Then & Now

This section of our website allows you to tell us what the heck you've been doing the past 50 years and add any other comments you would like.  Please enter your profile and you can come back to the site at anytime to change it.  You will need a current digital or scanned photo of yourself to upload to our site.  If you are computer-challenged in this respect, perhaps you can seek help from someone who is more informed on this, or call your local Kinko's or office supply store for help.  If none of that works, just contact us at >>blackshirts1961@yahoo.com<< and we are pleased to help.  You will also need some narrative on what has happened in your life since graduation.  So please ADD YOUR PROFILE below!  It will probably take at least one day before your information is posted and once it is, you may edit it at any time.

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Arlene Walczak (Tunnell)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired Spanish Teacher
Comment:  College took me to St. Paul, MN and Macalester College where I majored in Spanish and minored in English and Education. Then I came back to Milwaukee to teach at Custer H.S. for a couple of years. My English minor was getting me more English classes than Spanish, so I transferred to Samuel Morse Middle School where I could teach more Spanish. While there, I met my husband, John, a science teacher, and we were married in 1969.

We have three grown daughters of whom we are pretty proud. Kathryn, our 1st born is an at-home-mom these days since our one and only grandson, Emerson, was born three years ago. Her husband is in radio management. Our middle daughter is Suzanne. She is a doctor who teaches medical students and residents for the Medical College of WI at Froedtert Hospital. Her specialty is ObGyn. And our youngest is Joanna who lives in Hollywood, FL and us a marine biologist who is second in command for the State of Florida’s coral reef conservation department.





I was so fortunate to be able to stay at home with our kids while they were little. I went back to teaching at Catholic Memorial in Waukesha when our youngest was 4 years old, and twenty years later I retired from there in 2005.





John and I love traveling, art exhibitions, plays, concerts, antique shops, flea markets, friends, relatives and dinner out! I also love reading and beading jewelry. We are thoroughly enjoying retirement, but there is still plenty to do because we just sold our home of 38 years in Waukesha, and bought a ranch house in Franklin where everything I need is on one floor. I have had one knee replacement, and am soon to have the other one done, but still have back problems after that, so the lack of stairs is a real blessing for me.





It will be such fun to see you all in August. It has been a long, long time!!





Note from your Website Administrator: Arlene (our "Fiona" from "Brigadoon") passed away May, 2023, and is listed in our “In Memoriam” section. We are leaving the picture/profile she listed with us as a tribute to her.

Lyn Weigel (Thierfelder)

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: nurse
Comment: working part time an lpn  oncall/prn.


love the ability to call my own days an


hours.


have 2 grandchildren  now 4yrs Hunter


and Hannah Daye 7 years.


Public relations and board member of the


Venivce newcomers club


activity director for the club.


now in florida for 2 1/2 years.


look forward to see you all again in 2011






Note from your Website Administrator: Lyn passed away October, 2021, and is listed in our “In Memoriam” section. We are leaving the picture/profile she listed with us as a tribute to her.

Marlea weiss (Duescher)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired
Comment:

After graduation, I married my high school sweetheart - Jim Weiss.  I started a secretarial job at WHS working with Mr. Dyvad, Miss Compton, and occassionally Mr Duckett.  A month after we married, Jim was called to active duty and stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington.  A couple months later, I quit my job to join him.  We lived there about a year and our 1st son was born there.





Returning to Waukesha, I chose to be a stay at home mom.  Eventually, we had 2 more sons.  When they went off to school, I went to work as an aide in the Waukesha School district (the last 27 years in Bethesda Elementary Library) 





Besides being blessed with 3 great sons, we now have six wonderful grandchildren. (Ages 10 - 22)  They are the joy of our life.  We enjoy all their activities - baseball, basketball, football, golf, skiing, crosscountry, and concerts.  We also enjoy spending time with family and friends.  We live in the country and love the changing seasons and wildlife.  Our main vise is visiting casinos.  We used to travel to Vegas yearly, but now our travels are to visit the grandchildren at their colleges and homes.  Our kids got us out of the country twice (Mexico and Canada)  Otherwise we are happy to be homebodies.





I enjoy working on the reunion committee.  They're a great bunch to meet with every month.  My picture was taken at one of the meetings and you can see the fun we have!  Hope to see you there!!!

Jean West (Sydow)

Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: retired
Comment: I attended Lawrence College (now University) in Appleton, WI, majoring in Classical Languages with a minor in French.  I came back to Waukesha early in 1965 to teach French at South Campus.  Then, in the space of one week, I graduated from Lawrence, finished teaching, and got married to Robert (Mac) West, whom I had met at Lawrence.  We celebrated 51 years of marriage this past June.





Mac and I have lived in various parts of the midwest and east as his career evolved.  I taught high school for several years and then became a travel consultant for the next 30! We both love to travel and have managed to visit many fascinating parts of the world, and will continue to do so as long as we are able.





Our son Chris and his family--lovely wife and two charming daughters--live in Denver, so we moved there four years ago to be closer to them.  I have mostly retired from the travel business, but I have gotten very involved in tracing family histories and geneaolgy, which brings me back to Wisconsin regularly.

Nancy Whitehouse-Knoebel (Martin)

Marital status: Widowed
Children: 3
Occupation: Waitress
Comment: Just like all of us, I can not believe 50 years have past.  I am a widow since 2002.  I have 3 sons, 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.  I live in Muskego and am still working part-time as a waitress at the Rainbow Restaurant in Muskego.  All my family live in the area and I feel very fortunate to have them close.  I love to garden and I have a large vegetable and flower garden.  I belong to the "Sweet Adelines".  I still bowl once a week and I enjoy traveling. 

Ken Whyte

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired

dave zick

Marital status: Married
Occupation: retired
Comment: What a life, what an adventure.  Graduated UW Stevens Point, taught history and assistant basketball coach Antigo High School 13 years.





hi-lites--coached on team that beat waukesha south at the state tournament.





exchange teacher Hull Yorkshire England met wife Sue( home ec. teacher) in Sept


68 married April 69. 





Built and operated as ceo three bowling centers and banquet halls.





Retired in 2004, sold hobby farm, moved to dream house on Lac Vieux Desert.





Decided not to retire operated 30 room upscale lodge along with a souvenir/postcard business.





Retired again, and enjoying life.





Son director of advance technology Milwaukee tool  daughter-in-law at elmbrook hospital. 4 grandsons 2 wrestled for south.





Daughter speach pathologist childrens hospital son in law engineer rite hite corp.


3 granddaughters.  Its been a great life beyond expectations.  Except for always being at the end of the alphabet.:)