The Moran/Marmaton Valley High School alumni gathered May 25 for their 127th annual reunion. President Bailey LaRue welcomed the 81 grads and their guests.
Kaysha Elmenhorst sang the national anthem. Simply Delicious catered the meal.
Janae Granere and LesLeigh Cary were awarded $250 scholarships.
Those attending, by class, were:
1951: Audrey Moore Maley
1953: Melvin Price, Beverly McAdam Franklin
1954: Norma Arnold Sager Stahl, Mary Stewart Price
1955: Nancy Houk Chandler
1956: Don Mann, J.V. Wagner, Gene Todd, Diana Tomlinson Gardner
1957: Don Higinbotham
1958: Audrey DeMerrit Wagner, Judy Ensminger Welch, Larry Zornes
1959: Joyce Smith Higinbotham, Katie McAdam Holloway, Joyce Goodsell Todd
1961: Kirby Vanatta, Sandy Jefferies Zornes
1962: Karen Bigelow Fritchey, Carolyn Higinbotham Naff, Gale Ross, Melvin Vanatta
1963: Ann Morrison Houk
1964: Leana Lust Beezley, Janice Tomlinson Brown, Buddie David, Robert Ensminger, Beverly Bacon Furhman, Donna Doughtery Grisgsby, Sharon Elrod Jackson, Delbert Ludlum, Dee Ann Donald Parsons, Sam Phillippi, Janice Wood Powell, Polly Upton Sells, Bonnie Bigelow Weast, Beverly Brown Flack, Peter Jefferies
1966: Roger Houk
1967: Myrna Parsons Wildschuetz
1969: Jim Stange, Phyllis Gates VanHorn
1971: Debra McDonld Stange
1974: Barbara Stange Kater, Paul Meiwes, Barbara Maley Watkins
1978: Chris Elmenhorst, Les Wagner
1979: Darren Mann, Jeff Sager, Bob Tholen, George Stephens, Janice Siefker Stodgell, Rick Bernsten
1981: Sherry Steinbrook Elmenhorst, Jenny Chandler Spillman
1983: Gary Henderson
2000: Sarabeth Foster LaRue
2004: Brette Sager Baldeon
2014: Mark Henderson
2015: Kaysha Elmenhorst
2023: Bailey LaRue
Special recognition: Janice Wood Powell for traveling the farther from Gibsonton, Florida; Audrey Maley, Class of 1951, as the oldest female graduate; J.V. Wagner, Class of 1956, as the oldest male graduate, and Melvin Price, Class of 1953 as the oldest veteran.
Officers for 2025 are Bailey LaRue, president; Chris Elmenhorst, vice president; Jenny Chandler Spillman, recording secretary, Sarabeth Foster LaRue, corresponding secretary, Ann Morrison Houk, treasurer, and Janice Siefker Stodgell, historian.
