Richard: Yes, I have been back to HK about 10 times, either with student groups or with my wife and family
Who do you keep in touch with from your time at the school? We still keep in touch with Walt and Lois Schmidt, Earl Westrick, Jay Frazell, Rev. Karl, and La Vern Boehmke and several other special people who correspond with us during the Christmas holidays.
The faculty tram party. We rented a tram and dressed it up as a “reunion” of a Saint Priscilla’s high school class. Numerous faculty members and spouses are shown in 50’s dress.
In three words, describe HKIS: Kathie: Inclusive, Forward-thinking, Compassionate Richard: Enriching, Embracing, Enduring.
How can people re-connect with you? Email: rksiegert@hotmail.com
The HKIS faculty handball team playing a local team in Wanchai (notice the large crowd watching!). The team was known as the ‘HKIS Targets’ – notice the shirts-(I still have mine!). Team members in the foreground are Hank Rausch and Del Harnisch.
Earl Westrick cooking Thanksgiving turkeys on Lantau (with our son Tim as a child). This was from the days when large numbers of faculty/ staff would visit Lantau for the US Thanksgiving holiday in November, camp out, and celebrate in a big way.
What’s next for you? Retirement is great so far, at least the beginning stages; Would love to lead at least one more trip back with local students and families; Hope to volunteer at local agencies such as food pantries, homeless shelters, Planned Parenthood, etc, and work for selected political candidates. And of course, do all that reading that we could never get done during the school year.
Richard’s first HKIS class, 7th grade social studies, in 1970
A faculty breakfast with Kathie Siegert and Paul Carlton clowning around in the kitchen and Bill Mahlke in the background.
Faculty Thanksgiving gathering on Lantau
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