Report Card Summer 2006 - Arlington High School Class of `57
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Report Card Summer 2006 - Arlington High School Class of `57
Report Card A Newsletter for Arlington High School Class of 1957 VOL. 2, NO. 2 SUMMER 2006 50TH CLASS REUNION TO BE AT DOUBLETREE HOTEL IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS By Carol Lunsmann McGovern he last issue of Report Card announced the dates of the 50th reunion of Arlington High School class of 1957: Sept. 21-22, 2007. We can now inform you that the site for the reunion will be the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington Heights. The Doubletree Hotel ChicagoArlington Heights (its official name) was one of the locations that members of the planning committee visited in February. I decided to stay at this hotel while in Arlington in early July, and I was very pleased with the comfort of the T room, the friendliness of the staff, the quality of the service, and the excellence of the food. The hotel Together again (for only the second time): Larry Bowman and Carol McGovern. has recently undergone extensive renovation and includes a restaurant open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; a lounge; an indoor heated pool, whirlpool, and fitness center; non-smoking and handicappedaccessible rooms; and complimentary high-speed Internet. There is plenty of free parking as well as a complimentary airport shuttle from O’Hare. The Doubletree is at 75 W. Algonquin Rd., which is the next light just west of Arlington Heights Rd. The hotel can be reached off the Arlington Heights Rd. exit of I90 (Northwest Tollway). We have arranged for a special rate of $79 a night (plus tax) for (Continued on page 2) More Gather in Arlington in July By Carol Lunsmann McGovern hile both Larry Bowman and I were in Illinois in July, several classmates joined us at the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington Heights (which will be the site of the 50th reunion in 2007) for lunch or dinner. Larry was back east for meetings and to visit relatives, and I decided to be in the area during part of that time. There were 24 who came to lunch on July 10. Not everyone we had contacted was able to make it at W that time, so some of us stayed on for dinner at the hotel restaurant and were joined by several others. There were 13 for dinner that evening. Before leaving for Illinois, I had sent emails to all those in that state who are on the Internet to let them know of this gathering. I also sent letters to others without email who had indicated they were planning on attending the 50th reunion. Once in the Prairie State, I made a few more phone calls, and so did (Continued on page 3) What is this? Answer on page 5 2 SUMMER 2006 Report Card In the Mail Many thanks for keeping us up to date on the class of ’57. Your stories have brought back many memories and given us many laughs. Would you put me on your email only list? I have sent out newsletters for a number of groups and it is very time-consuming. Now with email it is very easy for each of us to print our own copy. I would rather have you print more stories from our years in high school than spend all your time collating and stapling. Thanks for ALL you have been doing. Janet Haenggi Raven Ashburn, Va. After thinking about the reunion, what do you say to people you have not seen in 50 years? I really don’t need to know any more about them. I don’t even remember some of these people. Take me off the mailing list. [Name withheld] I'm actually of the opinion that what I or any of us has done in the last 49 years doesn't matter very much in terms of a reunion. It will just be fun seeing everyone again and having the chance to reconnect. I bet we will find none of us has changed very much--except for a few grey hairs and wrinkles. Judy Johnston Princeton, NJ For more on Judy, see p. 14. I wanted to tell you the newsletter was great again. I see Barb [Rabe] made a statement about the lady motorcyclist. Well, that's me, and I have been riding for 43 years. This year I will be riding up to Canada--about a 4,000-mile trip--doing it in two weeks, as I have a Motor Maid convention (women riders). My husband quit riding a few years back. We are a group of profes- sional girls who ride—doctors, lawyers, bankers--just every profession of riders. Next year is state of Washington, so I might just be on my way home from my convention for our 50th reunion. I do more riding of long trips after I retired. Nancy Scott Wille Englewood, Fla. Can’t you just see Nancy arriving at the banquet in motorcycling gear ? I enjoyed reading Gloria's [Beckway Fetters] article about Mr. Murphy and speech class. I, too, had a similar outcome. That was the best HS class by far for me "Does anyone remember this?" The "Card Code"--YES, I sure do, and my card may very well be somewhere in the attic. Jim Kouzmanoff Danville, Ill. It was fun seeing the photo of our trip to New York and Washington, DC. I am above the word “Heights” next to Corinne Clesen (class of 1956). I also went on the trip in 1957. One of the teachers said I was the only student to go both years. As I remember, it was the first time we flew; before that the trip was by train. I also had the extra bonus of seeing my grandmother who lived out on Long Island. Barbara Carl Honolulu Enjoyed seeing you and Carol {McGovern] and all those who came to the luncheon on the 10th. Thanks for your work on the newsletter! I particularly liked the picture of the Washington DC trip. I didn’t go myself but found my brother Robert in the picture, and that made it extra special to me! Ginny Uhlhorn Wightman Hoffman Estates DOUBLETREE (Continued from page 1) rooms at the hotel. These can be booked after Oct. 1, 2006; but you may prefer to wait until after the fall issue of Report Card appears with the registration form for the reunion. You should book your room directly with the hotel at 1800-222-TREE or www.chicagoarlingtonheights.doub letree.com. The direct number for the hotel is (847) 364-7600. The reunion committee is still working on the costs of the reunion. We are looking at a buffet supper for Friday night the 21st and a banquet and dance on Saturday night and have not firmed up prices for the individual evenings yet. For those planning on attending both nights (which we highly recommend), the price will be no more than $90 a person or $175 a couple. The price probably will be lower, depending on how many attend. The more who come, the lower the cost. Costs for the Saturday daytime activities are still to be determined. These activities include the tour of the old high school (now Christian Liberty Academy), a walking tour of downtown Arlington Heights, and a golf outing. I also want to have available a book for the reunion with then-and-now pictures of all of us as well as biographical information. Patrick Harris has agreed to serve as our treasurer, so reunion registrations will be going to his office. The registration form will announce the address and how to make out the check. Pat says he has a very good accounting staff. It turns out that his bookkeeper is also his receptionist—who happens to be his daughter, Kim Aldana. While in Illinois recently I made it a point to meet Kim. She is most willing to help out with the reunion. A few people have commented that they are pleased we have an- SUMMER 2006 nounced the dates of the reunion so far in advance. This has helped them with their travel plans. Another person wrote: “The good thing is I’m enjoying connecting with classmates much more than I thought I would.” Someone else said that he loves golf but it “is a pain to cart clubs all that way. Plus my caddy is busy that week. Ha, ha!” It is still important for the committee to know how many plan on being at the reunion. We have heard of several people who say they are coming who have not let us know directly. If a declaration of intention has not yet been made, now is the time to do so. Use the questionnaire that appeared in the spring July Gathering (Continued from page 1) Larry when he got there. Lynn Stolley also contacted several local area classmates. It was not possible to get ahold of everyone in the area, so we apologize if you did not hear about this gathering. Come to the reunion! Photos of those who attended appear on pages 8-9. In addition to Larry and me, those who came to lunch were: Beverly Allison Loveless, Georgia Barnes Jenkins, Gloria Beckway and her husband Tom Fetters, Jane Bedingfield Stavoe, Mary Jane Bradley Vermillion, Susi Carter Schulze, Carolyn Clesen Goodman, Marshall Crane, Lee Damler, Donna Lee Dobbins Drewes, Jim Dresmal, Ruth Faulstich Shroyer, Marge Halvorsen and her husband Chuck Garrod, Bob Hammerl, Pat Harris, Tom Santarelli, Lynn Stolley, Ginny Uhlhorn Wightman, and Marcia Ullrick Kale. Sandy Schwaller Schmeiser was there at the beginning but was not able to stay for lunch, so she is not in any pictures. Wendell and Ruth Schoenbeck arrived at the end of lunch and stayed for dinner. Jim Golden was one person who said he would not be able to make it until that evening, so he and his wife Josefina joined us for dinner, as well as Barbara Bader Bychowski and Bob Wille. Jane’s husband Ron also was there We all had a good time seeing each other and getting reacquainted or in some cases making new friends. Several weeks ago someone had written that he probably would not attend the reunion because he would not recognize anyone. I can tell you that on July 10 I did not recognize a lot of people, but that did not hinder me and others from having a good time. We discovered that Mary Jane Bradley and Donna Lee Dobbins were both married on Sept. 21, 1957. Thus they will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries the first night of our reunion next year. Be sure to come and help them celebrate! [For more on Donna, see page 12.] 3 Report Card issue of Report Card and mail it to us, or just send me an email or note that you are planning to come. Check out our website, www.arlingtonhigh57.com, because I am working hard to update all of the old and new pictures. Send me a current picture of yourself and some biographical information to include both on the website and in the reunion book. [A suggestion from Your Editor: If there has not been any mention of you in Report Card, you may wish to send biographical information to Larry Bowman as well.] It has now been over two years since I began working on the 50th reunion. Things are starting to come together. While in Illinois I met with Gloria, Ruth, and Wendell to discuss matters with the planning committee. Larry and Pat were unable to join us that day, but on the 10th we all met with the sales representative at the Doubletree and agreed to hold the reunion there. Since then, Carolyn and Susi have joined the committee. Jane and I also had lunch another day with Faith Samson Jacobson, who is quite enthusiastic about the reunion. And I also met with Carole Finch Retacco, who was unable to come to the July 10 gathering. Carole is retired from the hospitality business, and she helped open the Radisson Hotel, which is now the Doubletree. [For more on Carole, see page 13.] Guess Who? Match the left column with the right. 1. Can be found rollerskating weekly at the Orbit Rink in Palatine with a pillow strapped to his hindquarters. a. Larry Bowman 2. Collects venomous snakes and even has an eyelash viper. b. Deanna Ziebell Braun 3. Has a hobby that involves aromacology. c. Bill Hogate 4. Was a child movie actor. d. Arlene Schweigerdt Kestner 5. Enjoys geocaching. e. Tom Santarelli 6. Participates in tournament fishing. f. Gerry Gehrke Schwartz Answers on page 15. 4 T Report Card he entries for “In the Years Since High School” continue to get longer as I contact classmates for inclusion in the newsletter. Although two phone calls were productive, I am finding it more worthwhile to send emails or letters to those people I’d like to include in an issue. The advantage of this is that it gives them time to reflect on what they want to say and not be caught off-guard by an unexpected phone call. The disadvantage is that one may forget to respond by the deadline. (I may have to resort to follow-ups unless they have indicated they don’t wish to participate. If people let me know that, I will honor their wishes.) Once again there were about a half-dozen folks who did not respond to my requests for information. One submission in this issue was unsolicited; these are always welcomed. Readers have indicated they like hearing about other classmates, so, unlike during the first year of Report Card, I will refrain from limiting the entries to just three or four sentences. As Carol McGovern reports on page 1, she and I were both in Illinois in July and got together with several classmates for lunch and/or dinner at the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington Heights, which will be the site of next year’s 50th reunion. I had met a few of the folks a year ago or this past winter when I was back there. Others I was seeing for the first time in perhaps 49 years. It was nice to see a few whom I had not heard from at all since starting the newsletter; we trust they will come to the reunion. A few in the group lingered for several hours and really enjoyed each other’s company. One person who said he was only planning on attending one night of the reunion was reconsidering his decision after being at this gathering. Someone told me that a woman from class of ’56 was planning on attending our reunion; she knows more people from our class. The food was very good at both lunch and dinner. Susi Carter Schulze and I both thought the spinach salad was the best we had ever had. My dinner entrée was excellent. If the same kitchen is serving at the reunion, then we will be dining well. SUMMER 2006 Since I wanted my own wheels while in Illinois, I drove there from Arizona. Despite the price of gas these days, I still think I saved money without paying airfare and renting a car. During part of my stay I was at my sister’s in Wheeling. A few weeks earlier I had been in England and rented a car part of that time. On a 10-day trip from Cornwall to York, I paid $222 for petrol. For next year’s reunion I plan on driving and doing some sightseeing in the Midwest. One day I took the train into the Loop and spent several hours wandering about downtown and the Near North Side. I never fail to enjoy Chicago’s new sights and differing vistas. Whatever one may think of Chicago politics (some things never change), this is a vibrant, dynamic city. Over the years I have taken a few walking tours and the boat ride that the Architecture Foundation offers. Some changes since last time: The Shubert Theater is now called LaSalle Bank Theater. Cloud Gate at Millennium Park is now finished. (It was still under construction a year ago.) The name Marshall Field’s won’t last much longer. Berghoff’s is gone. Not everyone shares my liking for Chicago’s changes. A woman here in Scottsdale who is our age, who grew up in the Windy City and worked there for many years, was so appalled by what she saw when she visited five years ago, she has no interest in ever seeing Chicago again. (But then, she doesn’t like the changes that are being wrought in downtown Scottsdale.) You out-of-towners planning on attending the reunion must make time to see the city. In this issue we are running again the lists of missing and deceased classmates. Thanks to the efforts of Jeff Hanor and Lynn Stolley, among others, we have SUMMER 2006 5 Report Card found a few more people and learned of the deaths of one or two others. A few more then-and-now photos are included. Since the last issue another classmate has died, and a few share reminiscences about Bill Riedler. Barb Lind Rabe did not have time to write a report on replies to the question, “What positive learning experiences did Arlington High School provide for you?” from the survey that ran in the winter issue of Report Card, so we hope to have this in the next issue. In the last issue we said that Don and Lorie (not Lori) DeNapoli hosted a regional mini-reunion in Feb. 2005; we meant 2006. In the winter issue we misspelled Frances Gemmill’s name. The fall issue of Report Card, which will include the registration form for the reunion, will be out in midOctober. I am scheduled to leave on a tour to Israel on Oct. 28, but that seems less likely as time goes by. I’m not so sure the situation there will improve by then. Shalom! SUPPORT YOUR NEWSLETTER! Remember that it costs money to print and mail Report Card. Suggested donation is $10 per person. I’ve not heard from many of you, and I KNOW that you mean to send me money. (Readers who have sent money recently do not need to, nor do those who only view the newsletter online.) Send to Larry Bowman at 4132 N. 78th Pl., Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Thank you! If you prefer to view Report Card online at www.arlingtonhigh57.com, let me know. Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago Cloud Gate (also known as “The Bean”) is a 110-ton elliptical sculpture forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago’s famous skyline and the clouds above. (It was a very cloudy day when I was there.) A 12-foot-high arch provides a “gate” to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. Can you see me in the lower right photo? 6 Report Card SUMMER 2006 School Daze SEPTEMBER 1956: TWO “CULTURAL” EVENTS By Larry Bowman I: ELVIS APPEARS ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW By the time he made his first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Elvis Presley had already appeared six times on national television. Earlier appearances had occurred on shows hosted by the Dorsey Brothers, but it was his appearance on “The Milton Berle Show” on June 5, 1956, that triggered one of Presley’s earliest controversies. Elvis performed his latest single, “Hound Dog,” with all the pelvis-shaking intensity his fans screamed for. Television critics across the country slammed the performance for its “appalling lack of musicality,” for its “vulgarity” and “animalism.” The Catholic Church took up the criticism in a weekly publication in a piece entitled, “Beware Elvis Presley.” Concerns about juvenile delinquency and the changing moral values of the young found a new target in the popular singer. After Berle’s show, Ed Sullivan declared that he would never hire Presley. Steve Allen, who had already booked Elvis for “The Tonight Show,” resisted pressure from NBC to cancel the performance, promising he would not allow the singer to offend. When Presley appeared on Allen’s show in July, he good-naturedly agreed to spoof his image by dressing in white formal wear and singing “Hound Dog” to a basset hound. The show garnered high ratings. In August, Sullivan reversed his decision and announced that he had signed the young star to an unprecedented $50,000, three-show contract. Sullivan’s deal with Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, created national headlines. Sullivan, however, was not able to be with Elvis when the latter made his first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Sept. 9, 1956. He was recovering from a near-fatal auto accident and had to turn over host duties to others for five programs. Actor Charles Laughton was guest host that eventful night. Laughton, in New York, announced: “And now to Hollywood to meet Elvin [sic] Presley.” “Elvin” sang “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Hound Dog,” “Reddy Teddy,” and “Love Me Tender.” The camera sometimes pulled far back to show Presley’s gyrations at an unthreatening distance. The sexual energy jolted the staid, Eisenhower conformism of Sullivan’s audience. Some historians believe the camera instructions were orchestrated by Col. Parker in order to provoke publicity. Presley finished his performance with the statement, “This is probably the greatest honor that I’ve ever had in my life.” A record 60 million people viewed that first show, which at that time represented 82.6% of the television audience. Sullivan recovered from his injuries to host Presley’s subsequent appearances on his show. On his Oct. 28 appearance, Elvis dyed his naturally sandy blond hair to his soon-to-be trademark jet black. By the time of Presley’s final appearance on Jan. 6, 1957, Sullivan ordered the show’s cameras to shoot the rock star from the waist up in order to avoid the controversy over Elvis’s provocative hip and pelvis movements. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, reports a rumor circulating in the studio that Presley was getting ready to use a sock or some kind of device and hang it inside his pants, near the top of his left leg. Sullivan did a visual check and saw that Elvis had no such device on him. At the end of the show, Sullivan made it a point to put his arm around Presley and say, “This is a real decent, fine boy. We’ve never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we’ve had with you. You’re thoroughly all right.” A few days after this final performance with Ed Sullivan, Elvis Presley was a topic of discussion in Douglas Murphy’s dramatics class at AHS. (And my diary shows that, on the same day in French class, we talked about Jayne Mansfield!) The following Jan. 30 a former student of forensics teacher Floyd Dougherty named Tommy Sands appeared in a “Kraft Television Theatre” play called “The Singin’ Idol.” The story was about a young rock and roll singer and his controlling manager, played by Fred Clark. (Col. Tom Parker also managed Sands.) A song, “Teenage Crush,” from this play went on to make Sands a star. For a while he was married to Frank Sinatra’s daughter, Nancy. II: “PEYTON PLACE” IS PUBLISHED September 1956 also marked the publication of “Peyton Place,” a first novel by a woman from New Hampshire named Grace Metalious. Despite uniformly negative reviews, it quickly became a bestseller and ultimately sold over eight million copies. To read “Peyton Place” was to read it in secret and to discuss it only among the closest of friends. Its readers marked a wide range: college and high school students, college SUMMER 2006 Report Card graduates, mothers, wives, and even husbands and fathers. Importation of the book into Canada was declared illegal. Parts of Rhode Island, Indiana, and Nebraska followed suit, arguing that the book would corrupt young minds. Wealthy communities banished “Peyton Place.” I imagine that it was banned at such libraries as Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect, but I really don’t know. Metalious wrote about incest, abortion, sex, rape, adultery, repression, lust, and the secrets of small town New England, things that were never discussed before in conservative America. Once it was learned that Grace’s husband had been fired as school principal in Gilmanton, a tiny town in rural New Hampshire, the media descended upon that town, searching for the “real” Peyton Place. Residents were concerned that Grace Metalious had written a scandalous book about real townspeople. Metalious did base one character, Selena Cross, on a real person. In the novel, Selena lives in a shack with her little brother, deranged mother, and alcoholic stepfather, Lucas Cross. Lucas gets Selena pregnant and she has an illegal abortion. The town doctor forces Lucas to leave town, but a few years later he reappears and comes on to his stepdaughter. In defense, Selena kills him, and she and her brother bury him in the sheep pen. In 1947 a Gilmanton girl named Jane Glenn confessed to having killed her abusive stepfather and burying him in the barn with the help of her younger brother. “Peyton Place” has a significant spot in literary history because it crossed the barrier from conservative to raunchy, bad books. The novel’s explicit love scenes and its sexual nature separated it from the typically more conservative popular literature of the era, and it opened the door to a whole new generation of similar writers encouraged by Metalious’s success. (Think of Harold Robbins and Danielle Steel.) I must have heard of the novel while still in high school, although I have no specific memory of any such discussion. Did I ever read “Peyton Place”? Yes, I did. Believe it or not, my mother got me interested in it a year or so after its publication. I think she found in it a description of the hypocrisy she perceived existed in the small town in northwest Ohio where I lived my first four years, a town I returned to years later to become college librarian. Gary Young and Alec Catherwood While responding recently to an email from oncemissing classmate Gary Young, who it turns out is a lawyer in Madison, I suddenly remembered that he and Alec Catherwood and I roomed together at a state music contest in Peoria during junior year. I was supposed to share a room with two or three guys from the class of ’58, but it worked out that I, a vocalist, instead went 7 with a bunch of instrumentalists. As I recall, there were two seniors in the room with the three of us. Sometime in the middle of the night I was awakened by Gary and Alec attempting to do some mischief to me and the other roommates. I really don’t remember the outcome, but I doubt that it amounted to much—although maybe one of the seniors was thrown out the window, I’m not sure. And I wish I had remembered to mention this to Alec when I spoke to him a few months ago. He played my younger son, Junior Jones, in a one-act comedy, “Pop Reads the Christmas Carol,” that was presented to an underclassmen assembly one December morning our sophomore year. Yours Truly was Pop, whose annual tradition was being undermined by his teenage children. Carol Feige played the older son’s girlfriend. This was a silly farce, but the audience sure ate it up. Just as my two “sons” and I were about to go onstage in one scene, Alec farted. I believe only the three of us were aware of that. . 8 Report Card SUMMER 2006 Arlington Heights lunch and dinner, July 2006 Seated, from left: Mary Jane Bradley Vermillion, Donna Lee Dobbins Drewes, Carolyn Clesen Goodman, Marcia Ullrick Kale, Carol McGovern, Larry Bowman. Standing, from left: Jane Bedingfield Stavoe, Beverly Allison Loveless, Pat Harris, Ruth Faulstich Shroyer, Lee Damler, Ginny Uhlhorn Wightman, Bob Hammerl, Gloria Beckway Fetters, Jim Dresmal, Georgia Barnes, Tom Santarelli, Ruth Ruhnow Schoenbeck, Marge Halvorsen Garrod, Susi Carter Schulze, Marshall Crane, Wendell Schoenbeck. No, Lee, Bob, and Tom are not space aliens; it’s the reflection of the camera flash on their glasses. And Jane is standing under a light in the ceiling. Picture 1: Lee, Tom, Pat, Jim Picture 2: Georgia, Ginny, Marshall Picture 3: Lynn Stolley, Bob, and Tom Fetters and his wife, Gloria SUMMER 2006 9 Report Card Upper left: Donna, Ruth Faulstich Shroyer, Beverly, Carolyn Above: Susi, and Chuck Garrod and his wife, Marge Left: Marcia, Mary Jane, Carol, Jane Top, left: Barbara Bader Bychowski, Gloria, Tom Fetters Top, right: Bob Wille and Wendell Above, left: Ron Stavoe and his wife, Jane Above, right: Jim and Josefina Golden Right: I rather like this picture that Lynn took of me. Carol, publish this in the reunion book! 10 SUMMER 2006 Report Card MISSING CLASSMATES It is time to publish again a list of classmates for whom we have not been able to find any addresses. We hope that some of our readers can provide clues or information on the whereabouts of these names. Names are listed as fully as possible as they appeared in the June 6, 1957 commencement program or, if they did not graduate then, as shown in the senior yearbook. Women’s married names are listed in parentheses, usually with a question mark, due to uncertainty of knowing if they are still married to these spouses. Joyce Augsburger (Morrow?) Lucille Bahr (Mrs. Robert Packard?) Dennis F. Ballering Roberta Marie Bradley Louella Brumit Richard Burkart James T. Caley Carol J. Cavenaugh Eleanor Cegler Doris Ann Denny Diane DeWilde (Mrs. Paul Otto?) Douglas M. Elliott Richard Fischer Beth Ellen Gassen Gerald H. Glass Judith Ann Goble William Grove Susan Barbara Hane (Mrs. Joseph McIntyre?) Lois Naomi Hasz (Mrs. Allen Fischer?) Patricia Ann Hess John S. Hirst Mary Frances Kaiser Mary Kathrein (Paynor?) Judith Ann Leaf Susan Lewis (Doyle?) Sandra C. Lindahl (Mrs. Robert Sampson?) Patricia Downing Lyons Tom McGlynn Sandra Lee Meidell Edward C. Meinken John Page Middleton Joyce Marie Mitchell (Anderson?) Penelope Mitchell (Rappaport?) John W. Mroz James B. Murphy Penelope Jane O’Neal Carol Marie Piepenbrink Judith Ann Pistorius David M. Price Ralph Regnell Sheila Ann Robertson Art Ruffino James Richard Schipper Rein F. Schumann Stephen Arden Scott Sharon Kay Sellars Bernadine Lee Shumaker Gerald F. Sinclair Marilyn Ruth Skach Marilyn Kay Thoma Sally Van Oosten John Rice Voaden Howard Lee Watson, Jr. Robert N. Wikstrom Barbara Ann Winiarski Karen Elizabeth Wolden NOTE: Judy Pistorius, Gerald Sinclair, Marilyn Skach, and Lee Watson are listed in Classmates.com but cannot be contacted, due to old email addresses. Bob Wikstrom is no relation to Wickstrom Ford Lincoln Mercury in Barrington. DECEASED CLASSMATES The following classmates have been reported as deceased. Please let us know of any errors or of additions to be made to this list. Bob Brocato Tom Clarke Myra Clausing Anthony Consoer Pat Crossin Dave Curtis Dennis Engelking John Fischer Eugene Freeman Gary Gappert DeElton Gregory Richard Hartman Thomas Duke Henry Tom Jacobsen Carl Klehm Sheila Kutchera Al Langos Lynn Laverty Tom Lytle Marge MacCarron David Maschoff Robert Miller Fred Mueller Henry Neumann Tony Neunteufel Dennis Olson Ed Paschke Chuck Petersen Bill Riedler Betty Lou Shulse Andrew Sim Warren Smith Janet Steil Al Till Mary Townsend Bob Waddell Marilyn Warga Judy Weisenbach Micki McClaskey Wille Former classmates who were not in our senior year: Tim Colvin Ronnie Reichert Pat Searcy SUMMER 2006 Report Card Then … 11 … and now Photos courtesy of Gloria Beckway Fetters and Carol Feige Lenz Above, left: Sally Hodson pretends to play the harp in Gloria Beckway’s living room. Above, right: Sally and Frances Gemmill Tsolinas in Arizona this year. For more on Sally, see p. 13. Left: Carol Feige and Judy Meyer sunbathing in front of Carol’s house. Right: Carol and Judy at Carol’s daughter’s wedding in NYC, 2005. For more on Judy, see p. 14. Sally, Frances, Carol, and Judy were all at Central School in Mt. Prospect. Seniors will “prized” possessions This article is taken from The Cardinal for June 2, 1957. An earlier portion appeared in Report Card, fall 2005. Jeff Hanor to Truman Carter and David Starnes, a genuine eoanthropus dawsonii figula. Isabel Harnish to Bonnie Quigley, my typing ability. Anita Heimsoth to Beverly Farina, my used wrappers to practice with. Pat Henning to Jeanne Modjeske, a pair of saddle shoes that don’t squeak. Rosemary Herbst to Annabelle Herbst, one leaky, worn-out, blue fountain pen. Margie Herdt to Ruth LeVine, all the fun I had and more in Business English. Roberta Hill to Joan Petkus, my extraordinary athletic ability. Sally Hodson to any lucky senior, all the As and fun of two years in Mr. Fyfe’s class. Jim Hoffman to Wayne Rydberg, a left-handed discus. Bill Hogate to Ralph Gould, a bowl of Quaker Oats. Carol Holcomb to Audrey Oakley, my finger dexterity and patience. Jane Holloway to Sandy Hedstrom, my used bridge deck. Jerry Honemann to Erwin Behrens, the ability to get 22 wrong on a five-minute timing in social typing. Ray Horcher to Jack Weber, the ability to clobber baseball men with a discus at 150 feet. Spencer Johnson to Mike Dundy, my used valve oil. Mary Jansen to De Hager and Randy Bolsinger, my good luck penny. Judy Johnston and Judy Peterson to Brenda Rudolph and Laurie Riley, our outstanding singing ability. Dan Jordan to Gail Barron, one slightly used whiffle-tree. Dave Kaczmarek to Alvin Johnson, who needs them more than I, eight rusty sparkplugs. Mary Kaiser to Barry Kahn and Bruce Kenlay, who found that it wasn’t 0-12-3, the combination to my lock. Mary Kathrein to Joyce Igoe, my long eyelashes. Dorothy Kibbie to Lynda Scott (Tex.), good luck with Jim. Gerry Kile to Riggie Nygard, my ability to receive As in DE. Carol Klehm to Jack Weber, the eight-pound shot put. Jerry Klement to Jim Peery, one well-used batting slump. (Continued on page 12) 12 Report Card (Continued from page 11) Judie Kohl to Jayne Stumpf, my cheese crackers. Darlene Kolle to Ruth Koester, my talent on the saxophone. Carol Koske to Sandy McDonald, my chemistry valences (which are now in the possession of Jerry Honemann). James Kouzmanoff to Jim Hughes, the basketball shot chart. Dianne Kowal to Jean Conroy, my braces. Veronica Krause to Carol Mayhew, my seat on the school bus. Elaine Kruse to Barb Glade, all of my “A” papers in Core IV (of which I have none). Mary Kay Kunz to Barbara Barrett, my ability to blush. Sheila Kutchera to the future weary Heights editors (poor kids), my tent and foam rubber pillow. Alfred Langos to Bobby Svoboda, my old ‘54 Corvette. Judi Laughlin to Karen Brodahl, my extra-tight color guard cummerbund so she’ll stand up straight and look nifty while marching. Lynn Laverty to Laurie Riley, my leaping kangaroo plus pouch. Linda Learman to Nan Holmes, my 12-page “Philosophy of Life” term paper. Susi Lewis to Mr. Conrad, all my lunches and gum. Barbara Lind to her future students, food for Miss Bond and love of exercise. Sandy Lindahl to Miss Callihan, my shorthand speed. Carol Lunsmann to Diane Dailey, my lovely brown peon costume. Pat Lyons to Florence Dietrick, my magnificent Roman toga. Marjorie MacCarron to Linda Clemens, my can of hair grayer and Cockney accent. Linda Mann to Sally Moore and Judy Lips, my permanent pass to Room 114. Dorene Markus to Sue Ann Dietrick, my luck with falling SUMMER 2006 lights. David Maschoff to Marko Franciscovich, my smelly sweat socks. Micki McClaskey to Carol Schoenfeld, all of the educational discussions I’ve had in Core IV. Mimi McDonald to Joyce Olson, a stick of gum for every Monday night next year. Roger Meier to Nancy Bear, my sparkling Pepsodent smile. Joanne Merz to Bonnie Mitchell, a three-speed pogo stick. Judy Meyer to Jim Bjorgo, a box of matches so he can burn the garbage to his heart’s content. Rosemarie Meyer to Pat Thompson, any notebook on the frog. Stu Meyers ro Eric “Duke” Meyers, my knowledge of Somerset Maugham and his realistic book, “The Razor’s Edge.” Page Middleton to Mike Shannon, my spotted usher’s uniform. Marlene Miller to Claudia Steffes, my used shorthand notebooks to continue your study in shorthand for that full credit. Richard Miller to Rick Lindstrom, my list of first names. Penny Mitchell to Brenda Rudolph, mis cartas viejas. Walter Moritz to Alvin Johnson, the nails and glass in the parking lot. James Mott to James Graves, my ability to play tennis. Johnny “Montana” Mroz to the students and faculty, a vacation party in Montana when I’m elected governor. Editor’s note to Johnny: We’re still waiting. Where have you been all these years? Hank Neumann to Tom Gray, my footsteps. Stan Norman to Tip Yager, the ability to work for Russ Attis in track. Kathleen Orescan to Barbara Stehman, my ability to get caught whenever I do anything wrong. To be continued in a future issue. 1957 … In the years since high school … 2006 After getting out of service, Allen “Bud” Drewes became a school bus driver for Waldo Tinsley. (Who can ever forget a name like that?) His run included Scarsdale in Arlington Heights, and one student on his bus was Donna Lee Dobbins. They began dating but had to keep their romance secret, as it was almost like a teacher dating a student. Donna and Bud were married Sept. 21, 1957. (Note the date: their 50th anniversary is the first night of our class reunion.) Mr. Wolff (AHS choral director and teacher) played the organ at their wedding. Myra Clausing sang and Nancy Scott Wille and Norma Beisler (class of ’58) were among the attendants. Myra was also able to be at their 25th anniversary before losing her battle with cancer. The Dreweses moved several times in the early years of married life due to business ventures but always managed to stay in the area. For the past 27 years their home has been in Elgin. Besides being a stay-at-home mom, Donna also dabbled in real estate, waitressing, snack shop proprietor, and organist and accompanist in church. She directs and arranges music now for the “Good News Chorus” at their church. “All of those classes with Mr. Wolff, Mr. Schmoyer, Mr. Dahlberg, and Miss Leick paid off because I’m back to doing one of my first loves—music!” Donna continues: “I remember in our senior year there were six of us who all had the middle name of Lee. We would always greet each other in the hall with ‘Hi, Lee!’ and we’d get looks from everyone else.” While at University of Wisconsin--Madison, Jean Edgcumbe met her future husband, Bill Hanson. Following graduation they married (Al Ragland and his band played at their wedding) and moved to Neenah, Wis., where Bill was employed as an engineer in the paper industry and Jean taught school off and on and went to grad school. They stayed for nearly 30 years, SUMMER 2006 Report Card raised two sons, and spent their summers racing a small sailboat locally and in the Midwest. They enjoyed living in Neenah, but after Bill died in an accident, Jean decided she wanted to try living in another country. She ended up teaching biology, physical science, etc. in an international school in Chiang Mai, Thailand for two years. It was a good choice as the teaching was both challenging and rewarding with about 20 nationalities represented in her classes and the travel opportunities were great. She taught two more years in Izmir, Turkey (also a recommended destination) before retiring in 2000 to a lake in northern Wisconsin. “There are those who question my sanity on that choice of place! However, the winters are usually good, the summers are wonderful, and most important, I’m back with family (including three grandchildren) and friends.” Carole Finch graduated from Bradley University with a B.S. degree. She married Richard Rademacher and taught 3rd grade for a few years. While raising two beautiful daughters, Carole dabbled in the interior design business. After 18 years of marriage she divorced Rick and went to work fulltime, working in the hotel business in sales. She advanced to director of sales at several hotels and finally ended up as a general manager of a large chain hotel for 15 years, finally retiring this past year. (She opened the hotel in Arlington Heights that is now the Doubletree, the site of our 50th reunion.) While working with corporate clients in the hotel business, Carole met Dan Retacco, whom she married 20 years ago. They live in Prospect Heights. Pricilla Graham has been married to Ivan Dvoracek (AHS class of ’54) for 47 years. “We have two wonderful married sons and five precious grandchildren.” The Dvoraceks lived in Arlington Heights for 43 years. In 2002 they built their dream house in Lakewood near Crystal Lake. They are closer to their children where they can enjoy the activities their grandchildren are in. Pricilla enjoys decorating with crafts and works alongside her husband’s woodworking. Jeff Hanor majored in geology at Carleton College, which he attended along with AHS classmates Dick Miller, Don Plank, and Gary Young. There he met his future wife, Leslie, and they have been happily married now for nearly 45 years. Then they moved to Cambridge, Mass., where Jeff received his Masters and Ph.D. in geology from Harvard. Afterwards they moved all the way across country to La Jolla, Calif., and he became a post-doc and then an assistant research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. However, Jeff’s professional goals had always included teaching in addition to research, so he was delighted to receive an invitation to interview for a tenure track posi- 13 tion at Louisiana State University. The azaleas were in full bloom at the time, and Jeff was hooked. The family (now with a son and daughter) arrived in Baton Rouge in September of 1970, and Jeff has been a fulltime professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at LSU ever since. They were very lucky last August when they only lost a few shingles from their roof when Katrina roared through. However, the population of Baton Rouge increased by a quarter million within a week, and there were an additional 3000 students at LSU that fall semester. No one knows what will become of New Orleans. Sally Hodson attended University of Illinois for two years but had to leave after a three-month hospital stay with hepatitis and mononucleosis. She moved to Hawaii for several years and then San Francisco for a year before moving back to the cold of Chicago. She worked for TWA and United Airlines, enjoying a lot of travel. Sally married Eric Orkild, and in 1972 the family moved to Phoenix when his employer, Greyhound Corp., moved their headquarters there. Sally divorced in 1979 and pursued a career in interior design. Now she’s enjoying time to indulge in her art, family, and friends. This fall she will be working with Free Arts, a nationally recognized art therapy program for disadvantaged children. “It’s been such fun meeting and hearing about all our classmates. Everyone seems to have traveled interesting roads from then to now1” After graduating from Northern Illinois University in l962, Jerry Honemann worked for Ben Franklin Corp. for over 25 years. He started out in the advertising department and eventually ended up in the buying division. He was recruited by Frank's Nursery and Craft chain, and that is how he ended up moving to Troy, Mich. After almost ten years there as a buyer, Jerry bought a small gift shop which he owned until he retired three years ago. He served for ten years on the board of directors for The Hobby Industry of America and was president for four years. Jerry and his wife Zella (a Maine West graduate) have been married for over 40 great years. Recently they were going on a trip to China with four of his fraternity brothers and their wives to celebrate their 40th anniversaries. The Honemanns love spending time out on the lake on their pontoon boat at their new retirement home they built in Oxford, Mich. “Now that we have our new grandson, I enjoy getting out the old Santa Claus outfit which I had retired after being the Santa for over 25 years for friends, family, neighbors, and local children's hospitals and homes for the mentally handicapped.” (Continued on page 14) 14 Report Card Years since high school (Continued from page 13) After graduating from Goucher College in Baltimore, Judy Johnston moved to New Jersey where she became a social worker. Following a year's work in the field, and realizing how ignorant she was, she went back to graduate school, attending Michigan and graduating from Rutgers University in 1964 with a Masters in Social Work. Judy then worked for the State of New Jersey in human service management capacities for another 38 years: first with children, then with elderly, and most recently in the field of brain injury. She retired in 2002 and has done some consulting and volunteer work since. Judy lives in Princeton but has a vacation home on the Delaware Bay in Cape May, NJ designed by her longtime companion, Art, now a retired architect. Due to the influence of Arlington Park, Judy developed a passion for horse racing. For the past 20 years she has pursued this interest as an owner/breeder on a small scale, mostly in partnerships. She currently has four horses-three at farms in Pennsylvania, and one at Philadelphia Park Racetrack, a 3-year-old filly (a filly at Philly!) that just won her first race. “You have to savor the wins because it's a tough business.” SUMMER 2006 has always been an interest, and Judy belongs to a small garden club. When she and Noel move to Gloucester for the summer (on Cape Ann, the ‘other” cape), they have a garden there, too. Jack Palmer was attending Arizona State University when he met his future wife. He quit college to go into the Army for two years. Jack and Pam were married in her hometown of Florence, Ariz. (home of the state prison) in 1961. He worked in a copper mine for several years before moving to Idaho in 1977. The Palmers now live in Nampa (near Boise), and Jack runs a custom haying business; he ships bales of hay to Japan. He did not keep in touch with any classmates until Frank Golle contacted him last year, after the inauguration of Report Card. While serving in the Army and stationed in Fort Monroe, Va. (“the fort with the moat around it”), Tom Santarelli earned college credits in order to graduate from Elmhurst College in 1964 with a degree in history. Discharged in ’65, he got a job with Goodyear Tire Co. as supervisor of credit. Tom met his lovely wife, Olivia, at Some Other Place disco in Franklin Park in 1969. He was known as a Friday night regular; it was her first time there. They were married in July 1971 and moved Linda Mann Thomas retired from a career in into their house in Cary. However, the previous April, healthcare and pharmaceutical public relations. She is Tom was transferred to Topeka the week the basement no longer married but is involved in a 13-year relation- was dug for the new house. He decided to stay in Cary ship with a fun-loving, third-generation Italian. She and joined Culligan, continuing as a credit specialist. loves every minute of life close to San Francisco: jazz, From 1974-84 he was a credit manager at Allstate Insurballet, theater, books, gardening, and outdoor living. ance in Northbrook. Tom started his own business, Linda has no children of her own, but she is always a Northwest Camera Repair, in 1984 and repaired all willing playmate to other people’s kids. She still works 35mm cameras until April 2004. Dan Schock was the part-time as a freelance writer and communications co- fool who got him into this business. Tom now works ordinator for a progressive, inclusive local church. part-time out of his basement. Since 1977 he has been a member of Spring Creek Bassett Hunt of Barrington, and has served on their board for many years; they do Judy Meyer met Noel Thyson at University of Illinois, married in 1961, and moved to the Boston area the same things as the fox hunt (minus the horse). Tom the end of the year. Noel, an aeronautical engineer, took and Olivia spend summer days on their boat in Lake Geneva, Wis. They are looking forward to their first a job with Avco, which became Textron, and has been grandchild, now in the pod. there ever since. Judy has worked at several jobs in town over the years, both part- and fulltime. The last job was with a friend and neighbor who started a business Lorraine Weiss lived in Wheeling while attending from her home in the early ‘80s importing woven wool- AHS and worked in a pharmacy in her hometown after ens from Wales. (Say that fast a few times.) Eventually school. She graduated from Illinois Masonic Hospital she started to add accessories for the bed, and the busi- nursing program and continued her nursing at Lutheran ness morphed into a top-of-the-bed-line. It was a great General Hospital in Park Ridge for 33 years, retiring in success, becoming an international business with reps in December 2004. In 1960 Lorraine married Ronald Olall major cities and a showroom in High Point, NC. sen, a longtime sweetheart. They lived in Prospect Judy retired in the late ‘90s. She has been involved in Heights for 43 years and have now moved to Saddlevolunteer work since her daughters were in school, hav- brook Farms, a community for 55 and older in Graysing been a member of a charitable organization for over lake. Lorraine and Ron have a motor home and travel to 35 years, and recently she has worked on the board of warm climates in the winter when they can. (We bet the Winchester (Mass.) Historical Society. Gardening they enjoy the gas prices!) SUMMER 2006 15 Report Card Right after high school, Bob Wiltgen went into the Navy and served for seven years. (Ask him about an incident off the coast of Taiwan.) Returning to civilian life, Bob worked in the Arlington Heights post office for a few years until going into a house painting business with a longtime friend. Eventually he became owner of his own commercial painting business, which involved painting stores in states between Iowa and Michigan. Although he retired from that just recently, Bob is still active in the painters union and travels to meetings and conferences. He has been married since 1967 or ’68 (he couldn’t remember the exact year—we hope his wife doesn’t read this). He and Dave Collignon were in California recently and visited Don Strauwald, a former Navy buddy whom they hadn’t seen in 35 years. We won’t repeat Bob’s description of Don’s sense of fashion (or lack of it), but we will report that Don took Bob and Dave to a fancy steakhouse—where their ties were promptly cut off! However, Bob and Dave had been forewarned about this from their concierge, so they bought $1 ties from Salvation Army before going out to dine. Bob lives in Barrington. We were unsuccessful in eliciting information from John Bell of Chicago, Charlene Curatti Chison of Sarasota, Fla., Jay (Jake) Marino of Clearwater, Fla., Walter Moritz of Fort Atkinson, Wis., Kathy Orescan of Tallahassee, and Bonnie Schwantz Rose of Hoffman Estates. Guess Who? answers: 1 e, 2 c, 3 d, 4 a, 5 f, 6 b Aromacology is the study of how scents affect behavior. When Larry was 11, he was cast in a short film in the lead role of a boy with a toothache whose buddies try to help him overcome his pain. This was one of a series of films made in Chicago by a company attempting to recreate movies similar to the “Our Gang” comedies. None of the movies was ever sold, so Larry never got to see himself on the silver screen. Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which participants use a GPS device to hide and seek containers called geocaches or caches. We trust that Bill will leave his eyelash viper and other friends home if he comes to the reunion. Bill Riedler Bill Riedler died May 4 in Spicewood, Texas. A “celebration of life” was held there May 11, and he was buried in Boulder, Colorado. The yearbook shows that Bill was active all four years in the concert band and marching band. In 1975, in his one-room efficiency apartment, Bill founded Global Relationship Centers. This has grown to become an international network of over 60 centers, including several in Russia. The organization has grown and flourished with a specific goal in mind: "To provide individuals with profound learning experiences that will enhance their ability to create even greater effectiveness in the areas of love, work, and friendships. By doing so, it will create and foster a global attitude of cooperation, peace, and unity. Unity is not created by governments; rather it originates in the hearts and minds of individuals, and becomes contagious through our willingness to recognize that we are one." Jane Bedingfield Stavoe writes: I met Bill at a workshop some years ago. He told me then that his dad owned the roller rink when they lived in Arlington Heights. Jim Dresmal writes: Bill and I were in the band together and I remember him as a shy but kind-hearted and caring person that is reflected in the founding of Global Relationship Centers. Chris Blueberg writes: I don’t remember Bill but I hate to see another classmate gone. My family and I spent many happy times at the roller rink in Arlington. My mother and I did all the dance routines together. Lynn Stolley writes: Very sorry to learn that Bill Riedler passed away. He was a good friend during our freshman year. Yes, he was in the band, on the drum set. He even tried to get me interested by giving me a pair of drumsticks (that I'm sure are still tucked away in my attic). I remember him telling me that he transferred from Taft High School on the far northwest side of Chicago His mother managed a roller skating rink that was also on the northwest side. Later she and Bill's father purchased the Arlington Heights Roller Rink from the Italian-born "Pops" Philippi. They managed the rink during our high school years, but apparently sold it shortly afterward to a housewares enterprise. Strangely, I remember one summer afternoon that Bill's dad was listening to the Chicago Cubs on the radio. Bill asked his dad what the play was at the moment. His dad answered: "Three men on base, and Hank Sauer's up!" What a game! Never dreamed that Bill would some day found an enterprise like Global Relationship Centers. He never impressed me as that type. 16 Report Card Report Card ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF ‘57 REUNION REPRINTS AVAILABLE Editor: Larry Bowman Suggested donation: $10 per person Send donations and material to be considered for publication to Larry at 4132 N. 78th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85251 SUMMER 2006 Stapled copies of the first two issues of Report Card are available at $4 each and the fall 2005 issue at $6. If you cannot access these issues on the website at www.arlingtonhigh57.com, please send check to Larry Bowman at address indicated in left box. 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