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 […]
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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 […]
Teacher and student reconnect on patriotic mural
A decade ago, Amy Lynn Stevenson and Hallie Snyder met as teacher and student at the Summer Honors Program in Holdrege, Neb. Last spring they reconnected to create a mural on the side of the Eagles building.