John Mohn:
CLASS OF 1957
Ellinwood High SchoolClass of 1957
Ellinwood, KS
Great Bend High SchoolClass of 1980
Great bend, KS
Great Bend High SchoolClass of 1970
Great bend, KS
Almont High SchoolClass of 1969
Almont, MI
Shawnee Mission East High SchoolClass of 1966
Shawnee mission, KS
John's Story
Life
Graduated Chanute Junior College 1959. US Army, 533 Military Police Company Corps, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1959-1961. B.S. education, journalism/English, University of Kansas, 1964. High school journalism teacher (publications adviser) Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Ks. 1964-66. Masters in counseling, University of Kansas, 1968. Counselor/journalism teacher Almont, Michigan, 1968-70. Newspaper/yearbook adviser Great Bend High School 1970-1980. School board member, Ellinwood school district 1980-83. Printing business, life insurance sales 1980-83. Publications adviser Ellinwood High School 1983-1998. (Graduated from Ellinwood High School, was a school board member of Ellinwood, and later taught at Ellinwood High School full time.) Students at Great Bend and Ellinwood combined for 6 state journalism championships and 6 second place finishes. Kansas Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame, 1999. Publications adviser Washburn Rural High School 2001-2003 (Students won state journalism contest (6A) 2003.)
Married Ida Nesmith 1965. Two children, Megan and Tristan (girls). Divo...Expand for more
rced 1980. Children stayed with me on farm south of Ellinwood. Married Chris Springfeldt (Doherty) 1982. (She had a daughter, Andrea.) Bought Ellinwood Leader newspaper 1987. Sold it 1994. Foreign exchange student from Indonesia, Azrul Ananda, lived with us 1994. His father is top journalist in Indonesia, CEO of Jawa Pos group (80 publications). I have visited Indonesia 8 times for 30-50 day periods to teach at various newspapers across the archipelago. Speak limited Indonesian. Azrul now is top editor in Jawa Pos, a 350,000 circlulation paper in Surabaya. Megan graduated from KU. Tristan graduated from K-State. Andrea graduated from Fort Hays State (b.s. & m.s.). Megan married Chance Ragan. They have a boy and a girl and live south of Kansas City, Ks. Tristan works for Black and Veach as a web designer. Andrea married Mike Doll, Great Bend. He works at KU. They have one son. They live in Baldwin. Chris completed her Ph.d in Spanish literature this year. She teaches at KU. We lived in Santiago de Compostela, Spain last year while she headed the KU Study Abroad program there. My Spanish has improved.
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