Dec. 7, 2022 — A Zoom meeting for the Class of '59 is scheduled for Jan. 5, 2023. Steve Robb is the host. Plans are to have Zoom meetings the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. CDT.
The above photo is by August Russell for the Lawrence Times. 
was incredulous. He told the people who shared the news with him they had the wrong guy. Roger was one of four Lawrence Business Hall of Fame.
go to Ralph Leonhard whose wife Gloria passed away Jan. 30.
writes: My son-in-law, Hiram Salvini, passed away July 4th. He was given his ALS diagnosis just as we were having our 50th reunion. Here it is almost 5 years later. So many people ask about him. 
Otis Harold Vann 1941-2022
Dec. 7, 2022 — Funeral services for Ottis Harold Vann, 81, Charlotte, North Carolina, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, at First Regular Missionary Baptist Church. A Visitation will be from 6-7 pm, Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Otis passed away Nov. 29, 2022. HERE for his obituary.
Santos "Sonny" Garcia 1940-2022
Sonny Garcia passed away Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, at Midland Care Hospice House in Topeka. He is survived by his wife, Margaret and a brother and four sisters. Two sons preceded him in death.
HERE for his obituary.
LHS Gals June Meeting
June 22, 2022 — Guess our monthly luncheons will continue until no one can come! —Sherri
On left side of table: Judy Demos Crossfield, Karen Stuart Heeb, Janet Burnett Huchingson, Nancy Miller Reiling, Nancy Vogel
On right side of table: Julia Walker Magana, (space for Sherri), Sue Squires Midyett, Kay Franz Hodge, Mary Kirby LaRue, Linda Garrett Wright
Birthday Celebration
May 30, 2022 — Our birthday celebration is over. Approximately 44 classmates and guests attended in person. Another 10+ attended ia ZOOM with classmates from Israel, Alaska, Canada, Florida, Maryland, and North Carolina. Again, thanks to Roger Scott for donating the use of the venue for the celebration. if you have photos or thoughts to share about the event, send to Ruth Bramble Humphrey at ruth@humphreyfam.com.
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Larry Schaake and Karen Stuart Heeb |
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Jon and Linda Ingalls |
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Paul & Carolyn Rogers |
Karen Coffman Davis, Connie Lipp Pritchett, and Marie Johnson Harding |
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Ida Johnson Jeppesen and Ken Zink |
Foreground: Janice Stewart Houk (back to us), Deborah Koons (in green), and Bob Lockwood (Doug’s older brother in KU red & blue) talking to Larry Midyett. |
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Bill Elkins and daughter |
Sherri Dobbins Millsap, Mary Hammig, and Karen Stuart Heeb |
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Ralph Leonard, Mary Kirby LaRue, Ervin Donaldson, and Sue Squires Midyett |
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Roger Scott (blue shirt), Linda Ingalls, Jon Ingalls (back to us), Bob White, Julia Walker Magna, Mary Kirby LaRue, Vida Ingerson Death, and Don Death |
Walt Houk and Gaylen Koons |
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Mary Kirby LaRue, Vida Ingerson Death, and Don Death |
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March 19, 2022— We tried before, but we "think" that now we can really do it. We plan to gather one last time as a class to celebrate all of our birthdays to come.
Roger Scott won the use of this venue and has donated that use to us. Dinner will be catered by Maceli's. No other activities are planned. So, bring pictures, games, stories and memories to share.
There will be no charge for this event as we will be using money left from our previous gatherings. Please send an email to lawrencehigh1959@aol.com to let us know the number of reservations to make for you. If you can't come, please send a personal email we can share. Don't forget to keep checking this website for information.
We are only sending email notifications of this event. If you know a classmate who does not receive email from us, please write or call to tell them about our plans. Hope to see you there!
— All the best, Sherri Dobbins Millsap
2019 Lawrence Tornedo
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June 25, 2020 — From Karen Stuart Heeb — One year ago today (May 28, 2019) an EF 4, 170 mph, 1-mile-wide tornado stormed through our property and we were thankful, by the Grace of God, that no people nor the horses were harmed physically. The trauma of the event, however, has had a lasting impact on the humans and animals. We had so many people show up to help clear and clean up the devastation—family, friends, and many volunteers that I did not know. Again, another huge THANK YOU to all of you.
October Get Together Photo
Nov. 12, 2019 — Ten 1959ers met Oct. 19, 2019 at Bon Bon in East Lawrence for brunch, lots of talking, and celebrating Sherri's birthday.
Above from the left: Gwen Altic Leckron, Ruth Bramble Humphrey, Karen Stuart Heeb, Sue Squires Midyett, Julia Walker Magana, Debbie Grinstead Beene, Judy Demos Crossfield, Janet Burnett Huchingson, Mary Kirby LaRue, and Sherri Dobbins Milsap.
60th Reunion Recap
Oct. 26, 2019 — Our 60th Reunion was September 28-29, 2019. A big THANKS goes to Janet Burnett Huchingson, Mary Kirby LaRue, Sherri Dobbins Millsap and Roger Scott for their work to make the reunion a success.
The two-day activities planned by the reunion committee kept classmates busy: Friday evening for an informal gathering at Johnny's West, a Saturday morning tour of historic downtown Lawrence followed by lunch at the old Merchnts Bank, and a Saturday night buffet dinner at Union Train Station (now the Welcome Center in North Lawrence).
Below are photos from the reunion. Thanks to Joanne Okamoto Munger and Janet Burnett Huchingson for sending photos. If you took photos and want to share, please send via email to ruth@humphreyfam.com. Check back soon for more photos.
If you can identify the missing names or find corrections to identifications or spellings, send an email to ruth@humphreyfam.com.
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Carolyn and Ray Thornton, Larry Schaake
Background: Warren Hall (middle), Ida Johnson Jeppesen (right) and Warren's wife.
Foreground from the left: Ruth Bramble Humphrey, Katy Wright Young and Linda Garrett Wright. 
Nancy Miller Reiling and Ruth Bramble HumphreyJanet Burnett Huchingson writes:
Feb. 5, 2018 — I went to a PEO meeting in Whitefish, Mont. and, in the elevator to the meeting room, the PEO next to me asked me where I was from, and I said Lawrence Kansas. She said I “lived in Lawrence Kansas.” My uncle was the dean of the business school for many years and lived in Lawrence until he died. Frank Pinet. I said I went to school with Linda Pinet (photo left), and she said I am Linda!!! She was only in Lawrence for two years for eighth and ninth grade. Then they moved back to Ottawa where they were from and she graduated from Ottawa high school. She was Initiated into her mother's chapter in 1962 and she went to Cottey College. She said her three cousins graduated from LHS. I remember only Chris, who died a couple of years ago but was a professor in Bozeman, Mont. and Amanda (Carolyn Shull Cater) 
knew him. She had trouble recalling any other classmates, so I threw out a few names. Then she said she remembered Jeannie Schultz and the one with the pony tail — Jeannie Wheeler. I told her when I got home I would look in my eighth and ninth grade yearbooks and send her some photos.
Pat Niemoeller Lay (photo right) lives in Buena Vista, Colo., but gets back to Lawrence about once a year or so because her mother still lives there. I had lunch with her last winter when I was skiing at Monarch Mountain near Salida, Colo.
Debbie Beene Has Been Delivering
Meals on Wheels For 45 Years
May 23, 2017 — Debbie [Grinstead] Beene has delivered well over 10,000 meals during the 45 years she has been a Lawrence Meals on Wheels volunteer. After two years of teaching fourth grade in Eudora, Debbie became a full-time wife, mother and volunteer. In addition to delivering meals to elderly and/or disabled individuals, she has served the organization as a multi-year board member and as president for three years simply because she “felt like there was a need to feed people.” As so often happens when one spouse becomes deeply involved with a volunteer cause, Debbie’s husband Daryl also became motivated to help, serving as the group’s treasurer for five years. He says that his wife “enjoys talking to people and stays involved. She still stays in contact with many people to whom she delivered meals many years ago.” HERE for the article from Amazing Aging! by Marsha Henry Goff Class of '56.
Janet explores Lawrence
Check out an article from the Lawrence Journal-World about Janet Burnett-Huchingson.
Janet is working on a goal of walking along every street in the Lawrence city limits....Janet walks during the daytime hours when most of us are working, at school or taking care of other business. HERE for the article.