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OUR LHS CLASS OF 1971 HELD A 'MASH UP' AT DOVER STRAITS IN MUNDELEIN ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED.

HERE'S SOME IMAGES OF WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT EVENT.

HERE'S A GREAT GALLERY 

OF OUR PHOTOS FROM OVER THE YEARS. 

WILDCAT PROUD!

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SHEILA STILES JOYCE LIVES IN ARIZONA AND IS 'GRAMMY' TO THESE TWO GREAT LOOKING BOYS.

JOHN SYRING STAYED TRUE TO HIS LHS MUSICAL ROOTS AND WAS A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN SINCE OUR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS THROUGH HIS PASSING IN 2023.

SHEILA GRUENWALD MITCHELL AND DEB TRAVIS ARCHER WERE TWO OF OUR FRESHMEN  CLASS OFFICERS DURING OUR TIME AT LHS.

MARY HITE DONNELLAN AND MAUREEN GIBBONS WOODRUFF SHARE A LIGHT MOMENT DURING OUR '60TH BIRTHDAY BASH AND PUB CRAWL IN 2012.

CHERYL SCHWABE JOHNSON AND DONNA BANNER JOHNSON BROUGHT SMILES TO THE REGISTRATION TABLE FOR OUR 50TH CLASS REUNION IN 2022.

ANNE WEIRICH (FAR LEFT) LEADS A GROUP PROJECT AT THE ADLER PARK DAY CAMP AS MELISSA KALBFUS LISTENS.

FOREVER FRIENDS - ANNE WEIRICH, TERESA CUNNINGHAM KVIETKAUSKAS, MELISSA KALBFUS PALIOCHA AND ROBERTA KRAMER LONGLEY - ARE PICTURED HERE IN A 2022 GET TOGETHER.

ELLEN WERDAN AND HER HUSBAND GORDY SIMLE WERE DEFINITELY HAVING A GOOD TIME AT THE 2012 '60TH BIRTHDAY BASH AND PUB CRAWL.'

FRANZ LUTSCH TOOK HOME THIS COOL LHS STADIUM BLANKET DOOR PRIZE AT THE 50TH REUNION PARTY AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022.

TERI JONES STEECE AND SUSAN  WHITE FIELDER ARE AS CUTE AS EVER IN THIS PHOTO FROM OUR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 50TH REUNION CELEBRATION AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER.

WAYNE AMANN AND HIS WIFE SHARON AMANN POSE FOR THIS GREAT PHOTO DURING THE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 50TH REUNION CELEBRATION AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER.

BUTLER LAKE BUILDING IN 1968 - NOTICE THE OPEN WINDOWS.

A LOT OF US COULDN'T WAIT TO GET OUT OF THESE CLASSROOMS. THINKING A LOT OF US WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK NOW.

THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER HOSTED OUR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 50TH REUNION FESTIVITIES.

EGG HARBOR CAFE WAS AGAIN A FRIENDLY STOP FOR BREAKFAST DURING OUR 'CHEERS 51' REUNION CELEBRATION IN 2022.

MICKEY FINNS PROVED TO BE THE PERFECT PLACE TO JOIN THE LHS CLASS OF 1970 FOR A 'MASH UP' DURING OUR 50TH REUNION WEEKEND IN LIBERTYVILLE.

THE ROOM WAS COZY, THE FOOD EXCELLENT AND THE COMPANY THE BEST FOR OUR 50TH REUNION DINNER AT DOVER STRAITS IN MUNDELEIN.

KEVIN POTTS (SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT) - GRADUATION DAY, JUNE 11, 1971.

DENNY DONNELLAN (CLASS OF '69) AND JEFF SWAN (CLASS OF '70) SCOPE OUT THE CROWD AT THE MICKEY'S 'MASH UP' PORTION OF OUR 50TH-CLASS REUNION.

LHS FRIENDS FOR LIFE - DEB TRAVIS ARCHER, JOHN CLOSE, ELLEN WERDAN - IN MADISON, WI. IN 2022.

WHO REMEMBERS - AND WENT ON - THE HIGHLAND JUNIOR HIGH EIGHTH-GRADE TRIP TO GETTYSBURG (PA) AND WASHINGTON, DC IN 1967? 

HERE'S SOME PHOTOS FROM THAT GREAT EXPERIENCE.

HIGHLAND JR. HIGH GYM SHIRT - CIRCA 2022.

THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL WHERE HE GAVE HIS FAMED 'GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.'

THIS MONUMENT MARKS THE SPOT AT LITTLE ROUND TOP, THE SITE OF THE MOST FIERCE BATTLE AT GETTYSBURG.

A LONE CANNON STANDS OUTSIDE THE GETTYSBURG CEMETARY.

THE TOWSON MOTEL - OUR LODGING OUTSIDE WASHINGTON DC.

THERE WERE FOUR STUDENTS PER ROOM AT THE TOWSON MOTEL. HERES (FROM LEFT) FRANZ LUTSCH, DOUG BASKE AND TED SODER.

DA BOYZ - JERRY SMITH, GENE MARTIN, KEVIN POTTS, JIM HATHAWAY, DOUG BASKE AND DOUG'S TEDDY BEAR.


EVERY NIGHT WAS PARTY NIGHT AT THE TOWSON MOTEL!

TWO OF THE COOLEST STOPS IN WASHINGTON, DC WERE MOUNT VERNON AND A TOUR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S HOME AND THE ORIGINAL SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUILDING. THAT'S JOHN CLOSE OUTSIDE THE SMITHSONIAN IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER PHOTO.









BY FAR THE MOST INTERESTING EXHIBIT AT THE THEN RECENTLY OPENED SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM WAS JOHN GLENN'S FRIENDSHIP 7 SPACE CAPSULE - THE FIRST U.S. MANNED ORBITING VEHICLE. 

HERE'S THE HIGHLAND JR. HIGH PHOTO THAT WAS TAKEN 

IN FRONT OF THE U.S. CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON, DC IN 1967.

LAST STOP ON THE GUIDED MOTORCOACH TOUR ON THE WAY BACK TO L'VILLE - 

THE QUALITY INN IN INDIANAPOLIS. 

ANNE WEIRICH, TOM MAXON, MELISSA KALBFUS PALIOCHA, JOHN TOWNSEND (CLASS OF '73 - DECEASED),  AND LYNN BRAKEL CHAUMONT WERE ALL IN ATTENDANCE FOR OUR 20TH LHS CLASS REUNION IN 1991.

ADLER PARK SCHOOL GRADS WERE WELL REPRESENTED AT OUT LHS CLASS OF 1971 'CHEERS 51' REUNION CELEBRATION. PICTURED HERE ARE -

 (FRONT ROW LEFT TO RIGHT) SUSAN MAGDEN KINKAID, ROGER CROSSLEY, TERI JONES STEECE. 

(BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT) TERESA CUNNINGHAM KVIETKAUKAS, RAY JOHNSON (HONORARY ADLER ALUM AND DONNER BANNER JOHNSON'S HUSBAND) AND CYNTHIA BOYLE IWANSKI.

MIKE TANGORRA WAS A 'GROUP OF ONE' AS THE ONLY RONDOUT SCHOOL GRAD AT OUR LHS 50TH CLASS REUINION. THEN AGAIN, MIKE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A 'ONE OF A KIND' GUY.

TERRY BENJAMIN AND 'WILLIE THE WILDCAT' BUDDY UP AT OUR 50TH-CLASS REUNION FESTIVITIES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER.

LOCATED ON BUTLER LAKE, THE LHS CAMPUS WAS - AND STILL IS - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

HERE'S HOW THE CLASSROOMS LOOKED 'BACK IN THE DAY' WHEN WE ATTENED LHS.

THE 'ORIGINAL' LHS GYM LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE. 

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GROUP PHOTO OF OUR LHS 45TH-CLASS REUNION AT THE DOUBLETREE HOTEL IN MUNDELEIN - 2016.

SENIOR YEAR HOMECOMING - (FROM LEFT) - DEB TRAVIS ARCHER, DAN REILLY, SALLY GILLILAND KOWAL (HOMECOMING COURT), JERRY SMITH, PATTI NORDHEM WILSON, PAUL GOSSELL.

 OUR CLASS - LHS 71 - WAS THE FIRST GROUP TO ATTEND THE 'NEW' ADLER PARK SCHOOL. HERE'S THEIR FIRST GRADE PHOTO. DEBBIE PESCHMAN, CAREN GOSS, TERI JONES, LYNN RAFTERY,  LAURIE HOLLAND, CINDY WALKER, JAYNE ADAMS, TERESA CUNNINGHAM, VAUGHN FABER, KATHY SCHNEIDER, DEBORAH ZEEDYK, KATHERINE KRETZMANN, WAYNE RANDALL, GARY W SELLERS, LLOYD SHUTLER.

HERE'S A GREAT LHS 50TH REUNION PHOTO OF ALL OUR OF CLASSMATES WHO ATTENDED ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL WHEN WE WERE KIDS. 

FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – KATHY CASEY BARNETT, CHERYL SCHWABE JOHNSON, PATTI NORDHEM WILSON, MIKE FAGAN, WAYNE AMANN, ROB BOGUE. BACK ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – SUE PIARULLI FEDRICK, PATRICK HALLORAN, TERRY BENJAMIN.

ADLER PARK GRADE SCHOOL

COPELAND MANOR GRADE SCHOOL GYM


ROCKLAND SCHOOL 

here’s everyone from Copeland MANOR SCHOOL WHO ATTENDED OUR 50TH CLASS REUNION.  Front Row (Left to Right) – Gloria Prange Powers, Barbara Getchell-Sherman, Mary Hawkins Dawson, Teri Jones Steece, Debbie Nelson Tangorra.  Back Row (Left to Right) – Lynn Brakel Chaumont, Franz Lutsch, John Close, Mike Hogan and Dan Holm. 

HAWTHORN MIDDLE SCHOOL

HIGHLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

HERE'S THE CENTRAL SCHOOL ALUMS WHO ATTENDED OUR LHS CLASS OF 1971 50TH REUNION. 

(FRONT ROW LEFT TO RIGHT) – STEVE CRANDALL, CAROL HEIKE BASEL, PAULINE KICK MOORE, ADELE WEIDNER CLOUD, SHEILA GRUENWALD MITCHELL. 

(BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT) – LYNN SAXILD FRIEDLUND, BILL GRIFFIN, GENE MARTIN, DAN HOLM, DON EGGERT JR. PICTURED BELOW ARE SOME OF THE SAME CENTRAL SCHOOL GRADS AS THEY APPEARED IN SECOND GRADE IN 1960.

DEBBIE NELSON TANGORRA AND MARY DONNELLAN CREATED OUTSTANDING DECORATIONS FOR OUR 'CHEERS 51' CLASS REUNION IN 2022.

LHS CLASS OF 1971 GRADS CAROL GUNTER FISHER, TERESA CUNNINGHAM KVIETKAUKAS, JANE BOLIN ATEN AND KATHY AEMISEGGER WEPPLER HAD PLENTY OF CATCHING UP TO DO AT OUR 50TH CLASS REUNION IN 2022.

DEBBIE NELSON TANGORRA AND MIKE TANGORRA ARE AN LHS CLASS OF 1971 'COUPLE' THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. HERE, THE LONGTIME MARRIED 'KIDS' SOCIALIZE AT OUR 50TH CLASS REUNION PARTY AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER.

OAK GROVE SCHOOL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST IN THE LIBERTYVILLE AREA, THE INITIAL SCHOOL BEGINNING AS MADDEN SCHOOL IN A LOG CABIN IN 1850. HERE’S OUR LHS CLASS OF 1971 ALUMS (LEFT TO RIGHT) - TERRY BENJAMIN, GWEN VICTOR-SWINSON, SANDY TISCHENDORF GIULIANI, JULIE FLETCHER CHARTS, DONNA BANNER JOHNSON AND DEB TRAVIS ARCHER – ALL GRADUATES OF OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL TOO.

LONGTIME BUDS DOUG GRANT, JIM RYDBERG AND MIKE HOGAN ARE SHOWN HERE AT OUR 40TH CLASS REUNION. 

PEG RAY AND DEBBIE JOHNSON ZELLMER  RECONNECTED AT OUR 45TH CLASS REUNION IN 2016.

CHERYL LUCAS DAVIES LEADS THE CROWD IN SINGING THE LHS SCHOOL SONG AT A WILDCATS FOOTBALL GAME.

LOYAL AND TRUE

WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO YOU.

THIS IS OUR MOTTO:

WE ARE ONE FOR ALL

AND ALL FOR ALMA MATER

HERE’S TO OUR SCHOOL

AND LONG AND HIGH MAY SHE RULE.

FOR EVERMORE YOU WILL FIND US

ALWAYS LOYAL AND TRUE.

YEA, RAH TEAM!

YEA, RAH TEAM!

RAH, RAH, RAH, RAH,

RAH, RAH, RAH,

YEA, RAH, TEAM!

LONG BEFORE THERE WAS THE PROLIFERATION OF WOMEN'S SPORTS AT LHS, THERE WAS GAA. HERE'S A 1970 PHOTO OF ALL THE LADIES WHO WERE THEN - AND STILL ARE - SOME OF THE BEST FEMALE ATHLETES TO EVER REPRESENT LHS.


OUR LHS GIRL'S DRILL TEAM WERE FREQUENT PERFORMERS PRESENTING OUR NATION'S COLORS AT WILDCAT BASKETBALL GAMES.

DAN REILLY (13) RUNS FOR EXTRA YARDAGE DURING AN LHS FOOTBALL GAME DURING OUR SOPHOMORE YEAR.


TWO LHS 'CUTIES' FROM BACK IN THE DAY - LINDA SAXILD  FRIEDLUND AND PAULINE KICK MOORE.

DAN HOLM - 1971 STATE CHAMPION IN WRESLING.

ROBERTA KREMER LONGLEY AND JANE ADAMS PIEHL WERE RADIANT IN THIS 2011 LHS CLASS REUNION PHOTO. UNFORTUNATELY, JANE PASSED IN 2012.

JUNIOR HIGH 'BESTIES' SALLY GILLILAND KOWAL AND JOHN CLOSE WERE ALL SMILES AFTER GRADUATING FROM HIGHLAND ON A VERY HOT DAY IN 1967.

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HIGHLAND JR. HIGH SCHOOL WAS WELL REPRESENTED AT OUR LHS CLASS OF 1971 50TH REUNION. THOSE HIGHLAND ‘GRADS’ WHO MADE IT BACK TO THE ‘VILLE’ LAST FALL INCLUDED – 

FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – LYNN BRAKEL CHAUMONT, PATTI NORDHEM WILSON, DON EGGERT JR., PAULINE KICK MOORE, LIZ NICHOLAS WALKER, SHEILA GRUENWALD MITCHELL, CAROL GUNTER FISHER, SUSAN MAGDEN KINKAID. 

ROW TWO (LEFT TO RIGHT) – DEBBIE JOHNSON ZELLMER, MARY HAWKINS DAWSON, SUSAN BELL HAMMOND, MARLENE STEBER HALLETT, CAROL HEIKE BASEL, KATHY AEMISEGGER WEPPLER, ADELE WEIDNER CLOUD, TERI JONES STEECE. 

ROW THREE (LEFT TO RIGHT) – ELLEN WERDAN, STEVE CRANDALL, GLORIA PRANGE POWERS, SUSAN WHITE FIELDER, LYNN SAXILD FRIEDLUND, ANN STORBECK GOLDBACH, TERESA CUNNINGHAM KVIETKAUKAS, CINDY BOYLE IWANSKI, DEBBIE NELSON TANGORRA, JEFF VARNEY. 

BACK ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – BILL GRIFFIN, ROGER CROSSLEY, MIKE HOGAN, FRANZ LUTSCH, DAN HOLM, GENE MARTIN, JOHN CLOSE.

HERE'S HAWTHORN MIDDLE SCHOOL 'GRADS' ADELE WEIDNER CLOUD AND MARLENE STEBER HALLETT AT OUR LHS CLASS OF 1971 'CHEERS 51' REUNION EVENT.

LIBERTYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1971 35TH-REUNION GROUP PHOTO.

JOHN SYRING WAS READY FOR COFFEE AND BREAKFAST  ON SATURDAY MORNING AT EGG HARBOR DURING OUR 45TH LHS CLASS OF 1971 REUNION FESTIVITIES.

THERE'S NO GREATER JOY THAN GRANDCHILDREN AS EVIDENCED BY THE LOOK ON CAROL HEIKE BASEL.



IN 2021, LHS CLASS OF 1971 GRAD BETH SWANICK WAS PRESENTED AN AWARD FOR BEING A 'WOMAN OF INFLUENCE.' WHILE WE SALUTE BETH FOR THE AWARD, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MOST OF US HAVE KNOW ABOUT BETH FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. CONGRATS!

JIM HAMLIN, CHERYL SCHWABE JOHNSON AND MIKE HOGAN ARE SHOWN HERE AT JIM'S WILDWOOD, MO. HOME IN 2013. UNFORTUNATELY, JIM PASSED AWAY IN 2019.

HERE'S JERRY SMITH, DEB TRAVIS ARCHER AND DAN REILLY SHARING A MOMENT IN 2014.

MARY HITE DONNELLAN, LYNN BRAKEL CHAUMONT AND PENNY HULETT REYNOLDS ARE SHOWN HERE CUTTING UP AT OUR LHS 45TH REUNION IN 2016.

ANNE WEIRICH AND ROBERTA KREMER LONGLEY RELAX AFTER A BIKE RIDE IN 2021.

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PATTI NORDHEM WILSON, MIKE HOGAN AND DEBBIE JOHNSON ZELLMER SHARE A HUG AT OUR 'CHEERS 51' REUNION.

MIKE FAGAN DID AN AMAZING JOB COMPILING THE MUSIC FOR OUR 'CHEERS 51' REUNION WEEKEND. HERE'S MIKE ENJOYING A 'COLD ONE' AT FRIDAY'S CIVIC CENTER FESTIVITIES.

STEVE AND GINNY CRANDALL ARE SHOWN HERE AT OUR 50TH-REUNION FRIDAY EVENING PARTY AT THE LIBERTYVILLE CIVIC CENTER.

HERE’S OUR 20TH REUNION GROUP PHOTO AT THE SEA PRINCESS RESTAURANT IN 1991 - LOOK AT ALL THE SUITS AND DRESSES!


HERE’S OUR 25TH REUNION PHOTO IN FRONT OF COOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN 1996 - WHERE DID THE SUITS AND DRESSES GO?

HERE’S OUR 40TH REUNION PHOTO AT WHITE DEER RUN 





HERE'S DEBBIE ZEEDYK AND RANDY HILL. UNFORTUNATELY, FOR ALL WHO KNEW AND LOVED HER, DEB PASSED AWAY IN 2015.

 



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WHILE SO MANY HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO OUR CLASS OVER THE PAST 50 YEARS, IT IS SAFE TO SAY THE THREE PEOPLE ABOVE - LHS REUNION CO-CHAIRPERSONS MAUREEN GIBBONS WOODRUFF, DON EGGERT, JR., AND PATTI NORDHEM WILSON - HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN IN KEEPING THE 'WILDCAT FLAME' BURNING FOR THE REST OF US. 

WITHOUT THEIR DEDICATION AND LOVE FOR OUR SCHOOL, THE WONDERFUL CLOSENESS AND CONNECTION WE SHARE TODAY WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN POSSIBLE. THANKS 'KIDS' - YOU HAVE OUR ADMIRATION, RESPECT AND GRATITUDE ALWAYS. #WILDCATPROUD.

HERE'S THE LHS CLASS OF 1971 REUNION COMMITTEE AT OUR 'CHEERS 51' REUNION IN OCTOBER, 2022. 

FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – LYNN BRAKEL CHAUMONT, DEBBIE JOHNSON ZELLMER, DON EGGERT JR., PATTI NORDHEM WILSON, DEB TRAVIS ARCHER, SHEILA GRUENWALD MITCHELL, MIKE FAGAN. 

BACK ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) – BARBARA GETCHELL-SHERMAN, ELLEN WERDAN, LYNN SAXILD FRIEDLUND, TERESA CUNNINGHAM KVIETKAUKAS, JOHN CLOSE, DEBBIE NELSON TANGORRA, SUE PIARULLI FEDRICK, JULIE FLETCHER CHARTS, MIKE TANGORRA.