St. John's College
Alumni Association
PO Box 376
1502 E. 6th Ave
Winfield, KS 67156

Phone: 620-221-1572
Email: sjcaa1@cox.net
Office Hours:
Tuesday - Thursday
8:00am - 3:00pm
  St. John's College Alumni Association
Office Staff:
Larry Junker, Executive Director
Wallace Behrhorst, Reporter Editor
Beth Smith, Administrative Assistant
 

 





























  

 



Well, here we are in the Year of our Lord, 2024!  If you look at the Feb. 2024 calendar, you find we get an extra day this month.  That’s right, it’s Leap Year!  And looking at the calendar, the St. John’s College Alumni Association is already almost three months into the new fiscal year, FY 2023-24.  The Association’s fiscal year begins on Nov. 1st and runs through Oct. 31st.  And speaking of calendars, have you received your new St. John’s College Alumni Association calendar for 2024?  The photo on the calendar was put together by Gery Pralle, A’59,T’61. If you haven’t gotten yours, all you have to do is make a contribution to the Alumni Association, and with your receipt you will receive your SJCAA Calendar. 
The new calendar year at the Alumni Association office marks the beginning of a busy time of the year.  First, planning for the 2024 Winfield Johnnie Reunion has begun.  The Reunion Committee (Julie Utt, Karen Hill, Sally Ray, Mark Schotte, Ruth Richter, Beth and Tim Smith, and Kris and Larry Junker) recently met and selected the theme for the reunion. “Morning Of Our Lives” was selected as the theme for the reunion slated for May 31 - June 2, 2024.  Go to the Association’s website (www.stjohnsalumni.org) for all the latest information concerning the reunion.  This year’s honored classes include the following: ’49, ’54, ’59, ’64, ’69, ’79, ’84, and of course the Class of 1974’s 50th Anniversary.  A large turnout of all the honored classes is expected.  Register your attendance and fill out your profile form soon so you won’t miss out on all the fun and festivities.
Also, April 1, 2024, is the deadline for receiving applications for financial aid for the Academic Year 2024-2025.  Last year, 38 students who could trace their direct lineage back to someone who attended either the Academy or the College of St. John’s enrolled at LCMS colleges, universities, and seminaries.  Each student received $1,056.  We have emailed all students from last year that are eligible this year to remind them that they must re-apply each year for this financial aid.  A few applications have come in to the Alumni office and are being processed.  All alumni and former faculty and staff are reminded that their son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter, or great-grandson or great-granddaughter is eligible for financial aid.  They can go to our website (www.stjohnsalumni.org) and get the guidelines and application form and return it to the Association office by April 1, 2024.  Please help us pass along the word about this financial aid that is available to these potential students.
Our accountants, Norton & Sims, CPAs, LLC, have just completed our audit (compilation) of the past fiscal year, FY 2022-23, and have filed the Federal 990 Forms.  Being an RSO of the LCMS, we are required to have an audit.  This audit showed that operationally, the Association had total income over expenses of just $202.82.  The Board of Directors, at their meeting in Nov. 2023, set a budget for FY 2023-24 of $83,330.  One would think that being a 501(c)3 organization, our filing of income taxes would be rather simple.  However, I am glad our accountants do this for us, as there are some 25 or so pages to the filing of our 990 Forms.
This past year, the Association was the recipient of some rather large estates totaling just over $500,000.  The majority of these funds were earmarked for our Scholarship Endowment.  The Association’s Endowments ended the fiscal year on Oct. 31, 2023, with a market value of the following:  Operational Endowment = $958,886, and the Scholarship Endowment = $2,436,041.  The total market value of the two endowments increased over the past year by some $563,255.  We thank those alumni who so generously contributed to the Alumni Association’s success the past year.  We look forward to their support in the year ahead.
  I hope you can see that the Association office gets rather busy from now until the first part of June when the reunion is over.  With that in mind, I ask you to keep the office staff, the Reunion Committee, and the Board of Directors in your thoughts and prayers as they will be busy.
I thank you, too, for your financial support this first quarter of the current fiscal year.  With your prayers and financial support, we are able to “Keep the Johnnie Spirit Alive and Well.”


Blessings always

Larry R. Junker