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Barry O'Donnell
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Church Ministry Director |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Teresa Galvin |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | Yes |
| What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years: Married for 38 years! Spent 40 years in ministry in the Catholic Church. Mostly in Youth Ministry. Still working in ministry at St Raphael Church in Naperville IL. Member of OFS. Order of Franciscan Seculars. | |
| Tell about your most memorable high school memory: Funniest story in senior film class! Set the scene as a rebel and grabbed Kathie Freres and went down 3 flights of stairs to the parking lot and rode off on my motorcycle but when we came to Goebbert Rd I was going to fast and couldn\'t turn and proceeded into the field with all of the plowed contours. It was all caught on film from the classroom. Hilarious but not for Kathie! | |
| About my children and my grandchildren: 2 girls 35 and 17. 2 grandchildren 5 and 3 | |
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Higher Education:
Undergraduate St Francis Loretto PA MEd Loyola U Chicago MA Pastoral Studies Catholic Theological Union Chicago |
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Norman Olsen
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired (paper mill worker) |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Jane (Siegel) Olsen |
| What I have learned about life since 1970: Make and keep good friends. | |
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What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years:
Collage: 71-78 Work: Preway Corp. Production & Quality Control 78-81 Pizza Hut Mang. 81-84 Paper production 84-2011 Retirement 2011 - Yeah My wife, Jane, and I enjoy day trips (mostly winery's). We are season ticket holders for the Broadway Across America shows at the Appleton WI PAC. we also attend shows at our local PAC in Wisconsin Rapids. My H. S. sport of gymnastics does not lend itself to life long participation so now I golf. I don't golf well but it keeps me moving. Not to toot my own horn, but I make the best Bloody Marys in (at least) central Wisconsin. |
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Favorite song from HS that brings back a specific memory:
I wasn't into music that much in H.S. but since then I really started to enjoy it. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, as well as John Prine. |
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| Your favorite TV show or movie from 1966-1970: 70 TV was pretty bad. Maybe Happy Days helped send me north to Wisconsin. | |
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Information about myself that I would like to share:
Although I graduated in Natural Resources I Did not pursue that field. I was President of our sons school PTO. I chaired a successful school building referendum. I am a board member and Treasurer of our local City Band. My wife and I also volunteer by delivering books for the Library to Assisted Living facilities. I'm still short, but have grown in girth. |
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| About my children and my grandchildren: 2 Sons 1985, 1987 | |
| Higher Education: B.S. (Resource Management) 1974 University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point | |
| Former and/or Current Occupation: retired (paper mill worker) | |
Richard Olson
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Occupation: | Retire |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Suzanne ( Sandlund |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | Not going to be able to attend |
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Higher Education:
Illinois State Univ -BS Bus Adm MBA |
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| Former and/or Current Occupation: Investment Banker - Co founder 1st Trust Portfolios- retired | |
Robert Ortloff
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 8 |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Therese A. Ortloff |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | No |
Tim Osner
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Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Healthcare Consultant |
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| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Christine Doetsch |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | I'd really like to, but I have two sons and a step-daughter getting married this year in June, October and November. To quote Huck Finn: "I'm a feared!" |
| What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years: I'm a healthcare consultant with my own business designing healthcare delivery systems. I still write fiction and have a good agent and have faired well a number of times in the Faulkner Literary Contest. I've also been in some featured roles on the History Channel on the Revolutionary War period (that's me in the redcoat and wig). I live in beautiful Melvin Village, New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee in a 200+ year old house with stone walls and gardens. I'm so very grateful and lucky (life can turn on a dime and go south on you - it has for a number of us, me too in the past twenty years). So be well good friends. Live Free or Die from New Hampshire. | |
Barb Palla (Baruth)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | William Palla |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | No. Prior Commitment |
| What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years: I have been a full fledge member of the sandwich generation. Getting children settled & taking care of aging relatives. Bill retired last year so we travel when we can. | |
carolyn palmer (Costello)
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | teacher |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Michael Palmer |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | no |
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What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years:
Mike and I have been launching our adult children for the last ten years. We have four daughters and now we have four grandboys. I am still teaching second grade.The day just flies by when you fill it with kids. I feel young except when my old students drive over to my school to say hello. I'm the "grandma" of the school and it feels great! |
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Gerry Panzica
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Now
| Marital status: | Single |
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| Occupation: | disabled due to stroke |
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Comment:
The stroke I suffered in 2008 kind of threw me for a loop... it affected my life completely and I am trying to figure out how to go about living my life again. Also, I have been in a "few" relationships. I was "married"and "divorced" 3 times. I decided that I did not want to become the male Zsa Zsa and I remembered what they used to say at baseball games.."three strikes and your out !!",so I have decided I like being single and I don't have the patience to be in a relationship again...I am too damn old to start another relationship !!! Also, I became close friends to Ken Larson and his lover when I moved back to Chicago. Kenny still had that witty and funny sarcasm until his dying day.. I will miss him and Eddie. I am addicted to Facebook.....I have met so many friends from my "past"......It's great to communicate with friends you haven't seen in years !!!! |
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| I am planning to attend the reunion: | hopefully |
| What I have learned about life since 1970: are you serious?? - lol | |
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What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years:
2000-2008 - working, traveling 2008-now - NOTHING !!! |
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Higher Education:
Graduate degree - LAW Roosevelt University! |
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| Former and/or Current Occupation: paralegal | |
Alexander Patano
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Human Resources |
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| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Lori |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | Yes |
| What I have been doing for fun the last 50 years: Working and raising a family | |
Eileen Paull (O’Brien)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Spouse's Name (including Maiden): | Matthew |
| I am planning to attend the reunion: | No. There are so many people that I’d like to see, but Unfortunately a 2020 family wedding was rescheduled to this weekend, so I can’t attend any of the events. |
| Tell about your most memorable high school memory: I have many, many great high school memories, but they all start with Patti Pinkham in detention freshman year! We never stopped laughing. I also cherish memories of TP-ing houses with Barb Muellar, Carolyn Costello, Patti and Cheri Westhoff—apologies to our victims!!!! I’m so grateful for all the laughter we shared. | |
| Name a teacher that had an influence on you and perhaps why: I’ll never forget Rusty Dowell saying ‘Eileen, if you don’t turn around you’ll be spitting pearls’. He was so good hearted! Joyce Lindbergh opened my eyes to literature. I can’t remember my Geometry teacher’s name, but I’m grateful to him for teaching us the discipline of mathematics. | |