'74) and I have been married 26 years. We have four sons
ranging in age from 24 to 7. We belong to St. Jude in South
Bend where our 2 youngest attend school. I have been
working at St. Jude for the last 19 years. I am part of the relief
staff at Hannah's House which is a maternity home for unwed
young women. I enjoy my time there...it really makes me
appreciate the many ways I have been blessed. I also help at
Zahoran's (the family funeral home) as a hair stylist. I am the
volunteer bulletin editor at Our Lady. Seems I am a "jack of all
trades and master of none!" We are looking forward to
seeing everyone at the reunion
The name will follow me to my death. Am divorced, have two
beautiful children, John (34) and Jessica (29). One
unbelievable 2 year old grandson, Max, that I love to spoil and
send home to terrorize his parents. Have been able to spend
the last 16 years with an amazing man, Phil, who makes
everything worth while. Took an early retirement from Indiana
Bell/Ameritech/SBC/AT&T as a Telecommunications Specialist
after 33 years of service in 2003
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graduated from Riley High School and earned a B.A. in Fine
Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington. As a Girl Scout
professional for 17 years, I worked for three councils: Singing
Sands, South Bend; Concharty Council, Columbus, GA and
Piedmont Area, Spartanburg, SC. I was married for 11 years
to Matthew Magoni but we parted ways while in SC. I moved
back to South Bend in 1995. For the past 10 years I have
been the Executive Director of Dismas House, a not for profit,
prisoner reentry program for men and women. I have share
my life with Scott McGirr and our two dogs, Doodles and
Roxy. I'm a member of Downtown SB Rotary, Christ Child
Society and serve on the board of directors for the Girl
Scouts of Singing Sands and on the advisory board for the
Court Substance Abuse Program.
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finally get a reuion going, and I hope to see a lot of former
classmates. I have continued to live in South Bend and am
happily married to Tom Manley. We have six children from 23
to 6, one boy and five girls. I am a stay at home mom and
love being a mom. Tom works for Zimmer in Warsaw. So far
life has been wonderful, with all the normal ups and downs of
losing a parent and unfortunately a brother. (I miss you Billy).
I hope to see a lot of familiar faces at the reuion, it should be
a blast!
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of 65 and married Pat Cottrell from WHS class of 65. We've
been married 39 years. We have one son Paul who is married.
We have a grandaughter Juliana who will be 7. I currently
work for Meridian Title Co.
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Occupation: English Teacher, Hobbies: Reading, Bowling
High School. I started working at Indiana Bell shortly after
graduation. In 1975 I married John Wahman and in 1978 we
moved to Phoenix Arizona. We adopted 2 kids in 1986 & 87 a
son Daniel and a daughter Jessica. I worked for Mountain
Bell which became U S West and then Qwest until 2002 at
which time I retired. Since then I've worked part-time at
various jobs. It's great!!
Thanks to all the coordinators. The reunion will be so much
fun. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again.
at Notre Dame (quit before I flunked out..Go Irish, thank God
for Charlie Weis). Enlisted in the Army in 1967 to avoid being
drafted into the infantry and going to Vietnam. Subsequently
spent 2 tours in Vietnam as an infantryman (smart move Ron).
Eventually got a commission in the Army and ending up
retiring after 24 years of service. Just couldn't figure out
what I wanted to do when I grew up. The Army was a great
experience..they sent me off for my bachelor and masters
degrees (they thought I was too dumb I guess) and allowed
me to meet my wonderful wife, Liz. Retired from the Army in
1990 in Huntsville, Alabama and currently work for Teledyne
Technologies Corporation, one of the many defense
contractors in Huntsville, doing environmental engineering
for missile defense programs. Keep paying your taxes, we
need the money. Can we get reservations on "Hoosier
Favorite" anymore? Hope to see all in August.
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Dale and living in Three Rivers, MI for 32 years. Our daughter
Jennifer is 23 and son Dan is 20. I've been a
bookkeeper/secretary most of that time - except for the years
I was able to be home with the kids while babysitting up to 8
others. We've owned Schultz's Overhead Door Service for 23
years (a part-time endeavor that supplements our "fun"). In
recent years Dale, Dan & I spend that fun time at classic car
shows. Dale has a '71 Mustang, & '64 Falcon convertible; Dan
has a '71 Maverick Grabber; and I have a '68 Camaro SS 396. I
promise to bring pictures. So looking forward to seeing
everyone and sharing the memories (good or bad). Like
kneeling to measure our skirt length, being at least arms
length apart from the boys, rewriting your homework if it
wasn't neat enough, etc., etc.!!! Great job to all those who
have worked on this enormous project. See everyone soon -
and we're going to put 400+ people where???
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at OLH and my youth, I devoted my life to finding the
"Fountain of Youth." I studied the ancient eastern cultures
and even traveled as far east as Mishawaka. I finally found
the secret of eternal youth as evidenced by the enclosed
picture of my 55th birthday. P.S. Bottles of the elixir will be
on sale at the reunion.
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have 4 children / 5 grandchildren / Owner of Simply Pizza on
Lincolway E. in Mishawaka, IN
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district in downtown Indianapolis. I work for AT&T as a
manager for switching technicians. Divorced / No children
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Marian High ,graduated and joined the Navy. Retired after
24 years and moved to Florida where I enjoy the life of
leasure. I play golf, drink beer and do and go wherever I
feel like when I get up in the morning. I had some great
times at Our Lady I guess I was the class clown and part of
the gruop that used to hang around at the corner at night
and get in trouble all the time. But I had a blast and loved
those good old days.Really wish I would have come to the
reunion but I've been kidnapped by 6 Hawaiian Tropic
swimsuit models and don't plan on having them send any
ransom demands in the near future. Well enjoy yourselves
and have a good time. Say a little prayer for my dad who
coached the best football team ever in 1963 when the best
athlete to come out of OLH played. I mean Joey Kovach. Any
one care to hear from me can just drop me a e-mail.
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Assistant, Hobbies: Theatre, Movies, Spectator Sports,
Notre Dame Football, Other Information: Have a 7 year old
female poodle named “Cocoa” who is a sweet, good buddy
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Marian and promptly grew a foot (yes, I now have three
feet). Then on to Purdue for a business degree and
afterwards got a job as the marketing manager of an
electrical manufacturer near Kokomo. I still work there
(31 years!). I met my wife Jan here and we have one son,
Grant, who is 22 and living near here. My hobbies are
cars, gameshows (did you catch me on Wheel or
Millionaire?) and keeping fit. A family wedding in
Mishawaka prevents me from attending the dinner but I'll
try to stop by late to see as many of you as I can. I have
many fond memories of Our Lady and my great school
mates and teachers. (Sister Bertha, I'm really sorry I said
that about you.)
My wife and I are sorry we can't attend the reunion. We
will be out of town with my sister and her husband.
I am semi retired. I sat home for a year, but I guess I
wasn't quite ready for that. I went back to work for the
Sisters of Holy Cross on the campus of Saint Mary's
College. My wife, Julie, is a physical therapist for St. Joe
Medical Center. We live just west of South Bend.
We've visited the website, and it was great reading about
old friends. I especially enjoyed the picture of the "62"
championship football team of which I was a member.
That was a special time in all of our lives.
We know you will have a wonderful time at the reunion,
and all our good wishes are with you.
If anyone wishes you can E-mail at
EJKandJLK@C.S.com.
Cross School of Nursing, work at St Joe's a while, then went to
work on the Navajo Indian Reservation for 5 yrs. then joined the
US NAVY, did my 20 yrs, traveled everywhere, took care of
President Regan, met my husband in Cuba. we Both retired and
are now living new ST Louis MO. I still work part time as RN plus
have my own business. Noah's Nanny Pet Sitting. I am trying to
remember back 40 yrs for some memories, but my brain can't go
back that far!!! :)
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sweetheart, Michele DeCicco Starting 31 st year together have 3
wonderful kids, no one married yet. Jake and Gabe (oldest &
youngest) work for Stone Eagle a computer specialty Co. in
Dallas TX: Daughter Shelbi is a tech at Madison Ctr. for children
has her hands full with adolescent girls.
After 26 years I resigned fron High School coaching but still
teach Biology at Penn H.S. Have had an ankle replaced and
snapped left quadracep tendon in my knee placing co ed
softball on my daughters team 2 years ago...don't do that
anymore. Pastimes now include fishing and the past 4 years
(between surgeries and casts) flying a powered parachute at
every opportunity. I'm just happy to still be here.
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1973. After my freshman year at IUSB, I enlisted in the Navy
Reserves as an Electronics Technician. After active duty, I
completed my undergraduate degree in Business from IUSB
and joined Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation as a
Retail Sales Representative in South Bend. In 1979 I married my
high school sweetheart, Jeanette Dance.
Well, the world has gone around many times since then. We are
fortunate to have four great kids. Luke, Vincent, Robin and
Rachel. We have lived in South Bend, Chicago, Louisville,
Philadelphia and finally back to Louisville. The Bluegrass of
Kentucky is home.
I stayed in the Navy Reserves. I was commissioned as an
Officer in the Navy Supply Corps in 1981 and retired after 21
years of service. I stayed with Brown and Williamson too. In
1996 I was appointed an officer of the company and Vice
President of Sales and Trade Marketing. On January 1 of this
year I retired from the merged B&W/RJ Reynolds companies
after 28 years and a lot of great adventures.
I spend fair bit of time these days as a volunteer Board
member for the Louisville Chapter of the American Red Cross
and as a part time Business Consultant in Leadership and
Change Management.
JK here...I hope many of you will have the opportunity to attend
the reunion this August! You have a lot of wonderful folks who
are working very hard to plan a great day of food, fun,
reminiscing, and oh yes, a little imbibing as well!! My hope is
that this gathering could also be used as a scholarship-building
opportunity to give something back to the school and parish
that had given us an (arguably) sound start on our life's
journey...Ok, so we'll need to discount the nun's and their
pointers and yardsticks, Sr Bertha's paddle, Msgr Sabo's
scare-tactic lectures about going blind, Fr Pauquette ('nuff
said- Some are prob still in therapy!) and I'm sure a myriad of
other issues, scandals, and scars we've (or maybe it's just
me!?) repressed and blotted from memory! What a different
time it was, and for some of you, a really DISTANT time!! LOL...Do
you even remember attending?? If you'd like to know, I am
married to my wife Donna (a west-sider!) for 23 years this June,
and we call Culver, IN, home. We have a daughter Katie, who is
21 and a junior down at Ball State, and a son Adam, who is 18,
will graduate from Culver Academy next month, and will be
attending Bowling Green (OH). I'm a soon-to-be graduate of IN
Wesleyan University (career student I guess!), and currently am
the Safety & Risk Manager for Culver Academy. I love to bowl,
fish, and golf, and take deep satisfaction in helping those less
fortunate than us. I hope that our son's move-in day at school
will not conflict with the reunion date, and I hope to see many
of you there!
reading about my old classmates on the web. My husband and
I are disappointed that we can't attend the reunion. It would
be so wonderful to see you all.I retired from teaching at Beiger
School in Mishawaka two years ago. (Can't imagine how I ever
had time to work.) My husband, Bob, and I have been married
for 33 years. Since 1980 we have visited Alaska about twenty
times and have a website showcasing the photography from
some of those adventures. Visit our site :
wolfmountainphotography.com if you like nature.
Wow, the memories of OLH that have come charging back.
That fire escape was indeed a blast. Singing in the choir with
Mr. Budinski as the leader was a challenge. I never did have a
voice. We spent many hours practicing cheerleading and arm
wrestling at the flagpole on our lunch break, that is when I
wasn't washing dishes in the convent. Do you remember Sister
M. Sylvia? I actually attended her 50th anniversary as a nun
and flew to Staten Island NY for the festivities. We reminisced
about OLH too. Have a fabulous time at the reunion. Bob and I
will be thinking of you. Karen Koszyk Watson ....Class of 61
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George L. Lund Jr.,whom is the computer technologist at
Stanley Clark. He will have been there 25 years in June. We
have 2 sons George J. 18 and will be a senior at Clay. Marty 15
who will be a sophomore at Clay next year.I have just switched
jobs. I was at SJRMC for 31 years as a staff nurse. I'm now
working for Visiting Nurse also through SJRMC. We are very
active with our boys as the play soccer, hockey, swim and are
also involed in swing choir and orchestra. We also travel alot.
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then IUSB while I was getting my BS in education. Married my
husband, John (Washington HS grad 1955)in 1972 and moved to
Arizona. He retired as a Special Ed teacher in 1997 and I retired
as administrative assistant for Central Arizona College after also
working for AZ State University and the University of Arizona. We
have two children - David a teacher in Tucson (first grandchild in
April, 2006) and Kathleen(who has her doctorate but is building a
yoga and meditation center in Kauai, Hawaii). I would like to get
in touch with Rosemary Gasko. Don't know if I'll be able to make
the reunion but would love to hear from classmates.
carol_vankirk@centralaz.edu
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Seminary in 1967 after they closed their doors. Graduated from
Marian in 1969 and IU in 1973. Taught Math & Science in The
Gambia, West Africa with the Peace Corps after graduation, then
taught junior high Science in Mishawaka upon return in 1975.
Married my wonderful wife, Laurie, in 1977. She put me through
grad school. Have been working as a petroleum geologist since
1980. Currently we live in Orchard Park, NY about a mile from the
Buffalo Bills stadium. We have been here 16 years after
spending almost 11 years in Texas. We have three children, Sam
(20), Tim (19), and Angela (13). Keep real busy with them and
parish activities. Currently learning how to play the Irish
concertina. Don't know yet if I can make the reunion. If not, best
wishes to all my classmates and friends.
one in South Bend yet chairing for class of 58. Retired from Air
Force in Las Vegas and now handle public affairs for the
Community College of Southern Nevada and also teach business
communications. First time gramps in late April from daughter
Anne who lives in Burbank CA. Son Christopher and daughter
Beth both live in Vegas. Let me know if any 50s are headed this
way so we can visit. Expect to be in South Bend for OLH
Reunion. Warm wishes and God's blessings to all.
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Seminary Cincinnati Ohio. 3/66 to 8/66 Sibleys Machine Shop.
South Bend Indiana. 8/66 to 5/70 US Navy VF194 jet Mechanic
F8 Crusaders on USS Ticonderoga and USS Eriskney. 5/70 to
9/70 Sibley Machine Shop South Bend 9/70 to 5/72 Vincennes
University AAS degree and A&P aircraft liscenses. 5/72 to 9/72
Danville Ill. Britt Airways 5/72 to 5/77 Brownsberg and
Indianapolis Indiana Eagle Creek Aviation. 5/77 to 8/83 Hughes
Aviation Services Airline Contracts Las Vegas Nevada
8/83 Clark county Community College AAS. Degree Business
Management 8/83 till 8/86 Houston Texas Southwest
Airlines 8/86 till present Southwest Airlines Phoenix Arizona.
1973 Vincennes Indian married Kathryn F. Smith
1978 June Las Vegas Nevada Son Daniel Gregory born
1980 Las Vegas Nevada son Douglas Todd born.
Indiana for 33 yrs. Also have a small cleaning business. Busy
working, taking care of mom. "Juice Plus" I have just become
involved in the product and am very passionate about what it
can do to reverse aging in our bodies. I am becoming a new
distributor
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at IUSB as secy to Arts/Sciences &, English & Foreign
Languages. I then worked at AM General for a short few yrs. I
am now employed at Memorial Hospital/float position. Patient
Care Aide and have been there for over 4 yrs. Never married.
I have no computer or email address. I'm using my sister's,
Mary Nemes(Kuzbay), who is class of 67. Feel free to email
her for me anything you wish to know. I doubt that I will make
it to the reunion.
