Classmates

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Lee Pearce

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: Graduated Carroll College.Married Cynthia Ihrig WHS '59". Still can't type so this will be brief. 
We live in Waukesha have been blessed with a wonderful family. Daugher Stephanie Rummler Teaching & living  in Burlington & Daughter Alison Wiese Marketing Services Manager for The Journal Sentinel & living in Wauksha. Also important 4 grandchildren.
I now work part time for The Wisconsin Credit Association where I was on the Board of Directors before retiring. I spend a lot of time with the Grandkids. In normal weather I also spend way to much time on my lawn tractor. Cynthia thinks i spend way too much time with sticks flailing at little white spheres on Golf courses.
Hope to see you at the reunion.
 Please excuse spelling & typing errors. Must quit my finger is getting sore.

Stuart Pease

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Owner of Pease Insurance Agency
Comment:

Occupation:  I began my career in 1959 working with at risk boys at Lad Lake Inc.  I joined the Army Reserves in Feb of 1960 taking a leave of absence from Lad Lake for six months active duty.  I returned to Lad Lake in Sept of 1960 and retired from there in 2005.  My duties there began as a child care worker and moved to teaching in the school.  I then became a unit supervisor until 1972 at which time I became the Director of Unit Life.  In 1983 I was promoted to Assistant Director of Residential Services and added to that job becoming Director of Outreach Services in 1996 until retirement.



 



I started Pease Insurance Agency in 1983 and am presently still operating that business in Dousman.



 



I was Head Baseball Coach at Kettle Moraine High School from 1986 to 1992.  I was lucky enough to win the Wisconsin State Championship in 1988.



 



Family:  I was married to my wife Betty in 1966.  We have three boys, Steve (Roxanne) Sullivan, Wis., Jeff (Jodie) Mukwonago, Wis., Jim (Amy) Fort Atkinson, Wis.  We have been blessed with 5 grandchildren, Dylan age 7, Cooper age 6, Marissa age 4, Macey age 2, Jack age 1.



 



I am a 20 yr member of the Dousman-Ottawa Lions Club.  I am on the Board of Directors of the Land O Lakes Baseball Old-timers Assn.



 



Stuart Pease

Karen Pena (Humphrey)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired/ hairstylist
Comment: Hi,
after graduation I worked at the hospital, until I realized that wasn't for me, I went to cosmetology  school.  Retired from the hair business in 2005.

Married  Wiley in 1967, had 2 children  ,one in 75,  son Anthony &  77 daughter Angie.  Moved  to California in 1981, lived there until retirement in 2005.  Now we are in lovely Prescott Valley, Az. with all the retirees from Calif. 

Not sure if we will be attending the reunion.

Margaret "Marty" Pike (Sauer)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Semi-Retired

Terry Preiss

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired, USAF and Business
Comment: In the fall of 1958, I entered UW-Milwaukee in their new program, Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics.  The first day of my sophomore year, I withdrew and accepted an offer of a commission in the USAF as a second lieutenant along with a rating as a navigator.  This sounded like much more fun than three more years of college and then grad school.  Upon completion of "cadets" I was selected for Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer training which ended up taking another nine months.  I spent the next two plus years flying electronic reconnaissance during the Berlin Wall Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis.  During this time I met and married, in 1962 to be exact, a first year early elementary school teacher, Marge.  About one year later, we were reassigned to Wiesbaden, Germany.  I went to a covert recon outfit and the real fun began.  We used various aircraft to collect electronic and photo intelligence on the Soviet Union, from the eastern Black Sea to the far northern Baltic.  Heavily armed Soviet fighters and tracking fire control radar systems were our constant companions.  I was also sent to the German Hunting Instructors school down in the Alps and then taught Americans so they could qualify for a hunting license in Germany.  Marge and I really enjoyed our 39 months in Europe and we saw a lot of it.  In March of 1967 we left Germany as I was to start USAF pilot training in Arizona, where our son George was born three months later.  Then it was on to Vietnam where I was in the tail end of the old Air Commandos and flew a U-10 for a year working with special ops types.  In the fall of 1969 I went to Pope AFB, NC, to fly C-130Es for the next ten years and retired in 1979.  Our daughter Ginger was born nine months to the day after my return from Vietnam.

    About five years prior to my USAF retirement, Marge went back to teaching.  I owned and ran two businesses and 30 years after starting college, I finally ended up with a BS degree - in business admin.  Our daughter was now in college and our son was about to graduate so I just had to beat him.  I started and ran a security alarm and video company in the late 80's and 90's.  Marge retired from teaching after 26 years and we moved to the coast near Wilmington, NC, in 2000.  Our son and his wife live here and both of our grandchildren, ages seven and nine, are theirs.  Our daughter was a crime scene investigator with the police department here, her dream job as she had a criminal justice degree.  In January of 2005, Ginger was taken home to be with the Lord.  She did not survive 14 hours of surgery for aorta dissection.  Her last words, "Don't worry about me, God will take care of me."  We love her and shall always miss her until we are with her again. 


    We love Wilmington, NC and I am still working a few hours a month assisting  companies in Texas and Connecticut.  The only WHS reunion we've been to was the 30th, held the 31st year as I recall.  I can't speak for Marge, but I am really looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our 50th.   

John Priefer

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired produce manager

Shirley Priefer (Williams)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired aide for Waukesha School District
Comment: After living in Waukesha almost all of our married lives, John and I decided to retire to the northwoods.  We live on Stormy Lake in the town of Conover which is about 12 miles north of Eagle River.  We love the laid back life style and beautiful lakes and forests.
John likes to fish, garden and cut and split wood.  My hobbies are a lot more sedentary--gardening, reading and the occasional shopping trip.  
We are rather computer illiterate so we can't submit a recent picture, but we are looking forward to seeing many of you at the reunion.

Kenneth Reichert

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired Teacher
Comment:

Kenneth W Reichert, Sr



 



I graduated from Carroll College in 1962, and played varsity basketball all four years.  I married Phyllis Fuller (1957) and we had three children:  Dr. Ken Reichert II, Elain Mahn, and Lynne Reichert (deceased.)  We have seven grandchildren.



 



I taught math and was department chair at Arrowhead High School from 1962-2008.  I also coached football for 12 years.



 



I earned an M.S. degree in 1969, and also earned 30 credits in a Ph.D. program before “dropping out.”



 



I have also been a professional artist painting in acrylics and focusing recently on Waukesha historical landmark scenes.  I have had many paintings sold and displayed at local businesses, churches, city hall, and schools.  (Two are displayed at Waukesha South High School.)



 



I was elected to the Waukesha South “Wall of Fame” in 2006.



 



I retired completely from teaching at Arrowhead in 2008 after 46 years, the last 8 of which were half-time.



 



Phyllis and I live in Gib and Sally Larson’s old house on East Roberta.  I will now use the extra time to paint, play the piano, and write books.

Geraldine Renner (Helquist)

Then Then
Children: 3
Comment:
I never thought I'd be going to a 50 year class reunion, it seemed so far in the future, but the future is here. Sooo- here goes. I married Jerry Renner in 1959. We had a daughter (Glee) in ' 63 and a son (Jason) in ' 69. We divorced in 1971. 


   I married again and moved to the UP and had a daughter (Kelley) in ' 79. There was another divorce and the kids and I moved back to Milwaukee.


    I went back to school (Alverno College) and graduated in 1985. At this time I'm still working and probably will be forever.  My children (3) all live in the area. I have 5 grandchildren, Ryan, Heather (Glee),  Corrin, Jacob, Jace, (Jason).


     I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Sept. 

William Schapfel

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired
Comment: After graduating from Waukesha High I spent 3 years at the University of Wis., Madison. Then transferred to Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine where I received my degree in 1965. I meet my wife there and we were married in 1963. We have 3 daughters who are scattered across the midwest. One is near Ft. Worth, Tx. and one is in Collinsville, Il. and one is near West Bend, Wi. I worked in LaCrosse Wi. for 3 years, then l year in a partnership in Birnamwood, Wi.Then I set up my own practice in Westby, Wi. After 6 years I moved to West Bend were I practiced until I retired in 1993. In 1996 , we moved to a small place out in the country about 8 miles Norhtwest of Black River Falls. I like to hunt and fish and we travel a lot in a truck camper.
  I am looking foreward to seeing everyone at the reunion.