Nine classes celebrate milestone reunions at 2025 Winding Stairs Festival
Photos commemorate 1960, 1980, & 1985 reunions
Members of the Traer Class of 1960 celebrated their 65th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (from left) Jim Andrews, Gary Wieck, Pat (Wignall) Podhajsky, Doris (Smith) Wilken, JoAnn (Barge) Meyer, Teresa (Kopriva) Fee, and June (Rehder) Kruger. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
Members of the North Tama Class of 1980 celebrated their 45th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (front row, l-r) Gloria (Parizek) Wendt, Lori Stevenson, Kathy (Hayek) Kahler, Jill (Cufr) Sempf, Denise (Dahms) Schmid, Marcia (Kvidera) Szuhay, Barb (Pokorny) Kopriva, Julie (Axon) Mask; (back row, l-r) Kevin Kucera, Curt Kopriva, Dennis Parizek, Jim Sevcik, Deanna (Staveley) Kvidera, Tina (Dedic) Smith, Doug Keller, Brian McKenna, Lori (Drinovsky) Kopriva, and Scott Yung. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
Members of the North Tama Class of 1985 celebrated their 40th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (front row, l-r) Kay (Dinsdale) Forester, Suzie (Weuve) Schwartze, Marcia (Watts) Sagendorph, Carrie (Vesely) Dostal, Lisa Bandfield, Beverly (Larsen) Krakow, Andrea (Williams) Madison, Julianna (Lass) Brezina; (back row, l-r) David Calderwood, David Sloyer, Alan Armstrong, Robert Young, Steve Buresh, Tim Smith, Diane Tobin, Jim Stoakes, Tammy (Vest) Wendt, Jon Ohrt, Chris Kupka, David Ruzicka, Carol (Parizek) Kramer, Paula (Kubik) Harrington, and Theresa (Hlas) Proctor. In attendance but not pictured: Tom Dvorak, Tammy (DeVries) Greiner, Brad Rund, and Tracy (Weida) Nickel. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
- Members of the Traer Class of 1960 celebrated their 65th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (from left) Jim Andrews, Gary Wieck, Pat (Wignall) Podhajsky, Doris (Smith) Wilken, JoAnn (Barge) Meyer, Teresa (Kopriva) Fee, and June (Rehder) Kruger. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
- Members of the North Tama Class of 1980 celebrated their 45th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (front row, l-r) Gloria (Parizek) Wendt, Lori Stevenson, Kathy (Hayek) Kahler, Jill (Cufr) Sempf, Denise (Dahms) Schmid, Marcia (Kvidera) Szuhay, Barb (Pokorny) Kopriva, Julie (Axon) Mask; (back row, l-r) Kevin Kucera, Curt Kopriva, Dennis Parizek, Jim Sevcik, Deanna (Staveley) Kvidera, Tina (Dedic) Smith, Doug Keller, Brian McKenna, Lori (Drinovsky) Kopriva, and Scott Yung. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
- Members of the North Tama Class of 1985 celebrated their 40th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival during the Alumni Reunion held on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Memorial Building. Those pictured include (front row, l-r) Kay (Dinsdale) Forester, Suzie (Weuve) Schwartze, Marcia (Watts) Sagendorph, Carrie (Vesely) Dostal, Lisa Bandfield, Beverly (Larsen) Krakow, Andrea (Williams) Madison, Julianna (Lass) Brezina; (back row, l-r) David Calderwood, David Sloyer, Alan Armstrong, Robert Young, Steve Buresh, Tim Smith, Diane Tobin, Jim Stoakes, Tammy (Vest) Wendt, Jon Ohrt, Chris Kupka, David Ruzicka, Carol (Parizek) Kramer, Paula (Kubik) Harrington, and Theresa (Hlas) Proctor. In attendance but not pictured: Tom Dvorak, Tammy (DeVries) Greiner, Brad Rund, and Tracy (Weida) Nickel. PHOTO BY STACEY VOGELER
TRAER – Nine North Tama/Traer classes celebrated milestone reunions Aug. 7-10 as part of the 2025 Winding Stairs Festival. The Telegraph plans to print class photos from all nine graduation years as space allows. The first three classes (1950, 1965, 1975) printed in last week’s edition, while this week the newspaper published the Traer Class of 1960 as well as the North Tama Classes of 1980 and 1985.