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For the year 2004

This page last updated on: Friday, December 22, 2023
number still on missing list is in brackets

12/13/2004 Kit McKay Paveza sent this wonderful photo set:
Here's my "now and then" picture, although it's pretty obvious that professional photographs in the 60's were more than just touched up! I'll be able to tell my grandchildren, if I ever have any, that I used to be cute!
10/28/2004 Drake Epple who wasn't even on the missing list has been located through Classmates.com.  Drake posed this information at classmates.com:

Drake Epple
My Life Biography

After three failed marriages and four children I have finally found spiritual and emotional peace with my lifestyle living aboard a 41' motoryacht in Clear Lake, Texas where I have been living and working for the past 25 years. My work and passion has been surveying sailboats and powerboats for potential buyers which has been a tremendous blessing meeting wonderful people and traveling all over the Gulf coast and inspecting some of the most beautiful boats in the world. I have owned my own business for the last 20 years and working around boats has kept me trim and healthy and I still look forward to each day. But I miss seeing and talking with old friends and would love to find out more about my classmates from Wheeling High.

10/15/2004 Website
Updates
There have been a lot of recent additions to the website. I want to thank all those alumni who allowed me to borrow their originals so I could share them with all of us. I have added several sections under each class.

One is for each years school calendar. Remember those great calendar girl pictures???  So far just the '66-'67 calendar is available

On Stage is for pictures and programs from stage performances, plays, musicals, orchesis, etc. If you're looking for a particular performance you'll may need to check all the years to find the right one.

Another is Commencement Memories which will include the Commencement Program for each year. So far I only have the programs for the class of '68 and '69.

Another section is the Senior Spokesman which will be copies of each classes senior edition of the spokesman.  So far the Senior Spokesman for '69 and '70 are available.

The class of 1972's 20th reunion (1992) books is now available.

I've also added a section for the high school bands, but I don't have them linked from the main page yet. The direct link to these pictures is http://www.whs69.com/band/index.html.

If you have any materials, programs, newspaper articles, personal pictures you took, or any other memorabilia that you'd like to contribute and share with all the alumni please contact me. The more stuff that's offered here the better the memories.  Thanks!  Gary Hedberg '69

10/12/2004 Ken France Kenneth L. France has been found.  Ken lives in Georgetown, TX.  His younger brother Richard France '69 provided this information. [164].
10/02/2004 Search
Note

I'm in the process of going through every name on the missing list from every class (1,349) and checking it against the 2001 WHS Alumni Directory, and then checking to see if the missing person may have had any siblings that went to WHS, or Hersey, or BGHS.  I've decided to just make all the phone calls myself.  Trying to coax others to do the calling is a lesson in personal head bashing :-)  Unfortunately more and more of us are passing away and my opportunity to take advantage of sibling-alumni is going to become less and less useful the longer I wait to do this.  So I'm just going to bite the bullet and do it myself.   I'm already up to the "B"'s :-)

09/17/2004 Jim Whittington Congratulations to Jim Whittington .  Jim has been awarded the honor of being a Distinguished Alumni for 2004.  To read more about this please go to the following link: http://www.whs69.com/hc/2004/whs_distinguished_alumni.html
09/02/2004 Goeff Patton Goeff Patton has moved from Tampa, FL to Wheaton, MD.
08/10/2004 Penny Leach

Paul Fiegen
Penny Leach Fiegen and her alumni husband Paul Fiegen, have moved from Marengo, IL to McHenry, IL.
04/06/2004  

Frank Bohac  

Frank John Bohac formerly of Rolling Meadows Visitation for Mr. Frank John Bohac, 82, will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the Patterson Funeral Home, Braidwood, Ill. An aloha ceremony in Hawaii celebrated his love of family, friends and life. He died Thursday, March 25, 2004, at Kona Community Hospital, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Frank was a former Arlington High School coach, teacher, administrator and director of student affairs from 1956 to 1965. He then transferred to Wheeling High School, where he served as an administrator until his retirement in 1979. He and his wife lived in Rolling Meadows from 1956 to 1997. Frank played two sets of tennis on the morning he died. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Shirley Mae Bohac; his children, Bob, Nancy, Tom, Frank, Don, Sue and David, all graduates of District 214 high schools; 22 grandchildren; and by six great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made in Frank's honor to the Nursing Scholarship Fund of Kona Hospital Auxiliary, or to the Gift of Hope Organ Tissue Donor Network, c/o Shirley Bohac, 78-6800 Alii Drive, Unit 7-101, Kailus-Kona, HI 96740. Friends may visit www.dailyherald.com/obits to express condolences and sign the guest book. For funeral information, (815) 458-2336.
Published in the Chicago Suburban Daily Herald on 4/6/2004.

03/04/2004 Penelope Fowler Penny Fowler Buick made first contact!  Penny lives in Wenatchee, WA, with her husband of 30 years (this coming summer) Carl.  Penny has one son, two daughters, eight grandchildren. She would love to hear from classmates/friends.  [167].
 
02/05/2004 Leonard Newlin turned himself in. He's living in Pembine, WI. [168].
01/17/2004
Today I met with '66 Alumni Ed Bangs at his home on the NE side of Tucson.  Ed was having a little computer trouble so 7 hours later we got it all figured out and working.  Got to share a lot of great stories about the last 35 or so years. 
 

01/01/2004 Happy New Year!  Currently there are still [169] Class of 1966 Alumni Missing

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