Clark County Press, Neillsville, Clark Co. WI

September 29, 2010, Page 11 

Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

NHS Class of 1950 to 1953 combined class reunion held

The Neillsville High School Classes of 1950, 51, 52 and 53 held a combined reunion Sept. 18, 2010, at the American Legion Hall starting at 3 p.m. with a dinner served for 120 classmates, spouses, friends, and visitors at 5 p.m. by the Legion staff.  Eighty-two classmates shared jovial reminiscences of the good old days at NHS.  After some discussion, the decision was made to get together again in 2015.

Classmates from 1950 attending from Wisconsin were Mary Jane Frei, Erland Greeler, Arlene Wedekind Kernz, Elvira Thoma Patey, Barbara Roehrborn Hanson, Laverne Schmitt, Lois Karnitz Smetana, Charles Sydorowicz, Joanne Pietenpol Tibbett, Helen Sollberger Upton, Erline Ziegler VandeBerg, Marian Hemp Vornholt and Pat Mattson Wall.  Others attending were from Illinois, Caroline Lato Frantz and Jean Schneider Galbreath; from Arizona, Bud Hantke; from Minnesota, George and Marveline Schultz Vantatenhove.

Class of 1951 from Wisconsin were; Donald Noll, Esther Greub Ziegler, Bobby Kapfer, Gerrie Hoeser Schultz, Edith Scholtz Kunze, JoAnn Cummings Rusinko, Marjorie Moberg Klapatauskas, Yvonne Webster Yaeger, Helen Harwick Bohac, and Leland Appleyard.  Others attending were: from Illinois, Virginia Krause McIntyre and Midge Audorff Lewandowski; from Michigan, Shirley Nielson Henderlong; from Minnesota, Joanne Schultz Olson from Arizona, Gerald Schuld.

Class of 1952 from Wisconsin were Kathleen Bryan Guetschow, Joanne Stevens Krause, Larry Ehlers, Ann Francis Schoengarth, Delores Greeler Zipfel, Geri Harwick Bethea, Frank Kaczor, Jeanette Larsen Allison, Wayne Meier, Janice West Voigt, Walter Wetzel, Bob Kunze, Virginia Tews Marg, Dick Harrington, Evelyn Carl Mitte, Duane Bush, Virginia Holtz Thoma and Ron Parret.  Others attending were: from Illinois, Dick Kapfer, Merlin Payne and Ardes Wang Smith; from Minnesota, George Albrecht and Al Bradbury; from Arizona, Frank Seif; from Florida, James Rahn and Delores Lato Walther; from California, Betty Voigt Wetzel.

Class of 1953 from Wisconsin were Jim and Sharon Moberg Horswill, Hubert Quicker, Jr., and Christine Turville Kurz, Wendell Ott, Florence Mitte Drescher, Dwayne Lloyd, Joann Wasserburger Bush, David Stucki, Gale Gall, Donna Rae Peterson Harder, Janet Seelow Harrington, Bruce Tom Tibbett, Jim Christie, Pauline Zimmerman Wallace, Barbara Borde, Ervin Knoop and Don and Sue Church Opelt. Others attending were: from Minnesota, Janice Frantz Miller; from Oregon, Wendell Ayers; from Arizona, Opal Woodford Hantke.