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Welcome to our Great Bend High School Class of 1975 web site. It's been 49 years since we graduated from GBHS and we are still going strong.

We have created this web site to make it easy for us to get reacquainted and to stay in touch---plus communicate important 2025 reunion details!


This site is FREE to all GBHS class of 1975 alumni, teachers and invited guests. Unlike Classmates.com and the other sites, you do not have to pay to make a profile or to be able to access other alumni profiles.

If it is your first time to the web site, please click the following link How to Use This Site to create your individual profile.

If you are a registered classmate, welcome back! Enjoy looking at the profiles of old friends BUT don't forget to add/update your own photos and information!

If you are a visitor, thank you for visiting!

Thank you and enjoy!

Your site administrator, Scott Miller

P.S.   An ASTERISK on the MENU indicates that this page is RESTRICTED to Registered Members ONLY.

  

                      ALMA MATER

On the plains of central Kansas
Glorious to view
Great Bend High is proudly standing
Hail, all hail to you.

Rhorea cheers ever onward
Famous Panthers black.
Hail to you, our alma mater
Hail, old Red and Black.

Rhorea, Rhorea, Rip, Roar, Rack
Great Bend High School, red and black.
Hit it!!!
Rah, Rah, Rip, Roar, Rack
Great Bend High School RED and BLACK!

 

   

Friends With You by John Denver

   What a friend we have in time
Gives us children, makes us wine
Tells us what to take or leave behind

And the gifts of growing old
Are the stories to be told
Of the feelings more precious than gold

Friends I will remember you, think of you
Pray for you
And when another day is through
I'll still be friends with you

Babies days are never long
Mother's laugh is baby's song
Gives us all the hope to carry on
Friends I will remember you, think of you
Pray for you
And when another day is through
I'll still be friends with you

Friends I will remember you,
Think of you, pray for you
And when another day is through
I'll still be Friends with You

Friends I will remember you,
Think of you, pray for you
And when another day is through
I'll still be Friends with You

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We all took different paths....
But every dirt road we’ve walked will lead us back to the friends that know us best.
The ones that will help you up and slap the dust off, without being asked".
~ T. Warne
 

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." - Isabel Waxman 

 

GREAT BEND WEATHER

 

Site Created: 9/22/2009

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Mark your calendars and start making plans to attend the GBHS Class of 1975 50-year reunion
to be held the weekend of Friday and Saturday, Oct 17-18, 2025. The plans are to keep things
simple, casual and affordable. We have booked Best Western for the main event. 

We realize this is in the future, but we wanted a date on the calendar so everyone can prepare.

Dear Class of 1975,
It is time to come together to reconnect for the 50 year class reunion set for October 17-18, 2025. There will be a casual Friday night, October 17th, gathering at Lumpy’s (formerly Dixons), 2017 Forest, at 5:30 p.m. Food and beverages will be on your own. To keep the visiting going, coffee and donuts at 9:00 a.m. Saturday at the Best Western Courtyard will be available for anyone already in town. More socializing will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday at Brit Spaugh Park/Zoo north shelter house. Meet up with your classmates and take a trip through the zoo for memories or just visit. Saturday’s main event will be held at the Best Western Angus Inn Courtyard, 2920 10th Street, beginning with a 5:30-6:30 social hour – BYOB, followed by a catered meal provided by the Wheatland Café, The meal will consist of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade bread, tea or water. The evening will end at 10:00 p.m.

Suggested available lodging:
Best Western Angus Inn                            Super 8 by Wyndham                              Holiday Inn Express
3200 10th Street                                        911 Grant Street                                       3821 10th Street
620-792-3541                                            620-910-9523                                           1-888-741-8313

The class has blocked 20 rooms at the Best Western Angus Inn under “GBHS Class of 1975 until October 1st. The cost of the reunion will be $20 per person. Your guest/spouse is invited to attend. This cost covers the rental of the Courtyard area, Saturday’s meal and miscellaneous expense. There will be a “Half-n-Half” raffle to help fund future reunions. Tickets will be sold Saturday night at $1.00 a ticket or $5.00 for 6 tickets. The winner will win half of the total raised and the remaining half will go to the class. Bring some cash and help support future reunions!


You may now registration online here at our website by going to the 50 Year Reunion Registration TAB on our website. **You MUST be a registered member of our class website to do this. If you're not, do this first.

Please use the reservation form that comes out of the registration process and mail it with a check (sorry no PayPal, Venmo, or Credit/debit cards) to Rhonda (Rexwinkle) Penka at 3201 16th Street; Great Bend, KS 67530 by October 1st, Make check payable to GBHS Class of 1975.


The class has a great website at www.gbhs1975.com. This is a free site for classmates. Please join if you are not a current member even if you are unable to attend the reunion. Emails will be sent to classmates from this website.

WHO'S ONLINE NOW


No registered users are online right now.

JOINED CLASSMATES


Percentage of Joined Classmates: 63.1%

A:   205   Joined
B:   120   Not Joined
(totals do not include deceased)

PROFILE UPDATES


•   Anita Williamson (Laird)  3/16
•   Donna Dolezal (Manwarren)  3/16
•   Debra Button (Hill)  3/16
•   Rene Netherton  3/16
•   Jean Powers (Goetz)  2/13
•   Craig Dugan  1/30
•   Sheila Mullin (Haynes)  1/2
•   Theresa Montoya (Parsons)  12/18
•   Nancy West (DeFazio)  12/12
•   Rhonda Rexwinkle (Penka)  11/25
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WHERE WE LIVE


Who lives where - click links below to find out.

5 live in Arizona
3 live in Arkansas
5 live in California
10 live in Colorado
4 live in Florida
2 live in Georgia
2 live in Illinois
1 lives in Indiana
1 lives in Iowa
206 live in Kansas
1 lives in Kentucky
1 lives in Louisiana
2 live in Michigan
2 live in Minnesota
8 live in Missouri
1 lives in New Mexico
1 lives in New York
1 lives in North Carolina
2 live in Ohio
14 live in Oklahoma
2 live in Oregon
1 lives in South Carolina
2 live in South Dakota
1 lives in Tennessee
21 live in Texas
1 lives in Utah
3 live in Washington
1 lives in Wyoming
1 lives in Japan
14 location unknown
62 are deceased

WHERE ARE THEY NOW


MISSING CLASSMATES


Know the email address of a missing Classmate? Click here to contact them!