As we project ourselves ten years into the future we see our fellow classmates climbing their individual mountains. In this short span, some have reached the summit, while others are still struggling. For some, the climb is easy; for others, it is difficult. Still, in each of their lives we find a spark of joy and happiness. As we scan the distant mountains, we see………
Linda Ahrndt has become a successful business woman. She now has her own coast-to-coast bus line called “The Don-Lin Line.” Linda’s slogan is: “Why Ahrndt you taking a bus and leaving the driving to us.”
Cheryl Miller has become a practical nurse. She may be a nurse, but heaven knows how practical!
Bob McClellan’s vocation is in missionary work to the Wahtusi tribe in Africa.
Sandy Beitzel’s working on the contact lens installment plan. Now she can see and still be gorgeous.
Ten years have passed and Jane Schlarb is still on her strict diet. What’s the secret? She eats nothing but “Hershey Bars.”
John Stanek paints the tow n red when his other job, as radio technician, does not provide enough work.
John Hansel has traded in his job at the service station for a position as assistant postmaster. Odd, isn’t it?
Mary Ann Eggers has finally fulfilled her heart’s desire. She is now working like a slave at Webster’s Woolen Mills. Oh well, at least she’s happy with her foremen.
Ken Dejia has just been elected president of the largest chain of furniture stores in the nation. The Rahr’s chain was started in Manitowoc and Ken was instrumental in its conception.
Wedding bells are ringing for Sue Bauknecht when, after many long years, she finally “wins Dar and Hemps” him in.
Bob Suettinger is now Chief Consul for the Billie Sol Estes Company.
Carol Czerwonka is a famous beauty operator and interior decorator; we mean she operates an exercise center. Her favorite exercise is the Charlie Horse.
Ronald Hoffman is doing his duty to his country by serving in the Armed Forces. Well, if you can’t lick it, join it.
Sharon Baucum has advanced from her position as car-hop and now runs her own chain of drive-ins.
June Simonis was recently rewarded the Nobel Prize for Science with her work concerning the RN content of rat liver.
New manager of the chain of Stangel Super Valu stores in Milwaukee is Larry Tuzinkewich.
Selling wall-to-wall mink carpeting is Bill Sievert.
Candy Katzfey has just been selected as the first woman to journey to Pluto. General Katzfey’s fine record as Directing Engineer of Moon development has been cited as the major reason for her selection.
After years of driving the Two Rivers Laundry truck, Jim Armstrong finally is elevated to the position of Vice-President in Charge of Delivery for this local firm.
Janice Vondruska has opened a little store here in which she sells such things as wigs, combs, ribbons, and other hair ornaments.
Gilbert St. Pierre is now starring in his tenth Tarzan picture. His famous saying is: “Me, Big Gib, you Jeanne.”
Sharon Emond, Ruth Anderson and Lu Ann Keller have recently opened the Tiny Tot Diaper Service.
Ron Kreuger, after ten years, is still working at the Red Owl as a carry-out boy. There must be something there he can’t resist.
Believe it or not, that tiny redhead Jackie Ploor is now working for the F.B.I. After all these years, Joe Simino has attained the position of life guard for the Olympics.
Diane Doncheck has been elected President of the “Happy Hikers of American.” They still take their weekly hike to Kewaunee.
Leo Feuerstein is now Governor of the State of Confusion in Inner Mongolia.
Paul LaFond went on to college and has become a great basketball star. We only hope he will beable to keep up his great shooting average at the Hoopes.
Marlene Gauthier is back at WHS filling out absence slips, but now she is able to sign them, too.
Bonnie Weisnicht is busy working as a “Bar-man” oops! I mean “bar-maid.”
In the setting sun at Fort Lauderdale we see a shining blonde salesman. Why, it’s Harold Beichler, selling peroxide, of course!
Chris Schroeder is still riding around on a bicycle plugging Schroeder Brother’s fine clothes. Keep peddling Chris! Someday you’ll get that promotion.
Tom Palzer is very busy nowadays. He’s also in the money. What does he do? He is in the process of selling his old term papers and tests. If you’ve got what it takes, why not?
Janice Christoffel started out teaching grade school children. Then she taught high school boys and girls. Now she’s teaching college kids. In the years following, time only knows whose kids she’ll teach.
Jim Johnson will be moving to the hills of Kentucky where he will be able to meditate.
Jim Antonie has become a great artist. There’s a rumor that he plans to redo the Sistine Chapel because he feels that Michelangelo did a bad job.
We often see Sharon Hassmer’s familiar face in the Metrecal advertisements. (In the “after” picture)
Wayne Kiley is, without question, the best ladies’ hair stylist in this area.
Judy Sonntag has just written a new book which is entitled “How to Paint a Woody Red in Six Jim-dandy Lessons.”
Mike Koch is the owner of the “Sea Gull Bird House,” which is a motel located on the damp, muddy beach of the East Twin River.
Ferol Albright lives way down in Chico, New Mexico now, where she’s president of a power and light company. Her company makes Chico’s nights al-bright.
Richard Schreiber is a salesman for the “Kids Stuff Hair Tonic Company.”
Marie Geirschwin, that’s Marie Geier’s pen name, has become a famous playwright. Right now she’s engaged in writing a play entitled, “My Guy Joey.”
Mike Monka has just set a new record. After being out of school for quite some years, he swam 50 miles singing, “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.”
Bonnie Evans has become a famous actress but seems to have a little trouble keeping her engagements.
Richard Bonn is still building band stands, only now they’re being used.
Judy Boltz has become engaged in the hardware business, of course.
Dick Peterson says he can “Guetschow” tickets for the big game he’s playing in Sunday. He plays the right field for the Braves now.
Alana Graycarek is working in a dry cleaning establishment in Gary, Indiana, removing Lintereur and there.
Bill Hooper’s interest in cars has brought him into the automobile business. He is now the junior partner in Pritzl’s auto sales. (I wonder if it was really his interest in cars that got him this position?)
The Norman Rockwell of Two Rivers, Tom Ciha, is working in his art studio and on weekends doing conservation work at Point Beach State Forest.
Diane Wilsmann, with her great musical ability, is working as chief piano polisher at Carnegie Hall.
Karl, our foreign exchange student, is hard at work getting orders for fish sticks and Eskimo pies in the frozen foods department of chain grocery stores.
Linda Loser, after sorting towels and suits for Mrs. Ciha in the Phy. Ed department is the manager of a Laundromat chain.
Jack Oehlke will soon be exchanging one draftsman job for another, from Hamilton’s and into the U.S. Army.
Keith Koeser has been employed by Al Hirt to continue Hirt’s album “Honey in the Horn.”
Sandy Ouradnik is an undercover agent for the FBI. She is working pretty hard covering all the paper work and pounding the typewriter keys.
Leon Gagnon has been recalled from the Army to take over the position of “King of the Tuba”since former king, Bill Bell, has retired.
Betty Lintereur has just completed another book to become the class’s most famous authoress.
The new book, “Rather Die than Dye,” is a follow-up on her last book, “Blondes Have More Fun.”
Bob Vanne is now our great chief of police for the City of Two Rivers.
After ten years, Terry Timm is now pressing 5,000 pounds as a circus weight lifter.
Diane Konop is now the private secretary to the president of a large industrial firm to the south of us.
John Sand now is under the president of the United States Steel Corporation…that is, his present dwelling is under the president’s house. (It’s a well-furnished cave.)
Diane Rudolph has become the sole owner of The Sable Grown Hair Dye Company. This hair dye is made especially for men with peroxide problems. Incidentally, she has one “steady” customer already.
Barry Stangel is responsible for the rapid growth of the grocery business. He is part owner of Stangel, Stangel, Stangel, Stangel, and Tuzinkewich Super Valu.
Sandy Wondrash has left Two Rivers and now resides in Boston where she was accepted as the first woman basketball player for the Celtics.
Jack Wilsmann is the new Conservation Warden, taking charge of all the fishing and hunting in Manitowoc County.
Mary Janus now runs a wildlife refuge for homeless ducks.
Marilyn Luebke’s dreams have come true as she now makes her permanent residence in Manitowoc.
Tom Rath is the first pole-vaulter to clear 15 feet (without a pole).
After all these years, Sandy Sharp is still insisting that her hair is natural. (Oh! No one believes her yet!)
Pat Collins is knee deep in hard work after his grand opening of Collin’s Camera Corner.
Curses! John Gruman is going to be a Sizzling Oath Blaster.
Wayne Buschman has been re-elected for the 10th time to the “Bored of Education.”
Mark Nischke recently received his law degree from Harvard and is now running for office of District Attorney.
Due to his skills in Arnold Palmer’s favorite sport, Don Oestreich has naturally been a professional……bowler?
Enid Koch has recently been awarded the Nurse of the Year award by the National Council of the Red Cross. Her faultless service at Green Hills Hospital and her many hours of volunteer work merited this award.
Following the subject of his favorite course in high school, Bill Pesl became a math teacher.
Lee Kust has been publicly acclaimed for his practical invention, plastic cans. They are disposable, cheap, non-breakable, virtually harmless should you be bitten by one.
Jeanne Ramey is starring on Broadway still singing her old favorite “I’m Just a Girl Who Can’t Say No.”
Bob Shimon, Jim Taddy, Gary Zahn, and Roger Wiegert are now sweeping England as the greatest singing group since the Beatles. They’re doing a great job of emptying those Englishmen’s pocketbooks. Revenge!
Richard Duvalle’s dreams are gradually coming true. He now has progressed to the captain of his own fishing tug.
Always practical, Susan Thomas will continue to be so as a nurse. At least, we hope so for the sake of her patients!
Marvin Pupeter gave everyone a real shock after graduation when he entered an electrical school.
There are a few ambitious people in every class and ours is no exception. Rosemary Barbeau has become so attached to WHS’s “school policy” that she has returned, as a teacher, to improve it.
We see Francis Nemetz still hard at work at the Hamilton Manufacturing Company. What for? He’s working for his gold watch, of course!
Susie Paul has married a millionaire and now has her own Cadillac and chauffeur to drive her to work.
Glen Guetschow and Bill Walkner have combined their efforts and now hold the post as tall man of the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Although the Empire State Building is the highest office building in the world, it has the smallest typists. We find Peggy Gretz and Germaine Robinson on the top floor merrily pounding away at the keys.
We feel quite secure with Gary Laurin leading our National Guard. A good match for Nikita.
Herb Krase has continued his high school pastime and now ranks amount the top international playboys.
Greg Rhode is now the owner of a dairy bar located just north of Two Rivers on Highway 42, formerly known as Vic’s. Stop in sometime and have on on the house. Greg has all your favorite dairy drinks on tap.
Jane Sauve has going the Wavfes so she, too, can wear the Navy Blue.
We see Audrey Schultz still paying her daily visits to Stangel’s. I wonder what the attraction is?
Sue Stanull is taking her driver training course at the request of Mr. Hurlbut.
Sue Duerschmidt, who made a habit of trapping the opposite sex, is now appearing on the famed television show, “Man Hunt.”
Dave Begotka was named the leading scientific farmer of Two Creeks in 1974.
Shirley Miller is “practically” a nurse. She can be seen weekly opposite Ben Casey.
Karen Weber is still debating between dental technology and red convertibles.
Pat Hurley is working at Hamilton’s. Imagine Monka and the gang waiting for him to take them to work on time!
Now we return from 1974 to the present. Having traveled part of the future path of our classmates, we extend a sincere wish for a prosperous and successful future to each and every one of you.