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Van Horn high School Falcon Newsletter - Feb 2013
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The Falcon Legacy
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
ISD Help for
Homeless Students
Report
2
WDS Bowling
Fundraiser Report
4
January Board
Meeting Report
5
Events Calendar
Days of Yore
6
P U B L I C A T I O N O F T H E
V A N H O R N H I G H S C H O O L
A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N
The Falcon Legacy S P R I N G 2 0 1 3 V O L U M E I I I , I S S U E I
A Message From Our President Dear Fellow Van Horn Falcon,
Van Horn Stages presents its student production of Rodgers and Hammer-
stein's The Sound of Music Thursday, Friday, and Saturday--February 28th,
and March 1-2 -- in the Van Horn auditorium. Showtime is 7:00 p.m. each
night, with admission charged at the door. ($6/Adults, $4/Students, and $2/
Seniors)
Though Van Horn resumed staging student musicals (following a two-decade
absence) upon its joining the Independence School District in 2008, this pro-
duction represents a major step forward at the "new" Van Horn, as perform-
ers include a full student chorus and pit orchestra.
Van Horn invites anyone who was in the cast of the 1960's Fal-
con performance of Sound of Music to join the 2013 cast on stage for a special
finale at the Saturday performance. Falcon alums are also strongly encour-
aged to attend that final night, as we'd like to "pack the house" on Saturday.
For information on The Sound of Music, contact Van Horn's Netty Doyle at
[email protected] or Erin Barrier at [email protected].
***
For the second consecutive year, Van Horn Falcons baseball is scheduled to
play a game--this time versus William Chrisman's Bears--at Kauffman Sta-
dium, home of the Kansas City Royals, on Tuesday, March 26, at 4:00
p.m. However, for that to happen, our help is needed.
How do we help? By purchasing special ticket vouchers. They are redeem-
able at Kauffman Stadium ticket windows for any of 72 of 81 regular season
home games (not good for Home Opener, Cardinals, Yankees, or Red Sox,
but good for all other home games!) in 2013 from Van Horn baseball (to play
at the “K”).
Prices per voucher are:
$17.00 each for Field Box seats (a 56% savings off regular $39.00 ticket price)
$10.00 each for Hy-Vee Outfield seats (28% savings off regular $14.00 price)
(Continued on page 5)
2 The Falcon Legacy
VH ALUMNI RAISE FUNDS FOR HOMELESS
STUDENTS IN INDEPENDENCE
Van Horn Alumni were well represented at the Inde-
pendence School District (ISD) Alumni Association
fundraiser held November 10, 2012 - a benefit for the
homeless students in the district. Brenda (Roe) Cox
(VH ’77) one of the organizers of the fundraising
event, not only spent endless hours obtaining dona-
tions, arranging the show, and getting the VHHS
ROTC and National Honor Society students involved
in the event, she could be found holding a spatula over
the cook stove at the breakfast. In the weeks before,
Betty Jane (Nichols) Stinnett (VH ’64) beat the side-
walks of Englewood selling tickets and hanging post-
ers in local businesses. Glenda (Baker) Phillips
(VH’73) sold tickets and labored away throughout the
day making sure no dirty dish was overlooked.
"We raised about $1500.00, some of that went di-
rectly to Tabitha's closet and the remaining
amount went to the foundation to be used only for
the homeless students. We had about 87 for break-
fast, about 40 for lunch, and about 20 for dinner.
In addition, a couple separate checks amounting to
$257.00 went directly to the foundation", reports
Brenda Cox.
Betty Snapp (WCHS alumni) helped raise nearly
$800 for the cause. After the event, her brother made
a $200 donation directly to the ISD Foundation.
A lady traveling the country saw a poster in a store up
by the Square and contacted Brenda. The lady was
going to every state in the Union on her 57th birthday
year donating to one worthy cause in each. Her check
for $57 went to the Foundation.
The evening entertainers, Jamin’ Jan on the keyboard,
Tony (Raytown) on a second keyboard and Doug on
the drums put on one smokin’ hot show to cap off the
evening. Cash donations in their tip jar amounting to
$127 were donated to Tabitha's Closet.
ISD Alumni Association's 50/50 raffle generated $100
yielding $50 to the ISD Alumni Assn petty cash oper-
ating fund.
The cash box was a different story. For November 10,
2012, Van Horn Alumni had gross receipts/revenue of
$1751.02. Expenses totaled $438. Total cash and
checks delivered to the ISD Foundation was $1313.02
and seven bags of clothing were taken to Tabitha's
Closet.
As of January 21, AutoTek will become a ticket
outlet for ISD Alumni Association events. 537 E 24
Hwy, (about two blocks east of Noland on US
24.) In the Van Horn area - we are hoping that we
can get a business to sell event tickets.
Above: Student and Van Horn Alumni volunteers
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The following graciously
supported the ISD Alumni
Association's November 10,
2012 Fundraiser For Home-
less Students Event:
Commercial Donors
54th Street
Barnes and Noble
Burger King Woods
Chapel
Burger King Belton
Chili's
Corner Cafe
Costco
Hardees 291 Store
Hy-Vee
The Independence Mav-
ericks
Krispy Kreme
Price Chopper M-291
Store
Ryan's
Salty Iguana
Sam's Club
Sav-A-Lot
Shocking Prices
Sunfresh 23rd Street
Target
Wal-Mart
Wendy's 291 Store
Wendy's Noland Road
Store
Williams Foods
Individual Donors
Brenda Gfeller
Bud Ahnefeld
Chris Rounds
Mayor Don and Jo
Marie Reimal
Frank Passantino
Marilyn Ahnefeld
Mary Oliver
The Clarks
The Oshels
The Croziers
The Snapps
Uni t ed M eth od i s t
Women’s Group
Vera Cothern
In-kind Donors
AutoTek
Brenda Cox
Commerce Bank (On
Osage near Square)
Dee Hellerich
L.I.N.C.
Mary Oliver
Paul Savage
Thriftway on Crysler
VHHS ROTC and Stu-
dent Council
WCHS ACE students
The next Van Horn Alumni lead event on March 23rd will be a Mystery Who Done It Show! Watch www.Homeless-Students.com for details. This should
truly be a fun event! (subject to change)
Future ISD Alumni Assn events:
Feb 2 - breakfast and dinner show featuring Bill
Smyth and Robin Blubaugh
Feb 9 - drive-thru donation collection day at
AutoTek parking lot, 9 am - noon
Mar 9 - drive thru donation collection day at
AutoTek parking lot, 9 am - noon
Mar 23 - breakfast and Mystery Who Done It
show.
Additional information available at
www.Homeless-Students.com
Van Horn High School’s “National Honor Society Ca-
Enjoying the lunch: Janice Jefferies Brooks, Helen
May Gaylon, Ginny Gross Turk, Don Pierce, Janey
Williamson Pierce, Donna Littau Shafer, Betty Jane
Nichols Stinnett, and Phyllis Sajben.
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL WDS BOWLING FUNDRAISER
The WDS Educational Foundation held their annual bowling fundraiser on January
19th at the Strike and Spare Bowl in Independence. There were over 160 partici-
pants and all seemed to have a good time while helping to raise funds for future
scholarships. A total of $5,500 was raised from the bowling tournament and raffle
with the highlight being an additional
$1,000 donated by the Van Horn Class
of 1970.
The evening started with free beer
sponsored by some WDS board mem-
bers for those who arrived early. The bowling itself included
both men's and women's bowling prizes and a team prize. The
winners received gift certificates donated by local mer-
chants. There were at least 30 Van Horn alumni present with
several groups of Van Horn women demonstrating their home-
making skills by "donating" some jello shots and pudding shots
to the group. Needless to say, those Van Horn women know
how to have a good time.
WDS awarded over $25,000 in scholarships in 2012 with the
majority going to Van Horn students. Thanks to fundraisers
like this along with the support of so many Van Horn alumni,
WDS hopes to award at least as much again this year.
The next opportunity to support WDS in their efforts is the an-
nual golf tournament being held on Friday, August 2, at Drumm
Farm Golf Club. Hope you can join us this year. Information
about WDS can be found at the website www.wdsef.org.
Checking in at Strike‘n’Spare Lanes
Above: WDS Team #4
___________________________________________
Below: Jello Shots team: Patty Smitka-Hacker,
Robbi Wait, Jayne “Powell” Doyle, Jean “Novak”
Kaiser, and Jo Marie Miller.
Above: Members from the Van Horn Class of 1970 presenting
a check for $1,000 to WDS. The money was raised at a 60th
birthday party and golf outing organized last summer. Left to
right: Terry Smitka, Steve Woolf, Janis Jackson, Deidre
(Jones) Chasteen, Debbie (LaFountain) Riffle, and Kenny
Farmer. WDS will award one or two "Class of 1970" schol-
arships to Van Horn students with the money.
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JANUARY MEETING NEWS Gleanings from the VHHSAA By-Laws:
Purpose
The Van Horn High School Alumni Association’s
purposes are:
To help fund selected capital improvement
purchases for Van Horn High School (hereafter re-
ferred to as VHHS)
To fund scholarships for VHHS graduates
To establish and maintain a world-wide net-
work of VHHS graduates
To establish a Hall of Honor of prominent
VHHS graduates, Faculty, Staff, and “Friends of Van
Horn” for the benefit of VHHS
The meeting on January 16 had a delayed start. The
members attending waited outside in the cold for 20
minutes until we reached someone to open the
locked doors! Those in attendance were: Jay
Fisher, President; Nancy Ehrlich, V-Pres.; Lisa
Renshaw, Treas.; Marietta Boenker, At-Large;
David Renshaw and Glenda Phillips. (The posi-
tion of Secretary is vacant at this time).
The annual membership application from Joyce E.
Fults-Dalzell (‘58) was received and accepted.
The Association didn’t buy any tickets to give to stu-
dents for the Dec. 22nd I-Town Showdown as a
snow-day was called on that day.
The Board voted to buy 6 Royals game vouchers
($103) to donate to the Raffle of the WDS Bowling
Fundraiser. The vouchers help the VHHS Baseball
Team win the right to play at Kauffman Stadium in
the spring.
The Board voted to buy 10 electric skillets ($250)
for the Harvester’s Teen Cooking Class for students.
This is a pilot program through Harvesters that will
be run by the Van Horn Parent-Teachers-Student
Association (PTSA). All recipes will be taught on
an electric skillet which will be given to any of the
students completing all classes. Many of these stu-
dents are the meals preparer for themselves and sib-
lings.
Discussion was held on Hall of Honor nominees for
the 2013 Honors. Several teachers were mentioned.
(Editor’s note: Please think about all of those you
have seen at reunions, etc. and pick a good one to
nominate to the Hall of Honor. The application can
be located on our website at vanhornalumni.org
Complete your portion at the end right there on line,
then forward to your nominee to complete. It’s so
easy! )
(“President” from page 1)
You can buy your Royals vouchers at the Van
Horn front office (1109 South Arlington in Inde-
pendence--ask for Sherry Stark, or call Sherry at
Van Horn's main number, (816) 521-5360), from
Falcons Head Coach Tim Wilson ((816) 682-2156),
or from any Falcons baseball player.
***
February's Alumni Association meeting will take
place this coming Wednesday, February 20, 7:00
p.m., at the school. All Members and their guests
are invited to come! As always, please enter the
building through the main (front) entrance, facing
Arlington Avenue.
This time, we'll begin the process of selecting
our scholarship awardee from the Class of 2013.
Upcoming "Third Wednesdays" at Van
Horn: March 20, April 17, and May 15--all at 7:00
p.m.
Jay Fisher, VH '75
President
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Does anyone recognize this site? Clue: it is
not in Independence but just about every
teenager visited it at some time.
Submit your answers to [email protected]
ATTENTION ANNUAL MEMBERS
DUES FOR 2012
ARE DUE
Before JULY 1, 2013
Please remit your annual dues of $25 to:
VHHSAA, P.O. Box 520712
Independence, MO 64052
Our fiscal year begins July 1 of each year. If you
have not paid your annual dues for 2011-12, you
may send them in one check for both years marking
in the memo space that you are paying for 2011-
2013. Members not in good standing will be dropped
from membership. Having trouble remembering to
pay your dues? Become a Life-time Member and pay
just a one-time $250 membership.
VHHSAA meets the 3rd Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
every month except December. For locations, please
review sites on calendar above.
From Days of Yore
The Van Horn High School
Alumni Association
Events Calendar
28 Feb-2 Mar— Sound of Music as presented by the
Van Horn Music Department. See page 1.
9 Mar - ISD Alumni drive-thru collection day at
AutoTek parking lot, 9-noon
20 Mar—VHHSAA meeting, 7:00 pm
Alumni Room at school
23 Mar—Breakfast and Mystery “Who Done It’
Dinner Show www.Homeless-Students.com
17 Apr—VHHSAA meeting, 7:00 pm
Alumni Room at school
2 Aug —WDS Golf at Drumm Farm Golf Club
P.O. Box 520172, Independence, MO 64052
Phone: 816-914-6490 (Jay Fisher)
E-mail: [email protected]
VHHSAA Board Members
President Jay Fisher (VH‘75)
Vice President Nancy Mills Ehrlich (VH‘56)
Secretary Vacant
Treasurer Lisa Hay Renshaw (VH‘76)
At-Large Dir. Marietta Wilson Boenker
(VH‘60)
To submit articles, news or comments to the
Falcon Legacy, write to [email protected]
Answer from last issue: Shaffer’s Drive-In (no takers)