Dunlap High School
Sixty-seven alumni and friends met June 6 for the biennial meeting of the Dunlap Rural High School Alumni Association at the Community Christian Church in Council Grove. Members of the church served a banquet meal before the business meeting. Tony Carl of Wilsey, accompanied by Ralph Mock, sang several country-western songs and also sang as part of the memorial service for those who have died during the past two years, led by Leland Viar.
The graduating classes of 1948, 1949, 1958 and 1959 were given special recognition, as were all those alumni present who graduated in the 1930s. The oldest graduate present was Robert Whitaker from the class of 1933; the youngest graduate present was Leland Viar, class of 1960. The first class to graduate was the class of 1916.
New officers elected were Dan Riggs, president; Gail Lee, vice president; and Janis Viar Beshoner, secretary-treasurer. The next meeting of the Alumni Association will be held June 4, 1011.
The gymnasium in Dunlap is being refurbished by the Dunlap Fire Department and was open for the alumni to tour and reminisce about school-days memories. Jan Huston and Ustaine Talley presented a video program at the gymnasium related to the history of Dunlap as an Exoduster community after the Civil War.
Dickson family
The annual Dickson family reunion was held at the Jones Park shelter house on June 7. All of the Dicksons who came from Denmark are gone, but the descendants continue to have a reunion once a year.
The reporter said, “After a big dinner on a beautiful summer day,” master of ceremonies Richard Dickson of Tucson, Ariz., called the meeting to order for business or announcements. Kenneth Dickson of Murrieta, Calif., traveled the longest distance. Ruth Lyddane of Emporia was the oldest person present; the youngest was Emily Storrer , five-weeks-old daughter of Jeremiah and Amanda Storrer of Emporia. Those who died during the past year were John Hawkins, Dudley Lemke, Betty Prohodsky, Dale Dickson and Thomas John Dickson.
Others attending from out of state were Harlan and Jeannette McCollum of Merced, Calif.; Kristin Dickson of Duluth, Ga.; and Inger Dickson, Ashley Orihuela and Noel and Matthew, all of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Attending from Kansas were Gary and Donna Robinson, Mark and Nancy Robinson and Hannah, Sarah and Joseph, and Wayne and Anna Symmonds, all of Admire; Tracy and Denise Hearson, Tanner and Chalsea, of Andover; Curtis and Lorie Scott, Tanner and Sydney, of Augusta; Hugh McQitty of Kansas City; Trey Bitler and Jana Snyder of Lawrence; Shane Bitler and Joe and Alice Campell of Manhattan; Jeri Snyder, Cheryl Snyder, Kyle and Kaitlyn Brown and Hiram and Maxine Dickson, all of Topeka; Rodney and Lois Symmonds, Stuart and Pete, of Reading; and David and Judy Hawkins and Daniel, Dan and Tracy Ahlstrom, Cameron and Isaac, all of Wichita.
Others attending from Emporia were Augusta Shepherd, Joyce French, Joanne Pherigo, Mark, Janet and Amber Harrouff, Mike Prohodsky, Jim and Mary Shepherd and Bill and Naomi Snyder.
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