1975-76 Cavalier Football Players pose for a "team picture" 30 years after their playing days. Front row, l-r: Craig McDaniel, Mark Van Dyke, Mike Ferlet, Coach Matt May, Pat Bearss, Keith Huslig, and Roy Brown; back row: Dennis Slupski, Mark Vossmer, Paul DeGaeta, Ron Herrman, and Coach Charlie Fagan.

Ron Herrman, Pat Bearss, and Charlie Fagan were among those who played in the St. Mary of the Plains Alumni Golf Tournament on July 8 at Mariah Hills Golf Course in Dodge City.

Four members of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita attended the reunion. From left: Sisters Helen Joseph Knoeber, Irene Vogel, Denise Sevart, and Josephine O’Gorman. A gathering in Milwaukee of the CSJ congregations, that recently joined as a federation, prevented other former SMP faculty and staff members from attending.

Matt May, after dinner speaker at the SMP alumni banquet, listens to Mary Lix Hutchinson, who now resides in the Bahamas, share a story about the late Sister Mel Eesa Ryczek. Other alums shared their personal stories of events and the continuing spirit of SMP in their lives today.

Seven women who attended St. Mary of the Plains Academy met for lunch at Manor of the Plains on the former SMPC campus. Pictured, l-r: Magdalene McGroarty ’37; Mary Haford Brothers ’41; Betty Kinkelaar ’42; Esther Bogner ’37; Sister Helen Joseph Knoeber ’42; Lois Flanagan Bryson ’35, and Billie Hessman ’33. The academy was a day and boarding high school for young women. It was destroyed by a tornado May 10, 1942.