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 transferred to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, his junior year, and served as photo editor of The Ohio University Post. He was also chief photographer of The Athens Messenger.
He was chief photographer of the Gastonia (NC) Gazette for a long 18 months until he could escape to The Palm Beach Post, where he served as a staff photographer, director of photography, editorial operations manager and telecommunications manager. He accepted a buyout in 2008, after 35 years at the paper.
Most of the stories are about growing up in a small Midwestern town on the Mississippi River, but there’s no telling what you might run into.
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You’re on your own on this one. The negative sleeve said “Notre Dame Highlites Queen Crowning,” but it didn’t have a date, so I couldn’t find it in The Missourian to get more information.
In the first photo the boy on the far right is Ken Westrich of Kelso, MO. The girl standing to the left of the queen and also crowning the queen in the last photo is Vicki Maurer. She and Ken have been married many years! I’ll forward this post to my relatives who were classmates of these people and see if we can get more names.
Beverly, is Vicki a sister of Ron, Don and Jim Maurer? Just curious. Ron was in my wedding.
It appears to be the senior class of 1967.
The large photo of all on the left – Laura Todt with Robert Bayer, ? with Richard Graham, Patrick Bucek(?) and Kenny Westrich on the right. Some are siblings of my class.
Jeff, Yes, Vicki Maurer is the oldest sister of Ron, Don, and Jim Maurer. There is another set of twins in the family, older sisters of Ron and Don. Their names are Diane and Joanne, but they
go by Didi and Jodi. Good people!