Since July 2005, Terra Ellerton Michaelis ‘94 has served as our paid ($100 a month) part-time assistant director.
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It took less than three months to raise nearly $45,320 in donations and grants to purchase stadium seats for Memorial Auditorium in McCook.
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At least once a year, every citizen with McCook roots should visit the Museum of the High Plains at 413 Norris Ave.
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This was a McCook Daily Gazette Open Forum letter we thought would be interesting for you to read.

Dear Editor,

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The Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival will celebrate its tenth year on June 9th and 10th, 2006.

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Thank you to the following people for Donations of TIME OR MONEY to this volume of the Newsletter. If names have been inadvertently missed? Please send a note to us and we will get it in the next letter.

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East Ward and the modular classrooms at North Ward are now empty as all elementary students, teachers, and staff officially relocated to new classrooms and offices at McCook’s remodeled and expanded single-site elementary school. The new school will be known as the McCook Elementary School with 383 students, 38 teachers and 22 staff members.

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Your generosity is what keeps this newsletter going. Thank you.
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In 2002, Neal Corey (1956) became a member of the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles of Missouri (DESC), a club of 250 members from 36 states.
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Bison Alumni are shaking up the news around the world yet again.
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Another school year has begun and the students at MHS are once again hard at work. Not only are they registering a lot of academic successes, but they are experiencing success on the athletic side as well.
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All alumni, students and classmates might wish to send condolences to the familes of the following people. If you need an address please contact their class representative.

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Fighting the war in Iraq and earning a college degree may seem to be worlds apart, but for one Mid-Plains Community College student, it’s all in a day’s work.

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Do you believe it? Who is married? You must be kidding! :)
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The McCook Educational Foundation represents a source of support for building upon the tradition of excellence which has been established in the McCook Public Schools.
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Dec. 7, 1941 had no real significance for Don Schaaf ‘55 until he visited his daughter, Lisa Schaaf Frederick, ‘80 in Hawaii and toured the USS Arizona for the first time in 1989.
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Classes planning reunions the last weekend in September will have an opportunity and are encouraged to participate in the Heritage Days 2006 events.
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McCook seventh grader Amberette Burkey knows that McCook has a house designed by the world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. And she knows that Nebraska’s senator, Ben Nelson, grew up in McCook and that Nelson’s boyhood home sits between the Frank Lloyd Wright house and her own home on Norris Avenue.

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My name is Lewis (Gene) Abbott ‘69. I would like to tell you about a recent experience I had. I am one of many Vietnam Veterans from McCook, and I recently went to Washington, DC and visited the Vietnam Wall on Veterans Day. I was so moved I wanted to tell you about my experience.

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“What evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . ..” said the deliciously scary voice on the radio. After a long pause, designed, I’m sure, to make us all wonder about any evil that may actually lurk there, the voice continued. “The SHADOW knows,” it said, and then it laughed a laugh that clabbered milk . . . .”ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa.”
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