Baby, it’s cold outside!!!!!!

Don’t forget you can find an old friend by clicking on the green “Alumni Info” page in the black banner above. Request a password through johnfkcollege@gmail.com. (ID will be required.) Take some time to relax and appreciate what we have…and we might just realize we have more to be thankful for than we thought…especially if we have our health. The best to you always.

“You are not obligated to finish the work; neither are you free to desist from it” Pirkei Avot 2:21

NANCY “BOOMER” RHEA-BEHRENDS’ OBITUARY CAN BE FOUND ON THE “OBITS” PAGE

Individuals are displayed in alphabetical order, based on the last name while at JFK. Her service is Saturday, March 2, 2024 at the Methodist Church (346 Babcock St.) in Chappell Nebraska 69129. She will surely be missed.

Two JFK grads who passed away have ongoing memorials in their names to help others via education…please contribute to support education if possible.

KEN BUSCH, 1970 JFK graduate. Ken’s family has started the "Ken Busch Housing Scholarship" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Please help keep Ken’s legacy alive by contributing to the scholarship link: http://www.give.uwm.edu/KenBuschHousingScholarship (copy links into browser)

CLARENCE GEORGE,1971 JFK Graduate, a MEMORIAL FUND has been established, with a matching donation from Sherwin Williams Paint. To learn more about it and how best to donate, go to caringbridge.org, and enter his name.

Let’s make 2024 the best ever

Relax after a hard day on the links/in the yard/with the grand kids and look at some of these names…bound to make you smile.

To keep in touch via cell phone, email, etc. with your JFK friends, select “Alumni Info” (in green letters in the top black bar.)

please give pause to remember those JFK’er’s who left us (or we learned of) in 2021, 2022 and 2023:

fred bankus diane bennett-siegrist lynn bennett-kajewski charley bremer

RUTH ANN BROWN-POTTS kathy bull ken busch sue cox-bender mariann deshazer

Ray Denniston clarence george bernard gewinner

Jack (town tap) hudkins wayne koncan nick ludi robin mcquillen-orr

george o’brien Arnold Pospisil nancy rhea-behrends George weiss bob widenor Barbara Williams-Boone

Click on the green “OBITS” tab in the black box above for obituary details

Check out our Facebook page…just click on the green Facebook link in the black box above…plenty of pictures, old and new.

John F. Kennedy College Reunion was held in

October 2019

“A good time was had by all!!!”

 

John F. Kennedy College opened in 1965 in Wahoo Nebraska, offering a liberal arts curriculum and robust basketball and baseball/softball programs for men and women. The small but mighty college produced its first graduating class of twelve in 1968, and saw graduation size increase to a high of 129 in 1970. In the early 70’s, finances and enrollment tumbled, and the college closed in 1975.

During its short run, the school helped spawn many noteworthy graduates and earned several national titles. From this little college came an Olympic silver medalist, former NBA coach, Saunders County’s largest private contractor, a 50-year wrestling coach and a Florida mayor, while the school won the first NCIA Women’s Softball Title in 1969, a national AAU Women’s Basketball title in 1971 and traveled to The People’s Republic of China in 1973. But perhaps the most significant accomplishment was the establishment of so many long-term relationships.

The school fell on hard financial times early, and three fires did not help. Perhaps it was the passing of Title IX, allowing women to play sports in other locations. Maybe it was a young alumni base, just getting started financially, or the end of the draft deferment. But when the school was not able to bring in enough new freshmen to replace graduating classes, the handwriting was on the wall, until the school closed on July 2, 1975.

The formerly-pristine campus is no longer maintained as it had been, remaining vacant. For those who walk by now, its an eyesore, something that “needs to be dealt with.” But for those of us who attended classes here, it remains a source of fond memories, of friendships...and of a time when we thought we had the world by the tail.


 

Contact us at:

johnfkcollege@gmail.com