McPherson High School

Donna Brown Miller

JoEtta Krehbiel Hertel

Bill Mills

Donnie Schrag

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Give Us a B! Look whose picture is on the Sentinel website! Mary Ann Walline Scott got the rest of the "card flipping" classmates off to a great start!

Hopefully, we did you proud! May Day 2012 in McPherson is a thing of the past. Barbara Stucky Ratzlaff, David Larson and Anita Gustafson Link, our 1962 royalty, rode in beautiful, vintage convertibles.

There were 13 classmates who walked in the parade, with Kathy Holecek Hill literally blowing the whistle to keep the "choreographed" classmates in sync...or not. The walkers, who flipped letter tiles on cue to spell M-C-P-H-E-R-S-O-N and then B-U-L-L-P-U-P-S (and sometimes B-U-P-H-E-R-S-O-N!) were Mary Ann Walline Scott, Deloris Pritchard Shannon, Janice Sawyer Clark, Larry Hapgood, Rick Lawrenz, Dean Elliott, Carolyn Geiman Wilson, Karen Koch Konnesky and Carol Kemp Engelland. Bill Mills and Ted Helmer carried the class sign. And Tom Garrelts pushed a "First Aid" wheelchair behind the group, just in case. A grand time was had by all. We haven't heard yet if we won a prize! (We didn't.)

You'll want to check out the rest of the pictures in our Photo Gallery. Click here.

Carolyn 5/11/12

Thanks to all the Class of "62" reunion committee members who attended the May 12th meeting. Many final decisions were made regarding our 50th reunion. Carolyn Geiman Wilson has sent out a class email with all the information about our reunion.  Open up your email, click on Amended 50th Reunion Registration from Carolyn and take time to read all about our reunion.

With another donation today, we have $2030.00 in our class fund. At the May meeting we had a lengthy discussion about the distribution of the funds but no final decision was made in regard to this. We are in the process of researching several different options presented to the committee. More to follow on this. Carol 5/12/12

Thanks to the May Day Committee! The All Schools' Day Parade was a gigantic success and loads of fun. Everyone on the committee shared in the planning - Jim Decker, Bill Mills, Mike Rausch, and Mary Ann Scott. Jim Decker and Mike Rausch were responsible for the gorgeous old cars, Mary Ann was responsible for helping me "practice", and Bill Mills was my go-to guy for questions.

It's hard to believe that all our royalty returned (Barb, David, and Anita), since they came from California, Nebraska, and Missouri. And we were pleased to have John Turner, with his new hip replacement, ride along.

Flipping the flash cards was a real feat - I knew I couldn't flip cards and blow the whistle, so I just did the whistle. Tom Garrelts, pushing the wheel chair with a "First Aid" sign on the sides, only had to "rescue" Dean Elliott for a very short time. 

THANKS TO THE COMMITTEE, WALKERS, ROYALTY, and CLAPPING CLASSMATES WATCHING THE PARADE!!     Kathy Holecek Hill, 5/12/12

1962 MHS Memorabilia. Do you have something from your high school days stashed away in your underwear drawer, in a box, or hanging in the back of your closet? You will be able to share that special “antique” item on Thursday night when we have the event at the McPherson Opera House. Jot down a few (or many) words explaining what the object is and something that you would like to share about that piece of memorabilia. It should be fun to see what each of us has thought worthy of keeping.

If you think you can part with that treasure, donate it to the auction to be held Saturday at the dinner and help raise funds for the class gift. Contact Larry Morlan (ldmorla@ilstu.edu) and let him know of your donation so he can include it in either the silent or live auction. Also, let him know if you have anything else you might like to donate.  Janet Larson Monson & Larry Morlan, 5/10/12

Thanks to those of you who have already sent donations to the Class of 1962!  So far we have received donations from 25 of our classmates.

See the Donation box to the right below the Live Poll? NOTE that you can donate either by PayPal or by credit card by clicking the Donate button. Or you can just send your donation to our treasurer Linda Grant Peterson whose address is posted there as well.

As a reminder, in our reunion survey conducted last year, we included this question: 

We have very little money in our current reunion account. Would it be appropriate for us to make a no-obligation special request for classmates to contribute additional funds, as they are able, to help out with reunion costs?

90% of respondents (35 of you) said yes. Sooooo, we are now asking. We will leave this up until we begin reunion registration in the summer. If you can help out, that would be great!  Carolyn Rev. 1/15/12