Photos

Do you have any old photos you'd like to share on this page? 

Send them as a jpg attachment to:

pamsmeyers@gmail.com and Pam will upload them right here!

Watch this page for photos in the coming days! If you click on the first image it will take you to a slideshow that you can scroll through and enlarge the pics for better viewing. Do this often as it will be always changing.

 Check out these pages from the 1958 Outlook at Central School in Lake Geneva! Can you find yourself? Maybe you, also have an old Outlook or two laying around. I (Pam) have all but 1950 (kindergarten). 

Below are pics sent in by Karen Bashaw Davis, a lot taken of those of us in our Central School and St. Francis School days in Lake Geneva.

 

Taken around 56 at maybe a field trip???

Back Row:  Gail Rankin, Mary Newman (with camera), Teri Rote, Madelynn Weil

Front Row: Marianne Malsch, Pete Moscinske, Lynn Luepkes, Darlene Lubinski

 

Maybe Karen can supply the date of this picture. It's of Karen and Linda Chase.

Karen and Leroy Marzahl heading out 

to prom. What year?

According to Karen, Sharon Dyer is standing with her husband. 

Not certain who the man is with Karen

 Photo dated 1964. Mary Newman, Marianne Malsch and Mary Ann Bethke at a wedding.

 Winter Hess as he served in Viet Nam. Anyone else serve our country in the military? Let us know so we can recognize you! Thanks Winter for serving your country!

Dick Hammerstrom has contributed clippings from the L.G. Paper and from the Badger Bulletin.

 

Remember how Wells and Main used to look when Huml's Drive-In occupied the corner that Burger King now has? Loved those Huml's milkshakes. (From LG Regional News)

Winter Hess has dug through his old photos and clippings and came up with a few items to add:

Here's Harold Fritz as a Boy Scout at camp. I imagine Winter was there with him, but he didn't give us any pics of him. 

Winter also sent along this clipping of 1960 football team. You guys find yourselves on there? The headline sounds like it was a bad day for the Badgers.

Dick Hammerstrom keeps digging and has come up with more pics from his Genoa City Days. Did you know some of our classmates that we met for the first time our freshman year, had been educated in a one-room school? Below is a pic from the Congo School. Can you find Dick Hammerstrom, Georgia Snudden or Fran Allegretti?

But before they reached ninth grade the little one-room schoolhouse was closed and the students moved to the elementary school in Genoa City. Can you spot Elaine Cammers, Judy Beak, Ardyce and Gary Bill, Georgia Snudden, and Dick Hammerstrom?

The next school year, Georgia moved to Lake Geneva and attended Central School for seventh and eighth grades.

How many of you took the New York/Washington trip? Many of us did that our junior year, but some waited until the senior year. I (Pam) was part of the junior year gang, and I remember we had a big snow storm the day before we were to board a bus to take us into Chicago for our train ride to D.C. Ii was scared we wouldn't be able to go, but by the next day the roads were clear, and we were off. I'm thinking that this picture of Mary Sue Johnnyjack, Betty Bingham and Seryene Keck must have been taken the first day we arrived. None of us got much sleep. 

Pam Meyers and Darlene Lubinski in 1955 (fifth grade). We lived a block apart from each other and played together a lot. 

Lake Geneva gals will remember Memorial Day when many of us participated in the cenotaph service. We brought cut flowers from our yards and carried them to a white cross while a high school girls' chorus sang a song especially composed for the service. It was all to honor the soldiers who served for our country. In the lineup in the top picture, reading left to right: First girl unknown, Pam Meyers, Darlene Lubinski, Nancy Mitchell (moved away a year later), and Teri Rote. 

The bottom picture we are walking across Main Street to the event which was in Library Park.

I can't beleive I saved this stuff, but I found them in an old photo album. But wait! There's more!

The Geneva Record Shop where we all went to get those 45's sponsored dances at Horticultural Hall called Record Bandstand. Interesting that in the fall, they ran from 7 to 11 p.m, but in the spring the time had changed to 8 to 12 p.m. Check out the admission. Only 50 cents! We had live bands and danced away the night. We all must have been in great physical shape with all that fast dancing we did.

 Were you at the 25th Reunion at Interlaken? Do we look 25 years younger than today? What were you doing when this picture was taken? 

Did you come to the Riv back in October 97 for our 45th when we were part of the decade long reunion. Class members from 59 to 69 came together. It was fun seeing people from the other classes that we knew. 

Top picture: Pam Meyers and Teri Rote

Middle Picture:  Pam, Mary Allen, and Sharon Dyer

Bottom Picture: Karen Bashaw, Pam, and Sharon

Top Picture:  Dick Hammerstrom and Phil Wilke

Middle Picture: Sharon Dyer and Karen Bashaw

Bottom Picture:  Teri Rote, Bearded Man not known, Jerry Steinke-class of 60, Bruce Johnson, English Teacher (how many of you recited the first 18 lines of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Bruce when you saw him?)

Dick Hammerstrom came across a copy of the graduation invitation. The script is fine and may be difficult to read, but if you enlarge it on your screen a bit, you can probably make it out better.

Dick also still has a copy of the Freshman Handbook we received when we registered as the first class to attend all four years in our new school. There are way too many pages to post them all here, but here's the cover and a few of the pages. He'll probably have it at the reunion if you want to see the entire booklet.

Doesn't it look small? Of course it is about doubled in size now.