Lanphier High School - Lan Hi Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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l l C-EDY STRIKES AT LH l yff kEvi N SMITH If N , fly X NVAX X Nyc l Q NR N lt During the summer, a Lanphier student was criti- afwf 'wks l cally injured in a service station holdup. Kevin Smith X l ,Aff g X NX ll was a B average auto body repair student, mechanical 05,1 f ' I . YV drawing buff and a wrestler. He would havecbeen a f 1 i I if tmp tm l 1 - J X , lj 'fl txt ll V ul' jljjl, He was beaten and left in a back storeroom of the l l' 'Al station where he had worked for a week. Besides leav- ,I l X A ll fjlf- ing Kevin for dead, the attackers got a total of 5548.40 ' , l 9,455.3-s,., 'jj'-N ll and six cartons of cigarettes. Only days later, they ll jg -f 'jjlxk ll were in jail and Kevin was struggling for his life in the fy, Ill, jj' l hospital. He suffered severe brain injury and under- Al, ily ' .' j i M1 i jjll 1 went surgery several times. He fought hard, but he lost l X ' jj l 'j,q ,l'l ' l his battle. He died during the early morning of Octo- X ber 13, 1976. . X llvlany local groups and individuals raised and do- nated money to help pay for Kevin's surgery and other ,' li -6 medical expenses. A- ,The 1977 Lan-Hi Staff would like to express our con- cern and sympathy to Kevin's family. 1 I rvlifrvloialufvl NED BURGE Mr. Ned Burge came to Lanphier as a custodian in 1968. He was here for eight years. A man of great abilities, friendliness, and cheer- fulness, he was admired and liked by all those who knew him. He died at age 67 on july 29, 1976. cARLos HANDLER On May 19, 1976, Carlos Handler, who was an ex- change student at Lanphier last year, was killed in an au- tomobile accident. He had stayed with Diane Skufca's fam- ily from December, 1975 until February, 1976. He was a high school student in Chichigalpa, Nica- ragua. 11

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