LHS Hall of Fame Inductee Andy Revering

The Litchfield High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on November 7th. Four Litchfield High School graduates are being inducted for 2025, including Andy Revering from the class of 1961.

Revering says his parents operated the Bi-Way Beer Tavern just outside of Litchfield and he has so many good memories of growing up in town, especially downtown where he would get his haircut in the hotel basement, eat 15-cent hamburgers, and watch westerns on Saturday afternoons in the Unique Theater. He says he attended country school until the 5th grade, then went to the new St. Philip’s Catholic School through the 8th grade, then attended Litchfield High School. He says he was involved in football, wrestling, and track and was an artist for the yearbook.

Revering says he joined the U.S. Air Force in Texas two days after graduating from Litchfield High School and when he was done there in 1965, he wanted to join a police department in Minnesota with a K9 unit, but couldn’t find one. He says he got hired by the Anoka Police Dept. where he got the chief to send him to a national police dog academy to get a K9 implemented into their department, and then he worked his way up the ranks as sergeant, captain, deputy chief, and then chief. He says he served for a total of 33 years in Anoka – 14 years as chief – before retiring.

Revering says that he’s proud of a program that they pioneered in Anoka for preventing juvenile crime called Police Accountability Conferencing for Juvenile Offenders. He says it is a program that originated in Australia – an in New Zealand before that.

Revering says it is a very effective program, with 96% of the juveniles not reoffending. He says Litchfield was a great town to grow up in and when he’s back in town on November 7th for the hall of fame induction ceremony at Litchfield High School, he’s hoping to let students know what an impact their teachers have, even though they might not realize it until years after high school.