Travels to Waseca

  While I was working out at the ‘Y’ today I caught some of the Oprah Winfrey show. They were talking about the need for more organ donors. I have a former work colleague who is on the waiting list for a lung transplant. She’s running out of time. I’ve never signed up to be a donor but I’ve discussed it with my wife. I think it’s time for me to sign up.

Here’s a link to a map they posted on the www.Oprah.com web site showing a state-by-state guide on organ, tissue and eye donation laws and how to become an organ donor: How to donate 

A memorial service will be held tomorrow, Friday, February 1^st at 11:00 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Janesville for Marcella ‘Sally’ (Santo) Blasing. I went to school with her son, Bob. I barely remember Mrs. Blasing (in case you’ve forgotten, we always addressed our friends’ parents as Mr. or Mrs. – I don’t know that I ever knew her first name). I do remember that Bob had a party at the farm on east Hwy 14 that I attended and that she, of course, was there. I remember her as an attractive, dark-haired woman. Bob’s dad died in 1956 while Bob was still in school and Bob, his brother Larry, and most of all, I suppose, Mrs. Blasing, ran the farm after that. Our condolences to the Blasing family.

Chuck

  Judy Loomer Giese has scheduled a reunion during the Waseca 2008 All-School Reunion for anyone who considers the Trowbridge Park neighborhood their neighborhood. How about scheduling a reunion for your neighborhood! If you do, let us know and we’ll add it to the schedule of Reunion activities we’ll be posting.

The Trowbridge Park Neighborhood Reunion is scheduled for Saturday, July 5, 2008, at 2 p.m. We’ll meet at the Bandstand.

Chuck

The following graduates of Waseca High School are currently missing. If you have current contact information on any of them or if you know if any of them have died, please contact us at WasecaAlums.com.

1950
Wilda Krampitz Stolberg

1951
NA

1952
Eddie Bergland
Maxilee Moon Nydegger

1953
Raymond Bartz

1954
Hugh Miller
Shirley Mittelstaedt
Barbara Ferry Park
Gladys Kelm Rice

1955
Marlys Weyhrauch Kauffman

1956
Donald Klinger

1957
Pat Lindsay Johnson

1958
Sharon Calcut Bethke
Donwin Molle

1959
NA

1960
Richard Carlson
Jerry Freseman
Carol Harding Jenson
Judy Meyer Power
Lorna Gerdts Rowdon

1961
Roger Brown

1962
Bonnie Clayton Carson
Judy Caswell Pahl

1963
Michael Sheeran
C Michael Olson
Kathleen Ostendorf Schultz
Betty Wick Spooner
Terrance Wilkowski

1964
David Marsh
Frey Reinecke Tripp
John VonRuden

1965
David Briggeman
James Deno
Michael Erickson
Jaime Mac-Veigh – exchange student from Spain
Mary Freundl Pettik

1966
Michael Edwards
Diane Vogt Erickson
Ardith Graham
Judy Parker
Dominique Richard – exchange student from France
Ronald Spies
Bob Summer
Linda Weiland Wilson

1967
Gunnar Anderson

1968
Barbara Karolevitz Olson
Laviere O’Riley

1969
Deborah Schmitz Blowers
David Brown
Lorna Christenson
Edgar Eaton
Jane Hager Weiske
Pam Jewison
Karen Peterson Klinger
Paul Miller
Cheryl Wobschall Neid
David Nichtern
Raymond Peterson
Carmen Blowers Roemhildt
Sheila Ruedy
Stuart Sanbeck
Craig Schroeder
Jackie Selvik Senne
Shirley Singlestad Wagner
Jeanette Weber
Vickie Bjork Yungerberg

1970
Timothy Anderson
Randy Buker
Dan Elias
Judy Klinger Howard
Donald Mackie
Jim Madigan
Gary Mueller
Vararak Addy Ruenguisesh
Randy Scarbrough – Exchange student
Rebecca Schmiedeberg
Joanne Volkmann
Elizabeth Zorraquin – Exchange student

1971
Kathy Tobin Anderson
Dan Dardis
Luann Reinhartz Meyer
Michael Powell
Minh Quang Le – Exchange student

1972
Brent Amundson
Betty Behsmann
Hans Buege – Exchange student
Diane Coffin
Debra Berg Cook
James Deichen
Sherri Rupp Guy
Mark Harris
Shari Heuberger
Paula (or Pamela) Hunt
Lydia Jebe
Marcella Klamke
Michael Miller
Lynn Mueller
William Musel
Laurie Naseth
Michael Nelson
Terri Pinto – Exchange student
Susan Reinhardt
Charmaine Sandness
Eddie Strobel
Steve Smith
Dean Swenson
Tom Tews
Jim Trubenbach
Dan West
Steven Wolff

1973
LeeAnn Krough Aldrich
Kika Aros – Exchange student
Janet Benjamin
Renee Coy
Brian Draeger
Pam Edwards
Lane Gilbert
Kathy Henry
Pam Johansen
Myra Goettl Janbloedt
Jane Mittelsteadt
Michael Root
Linda K Schmahl
Linda Simacek
Sachiko Takahashi – Exchange student
Kathy Thompson
Cindy Turley Swenson
Kathy Weaver

1974

Juan Ramon Bilbao – Exchange student
Susan Dahl Buker
Nancy Lande Cassellius
Joe Gleason
Debbie Jenson
David Kanne
Anna Katz
Leena Laine – Exchange student
Jean Buker Lindquist
Steven Miller
Becky Polinski
Gail Grothe Soderquist
James Spaulding
Alan Steinke

As I work on the mailing list for the Waseca 2008 All-School, All-Class Reunion, I’m struck by the number of classes who’ve lost track of their foreign exchange students.

If you were a foreign exchange student in a Waseca school, contact me to make sure we have your correct contact information. And, if you were a host family or friend of a foreign exchange student and you have contact information for a foreign exchange student, contact me to make sure we have current contact information for the student in our lists.

Here’s a list of the missing exchange students I’m aware of:

1965 – Jaime Mac-Veigh (Spain)
1966 – Dominique Richard (France)
1970 – Randy Scarbrough, Elizabeth Zorraquin
1971 – Minh Quang Le
1972 – Hans Buege, Terri Pinto
1973 – Kika Aros, Sachiko Takahashi
1974 – Juan Ramon Bilbao, Leena Laine

If your Waseca class can’t find a place in Waseca to hold a reunion during the Waseca 2008 All-School, All-Class reunion you could try the recently opened (December 2, 2007) Willows restaurant on Highway 13 in New Richland:

The Willows
100 State Highway 13
New Richland
507-463-1000

You might remember The Willows under one of its former names, Jerry’s Inn, Fox Inn or Horn Inn. I remember my family going there in the 1950s occasionally for special occasions.

The owners, Jim and Beth Blake, were the owners and operators of the Boat House Restaurant in Waseca for 15 years. Their son Travis will help operate the restaurant.

Blake classifies his restaurant as upscale, family dining. The menu offers choices of steak, ribs, pasta, seafood, wraps, sandwiches, a salad bar, a wide assortment of appetizers, burgers, beer and wine by the glass or bottle.