Class of 1951
The Paynesville High School graduating Class of 1951 held its 60-year reunion in Paynesville on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

Pictured at the reunion are: (front) Beatrice (Jenkinson) Camp, Dorothy (Eliason) Surma, Bernette (Bauman) Helling, Jeanette (Schmidt) Noyes, Beverly (Anderson) Haagenson, Mary (Christenson) Wood, Fran (Heinrich) Nierenhausen, Rita (Grismer) Wolford, and Joanna (Waldorf) Pendergast; and (back) Vern Topp, Larry Haines, Dan Hoppe, Maynard Wood, Leroy Jonas, John Schultz, Harold Knutson, Jerome Mackedanz, and Elvin Lieser.

Class of 1956
The Paynesville High School graduating Class of 1956 held their 55-year reunion in Paynesville on Thursday, Sept. 29.

Pictured at the reunion are (front, from left) Eugene Schmidt, Emilie (Ytzen) Haagenson, Vangie (Lind) Rowell, Elnora (Schaefer) Lieser, Lawrence Thielen, Arlie Manz and Kenneth Eells; (middle) Richard Loesch, Beulah (Lukason) Entner, Cyrilla (Schaefer) Nohner, Donna (Lounsbury) Burr, Deloris (Kalkbrenner) Johnson, Alice (Wallace) Liebrenz, Shirley (Liestman) Vossen, Kathryn Chesness, and Marcella (Driver) Lang; and (back) Rodney Schultz, Allen Hertzberg, Donald Schmidt, Dallas Schultz, Clarence Glenz, Elizabeth (Nehring) Schwarze and Marilyn (Boehl) Nilson.

Class of 1961
The Paynesville HIgh School Class of 1961 held their 50th class reunion in August in Paynesville.

Pictured are: (front) Jerry Liestman, Shirley (Neu) Leyendecker, Carolyn (Wegner) Swyter, Polly (Lukason) Engh, Geri (Hertzberg) Spanier, Alice (Fuchs) Stalboerger, Mary (Klein) Gruenes, Pat (Lindquist) Olson, and Conrad Soschnick; (second row) Roseann (Everson) Herzberg, Joyce (Welle) Arnold, Helen (Kascht) Sondrol, Gloria (Schaefer) Boie, Beverly (Rueckert) Pehler, Theresa (Hemmesch) Arnold, Shirley (Leither) O'Neill, Patricia (Ytzen) Ziemer, Mary (Cassady) Rodrick, and Carol (Niewind) Holthaus; (third row) Melvin Mehr, Bob Hemmesch, Ruth (Pitts) Hanson, Dick Spanier, Tom Schmidt, Bob Lenarz, Dan Williams, Margaret Groth, Ed Webb, and Bill Bagley; and (back) Glen Jones, Ray Kollmann, David Putzke, Ken Hemmesch, Art Arnold, Stanley Gale, Jim Fischbach, Patrick Roers, Joe Pung, Gary Sonstegard, Allen Anderson and Peter Jacobson.

Class of 1966
The Paynesville High School graduating Class of 1966 held its 45-year reunion in Paynesville recently.

Pictured at the reunion are: (front, from left) Richard Lorenz, Ken Lunderby, Helen (Hoeft) Olsen, Myrna (Mills) Rankin, Loretta (Olson) Holmgren, Lynnae (Olsen) Hess, and Marie (Leyendecker) Matejka; (second row) Ken Hess, Ted Scheel, Paula (Lindeman) Monahan, Diane (Stern) Thielen, Joan (Rothstein) Holthaus, Sharon (Younkin) Mackedanz, Sue Ann Albrecht, and MarJean (Halverson) Heikke; (third row) Cliff Jerabek, Leo Louis, Judy (Henry) Dillon, Gloria (Bork) Bruntlett, Jan (Hanson) Ostertag, Marlene (Thompson) Theel, Bob Dunne, Glenn Donnay, and Don Ramler; and (back row) Pat Karsch, Stan Bayer, Bob Neu, Richard Bogatzki, Chuck Koshiol, Larry Wait, and Lloyd Flint.