The 2015 Potter Days grand marshals are the members of the Potter High School graduating class of 1965. Twenty-four of the 37 graduates will be celebrating their 50-year class reunion the weekend of Sept. 4-6 in Potter. The class of 1965 was the first Kindergarten class. They started in 1952 and ended with the largest class to graduate from Potter High School. As seniors, the football team won the first trophy given by the Minuteman Activities Conference. They had a perfect season with nine wins.
Members of the class of 1965, pictured at left, are:
Top row: Randy Adams of Torrington, Wyo., Hollis Anderson of Lincoln, Rex Boehnke (deceased), Allen Baack (deceased), Heather (Christensen) Lipska of Potter, Robert Coulter (deceased) and Steve Davis of Boise, Idaho.
Second row: Ron Halley of Torrington Wyo., Alicia (Herboldsheimer) Eagan (deceased), Paul Hutchison of Sidney, Ruth (Juedes) Morgan of Potter, Richard Kennon of Blue Mound, Kan., Lavonne (Langley) Christensen of Potter, and Ellen Larson (deceased).
Third row: Charles Lee of Tacoma, Wash., Rodney Leggett of Cameron Park, Calif., Lloyd Lipska of Seward, Marlene McKinney of Potter, Jean (McMillen) Vosberg of Loveland, Colo., Paul McMillen of Sidney, and Dennis Madden of Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Fourth row: Jeanne (Mathewson) Steele of Potter, Marian (Meyer) Tincher of Sidney, Doug Moench of Austin, Colo., Cindy (Mueller) Doggett of Aurora, Colo., Mary (Nagengast) Baldus of Lincoln, Mike Policky (deceased) and Jeff Reetz of Mozambique, Africa.
Fifth row: Linden Sanders of Mitchell, Richard Sommers of Arvada, Colo., Karen (Sterett) Messing of Newport, Tenn., Sharon (Stull) Clark of Imperial, Denzil Thies of Veronese, Tenn., John Thurston (deceased) and Marilyn (Ward) Clawson (deceased).
Bottom row: Rick Wiekhorst of Mesa Ariz., and Jeanne (Woten) Murray of Scottsbluff.