Fifties
1952
Doug Gresham was nominated by Basketball Canada to be one of the top 100 Canadian basketball players of all time. Gresham was a member of a Winnipeg Canadians team that won the Canadian National Basketball Championship in 1954. That year he helped lead the Canadian National Team to a fifth place finish in the World Basketball Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gresham was inducted into the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. He won a gold medal at age 77 in the 2006 World Masters Basketball Tournament in Utah. Gresham is an active partner in the firm of Horizons Unlimited Group, providing consulting and advisory services to small businesses and corporations.

Seventies
1973
The Rev. Gerald Stoppel has published a collection of short stories, “Stories of the Silver Tea,” with Amazon. The stories are set in the small mythical community of Borgen’s Lake, somewhere in the hinterland of Canada. Stoppel serves as the rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Saugatuck, Mich.

1978
Tracy Hirt is the head football coach at Platte/Geddes/Dakota Christian High School, which had a 10-1 record and reached South Dakota’s Class 11 B state semifinals during the 2008 season. He was named the Region 7 Coach of the Year.

Eighties
1983
Mary Teresa (Clay) Muckey is a clinical educator at Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City. She has worked for the hospital for 23 years, serving in this position for the past two years.

Nineties
1990
Kelley Ashby is the director of the Career Leadership Academy at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Two Thousand
2000
Lori Olson of Overland Park, Kan., accepted a position as an assistant national bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

2006
“Rudy” Justin Pithan is a teacher at Thunderbolt Middle School and a baseball coach at Lake Havasu High School in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.