Group photo at our 55th Reunion Banquet on September 26, 2015. Row 1 (front): Jim McNeil, Barb Schmidt, Judy Winters Kotzamanis, Marge Rohrer McAllister, Lynn Lewis Glaser, Barbara Frana Nix, Kaaren Holz Nichols, Sandra Tistle Kotlaba, Pam Fox, Pam Porter Duthie. Row 2: Carol Swanson Olsen, Jerry Romes, Karen Acton Truettner, Carol Wooten Kaczanowski, Bonnie Block Prims, Linda Helmick Clark, Sylvia Wright Kete, Gail Erickson Peterson, Lucille Krejci, Marianne Yonus Olson, Nancy Demorest Pujol, Joann Koy Butler, Sharon O’Brien Hoffman, Mellanie Willet Fowler, Carolyn Mustradi Nemeth, Judy Retzer High, Peggy Lambert Seeley, Penny Dean Carduff, Marshall Seese. Row 3: Earl Gebel, Ginny Breit Wood, Christine Nordgren Pfeiffer, Sherry Unger Lane, Trudy Johnson Sheek, Rick Arendt, Karen Zachia Vosmik, Bob Schuwerk, Darle Eichler Tilley, Todd Kantowowicz, Arlene Carlson Messick, Linda Raether Darlington, Rosemary Cleary Tourville, Don Baeuchler. Row 4: Dick Smith, Anita Wikstrom Hansen, Kathy Accola Coomer, Fred Johnson, Judy Plain Robins, Stu Schack, Mark Day, John Hash, Bill Walger, Steve Fox, Bob Kunkel, Bill Russell. Row 5: Barry Rietz, Bob Smith, James McGovern, Peter Paulson, Don Klemt, Alan Bragg, Bob Nemeth, Dick Pickup, Bill Spryison, Dan Nehlsen. Row 6: Joe Sciarra, Jim Coomer, John Masoncup, Eric Brookens, Pete Benda, Jerry Mason, Paul Traficanti Conti, Frank Kuper.
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9/23/2025 MW classmate Judy Whetstone Motley left us in 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Judith A. Motley (nee Whetstone), a beloved resident of Port Barrington, IL, who peacefully departed this life on December 5, 2023, at
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9/11/2025 Bizarre funeral for ME classmate Ed Olsen who died in 1967 at age 26.
The soul of a sailor who believed in sorcery was consigned to the devil Monday, Dec. 11, 1967, in a bizarre funeral rite at the First Satanic Church of San Francisco. Self-styled sorcerer An
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9/1/2025 ME classmate Larry Zidek left us in 2021
Lawrence A. Zidek Sr., 79, of Johnsburg, IL, joined his parents and two brothers on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 at Northwestern Hospital in McHenry. He was born May 15, 1942 in Chicago to Anthony
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I began college at U of Chicago, but graduated from Wabash College in Indiana. Joined the USAF in 1965 commissioned at OTS in Texas. Then pilot training at Craig AFB in Alabama where I met and married my first wife Betty. Next sent to F4 Phantom fighter training at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ. and a ticket to the war. Also flew for a year at Yokota AFB in Japan, and Osan AFB in Korea.
Left the service at end of 1969, lived in DesPlaines and went to work as HR manager at Skil Tools, and started MBA program at U of Chicago on the GI bill, but did not stay for the degree. Also had HR management jobs at Abbott Labs, FMC Corp. and Baxter. Lived in Grayslake and Libertyville at that time. In 1978 my first wife Betty died of cancer.
In 1982 I married Gwen and we moved to San Jose, CA and I made a major career change joining the San Jose Police Dept. working in patrol and as a recruit training officer. Divorced from Gwen in 1991 after 2 kids.
Purchased a house in Nevada City, CA in the Sierra Foothills, about an hour from Lake Tahoe and great Sierra ski areas. Also bought a Piper Cherokee so I could fly back and forth to work 4 days in San Jose and 3 days off in the mountains.
I retired as of 2005 and married Ann, and we are living in the house in Nevada City, spend time traveling, skiing in winter, and spending money on kids and grandkids.
Son Jim lives in Alabama, is a musician and Lab Tech and has 2 children. Greg has graduated from Illinois State at Normal and teaches technology subjects at Grayslake North H.S. Jeff graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern U. and is selecting a school for his PhD program.
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While we were still in high school a national publication ranked our school among the top ten public high schools in the U.S. We all knew that we were privileged to be part of a very special group during our years at Maine. We wondered what path our own life would follow after high school - and what good things might be in store for our classmates and friends. We wondered if all of the stuff we were struggling to learn was really important. After high school, paths diverged and occasionally crossed. Communication with classmates was not as good as we hoped it would be. Fifty years later we think back and wonder not only "whatever happened to good old so-and-so," but also, what in general, did our classmates end up doing with their lives?
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