Thayer Alumni
The annual Thayer alumni banquet will be June 13 at Lorimor Community Center.
Registration will begin at 5:30 p.m. with dinner served by the Lorimor Boosters at 6:30 p.m.
Call Linda Huffman at 641-782-5517 or email huffman@iowatelecom.net for reservations.
Anyone who attended school in Thayer is welcome.
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Shannon City Alumni
Fifty-one alumni and guests attended the 105th Shannon City alumni banquet held Saturday, May 23, at the Eagle’s Club in Creston. Co-chairwomen were Bonnie Ergenbright Baker (1959), Linda Foy James (1960) of Creston and Ann Comer Sanson (1959) of Clarinda. Registration started at 3 p.m. with a 5 p.m. supper. Linda James gave the welcome, and Ron Sanson gave the invocation.
Ann Sanson served as the MC for the evening and thanked everyone for making the evening a success. Graduates attending were celebrating their 55th, 60th, 65th, and 70th, banquets. They were: (1960) Linda Foy James; (1955) Frank Swartz of Urbandale; (1950) Dick Ide of Shannon City and Bill Linthicum of Des Moines; (1945) Melba Woosley Akers of Creston and Lee Ayers of Webster City.
Baker, James, and Sanson will be in charge of the 106th banquet next year. The date has been set for Saturday, May 28, at the Eagle’s Club, starting with registration at 3 p.m. and supper being served at 5 p.m.
Other alumni attending were: ’42 Agnes Marie Swanson Eklund of Afton; ’44 Loren Gehrke of Clarksdale, Mo.; ’46 Verla Swinehart Fitzgerald of Nevada and Eloise Kilgore White of Creston; ’48 Joan Goodale of Diagonal and Audrey Comer Lewellen of Omaha, Neb.; ’49 Donna Ruckman Berdine of Creston, Alvion Clough of Ellston; ’52 Richard Henry of Fulton, Mo., Johnnie Land of Afton, Dick Ross of Creston and Elma Short Stickel of Colorado Springs, Co.; ’53 Shirley Woosley Ide of Shannon City; ’57 Eldon Harden of Creston; and ’59 Karolyn Ergenbright Fletcher of Creston.
Other guests attending were: Dick Baker; Deb Grimes Berliner of Rancho Cordova, Calif.;
Dorothy Clough; John and Isabelle Crowell of Urbandale and daughter of Independence, Mo.; Bob and Sherry Eklund of Afton; Kathy and Joe Haines of Des Moines; Connie Harden; Marjorie Henkle of Clarksdale, Mo.; Betty Henry; Larry Hoffman of Omaha, Neb.;
David James; Marilynn Land; Dick Lee of St. Joseph, Mo.; Jane Linthicum; Cindy Grimes Miles of Sacramento, Calif.; Jack Norris of Creston; Joyce Ross and daughter Vicki Morin of Maryville, Mo.; Kenny Scherer of Shannon City; Kenny and Donna Smith of Creston; Fred Stickel, and Lois Swartz.