Pat Maes, 65, Raymore, MO passed away Friday, May 29, 2009, at her home. Services will be 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at the Lenexa United Methodist Church with burial at Pleasant View Cemetery. Visitation will be 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Tues-day at the Amos Family Chapel of Shawnee. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Liver Foundation, 1425 Pompton Ave., Cedar Grove, N.J. 07009-9990. Pat was born in Minneapolis, MN. She was a Sales Representative for Roux. Pat was a member of the Lenexa United Methodist Church and involved with Stephen Ministries. Survivors include her husband, Remy Maes of the home; two daughters, Anita and her husband Chris Fiorella of Raymore, MO, and April Helm of Shawnee, KS; six grandchildren and 1 great grandson. Online condolences may be expressed at www.amosfamily.com. (arr. The Amos Family Chapel of Shawnee, 913- 631-5566)
Published in Kansas City Star on 5/31/2009
Merlin Gish
The PDF file to the right is a story which was published on February 21, 2008, concerning a new Hall of Fame established at Shawnee Mission North. One of the four persons profiled is Merlin Gish, math teacher, football coach, and track coach during our days at Shawnee Mission North.
A BIG "Thank You"... Our entire class owes a huge debt of gratitude to Linda Jones McGuinn, John Sulley, and Bobbi Ulrich Wills for their dedicated work in planning, publicizing, and carrying-out our very successful 45-Year Reunion Party. All of us appreciate the good work these loyal classmates have done over many weeks and months to make our reunion a terrific success.
Reunion Survey
Hi All, now that you are back home and have had some time to reflect on the Reunion on October 7, we would like to get your input and thoughts on what went well and what didn't go so well.
Give us your feelings on:
The Communications about the Reunion
The Location
The Food
The DJ
The Laptop presentation
The Photographers
The Program
Anything else that you would like to comment on and anything you would like to suggest for our 50th....it will be here before we know it.
If you click on one of the links below for Bobbi, Linda or John you can send your thoughts to one of us and not to the website.
Of course any glowing accolades for the committee can go directly to the Website...just kidding.
Classmate Bobbi Ulrich produced a spectacular PowerPoint show which was presented at our 45-Year Class Reunion on October 7, 2006. This show contains hundreds of pictures from our school days as well as nostalgic reminders of those years of our lives, all set to the music of our era. If you saw this show at the reunion, or if you were not at the reunion, and you would like to have a CD of this PowerPoint show, just click on the PDF file to the right and download an order form. Print the form and mail it to Bobbi at the address on the form. All proceeds will go to our class fund for our next big reunion, our 50-Year reunion in 2011. Note: You must have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer to play this show, or you may download a free PowerPoint player from the Microsoft web site.
Below are some pictures from our 45-year reunion in October of 2006.
Click on each thumbnail to view the full-size image. A special "Thanks" goes out to Cindy & John Sulley, Marilyn Clayton, Marilyn Roy, Rick Reynolds, Tom Foster, Gary Thomas, Judy Clifford, Bobbi Ulrich, Tom Hufstedler, and Nancy Kirchhoff for contributing these reunion photographs for all of us to enjoy.
NOTICE to those who ordered reunion group pictures from the photographer: The group picture of the entire reunion was printed with an error in the caption... It says "Class of 1966." If you ordered pictures and would like this corrected, the photographer has ordered corrected prints and will replace any bad print with a corrected one. They are only going to send corrected prints out to those who request them. If you would like a corrected print, contact Wilborn and Associates at 816-531-9000 or email them at wilbornphoto@earthlink.net.
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CLICK HERE to view reunion photographs contributed by Tom Hufstedler.
CLICK HERE to view reunion photographs contributed by Bobbi Ulrich.
BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!... the following pictures are from the archives and dusty trunks of various class members. If you have any pictures from our High School days to submit, please send them along to share!
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Current Pictures: Below are pictures of some of our alumni as they are now with families and friends. We can use a lot more pictures, so send yours in NOW!
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CLASS ROSTER: The Downloadable File to the right is a Microsoft Word file of our class roster. We are updating this information constantly, but some of this information is several years old, so may be outdated or incorrect. Please check YOUR information, and information of anyone on the list that you know, and email us with any corrections and/or updates.
The Word document to the right list classmates that we can't find for various reasons. Some have apparently moved without telling us and their reunion notification letter came back. Others are classmates for whom we have never had valid contact information. Please look at this document file and notify the reunion committee if you have current information on ANY of our lost classmates. Thanks. And while you're at it, please check the current Class Roster document file below and make sure YOUR information is correct. - The Reunion Committee
This web site for the Class of 1961 of Shawnee Mission North High School is maintained by Kip Hammond. For submission of pictures, notes for or about classmates, or any other information, please Email Kip Hammond or John Sulley with your information and pictures. Enjoy this site and tell all of your fellow classmates about SMN1961.COM.
GUEST BOOK
This guest book is done manually. To put a message into the guest book, email your message to me and I will put it into the guest book as soon as possible. The PDF file to the right is an archive of the guest book postings for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Below are the current guest book postings beginning January 1, 2009.
From Patti Cundiff (3-8-09): Too sad to lose Tom (McCready). I recently learned that another member of our class died February of 2008--Karen Schroeder (Spear). She and I talked on the phone every year around our birthdays. She went to live with one of her sons and I lost track of her. I guess she died shortly after she moved. Sorry to bring more bad news. - Patti
From Mike Bowman (3-21-09): After SMN, I attended KSU and somehow managed to graduate in four years. All I had ever wanted to do was fly off carriers... so two days after finishing college, I was off to flight training in Pensacola. I was in the Navy for nearly 37 years and loved every minute. Along the way I had two tours in Vietnam and got to fly combat again in Desert Storm at the ripe old age of 50. I ended up with nearly 1300 carrier landings, the last of which came three weeks before I retired. My last flight was in an FA-18 with my son Geoff on my wing in his Hornet. It was a great time and I have missed it every day since I became a full time civilian. After the Navy, I worked in Washington DC for eight years with DRS Technologies. It is a defense technology and manufacturing company, and I was their Executive Vice President for Washington Operations. I ran the DC office and was responsible for our coordination with Congress and the Pentagon. This past November I fully retired and am now concentrating on getting back into flying and have bought an ex-Royal Canadian Air Force Chipmunk trainer. It is pretty slow but does go upside-down and is a real joy in my life. Not long after starting flight training, I married the real joy of my life, Sally. We have two children, Ashley and Geoff, who have given us four grandsons and one (very spoiled) granddaughter. We are now splitting our time between our home near Mount Vernon in Virginia and a small house we have on a lake in Tennessee. The lake is very close to our daughter and her family in Chattanooga.....we are really enjoying building memories there. Well that is Mike Bowman for the last 50 years.... Look forward to seeing the rest of the class in 2011. - Mike Bowman
