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OUR MHS class web site is loaded, with CLASS NEWS, CONTACT INFORMATION, BIOs, THE 50s YESTERYEAR, and a place to

SHARE THE NOW with each other.

It will be as awesome as we make it and use it!!

Feedback is always welcome – additions, corrections, any ideas.

SEND PHOTOS, SEND NEWS, SEND IDEAS to:

Nan (Heintzelman) Wells (Webmaster), nan1940@aol.com

Janet (Krider) Duncan, bullbox@aol.com

Judy (Burnett) Goodson, Goodjudy@cox.net

or by snail mail for scanning.

The SECURE AREA of the website needs a password.  Please E-Mail one of us to get it. The Class Contact information is up-to-date as we know it, so if you have a correction, please let us know and if you haven't submitted your BIO and wish to do so, please send it along.

Our site is set up to be inter-active with the bottom section of each page open for comments, feedback and jibber-jabber.  These will pass by the Webmaster's desk before being posted on the web site (to screen for unwanted outsiders).  Feedback is always welcome.

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2/2012 …  see TRIBUTE Norma Berry Nichols various classmates sharing memories of Norma Berry (Nichols)

 

2/2012 … see TRIBUTE John Wittwer various classmates sharing memories of John Wittwer

 

8/7/2011 … JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION  went my Jrs where keren is at and where is ed wimmer. i am now in ga. Nancy Dutton

 

6/15/2011 … NEWS – Kathy & Bill Fellers  Glad to hear the Fellers' came through the storms OK. Sorry to hear of their health issues.  Will be praying for them.  John Harris

 

5/28/2011 … 50th WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS  Our  50th  anniversary  was  August 27,  2010.  We  were  married  in Manhattan  at  my parents'  home,  1719  Fairchild.  My parents  had   64  years  together  and  we  are  hoping  for  that  many!
Anne Hastings & Art  Johnson, Potsdam, NY

 

5/28/2011 … CLASS NEWS  Congratulations,  Linda! What a happy-looking  family,  and  a   darling   great-grand daughter!   Anne Hastings  Johnson

 

5/4/2011 … CLASS NEWS  Dee,  WOW! Would love to hear that wonderful voice in concert. Cheers,
Molly [Molly Hoover Hedrick]


4/29/2011 … CLASS NEWS  Here is the link to the Facebook page for Sankofa, the acapella group that Delores Nichols Brown mentioned in her email.  She looks GREAT in the photo!  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sankofa/184771891439?sk=info

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4/25/2011 … CLASS NEWS Dee … So good to hear from you.

Send us pictures and information about your upcoming CD.  Nan Heintzelman Wells keeps the website updated and your singing career and  the groups you are in is the type of information she would want to post.

We would  love to have a copy  of one of your CD's

When you come to Salina let us know and we will get a group together for lunch.  We usually have a good group at lunch and it is a good way to pass on information.  We always share any correspondence we receive.

Enjoy your grandson, some of us have grown grandkids, time goes by so fast

Keep in touch. Be sure to let us know about a Salina trip, only an hour away so it would be easy to find a location for lunch.  All good wishes on your Birthday.  Judy [Judy Burnett Goodson]

 

4/25/2011 … CLASS NEWS  – I could be there…that's my b-day! [April Out to Lunch Bunch Occasion]  Hello to all. maybe I'll surprise you one day and show up.  No family left in Manhattan but in-laws in Salina so I come home every now and then.   I retired in June.  Love being with my 19 month old grandson, my only one, and performing.  I stay busy singing jazz.  I'm a solo performer but also sing in a trio called "Ala Carte" and an Arican-American ACAPPELLA sextet called "Sankofa".  We just received a grant to do a CD.  Hopefully we will start on it this summer.  Don't know why I'm telling you all this, guess I just want to stay connected to home. Have fun, Delores (Dee) Nichols Brown

 

1/21/2011 …   BURNETT GOODSON PHOTOS ENTERED IN PHOTO CONTEST    just reread the top – they ARE your photos – just taken at Tammy's!  See, I told you, you take great photos!  Glenda Moore Yocom

1/21/2011 …   BURNETT GOODSON PHOTOS ENTERED IN PHOTO CONTEST   great photos, Judy – know you said they were Tammy's photos, but you do a good job also – I've seen your work too!  thanks for sharing!  Glenda Moore Yocom

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12/3/2010 …  50th WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS Guess it's time to add another name to the list. Sue and I celebrated our 50th July 9th 2010. Wow time sure goes by quick, it must it took me 5 months to post this.   Jerry and Sue Achenbach

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12/2/2010 … THINKING OF YOU Just checking in as I received your newsletter.  Mike is not able to get out of bed anymore.  He must  weigh around 125 lbs.  He has no air moving through his lungs just the air from his machine.  He haa not been eating for awhile now.  Just Ensure drinks.  He is here at home where he wants to be.  He is really when God is ready. Thank you for all your support.  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.   Requi McDonald

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11/29/2010 … MORE OUT TO LUNCH BUNCH OCCASIONS Well, what I see and read about sounds like fun. When I retire ( I am still teaching at St.John's Military (my 23rd year), I will take part in some of the gatherings at Manhattan. Gerald Martin

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11/28/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES  CLASS NEWS What a good looking group of MHSers!!!!! Linda Estes Pears

11/28/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES  CLASS NEWS You did a wonderful job again, Nan.  Enjoyed the "lunch Bunch" items and nice to have our Colorado included.  Thanks to Tausca for helping to keep us in touch! Victoria Kendall Seighman

11/9/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES … CLASSMATE TRIBUTES I was very sorry to hear of Richards passing.  It sounds like he led a very full and happy life.  He will be missed. Linda Estes Pears

11/9/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES … CLASSMATE TRIBUTES Richard had carried with him for 51 years the story of comforting Jean VanValkenburg as she lay injured in a wrecked car and her life ebbed away. In verifying and clarifying his memories, I had occasion to talk with him on the telephone in 2008. He struck me as a gracious, religious person who was proud of his achievements in the service and most proud of his family. His life was a credit to our class and I am sure he will be missed by all who knew him.  Kathy Bryson Pizar

3/2/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES … THINKING OF YOU It is with great sadness that we have said goodbye to another MHS 1958 classmate with the passing of Doris Self Conley.  Nan Wells

2/23/2010 …  NEW ENTRIES … THINKING OF YOU Nan, Amy's letter is wonderful and we all owe Kathy a great thank you for sending the news of all the classmates to Doris.  I was sorry that I was out of town when she came through Manhattan with Karen and I missed them when they were at Ruth Gladow Screen's house.  I remember Doris as a smart and self-confident girl and as a teenager, busy in my own world, I didn't know that hers contained so much trouble and pain.  For that I am sorry.  I'm glad Doris has Amy and her sister with her – she has a wonderful family.  Posting the letter would be very nice for the class.  Thanks for sending it to us – and thank you very much to Amy for writing. Janet  Krider Duncan

2/23/2010:

What a very special and loving letter of a daughter speaking of her mom.  Amy, how special it will be if our children love us as much and are as devoted to us as you and your sister are to your mother.  Your letter update is terribly moving … so heart rendering to see a classmate put up such a heroic battle to go on in a battle with, I guess, un surmountable odds.  I wish we could hug your Mom, in person, to help her fight that battle but I am so glad that Kathy's card did it one night for us.  There truly are angels among us!!! Nan Heintzelman Wells

Subject: From Doris (Self) Conley's daughter, Amy Wimmer (February 23, 2010)

As Karen wrote in the update, shortly after my mom's visit to Manhattan in October we discovered that the lung cancer my mom had been battling since October of 2008 had moved to her brain. She was diagnosed with 6 small brain tumors that her oncologist tried to aggressively treat in December with radiation. After 6 radiation treatments (out of 15) Doris nose dived and getting her to treatment became impossible for me and my sister Sonya. We started hospice on Christmas day. My mom is in a hospital bed here at home and either my sister or I have been with her around the clock since then.

Since that day my mom has been up and down and continues (in true Doris style) to be a fighting survivor of this terminal disease. Some days are certainly better than others but today was an especially good day here in Tempe, Arizona. Before bedtime tonight I opened Kathy's card and sat next to my mom as I read the update about each of you. You'll be happy to hear that as I read each of your names my mom nodded that she remembered each and every one of you. At the end of the updates she drifted peacefully to sleep with a happy expression and a small smile on her face.

After my mom's trip to Manhattan in October we spent an entire day rehashing her life all the way through childhood. She had a rough childhood but the memories of her dear friends from Manhattan put a silver lining to every dark cloud. I was especially fond of her recalling the dear friendship she formed with Karen and her family and my sister and I are grateful that she had a friend to see her though rough times at the end of high school and beyond. Thank you Karen from the bottom of our hearts.

My mom continues to beat all odds and leaves the hospice nurses with shaking heads after each incline of this roller coaster we are all on. I will tell you that I have never in my life met a woman so courageous and strong as my mom. Just when you think it can't get any worse my mom will greet you with a coherent expression of understanding when you enter the room. She is and always will be my role model and best friend.

Both of Doris's parents are still living. Her father Huber still lives in Manhattan and just turned 96 and her mother lives in Northern California and will be 93. When the time comes, she will be buried in our family plot in Bristow, Oklahoma and will be surrounded by many members of our beloved family.

Thank you for all your love and support and god bless you and your families.  Amy Wimmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/30/2009 … Thanks,  Judy.   Re  our  news  if  you'd  like to  share:  we  are planning a  Western  trip  to Portland.  WE  expect to be in that  area  for  2  weeks, and then  go  down to San Francisco   the  15th  before  returning  to  JFK  and   Syracuse, NY airports.   We  live  3  hours  by car  north of  Syracuse.    Next  Spring we  plan  another  western  trip  to Edmonton and  Seattle  and  Bremerton. Anne Hastings (Johnson)

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9/29/2009 … Hi Mike, Yes, the website is great!  Nan has spent many long hours and days on it and continues to do so. Send pictures to her Nan1940@aol.com. Comment at the website too as we would like to get the conversation pages going. We hope to reach a number of classmates  with the site. Judy Burnett (Goodson)

9/26/2009 … Once again sad news … Shirley King Henton's daughter just E-Mailed me that Shirley passed away Thursday night. I sent Kara a note of sympathy and told her I would notify the class. Judy Burnett (Goodson) m

(Manhattan Mercury … Shirley Ann Henton, 69, of Wamego, died Friday Sept. 25, 2009, in the Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, Wichita.)

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9/23/2009 ... Just wanted to let you know that Mike's B-day is November 2, 1939.  Mike is very sick … he has COPD and is not doing very well. He is home bound and has not been able to leave the house for three years now. The last reunion he was at, was the 40th.  I just received your card in the mail today about your October Out to Lunch Bunch.

If anyone would like to write to Mike they can requifay@suddenlink.net or requimcdonald@yahoo.com.  I just wanted to keep you all filled in on Mike. Thank You.   Mike's Wife, Requi McDonald

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9/17/2009 … Kathyl, Thanks for the news.  I've always remembered Chuckie Frankenfeld, too.  He had a large personality.  He told the story of having once been lost in the big Marshall Field's store in Chicago as a child until his mother found him.  I had never been in a big department store (that I remembered) like he described. …  He was a very vivid boy and I've wondered what became of him. Janet Krider (Duncan)
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9/17/2009 ... Hi, Janet and Nan, I forgot to mention that I noticed an In Memoriam in the K-Stater for Chuck Frankenfeld. He died in Larned, May 5 and was a professor of social work at Fort Hays State U. and a social worker at Larned State Hospital.  Like Nan, Chuck was a very special friend from my childhood. And it is odd that I remember his disposition and smile, almost more than all board and card games we played and outside neighborhood running games with Dave Ferguson and Fred Bright. From the Great Bend Tribune. The funeral home tributes speak of his playing Santa Claus, but no meniton of a wife; divorce perhaps.

Chuck Frankenfeld 1940 – 2009

LARNED — Chuck Frankenfeld, 68, died May 5 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born June 27, 1940, at Manhattan, the son of Justus Carl and Margaret W. Weege Frankenfeld. A 1958 graduate of Shawnee Mission High School, he received his degree in sociology from Kansas State University in 1962 and his master’s in social work from the University of Kansas in 1964. He was a professor of social work at Fort Hays State University and a social worker at Larned State Hospital. In 1993 he received the Social Service Provider of the Year award from the University of Kansas and in 2008 he rece ived the Social Worker of the Year honor from Larned State Hospital.
Survivors include two daughters, Beth Akins and husband Chris of Hutchinson and Kim Luke and husband Jeff of Salt Lake City, Utah; a brother, John, of Howell, N.J.; a sister, Gay Gauch of Tampa, Fla.; and four grandchildren, Wyatt and Colby Akins and Jason and Jessie Luke. He was preceded in death by his parents.
A celebration of life gathering will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Larned. In care of Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson, memorials in lieu of flowers may be sent to the Chuck Frankenfeld Memorial Fund for a tree and bench to be placed on the state hospital lawn, or for the Pawnee County Humane Society or the Larned Public Library. Personal condolences may be sent to www.elliottmortuary.com.
Arrangements provided by
Elliott Mortuary & Crematory*
1219 North Main
Hutchinson, KS 67501
620-663-3327
Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, May 17, 2009  Kathy Bryson (Pizar)
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6/29/2009 … ARCHIVED MHS 1958 CLASS DOCUMENTS & ARTIFACTS Page 1 Sandy, How full this is. You certainly get a richly deserved “Pack Rat” award.! Molly Hoover (Hedrick)

6/2009 … E-MAIL RESPONSES to Judy etc. regarding the up and coming quarterly luncheon to be held July 7 at the Vista Drive-In

- Sounds like lots of fun and would love to join you too.  I feel very lucky here in Colorado too especially after I got a phone call from Tausca not long after we came to Colorado for a lunch get together.  Reminds me, we need to do it again here.  Enjoy and I loved seeing Janet when she was here plus happy she arrived home again in good shape (she didn't like the bumpy flight) !  Have a wonderful lunch and please no more tornados for any of us.

We had a small one not long ago too.  Until our next reunion or sooner if anyone heads to Colorado! Vicky Kendall (Seighman)

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- Wish I was in Manhattan to join you guys for lunch.  Have fun and say Hi to everyone for me. Don Leffingwell

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- Judy, It would be such fun to join you all, but this summer is pretty crazy for me. How about a recording or video? At least some pictures? Really enjoy them. Cheers, Molly Hoover (Hedrick)

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- Thanks for the message and wish I was close enough to attend.  But, I cannot open the attachment, I have wordperfect, if you can send it in that format or if I can open it with adobe.  Thanks and again it was good to hear from you. Melanie Page (Jensen)

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- Thanks, Judy.  For some reason this web site has missed me before.  It's great.  Wish I could "drop in" on the July 5 get together, but the trip from Oregon would be a little much!  Several of us have had 3 mini reunions.  (Rocky Mtns., San Antonio, and Oregon Coast.) One of these days I'll send in some pictures from them.  (probably after I move in Sept. – think they are all packed at this point)  Linda Williams Burton was at all of them – she should have some pictures also.  Suzanne Webster

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- Hi Judy,  Wonder if you could add Larry and me to the 50th anniversary page.  We celebrated our 50th, May 29, 2008, which means we've already passed our 51st!  How time flies when you're having fun. Hope to see you at Vista, July 7th.  Thanks. Verlee West (Fronce)

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6/16/2009 … CLASSMATE HOBBIES and INTERESTS - MANHATTAN GARDEN TOUR 2009 "A SUCCESS" Duncan Garden on the Tour Thanks for posting the pictures – I wish you could post the sweet smell. Our son Mike is the other gardener with me, building the stone walls and doing a lot of landscape planning and maintenence. Although when I say “planning,” Mike summed up our approach by quoting the Red Queen to Alice in Alice in Wonderland, “Start at the begining, go through until the end, then stop.” We figure when we stop, we may be back at the beginning with nature taking over again, but that’s OK, too. Janet Krider (Duncan)

6/12/2009 … TRIBUTES (JACK COWAN) Hi, interest post. I’ll write you later about few questions! Jane Radriges

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6/ /2009 What a great web site!  Thank you, Nan.  As I retire once again I will explore it more fully and enjoy the connection to you all online.  Life is a continuing adventure with its daily joys and surprises. Suzanne Webster

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2/28/2009 … NEW 50th REUNION PHOTOS PG. 2 Janice – great photos! Thanks for the Eugene Field photo. Janet Krider (Duncan)

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2/27/2009 … BULLETIN BOARD Page I really enjoyed exploring the website. Good job! It is sad to learn about those who are no longer with us. Some of the the women on the list were really sweet girlm

I think we were blessed to grow up in MHS and Manhattan. We had dedicated teachers and our class was small enough that we all knew each other. Even though I left so many years ago, I have fond memories of Manhattan.

And … Webmaster, Nan, You did a great job on the site.  I spent an enjoyable hour exploring it last night. I am looking forward to future changes. John Harris

2/26/2009 … BULLETIN BOARD Page Greetings from Potsdam, NY. I like this site! Anne Hastings (Johnson)

2/18/2009 … HOBBIES and INTERESTS, GARDENING, NANETTE HEINTZELMAN WELLS …  It’s beautiful! So inviting with the snow outside. I wish we could come and have a nice warm cuppa and sit in the sun and smell the flowers with you. I got a petunia self-seedling by mistake when I dug up another plant to bring inside from my garden last fall and it’s just now blooming in my greenhouse. I should take a picture and send it in. Thanks for sharing! Janet Krider (Duncan)

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2/18/2009 … BULLETIN BOARD Page Webmaster, you did a superior job. The web site is great. I appreciate all your hard work and long hours. Monty Williamson

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2/18/2009 … HOBBIES and INTERESTS, GARDENING, NANETTE HEINTZELMAN WELLS … Let it Snow – Let it snow – Let it snow.  The sunroom is so delightful … Judy Burnett (Goodson)

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2/2/2009 … FEBRUARY CALENDAR and CLASSMATE BIRTHDAYS This looks good. Thanks for all the hard work Judy Burnett (Goodson)

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2/1/2009 … BULLETIN BOARD Page Yo, to those who have left posts that you like our web site name … THANKS, we like it, too! Webmaster

 

11/26/2008 … CLASS NEWS Thanks, class, for making such a great joint memory possible. Janet Krider (Duncan)

11/24/2008 … CLASS NEWS It is no great surprise that the beautiful 50th Reunion Memory Book has almost sold out!  So many, many kudos to Kathy Bryson Pizar and a GREAT MHS CLASS of 1958.  Nan Heintzelman (Wells)



11/24/2008 … CLASS NEWS We’ve just sold another book. So Monty, I have $20 to bring you and Nan, mark one off the number left for sale. (Judy, I’ll need to get another book from you, because I sold the copy from the MHSAA museum and need to replace it pronto. Janet Krider (Duncan)

 

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  1. went my jr. year at mhs was from lenoir city tenn. was friends with doris self and karen johnson. just found website, read about doris. want to know if anyone knows where keren is at and where is ed wimmer. i am now in ga.

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