Classmate Profiles

This Page is for the JUNE Class ONLY!!

 

Instructions To Add Your Profile

 

1) Enter information into all the fields below and then click the Register button. Be sure to write down your Password so you can come back later and edit your profile.

2) A new form will allow you to enter information about your time at Senn.  

3) Enter information related to the questions asked if you can - but PLEASE include a little about yourself in the Life Since Senn question. 

4) Please do NOT enter your own pictures - I will enter photos AFTER you create your profile.  See instructions below for pictures.

 

5) Once you have created your profile you can return to this page and modify it by using the Login button (Below).


 

 

PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY PHOTOS

 

I will add your yearbook photo AFTER you enter your profile.  Please EMAIL me your "NOW" picture and I will add it to your profile!  

 

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NOTE: it may take up to 24 hours for a new profile to appear on this Website.  Please check back in a day or so.

 

Carole Wechet (Russi)

Then Then
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Bonita (Bonnie) Weinberg

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: CA
Marital status: Divorced
Occupation: Real Estate Agent
Comment: Like everyone else - it can't be 50 years
Grammar (feeder) School: Boone
Division Teacher: Forsland
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Be adventuresome, don't be afraid to take chances.
My Life Since Senn ...: Married, divorced, attended Harrington Institute of Interior Design and worked for Playboy for 10 years. Moved to Atlanta, Ga and had a successful career in the weight loss industry, which relocated me to San Diego, CA where I have been since '84.

Carol Weintraub (Beckerman)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment:  
Grammar (feeder) School: Funston
No. of Grandchildren: 5
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Live life - be in the moment
My Life Since Senn ...: Board of Education

Masters in Learning Disabilities

Taught total of 25 years - 4 in Mount Prospect, 21 in Northbrook IL.

Married 46 years

2 daughters

5 grandchildren - 3 boys, 2 girls

Volunteer -

Chicago Botanic Garden - a greeter
Docent for English Walled Garden
Docent for new Rice Science Center
Grandchildren's schools

Other interests: Gardening, knitting, tutoring, substituting, yoga enthusiast, reader, traveler

Dena Weisbard (Criz)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Widowed
Children: 2
Occupation: Happily retired
Grammar (feeder) School: Butler in Springfield, IL
Division Teacher: Mrs. De Albani
No. of Grandchildren: 4 grandsons
My Life Since Senn ...: Life after Senn began with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Chicago. My favorite weekend was spent as host for New York artist Louise Nevelson when she was on campus as headliner for the Festival of the Arts, then in its infancy

My career wound its way through marketing, advertising, public relations, and fundraising. Stints included public relations firms, an all-woman marketing and design firm, advertising agencies, a national student loan provider, and finally, Indiana's largest law firm. Also spent several years as a free-lance newspaper writer. Lived in Indianapolis nearly three decades and recently moved back to Illinois -- where politics are so much more exciting.

The climax of my volunteer life was four years as chair of a speaker series with nationally prominent names, greeting them at the airport and digging up background tidbits for my introductions.

I am delighted to have family minutes rather than hours away. And it has been most pleasant to reconnect with friends and favorite haunts.

Roy Wesley

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Committed Relationship
Children: 2
Occupation: Research Scientist/Administrator
Comment:  Looking forward to catching up with classmates.  I've enjoyed reading the accomplishments and lives that are posted.  Better than Reality TV!  I will be at the Pizza party Friday night and luncheon.  I'm not able to make the dinner Sat. 
Grammar (feeder) School: Stewart
Division Teacher: Elsie Hassel
No. of Grandchildren: 1

Judi Wilson (Barron)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Divorced
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired
Comment:  
Grammar (feeder) School: Pierce
Division Teacher: Ms. Rose
No. of Grandchildren: 7
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Life may not always be fair, but oh so much fun if you let it.
My Life Since Senn ...: Went to NIU, met husband, married, had 3 children. Joined life as a corporate wife, played lots of tennis. Went back to college. We traveled a lot, skied in Aspen a lot. Kids thrived and grew and went on to college and married and had my 7 wonderful grandchildren.

Now I live in Sun City Huntley, and wish I had moved here sooner; it's a wonderful life and lifestyle. Play much tennis, golf, and have joined other activities.

Alan Wippman

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: MO
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired old fart
Comment:

My best to all of you and I am hopeful to hear from those I was friendly with. Sorry we could not make it but our grandaughter is about to make us great grandparents, the weekend of the reunion.
Grammar (feeder) School: Clinton
No. of Grandchildren: 5
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Enjoy the time you have and treat yourself and others with respect. Be active and think positively.
My Life Since Senn ...: I graduated from Bradley Univ. in 1965 and worked in Chicago until 1974, at which time I was employed by Steelcraft Ind., a manufacturer of leaf springs, in Miami Okla. I became President of the company in 1986 and retired in 2008. I have been divorced once and remarried for 31 years with 3 children, 5 grand children, twin girls that are great grand children and another great grand child to be born this June. I have been active in racquet-ball, bowling, boating, fishing and the Jewish Temple.

Daniel Witt

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: CA
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Real Estate Investor/Actuary
Grammar (feeder) School: Boone
Division Teacher: Lucille Hubbard
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Don't just accept things as they are. Try your best to make them what you want them to be.
My Life Since Senn ...: My life since high school: U of I undergrad, graduate school Northeastern U in Boston in Actuarial Science. Began actuarial exams in 1968. Became a Consulting Actuary in 1972. Married an Irish Catholic girl in 1975 who, like me, didn't want to have kids. Finished actuarial exams in 1976.

After the winters of 1977-1980, moved to San Francisco in 1981 where I joined an actuarial consulting firm. Started investing in real estate in 1982. Joined my wife as a full time real estate investor in 1984. Survived, sometimes barely, several booms and busts over the years before finally settling into the mobile home park market.

Still standing, still married, no kids. It's been a wild ride, but a mostly rewarding one, and I am still looking forward to an exciting future.

P.S. Since 1986 have been signed up to be Cryonically Suspended upon my "death". Hopefully I can convince enough of my classmates to do the same so we may possibly get together to celebrate our 500th Year Class Reunion in 2460!!

Larry Wolfson

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Pres., COO, Block Steel Corp.
Comment: Having a great time helping plan the reunion. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Grammar (feeder) School: Boone
Division Teacher: Mrs. Rose Collins - 244
No. of Grandchildren: 4 ( two of each)
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: My best days are when I am with my grandchildren. ( Any one or all)
My Life Since Senn ...: Joined the family business, steel distribution and light manufacturing, in 1961. Married to Mellie (Roth) for 46 years. We enjoy our family, friends and vacations on the high seas.

Sherman Yacher

Then Then
State / Province: KS
Children: 2
No. of Grandchildren: 5
My Life Since Senn ...: After I left Senn, I went to U of I in Champaign, was a PiKA, and graduated in three years as a special education/vocational education teacher. I passed the Chicago Certification Exam, the first time I took it, and worked at Marshall High School as an assigned teacher teaching shop and special education. I left Chicago in 1972 to work on a doctorate in vocational programming for exceptional youth and adults at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Ks. I earned my doctorate in this area from the University of Kansas Special Education Department. I taught in the department for awhile but got tired of the political correctness and went back to work in the Public Schools in Kansas City, Kansas at J.C. Harmon High School as the print shop teacher. I retired in 2005 from teaching.

I am still a ham radio operator and have been for 58 years. I am the state MARS director for Air Force MARS in State of Kansas. I am net control on six transcontinental MARS nets (which serve Army, Navy/Marine Corps, and Air Force) and net control on three Region VII Air Force MARS nets.

I am still a competitive target shooter and belong to the Mill Creek Rifle Club. I compete in the high power center fire service rifle matches which are 500 yd matches.

I collect military vehicles and belong to the Military Vehicle Preservation Association of America. I own four trucks. Two of the trucks are little ones - 3/4 ton and 1 1/4 ton. Two of the trucks are big ones - 2 1/2 tons. We drive the trucks in parades and put on static displays to remind people that if it wasn't for the military we wouldn't have the freedoms that we have.

I have two grown sons - one lives in Wichita, Ks and the other lives in Doylestown, Pa. I have five grandchildren the oldest of whom is a first year medical student at Loyola University Medical School in Chicago. My older son is a partner in a Wichita, KS law firm. My younger son is a senior director of Merck Pharmaceuticals.

I live in Lawrence, Ks which is 40 miles West of Kansas City and have lived here for 38 years.