This is the first in a series marking the 50th year of SHP that we’re calling 50 Years 50 Stories of SHP. Everyone who has been involved with Summer Honors has contributed to its overall story, and here we plan to tell many interesting sub-stories about challenges SHP has faced, traditions SHP has inspired, and […]
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The Road to 50 Is Under Way
On June 12, 2026, more than 30 SHP alumni, staff, and friends gathered in at the Lost Way Brewery in Holdrege for the SHPAA Road to 50 Kickoff Event, marking the beginning of our journey toward the Summer Honors Program’s 50-year reunion on June 12, 2027. The evening was exactly what we hoped it would […]
From the first SHP to supporting today’s program
Transformational. That’s how Glen Miles, one of the original Summer Honors Program attendees in 1978 describes it. “Life has many transformational experiences, but none were as pivotal for me as those encountered at the first year of SHP. We came as small town youth with limited expectations of what was achievable in the wider […]