Valley High School, West Des Moines, Iowa
Welcome to the Valley High School Alumni site. Run by Valley Alumni FOR Valley Alumni. Your information is accessible only by VHS Alumni who have signed up on this site. No information will be shared with anyone else unless you opt out by allowing your information to be public. This site is FREE. TO JOIN: Click on MISSING CLASSMATES, (we know you all are not missing, just not signed in) upper right corner of this page, drop-down arrow, click your year, and then your name. Follow the directions to join. If your name is not listed, please use the Contact Link, under Home Page Link through this site OR vhsreunions.com@gmail.com. Please encourage any/all VHS grads and former students to register on our free site! Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger!
Annual All Class & Friends
Golf Outing
SAVE THE DATE FRIDAY AUGUST 9, 2024
Details to Follow!!!!
Would Someone Like to Rehome a Free 1969 Yearbook to a WDM Native??? Great Guy living in WDM??? Promise it will be a good home. Email me at vhsreunions.com@gmail.com and I will connect you.
Class of 1964
We hope you have cleared your calendar for June 21 and 22, 2024, for our upcoming 60th Class Reunion!
Friday night, June 21, will be held in a Private Events Room at Rewind Hotel, 6075 Mills Civic Pkwy, WDM from 5:00-11:00 pm. A social hour with appetizers and a cash bar will be followed by a seated dinner served by Johnny's Steakhouse.
Saturday, June 22, from 4:00-10:00 pm will be a casual gathering in the party room at Nick’s Bar & Grill, 9769 University Ave., Clive.
For more details and the reservation form, please contact ValleyHigh1964@AOL.com.
(For those requiring a hotel stay, we have a block rooms set aside at Rewind Hotel. To reserve, call 515-309-3900 and ask for the Valley High School Class of 1964 rate. Rooms will be held until May 21.
The ticket price is $70 per person, which includes Friday and Saturday night events. We need your commitment by April 1.)
Class of ’65 Announces “59 ¼ Reunion”
(We decided we need some practice before our 60th in 2025)
September 13th and 14th , 2024
Friday night, Sept 13th --- Wellman’s Pub and Rooftop
597 Market St, WDM
Saturday night, Sept 14th -- Waveland Golf Course Clubhouse
4908 University, DSM
Details to follow
If you’re reading this but haven’t received an earlier email announcement, please send your contact information to:
Linda McMurray-Wilson at lindaingolden@gmail.com.
Thank you
sumner.worth@gmail.com
Linda Schaller Weidmaier lindaweid@msn.com
Class of ‘71 turns 71 Birthday Bash
June 28, 2024
Come join Us at Wellman's Pub and Rooftop
597 Market St. West Des Moines, IA 50266
4:00 PM on the Outdoor Patio
https://www.wellmanspub.com/
Class of 1964 SAVE THE DATE
for our 60th Class Reunion June 21 and 22, 2024.
Friday night June 21, 2024, - social hour and dinner served by
Johnny's Steakhouse, Rewind Hotel, 6075 Mills Civic Pkwy, WDM.
Saturday, June 22, 2024 - a fun gathering at
Nick’s Bar & Grill party room, 9769 University Ave, Clive.
Class of 1969
Save The Date for our 55th Class Mini-Reunion -
June 20 and 21, 2024
Thursday night, June 20th - VIP tent at Music in the Junction which is a part of the Thursday night Farmers Market in Valley Junction; located at the south end of 5th Street, along Railroad Ave. Look for the tent with the Class of 69 banner.
Friday night June 21st- yet to be confirmed. We will update this notice as plans get more firm.
Questions? Contact Teri Silverman Bognanno at teribognanno@gmail.com;
Jeanne Wood Scholten at wolfjeanne50@gmail.com;
or Craig Derby at derby1969@gmail.com
"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTON"
REMEMBERING OUR VALLEY SERVICE MEMBERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING OUR COUNTRY
A huge thank you to Don Ames, Class of 1949 who has generously spent countless years (yes years) of research to add info from Ancestry for our classes of 1901 - 1949, He also proudly served in the US Army during the Korea War and did the research for the following list.
Class of 1927 Alfred William Hudgell, Boatswain Mate. 1st class, U. S. Navy,
He was a Boatswian Mate 1st. class, serving on board the USS Tennessee (BB-243) in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7th.1941
Class of 1932 Francis Myron Gray, Col, U.S. Army, died Ft. Lee, VA 1972.
He enlisted in the United States Army, 20 July 1941 and was released from that duty, 18 June 1947. He was later called back during the Korean War and the VietNam War. Col Francis Myron Gray died 08 Aug 1972 while stationed at Fort Lee, VA
Class of 1932 Kenneth Philomin Kenworthy, PFC, U.S. Army, KIA Germany 1942, during WW II. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII and was "KIA" 17 Nov 1944 near Brandenberg, Germany.
Class of 1934 John Walden Emerick, Electricians Mate, 1st. Class, U.S. Navy, "On Eternal Patrol" 1943, during WW II.
Class of 1934 Wayne D. Hicks, LT., U.S. Army Air Corps, bombardier, KIA, Picardie, France 1944, during WW II.
Class of 1937 Elmer Boyd Kirts, CPO, U.S. Navy, Lost at Sea 1945, during WW II.
Class of 1937 Robert George Overton, Pvt., U.S. Army, KIA Strass, Germany 1945 during WW II.
Class of 1939 Howard R. Helt, Sgt U.S. Army Air Corps, gunner, MIA India 1944, WW II, during WW II.
Class of 1940 Robert Douglas Compton, U.S. Army Air Corps, died in training accident, Pauls Valley, OK, 1944, during WW II.
Class of 1940 Williard Eugene Smith, U.S. Army Air Force, KIA 1944 in Europe, during WW II.
Class of 1943 David Patrick Carlin, Signal Corps, U. S. Army Air Corps, died 1943 during WW II, during training accident in Northern CA.
Class of 1943 Milo Foresman, Sgt. U.S. Army Air Corps, gunner, KIA during 1944 WW II, over the Palau Islands.
Class of 1943 Lyle Everett Robertson, 2nd LT. U.S. Army Air Corps, died in a plane crash, 1944 in Panama, during WW II.
Class of 1944 Richard Henry Lowe, PVT, U.S. Army, KIA, Belgium during BATTLE OF THE BULGE in 1945.
Class of 1960 Donald Glenn Peddicord, U.S. Navy, KIA 1967 in South Vietnam.
Class of 1963 Russell Thomas Pickering, 2nd Lt. U.S. Army, KIA 1969 in Vietnam
Class of 1965 Randall Merle Cable, U.S. Army, died 1970 in Japan of non battle condition
Class of 1966 David M King, pilot, U.S. Navy, grad of U.S. Naval Academy, died 1974 near Yuma, AZ. while on a training mission.
Class of 1966 Michael Lee Zappia, U.S. Marine Corps, killed in action in Vietnam February 25, 1969.
Class of 1975 Scott Christopher McCully. U.S. Army, Stationed at Camp Edwards, Korea, died 1978 of Pulmonary Edema.
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Thanks to Don Ames for his recent post for Memorial Day.
For those Valley classmates I knew and whose funerals I attended, it was bittersweet.
For those I did not know but whose service I honor, Thank You.
Please know that your work is appreciated, Don, as well as your service.
Thanks to the administrators of the page for the post and support of the page.
Susan Holmes Andersen
Class of 1967