Friday, Oct 5, 2012 6pm was the BBQ dinner event held at the Powell Community Center in Mission KS. Carol has just found a place to sit and is looking for familiar names. Faces have CHANGED!!
A few more of the crowd. The complimentary drinks and soon to be opened buffet tables is in the upper part of the photo. The gentleman in the salmon pink shirt at the right edge of the photo is the son of the mayor the center is named for and he was in Carol's class.
A view from the buffet table end looking back at the crowd of about 200 people. The 1962 class had 725 members. About 100 have died and another 100 were "missing" and had not been contacted. Saturday they were having a picnic around noon and a formal party that night. Sunday was a brunch??? We had only signed up for Saturday night, and we left about 9pm and drove back to Rocky Mount.
The "goodie" bag had a booklet with names and current addresses of those who had been located. We got nice badges when we signed in. Carol's had her class photo on it, but the spouse was the Shawnee Mission North Indian logo. The bag also contained a mouse pad with "coat of arms" and a coaster with the Indian logo.
We talked all evening with whomever we met. Carol recognized the names of several students and had a great time recalling classes and events they shared. One of the male spouses who sat at our table was from Plattsmouth, Nebr and knew the Meisinger that Barb Blecke had married. He said there were three distinct groups of Meisingers in the area. Also met the daughter of Otto Hoffman. Otto was working in the Ag Chem group at Gulf R&D when I joined. Another male spouse was a PChem Prof at Ohio State U. He had gone to KU and tennis shoe Adams was his graduate school research professor. He knew most of the professors that were there when Ron attended KU. Carol's "best" meeting was with Susie Kaiser whom she had known for many years. Betty Kaiser, an accomplished artist, was Carol's "second mom" when Fran was not functioning normally. Susie knew exactly where we lived, as she had been a councilor at Camp Sabre one summer many years ago. Several others, too, but our memories fade fast!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIM.
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