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Southwest High School
Class Of 1969

Welcome to the Southwest High School of Kansas City, Missouri Class Of 1969 web site!

October 17, 2013: Our thoughts and prayers go out to Classmate Steve Panknin on the loss October 15th of his sister, Debra Panknin Holcomb. Many of us knew Debra, who was a cheerleader, a pianist and harpist several years behind us at Southwest. You can read more about Debra's life here.

June, 2013: A sighting of Wylie Mitchell (left), with his wife Barbara and Alan McDermott(right) at a Reunion...their 40th College Reunion! Wylie lives in Maine; we've got to get him back to KC for our next SWHS Reunion!!

Speaking of the next reunion, if you haven't taken our poll, please do! (45th Class Reunion Survey link) The vast majority of people who responded wanted to get together in September of 2014 for a one-nite fairly casual event, so that is what we will work towards planning. We are investigating different venues in Kansas City for something like a barbecue dinner. If you have any suggestions, please message the Webmaster.

**Announcement** The Class of 1963 is having a 50-year reunion and they want to get the word out to all their Classmates. They have a website which is www.SWHS1963.org and the organizers, Jim McFerrin (Ann's brother) and Cam Schutte, would like everyone to let all their friends and contacts know about the website and the reunion. Wow...won't be too long until WE are having a 50TH REUNION!!!

Please continue to submit “happenings” and “updates” through the link provided on the homepage of the website.

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Our 40th Reunion was held in August, 2009.

It was a huge success! More than 250 people gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day we graduated from SWHS! Old friends reconnected and a lot of new friends were made.

New Features on Website: Both Instant Messaging and Live Chat are now available. You can Instant Message anyone who happens to be on the site when you are. Just click to open the bar at the bottom right corner of your screen that shows other members online. To go into the Chat Room, Click on the Live Chat tab on the left menu. Maximum is 20 people at a time. You can chat in real-time amongst the group, use web cams to see each other, upload pictures or video to share while you chat. Check it out, it's awesome! Let's try Live Chat Wednesdays from 9-10 p.m. CST, starting Dec. 8th.

If you want to expand your connections to other SWHS grads, try these links:

Our class (1969) facebook page :

Southwest Gals:

a group of female grads who get together periodically to network and schmooze!

Southwest High School - KC: a fb site for all classes

Southwest High School KCMO 1970:

Class of 1970 website on classcreator.com:

Slide Album: Previous Reunion

To see more click on www.slide.com, sign in using postmaster@southwest1969.com with password "southwest1969".

· Once “in,” click on “Southwest 1969 Reunion” bar at top of page

· On next screen you will see grey bars that start on left with My Stuff, Favorites, then Pictures.

· Click on Slideshow underneath the grey bars, then pick one of our slideshows to view.

If you want to upload pictures to the site, just follow directions to do so.

Watch our fabulously entertaining video one more time just for fun! Pretty soon we're going to take it off the home page and archive it. (Note: Turn off the music player on this page before attempting to watch the video!!

A million thanks to Molly Magilow Proffer and her team at Proffer Productions for producing this awesome video!

YEA! WE NOW HAVE MORE THAN HALF OF OUR CLASSMATES SIGNED UP! There is a tab on the left called "Missing Classmates." Check it out and see what you can do to help contact anyone you know who hasn't signed up.

Music: Take a time travel trip backwards by viewing our collection of youtube video clips of favorites from the 60's including Beatles, Rolling Stones, Temptations, Aretha Franklin and lots and lots of clips of live performances by the era's Greats at Woodstock. Go to 60's Music: Soul or 60's Music: Pop/Rock for your viewing pleasure. As far as music while you surf the site, time for something new (or old, as the case may be...): Classical.

If you want to hear the music as you surf the site, click "pop-out player" and it will continue. If you want to turn it off so you can watch the video, click on the "ll" button just above "Title."

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Still More Photos !

Here are some PicasaWeb albums, with a total of 377 photos(!) unedited ...

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr1stPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/21 school building tour

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr2ndPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/21 Charlie Hooper's

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr3rdPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/21 Roasterie

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr4thPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/22 Nancy Reddoch Barohn brunch

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr5thPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/22 Webster House entrance

http://tinyurl.com/SWHS40yr6thPhotos = SWHS'69 40th 8/22 Webster House inside

Please let me know if any editing; or if you wish to add captions or names. I have full-resolution originals to share, too.

Best Hopes,
Pete Klammer
SouthwestIndian1969@PKlammer.org

Hi all. Hope everyone has a wonderful and healthy Thanksgiving Holiday. I look forward to celebrating with my children, grandchildren and my brother, Serge Markowitz.

Good news. My younger daughter, Tamar (we call her Tami), gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Isaac Jonah, on Sept. 12, he was due on Sept. 30. He was very anxious to come out. Everyone is doing well.

Other good news, finally sold my old house in O.P., KS. No more mortgage payments, yeah!!! My brother and I are very good roommates and have been working to clear a lot of stuff out of the house and special thanks to Bobbie Kaplan, Karen's younger brother. It is so very sad about Karen. Her memorial service was very beautiful. I know we all miss this very beautiful and special lady.

Ellen Gladstone Magariel, she's back in K.C. I haven't seen her yet, but I sent her a message on Facebook.

And by the way, I hope we don't wait another 10 years for our next reuion. We have or will have hit the big "60" by the end of this year, next month. We shouldn't wait to get together and we should do it more often. thank you to Sue for keeping up and doing such a great job on this Web site.

I will try to check out the news and post more news and announcments more frequently. Everyone take care and be sure to keep us informed of your latest and greatest news. Also, if you have been going through a rough patch or lose someone important in your life, I hope someone will post that.

Bruce Greenbaum. I am so sorry to hear about your father as I know our parents were good friends way back when and my father got his first tailor shop from your dad, the Linwood and Tracy location. Mom and him later on went to Gladstone for over 25 years and then did Red Bridge Shopping Center until my dad died on Oct. 29, 2000. Mom died April 15, 2006 (Israel's and my anniversary) followed by Israel's sudden death on Nov. 26, 2007. The anniversary is this Saturday and the Thanksgivings since his death has been really hard. This is the first year I am actually looking forward to it.

Maybe if some of you folks don't have heavy duty plans after T-Day, maybe Saturday. we can figure out a get together in Brookside or at Waldo Pizza or somewhere convenient. I can do either Missouri or Kansas. I can do Saturday sometime as we will be going to the cemetery on Sunday afternoon or even Friday night.

Let's see if I get any responses to this question, it would be nice to see who ever can make it. Let's discuss on the announcement page or message forum, whichever is most appropriate. Take care all.

Sylvie Markowitz Radvinsky

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