INTRODUCTION
The following list of New Knoxville Village School administrators and teachers covering the years from the 1830’s to 1999 was compiled and given to us by Mrs. Annett Aufderhaar Kuck. Mrs. Kuck is a 1955 graduate of New Knoxville High School and was a long time, very dedicated teacher and principal of our school. Teachers from the 1920’s forward are listed according to the decade in which they started teaching in the village schools. Some individuals taught prior to that in the one-room township schools and continued to teach for several decades in the village schools. Examples of these are Mrs. Caroline Meckstroth Holtkamp, Mrs. Araminta Kuhlman Thieman, Miss Edna Katterheinrich, and Mr. Clem Stienecker.
NEW KNOXVILLE LOCAL SCHOOL
TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
SUPERINTENDENTS
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George H. Kattman |
1908-1911 |
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Ed J. Rodeheffer |
1911-1914 |
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George H. Kattman |
1914-1916 |
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G. H. Katterhenry |
1916-1919 |
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Ed. J. Meyerholtz |
1919-1924 |
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A.M. Schad |
1924-1926 |
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Rinehart W. Kuhlman |
1926-1943 |
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Roger J. Stauffer |
1943-1953 |
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Verlin E. Katterheinrich |
1953-1973 |
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Martin W. Rehmert |
1973-1988 |
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Martin R. Fanning |
1989-1997 |
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Rodney Russell |
1997- |
PRINCIPALS
PRINCIPALS OF FOUR-ROOM SCHOOL
1885-1908
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N. F. Richland |
1885-1888 |
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A.C. Settlage |
1888-1889 |
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Herman Kattman |
1889-1891 |
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Ben A. Fledderjohann |
1891-1901 |
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Ed J. Rodeheffer |
1901-1905 |
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George H. Kattman |
1905-1908 |
HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
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?????? |
1908-1911 |
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George H. Katterhenry |
1911-1916 |
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Flossie Smith |
1916-1919 |
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Paul Wenger |
1919-1924 |
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Rinehart W. Kuhlman |
1924-1926 |
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Ralph Harrod |
1926-1928 |
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Howard H. Brown |
1928-1935 |
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Verlin E. Katterheinrich |
1935-1953 |
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Kenneth List |
1953-1960 |
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Martin W. Rehmert |
1960-1973 |
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Dean Osborn |
1973-1975 |
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Robert Condon |
1975-1979 |
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Kenneth Cline |
1979-1981 |
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Steve Farnsworth |
1981-1984 |
K-12 PRINCIPALS
|
Annett Kuck |
1984-1993 |
HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (7-12)
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Steve Castle |
1993-1997 |
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David Alt |
1997-1999 |
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Charles Rowen |
1999- |
ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS (K-6)
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Annett Kuck |
1993-1995 |
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Karen Post |
1995- |
TEACHERS – EARLY SCHOOLS
FIRST SCHOOL IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
|
Elias Horner |
1834-1835 |
FIRST VILLAGE SCHOOL
(LOG CABIN BELONGING TO THE REFORMED CHURCH CONGREGATION)
|
F.H.W. Kuckherman |
1840-1853 |
SECOND VILLAGE SCHOOL
1853-1885
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Mr. Rhodes |
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John Frey |
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H.W. Snethkamp |
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John Knierman-Signed const. of Aug. Co. Teachers’ Assoc. |
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Miss Martha Hudson-Only woman who taught in this school |
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Mr. Rose |
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E.L. Kattman |
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Henry A. Miller |
TEACHERS
1920’s
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Rinehart Kuhlman |
1926-1944 |
Caroline Holtkamp |
1926-1962 |
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Marcella Hoge |
1926-1928 |
Rebecca Niemeyer |
1928-1932 |
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Ralph Harrod |
1926-1927 |
Howard H. Brown |
1928-1935 |
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Edwin B. Mahn |
1926-1933 |
Lois B. Miller |
1928-1930 |
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Fred A. Grewe |
1926-1935 |
Miriam Arnett |
1929-1930 |
1930’s
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Irene Kennedy |
1930-1934 |
Clara Deerhake (Wash. Twp. Dist. 2) |
1936-1939 |
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Martha Scheaffer Haberkamp |
1930-1940 |
Luella Wierwille Eversman |
1937-1944 |
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1942-1951 |
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1950-1953 |
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1953-1962 |
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1956-1958 |
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Ferd Eversman |
1931-1952 |
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1959-1964 |
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Ruth Holl |
1931-1934 |
Edith Katterheinrich |
1937-1943 |
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Viola Mahn Katterheinrich |
1933-1942 |
H. L. Aldrich |
1937-1938 |
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1954-1955 |
Roger J. Stauffer |
1938-1953 |
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1968-1973 |
Frank Kelley |
1938-1942 |
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Clem R. Stienecker |
1933-1963 |
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1955-1960 |
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Gertrude Stienecker |
1934-1935 |
Louise Young |
1938-1939 |
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Edna Katterheinrich |
1934-1971 |
Marjory Bayne |
1938-1939 |
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Verlin Katterheinrich |
1935-1973 |
Joseph DuPere |
1938-1945 |
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Avonelle Amstutz |
1935-1937 |
Margaret McCoy |
1939-1941 |
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Harold Adams |
1935-1938 |
Raymond O. Deacon |
1939-1944 |
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Clara Elshoff (Wash. Twp. Dist. 1) |
1936-1937 |
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1940’s
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Elizabeth McClure |
1941-1942 |
Mildred Aufderhaar |
1944-1950 |
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Araminta Grimes Thieman |
1944-1965 |
Clara Bode |
1945-1948 |
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Shearl Sparks |
1943-1969 |
Kenneth List |
1946-1960 |
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Miriam Elsea |
1943-1946 |
Ruth Wagner |
1948-1950 |
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E. G. Hasler |
1944-1950 |
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1950’s
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Norville Freymuth |
1950-1955 |
Evalyn Schultz (contd.) |
1966-1990 |
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Phoebe McQuilkin |
1950-1952 |
Glenna Fogt |
1953-1956 |
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Kathryn Patterson |
1950-1951 |
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1959-1960 |
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Lester Smith |
1950-1951 |
Owen Hoover |
1954-1962 |
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Ruth Miller |
1950-1951 |
Ruth Mary Maxwell |
1955-1956 |
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Carl Frische |
1951-1961 |
G. E. Borkosky |
1956-1961 |
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John R. Musser |
1951-1956 |
Grace DeWitt |
1958-1959 |
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Caroline Brigner |
1951-1953 |
Martin Rehmert |
1959-1988 |
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Anna Newell |
1952-1962 |
Annett Kuck |
1959 |
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Lulu Grilliot |
1953-1960 |
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1963-1995 |
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Edith Wissman |
1953-1961 |
Annely Skapura |
1959-1960 |
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Evalyn Schultz |
1953-1954 |
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1960’s
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John McGaughey |
1960-1961 |
Elaine Judy |
1964-1965 |
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Eleanor Korn |
1960-1965 |
Thomas Tallman |
1964-1966 |
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Don Ruck |
1960-1961 |
Madeline Rodeheffer |
1964-1986 |
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Chloe Baker |
1960-1961 |
David Wallach |
1965-1971 |
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Alice Deerhake |
1960-1971 |
Florence Little |
1965-1966 |
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Vincent Langevin |
1961-1963 |
Richard Westefeld |
1965-1969 |
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C. Eugene Fries, Jr. |
1961-1972 |
Ruth Kuck |
1965-1989 |
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Richard Runkle |
1961-1962 |
Jerrold Cramer |
1966-1967 |
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Louise Lisle |
1961-1968 |
Noel Fannon |
1966-1980 |
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Kevin Kane |
1961-1963 |
Carol Clapp |
1966-1971 |
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Constance Gibson |
1961-1962 |
Charles Gamble |
1967-1969 |
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Margot Olson |
1962-1963 |
Bernhard Witzmann |
1967-1970 |
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Bernice Dennis |
1962-1980 |
Mark Pierson |
1967-1968 |
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Joyce Titus |
1962-1993 |
Jeannie Dinsmore |
1967-1968 |
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Craig Richardson |
1962-1963 |
Brad Beer |
1968-1972 |
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Richard Ruhlen |
1962-1969 |
Kathy Nedderman |
1968-1969 |
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Walter Oelfke |
1962-1966 |
Nancy Karch |
1968-1971 |
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C. Janice George |
1962-1991 |
Patricia Bickhard |
1969-1973 |
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Sandra Brading |
1963-1964 |
Janis Thompson |
1969-1971 |
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Thomas Page |
1963-1964 |
Mila Barrick Schwabero |
1969-1972 |
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Ralph McIntosh |
1963-1967 |
Rodney Kruse |
1969-1971 |
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George Allen Phipps |
1963-1964 |
Rainhard Heise |
1969-1971 |
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Malvin L. George |
1963-1991 |
Ruth Henschen |
1969-1995 |
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Florence Katterhenry |
1963-1969 |
Roberta Rupert |
1969-1972 |
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Minnie Dicke |
1964-1971 |
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1970’s
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Thomas Eversman |
1971-1975 |
Steve Trout |
1971- |
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Stephen Rhea |
1971-1972 |
Linda Hoelscher |
1974-1978 |
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Steven Maurer |
1971-1973 |
Marvin Wente |
1974-1978 |
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Galen McMichael |
1971-1974 |
Thelma Arnett |
1975-1998 |
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Carl Gillespie |
1971-1979 |
Craig A. Brown |
1975-1977 |
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Peggy Fogt |
1971-1974 |
Leroy Kiser |
1975-1976 |
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Deborah Heil |
1971- |
Tony Vance |
1975-1980 |
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Jean Hageman |
1971-1972 |
Robert Condon |
1975-1979 |
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Joan Copeland |
1971-1972 |
Charles Braden |
1975-1999 |
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Jane Koenig |
1971-1976 |
Darryl Smith |
1976-1977 |
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Linda McCaskell |
1972-1979 |
Alan Bernard |
1977-1979 |
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Dennis Gasson |
1972-1977 |
Greg Bornhorst |
1977- |
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Sharon Greenwood McCoy |
1972-1984 |
Doug Frampton |
1977-1978 |
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Nedra Fouty |
1972-1974 |
Ellen Schultz |
1978-1979 |
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Donald Long |
1972-1975 |
Craig Bowsher |
1978-1988 |
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Donald Taylor |
1972-1975 |
Heidrun Hiesener (German exchange) |
1978-1979 |
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Patty Brock |
1972-1975 |
David Uetrecht |
1978-1982 |
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Dean Osborn |
1973-1975 |
Susan DeLaet |
1979-1980 |
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Elaine Brunswick |
1973-1980 |
Mary Bensman |
1979- |
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Larry Mann |
1973-1984 |
Richard Price |
1979-1982 |
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Randy Maurer |
1973-1975 |
Jean Coffin |
1979-1984 |
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Lynn Geitgey |
1973-1974 |
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1988-1993 |
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Jennelle Brown |
1973-1979 |
Kenneth Cline |
1979-1981 |
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Betty Hansbrough |
1973-1991 |
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1980’s
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Jill Martin |
1980-1981 |
Ed Oberlander |
1984-1985 |
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Diana Farno |
1980- |
Marlene Prenger |
1985-1998 |
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Borys Ostrowskyj |
1980-1981 |
Linda Yahl |
1985-1986 |
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John Stoner |
1980-1982 |
Cheryl Davis |
1985-1994 |
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Charles Rowen |
1980- |
Bonnie Watkins |
1985-1987 |
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Joan Hausfeld Kentner |
1980- |
Mike Epperly |
1986-1998 |
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Steve Farnsworth |
1980-1984 |
Dana Meckstroth Brown |
1986-1999 |
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Vickie Shell |
1981-1985 |
Karen Pepple Lemke |
1987-1988 |
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Janean Meckstroth Oberlander |
1982- |
Dee Fledderjohann |
1988- |
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Dave Schroeder |
1982-1985 |
Julie Schosker |
1988-1989 |
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Keith Davis |
1982-1983 |
Richard Warren |
1988-1991 |
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Mary Thornsberry |
1983-1986 |
Kent Wolfe |
1989-1990 |
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Carol Waugh |
1983-1985 |
Luanne Powell |
1987-1988 |
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1986-1987 |
Karen Meyer |
1987- |
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Marna Katterheinrich |
1984- |
Elaine Kay Teeters |
1987-1988 |
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Kaye Wint |
1984- |
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1990’s
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Nancy Hinegardner Meyer |
1990-1995 |
Karen Post |
1995- |
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Lowvenda Baker |
1990- |
Jennifer Etzler Fledderjohann |
1995-1997 |
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Brian Stetler |
1990-1995 |
Pamela Steveley May |
1995-1997 |
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1996-1997 |
Ryan McClure |
1995-1996 |
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Stacie Baker Steineman |
1991-1996 |
Dwain Meckstroth |
1995- |
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Jerry Vanderhorst |
1991- |
Kim Waterman |
1995- |
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Linda Wolf |
1991- |
Marcia Rammel |
1996-1997 |
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Linda Tebbe |
1991- |
Kimberly Schwieterman |
1996-1998 |
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Kurt Klingler |
1991-1998 |
David Alt |
1997-1999 |
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Janet Eshelman |
1992- |
Kyle Menchofer |
1997- |
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Steve Castle |
1993-1997 |
Michael Staup |
1998- |
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Jack Prater |
1993- |
Shelly Siefring |
1998-1999 |
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Marilyn Sailor Kohler |
1993-1997 |
Michelle Metz |
1998-1999 |
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Jill Bakle |
1994-1995 |
Todd Topp |
1998-1999 |
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Tony Bemis |
1994-1995 |
Nick Wilker |
1998- |
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Kathy McClain |
1994- |
Kathy Homan |
1998- |