Classmates

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Larry Becker

Marital status: Single
Occupation: retired teacher

Charles Behrman Jr

Marital status: Married
Children: 5
Occupation: Stericycle Inc

Richard Bensman Jr

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Business Owner
Comment:  

Joel Beren

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Occupation: President
Comment: It's hard to believe that it is almost 35 years since we graduated.  Linda (Katz) and I will be married 30 years in 2010.  Three kids and one son-in-law later we are still in Toledo (Ottawa Hills).  Lots of adventures, lots of successes,lots of travel, and nothing but good things from our kids.  Looking forward to seeing everyone in July.
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Marlo and Mary Ann Mueller

Joel and Linda (Katz) Beren (Katz)

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: We're both retired!
Comment: We're closing in on 45 years of marriage! Three married children, five grandchildren so far, and a lifetime of good memories. Linda retired from St. Vincent Medical Center in 2013 after nearly 30 years as a clinical dietician. Joel retired at the end of December 2021 after selling his last company earlier that year. We split our time between our Sylvania Twp. home, our vacation home on Lake Charlevoix in Boyne City Michigan, and visiting our children and grandchildren who are all Chicagoans. In between we travel and spend time with dear Toledo friends and family.
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: The good news is that our closest friends are in Toledo, many of who were either in our HS class or also attended SHS. They'd probably be surprised that we never left the Toledo area, but have seen the world.
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: I first asked Linda on a date during our junior year of high school. We were in "The Pub" (the journalism classroom Mr. Marlo had affectionately renamed) and Linda's response was that she needed to check with her mother. Seven years later (November 1980) we were married..........and the rest, as they say "is history".
Who was your favorite teacher?: For Joel, hands down it was Mr. Marlo. For Linda, George Bang.

Elvina Bergmann

Now Now
Marital status: Married

Scott Black

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Executive Director of a medical, dental and behavioral health facility, Business owner
Comment: You all look great. We now live in Santa Barbara, CA.





Nice work Vicki
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: I want to grow grapes in Sonoma.
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Too many
Who was your favorite teacher?: Kelso, Townsend, Chip Davis when he made an appearance
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: I could list embarrassing years not moments.

jennifer blakeman (miller)

Marital status: Single again
Children: 2
Occupation: Dragonfly Artisan Tea Cottage - Owner
Comment:
What would your friends be the most surprised to know about you now?: I have conservative values!
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: honestly - I do not remember school all that much to have a favorite memory...maybe this reunion i will be reminded...
Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Able
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: Ask John Rightmeyer...the compass in the bisquits startled me in Mr.Korbs class...I sort of dreaded sitting in front of John...he was ALWAYS up to something......!!

Linda Bode

Marital status: Married
Children: 5
Occupation: Retired professor

Jeffrey Borkan

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Professor of Medicine
Comment: Sylvania Highschool is the closest thing I have to a highschool experience and the 2 years I had there were formative. I had arrived from Dayton at the start of ninth grade and basically remade myself - and fell in with great friends and endless adventures. I moved with my family to Shaker Heights for 11th grade and then dropped out of highschool and went to Israel for a year (and later for 15 years). Made up for my lack of formal education by pursuing an MD-PhD and have been an educator, clinician, researcher and advocate for 40 years and am currently a Professor/Assistant Dean at Brown in RI. Married for 40 years with 3 children and 3 grandchildren. I came across the Year Book (Wyandotte) recently and memories flooded in.
Share a favorite memory -- something that made you laugh or cry or feel pride in your school...share: Somehow I was chosen to be Hugo Peabody in Bye, Bye Birdie as a freshman and also became a winning wrestler -- with no background in either -- both influenced me then and later
Who was your favorite teacher?: whoever taught world history -- changed my view of the world
Share an embarrassing moment or a prank that was played on someone else or on you...: In tenth grade, a few of us (Dick Arnos, Mike Bernstein, and Nelson Friemer, were so disruptive and dismissive to our classmates in social studies that the teacher sent us out of the room for the year and put us together in a study area and said, "teach yourselves" . We ended up reading important books of the time (e.g., Silent Spring) and arguing endlessly. Greatest thing that ever happened to me in education.



Another: wrestlers used to wear rubber clothing and go into gym's hot rooms/steam saunas and work out to lose weight -- some added drinking vodka to help (a diuretic) -- the things we did to our bodies!