The 1960 confirmation class at St. John’s Catholic Church was a very large group. Over thirty confirmands posed for their photo with Bishop Schenk. Among them (in the back row) was Marie Williamson, who is now Marie Williamson Spry. Marie was featured in the Cook County News-Herald last week after making a trip to Rome in October 2012 to be a representative of the Holy Rosary Church of Grand Portage at the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. In the photo are a number of other well-known community members, some no longer with us. (L-R, front) David Beckwith, Jim Ridgeway, Terry Gordon, Fritz Sobanja, Eddie Olson, Margaret Wishcop. (L-R, second row) Francis Johnson, Dick Dorr, Leonard Sylvester, unidentified, Kay Backlund, Carolyn Wojtysiak. (LR, third row) Jack Blackwell, Steve Wishcop, Allen Sjoberg, Harry Dryseth, Diane Dunder, Cheryl Skou, unidentified. (L-R, fourth row) Clifford Curtis, unidentified, unidentified, Bill Stubsad, Nancy Oswald. (L-R, fifth row) Johnny Sundquist, Billy Gordon, Bill Sjoberg, Fred Schmidt, unidentified. (L-R, sixth row) Rick Tofte, Tony Morasko, unidentified, Kathleen Gordon, John Wright. (L-R seventh row) Marie Williamson, Dennis Sylvester, Bishop Schenk, Mary Jo Blackwell, Mary Dryseth.
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