Roosevelt High School classes gather in Emporia
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Monday, July 30, 2007
Roosevelt High School classes of 1962-1973 kicked off their reunion on June 8, 9 and 10 with a get-together at Bruff’s. Classmates met at the Granada Coffee Company on Saturday followed by a tour of the Granada Theater. Then it was on to a tour of the ESU museum at the Poehler Mercantile Antique Mall given by Ron Slaymaker, former coach and teacher at Roosevelt.
Saturday evening, a barbecue dinner was catered by Bobby D’s at the grape arbor shelter at Peter Pan Park. Class pictures were taken by David Stormont, class of 1960, before dinner. On Sunday morning classmates met at the Regency Gardens for brunch. Approximately 135 classmates attended the weekend festivities.
Those attending from the class of 1962 were Karen Browning Bohan of DeSoto and Stan Hearn, Steve Williams and Barbara Freeman Pees, all of Emporia;
Class of 1963: Dona Ace Millard of Albuquerque, N.M., Richard Risley of Amarillo, Texas, Janet Richards McFarland of Dallas, Texas, Leroy Uttinger of Wichita and Larry Hickox of Emporia;
Class of 1964: Kathy Wise Risley of Amarillo, Texas, David Kern of Harrisonville, Mo., Mike Sullivan of Bloomington, Ind., Steve Woolington of Topeka, Jim Urquhart of Silver Lake, David Rhoades of Arkansas City, Bob Coffland of Humboldt and Carolyn Hollingshead VanSyoc, Pat Zieammerman Waidley and Lauralee Ashlock Hearn, all of Emporia;
Class of 1965: Bob Skaggs of Dallas, Texas, Tim O’Gorman of Chester, Va., Steve Rindom of Surprise, Ariz., Ken Andrews of Cisco, Colo., Shirley Edwardson Shaw of Tulsa, Okla., Joanne Kready of Lawrence and Ruby Patton Butcher, Judy Patton and Carol Rhoades, all of Emporia;
Class of 1966: Rex Beach of Livermore, Calif., Margaret Schadt Brokaw of Tampa, Fla., Glen Andrews of Olathe, John Kready of Wichita and Judy Nixon Ludwig of Emporia;
Class of 1967: Becky Ace Wiggin of Kalispel, Mont., David Fuller of Pueblo, Colo., Tom Neill of Puerto Rico, Jim O’Gorman of Iowa City, Iowa, Rosalind Williams Motley of Sherman, Texas, Christine Davis of Kansas City, Kan., Janell Stevenson Andrews of Olathe, Bob Livingston, Richard Jaggard and Nancy Wright Crumb, all of Emporia;
Class of 1968: Dewayne Andrews of Miles City, Mont., Becky Dold Tag of Monterrey, Calif., Bob Fowler of N. Ridgefille, Ohio, Jane Kern Sixbey of Des Moines, Iowa, Donna Lamoureux Ohland and Ronna Lamoureux Conley, both of Dallas, Harvey Wise of Glendora, Calif., Ronnie Burd of Wichita, Dan Duryea of Topeka, Deanna Morton Bradley of Lawrence, Tom Sheeley of Allen, Phoebe Schneider Doerr of Silver Lake, Jayne Kipling Hooper of Manhattan, Suzie Ace Storrer of Andover, Connie Hickey Williamson of Hartford and Claudia Felkner Kretsinger, Fred Kurzen, Tim Spencer, Janice Wygle Jaggard and Linda Burlingame Luginsland, all of Emporia;
Class of 1969: Phil Hansen of Santa Fe, N.M., Martin Jones of Carson City, Nev., Brett Osborn of Winchester, Va., Craig Woolington and Marna Love Suminski, both of Topeka, Russell Marks of Wellsville, Wesley Marks of Belle Plaine, Rod Mohr of Lawrence and Joe Bosiljevac, Jim Shepherd, Marilyn Davis Dalton and John Schmidt, all of Emporia;
Class of 1972: Mary Fowler Bradley of S. Barrington, Ill., Glenda Fuller Collins of San Diego, Calif., Joleen Stevenson of Shawnee Mission, Steve Thomson of Manhattan, Chris Edwardson Dieker of Reading and Bill McCord, Todd Osborn and Karl Witten, all of Emporia;
Class of 1973: Barbara Ashbaugh of Denton, Texas, John Butcher of Kansas City, Mo., Lynn McLaughlin of Sheridan, Ark., Kelly Sandefur of California, Kit Throgmorton of Oklahoma City, Okla., Nancy Crumb Hinten, Judith Romig Wencel and Kathy Weigand Clements, all of Wichita, Stuart Prophet of Topeka and Michael LeClear, Lesley Harrison Draper and Martha Webb Shook, all of Emporia.