Cape Central High Photos

Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, was a photographer for The Tiger and The Girardot, and was on the staff of The Capaha Arrow and The Sagamore at Southeast Missouri State University.

He worked as a photographer / reporter (among other things) at The Jackson Pioneer and The Southeast Missourian.

He was photo editor of The Ohio University Post in Athens, Ohio. He moved on to The Athens (OH) Messenger and The Gastonia (NC) Gazette. He worked as a staff photographer, director of photography, editorial operations manager and telecommunications manager at The Palm Beach (FL) Post between 1972 and 2008, when he retired.

Come here to see photos and read stories (mostly true) about coming of age in Southeast Missouri in the 1960s.

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Tornado Drills and JFK's Assassination

Blaring klaxons at Alma Schrader School

Just as I stepped out of the car in front of Alma Schrader School Friday morning, an ear-splitting alarm cut the air. “Wow, that’s some greeting,” I thought. “They’ve got the sensor on the StrangeCharacter-o’meter set just a little bit too sensitive.”

When I got inside, I saw [...]

March 13th, 2010 | Category: Alma Schrader School, Central High School | 3 comments

Alma Schrader's 50th Anniversary

Miss Alma Schrader had an excused absence for missing the 50th Anniversary of the school named after her: the veteran Cape Girardeau school principal died shortly before the school opened. She would have been 124 years old, had she been able to attend, Principal Ruth Ann Orr joked.

You can read [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Category: Alma Schrader School | 24 comments

Alma Schrader School Turns 50 This Month

I  saw a story in The Missourian that Alma Schrader School is going to hold a 50th Anniversary Celebration March 11.

The school was on my old paper route. I guess the reason I always thought of it as being a “new” school was that it WAS new – only a couple of years old [...]

March 3rd, 2010 | Category: Alma Schrader School, Photos around Cape | 16 comments