Queen Alalah Spotlight:
Jodie Buechner Stanley
Twenty years ago, Jodie Buechner was crowned Queen Alalah LIII (53). Today, she lives in Southern California with husband David and their four children. Stanley reflected on Arkansas City’s fall festival and her being crowned Queen Alalah. “Arkalalah is a real time of celebration for our town,” she said. “It’s celebrating the town, its people, and its heritage. “The (Arkalalah) committee made that weekend a marvelous time for the queen to fully experience nearly every activity, many I’d never yet been to, and made an ordinary girl feel very special.” Stanley said she always enjoyed seeing family and friends during the Arkalalah weekend.
While at Cowley, Stanley said some of her favorite instructors were Kenneth Judd for music, Sharon Hill for speech and drama, Don Hastings for biology, Mike Watters for chemistry, and her father, Phil Buechner, for math. Since graduating in 1985, Stanley has kept very busy. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from Kansas State University, got married, and earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Southwestern College. For a time, she was a nurse at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center in Arkansas City.
Today, she home-schools her four children while David serves as a pastor. Stanley said the last Friday in October is marked on her calendar each year. “The coronation is a really special tradition that a lot of the town never experiences,” she said. “The weekend is focused on our great parade, but there are so many other wonderful things to experience, too. I always know I have a special date on this Friday each year.”
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