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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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Gerald Love and His Remarkable Mother

While I was in Cape, I got an email from Gerald Love: “Ken, when is the next CHS Reunion?”

Not exactly sure what he was asking, I replied, “The most immediate reunion is this weekend. No telling when the one after that will be held.”

He said that he was going to be in town visiting [...]

July 5th, 2010 | Category: Central High School | 20 comments

Central High School Reunion: The End (Maybe)

This isn’t my favorite photo of the weekend, far from it. It’s a mediocre image from a technical standpoint, but it’s the one that caused a wave of deja vu to wash over me.

It was the end of the evening. The crowd was starting to drift away. A few couples got up [...]

June 30th, 2010 | Category: Central High School | 13 comments

Tour of “Old” Central High School

When the reunion organizers proposed a tour of the “new” Central High School, there was a clamor for a tour of the “old” Central High School, because that’s where we built our memories. The Class of 66 scheduled a breakfast in the cafeteria at 9 Saturday morning. They and the other classes got to prowl the [...]

June 28th, 2010 | Category: Central High School | 18 comments
 
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