Alumni Flashbacks
Where Are They Now?
by Hannah Whitmore
One of the things you might be wondering is where are your classmates that you graduated with. Well, this one is for the class of 1998. Where is Amy Miller now? Or you might know her as Amy Asmus. Miller is now a school nurse, teaching at Pierce High School and a mom of three daughters. She teaches CNA at the high school and serves as the elementary and secondary school nurse. Some of her students say that she is their favorite teacher at Pierce High.
Amy Miller said, “I ended up planting my roots here because my husband coaches at Northeast, and I'm glad my kids get to go to the school I graduated from. I hope that they grow up to become good people, and I feel as if a small community could shape them into being good people. “
When Tim Waldner, who was Miller’s art teacher, was asked what he thought of Miller as a student he said jokingly, “She was wild and crazy.” Then said,” No, she was actually kinda quiet and stayed busy in school.” Waldner doesn’t think that she has changed at all, he said, ”I don't think she has changed at all about the same person, acts the same, and even looks the same. The only thing that really changed about her is she is a mom and a teacher.”
A Flashback to the High School Days Featuring Matt Moeller
by Payten Simmons
Let us travel back to 1992 when Matt Moeller was a senior at Pierce High! Moeller was involved in many extracurricular activities like football, basketball, track, and baseball. He claims that a few of his most cherished high school memories were being a part of the 1991-1992 basketball season or winning the 100 meter dash at the conference track meet his senior year where he ran a 10.6. During his teenage years, Matt was planning on becoming a mortician but as he went to college, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, he then switched to biology because they didn’t have pre-mortuary studies. He also received a scholarship to play baseball at UNK as well. Jumping 26 years later, Matt is now Lead Roll Assembler for Nucor Nebraska Bar Mill. He lives in Pierce and is married to Brandy Moeller where they have 2 kids, Ellie (21) and Logan (16). If Matt could change anything about his high school experience, he says, “I would have taken my studies more seriously.”
Brad Lubischer, former classmate with Matt, states one of his favorite memories he shared with Matt was, “Picking him up for basketball at 4:30 in the morning at age 14 in a 68’ Chevy truck, and Mr. Moeller would chew my butt because I would squeal the tires.”
Alumni Flashback
by Samantha Fischer
This week’s alumni flashback is Lisa (Hoppe) Weber. She graduated in 1997, which was 22 years ago. Weber participated in volleyball for two years, basketball for two years, track for four years, and journalism for four years.
When asked about her favorite high school memory, she says,”It was definitely being the boy’s basketball student manager with my best friend, Jodi (Jensen) Johan.” She also lettered in track three years and got weightlifter of the year as a junior. Weber spent her free time with friends or working at Village Flower Shoppe.
Former Graduate Kathy Venteicher
By Sarah Fenton
Kathy (Venteicher) Everitt is a 2009 valedictorian graduate of Pierce High School. While at Pierce, she participated in band, choir, FCCLA, Student Council, speech, Spanish club, youth group, and other activities. Now, Kathy is 28 and lives in Kearney where she is a Spanish teacher at Kearney High School. She is married to Marshall Everitt and has a child named Andrew who is going to turn 1 this November. Kathy says, “I really enjoyed when I was able to travel my senior year to Washington D.C. for National History Day and also to Nashville, TN, for National FCCLA. As far as in school, she says she remembers her freshman English class with Mrs. Anne Muhs. She says, “We were given a vocab word to teach, and I somehow always found a way to bring food for the class. My classmates came to expect this though, so I made Kool-aid with salt instead of sugar one time. I still brought some back-up food though! I also really enjoyed my trips with the band for pep band and marching band. The experiences and friends made those trips a lot of fun.” Band director Mike Sindt remembers Kathy playing the flute in band and says, “One good memory I have of Kathy was when she was a section leader in marching band, we had state marching band in Lincoln at Seacrest Field and received a Superior rating.”
Mark Luebe Flashback to High School
by Brynnlee Marks
Mark Luebe, graduate of 1971, studied at Pierce High as a teenager. Some of the activities that he was involved in were football, basketball, track, and baseball in the summertime. If Luebe could redo anything in high school, he said, “I would have developed better study habits because it would’ve helped me all the way through college.”
Luebe developed a love for Pierce High because his parents lived in Pierce, and it was his home school. After Luebe graduated from high school, he went off to Wayne State College where he received his teaching degree. Then after college he went and taught for two years in Coleridge, Nebraska. He also worked at Dale Electronics for 21 plus years and Great Dane for over 15 years. Now, he is retired and serves on the Midtown Apartments Board and Pierce City Planning and Zoning Board. He also helps with money counting at Zion Lutheran Church. Luebe golfs, fishes, hunts, and does yard work in his free time.
Wife and former Pierce High graduate Bev Luebe said, “A lot of my memories of Mark were watching him play all his sports in school even when he was out of school.”
