Osawatomie High School Alumni Association

What an amazing day for Alumni yesterday! The events were well attended and we appreciate everyone who came. Thank you to the board and all of our volunteers who help this day occur year after year. Everyone is needed to make this a success to keep our tradition alive.

WELCOME ALUMNI! Enjoy your day reconnecting with classmates and reminiscing the times you had together. It should be a great day to get out and enjoy the parade, class parties, afternoon social, banquet, and street dance.

Remember to get your banquet tickets before noon on Saturday to guarantee a seat with your class and avoid a price increase. Tickets are $15 if bought by noon Saturday and will be $20 at the door. Those who buy at the door will have to wait until 6:00 to be seated.

Be sure to check out our new OHS Alumni website. It has the printable registration letter for the banquet with all of the information about the days festivities and the street dance flyer featuring Austin Clearwater DJ Service along with lots of other information.

Osawatomie Alumni Printable Alumni Letter Street Dance Information

For those celebrating special class years and having a party, be sure to contact Brian McCauley at The Miami County Republic to schedule a time to have a picture taken for the newspaper. His email is [email protected].

Parade information: All classes are invited and we encourage classes celebrating special years to participate in the parade. The parade starts at 10:00 am and will start lining up between 9:30 and 9:45 at 5th and Brown. The parade will be led by the 50 year class and the 2023 seniors will follow them.

We are less than a month away from our next Alumni celebration! Parade downtown at 10:00 am, (Line up at 5th and Brown between 9:30 and 9:45), Afternoon tea from 2:00 to 4:00 at the high school cafeteria, Banquet from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the high school gym, and Dance from 9:00 to midnight downtown.

Alumni registration letter is attached. Please note banquet tickets at the door will be $20 and you are not guaranteed to sit with your class. We encourage you to buy your tickets early.

2023 Alumni Letter

ATTENTION CLASS SECRETARIES: For those celebrating a special five year reunion, letters, envelopes, address labels, and stamps are ready to be picked up from Emily McCrea at Eddy Birchard Funeral Home. If you have questions, need to make arrangements to get them, or would rather have the letter emailed to you, please contact Emily at [email protected].

We are still looking for help from alumni members for the afternoon tea. Set up in the high school cafeteria on May 27 would start between 1:30 and 1:45 to put out cookies, drinks, and photo albums which are provided. The tea runs from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and cookies and drinks are replenished as needed. Please comment if you are able to help or contact Kelly Schrader Ware or Diana Wilson Neal.

Message from the Class of 1963 - The Osawatomie Class of 1963 is celebrating our 60th anniversary. We will be participating in the parade and hosting a social get together afterwards.
Please contact us with your information.
Dolores Sweany Manning @ [email protected] OR
Jeff Mourning @ [email protected].
We’re looking forward to seeing all our old friends for fun times.

Information for the Alumni Street Dance - https://www.facebook.com/austinclearwaterdj?mibextid=ZbWKwL

We are accepting nominations for the Outstanding Alumni Award.

Outstanding Alumni Award Each year, OHS alumni are considered for the annual “Outstanding Alumni” award. The Alumni Committee is looking for this year’s nominations. The award recipient will be recognized at the 2023 Alumni Celebration on Saturday, May 27th. Nominations will be open through April 15th.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Saturday, May 27 for the afternoon tea which is from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at the High School Cafeteria. We are looking for two or three people to help set up cookies and drinks (provided by alumni) and stay for the event. For more information or to volunteer, please leave a message in the comments or contact Kelly Schrader Ware or Diana Wilson Neal.

Planning is underway for the 127th High School Alumni reunion which will be held on Saturday, May 27th. The Class of 1973 will be celebrating their 50th reunion.

Alumni Board Members:
President - Diana (Wilson) Neal, Class of 1979
Vice President - Kelly (Schrader) Ware, Class of 1988
Secretary - Charlie Brand, Class of 1966
Treasurer - Jessica Jones, Class of 2006
Member at Large - Kevin Schasteen, Class of 1988
Board Advisor - Kari (Laughery) Bradley, Class of 2013
Board Advisor - Beth (Henness) Wuellner, Class of 1985

We hope those who participated in alumni festivities yesterday enjoyed themselves. Thank you for coming! We celebrated Donna Smith Darner, Class of 1962, as being board president for 17 years. Upon her resignation, Kevin Schasteen, Class of 1988, was elected to fill her position on the board. Board position elections will occur at a later date. Check out our new website and please provide feedback as we get it updated. Osawatomiealumni.com and you will see the link for the new site.

Osawatomie Alumni Association One of our treasured legacies is our School Song Copywrited in 1913, the words were written by Cora F. Conaway with music by J. A. Parks. We're pleased to be able to provide a copy of the sheet music Click Here

Welcome Alumni! After a cancellation in 2020 and a postponement in 2021, we are happy to be back celebrating on our traditional Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. We hope to see you at the parade, tea, banquet, and dance. Enjoy your class parties and reconnecting with friends!

We are looking forward to seeing you this Saturday, May 28. Alumni activities include: Parade through downtown - 10 am (line up starting between 9:30-9:45 on Brown by the middle school), Afternoon Tea at high school cafeteria - 2 to 4 pm, Banquet at high school gymnasium - 6 to 8 pm, Dance downtown - 9 pm to midnight.

Osawatomie to welcome alumni May 28 OSAWATOMIE — Osawatomie alumni events are back in their traditional Memorial Day weekend time slot after taking place during Labor Day weekend last year.

Printable Alumni letter on our new website. We are slowly getting the new website updated. Check it out!
https://sites.google.com/osawatomiealumni.com/osawatomie-alumni/home

Osawatomie Alumni Printable Alumni Letter Click Here

Tom Hammond, Class of 1972, will be presiding over the banquet on May 28 at 6:00 pm. Route 66, with Russell Davis from the Class of 1969, will be playing at the street dance (weather permitting) at 9:00 pm.

Attention alumni class secretaries: For classes celebrating a special five year anniversary, registration letters will be ready to pick up starting Friday, April 15 at the Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home office at 203 Main from corresponding secretary, Emily McCrea. You will also be given envelopes and stamps along with mailing labels with the addresses of your classmates we have on file. We will be putting the registration letter on our website as well.

Planning is underway for alumni activities to be held on Saturday, May 28. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 8 at 6:00 pm in the high school library.

THANK YOU to everyone who helped make double the celebrations/remembrances at a different time of the year a success! Although we were not able to have our parade, class parties went on as planned and it was great to see those at the afternoon social, banquet, and dance. Our plan is to get back to having Alumni over Memorial weekend in 2022. We hope to see you there!

Due to the rain, we will not be holding the parade this morning.

Good morning! We look forward to seeing you today at our different festivities that are planned. From the news, we are hearing the rain is going to continue through this morning and taper off this afternoon for a nice afternoon and evening. We will not have the parade in the rain, but will wait to make the final call at 9:30 am to see what it is doing then.

News from Platinum Express: Stan Sheldon has joined our band. Stan was born and raised in Ottawa, KS. Stan was Peter Frampton’s bass player and performed with him for many years. He is on the Grammy winning album “Frampton Comes Alive” and a second Grammy winning album in 2007. He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and also performed on “Werewolves of London” music/video with Warren Zevon. Stan’s dream has always been to perform with a large Motown, Soul, Funk and Classic Rock Band with a big horn section. We are thrilled that he chose Platinum Express.

From Jamie Wilson: On Saturday September 4, the library board will have a pancake feed fundraiser with Chris Cakes from 8 to 11 in the city auditorium. Come on down and have breakfast prior to the alumni parade.

Information for the Alumni Parade: All classes are invited to participate. Start lining up between 9:30 - 9:45 am on Brown by the Middle School. The parade starts at 10:00 and will be led by the classes of 1970 and 1971 who are celebrating their 50th reunions followed by the graduating seniors from the classes of 2020 and 2021. You can bring vehicles to ride in or you can walk and throw candy, beads, etc... Bring or make signs/banners to identify your class.

We have been invited to check out Mile Zero and the new Flint Hills Trail State Park (1400 South Street) on September 4 from 8:00 to 10:00 am (before the parade). Dr. Jeff Dorsett, from the Trails Task Force, will be available to show Walker Station and the new Osawatomie Today and Osawatomie Yesterday information signs. There will also be bikes for loan if anyone wants to take a 2 to 4 mile spin.

Platinum Express KC Band will be playing for our dance on Saturday, September 4 from 9pm to midnight in the City Auditorium. Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased in advance or at the door.
https://www.platinum-express.com/

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The alumni board and 50 year classes have been busy planning for double the celebrations and remembrances for alumni this year which will be held on Saturday, September 4. Alumni activities include: Parade through downtown 10 am; Social at high school cafeteria - 2 to 4 pm; Banquet at high school gymnasium - 6 pm, Coffee Social at high school gymnasium - following banquet; and Dance at city auditorium - 9 pm to midnight.

The high school has given extra yearbooks from the 1970’s to 2019 to the Osawatomie Museum. They can be purchased for $10 at the museum. If you are in town for alumni on September 4, you may want to go and take a look.

Here is the link to print off the reservation form for Alumni 2021.http://www.osawatomiealumni.com/Alumni%20Letter%202021.pdf

www.osawatomiealumni.com

We are looking for volunteers to help set up and stay to replinish cookies and drinks for the afternoon social that will be held on September 4 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm in the high school cafeteria. The alumni association provides the cookies, punch, and coffee. Members come to see each other to reminisce and look through photo albums of past gatherings. If you are interested in helping, please contact a board member - Donna Smith Darner, Kelly Schrader Ware, Charlie Brand, Beth J Henness-Wuellner, Diana Neal, Jessica Jones, or Kari Laughery Bradley.

We are accepting nominations for Oustanding Alumni. A form has been created to make the process easier. The award(s) will be presented during the banquet on September 4.

https://forms.gle/TKvPtBezWbqeBzh86

Outstanding Alumni Award Each year, alumni of Osawatomie High School are considered for the "Outstanding Alumni" award. For the celebration that will take place over Labor Day Weekend this year, there will be honorees for both 2020 and 2021. Nominations are open until August 1st.

At the business meeting held on May 29, new by-laws were approved to increase the number of board positions from 5 to 7. The three new members elected to the board are: Charlie Brand, Kari Laughery Bradley, and Beth Henness Wuellner. A meeting to start planning alumni activities on Sept. 4 will be held on June 8 at 6:00 pm at the high school library.

REMINDER: We will be holding a business meeting May 29 at 6:00 pm to vote on revised by-laws. The meeting will take place in the high school auditorium and is open to the membership. We will be asking to go from a five person board to a seven person board which will allow for three people to be elected to the board through nominations and votes that evening if approved.

We will be holding our other alumni activities (parade, afternoon tea, banquet, and dance) on September 4 which is the Saturday before Labor Day unless COVID-19 restrictions are put in place.

Important information from the Osawatomie High School Alumni Association:

It has been decided by the board that we cannot plan to safely hold the normal alumni activities (parade, afternoon tea, banquet, and dance) over Memorial Day weekend.

In accordance to our by-laws, a business meeting will be held on Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 6:00 pm at the Osawatomie High School Auditorium and will be open to the membership to accept nominations and vote for the open position on our board. Rita Schlesener, who was our Secretary, has resigned and per our by-laws, the position can only be filled at our annual meeting held on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. A vote will also be taken to approve amendments to our by-laws. We are looking for members to attend our meetings and help plan and be a part of holding our events. If you have interest, please plan to attend. We will be able to social distance in the high school auditorium.

An alternative date to hold alumni activities (parade, afternoon tea, banquet, and dance) on September 4, 2021, the Saturday before Labor Day, is being planned. The activities will be dependent on Covid-19 restrictions in place at that time. We hope you will save the date knowing plans may have to be changed due to the pandemic. We know classes are anxious to get together and our decisions do not affect any plans you choose to make on gatherings of your own.