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Marty Watkins

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Marital status: Married
Children: 1
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: I once conducted a sales presentation in French.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr Bang for expression. Mr. Marlo for discipline. Mr. Mauk for my enduring love of economics. Mrs. Vardinakis for her enduring compassion.
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: Student Prints Room Sr. year. Someone hits me in the back of the neck with a snowball. I turn around and retaliate, but miss the culprit, instead neatly tagging Mr. Marlo in the chest. Woe.

Roberta Weatherford (Nelson)

Marital status: Single again
Children: 2
Occupation: Cook
Comment: I have 2 wonderful sons, Michael 29 is a supervisor in the Musical Insturments Department at Best Buy in Ann Arbor, MI. He graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Music Performance Degree. He is married to Laurel who is a Music Therapy teacher in the Monroe County MI school district.  Jeffery is 28 and is a welder. He is married to Trish and has a daughter named Audrey, who will be 5 in May. She is her dads girl. They live in Louisville, Ky, but would love to relocate to the Toledo area.  Living in Oxford puts me 3 hours in either direction from my sons. 

 I traveled extensivly when I was married due to the type of work my ex does. He is an industrial construction welder and we are still good friends.

 I love crafting and cooking and going to classic car shows. 

 FB has been great in reconnecting with friends from school. I am so looking forward to the reunion.
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: That I use to be a Blackjack Dealer in Las Vegas. And have worked industrial construction.
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Our last choir concert!!!
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Davis, Mr. Watson, Mr. Fields and Mr.Hoffman. They instilled in me such a love of music.

Laurie Weissbrod (Fitch)

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Children: 2
Occupation: Registered Nurse
Comment:
I've been a Labor and Delivery Nurse for a long time... I love my job.  I have 2 grown children,  Elizabeth (Betsy), 28 and Adam 26.  Both have served our country in Iraq, in the Army Reserves.  Betsy recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University College of Medicine with a Masters of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration and Adam will be going back to Ohio State now that he has returned from his second tour in Iraq. I love my kids!!!
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: I serve on medical mission trips.
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: I loved all the school spirit and Friday nights during football season.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Marlo

Susan Wetzel (Fry)

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Marital status: Single again
Children: 3
Occupation: print production typesetter
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: A few of us shared a parking space and we painted a saying on it (can\'t remember what, though).
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Donald Townsend
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: I was walking down the stairs and missed my step. I tumbled down on my shins and landed on top of someone who was sitting at the bottom step. Of course it was a day that I was wearing white tights; and, went through the day with a bloody tear.

John Wilder

Marital status: Married
Children: 6
Occupation: Air Quality Specialist @ University of Toledo
Comment: I have worked at UT for several years and really enjoy it. My wife's name is Debbie and we have 6 children ages 30 down to 21 and 9 grandchildren ages 11 down to 1 month and its a party when the whole family gets together.

Susan Wong (Belella)

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Marital status: Married
Occupation: Digital content strategy
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Singing the Irish Blessing in acap choir. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. The sun shine warm upon your face. The rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Watson, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fields

Steve Wood

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Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Sr Account Mgr - Cincinnati Milacron
Comment: WOW!  Life is good!
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: Grew my hair....
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Doing a burn-out on my motorcycle right in front of the front door of the school the last day of school.
Who was your favorite teacher?: COACH TURNER!!

Steve Wood

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Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired

Al Woods

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Substance-Use Treatment Supervisor
Comment: Two stepchildren; one child with my DNA.
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: That I regularly dissect leftover specimens from Ms. Graber's class. That I'm just about finished reading "The Great Gatsby" for Ms. Fisher's class! That after balancing the checkbook, I still show all my work, as instructed by Ms.Hudson and Mr.Hogan!
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: The fun of "transferring" between the Burnham building and the main high school building.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Too many to name them all, but those that immediately come to mind are, in alphabetical order: Ms. Graber, Ms. Fisher, Mr. Webb, Mr. Abell, Mr. Payne, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Kocher, Ms. Hudson, Mr. Sweebe, Mr. Pheatt.
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: Being instructed to evacuate Mr. Periat's chemistry class, due to suspicious gas!

Brenda Wright

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Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Attorney
Comment:



Hi all, it was great to see so many people at the 40th reunion. My Dad (91) still lives in Sylvania and, thank goodness, remains in good health and just got his first COVID vaccination! As for me, after high school, college and law school (where I met my husband, Joseph Franco), we first ended up in NYC for a few years, then moved to Washington DC when Joe got a job with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and I started working for a national civil rights organization on voting rights cases.  We had our first two children there in DC (Patricia and Peter).  After about 10 years in the DC area we moved to Boston, where I have continued working for a couple of different non-profit civil rights organizations, working on voting rights and voter participation, election reform, and similar issues.  Joe is a law professor at Suffolk University Law School.  Our third child, Sophia, was born in Boston.  Currently I’m the Interim Legal Director at an organization called Demos (it’s not an acronym – it’s Greek for "the people" -- check it out at www.demos.org). Like many, I'm working from home. I live in Newton MA (just outside of Boston) with husband and Milo, our dog (labradoodle) -- the kids have flown the coop. 
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: That I have become a die-hard Red Sox fan and read the sports page first every day .
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Tony Sheehan, the Roman Catholic Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; Joni Hollar, the Girl Who Knew Everything on the Quiz Bowl team; getting yelled at every day for talking too much in the Resource Center.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mrs. Engle, Ms. Graber, and Mrs. Fisher
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: Um, was there anything in high school that wasn\'t embarrassing??