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Jeani (Pretti) Mertens
1 August 2008
Honolulu, Hawaii
I joined the U.S. Air Force in 1985 until 1995. I am currently living in Hawaii.
Aloha!
Cynthia A. Massoth-McMurtrey
Homewood, Illinois
Education: Library Science-pursuing Master's
February 22, 2000
Served on Homewood-Flossmoor Park Board as an elected Commissioner. CCD teacher
for two years at St. Joseph's Church. Worked as Community Relations Assistant
Director for the Village of Matteson, Illinois for 4 years before becoming
Auditing and Compliance Director for a local fair housing agency for 7 years. I
retired in 1996 to be a full-time Mom to a son (8) and daughter (5). Married for
14 years. Play volleyball competitively and golf very badly. See my best buddy
Natalie Allison Johnson often. Best Memory: Going to All-area dances with Andy
Bland, Natalie Allison, the Coughlin sisters, Nancy Gastright and Brenda
Jennings. Worst memory: Leaving everyone in Summer, 1975!
Update: January 2006, Homewood, Illinois, I still live in
Homewood which is 30 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois. I am a full-time at
home Mom to kids Sam (14) and Julia (11). My husband, Ted, is an officer at JPM
Chase in downtown Chicago. I am an officer on the PTA Board for our local school
district and still a CCD teacher. I had the wonderful opportunity to see Natalie
Allison Johnson about 2 weeks ago and we're still buddies. I talk to Phyllis
Coughin and Brenda Jennings too. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again
this summer!
Gary Ybanez
09-04-05
Colorado Springs, CO
It's been a long interesting trip since Wurzburg. I went into the Army myself
for three years. Got out and went to College for awhile. Lived in Colorado,
California, Texas, Nevada and then back to Colorado. Been married a few times.
Been divorced a few times. Just can't seem to find what I am looking for.
Currently I am an IT Director for a Food Distribution company that I commute to
in Pueblo. I like my job. I finally gave up Vegas where I was dying a slow
death. The place gets old real quick. I see a
couple real familiar names here. Mike and I used to hang out together in Junior
High. Joan, I flirted with when we were freshman. If anyone wants to get a hold
of me, I'm at SiriusGD@gmail.com.
Stewart Bryant
03/06/05
Fayetteville, NC
GOT MARRIED IN 1978, HAD THREE KIDS, THEN GOT DIVORCED. GOT MARRIED AGAIN IN
1991. NO MORE KIDS, 4 GRANDKIDS. DOING GREAT NOW, WORKING FOR GOODYEAR TIRE
COMPANY FOR 27 YEARS.
Michael Ciulla
October 1, 2004
Boston, MA
Worked as a janitor at Harvard from 1981. Graduated there in 1990 stupid
as can be, but still smart enough to vote democrat.
Joan (Miller) Hardy
Phoenix, Arizona
January 30, 2004
Since I was at WAHS, I've been to OK, FL, UT. WA and AZ where
I've lived the last 6 yrs. My youngest son, Matthew lives with me. He's a junior
in high school. My next son, Aaron is leaving for boot camp Feb. 26. My son Adam
just got back from Turkey where he married his girlfriend, Sali, from
Iran. She's back in Iran but we hope to have her here with us in a few months.
My oldest son, Nathan, is married and lives in Bradenton, FL. He goes to the
Ringling Brothers School of Art. He's very talented. He started a club for
musicians there. www.rsad.edu/sos/
is the page he created for it. His wife, Dana, is going to school to be a
teacher. I'm an escrow officer. I'm not crazy about it but it pays the bills. Is
Cathy Roach out there somewhere? Cathy Dailey?
Previous entry:
I moved to Ft. Sill, OK after Wurzburg. I loved it their. Moved to UT where my
father retired. Didn't adjust there for about ten yrs. I married Bruce Hardy of
the Miami Dolphins. We moved between FL and Ut for a decade. 1/2 yr in ea. I
have four incredible boys. My oldest is married and living in Sarasota, FL going
to Ringling Bros. Art School. They keep all his work as they think he'll be
someone. They want him to teach there but he has other plans. I live in Phoenix
(5 yrs) with my youngest son Matthew. Another son, Aaron, lives down the street
with long time girlfriend. He's looking into flying helicopters for the Army.
I'm an Escrow Officer. Was a paralegal. Before that a stay at home mom. Loved
that job the best. I'm looking into being a foster mom. So so sorry to hear
about Sally Walker. She was so sweet. I remember her great dislike of the
disingenuity required by her parents. Hello to Cathy Roach and all the other
wonderful people. I am divorced. I am content. I love where I live. I love to
swim, scuba dive (dove in Honduras). I love San Diego. I go a couple of times a
yr. Adios Amigos.
Gary Nelson
Plant City, FL
April 09, 2000
Left Summer of 74, Finished High School at Columbus Ga., College at UGA, moved to Tampa Bay area 82', lived there since, Happily Married for 12 years, Son David 10, Stepson Jacob 17, Worked as Landscape Architect, Land Planner and now, Land Planning/Development Exec with a Community Developer/Homebuilder in Fla. E-mail
GNelson752@aol.com
Best Memory: AYA dances and trips, 3 day concert in Frankfurt with my brother Eric(75)
and Bill and John Pencil, Skipping school in Gebrunn, AYA european football championship team,
traveling Europe.
Mary E. Franz
Topeka, Kansas
I have very fond memories of WAHS. We left Germany in 1977 and went to Ft.
Bliss, Texas. (Or at least my family did.) I went back to Michigan to school. I
got my BS degree in Medical Technology from Grand Valley State University near
Grand Rapids, Michigan. I worked in the field for 6 years and loved it.
Unfortunately, you don't move up much in this field and I decided I wanted more
of a leadership role so I went to medical school. I am a full-time Family
Physician in Topeka, Kansas. I have 3 GREAT kids, Mary, Michael and Aubry. As a
single mom and a doctor I have a busy schedule but somehow seem to make time for
the important things. I was excited to learn of the site and plan to tell all 4
of my siblings, Bob, Bill, Jim and Sandy! Look for their names soon.
Petra (Jones) Bott
Hampton, Virginia
I moved back to the states in 1973 and graduated from Bethel High School. I then
went on to Old Dominion University and graduated with a degree in Science. I
have worked at a state of the art environmental laboratory in Virginia Beach,
Va. for 15 years. I have been married for 14 years and have one son that is 11
years old.
Bob Manwaring
Anchorage, Alaska
January 2009
Life after Würzburg took me to back to Indiana, a return to Würzburg, then
Moscow and Boise, Idaho and now I call Anchorage, Alaska home! I'm a single dad of Bren
(22) and Danielle (20). I started looking for
long lost Würzburg friends back in 1988 and this website evolved from that search!
On my own time, I enjoy improving this site and planning our reunions, traveling to warmer climates and
I hope to someday fly again, after a hiatus from recreational flying
that has lasted way too long! Best memories include driving to Stuttgart to see Cat Stevens with Rob Monteith,
Tammi Williams, Bobby and Willie Cato! Other fond memories are with good
friends at the "Lake" in Kitzingen! The picture below is with my
son Bren and daughter Dani at the 2003 "All-Class"
Alumni Reunion in Las Vegas. Email:
Gary Nelson
Plant City, Florida
Education: Univ. of Georgia, Landscape Architecture
Sunday, April 09, 2000
Left Summer of 74, Finished High School at Columbus Ga., College at UGA, moved
to Tampa Bay area 82', lived there since, Happily Married for 12 years, Son
David 10, Stepson Jacob 17, Worked as Landscape Architect, Land Planner and now,
Land Planning/Development Exec with a Community Developer/Homebuilder in Fla.
E-mail GNelson752@aol.com
Best Memory: AYA dances and trips, 3 day concert in Frankfurt with my
brother Eric(75) and Bill and John Pencil, Skipping school in Gerbrunn, AYA
European football championship team, traveling Europe.
Joseph Putz
Sumner, Washington
After graduating I returned to Washington to wait for an opening in the Air Force
air traffic control school. I served 12 years as a controller and left the AF in
1988 for a job with the FAA. I now am an ATC supervisor at the Seattle Air Route
Traffic Control Center. Two marriages produced a boy and a girl. My daughter is
attending college to pursue a career in ATC and my son is 15. I am currently
divorced and enjoying life. Some of my favorite memories are Frank Meyers and I
mooning the East German guards from the window of the train on the way to play
Berlin in soccer. Going to the AYA, and some of the best field trips in the
world such as going to Austria and Italy over Easter vacation and going to
Austria on a tennis/ski trip with Herr Kleeman. Did I mention the girls!!
Additional entry: After graduation I worked in the Kitzingen commissary for a year until returning state side with my folks. I had a one month stop over in Kentucky with a high school sweet heart, than a quick trip to PA, then off to Washington to join up with my parents. I joined the Air Force in 1977 and became an Air Traffic Controller. I spent six years at McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, then another 6 in Okinawa Japan. I married prior to going overseas and became the father of two children, a girl now 17 and a boy 14. In 1988 I left the military for an air traffic control position with the FAA. I was assigned to the Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center in Auburn, WA and have been there since. I divorced in 1990, and remarried for a brief time in 1997. Sadly, that relationship failed and am currently single. I own a large home and was promoted last week to a supervisory position. I will make the FAA my final career choice and keep Washington as a home. As for future wedding plans...no thanks...been there, done that, have the bumper sticker.
Best Memory: So many...no real best one. Met my first, second, third...loves. First time I got drunk...Franken wine and pizza. I think the best was going to the AYA and playing foosball, or maybe starting on the
WAHS soccer team...or maybe it was the field trip to Italy for history class, was it listening to Pittsburgh beat Dallas in the super bowl on a radio that kept fading in and out at all the wrong times.......so many to choose from. You pick.
Sherrie (Wofford) LaRosa
Land o Lakes, Florida
We lived in Kitzingen when I graduated an a few months later I returned to the
States while my family stayed. Lived outside of Chicago for a couple years then
met a guy through my roommates boyfriend whom I married. He was in the Navy at
the time and we lived in Norfolk, Virginia until late '82 then moved to Tampa,
Florida then Land o Lakes, (north of Tampa). Have been here ever since. We have
3 Children, all boys. The oldest, almost 23, has twins, a boy and girl. The
other two, 19 and 6 years old, are still home. Hello ta all who remember me.
e-mail: shavon@tampabay.rr.com
Harold Jandreau
Bedford, Texas
I would have graduated from WAHS in 76 but, we moved to Elk Grove (near
Sacramento, CA) in DEC of 75 and than to Killeen, TX in May 75 (Where my dad
retired). I graduated from KHS in 76 so, I am a Killeen Kangaroo (UGH) and I hop
instead of howl. I worked at the Wendy's, on 440, in Killeen, until I joined the
Army in 78 (Basic at Fort Jackson, SC, AIT (26L)at Fort Gordon, GA). I got
stationed at Fort Hood, TX (a hop-n-skip from Killeen) from 79-81 (HHC 16TH SIG
BN, 3RD SIG BDE) then went to AFCENT (Allied Forces Central), in Brunnsum, the
Netherlands until 83 when I returned to Fort Hood, TX (647TH MAINT, CO, ASB, 13
COSCOM). I went to Camp Red Cloud (Uijonbu) Korea (304th SIG BN, 1ST SIG BDE) in
84 and returned to Fort Hood in 85 (647th again). In 88, I went to Fort Gordon,
GA as an instructor (COBET, and 29M course). In 91, I went back to Korea (275th
SIG CO, Yongsan-Seoul) and than to Warrant School Basic("Red
Scorpions", Fort Rucker, AL)and advanced course (Fort ! Gordon, GA) after
that. I went to NTC, Fort Irwin (HHC NTC SPT BN and SPT SQDN 11TH ACR (OPFOR),
until I retired on 1 April 96 (No fooling) at Fort Hood, TX (Where else?). I now
( April 2003) work at the North East Campus of Tarrant County College (TCC) in
Hurst, Texas (near the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport) in the Astronomy and Physics
labs. My favorite WAHS teachers, were Mr. Rector and Mr. Renner and my best
friends were Robert Carpenter and Pat McGee. I like where I'm at in life and
will always remember WAHS and those loooong bus drives (playing spades) from
Wildflecken; especially in the SNOW (Did it ever stop?). Any WAHS alumni can
reach me at: xarmy96@yahoo.com any ole'
time...GO WOLVES!!!
Carol (Reese) Gonzalez
Helendale, Ca.
Education: Higher Business and Accounting
Song: More then a feeling by Boston to everyone
Saturday, July 08, 2000
Hi all..let's see what's been going on in my life since graduation! Graduated in '76(the best) left Germany in September of same year. Took a year off from school and returned to the states...first to Maryland and then back to Pennsylvania. Continued with school there...the business thing and graduated. Ended up going back to Germany...Wertheim to be exact...because my grandfather was ill. Once back started working for
AAFES-EUROPE and worked my way up to Manager of the Cafeteria and School Feeding in
Peden. Met my bestest friend in the whole world in October of 1990 and married him in December 1990. Our little munchkin dude (not little anymore) Mario Charles came along in November of 1991. We came back to the states in April of 1992 when Peden closed and went to Fort
Ord, Ca. until June of 1993 when Fort Ord closed. We proceeded to Fort Riley,
Kansas until June of 1996 when we moved to the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. My husband Tony retired last year after serving 21 years and now he still is up in NTC working for RAYTHEON as a Solaris Graphics Designer. I was a stay-at-home mom until recently but now I also work up at Fort Irwin in the Housing Branch as a Housing Inspector. My life has been and is great.......the only shadow of course was when my dad passed away during my senior year. Oh, I also have a dog named Sugar(silly dog)=) and two
cats...Muffy and Syco (the name fits)=) Come see me up at Fort Irwin...
Best Memory: It was all great....... =)