We appreciate more than you know all of those who have contributed to the future of the Bison Alumni Newsletter! With that being said, we still need support from others to provide a modest salary, office space, photo copier, computer, printer, internet and telephone expenses. We hope to be in an office space of our own, in the renovated Keystone Building in the Summer of 2010! We estimate our expenses to be around $600 a month.

  Update on “Insuring the Future” Since the Fall newsletter, we have received 125 donations for $6475.00! Here is the break down by decade:

The 30’s: $   128                

The 40’s: $ 1438                

The 50’s: $ 1663                

The 60’s  $ 2241                                

The 70’s  $   755                 

The 80’s  $   240                 

The 90’s  $     25                                 

The 00’s  $      0                  

Others:   $   120

In Memory of:

Eloise Real Skidmore ’28

    Charles Real’61

Jim Adams ’30

    Dona Wilcox Hughes ‘55

Thelma Wilcox Randolph ’31

    Dona Wilcox Hughes ‘55

Lillian Goodenberger Hickey ‘32

    Alan W. Hickey  

Francis Real Bailey ’34

    Charles Real’61

Beryl Wright ‘38

Loraine Wright Walters ‘38

    Cass of 1944

Walter Aman ’45

    Ruby Aman ‘44

Neal Fidler ’45

  Otis Clasby’51 & Mary Clasby

Max Nelms ’46

  Shirley Muffley Wallen’46

Don Rhoad ’46

  Shirley Muffley Wallen’46

Eugene Pade

   Class of 1948

  Janet Hodgkin Bowker ‘48

Rea & Pearl McCarty

   Otis Clasby’51 & Mary Clasby

Larry McCarty ’51

    Class of 1951

     Otis Clasby ’51 & Mary Clasby

    Janice Eisenbarth Waddell ’51

    Frances McCartney Kasl ‘51

Deceased 1951 Classmates

    Charlotte Rowberry Meints ’51

     Janice Eisenbarth Waddell ’51

Gloria Larreau Messinger ’51

    Class of 1951

    Charlotte Rowberry Meints ’51

    Janice Eisenbarth Waddell ’51

    Frances McCartney Kasl ‘51

Patty Jean Murphy Duesberg ‘55

   Jeanne Boyle Oldweiler ‘55

Janet Crook ’57

    Keith Crook ‘54

Byron Bruswick ’58

   Class of  1958

Beverly Search Woolwine ’61

    Eleanor Riggs Myrberg ’61

    Janet Decker Turley ’61

Frank Nothnagle ’68

    Sue Coady Doak’68

Donna Karp Wickizer ’72

    Sue Coady Doak ’68

Janice Keeler ’82

    Class of 1982

Jackie Tuttle ‘93

    Anonymous ‘93

In Honor of:

Cheri Myers Beckenhauer ’64

    Lisa Beckenhauer Pomajzl ’97

Gifts Given to “Insuring The Future”

30 Ada Olson Remington; 36 Loren Troester; 38 Edward Harris, Ruth Carlson Besel; 40 Ila Best Stramel; 41 Patricia Powers Evans, Allene Yust Clark; 43 Bernadine Wilcox Harris, Robert Burnham, Gwen Morgan Burnham; 44 Ruby Thurston Aman, Charles Dack; 45 Suzanne Leininger Beithon, Robert Dike, Elva Myers McBride; 46 Donald Felling, Tom Kiplinger,  LeRoy Bell; 47 Mary Ann Wagner Wall, William Bunstock, Don Hein, Leslie Cambell; 48 Bruce Bailey, Dorthy Teel Brandt, Joseph Hyde; 49 Jack Winner, Marian Roberts Thomas, Beatte Schlueter Godrey, Charles Wolfe, Lee-Ellen Creasman Matzke, Donald Hill, Mary Lou Weskamp Harned; 50 Dora Mathews Olbert; 51 Eldon Reynolds, Leora Norman Murphy, Rose Metz Garey, Wilda Hanke Willis; 52 Donald Roberts, Marla Sutton Kutz, Alice Hiatt Harpst, Lesta Dinnel Jaggers; 53 Wanda Rowland Tarallo, Lane & Nancy Hubert Miller, , Jack Lytle; 54 Sandra Wells Kaizen, Keith Crook, Jay Schnoor, Louis Ludwig, Ted Perry; 55 JT Harris; 56 Al Cuellar, Ann Jorgensen Maas, Sharon Johnson Schomberg, Shirly Reinek Shafer, Rosa Rodriguez Castle, Margaret Schutte Lockhart, Lloyd Benjamin, Al Cuellar; 57 Elaine Schoor Jewell, Kay Rathbun Oglevie, Larry Rich, Deanna Peters Anderson, Judy McDonald Kelly; 58 Judy Chinn Wortley,  Cherrith Hill Wiseman; 59 Mary Sue Hormel Harris, Nancy Carroll Boyer; 60 Ron Schillereff, Ann Braun Drew, Tom  & Susan Sautter Cox, Diane Volentine Hayes; 61 Anita McBride Faddis, Janet Decker Turley, Ronald Olberding, Jeannette Bauer Ferguson; 62 Bob Zicafoose, Gretchen Trimble Olberding, John Wagner; 63 Robert Harris, John Scott Gibson; 64 Gary Brown, Diane Reiners Marlatt, Donna Lehl Baum; 65 Harley Heskett, Mary Budig Myers, Steve Andrews, Carla Miller Teel, Mary Tincher Kalb; 66 Barbara Anderson Gaskins, Linda Heskett Witte, Lana Hughes Assyd; 67 Viola Austin Heskett; 68 John Winnepenninkx, Kathy Augustyn Robles; 70 Steve Beideck, Mark Fletcher; 71 Gary Loop; 72 Merrilee Rutledge Sissel; 73 Gary Clatterbuck, Deb Lepper Clatterbuck, Gera Gettman Beideck, Susan Hull Andreoletti, Diane Sekavec Sink, Susan Graff Deaver; 75 Mark Graff; 76 Kevin Jass; 77 Patty Bowker Jass; 78 Jay Harris; 80 Kim Christie Henggeler; 85 Laura Kelley Erskine; 87 Carmen Sawyer Bond,  Kenneth Dugger; 88 Chad Baum, Carrie Henry McIntosh;  Staff and Faculty: Michael & Peggy Rasmussen, Sharon Bohling,

If you have not yet responded to the Fall newsletter request, please consider doing so now.

Make checks payable to McCook Community Foundation and designate:

Insuring the Future, In Memory of or In Honor of someone. Please include your name, 

maiden name, and class year. Mail to: Bison Alumni Newsletter, PO Box 665 McCook NE 69001

The “Insuring the Future Fund” pays for office and salary expenses necessary to make the newsletter a reality. Donations are tax deductible. Gifts of $35 or more will receive a receipt from the Nebraska Community Foundation. Please make your checks payable to McCook Community Foundation and designate “Insuring the Future” or “In Memory of:” or “In Honor of”. Mail to: Bison Alumni Newsletter, P.O. Box 665, McCook, NE 69001 Read the rest of this entry »

Heads up! Get your thinking caps on! Beginning this fall and up until January, the Bison Alumni Newsletter will be transitioning to a new director. Our present director, Cheri Myers Beckenhauer 64, will be turning over the reins, after 18 years, to a new person who has yet to be found!
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All gifts given “In Memory” or “In Honor” of someone are directed to the “Insuring the Future” fund. Donations are tax deductible and those over $35 receive a receipt from the Nebraska Community Foundation. Over 100 volunteers work to get the newsletter to you twice a year. The ITF fund pays for the Assistant Director’s salary which makes the newsletter a reality. Send donations to: Bison Alumni Newsletter, 700 West 7th, PO Box 665, McCook. Make checks payable to McCook Community Foundation. Please designate “Insuring the Future” or “In Memory of:” or “In Honor of: etc.”
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Objective: To create an original logo for use as a U.S.P.S. Cancellation Stamp and on multiple types of promotional items for the Bison 2010 All School Reunion in McCook July 2-5, 2010.

Entry Deadline: February 1, 2009.

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Well over 100 volunteers work to get the newsletter to you twice a year; however, the assistant director position is critical to the continuation of the newsletter into the future.

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Due to a printing error, newsletters were not forwarded to you if you have moved or your address has changed. This also means that we will NOT receive ANY returns giving us your new address information. Please send any new address information for you, your family or friends as soon as possible to email address changes.

“What is ‘Insuring the Future’? When this newsletter started in 1992, the first issue was a whooping four pages, sent to ten classes and around 1,000 newsletters. Now it is at least 16 pages, 70+ classes and 7,500 newsletters. This is a huge project which has necessitated hiring a part-time assistant director. Camy Bradley ‘80 makes over 1,300 address changes a year, works to get the newsletter typed and published and much more. Over 100 volunteers help get the newsletter to you. However, this office position is critical to the continuation of the newsletter into the future. By the year 2010, we must have a paid director for the newsletter (Unless someone would like to volunteer). Please consider giving to “Insuring the Future” to make this need a reality.

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Terra Ellerton Michaelis ‘94 became our part-time assistant director ($100 a month) in July of 2005. She resigned in March of 2007. We thank her so much for taking on the task and doing a great job. Camy Eggers Bradley ’80 was hired in May to fill the position. She continues to make hundreds of address changes in our database of 10,872. She does numerous other office duties to make the newsletter happen. This position is critical to the continuation of the newsletter into the future.

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Terra Ellerton Michaelis ‘94 became our paid part-time assistant director ($100 a month) in July of 2005.
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Since July 2005, Terra Ellerton Michaelis ‘94 has served as our paid ($100 a month) part-time assistant director.
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We are now an official, non-profit organization: Bison Alumni and Newsletter. We have affiliated with the McCook Community Foundation which is a part of the Nebraska Community Foundation, a 501 C3 corporation. (See Insert of paper newsletter.) This affiliation gives us legal and accounting benefits, as well as tax-deductible status.
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