Class of 1984
Powder River County District High School

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Broadus, Montana
 

This web page will be remain under construction. Any corrections and/or updates as well as pictures (including family pictures) are most welcome and will be posted as they are received.
 

 
Some of you promised to share your reunion pictures to be posted here and others have promised information on the 10 year reunion held in 1994! Thanks, Becky, and Lisa, for the pictures in the gallery at the bottom of this page!

Class of 1984 in attendance on July 3, 2004

Back (l-r): Russ Millar, Jay Knowles, Ray Bogner, Kim Wash, Sally Brost, Calvin Burch, Julie Mobley, Tana Gergen,
Nellie Fulton, Mike Morella, Kim Compton, Kelly Dague, Margie Gaskill, Casey Trainer, Cindy May, Becky Yount,
Melody Wetherelt, Dave Archer. Front (l-r): Lisa Carter, Sydni Stieg, Roxy Giacometto, Juanita Talcott.
Not pictured, but attending on Friday were: Shawn Lockwood and Misti Merchant

Back (l-r): Roxy Giacometto, Ray Bogner, Sydni Stieg, Julie Mobley;
Middle (l-r): Casey Trainer, Misti Merchant, Juanita Talcott, Kelly Dague, Tana Gergen, Lisa Carter, Cindy May, Kim Compton;
Front (l-r): Russell Millar, Melody Wetherelt, Nellie Fulton, Becky Yount, Kim Wash, Mike Morella, Margie Gaskill, Sally Brost..
Not pictured, but attending on Friday was Shawn Lockwood

In addition to one classmate who had transferred (Becky Yount Grant), 23 of the 41 seniors listed in the 1984 Wrangler attended the 20-year class reunion held in Broadus over the2004  4^th of July weekend. This compares to (how many?) who attended the reunion in 1994.

Mike Morella, occasionally coached by Lisa Lynch, began the Friday night fun with a quiet little voice which was interrupted with a shout from the crowd of “WHAT HAPPENED, MIKE?” Mike explained “Now that we have a small child, practicing “quiet time” is routine in our household.” As such, he was given a microphone and entertained us with trivia questions from 1984. Many of us believe some of our classmates still study for tests and that the big trivia winners had done just this, whereas some of the rest of us had failed to pull our dusty yearbooks from the shelves and thus failed miserably.

Jay Knowles was unanimously selected as the one who had changed the most. He is now a clean cut, fit husband and father of three and is an outspoken military man. Unlike Mike, he now has a big voice and his eloquent presentation was definitely the most emotional as well as one of the highlights of the Friday evening festivities at the VFW. “When you live out of the top of a duffel bag in the bag of a Humvee,” Jay said, “you can’t strip much more to the basics of who you are.” Jay said that it was of interest to note that the first piece of mail he received after his arrival to Iraq was from our local hometown VFW Auxiliary. Very cool! They also served a nice meal of roast beef, corn, salad, roll and dessert!

Mike gave the group an update on Leon McPheeters who has attended college classes (in German) while at the same time learning the German language! What a daunting and remarkable task! It seems that several of our classmates are worldly travelers and have visited Leon and his wife, Sabine, in Oberasbach, Germany.

Shawn Lockwood was voted as the classmate who had changed the least, though he had two close competitors in Margie (Gaskill) Riley and Cindy May.

Sydni (Stieg) Tangaro appears to have continued her athletic ventures the longest. At the time of the reunion she was training for two triathlons and we haven't yet heard the results.  An internet search of her name will bring up at least three sets of race results!

Margie (Gaskill) Riley has the most children though Julie (Mobley) Bilbrey has quite a passel too if you include the step and foster children; Juanita (Talcott) Williams has been married the longest. Jay Knowles (Fort Hood, TX) and Melody (Wetherelt) Hanzlik of Radcliff, KY and Becky (Yount) Grant Payneville, KY (they live very close to each other) traveled the farthest to get to Broadus. In addition to the locals, Dave Archer came from Starbuck, MN, Sally (Brost) Sawyer from Thedford, NE, Julie (Mobley) Bilbrey from Shell, WY, Mike Morella from Centennial, CO, Kim (Wash) Hostetter from Mandan, ND, Russ Millar from St. Onge, SD, Sydni (Stieg) Tangaro from Bozeman and Nellie (Fulton) Tandy, Misti (Merchant) Badgett and Roxy (Giacometto) Killens from Billings.

Click here for a geographical map in case you might be unknowingly traveling past the home of one of your classmates. Please let Julie or Kim know if your town isn't shown on this map! This site gives interesting and fun facts on all 50 states, just in case you might be contemplating a trip to visit a classmate!

Twenty seven of us responded to Kim (Wash) Hostetter’s request for information to be compiled in the 20-year reunion booklet. Of them, 19 attended. There were also five who attended without providing any written update for the book.  A big THANK YOU to goes to Kim for her efforts on the book! Many of us found ourselves drawn to it upon receiving it Friday night when we should have been visiting! A few of us are going to try to sneak advance copies next time so we’re studied up on questions to ask, etc. IT IS NOT TOO LATE to get your information in (or add to) the online version! Again, email Julie or Kim because we all want to catch up with you!

Kudos to Kim (Wash) Hostetter and Cindy May for their hilarious biographies! There should have been an award for that! Kim, Mike and Lisa’s infectious and hearty laughs haven’t changed a bit and for some of us just hearing them banter as if we were back in time was worth the trip!

A big THANK YOU, too, goes to Lisa (Carter) Lynch, Margie (Gaskill) Riley and Kim (Compton) Blain for their efforts in making sure there was plenty of food, mementos, etc. The Friday night slide show brought back many cherished memories.
 

Saturday’s picnic in the Park brought a beautiful, cool day and was enjoyed by all. How fun to get a glimpse of our classmates’ children! Though we didn’t get to vote on it, Kim (Wash) Hostetter’s daughter, Mollie, was adorable! Julie (Mobley) Bilbrey’s daughter, Jackee Madsen, appeared to have the greatest resemblance to her mother. Sally (Brost) Sawyer’s appeared the shyest.

Ray Bogner and Calvin Burch were instrumental in the horseshoe games. It is my understanding that Calvin was quite a bit of entertainment when, just as he threw, Sheriff Blain let him know that "there was a convertible full of fat girls in bikinis going by..."

Kids of all ages enjoyed a game of volleyball. Some, (along with a few over-entertained parents) opted for the pool. The Blains, Pattens and Julie Bilbrey found themselves the last to leave for the day as they awaited their teenagers’ (Ben Patten, Jentry and Janessa Blain and Jason and Jackee Madsen) return from a dunk in the Powder River just as many of us used to do in the old days. Julie waited on two groups of kids as her youngest, Jade, was enjoying the pool with his nephew/Julie’s grandson, Leighton. Anybody else have grandkids besides Julie Bilbrey and Gordon Severance?

Those of us last to leave the Park extend their apologies to our classmates. We simply couldn’t outdo (and stay longer) than some among the Class of 1974 who had gathered at the opposite end of the Park with their beer coolers. We tried our best to last the longest, and we had good reason to celebrate: Bill & Melissa Collins, of Dallas, welcomed baby, Finn, into the world earlier that same day!

Speaking of babies, Ronda (Green) Lahey, in Florida, is the mother of identical twin baby girls (Julia and Sannah), born on August 4, 2004. Mike and Joni Ann Morella are parents to twin boys, Austin and Anthony, born February 4, 2005. Congratulations!

Also, Kim (Wash) Hostetter and her husband, Jeff, traveled to Shaanxi, China in January, 2005 to retrieve their new daughter, Maggie Quinn Ya Xuan Hostetter, born 12/5/03.

* denotes graduate of the Class of 1984

*Archer, Dave & Dawn P20

*Bogner, Ray P20

*Brost-Sawyer, Sally & Brad P20

*Burch, Calvin P20

*Carter-Lynch, Lisa & Dan P20

Clampet, Colin

*Collins, Bill & Melissa

*Compton-Blain, Kim & John P20

*Dague-West, Kelly & Scott P20

*Donnelly, Jeff

*Earley-Cathey, Helenanne & Larry (www.classmates.com)

Engler, Annette

Eustice, Lisa

*Fulton-Tandy, Nellie & John P20 (www.classmates.com)

*Gaskill-Riley, Margie & Mike P20

*Gergen-Patten, Tana & Clayton P20

*Giacometto-Killens, Roxy P20

*Gorder, Alva (www.classmates.com)

*Gnerer, Mark

*Green, Ronda-Lahey & Nathan (www.classmates.com)

*Hayes, Art

Inskip, Joyce

*Knowles, Jay & Susan P20 (Three children: Morgan, Erica & Rebecca)

*LePoidevin, Reed

*Lockwood, Shawn P20 (www.classmates.com)

*May, Cindy P20

*McGill, Les (www.classmates.com)

*McPheeters, Leon & Sabine

*Merchant-Badgett, Misti & Jay P20

*Millar, Russell & Mary P20 (www.classmates.com)

*Minow-Zastoupil, Shelley & Tracy

*Mobley-Bilbrey, Julie & John P20 (www.classmates.com) (www.broadus.net)

*Morella, Mike & Joni Ann P20

*Mork, Rich & Angela

Perkins, Starla

*Perry-Hilliard, Marci & Scott (www.classmates.com)

Quiroz, Monty
Rea, Carol (www.classmates.com)

*Robinson, Jane

*Schefstrom, Bill (www.classmates.com)

*Severance, Gordon & Deb

Spady, Dale

*Spracklen, Lee (deceased 10/20/00)

*Stieg-Tangaro, Sydni & Anthony P10 P20

*Sturtz, John

*Talcott-Williams, Juanita & Zane P20

Todoroff, John

*Trainer, Casey P20

Walker, Barb

*Wash-Hostetter, Kim & Jeff P20 ( www.classmates.com)

*Wetherelt-Hanzlik, Melody & Colin P20 (www.classmates.com)

Yount-Grant, Becky & Denny P20

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Though many have achieved great accomplishments, some have endured more than their share of loss. We would like to extend our sympathies to the following classmates who, based on the information we have, have lost both of their parents to date. They are: Ray Bogner, Kelly (Dague) West, Jeff Donnelly and Casey Trainer. Those who have lost one parent include Helenanne (Earley) Cathey, Mark Gnerer, Shawn Lockwood, Cindy May, Les McGill, Leon McPheeters, Juanita (Talcott) Williams, Kim (Wash) Hostetter, Russ Millar and most recently, Sydni (Stieg) Tangaro and Sally (Brost) Sawyer.

Dave and Dawn Archer lost a son, Benjamin, age 4, on 2/3/01.

Starla Perkins has lost two sons, Marc DeLaurier, two months (9/99) and Kable Williams, 19 (12/03).

Again, our collective sympathies to each of these families.

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The photos with captions were submitted by Lisa (Carter) Lynch. Additional pictures have been provided by Margie (Gaskill) Riley and Becky (Yount) Grant. Thanks, girls, for the super pictures! If any of you see a picture that you'd like a copy of please let Julie know.