TRAER – North Tama and Traer’s honored alumni will gather for a reunion on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 8-9 during the 2025 Winding Stairs Festival. Nine honored classes have been especially invited to attend the festivities including Traer High School classes of 1950 (75 years) and 1955 (70 years), and the North Tama High School classes of 1960 (65 years), 1965 (60 years), 1970 (55 years), 1975 (50 years), 1980 (45 years), 1985 (40 years), and 2000 (25 years).

Alumni weekend festivities begin with an informal social gathering on Friday evening starting at 7 p.m. at the Traer Memorial Building. On Saturday evening, a dinner for honored classes and guests who have returned reservations will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and class photos at 7 p.m. at the Traer Memorial Building.

Classmates planning to attend will be highlighted with the symbol *. Deceased class members are indicated with the symbol ^. All information is assumed correct as of time of publication as provided to the committee. Please forward any corrections to the class representatives or to Carri Holst, Traer/North Tama Alumni Reunion Committee.

A full schedule of activities is available at Traer.com or the Winding Stairs Festival Facebook page.

North Tama Class of 2000

Sarah Hayek, *Angela (Zmolek) Alexander, Danika Angel, *Bradley Boldt, Jason Childs, Autumn (Allen) Dodd, Jason Drinovsky, Melissa Earles, *Brandy (Monat) Girsch – class representative, Lily Glenn, Nicole Herink, Joseph Jones, *Douglas Knoop, Emily (Vesely) Krambeck, Kristin (Weibbecke) Kucera, Tonya Ledvina, Allan Lofquist, Jeremy Mannschreck, Stephanie (Mason) Downey, Benjamin Meisgeier, Keith Meyering, *Jeffrey Morrison, *Abigail (O’Clair) Adolphs, Jill (Foster) Oliver, Cheri Popelka, Lee Posusta, Reece Sealock, *Seth Seda, *Amanda Stammer, Annie Insanic-Steinmetz, *Kristin (McKee) Svoboda, *Charles Svoboda, Myndee Walker, John Weber, Frank Wendt, Kristin Wendt, Paul Whannel, Jessica (Babinat) Zika.

North Tama Class of 1985

Paula Anderson, *Alan Armstrong, John Babinat, ^Michael Baker, ^Michelle (Nation) Baker, Lisa Bandfield, Michelle (Nelsen) Bibel, Doug Buffington, *Steve Buresh, *David Calderwood, Christine Carson, Kelly Coleman, Kay Dinsdale, ^Mark Dinsdale, *Carrie (Vesely) Dostal, Thomas Dvorak, ^Chad Erickson, Greg Ewoldt, Valerie (Beenken) Fritz, Jennifer (Svoboda) Grace, Renee (Strachota) Graves, Tammy (DeVries) Greiner, Charles Grover, Paula (Kubik) Harrington, Andrea (Naylor) Hoeg, Barbara (Dostal) Jordan, Melanie (Trask) Jordan, *Beverly (Larson) Krakow, *Carol (Parizek) Kramer, Jeff Kriz, *Christine Kupka, Steven Harrison Lomax, *Andrea Williams-Madison, Jane (Hayek) Molony, Doreen Morris, Tracey (Weida) Nickel, Angela (Moyer) Noel, Terri (Keller) Nolan, *Jon Ohrt, Michael Pokorny, Wendy (Tomlinson) Powers, *Theresa (Hlas) Proctor, Jeff Roberts, *Brad Rund, *David Ruzicka, Marcia (Watts) Sagendorph, Sharon (Vondracek) Satterly, *Suzanne (Weuve) Schwartze – class representative, *Julianna (Hlas) Sloyer Brezina, David Sloyer, *Tim Smith, *James Stoakes, Craig Stover, Jennifer (Ludden) Studley, *Diane Tobin, Teresa Tyler, ^Dean Wallis, Johnny Weida, Jr., *Tammy (Vest) Wendt, Lance Wilkerson, *Robert Young, Tammy (Hamilton) Zeien.

North Tama Class of 1980

Renee (Coonrad) Andraea, ^Linda Babinat, Bret Caslavka, ^Rebecca Chizek, Matt Claussen, Teresa (Smith) Cobler, Rev. James Debner, ^Tim Dedic, Kurt Dostal, ^Tom Dostal, Lee Drinovsky, Tim Ewing, *Lori Ewoldt, Chris (Davis) Gifford, Dr. Glen Haldy, Linette Hanus, DeVonne (Mason) Harford, Kevin Herink, Philip Holmes, Mitchell Husak, *Kathy (Hayek) Kahler, *Todd Karr, *Doug Keller, Deb (Parizek) Kern, Rebecca (Derifield) Kerns, Tom Kladivo, *Barbara (Pokorny) Kopriva, ^Bonnie (Axler) Kopriva, *Curtis Kopriva, *Kevin Kucera, *Deanna (Staveley) Kvidera – class representative, Mona (Bandy) Larson, *Denise Larson, Robert Linhart, *Julie (Axon) Mask, Nancy (Beenken) McDonald, *Brian McKenna, ^D. Patrick McLean, Keith Morris, Randy Nessler, Michelle Norris, *Dennis Parizek, Jr., Connie Pecenka, Mary Roan, Nancy Ruzicka, *Denise (Dahms) Schmid, Fr. Jon Seda, *Julie (Cufr) Sempf, *James Sevcik, *Tina (Dedic) Smith, *Lori (Drinovsky) Kopriva, Julie Sorenson, *Lori Stevenson, ^Timothy Svoboda *Marcia (Kvidera) Szuhay, Jeff Thompson, *Steve Vojtech, Lonny Weber, *Gloria (Parizek) Wendt, *Scott Yung.

North Tama Class of 1975

Laura (Risvold) Abbott, *David Barnes, *Linda (Thierer) Berry, Lorie (Rayman) Boell, ^William Breakenridge, ^David Brezina, Herbert Caloud, ^Aaron Catron, ^Rick Christiansen, ^Debra (Wood) Clark, Sara Claussen, *Ernie Cufr, ^David Dedic, *Margaret (Sevcik) Dedic, Roxann Draper, *Jerry Dvorak, Mark Dvorak, Ann Earley, *Jacqueline (Russell) Fallis, Kevin Fisher, ^Candy (Connor) Fleming, Rick Franklin, Monica (Kos) Gillette, Susan Hansen, Kenneth Hanus, *James Harmsen, Deborah (Morris) Hill, ^Alan Himschoot, Julie (Bohnstengel) Hurt, ^Brian Jenkins, Jolene Kahler, Gloria (Linhart) Ketter, Karl Ketter, Ann Elizebeth (Streittmater) Kidd, Loren Knoop, Randall Kvidera, Mark LeMont, ^Tom Lenth, Gayle Lundak, *Cythia (Pokorny) Martinez, Gerilyn (Babinat) McKinney, Joyce (Mason) Monheim, Becky Monroe, *Connie (Rund) Owens, *Jay Owens, Julie (Kadrmas) Paff, Randall Parizek, Connie (Ross) Parmer, Mary (Wightman) Petersen, Larry Risvold, Julie (Bohnstengel) Satterlee, Rita (Pavlicek) Schallau, Carma (Weber) Schmidtke, ^Randy Schultz, Wendy (Paul) Smith, Mark Smith, *Marilyn (Reynolds) Staker, ^Jeannette Stammer, ^James Stark, James Topinka, John Topliff, Larry Topliff, ^Daniel Vojtech, *Eugene Wendt, Ronald West, Fred Wieck, *Jerry Wiese, ^Scott Wigant, Martin Wolfgram, ^Dennis Wrage, *Cindy (Staker) Youel – class representative, Janice (Mason) Zeller, *Richard Zmolek.

North Tama Class of 1970

Linda (Drinovsky) Anderson, Verlyn Barnes, *Mark Beecher, Arlene (Dahms) Blohm, *Marvin Boldt, *Shirlee (Sell) Bouck, Kathryn (Crawford) Brady, Lois Ann (Harder) Broman, ^John Buresh, John Calderwood, Beth Cherverny, ^Donna (Stark) Clark, *Beverly (Novotny) Colvin – class representative, *Joel Cooper, Marilyn (Steffeny) Currell, Sue (Wilson) Danskin, Mark Dedic, *Mary Jean (Velky) DeVries, *Michael DeVries, Beverly (Pavelka) Dinsdale, Angela (Bohnsack) Elliott, Patricia (Schultz) Fender, *Dalona (Vokoun) Feuerbach, ^William Fisher, *Joleen (Caslavka) Hall, Mary Jo (Husak) Hennager, *Beverly (Kubik) Henscheid, ^Susan (Valenta) Howard, Diane (Lunde) Kelleher, Diane (Smolik) Kiriakos, Dean Knoop, Rodney Kubik, Richard Kucera, Thomas Kupka, Charles Kutin, Karen Kvidera, ^Donna (Sienknecht) Larson, ^Kathy (Krezek) Larson, Don Lau, Diane (Brockmeyer) Lowe, ^Jack McKinney, Michael McKinney, *Kim McNeal, Lois (Zhorne) Mast, Marvin Mauderer, ^Rebecca (Breakenridge) Mitchell, David Munger, Michelle Mundt, Deborah Ann (Seda) Murphy, Patsy (Topinka) Newell, Gary Neymeyer, Vicki (Pecenka) Ohde, Rebecca (Bovey) Pawlaski, Deborah Payne, Janice (Tomlinson) Peters, ^Dennis Podhajsky, Steve Reinig, *Catherine (Seviek) Rush,* Wayne Schmidt, Ann (Wieck) Schmitt, ^Judy Schoenfelder, Linda (LeMont) Seagren, Jerry Shinn, *Sgt. Major Donald Shroyer, *Vicki (Harmsen) Small, *Robert Speirs, *Katherine (Caloud) Stuart, ^Mike Thede, *Dorothy (Erickson) Thorne, *Jay Villont, Therese (Behrnes) Waller, Susan (Kostlan) Warrens, *Craig Wignall.

North Tama Class of 1965

Ron Adam, Diana (Malam) Andersen, Dennis Banes, *Jim Beenken, Dennis Bock, David Bohnstengel, *Maxine (Dostal) Bottema – class representative, ^John Breakenridge, Michael Corbin, ^Ben DeVries, Cheryl (Keil) Dill, Diane (Van Gorp) Dorus, ^Ken Draper, ^David Fleming, Connie (Iezek) Forbes, ^Rick Grant, *Pat (Kubik) Greiner, Dennis Gruchow, Donna (Sell) Hansen, Dean Hansen, ^Hewitt Harrington, *Dotta (Dinsdale) Hassman, Roberta (Dahms) Hensley, *Duane Hosek, Nancy (Jackson) Houlahan, *Roger Janssen, *Nancy (Pavelka) Kehoe, Bill Keith, ^Dana (Munger) Kessler, Mary (Steffeny) Kroyman, ^Darrell Kubik, ^Don Kupka, Emma (McKinley) Lano, *Wendy (Calderwood) Livy, *Mark Martin, Karol (Howard) McKInley, Pam (Earley) McKinney, Grace (Dvorak) Meyer, *Harry Moeller, Vicki (Rottler) Morris, Carol (Mysak) Mowery, ^Duane Nachazel, Marilyn (Kvidera) Nagel, Tom Neidick, Dennis Neymeyer, Susan (Childs) Ohrt, ^Sandra (Childs) Petit, Judy (Thompson) Peterson, *Janice (Frier) Podhajsky, Michael Podhajsky, ^Richard Popelka, Michael Reuman, ^Janice (Rund) Rogers, *Jill (Ross) Rinkenberger, Nancy (Kucera) Schmitt, *Joyce (Kvidera) Schwartz, Robert Sevcik, Edwin Sevcik, *Larry Shinn, ^Dixie (Techenberg) Siebel, Mary Jean (Tudor) Sieck, *Alan Stoakes, *Jeanne Stoakes, ^Ruth (Kuhn) Stoakes, *Jennifer (Caslavka) Stoltenberg, ^Donna (Finch) Stomer, James Stromer, *Thomas Stull, *Raymond Svoboda, *John Svoboda, Rita Lorraine (Rush) Tepper, *Jill Wait, Stuart Whannel, *Collette (Hayek) Wiebbecke, Dennis Wood, ^Leroy Wood, ^Vernon Zmolek.

Traer Class of 1960

*James Andrews, ^Richard Banes, Leonard Boerm, Robert Brutsman, ^Craig Caslavka, ^Brenda (Tanner) Catherwood, Richard Cochran, ^Carol (Thierer) Dake, Ellen (Schmidt) Debner, ^Corrine (Scott) Halupnick Elston, Barbara (Zhorne) Eslinger, Teresa (Kopriva) Fee, ^William Fleming, Brenda (Bartos) Gitch, ^William Fleming, ^Shirley (Blocker) Gurns, ^Larry Halupnick, ^Clair Haraldson, ^Carmen (Creswell) Hovden, Theodore Joens, ^Rodger Knoop, June (Rehder) Kruger, *Jean (Davis) Kruse – class representative, Robert Latting, ^Charlotte (Crouse) McCreery, ^Barry Mask, *Joann Helen (Barnes) Meyer, ^Jon Nagel, ^Wesley Nation, Kathryn (Allen) Nealy, Aletha Beth (Cadman) Parke, *Patricia (Wignall) Podhajsky, ^Tom Schaum, ^Mervin Sealock, *Pamela (Logan) Sternberg, Jeanette (LeFevre) Tomlinson, ^Craig Untiedt, Marilyn (Podhajsky) Weil, Mary Etta (Selk) Weick, *Gary Weick, *Doris (Smith) Wilken, ^Larry Wilson, ^Myrna (Lewis) Wright.

Traer Class of 1955

^Howard William Alcorn, ^Larry Barge, Joan (Thistlewood) Boudreaux, Joan (Podhajsky) Briscoe, Myrna (Podhajsky) Dostal – class representative, ^Paul Draper, Patricia (Workman) Edaburn, ^Lois (Petersen) Hahn, Betty (Seda) Heapy, ^Joyce (Sievers) Hite, ^Rudy Kubik, ^Mary Lou (Caslavka) LaSpina, Barbara (Kucera) Long, ^Donald McConnell, Dixie (Bradley) Martin, Marlene (Burrows) Martin, Lois (Trimble) Martin, Kathryn (Madera) Miller, ^Darrell Nessler, Jane (Mehulka) Pearce, ^Neall Perisho, ^Russell Pressley, Jane (Cherverny) Rappuchi, ^Robert Rudebeck, ^Joan (Halupnick) Staveley, Judith (Young) Thierer, Charles Thomas, ^Evonne Untiedt, Dorothy (Young) Voetberg, Allen Voetberg, Mary Frances (Haenze) Wilkinson.

Traer Class of 1950

^Veldon Allen, *MaryJean (Kopriva) Beecher – class representative, ^James Bohnsack, ^Bety (Barge) Boldt, ^Royce Ewoldt, Kathryn (Draper) Gifford, Doris (Carolus) Gitzy, ^Ervin Hanus, ^Bonnie (Sealock) Harper, *Dorothy (Draper) Jacques, ^Norman Joens, Margaret Kolash, ^Caroline Kolpeck, ^Freddie Kubik, ^Leonard Kuzela, ^Bernadine (Karr) Liverman, ^Dale McKinney, ^Betty (Sealock) Parker, ^James Quinn, ^Joyce (Fox) Rollins, ^Leonard Seda, Margie (Chizek) Severin, ^Mary (Reigle) Sterling, ^Barbara (Romick) Streitmatter, Robert Thierer, ^Donald Valenta, Jeanette (Thede) Van Metre, ^Richard Vesely, ^Ray Zimple.