Friday,August 11,

2006

A new sign at Goodland High School, a joint project of the parents of the Class of 1990 and the ShermanCounty Alumni Association was erected in November. Dick Liess and Sandy McElwee said the parentshad money left over from graduation and the sign seemed like a good project. Dale Schields of the alumniassociation said both groups wanted to replace the old sign, so they pooled their resources. The markercost $1,600. Photo by Mona Carver/The Goodland Star-News

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Reunion theme ‘The time of your life!’All-school reunion scheduleThursday, Aug. 10

9 a.m. to 9 p.m., registration at fairgrounds.7:30 a.m., first session of golf tournament (Shot-

gun start at Sugar Hills Golf Club).1 p.m., second session of golf tournament

(Shotgun start).“Dragging’ Main” or Visit family and friends.

Friday, Aug. 118 a.m. to 8 p.m., registration at fairgrounds.7:30 a.m., first session second day of golf tour-

nament (Shotgun start).1 p.m., second session second day golf tour-

nament (Shotgun start).3 p.m., Meet and greet former teachers, at open

house at Goodland Veterans of Foreign Wars,824 Main. Evening, class parties at various loca-tions.

7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. square dance at Marie Ed-

wards Hall, 2431 Walnut Street.8 p.m. to 12 p.m. Street dance/beer garden and

Karaoke. (Bankwest Parking lot and lot adjacentto VFW). (Will relocate to VFW if bad weather)

Saturday, Aug. 128 a.m., registration at Max Jones Fieldhouse.9:30 a.m., assembly announcements/introduc-

tions.10 a.m., Three-Ring Circus assembly perfor-

mance.12:30 p.m., barbeque luncheon at Gulick Park,

Ninth and Caldwell.1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., “Saturday in the park”

alumni concert.Afternoon class parties.8 p.m. to 12 p.m., dances at fairgrounds: Ace’s

and 8’s (Country); Pomeroy (contemporary);Three-Ring Circus (Oldies)

Dear fellow alumni:As President of the SCHS Alumni

Association, it is my pleasure to letyou know that the next all-school re-union will be Aug. 10- 12, 2006. It isour sincere hope that you will plan toattend this special event as our offic-ers and board of directors have beenworking diligently to put together anexciting, fun-filled weekend forYOU! YOUR presence is what willmake our alumni reunion successfuland we hope to see you in GoodlandAug. 10- 12,

The purpose of this mailing is to letyou know the events that have beenarranged for your enjoyment while“back home” for the reunion. You canalso learn more about the weekend byvisiting our website atwww.goodlandnet.com and you canemail us at shcoalumni@sttel.net.

For the first time in the history ofour reunion, you can also pre-regis-ter on-line, and we encourage you totake advantage of this service. Or, ifyou would prefer, you can mail yourpre-registration form to P.O. Box 72in Goodland. There is a cost-saving

factor as well to pre-registration as thefees are $50 for alumni and $25 fornon-alumni guests. If you choose towait and register upon your arrival inGoodland, the costs are $60 foralumni and $30 for non-alumniguests. Registration and/or “check-in” will be at the Sherman CountyFairgrounds, where our reunion gotits start back in 1961.

Your registration fee includes youralumni dues for the next 5 years andassists your alumni association withits work in the area of scholarshipsand financial assistance to GoodlandHigh School.

Admission to all reunion events isby registration badge, so everyonetaking part must register. No excep-tions will be made in this regard.

We’ve made some changes to ourschedule of events for 2006 that wehope you will enjoy. They include: astreet dance with beer garden andkaroke Friday night, a western-Kan-sas style barbeque luncheon follow-ing Saturday’s assembly at Max JonesFieldhouse, a “Saturday In the Park”feature during and after the barbeque

that will consist of performances byformer graduates, and three greatbands for you to dance to at the fair-grounds Saturday night, one of which,“Pomeroy,” features Goodland’sown David Fairbanks, Class of 1994.

You can even pre-register on-line forthe 2006 Alumni Reunion golf tour-nament at Sugar Hills Golf Club onAug. 11 and 12. However, one thingwe’ll never change are those wonder-ful class parties held throughout each

a-school reunion!Our reunion assembly on Saturday

morning begins at 9:30 a.m., withannouncements and introductions of

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WELCOME

HOME

ALUMNI!

Dick Short1964

Mike Short1970

Peg (Short)Hennick

1976

Bob Short1980

Amy (Short)Hofer1993

Angie (Short)Labertew

1997

Andy Short1998

Welcome Alumni from

Daryl Hoss, Class of 1968Toni (Hagans) Hoss, Class of 1969Deedi (Hoss) Dorn, Class of 1991

Clayton Hoss, Class of 2001691 E 25, Goodland, KS (785) 890-5879

Bruce Elliott, Class of ‘40Ernie Elliott, Class of ‘43 (Deceased)Ruth Elliott, (Fontenac ‘46)Sharon Bowker, Class of ‘61Mike Elliott, Class of ‘66Mary Ann Elliott, Class of ‘67Bill Elliott, Class of ‘ 68Jackie Elliott, Class of ‘70

Jan Elliott, (Manhattan ‘71)Lisa (Pickett) Elliott, ‘94Teresa (Crotinger) Hoppe, Class of ‘94Jim Elliott, Class of ‘96Tonya (Crotinger) Medina, ‘96Cara (Butler) Bauman, ‘98Tom Elliot, Class of 2008

Alumni sponsors scholarships, top educatorsEach year the Sherman County

Alumni Association spends moneyon Scholarships, Educator of the YearAwards, Homecoming Festivities,Equipment for the High School andDonations to benefit the Youth ofSherman County.

The following donations are madepossible by the dues that you paywhen you attend a Reunion every fiveyears.

Thank you for your support in theSherman County Alumni Associa-tion. If you can not attend Reunion2006 but desire to make a tax deduct-ible donation, please send your checkto: The Sherman County AlumniAssoc., PO Box 72, Goodland, KS67735. Write “scholarship donation”in the memo portion of your check.

Approximate figures on moneyspent by the Sherman County AlumniAssoc. during the last five years:

1. Scholarships: $27,6002001

Julia Darnauer, Bernie Fisher,

Lindsay Custer, Adriel Alstrom,Tyler Henderson, Stacie Cooper,Bryce Abbey, Lisa Studer, DannyRasure and Kasi Brock.

2002Tiffany Gleason, Lindsay Martin,

Brandon Nemechek, David Russell,Lance Goodman. Bryan Mai andMandy Bellamy.

2003Ashley Engel, Alyssa Maso, Tif-

fany Schwasinger, Timothy Kafka,Janet Vandonge, Tammy Weeter,Landon West, Amanda Hoffman andAndrea Fenner.

2004Brittany Redlin, Lauren Gray, Lea

Acuff, Trista Lalicker, Michael Zim-merman, Jared Doke, Lacy Stephens,Brock Whitmore, Amy Anderson andMegan McCall.

2005Erin Aberanthy, Richard Bauman,

Aubrea Winter, Dexter Deeds, EmilyBurkett, Craig Mason and MichaelMangus.

2. Outstanding Educator A-ward: $1,500

Sharon Hall, 2001; Dennis Fred-richs, 2002; Jackie Elliott. 2003;Melody Harder, 2004; Don Smith,2005; and Sharon Hall, 2006.

3. Discretionary Funds: $3,000 Paid to grade schools, junior high

and high school to be used at their dis-cretion.

4. Equipment for the Jr. Highand High School: $4,569

Copy machine, digital camera,projector for Jr. High Science Deptand New Sign in Front of HighSchool.

5. Homecoming Expenses:$1,530

Monetary awards to parade partici-pants.

6. Donations: $1,732. Future Astronaut Program Schol-

arships, Project Graduation, HighPlains Museum, American LegionBaseball, Cowboy Hustler, BoysState.

SCHS Association officersDale Schields, President, 724

E 9th 890-6005 WLinda Charron, Vice Pres,

1108 Caldwell, 899-6565 WShellie Gausman, Secretary,

816 E. 6th, 890-6588 WCara Daise, Treasurer, 613

Harrison, 899-2342 WBOARD OF DIRECTORSKathy Bahe, 6420 Rd 14, 899-

6116Kathy Melia, 1550 Rd 65, 899-

2309Janis Elfers, P 0 Box 128p Ed-

son 67733, 899-4732; 899-6234

Jerry Fairbanks, 517 Main,890-2000

Mary Butler, 2313 Caldwell,890-5913

April Hall, 6445 Ruleton Ave,8991-3070; 821-2391

Peggy Bahe, 225 Sycamore,899-5433

Julie Todd, 1416 Walnut, 899-3636W

Randall Fixsen, 121 W. 12th,899-2164

Amity Ihriq, 809 Washington,890-3184; 821-1019

Melanie Daise, 331 Cotton-wood, 890-8097

Gennifer House (Data BaseManager), P 0 Box 913, 890-5611

Jeff Deeds (EntertainmentAdvisor), 1416 Arcade, 899-7230

Jacque Drennan (DirectoryAdvertising), 915 Arcade, 890-3110

Delilah Leiker (RegistrationChairman), 705 Walnut, 899-3022

Sherman County Alumni: Welcome back to Goodland!

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Mogge

By Pat SchiefenThe Goodland Star-News

The 2006 alumni king was born onhis parent’s farm 7 3/4 miles west ofCaruso in Sherman County.

Carrol Mogge was thesecond son of George andMae Mogge. His brother,John, was 11 years older.John Mogge graduated fromSherman County HighSchool in 1926 and workedin Denver in a governmentpayroll office.

Mogge, graduated in the70-year class of 1936. He played atrumpet in the band. He said they hadno uniforms but he remembers themplaying at the football games. Themusic teacher taught band.

He said is favorite subject was vo-cational agriculture. He didn’t playsports.

After high school, he went to Kan-sas State University for three years,specializing in poultry.

His college days were interruptedby 4 1/2 years in the Navy duringWorld War II. He said he enlisted inthe fall 1942 but he said he had a lowdraft number. He took basic training

at Great Lakes Naval Station, north ofChicago on Lake Michigan.

Mogge said he trained as a radiotechnician and worked with primitive

radar and radios. He said theequipment all had vacuumtubes; transistors didn’tcome into use until the endof the war.

After his training, Moggewas stationed in Englandfor nine months until afterthe invasion of Normandy,then he was in the U.S. for amonth and then he was sta-

tioned in Hawaii until the end of thewar.

“My specialty was IFF, identifica-tion of friend and foe,” Mogge said.“When aircraft returned the IFF,would make sure they wouldn’t beshot at.”

When he returned home after thewar, he married a neighbor girl, MarieMeinen, and returned to K-State tofinish his college degree in 1947. Af-ter graduation, Mogge came back tofarm with his dad.

The Mogges had a son, Gary, whowas killed in an airplane crash in1991.

He said there has been a lot ofchange in agriculture since the dayshe was growing up on the farm.Mogge said his father farmed withhorses.

“I have driven tractors and com-bines all my life,” he said, “but Iwould need instructions to drive anew one with the changes in technol-ogy.”

He said he thinks global position-ing computers to tell farmer wherewater and fertilizer are needed on afield is going to be the big thing.

Mogge said farms were smallerwhen he was young. He said theygrew wheat, livestock feed and corn,raising chickens, pigs and cattle.

He really liked raising chickens. Hesaid he raised Leghorns, which werewhite and the best egg producers atthat time. He said it got harder andharder to get rid of culls and the eggs,so he switched to raising marketsheep.

He said he got interested in sheepwhen his son had sheep in 4-H in the1950s.

“We active in 4-H,” he said, “espe-cially while our son was in 4-H. I stillhave sheep.”

Most poultry production is done inbig operations now, he said. Yearsago, people sold their eggs to pay fortheir groceries. He said he reallydidn’t think there was more or less

worry about bacteria, just that peopleare more aware of it today.

Mogge said he judged poultry at thecounty fair for 40 years, quitting justlast year. When he started, he said,there were standards to judge by withpure breed chickens. When he quit,most of the chickens coming from thehatcheries were cross bred and couldnot judge by the old standards, so hejust looked for quality.

Mogge added that he thinks crossbreeds are good.

He has been a personal propertyassessor for 45 years and belongs tothe Mason Lodge, the Shrine, the Or-der of Eastern Star and the GoodlandKiwanis Club.

“I’m not as active as I used to be,”he added.

At 88, Mogge, who lives currentlyat the Good Samaritan Home, says heis looking forward to going to the re-union.

He plans on moving home to thefarm next week since he has gainedstrength. His wife died several yearsago and he lives alone.

“I want to live as long as I can andtake care of myself,” he said.

My specialty was IFF, identification of friendand foe. When aircraft returned the IFF, wouldmake sure they wouldn’t be shot at.

- Carrol MoggeNavy radar operator

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The Goodland Star-NewsThe queen for the all-school re-

union of Sherman County HighSchool graduated 70 years ago, in1936.

Mazie Sutton, 88, hasspent much of her adult lifeworking with children inschools. Sutton likes to vol-unteer, saying ShermanCounty was good to her andshe wants to return the favor.

The alumni queen wasborn in 1918 in Stockton.Her parents moved herewhen she was six months old on Ar-mistice Day. Her father went to workat the Ford garage and then the RockIsland Railroad.

Sutton said her parents divorcedwhen she was 9. Her mother raised herand her three sisters, Ruby, Ione andThelma, and later married JackWonderling, a railroad engineer.

Her mother cleaned houses and didwashing and ironing for people toearn money to live on, she said. Thefamily lived in a house on Seventhand Broadway.

“My childhood was very happy,”

she said. “I didn’t realize we werepoor. We all worked.

Sutton said she and one of her sis-ters delivered papers and another sis-ter was a waitress at the Hotel Neu on

Main, then “the place to eat”in Goodland.

She went three years toLincoln school, then inCentral, Grant and the oldhigh school where the highschool auditorium is now.

“The high school wasthree stories and swayed inthe wind,” she recalled.

“I worked a year to save$50 to go to college,” she said. “I got10 or 15 cents an hour at Kelley’sConfectionery. I baked pies andserved customers.”

At that time, she said, everybodywalked. After work, she said a groupwould gather and go to the ColonyClub at Seventh and Main to dance tothe juke box. Later they would walkdown the street and kick the gaspumps. She said there were 20 gas sta-tions up and down Main Avenue.Someone would turn them into OscarKline, the policeman at the time. Shesaid there was a red light on 11th

Street and when a policeman wasneeded, someone turned the light on.

When you went on a date with yourboyfriend, she said, he would have 25cents. On that, you would go to thematinee and share a nickel Coke.

Max Jones, a local lawyer andgraduate of University of Wyoming,encouraged her to go to the Univer-sity of Wyoming. She remembers himsaying that they didn’t care if you had10 cents or a thousand dollars, every-body worked. There were three oth-ers from Goodland, she said,Charlene Knudson who went a year,Grace Gulick who went two and a guywho went four years.

Her first year in college, she was inthe work-study program as a secretaryat the Agriculture building for $24 amonth. Sutton said there were no fed-eral student programs. She borrowedmoney from an aunt to help getthrough her second year. The onlyfederal programs at the time were theCivilian Conservation Corps andNational Youth Administration,which offered jobs, but nothing tohelp with college.

An administrator who figured outthe she and the group she was in were

going without breakfast told themthey needed to eat breakfast. If theywere going to skip a meal, he said,they should skip lunch.

“We went hungry lots of times,”she recalled.

Sutton said she started teaching ata rural school at Big Piney, Wyo., “thecoldest place in the world.” Shetaught all the classes to the eighthgrade except for sixth, which had nostudents. “

The people were so good to me,”Sutton said. “They taught me how todress in 60-degrees-below-zeroweather.”

She had a horse to ride to school,which was 11 miles out in the country.She stayed two years. The school wasfenced so the cows couldn’t get in, shesaid, since the area was all open range.

“I visited one of my second-gradestudents, Martin Wardell, and hisfamily in 1970,” she said. “Therewere 10 boys and two girls in theschool.”

She said she couldn’t get the boysto do anything. They didn’t want toplay football or basketball, so she gotan old mattress so they could do tum-bling.

With the start of World War II,Sutton said, she tried to enlist in theWomen’s Army Auxiliary Corps inMay 1942. She did not get in rightaway, so she signed a contract to teachat Limon, Colo. When enlistmentopened up, she went into the Army inJuly 1943. She went to Des Moines,Iowa, for training and spent her entirethree years there as a noncommis-sioned officer in administration.

After her discharge in January1946, Sutton returned to school atGreeley State Teachers College, nowthe University of Northern Colorado,using the GI Bill.

Sutton taught in Cody, Wyo., for 15years until 1962. She taught fourthgrade nine years at the lab school atthe University of Wyoming after that.She was also an assistant professor atthe college, had student teachers un-der her and taught a teaching methodsclass. Sutton said she had three bosses— the principal of the lab school, thedean of the college and the president.She worked 12 hours a day, sevendays a week. The only way you got torest was to leave town, she said. She

Sutton

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ALUMNI, from Page 2

Alumni theme ‘Time of your life’joy them Saturday morning!

We hope to have YOU with us Aug.10-12 for “The Time of Your Life!”It is our sincere hope that the 2006SCHS Alumni Reunion will be ex-actly that for each and every one ofour alumni members as you meet oldfriends, make new ones, and hope-fully lots of memories!

Dale SchieldsGHS Class of 1963

Class and school reunion parties onFriday and Saturday for the ShermanCounty Alumni Association reunion.

Kanorado, all classes, Saturday, 1to 3 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars,824 Main.

Edson, all classes, Saturday, 10a.m. to 3 p.m., Bateman FuneralHome, 211 E. 11th.

Ruleton, all classes, Saturday, 7 to9 a. m., First United Methodist

Church Fellowship Hall, 12th andSherman.

1933 and 1934, Saturday, 12 p.m.,Butterfly Cafe (Renner Field)

1936, Friday, 8 a.m., Butterfly Cafe(Renner Field)

1939, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.,Buffalo Inn Restaurant (Best West-ern)

1940, 1942 and 1944, Saturday, 2 to4 p.m., Senior Center, 208 W. 15th St.

1941, Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m., Com-fort Inn (Meeting Room).

1943, Saturday, 2:30 p.m., KaySmith’s, 803 Arcade.

1945, Saturday, 12 p.m., Veteransof Foreign Wars Dining Room, 824Main.

1946, Friday, 6 p.m. and Saturday,5:30 p.m., Elks Lodge, 1523 Arcade.

1947, Friday, 1 p.m., Buffalo InnRestaurant.

1948, Friday, 6 p.m., ShermanCounty Historical Society Ennis-Handy House, 202 W. 13th St. andSaturday, 6:30 p.m., Sugar Hills GolfClub Sunroom.

1949, Saturday, 5 p.m., Veterans ofForeign Wars Dining Room, 824Main.

1950, Friday, 6 p.m., Buffalo InnConvention Center and Saturday, 2 to6 p.m., Dick and Sidney Rasure’s,510 Center.

1951 and 1952, Friday, 7 p.m., ElksLodge, 1523 Arcade.

1953, Friday, 10 a.m., HowardJohnson Hotel.

1954, Saturday, 5 p.m., ElksLodge, 1523 Arcade.

1955, Friday, 6 p.m., Sugar HillsGolf Club.

1956, Friday, 5:30 p.m., LarryIhrig’s, 6493 Sundance Terrace andSaturday, 6 p.m., Elks Lodge, 1523Arcade.

1957, Saturday, 7-8 p.m., HowardJohnson’s pool area.

1958, Saturday, 2 p.m., DonZimbelman’s, 817 Washington.

1959, Saturday, 2 p.m., Sugar HillsGolf Club.

1960 and 1961, Saturday, 5 p.m.,Veterans of Foreign Wars Lounge,824 Main.

1962, Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m., ElksLodge, 1523 Arcade.

1963, Saturday, 1:30 p.m., SugarHills Golf Club.

1964, Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m., SugarHills Golf Club.

1965, 1966 and 1971, Friday, 5p.m., Sugar Hills Golf Club.

1967, Friday, 7 to 9 p.m., Gary andGinny Schields’, 603 Main.

1968, Friday, 5:30 p.m., MaryHumrich’s, 623 W. 12th St.

1969 and 1970, Friday, 6 to 9 p.m.,Randall Fixsen’s warehouse, 4th andCaldwell.

1972, Saturday, 3 to 5 p.m., Cham-bers Park, 13th and Center.

1973, Saturday, afternoon, GulickPark, under the Makita tent.

1974, 1975, 1978, 1979 and 1980,Saturday, 3 to 6 p.m., Old Gibson’sBuilding, Intersection of HighwaysBusiness U.S. 24 and K-27.

1976, Friday, 7 p.m., Char Avila’s,624 Main, and Saturday, 2:30 p.m.,Diana Slough’s, 417 E 12th St.

1977, Friday, 5 p.m., Steever Park.1981, Friday, 6 p.m., Elks Lodge,

1523 Arcade.

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still found time to finish her master’sdegree in elementary education fromthe University of Wyoming.

She then taught at Casper, Wyo.,for four years. Her mother neededhelp, so she came back to Goodland.Sutton taught seven years at Kano-rado until the school closed. She re-

tired in 1983 and took care of hermother until she went to the GoodSamaritan Center

Later, she volunteered to help el-ementary physical education teacherSandy Burr.

“Sandy was so good with the kids,”Sutton recalled. “I only saw her getmad once. She’s a wonderful lady andwe still keep in touch.”

Sutton retired from volunteering atthe school in September 2005. Theteachers gave her 44 lunch tickets soshe could come and eat lunch with thekids.

She is still active at the GoodlandRegional Medical Center Auxiliary,where she works two or three days aweek, and the American Legion.

“I like to stay busy,” Sutton said.

SUTTON, from Page 5

1982, Friday, 7 p.m., Elks Lodge,1523 Arcade.

1983, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Shadand Penny Sheldon’s, 6404 Road 23.

1984, 1986 and 1987, Friday, 4 to6 p.m., Bryce and Jessica Cole’sshop, East Eighth St.

1985, Saturday, 2 p.m., Shad andPenny Sheldon’s, 6404 Road 23.

1988, 1989, and 1990, Friday, 6p.m. Elks Lodge, 1523 Arcade(adults only) and Saturday, 4 to 6 p.m.Gulick Park, families.

1991, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., DennisBentzinger’s, 6480 Road 18.

1992, Saturday, 5 p.m., Dan

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Queen’s life work has been helping children

Hayden’s, 320 E. 15th St.1993, Saturday 2:30 to 5 p.m.,

Captain’s Place, 1602 Main.1996, Saturday, 3:30 p.m.,

Murray’s Custom Paint and Body,1507 Main.

1997, Saturday, 4 p.m., SarahLinton’s, 510 College.

1998, Friday, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Cham-bers Park, 13th and Center.

1999, Friday, 5 to 8 p.m., Crazy R’s1618 Main.

2000, Saturday, 4:30 to 6 p.m.,Linda Koon’s, 211 N. Main

Classes of 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930,1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1994,1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005and 2006, no parties planned.

PARTIES, from Page 6

Alumni classes plan parties

A Goodland graduate may have hisfinger on the pulse of potential devel-opment in Denver.

Larry Burgess, 64, a 1960 ShermanCommunity High School graduate,bought his first building on BrightonBoulevard in 1978, intending to just

have a little more money in his pocketfor retirement. His continued pur-chases in the area have landed him inthe middle of what could be Denver’s“next big redevelopment corridor,”said an article in The Denver Postbusiness section in April.

Post staff writer Margaret Jacksongave this description of the neighbor-hood: “Run-down houses aresquashed between industrial build-ings, a testament to the area’s longhistory of housing working familiesnear their jobs.”

But change is on the horizon. Aspart of the citywide planning processknown as Blueprint Denver, Jacksonwrote, the Brighton Boulevard areawas designated as River North, affec-tionately known as RiNo.

It includes the Denargo Marketneighborhood and extends northeast

to the Nestlé Purina plant.The section of Brighton Boulevard

is between 29th and 38th Avenue onthe west side of the Union Pacific rail-road tracks and east of I-25.

Developers best known for theirtransformation of Larimer Squarehave their sights set on the area, and aprogram manager for the city andcounty of Denver describes it as a po-tential “front door” to downtown.

Over the years since his 1978 pur-chase, Burgess bought another 18buildings that were occupied by a tor-tilla factory, a machine shop, an au-

tomotive repair shop and a bar.Burgess, a retired naval officer and

former Lockheed Martin engineer,says he didn’t have a plan for the prop-erties. He viewed them as an invest-ment.

“That first building,” he said, “Ibought so I’d have an extra $300 amonth in my pocket when I turned60.”

The city has identified the area as anatural place for growth because of itsproximity to downtown and access to

See BURGESS, Page 15

8 The Goodland Star-News / Friday, August 11, 2006

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Goodland graduate designs historic muralThe historic Free State Capitol in

Topeka has a new historic mural onthe temporary facade, which was de-signed by a former Goodland HighSchool graduate.

Artist Cally (Kirby) Krallman, aKanorado native and 1977 Goodlandgraduate, who lives in Topeka, wasselected to design a historical muralof Constitution Hall for the Friends ofthe Free State Capitol in Topeka.

The mural shows federal troopsbreaking up the peaceful meeting ofFree State legislators who were writ-ing an anti-slavery constitutionagainst the pro-slavery governmentbased in LeCompton.

President Franklin Pierce orderedover 400 troops from Ft.Leavenworth and Ft. Riley, to breakup the proceedings where a new StateConstitution had been written forbid-ding slavery. This was on July 4th1856, while Kansas was still a terri-tory. Kansas later became a state in1861. The conflict betweenproslavery and antislavery forces,which at times became violent, waswhat caused Kansas to be known as“Bleeding Kansas”.

The mural is 14 feet x 70 feet and is

a temporary facade for the buildingsproposed for restoration and eventu-ally to be opened as a museum.

Krallman, with local volunteer art-ists and Washburn University art stu-dents worked on the mural for threeweeks. A month earlier, Krallmanresearched period costume and localterrain to depict the prairie and itspeople as they would have appearedin 1856.

This was Krallman’s first mural,but she is quite familiar with the Kan-sas landscape. She has been paintingthe region professionally for over 15years. She recently started doing figu-rative painting with models dressed in(1850-1890) period costumes set outin the Kansas prairie, so the projectwas a good fit for her style of work shesaid.

“I have been painting in the Mid-west, primarily Kansas for about 15years,” she said. “I have traveled tomany places but I am still drawn to thesimplistic beauty of Kansas.

“Many people think of Kansas as aflat agricultural state, but it is full ofwonderful rolling hills, tree lined riv-

See MURAL, Page 16 Cally (Kirby) Krallman (right), a 1977 Goodland graduate, designed and helped paint a historic mural ofConstitution Hall for the Friends of teh Free State Capitol in Topeka.