Occupation:  retired
Marital Status:  Widowed
No. of Children:  4
From Barbara:
I will not be able to attend the reunion but wish to say hello to everyone and look forward to the 100th reunion even if it may not be here on earth.
I decided to add a little more about my life as I so enjoyed reading about everyone elses.  I married in '58 and divorced in '67 with two children in tow.  I met my second husband in the pickle aisle at Kohl's Food Store where I was working at the time.  We had our first date on Friday the 13th in June of 1969 and married 6 months later. We had a son named Michael who was our only child.  Bob had a daughter from his first marriage, so together we had four.  Bob also spent time in the regular army and was stationed at Ft. Lewis WA till 1963.  We lost our son to a heart attack at the age of 33 in 2004 and I lost my beloved on Good Friday to cancer 2006 after 36 years of a very passionate and loving marriage.
I worked in retail most of my life but ended up working for the State of Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs where I retired from in 2002.
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Occupation:  Retired
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  4
From Izzy :
After graduation in 1958 I started working for General Castings as a quality control inspector. In 1986 I transferred to Navistar International where I continued working in quality contol. In 2002 I retired from Navistar. I came out if retirement in 2003 to work part time at Waukesha Memorial as Building Service Engineer. 
I married Janie in 1966 and have 4 children and have 12 grandchildren.   
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Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  7
From Barby:

My family moved to Waukesha at the beginning of junior year, so I spent only two years with you.  During those two years, however, I found a wonderful group of friends and great school spirit for the Blackshirts!

Four years later I graduated from Mt. Mary College, worked for the Milwaukee Girl Scout Council, married and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Several moves later and five children - all daughters - it was off to Sheboygan, Wisconsin where I lived with my husband, Jim for 37 years until his death in 2001. In 2003 Conrad Barrows and I were married and built a home on Elkhart Lake, WI. We are now the collective parents of seven children and 13 grandchildren. 

We love to travel, play golf and ski. I still ride horses, garden, do a good deal of charitable work and continue to enjoy life! It will be wonderful to see you all at the reunion. 

Barby Vandiver Barrows

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No. of Children:  3
From Beverly:

Attended UW-Whitewater and Marquette University.

Married Fred Beckmann in 1961

Divorced:  1975

Children:  3, John, Tammy, Robert

Grandchildren:  5 ½, Brittany, Danielle, Trevor, Hailey, Hannah and ?

Lived in Sarasota, FL for 10 years.

Employment:  AODA Therapist at Kettle Moraine & De Paul Hospitals

  Director of Kettle Moraine AODA Clinic

Presently Community Coordinator at Waukesha Wal-Mart

Occupation:  Retired Engineer
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
From Stanley:
Been retired for 7 years. Keep busy by volunteering with the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, Ariz.Antelope Foundation, Ariz. Wildlife Foundation and Ariz. State Parks, one of which is our backyard. Love to sail, travel, camp, fish, and hunt predators.
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Occupation:  Retired social worker
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  5
From Micki:
After graduating from WHS, I attended Carroll for three semesters before transferring to UW Madison where I earned a degree in sociology. I married Dan in 1965, and we settled in Portage where his dental practice was located. When my youngest children were 10, I reentered the workforce and spent a year as a reporter for our daily newspaper followed by five years as an adoption social worker. In 2003, I retired from Columbia Co. DHHS where I was a social worker in the Children and Family Division. Substitute teaching helped me ease into retirement (and I thought social work was stressful) but I'm wrapping that up at the end of the current school year. 
Dan and I were divorced in 1990 but remain friends. The two of us enjoy spending time together with children and grandchildren. I have a small home in Saddle Ridge, a growing condo community four miles east of Portage. I love being surrounded by stately pines, home to abundant wildlife and the neighboring marsh with its everchanging colors and textures. Swan Lake is only a 20 min. walk.
From time to time I see Judy Ragen Schwingel and Kathy Juedes Graf who live in Waukesha and, after a 40 yr. hiatus, Helen Burk Einberger and I recently got together. I look forward to seeing all of you at the reunion.
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Occupation:  happily retired teacher
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  3
From don:

Three years in the  Army after graduating UW-Madison taught me that focus was essential since study habits and learning to make the rules work for me were not a part of my high school or college experience.  It may be that the two and  a half years duty in Paris was the first real contact with things and people that gave me unequivocal pleasure. 
   It hurt leaving, but re-upping would have guaranteed me fun and games in Vietnam, and it's possible , then, that I might not have become the father of three sons whom I raised despite a divorce. 
  After the service  I started with IBM in Chicago, which I found a hard switch from wine and escargot . So I decided I could make a difference by teaching "inner-city" kids on Chicago's westside.  Seven years and a few riots  later,  I returned to Wisconsin to finish my career teaching high school in Delavan and retired in 2001. 
   I didn't have kids until I was forty, so I am still very active in my sons' lives.  I run about twenty-five miles  a week, I read all sorts of things,enjoy cooking,  work on my Hungarian and  French,  spend lots  of time blogging to major newspapers because my experience has only reinforced my "bleeding-heart" liberal tendencies.

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Occupation:  Retired
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  3
From Joan:
Before I graduated from high school I started working part time at Waukesha Savings and Loan.  I spent 42 years working at Savings and Loans or Savings Banks and recently retired from The Equitable Bank after working there 27.5 years.  I have been married 47 years to my husband, Wayne Birner.  We have three children, 1 daughter, Linda and 2 sons, Bill and Jason.  They have given us 4 grandchildren; grandson Nick just turned 21 and Bill has 3 children; Lauren 11, Amy 8 and precious Ryan 13 months.  Because retirement is so new to me I'm still finding my way.  I love to crochet and read.  My husband and I sing in our church choir and I'm the financial secretary for our church for the past 11 years.  Our health currently is good and we have been truly blessed these past 50 years.
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Occupation:  retired
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
From roger:
I worked in Waukesha until Aug 63 when the US Army came calling. Did basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. then to soils analyst school at Ft. Belvoir, Va. Stationed in Japan from Jan 64 to Jan 66 where I met my wife of 43 years. Reiko.  Two daughters, Robin 1965 and Rhonda 1969, three grandchildren, Kiana 1997, Deric 2001, and Peyton (girl) 2004. Entered Air Force in 1967 and retired in California in 1985. Had assingments in Illinois, Oklahoma, Viet Nam, Virginia, Mississippi, Japan again, and California, where I retired. While stationed at these places I was sent on many  temporary duty assignments. One was on the USS Discoverer, a NOAA ship doing research in the Caribbean,and then through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, and on to the Gallopagos Islands for four days. Other places I was sent include Okinawa, Korea, Alaska, Wake Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Phillipines, Hawaii, and Spain. After retirement I worked for the Air Force as a technical advisor on the Electronic Warfare Threat Emitter Systems placed on all the training ranges. This was an extremely interesting job. Retired again in 1999 . My days now consist of golf, gardening, taking care of my 50 chickens, 10 ducks, six geese, and 2 dogs. We also take care of Peyton a couple of days a weekI        
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Occupation:  licensed vocational nurse
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
From Julie Ann:

Ron Boverie and I have been married for 42 years.  We have a daughter Dawn and a son John. We have four grand-children: Breann (15) and Heather (10) are Dawn's daughters, while Stephanie (11) and John Jr. (6) are John's kids.  We watch them quite a lot.

Ron and I are both still working.  I've been with the same allergy doctor for the past 28 years.  It's always been a part-time position - but it gets me out of the house as one can only watch the grand-kids so much.  I still work because I enjoy the job so much and like most of the patients.  Ron still drives and owns his own semi-truck, but has cut back some on working in order to have more time for his golf.

We've traveled a lot during our years together.  Our son John was on a traveling hockey team during his elementary and high school years.  So we've been to Canada numerous times, Alaska and even went to the United States Championships in Northern Michigan - But didn't win that one.  On our way to Michigan we flew into Mitchell field in Milwaukee and had a slight travel delay, so I introduced all the adult parents to Wisconsin beer, sauerkraut and bratwurst at a local eatery.

We have also traveled for Ron's sport - golf.  He used to belong to a traveling golf team and once a month they would play a round at various golf clubs in California.  His golf clubs have accompanied us to the Bahamas , Hawaii and a lot of the United States.  Every Labor Day finds us in Pahrump, Nevada for a three day tournament:  Ron plays a round and I meet with the "Breakfast Club".  We non-playing wives meet for breakfast and take in a little gambling.

Whenever I go back to Waukesha for a visit, I make sure to take the tour of homes I've lived in along with places like "The Attic" and visiting my parent's graves.  The only other place I'm sure to visit is "The Grotto" for an Italian sausage and pepper sandwich.  It's alway a take-out and we have a nice lunch down by the Fox River. 

It's always nice to visit "Home" every so often - but it truly feels good to get back to my other "Home" in California.

Julie (Strelecki) Boverie


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