Reunions
Mark your calendar!
Gold Medal Club Reunion: April 28, 2012
Celebrating 50-plus years as a KU graduate.
The KU Alumni Association invites all alumni who graduated before 1962 to join classmates for the 2012 Gold Medal Club Reunion. Please save the date now and check back for more information and a full schedule of reunion events, including the official gold medal pinning ceremony.
If you have questions, please contact Nikki Epley, director of reunions, at nepley@kualumni.org or 785-864-9769 (toll free 800-584-2957).
Registration
To register online, please click here.
Reunion Lodging
Below is a list of hotel blocks in Lawrence that are reserved for the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call the hotel directly to make your reservation. Indicate that you are with the Spring Alumni Reunion Weekend to receive the listed per-night rate. Hotel rooms will be released March 26.
Best Western
$55
2309 Iowa
785.843.9100 or 800.780.7234
www.bestwesternkansas.com
Eldridge Hotel
$159
701 Massachusetts
785.749.5011 or 800.527.0909
www.eldridgehotel.com
Holiday Inn Express
$89 queen/$99 king
3411 Iowa
785.749.7555 or 800.315.2612
www.hiexpress.com
Holiday Inn Holidome
$89
200 McDonald Drive
785.841.7077 or 888.465.4329
www.holiday-inn.com
The Oread
$181
1200 Oread Ave.
785.843.1200
www.theoread.com
SpringHill Suites by Marriott
$92
One Riverfront Plaza (for garmin)
785.841.2700 or 888.287.9400
www.marriott.com
History of the Gold Medal Club
KU alumni who had passed their 50th class anniversary met for the first time in 1929. They agreed to hold such Senior Alumni Reunions every five years, a schedule they followed in 1934 and 1939. In the interim years, they were guests at the 50-year class reunions.
During the war year of 1944 the group did not meet, but in 1949 members formed the Gold Medal Club, as we now know it. The Club met for the first time at a dinner on June 5, 1949, with Professor E. F. Engel, 1892 graduate, as toastmaster and arrangements committee chairman. Approximately 50 people attended.
The Club's purposes, as stated at its founding, are "to hold annual meetings at Commencement for social enjoyment and for the transaction of the business of the club, to seek ways and means of furthering the interests of the alma mater and to offer counsel in any matters affecting those interests, and to lend support to projects pertaining to University welfare."
More than 50 years later, the Club continues to thrive and welcome new members. Each year in April, the Club hosts a Gold Medal Club pinning luncheon to elect the slate of new officers and recognize class members who have not yet received their gold pin.
2012 Officers and Counselors
President
Gary W. Padgett, b'55, Greenleaf
First Vice President
Dick Bond, c'57, l'60, Overland Park
Second Vice President
Marilyn Mundon Breidenthal, d'57, Leawood
Counselors to 2012
E. Allen "Al" Kelley, d'54, Lawrence
Diane Worthington Simpson, c'57, l'83, Lawrence
Counselors to 2013
William "Bill" Benso, e'58, Lawrence
Eleanor Hawkinson Lowe, c'57, Mission Hills
Counselors to 2014
Kala Mays Stroup, c'59, g'64, PhD'74, Lawrence
Roger D. Warren, c'54, m'57, Hanover
Ex-Officio Members
Edith Darby Evans, d'47, Shawnee Mission
Glee S. Smith Jr., c'43, l'47, Lawrence
Elon M. Torrence, j'39, Topeka
Mary Turkington, j'46, Topeka
Barbara Bateman Wunsch, d'55, Kingman
Advisory Board
William "Bill" M. Hougland, b'52, Lawrence
Dick Wintermote, c'51, Lawrence
Beverly Jennings Logan, c'52, s'83, Olathe
Past Presidents of the Gold Medal Club
| 1949 - Professor E.F. Engel, 1892 (Chairman) | 1981 - John W. "Twink" Starr, c'27 |
| 1950 - Irving Hill, c1896 | 1982 - Louise Saltmarsh Baltis, c'24 |
| 1951 - C.C. Brown, 1896 | 1983 - Balfour Jeffrey, c'28 |
| 1952 - John Kane, 1900 | 1984 - A.H. "Red" Cromb, b'30 |
| 1953 - Hugh Means, l1895 | 1985 - Laurence C. Woodruff, c'24, g'30 |
| 1954 - Porter Fones, 1900, l1902 | 1986 - Ted Sanborn, b'26 |
| 1955 - Herman Langworthy, c1902, g1903 | 1987 - Josephine Rankin, d'31 |
| 1956 - Leslie J. Lyons, l1900 | 1988 - Henry Shenk, d'28 |
| 1957 - Carmie Wolfe, 1903 | 1989 - Elizabeth Jeffrey Jenkins, c'32 |
| 1958 - Clare Cowley, c1904 | 1990 - Ernest J. Gilles, b'33 |
| 1959 - C. Dodds, c1904 | 1991 - Marjorie Stacy Nation, d'33 |
| 1960 - John Gage, 1907 | 1992 - Paul Wilbert, c'36, l'38 |
| 1961 - Dr. Milton B. Miller, c1908 | 1993 - William H. Avery, c'34 |
| 1962 - John W. Lapham, 1907 | 1994 - Elmer C. Jackson, Jr., c'33, l'35 |
| 1963 - John B. Gage, 1907 | 1995 - Robert Quinn Rohde, c'39 |
| 1964 - N.T. "Tom" Veatch, e1909 | 1996 - Mildred Clodfelter, b'41 |
| 1965 - Edward L. Griffin, c1911, e1912, g1913 | 1997 - John M. Wall, b'28, l'31 |
| 1966 - Ralph Scamell, e1911 | 1998 - Ray (Ping) Senate, c'34 |
| 1967 - Albert P. Learned, e1910, g'30 | 1999 - Claudine (Scottie) Scott Lingelbach, b'44 |
| 1968 - Edward Boddington, a'14, l'16 | 2000 - Charles "Chuck" Wright, f'41 |
| 1969 - Kenneth Dodderidge, l'17 | 2001 - Lee W. Huddleston, b'41 |
| 1970 - Kenneth Dodderidge, l'17 | 2002 - Elon M. Torrence, j'39 |
| 1971 - J. Neale Carman, c'17, g'21 | 2003 - Judge Richard D. "Dick" Rogers, l'47 |
| 1972 - Edwin F. Price, c'19 | 2004 - Mary E. Turkington, j'46 |
| 1973 - Carl V. Rice, l'18 | 2005 - Glee S. Smith, Jr., c'43, l'47 |
| 1974 - Arthur C. Lonborg, l'21 | 2006 - Larry Winn, Jr., c'41 |
| 1975 - Ernst Uhrlaub, c'21, g'40 | 2007 - Otto O. Schnellbacher, Sr., d'48 |
| 1976 - Spencer Gard, l'22 | 2008 - Dick Wintermote, c'51 |
| 1977 - Paul Endacott, e'23 | 2009 - Don Fambrough, d'48 |
| 1978 - Kelvin Hoover, c'23 | 2010 - William "Bill" M. Hougland, b'52 |
| 1979 - Virginia Docking Rice, d'24 | 2011 - Beverly Jennings Logan, c'52, s'83 |
| 1980 - Raymond Nichols, c'26, g'28 |
