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.
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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.