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UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS



•   John R. Miller  11/30
•   Allen Quinn  12/2
•   Dixie A. Hufnagle (Evers)  12/4
•   Judith E. Gruendeman (Carr)  12/10
•   Larry E. Kruse  12/10
•   Diana Perrin (Ward)  12/10
•   L. Raymond Frey  12/12
•   F. John Hruza  12/12
•   Gary J. Drager  12/14
•   Randal B. Fritzler  12/14
•   Janice L. Mericle (Wright)  12/14
•   Barbara J. Shuman (Shaeffer)  12/16
•   Margaret E. Shannon  12/18
•   Nick Robinson  12/22
•   Nancy L. Frazier (Munroe)  12/24
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PROFILE UPDATES


•   Fred Jesse  9/3
•   Marlene Sipes (Sweeney)  4/5
•   Nick Robinson  3/1
•   Stephen G. Davidson  2/10
•   Cathy Stump (Rauch)  2/6
•   Joan D. Rockwell (Brannigan)  2/1
•   Judy L. Cline (Glathar)  1/14
•   Larry Phillips  1/9
•   Michele Y. Angle (Farrar)  11/12
•   Barbara E. Grim (Juengel)  11/11
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to the Official LHS Class of 1961 Website

Since 2009 - over 241,900

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Honor Our Veterans Today, This Week and Always

(Sorry for this late post. I'm just coming up for air after my recent move and my 2011 computer finally went toes up.)

Holiday Gatherings

We love celebrating with old friends the same age and with the same issues to talk about!

Everyone welcomed on Dec. 7, 5 pm at The Eatery.

LHS guys meet Dec. 13, 6 pm at Mulligans.

LHS Girls Dinner meet (2nd Tuesday this month) Dec. 14, 11:30 am at Val's, 33rd and Holdrege.

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A New Role for Muny Pool


The old Municipal Pool building is under consideration for an Historic Register designation and the Lincoln Parks and Recreaton Dept. has leased the pool house to the Bike Kitchen, a volunteer group of people who refurbish bicycles for students and others who need them. Lincoln residents generously donate new and used bikes to the kitchen. Hundreds of bikes are given away each year to people in need. It's another job well done just across the parkway from our old alma mater. Click here for the LJS article.

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Gatherings For Your Calendar

LHS Monthly Dinner:  All dinners for the rest of this year and 2024 will be 5 pm., the first Thursday of each month, at The Eatery. Come relax, chat with old friends and let someone else do the cooking. Great deal.

Scroll Down For Classmate Photos:

Guys Dinner, November 8, 2023, 6 pm, Mulligans.

Girl's Lunch, October 19, 2023, 11:30 am, Granite City.

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Sunken Garden  - A Magical Mystery Tour theme

August 2023

The garden designers, Alice Reed and Steve Nosal, retired after 40+ years of over the top imagination and hard work. Thank You for the years of annual walks through those beautiful gardens. Another very notable neighbor to LHS.

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Demolition of Pershing Auditorium is Underway

Click here for the LJS article. The mural from the front was successfully removed and will be reconstructed at a new Wyuka Park at 35 and "O". Click here for that news from LJS.

Elvis at Pershing in 1957

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Whittier Celebrates Centennial

Whittier Junior High, 22nd and Vine, 1960

Centennial celebration Aug. 4 & 5 honored 100 years in Lincoln. Click here for the LJS article. Hundreds of classmates attended Whittier before moving on to Lincoln High. If you did, send a shout out or share a memory by clicking "Contact Us" .

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Click Here for a slide show of ten of Lincoln's longest running restaurants.

One of our favorites.....

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All Deceased Classmates - Click Here

Deceased Family Members - Click Here

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BIG NEWS

Congratulations to the 1960 LHS State Champion Track and Field Team who were inducted into the Lincoln High Athletic Hall of Fame on September 7, 2023 at a banquet in their honor. Loren Swanson, Biff Pfeiff, Earl True and Larry Theesen were honored. Deceased '61 team members are: Ron Chambers, Roger Campbell, Mike McGrath, Charles McDaniels and Bobby Williams. Other team members from the Class of 1960 and the Class of 1962 will also be notified. Tickets are available to anyone who is interested. Class member Terry David Kugren's late husband Paul ('60) ran the 440 on this team and the team miler was Ron Calhoun ('60) who is the husband of Charlotte Towle Calhoun ('61) Ft. McPherson, KS.

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Pershing Auditorium Mural to be re-installed at Wyuka in proposed park. Fundraising is ongoing. Click here for article and more details in LJS "Neighborhood Extra".

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LINCOLN HIGH NEWS

Lincoln High English teacher and girls' basketball coach Dominique Kelley Johnson was honored with the 2023 EPIC Coach of the Year award today during the EPIC Day with Dawn Staley event at College of Saint Mary. Staley, the University of South Carolina Women's Basketball coach, presented Coach Kelley 

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Former LHS football and track standout Kenneth William has joined the Husker football team as a walk-on. He transferred to Lincoln High from Michigan last fall.  Click here for the LJS story.

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Former LHS football WR standout Beni Ngoyi is making a big impresson at Iowa State fall camp. (Too bad Huskers!)  Click here for the LJS article and kudos to Beni.  Cheering for our LINKS near and far! 

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Lincoln High senior sprinter Neryah Hekl won the LPS Championship 100 meter sprint with the top time in Class A this season at Lincoln High's Beechner Athletic Complex. LPS sprinter Kenneth Williams won the boys 100 and 200 sprints, as well as the 400 relay. Click here for the LJS article.

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Another achievement for LHS Grad and Husker hurdler Darius Luff who set the track record at the Texas Relays April 1. Click here for LJS article.

Lincoln High 2019 grad Darius Luff placed third in 60 meter hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Track 2023 Finals this weekend. Darius was also the Big Ten champion in the same event and had the top NCAA qualifying time. Great achievements at this level.

Congratulations Darius! Click here for the article.

At NCAA finals are Darius Luff, (LHS '19) and Dajaz DeFrand, sprinter, (LHS '22).

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Lincoln High Mascot, the Links, is featured in a syndicated cartoon "Thatababy" by Paul Tapp. Click here to see the fun article and why the Links were chosen in the "Mascoties" special issue.

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PHOTOS OF THE 61ST REUNION!!!

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Reunion Photo Gallery to date. Send your photos.

 

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The LHS library media center staff has completed a huge project of digitizing LHS history and records from their collection. It includes photos, Advocates, LINKS yearbooks and other sources. Click here to reach the web site and enjoy the search through our history. Huge thanks to the media staff from the Class of '61!

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MORE LINKS IN THE NEWS

CONGRATS!!

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LHS's Renee Jones named 2023 Nebraska Teacher of the Year

The award is "bestowed annually to teachers who are exceptionally dedicated, knowledgable, skilled and who have the ability to inspire students of all backgrounds and abilities to learn." Click here for the full LJS article.

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Deborah McGinn, LHS Teacher for nearly 40 years, is featured in a front page LJS article about her LHS career and now her retirement at Union College as a writing consultant. Click here for her love story about teaching and Lincoln High. "Another Lincoln High job well done" is used to describe Deb.

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  Senior Riek Bol creates his gift to Lincoln High, a video showing the 150 year history of the High. Click here for the LJS article. Riek says there isn't another high school in the state that is more connected than LHS. Go Links!

 

2023 LHS GATHERING INFORMATION

Scroll down for gathering photos.

Please Join Us - Always Room for More.

LHS Monthly Dinners for the 2023 year will always be on the first Thursday of the month at 5 pm at The Eatery, Van Dorn Plaza.

PLEASE NOTE: In 2023, LHS guys will meet every month on the second Wednesday at 6 pm at Mulligans. Next dinner, Wed. December 13.

LHS Girls meet the 3rd Thursday at 11:30 on November 16, 2023 at Mc Allister's, North 48th by TJ Maxx. In December, the girls will meet on the second Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 at 11:30 at Val's on Holdrege. Note date change.

PUT THESE DATES IN YOUR 2023 CALENDARS

'61 LHS DINNERS GUYS DINNERS GIRLS LUNCHES
Jan. 5 Jan. 11 Jan. 19
Feb. 2 Feb. 8 Feb. 16
March 2 March 8 March 16
April 6 April 12 April 20
May 4 May 10 May 18
June 1 June 14 June 15
July 6 July 12 July 20
Aug. 3 Aug. 9 Aug. 17
Sept. 7 Sept.13 Sept. 21
Oct. 5 Oct. 11 Oct, 19
Nov. 2 Nov. 8 Nov. 16
Dec. 7 Dec.13 Dec. 14

Join classmates at the any and all events! All classmates are welcome!

LHS Monthly Dinners are always at The Eatery Party Room

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September 7, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at The Eatery

9 attended

August 3, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at The Eatery

9 attended

July 6, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at The Eatery

18 attended

June 1, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at The Eatery

12 attended

May 4, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at the Eatery

12 attended

April 7, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at the Eatery

10 attended

March 2, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at the Eatery

February 1, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner at the Eatery

 January 5th, 2023 LHS Monthly Dinner

Girls Lunch

Girls Lunch, March 16, 2023

Valentino's on Holdrege

Photo by Donna E not pictured.

L to R: Karen Dahlbeck Nuttleman, Shiela Thomas Alemzadeh,

Vi Marks Baker, Mary Ann Meisner, Donna Ewoldt, not pictured.

Girl's Lunch at Whole Foods, May 18, 2023

L to R: Donna Filbert Ewoldt, Sharon Dumler Gottsche, Karen Dahlbeck Nuttleman, Mary Ann Meisner, Shiela Thomas Alemzadeh.

Girl's Lunch at Hacienda Real, September 21, 2023

L. to R: Mary Ann Meisner, Vi Marks Baker, Sharon Dumler Gottsche, Mary Gilbert Jorgensen, Karen Dahlstrom Nuttleman, Shiela Thomas Alemzadeh

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GUYS DINNERS

at Mulligan's

November 8, 2023 Guys Dinner

9 attended

October 11, 2023 Guys Dinner

9 attended

September 13, 2023 Guys Dinner

11 Attended

August 9, 2023 Guys Dinner at Mulligans

11 attended

July 12, 2023 Guys Dinner

 

Guys Dinner, June 14, 2023

Guys Dinner, May 10, 2023

Guys Dinner, April 12, 2023 at Mulligan's

Guys Dinner, March 8, 2023 at Mulligan's

 

Guys Dinner, Feb.8, 2023 at Mulligan's.

Guys Dinner,  January 11, 2023 at Mulligan's.

 

We’d like your help!

PLEASE pass along addresses, emails, cell phones, land lines and health status regarding our LHS classmates.  Any phone calls you would like us to make, we will do gladly.  

It has always been the goal to compile a complete class list.  All LHS students who attended LHS for part or all of the years of fall 1958 through spring 1961.  This list appears on this website under “Classmate Profiles”.  For most we have their address.  But never sure if we’re current.  So please, pass along what you know.  Any name with no symbol following it, is a classmate who has not joined the website.

Future LHS Class of 1961 Reunion plans will be sent via U.S. Mail to everyone for whom we have an address. The LHS Class of 1961 website may be accessed by any classmate with an email address.  To join the website click on your name under "Classmate Profiles" and follow the directions.  Much more class information is available and shared regularly on the website for those who would like to use it.  

Click "Contact Us" - on the right, top of page.

Thank you!

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Historic 1920 Photo of LHS