Class Notes

Louise Kelly Martell '57
Louise currently lives in Portland, OR. 

Patricia Stiglich LePage-Anderson '58
Patricia currently lives in Bull Shoals, AR. She remarried Michael Anderson on Nov. 10, 2019. They have been together for 18 yrs. She has six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren . She has 10 more grandchildren on her husband's side.

Joan Colburn Robertson '59
Joan currently lives in Cary, NC where she provides fiddle sing-along sessions in the memory care, assisted living and independent living sections where she lives. 

Judy Schaper Sanders '59
Judy lives in the desert and is a retired professor following about 40 years of teaching health and physical education, coaching a variety of sports and staff development projects. She enjoys staying involved in charitable organizations and playing golf. 

Lynn Plagge Dunham '60 
Lynn currently lives in Prescott Valley, AZ. She retired from Yavapai County in 2008, traveled extensively around the states and took a cruise to Alaska with her husband Jim who passed away three years ago. She does aqua aerobics three times a week at the YMCA. In addition, she spends a lot of time reading and doing some gardening. Her son is a retired Navy Commander living in Ohio with his wife and daughters.

Dick Greffin '60
Dick currently lives in Waunakee, WI. He is a retired broadcast journalist/company spokesperson. 

Hyatt King '61
Hyatt lives in Richardson, TX (Nov-May) and Lanesboro, MN (Jun-Oct). He is enjoying retirement and playing golf. 

Gloria Bond Carter '62
Gloria currently lives in Longwood, FL.

Bruce Buchanan II '63
Bruce currently lives in Austin, TX. He recently retired after 44 years as a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Douglas Hudson '63
Douglas currently splits his time in Miami, Barrington and Deer Valley. 

Terry Lindberg '63
Terry currently lives in Orlando, FL where he has been working for Disney for the past 22 years as an animal educator and show observer. He is married with kids. 

Bruce Campbell '66
Bruce currently lives in Naples, NY. After a 45 year stint as a Veterinarian serving both large and small animals, he retired and is now spending time in his woodworking shop making furniture, toys for the grandchildren and other interesting objects out of wood grown and milled from the forest in NY. His four boys are all married and three have children. Bruce has six grandchildren in all. He has also been a private pilot since 1975 and is now turning his plane over to his oldest son who is also a pilot.

Gerry Cardinallo '66
Gerry currently lives in Cave Creek, AZ. 

Robert Lynn '66
Robert currently lives in Seminole, FL. He attended his 25th and 50th BHS reunions and really enjoyed them. He is retired, playing golf six days a week and still a big Tampa Bay BUCS fan and 24 year Club seat ticket holder. 

Fred Pedersen '66
Fred currently lives in Chesterfield, MI where he works as a paraprofessional, after teaching 41 years in Lutheran Schools. 

Charles (Tom) Stewart '66
Charles is enjoying life, living in Petoskey, MI May-November and Henderson, NV the rest of the year.

Gordon Hollander '67
Gordon is currently living in Carpentersville, IL, after retiring in 2019.

Michael Kelly '67
Michael currently lives in Winslow, AR. 

Craig Halle '68
Craig currently lives in Glenview, IL. He is a big fan and supporter of the 3 F's. Fishing, farming (gardening), and finance. He has been working on custom designed raised beds built from repurposed lumber. He builds them so that he doesn't have to bend down too far to plant and weed them. He has planted a Wolf River Apple Tree, a Yellow Transparent Apple tree and 2 Jefferson Hazel Nut trees. He is also an organic grower with two compost bins. 

Patricia Holman '68
Patricia currently lives in Albuquerque, NM. She is a former actuary (FSA 1977), and retired ELCA pastor (ordained 1989). She is a grandmother of four and an active advocate for justice.

Eric Johnson '68
Eric retired in 2017 and currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

James Fitch '69
James currently lives in Lake in the Hills, IL. He has a wonderful wife, three grown children and four grandchildren. He enjoys listening to and creating music and playing the guitar. He has been in a band for the last 13 years. He has no plans to retire just yet.

Sharon Turner Lau '69
Sharon currently lives in Mendocino, CA. She retired in 2010 from healthcare administration and consulting. She now spends her days making art quilts in a beautiful home in the middle of the Redwood Forest.

Josephine DeNight Potts '69
Josephine currently lives in Downers Grove, IL. She spent summer and fall 2020 volunteering for the DuPage County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management- directing traffic and helping clients at the DuPage County COVID testing center in Wheaton. Her rescue dogs, bunnies, and guinea pigs keep her busy at home, as well as her teenage grandkids.

Roger Ruthhart '69
Roger is currently living in Rock Island, IL, where he has retired as editor of the Dispatch-Argus newspaper in the Quad-Cities. He continues to serve on the board of directors of the Northern Illinois Newspaper Assn. In addition, he is president of the organization that runs the Rock Island Grand Prix, the world's largest professional go-kart street race. He is also a contributing writer for the Black Hawk State Historic Site publication.

Dan Kalkbrenner '70
Dan currently lives in Algonquin, IL. He is recently retired and rebuilding his second home. He is working to enhance his guitar music and song writing skills, marketing his inventions, and hopes to find time to get some fishing in.

Nancy Wichman Miller '70
Nancy is currently retired and living in Westfield, Indiana. 

Jeremy Frey '71
Jeremy is still working in law, living in Philadelphia, PA and missing his former classmates!

Karen Mollenkamp Race '71
Karen lives in St. Augustine, FL where she is enjoying life with her husband, Charles Race, their kitties and rescue greyhound, and their sailboat PRINCESSA. 

Mark Schwendau '72
Mark is currently living in Byron, IL where he is retired and purchased a Jeep Gladiator like the one in the Super Bowl 2020 commercial!

Mary Weiler LaFond '73
Mary is currently retired and living in Sahuarita, AZ. She has been married for 20 years and has two dogs. She spent her career working as a travel agent. 

Clinton Clark '74
Clinton lives in Maple Grove, MN and just won an Emmy for the "My Patch of Sky" Project. He did the film score. Clinton was voted "Most Musical" at BHS. 

Michael Hanes '74
Mark currently lives in Aptos, CA and works at Apple Inc. He also volunteers at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.

Christine Rihrbacher Maky '74
Christine is currently living life in Boca Raton, FL as a mom and grandmother.  

Scott Davis '75
Scott currently lives in his lake house in Monticello, IN. He is a retired Police Lieutenant who served for 28 years. 

Lorelei Just '75
Lorelei is retired and currently living in Sheldon, IL. 

Scott Remington '75
Scott currently lives in Austin, TX. He is retired after 40.5 years and has 12 granted US patents in high tech designing circuits for memory chips and microprocessors, at (Motorola, Freescale, and NXP).

James (Jeff) Hermsdorfer '76
Jeff currently lives in Shawnee, KS. He is retired Air Force and has been working as a contractor in Afghanistan since 2005.

Carl Mandabach '76
Carl currently lives in Sacramento, CA. 

James Schwartzburg '76
James currently lives in Boulder Junction, WI and Las Vegas NV. 

Terri Prest Chelmowski '77
Terri currently lives in Milwaukee, WI. She is retired after working as a nurse in various positions over the last 30 years. She is married with two grown daughters.

Rebecca Branham LaMear '77
Rebecca moved to Tucson, AZ in 1992. She is currently retired and spends her time playing tennis and volunteers as a docent at the San Xavier Mission in Tucson. 

James Gallagher '78
James is retired and living in Greenville, SC. 

Pete Batt '79
Pete currently lives in Kissimmee, FL. 

Liz Lytle Isaac '79
Liz is in her 11th year of teaching of high school ESL, after working 20+ years in business. She lives with her daughter in North Attleboro, MA.

Bill Valtos '79
Bill currently lives in Manila, Philippines. He retired in March 2020, but he is itching to get back into the market. 

Marita Schneider Wagner '79
Marita currently lives in Barrington. 

Aaron Burke '80
Aaron currently lives in Lakeside, CA. 

Clark Davis '85
Clark currently lives in The Plains, VA, where he is President/CEO Wincore Window Company and Managing Partner Ridge Capital Partners, LLC. He still participates in horse competitions with his wife
and two daughters.

Missy Dawson '85
Missy currently lives in Cayce, SC. 

Lisa DeNoux Wiehebrink '85
Lisa currently lives in Yorba Linda, CA. She is a children's book author, founder of the Tails That Teach Foundation and National Rescue Dog Day. Her non-profit, Tails That Teach donates her children's books to elementary schools and humane societies across the country. They recently donated their 100,000th book! 

Bill Holtz '86
Bill lives in Whitinsville, MA, where he works as a managing partner of a Boston law firm. He has been married for 20 years with seven kids. He played (warmed bench) on the 1986 State Champion BHS baseball team and  currently is head coach of his 9 year old son's baseball team.

Erin Sheridan FitzWilliam '87
Erin retired from teaching after 25 years. She moved to South Carolina to enjoy warmer weather and the lake life!

Scott Petersen '87
Scott currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and recently released a short film he shot in France called "We Eat Socca Here" on AmazonPrime.

Eva Sandor '87
Eva currently lives in Bartlett, IL. She is the author of  "FOOL'S PROOF", a comic fantasy available at all major retailers. You can download a sample chapter here! Eva also drew the cover! 

Lisa Kramer Antosh '88
Lisa currently lives in Twin Lakes, WI.

A.J. Collier II '88
A.J. currently lives in Hanover Park, IL with his wife, Heather and three boys Andrew (20), Alex (18) and Adam (15) and their dog Crixus. A.J. has been selected as a Harper College 2020 Distinguished Alumni honoree for a life long career of service in the field of community recreation. He currently is working for the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center - Chicago on the far southside of the city as the Director of Operations. A.J. was previously recognized in a Harper College Alumni Spotlight for his work at the Elk Grove Park District as the Superintendent of Recreation. In what little free time he has, he coaches lacrosse for his children at the park district, has time to coach at St Charles East High School and is the Head Coach of the Chicago Outlaws a semi-pro box lacrosse team based in Palatine, IL. 

Melissa Behrens Killam '88
Melissa currently lives in Crystal Lake, IL, where she has been the owner/veterinarian of Animal Hospital at the Shores since 2011. She has three sons, four chickens, two dogs and one cat. 

Mary Schwager '89
Mary currently lives in Boston, MA and won her 17th Emmy Award this year for consumer reporting, from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Christopher Thompson '89
Christopher currently lives in Lake Barrington, IL.

Amy Dellamora Amick '90
Amy currently lives in Atlanta. 

Nancy DiCosola Antol '91
Nancy currently lives in Schaumburg and welcomed her third child in May 2019. 

Tim Keating '91
Tim currently lives in Schaumburg, IL. In February of 2020 he completed his goal of stepping foot on all seven continents! His most recent one was Antarctica.

Laurel Pierce Hotchkiss '92
Laurel has lived in Holland, Michigan since she graduated from Hope Collage in 1995 and then Washington University with a Master of Social Work in 1996. She and her husband Jim have 3 amazing teens, and frequently take in exchange students and homeless teens. Laurel is a high school social worker at Grand Haven High School. Jim runs his own home audio/video business, Red Oak Audio in Holland Michigan.

Lorna Rose-Hahn '95
Lorna currently lives in Wenatchee, WA with her husband and two small children. She is president of Write On The River, a nonprofit supporting writers in North Central WA and beyond with open mic nights, competitions, workshops, and social events. She is also board member-elect at Oregon Poets Association. Lorna writes narrative nonfiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in several literary journals and has been recognized by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and the Oregon Poets Association. Recently she completed her first book-length work, a memoir. 

Robert Mack '97
Robert currently lives in Schaumburg, IL. For the last 13 years he has worked as an Assistant State's Attorney with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. He is currently assigned to a Felony Trial courtroom at 26th and California.

Melissa McGrann Wethe '98
Melissa currently lives in the The Woodlands, TX.

Brian Pope '00
Brian currently lives in Crystal Lake, IL and works as a 767 first officer for Delta Air Lines.

Diana Sislow Wolff '08
Diana and her husband David currently live in Dallas, TX and welcomed their first child, Addison Grace, in November 2020. 

Julian Rodriguez '10
Julian currently works as a Registered Medical Assistant at Northwestern Medicine and is pursuing a mortuary science degree at Worsham College.

Alexander Trzaska '10
Alexander is currently living in Barrington and welcomed his first child, Caroline, in April 2020. 

Alyssa Chlebek '15
Alyssa works as a 2nd grade teacher and recently published her first children's book titled "Protector of the Ocean". The book shares important messages about friendship, protecting the environment, helping others, and empowering children to follow their dreams and make a positive impact.

Greg Myren '18
Greg is currently attending Northeastern University in Boston.

Austin Gregory '20
After graduating from BHS, Austin moved to Los Angeles to attend college.

Alyssa Rodda '20
Alyssa is currently attending Harper College and working at pl8 restaurant as a waitress and hostess.

Ruth Bjornberg Van Wambeke '37
Ruth passed away on November 26, 2020. She was the treasurer of her BHS class. Ruth was honored to serve as the Grand Marshall of the Homecoming Parade for BHS in 2017. She was a Barrington resident for most of her 100 years of life. Ruth was a remarkable and memorable woman who is greatly missed. Click here to read her obituary. 

Wayne Premo '55
Wayne Premo passed away on June 27, 2024 in Michigan. Click here to read his obituary. 

Ruthann Willard Lukes '57
Ruthann Willard Lukes passed away on August 11, 2020. She was living in Spirit Lake, IA. Click here to read her obituary. 

Andrew de Naray '61 
Andrew passed away on January 3, 2020. He was married to Nicole deNaray, with one son and one grandson. He lived in Colorado Springs, CO for many years. HIs joys were family, photography (very good at it), choir singing, international travel, and hiking in the Colorado mountains (he hiked in and out of the Grand Canyon in a single day). His ashes are interred at the Veteran's National Cemetery in Colorado Springs. Click here to read his obituary.

Victor Dahir '63
Victor passed away on March 20, 2021. He was a graduate of Amherst College and received an MBA from Harvard University. He served as an Executive Vice President of Finance and Risk Operations at Visa, Inc. (formerly Visa U.S.A., Inc.) until 2005 and as a Board member of MoneyGram International, INC. Prior to this, Victor was an Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Inovant LLC, a subsidiary of Visa. He joined Visa, Inc. in 1984 as Director of Financial Planning and Budgeting for its subsidiary, Visa International. From 1991 until 2004, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Visa, Inc. Prior to Visa, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Redwood Bank in San Francisco for six years. Prior to that, he spent two years as the Manager of Financial Planning and Capital Budgeting at Levi Strauss & Company in San Francisco and six years at Arthur Young & Company, Certified Public Accountants.  

Ray Engelking '66
Ray passed away on February 4, 2021 in a tragic shooting in Washington County, WI. Click here to read his obituary. 

Mike Jordan '70
Mike passed away on August 19, 2023 in Louisville, KY. 

Corinne Wood (Corky Gieseke) '72
Corinne served as IL Lieutenant Governor alongside Gov. George Ryan from 1999 to 2003. She died on May 18, 2021 from complications related to her 15 years with metastatic breast cancer. 

Jody Waters '73
Jody was among the 10 victims tragically killed in the Boulder mass shooting on March 22, 2021.

Carrie Marling Bankes '82 
Carrie passed away suddenly in June 2021. She is so very missed. Click here to learn more about Carrie.  

Dr. Wallace J. Nichols '85
Dr. Nichols, the marine biologist, environmentalist, and author of Blue Mind, died on June 10, 2024 at the age of 56. 

Armen Garry, '99
Armen passed away unexpectedly on July 23, 2024. Click here to read his obituary. Click here to visit a GoFundMe page that has been set up to help his family.