lyons High School.
I’m going to attempt to attach a photo of my wedding. If you have anniversaries, weddings, etc. contact me.
Bob “Sax” Drake Class of 1961
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Photos from Saturday (all-school reunion)
For those of you who might not have seen these, here is a web link with images from Saturday at the all-school reunion.
Those of you who have purchased the DVD will get all of these images as well as the video that was shown during the program Saturday night. You can order directly from that link if you would like professional prints.
Enjoy.
Scott Sewell, LHS, Class of '80
Topeka, Kansas
www.scottsewell.com
Those of you who have purchased the DVD will get all of these images as well as the video that was shown during the program Saturday night. You can order directly from that link if you would like professional prints.
Enjoy.
Scott Sewell, LHS, Class of '80
Topeka, Kansas
www.scottsewell.com
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