Occupation:  securities trainer
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
From Gib:
After graduating from Waukesha, I went on to the University of Wisconsin. At the U, I studied economics, was the President of Sigma Chi fraternity, and played on the golf team  I did not finish for 6 years, taking leaves to try making a living on the PGA golf tour and serving in the reserves for 6 months. .   I had several different until I entered the investment business with the Milwaukee Company, a New York stock exchange member firm in 1968. I also worked for Smith Barney for close to ten years. I moved from the Milwaukee area to Minneapolis in 1973 to manage an office there for the Milwaukee Company.    In 1987 I left the active investment business to become a trainer for Dearborn Financial Institute, which later acquired by Kaplan Financial.   My wife Sande and I have three sons and two grandchildren between the two of us. My training job had, and still has, the fringe benefit, of traveling a lot, which Sande has enjoyed going with me a lot.    In 2001 we moved from Minnesota to the Tampa, Florida area. I still work between 5 and 10 days a month. The rest of the time I play golf, and if I get overgolfed, I fish a lot in Tampa and the Gulf of Mexico. We are looking forward to spending extra time after the reunion with my sister Sally Rappis and other Wisconsin friends.
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Occupation:  Retired
From Janice:
My first job after leaving high school was working at Vanity Cleaners on Grqnd and Williams St. Left there to manage the One Hour Martinizing dry cleaners on Broadway.

After marrying George Lawrence in 1965 we built a new home in North Prairie where we resided til 1976 when we purchased our first motel, the Forest Manor in Lebanon Mo. We owned and managed 5 motels through the years; The Forest Manor in Lebanon, Mo, the Chalet Motel in Marinette, WI, the Guest House Motel in La Crosse, WI, the Best Nights Inn in Sparta, WI, and the Econo Lodge in Fond Du Lac, WI. from 1976 to 2004 when we moved back to Lebanon MO to retire. 

We now own a horse ranch where we raise Missouri Fox Trotter horses. We have one daughter, one Grand daughter, and one Great Grand daughter,
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Occupation:  Retired
Marital Status:  Single Again
From Dick:

Can I get away with doing this backwards?   – starting at the present.

Not that I hated working, but retirement is offering a wonderful life.  My sister Gina (WHS 1954) easily prevailed on me to move last year from the S. F. Bay Area into her smallish log cabin just outside of the small town of Buena Vista, Colorado (pronounced by the locals “byoona-vista”).  BV lies in a Rocky Mountain semi-arid valley and sports a traffic light, a grocery store, a pretty good hardware store, a variety store, a few others.  Fourteen churches, two bars.  A couple of the streets have curbs and sidewalks.  It’s cradled by two mountain ranges offering more trails than I ever hope to exhaust.  I was already a geology and paleontology junkie before I moved here, and between local hikes and trips to the red rock canyon country in SE Utah I feed my jones by reading John McPhee, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Abbey and other such suspicious types.   Volunteer trail maintenance work and campaign work with the local Democratic Party occupy what’s left of my time between endless projects (mostly enjoyable) around the cabin.

The road here from WHS was a great ride all in all, though it didn’t include what could be called a career.  Over the years my sight was set in turn on social work, philosophy, Oriental philosophy, and psychology.  I majored in philosophy at Beloit College, junior year in Germany.  Did 3 ½ years in the Army, including a year at the language school in Monterey attempting to learn Chinese, and a Vietnam tour with Army Intelligence.  Then five years of grad school, one of them in Japan.  I dropped out with no degree.  Twenty some years employed by Japan Airlines, mostly in their communications center near San Francisco.  After being downsized out of that world, I found a lot of satisfaction in school again, at a community college where I re-trained in electronics and computer maintenance.  Was hired there and spent 10 years as a technician and then as a computer lab manager, until retirement in December ’06.

Music has been a love and anchor in my life.  I built a kit harpsichord and found that learning to play it was an insurmountable challenge, but in the process what I learned about baroque music immensely deepened and broadened my love for the form.  I got hooked on baroque dancing and for eight years Stanford’s summer dance workshop was an annual high point. 

Over the years I was fortunate to have close and sometimes intense relationships with several wonderful women.  These experiences, including a late and brief marriage, enriched my life and, um, informed me of some of my limitations. 

Finally:  Gina and I plan to add a second floor to the cabin, and when it’s finished about a year from now we’ll have room for guests.  In the meantime there are reasonably priced motels here.  We love having visitors and hope that any of you who come out this way will sojourn with us for a few days.  We’re 90 miles west of Colorado Springs, 125 miles SW of Denver. 

Looking forward to seeing you at the reunion!

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From Judy:

I worked in Milwaukee for about 7 years after high school.  Bill and I married in 1965.  Our son was born in 1968 and our daughter in 1970.

 

I was a stay-at-home mom and volunteered with Cub Scouts and 4-H while the kids were growing up.

 

I went to work for Kelly Temporary Services in 1989.  In 1995 I took a full time receptionist job in Nashotah and retired from that job in February, 2006.  I have a part time volunteer job as secretary at our church.

 

We are keeping busy with our grandchildren.  Our son has 4 children and our daughter has 2 and they all live within ½ hour of our home in Eagle.

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Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  5
From Tom:
I have been trying to put something together for this page for a couple of weeks and each time I think that nearly 50 years have lapsed since graduation I am left with the same thought.... wow!  Where did the 50 years go?  It just doesn't seem right that I am rapidly approaching the big seven zero!  But like the saying goes, it is better to be getting old than the alternative.  So here goes.  After graduation I went off to UW and earned a degree in pharmacy.  I immediately entered graduate school at the University of Kansas and four years later with a doctorate in hand took my first fulltime job with the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  With this pattern of moving every four years, I decided to return to academia and took a job in the University of Houston College of Pharmacy four and one half years later.  Having finally found my calling, I remained with the college for the next 36 years in a variety of capacities including professor, director of admissions and assessment and associate dean for professional programs.  I don't think that I could have aspired to a more challenging, rewarding, and enjoyable career.  Probably the highlight of this career was the year spent on sabbatical in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Jean Marie Lehn at Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Since retirement in August 2006 I have taken on part time academic assignments including teaching a course at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California the past two years.  This coming fall Pat and I will be living in California from August through December as I continue this part time assignment.

Pat and I celebrated our 18th anniversary this year.  Between us we have five children and nine grandchildren.  Three of our daughters (along with seven of the grandchildren) live within a few miles of our home in Pearland, Texas with one of our sons (plus two grandchildren) living in Austin and the other son living in Washington D.C.  The grandchildren range in age from 18 to 4 years old.  Our house is filled with excitement when everyone is present!

Pat and I are active in our church and we enjoy traveling.  The travel for me has included a passion for bicycling.  While our classmate Dave Fuller does his travel on a Harley, I do mine on a  27-speed Trek.  In 2003 I journeyed from the San Juan Islands, WA to Bar Harbor, ME.  During parts of this self-contained trip Pat followed in a sag wagon.  In 2005 a second crosscountry ride was begun in Yorktown, VA taking me to Florence, CO and then Cambridge, ID to Florence, OR.  With the second cross country still incomplete I rode another leg of the trip from Florence/Canon, CO to The Grand Tetons in WY in summer 2007.  Seeing the U.S. from the seat of a bicycle offers the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside without the use of gasoline.  A subtitle for these travels can also be "eating and drinking your way across American without gaining weight".

So there's the past 50 years in three paragraphs.  I look forward to seeing you fellow travelers in September to share more experiences.

Tom

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No. of Children:  2
From Jean:
Fifty years!  I know we have all grown and changed so much.  Fifty years  does that to you but I hope a smalll part remains the same so that I can recognize you.  I've enjoyed the web site so I thought I had better particpate.  Thank you Dave for all your efforts.  
After High School I went to Stout College (Ed Major) where I met my husband, Bob.  We have two children, Joel and Kathy and three granddaughters, Kendre 15, Megan 13 and Erin 4.  What joys!  We moved 7 times ending up in Appleton,WI. where my husband bought a heavy duty Ford/Sterling Truck dealershilp.  I went to work late(1978).  Chose real estate for it's flexibility.  Part time quickly turned to 50++ as anyone who has been in real estate  knows.  I've worked as the Broker/Manager of three real estate offices since 1988.  Enjoyes every minute.  Now retired (2005), enjoying but still adjusting.My twin sister June and I remain best friends and a most important part of my life.  this summer our families are going to Europe together, 
Hard to believe one can put 50 years of living into a few paragraghs.  Just maybe I let out  a little.Life is good!  See you at the reunion.
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Occupation:  Retired Banker
Marital Status:  Single
From Frances Barbara:

I never married and have no children and retired from the J.P Morgan Chase Bank and still live in Waukesha on Elizabeth Street. 

I will not be able to attend the reunion. 

Fran Longley

Occupation:  Lawyer
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  1
From George & Edith :

George studied engineering after graduating from Waukesha South High School.  He earned a BS degree from Marquette University in Mechanical Engineering.  He then entered graduate school and earned an MS Degree in Material Science.  He worked as a research engineer for several years. 

 

    In 1970 he entered Marquette University Law School and earned a law degree.  He went to work at his father's law firm in Waukesha.  He is still working as an attorney at the same place that his family has been working at since 1902.

 

    He married classmate, Edith Pavlovics, in 1964.  Edith became an elementary education teacher.  She taught for ten years, until their daughter Melissa was born.  Then she stayed home as a full-time mother and homemaker.

 

Melissa went through the Waukesha school system.  She earned her BA degree from Wellesley College, and her Law Degree from Marquette University.  She is a legal writing professor at Marquette.  She married a law school classmate and they have a little girl, Olivia.  They live close to us, which is wonderful.  Edith's and George's parents also lived in Waukesha.  Being so close to our parents brought us a great deal of happiness.

 

    George and Edith have been involved in Waukesha activities, such as the Waukesha Symphony, the library, the historical society, the Waukesha Civic Theater. George is an avid gardener. We have traveled extensively, mainly in Europe, Hawaii, Bermuda and around the U.S.  On a trip to Norway we got together with Bente Vennerod and her husband for a day.  Bente was the AFS student in our senior year.  We had a delightful mini reunion!

   

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Occupation:  appliance service tech
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  6
From jeff:
I wish I could say I will be there ,but due to unforseen circumstances I won,t be able to join all of you .A little history after graduation I joined the Navy for 3 years , in 1960 while still in the Navy ,Karen and I were married . We lived in Sheboygan for 7 years before moving here to West Bend  . We have 5 girls and a son ,with 14 grandchildren ,and as of 8/22 /08  now 2 great grandchildren . there should be a picture of Karen and me with two of our granddaughters ,who graduated in June of this year ,I think it was quite something 50 years after ours . this has been some summer , our 3rd oldest daughter Linda has a malt shop at a campground up hear so we are there fri thru sunday this year . I have been in appliance and refrigeration now for 44 years . I also have been a hunter education instructor for 20 yrs now . Be sides enjoying my family children and gandchildren now great grandchildren I,ve enjoyed introducing them and others to both hunting and fishing . Karen is enjoying doing needle work , and of course the grandchildren.I guess you could say we are semi retired ,but the way this summer has gone I would say no as its been 7 days a week .  In so many ways God has blessed Karen and Me .  
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Occupation:  Receptionist
From Katherine:

Occupation:  receptionist

 

I work as a receptionist at Gentle Care Veterinary Hospital.

I have three children, 6 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren

My pets are:  Sky, Blue Tick Coon Hound

                      Buster kitty, orange tabby

                      Ying-Yang, black & white “classic” kitty