Mary D. Bradford High School Class of 1973 welcomes you to its web site!
It's for you... best of all, it is absolutely free! Find your name on the list of Classmate Profiles and register now to log in and create your own profile page (upload photos and let your classmates know what you've been up to since our days at Mary D.). Classmate address, phone number(s) and email address are required for verification purposes when you create your profile.
This is the only endorsed OFFICIAL website for the Bradford High School Class of 1973. Don't be taken in by organizations purporting to have a connection with our alma mater which have no connection whatsoever to Bradford High School and our local Kenosha community.
You may be wondering if your contact information (i.e., address and phone number) is secure on our website. When you post changes to the mailing address and phone numbers in your profile on the website, an automatic notice of the update is sent to our Site Administrators, Randy and Jan Vaccaro. We have “checked the box” to Block Profile Visibility for everyone listed on the Class of ’73 website. This blocks public and search engines from accessing the information contained in your profile. Classmates who are logged in on the website cannot see your street address or phone numbers, but they may see photos and any personal narrative you share in your profile. If you send a message to a classmate through the website, they will see your email address.
In March 2021, we obtained a secure certificate for our Class of '73 website, so you'll no longer receive a warning from the web browser you're using that our website is not secure.
10/21/2024: We're proud to see the Class of 1973 Scholarship listed again this year on the Bradford Alumni Association (aka KBHSAA) list of Current Scholarship Offerings. If you have a grandchild or niece/nephew (grand or otherwise) who is a member of the Bradford Class of 2025, we hope you'll strongly encourage them to apply for one or more of the (19) KBHSAA Scholarships offered this year – detailed on the poster below – which has been hung throughout the school.
We noticed that nominations for the the KBHSAA Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) are "open" -- we hope you will brainstorm amongst your closest friends/classmates and choose a deserving '73 classmate and then submit the nomination form, which is available here. Nominations for the DAA must be postmarked by January 31, 2025. We'd love to see one of our classmates honored this year at the annual DAA Banquet & Silent Auction, set for Saturday, June 28 at Kenosha Country Club.
06/04/2024: Late yesterday, we received a thank-you letter from Ella Cater, Bradford Class of 2024, who was chosen by KBHSAA as the Class of 1973 scholarship recipient. We've posted the letter below. Thanks to our '73 Classmates who responded so generously to our request for scholarship fund donations!
09/26/2023: Class of '73 Reunion Recap. Our Friday night event at Kenosha Brewing Company was a fun event… lots of hugs, lively conversations and many photos taken, some of which were posted on the ’73 Class website’s What’s New page early Saturday morning. We also noticed several photos posted on the KBHSAA Facebook page, as well. If you have some nice photos to share, please do upload them on What’s New with captions or simply list the names of those pictured. As suggested by several classmates, we will have blank nametags available the next time we do a casual Icebreaker with no reservations required.
On Saturday, “The Main Event” kicked off at Stella’s Casa Capri, with cash bar and snacks, a Silent Auction to benefit the 1973 Class Scholarship Fund and a 50/50 Raffle. Debbie Landre, Claudia Nickerson and invited guest KBHSAA Treasurer Dulcie Schoff, circulated throughout the restaurant, selling Raffle tickets. We had a trivia contest and a questionnaire tucked into the envelope with the 2023 edition of the Class of ’73 Memory Book, which included a list of “missing” classmates for whom the Reunion Committee currently has no contact information. The Reunion Committee greatly appreciated Hondo’s decision to close the restaurant – except for take-out orders – in order to accommodate the more than 150 classmates who were in attendance.
Many classmates were intent on mingling and renewing friendships, while some spent time reading through the Memory Book. Classmates were drawn to the In Memory poster bearing photos of 98 classmates who are no longer with us; Peter Barca led a toast in their memory just before dinner was served. Reunion Committee members provided an array of desserts for the event. We send our thanks to Robert Cole for his donation to the ’73 Class Scholarship Fund and to Reunion Committee member Jeff Nevoraski for donating a Snap-on Gift Basket for the Silent Auction.
The Silent Auction brought in $1000 for the Scholarship Fund, which will send our total raised over the $6000 mark. The 50/50 Raffle raised over $600 total. The banquet room grew very quiet when Reunion Committee members Debbie Ruppa and Tony Lovetro teamed up to draw the winning Raffle Ticket and read the number. Several seconds ticked by before Peter Wicklund, husband of Susan Shemanske, stepped forward with the winning ticket, taking home $308.50. On Sunday morning, Susan hand delivered $158 to Reunion Committee Chairperson Randy Vaccaro, a donation from Peter to be used as “seed money” for our next reunion.
