Plains High School Reunion, August 7, 2010

By Joyce (Vail) Knott (Class of 1955)

Photos by Andy and Audrey Staples and Kirk Coats

Two hundred and fifty five Alumni, former students, spouses and guests attended the PHS Alumni Reunion

on Saturday, Aug. 7 for the every five year get-together in Plains, Kansas.

The event took place at the new Plains Community Building in the Plains City Park.

Its been 45 years since the last class graduated from PHS. There has also been 98 deaths since the last Reunion in

2005, so with 255 attending, we think that was a good turnout. What will the next 5 years bring?

After the 2005 Reunion there were many who wanted to have the Reunion every 3 years, but at the business

meeting on Saturday evening, the majority voted to continue to have it every five years. We hope that was a good

decision, but we know there will be many more Alumni deaths. That’s just the facts of life. Yes, I wished it was

every 3 years, but guess we’ll see how it plays out.

Saturday, August 7 started out at 8:30 a.m. for registration, coffee, juice and donuts. Many seemed glad to

be there and be a part of the big day. There were some who registered, but couldn’t come and others who didn’t

register, came.

We were delighted with the good turnout!

Vicki Fisher crowned Irwin Atkinson, class of 1938, King of the oldest male graduate present.

Margaret (Golliher) Holt, oldest female graduate present of the 1936 class was crowned Queen.

Vicki also recognized past cheerleaders and they came before the group and led everyone in a cheer.

Joyce Knott read “The Reunion” which was well received by the group.

At noon the Alumni had sandwiches, chips, drinks, vegetable tray and cookies. They had four lines for

serving, so it went pretty smoothly. Charlie Angell gave the invocation for the evening meal.

Baked Steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, crockpot corn, lettuce salad, rolls, cherry cheesecake, tea and water was

catered by Heart & Home Catering from Meade, Kansas. Everyone thought all was delicious! We were all

served at our tables by the Southwestern Heights Honor Society and Cheerleaders, with some also helping with

the registration.

New officers for the 2015 Reunion will be: President, Wayne Powell; Vice President, Elvin Harris;

Secretary, Kathy Boyd ; Treasurer, Lana Miller, with Vicki Fisher, Lelia George and Steve Eisenhauer helping

out as needed.

For future PHS Alumni Corespondence please mail to: Plains HS Alumni, Box 511, Plains, KS 67869. We

still have Alumni Directories for sale at $5. We ordered extra for those that didn’t make it to the Reunion, but

would like one for the addresses of many Alumni and former students.

At the evening meal, President, Wayne Powell recognized Harold Rickers for being the first one to get in

his registration for the Reunion, he was awarded a PHS 2010 Reunion Shirt.

Kirk Coats was awarded a special placque for the many, many hours that he devoted to getting a Plains High

School Web Site. For those who don’t know, he did extenstive studying in the Museum, Court House, schools, etc.,

etc to have it as complete as can be for all of our enjoyment. The Web Site is: www.plainshighschool.com

The table decorations were made by Vicki Fisher with help from her sister Karen Cobb. Whoever had a

sticky on the bottom of their chairs were the winner of the table decoration.

The SWH Mustang Singers entertained the Alumni for a short time. We appreciate all who sang for us.

All the Alumni sang together our theme song “Those Were The Days, My Friend” and “The Plainsman

Song.”

It was decided to have a Trophy Case installed in the new Plains Community Building to hold all the old

trophies that are at present in the old high school. Also a couple of files to hold past records of the PHS Alumni

Reunions. Someone suggested that we pass the hat and see if we can’t get enough to pay for the case. Steve

Eisenhauer passed the hat and it netted the Alumni $2,285.00. Whatever is left over will go into the Scholarship

Fund, which Bob Kaberlein brought us up-to-date on.

Our Special thanks go to the Plains Businesses for Donating Prizes to the Reunion: Businesses and the

winners were:

A Cut on the Corner(Kelly Eakes): Gary Dunn

Alfac Insurance: Marilyn French

Apple Hutch (Roger,Wendy & Ernestine Holmes): J. E. Hill and Lola Davis

Backroom Printing: Harold Dupree

Crop Production Services: Joe Nemec and Lila Parks

Daylight Donuts (Bob & Judy Pepper): Eldeana Winfrey

Home Lumber & Supply Co.: Mickey Winfrey

Jim Hush, Auctioneer & Broker: Harold Myers

L & L Engine Service (Linaweaver Brothers): Kenneth Myers

Mama Fina’s (Saucedo’s): Wayne Headrick:

Mid Plains Construction (Ron Eakes): Susan Presley

Lana Miller, CPA: Royce Angell

Plains Equity Exchange: Larry Henry and Joyce Peterson

Plains Gas & Carquest Auto Parts (Nathan Chase): Vela Vincent

Plains State Bank: Pauline Atkinson

Southwest Tortillas (Leon & Nancy Winfrey): Susan Fox and Dwane Thompson

T-N-T Designs (Troy & Tammie Winfrey) Barb Headrick

DeGarma Economic Rural Western KS Development (Grand Prize) Carolyn Woltje

On Friday night the classes of 1950, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59 gathered at the Plains Golf club house for

a get together and for a BBQ Supper furnished by Meisenheimer’s of Liberal. There were about 110 in attendance.

Those attending the Alumni Reunion were:

1934 Fr. Leonard Stegman

1936 Margaret (Golliher) Holt

1938

Irvin and Pauline Atkinson

1939 Dean Borth

Boyd and Margaret Fox

Eunice (Gowens) Johnson

1943 Harold Myers

Jean (Fulton) Wisby

1944 Joseph Beckman and son & daughter

Ron Beckman & Monica Dixon

Alice (Hale) and Jim Brown

1945 Bill & June (Hollopeter) Bolan

Naomi (Bauer) Nemec

Joyce (Fox) and Warren Peterson

1946 Lola (Brown) Davis and

Daughter Barbara MacArthur

Esther (Correll) Elliott

Lila (Holmes) and Kenneth Parks

Carl Utz

1947 Charlie and Phyllis Angell

Gregg Knott

Kenneth and Ann Myers

1948 James and Peggy Amerine

Wayne and Betty Angell

Don and Frankie (Ford) Bromwell

Elsie (Clark) Cottrell

Dan Donahue

Mary (Myers) Farley

Darrell Langhofer

Mickey Sheldon

Earl Shinogle

Pat (Jacobs) Utz

1949 Mannley Bromwell

Jack and Janice Dufield

Joyce Holmes

Richard Knott

Harold Rickers

Vela (Langhofer) Vincent

And guest Michael Halbert

1950 Larry and Marge Donahue

Sylvester Eakes

Delbert Fox

Jim Staples and children

Andrew and Audrey Staples

Lynn Streiff

1951 Marilyn (Langhofer) and Wilbur French

Mary (Eakes) and Leonard Friesen

Donna Lee (Goodnight) Foster

Willie Ortega and daughter

Phyllis and Robert Bohling

Garrell and Lois (Holmes) Packard

1952 Lloyd and Norma Palmer

Carlyle Sinclair

Marcie (Kisner) and Norman Thorson

Carol Sue (Donahue) Vogel

Don and Ruth Wilson

Darrell and Vera Mae (Harris) Winfrey

1953 Lyman and Marlene (Dupree) Brown

Floyd Downs

Gary Evans

J. E. and Mary Hill

Ernestine (Good) Holmes

Gloria (Ortega) Simpson

Marshall and Janice Stanton

Carl and JoAnn Schield

Regina (Eakes) Walters

1954 Royce and Judi Angell

Tony Depriest

Lelia (Pope) and Don George

Jim and LaVeta Hush

Verna (Wilcox) and Jim Miller

Alice (Holmes) Sinclair

1955 Cecilia (Eakes) Chinn

Lora (Hughan) Cox

Estelle (Stegman) and Leroy Huelskamp

Phyllis (Meggenberg) and Dean Hunter

Charlotte (Malone) and Bob Keller

Joyce (Vail) Knott

Fred and Joyce Nolting

Larry Winfrey

Patricia (Coats) Young

1956 Lucy (Beckman) Bromwell

Harold and Sis Dupree

Virginia (Downs) Harrington

Larry and Beverly Henry

Gerald and Mae Jacobs

Gayle (Richardson) and Per Lysthauge

1957 Darryl and Shirley Ball

Josephine (Eakes) Blacksten

Garvin Cobb

Gene Downs

Bertha (Beckman) Holzworth

Helen (Nolting) Johnson

Royce and Kay Lawson

Leon and Barbara (Depriest) Malone

Archie Sinclair

1958 Wendell and Sharon Fox

Carl and Willynda Holmes

Jerry and Bonnie Jo Lawson

Larry and Phyllis Palmer

Lillian (Ballard) Simpson

Most classmates attending: Class of 1959

The list below is not in sync with the photo above.

1959 Larry and Phyllis Borth

Kirk and Kathy Coats

Harold Correll

Roger and Marlene Dunlop

Arnold Eaton

Pat (Borgelt) and Skip Fritze

Helen (McCarty) Kessler

Don and Sue Malone

Jack and Barbara Miller

Mike Perkins

Richard Schell

Donna (Blosser) and David Singh

Charlotte (Johnson) Sneed

Russell O. Vail

Donna (Ball) Walker

Ron and Carolyn Wilcox

Mickey (Fink) Winfrey

Sam and Carolyn Woltje

1960 Myra (Fox) and Kenny Christenson

Karen (Fox) Cobb

Donna (Boyd) Correll

Jerry Lynn

Blanche (Woltje) and James Todroff

1961 Ray Borth

Shirley (Feldman) Brinkley

Ronald Dunn

Sonja (Sutton) Heald

Carol (Rickers) Lockhart

Gail (Fox) Reiss

Jean (Dunlop) Scott

Neil Utz

1962 Butch Amerin

Raena (Reiss) Borth

Virginia (Warren) Elliott

Bob and Gloria Kaberlein

Joe Miller

Diane (Malone) and Rex Palmer

Susan (Ramage) and Joe Presley

1963 Warren and Susan Fox

Terry Hamm

Wayne and Barb Headrick

Jeff Johnson

Betty (Amerin) and Jerry Mansell

Joseph and Christine Nemec

Judy (Johnson) Vick

Lucille (Ballard) Wilson

Gordon and Eldeana (Bond) Winfrey

1964 Larry Eisenhauer

Lana (Fox) Miller

Wayne and Donna Powell

Mike Ramage

1965 Bill and Ruth Adams

Pearl (Whan) and Floyd Bottoroff

Vicki (Fox) and Tommy Fisher

Rick and Loraine Geisinger

Elvin and Hennie Harris

Tony and Barbara Nemec

Kathy (McVay) Oliver

Scott and Trudy Reiss

Dwane and Joyce Thompson

1966 Don Adams

Terry Coats

Ira and Judy Downs

Wallace Headrick

Dennis and Linda McCarty

Jim McVay

1967 Kathy (Roberts) and Dave Boyd

Tom Bromwell

Gary and Barbara (Reiss) Dunn

Steve “Ike” and Jane Eisenhauer

Ronald Fox

Mike Hamm

Henry McVay

1969 Dale Schell

Teachers attending: Frances Elffner and Warren Peterson

Thanks to everyone of you who attended this year’s Reunion and for making it a success. Without you

coming we would have had a very dull time. Thanks to all who helped in any way and to the city for letting us use

the facilities at the Plains Community Building, the golf course and swimming pool. They all worked out great. We

are looking forward to the next Reunion, whenever, remember it’s always the first weekend in August!!