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Legacy Family Reflects on Shared High School Experience
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aint Viator High School’s 60th anniversary celebration has provided the opportunity for many
great stories and memories to be shared. Some are very much of the “Do you remember the time…?” variety while there has also been more than a few “When I was there…” conversations. With a 60year history and a growing number of multi-generational legacy families, many of those conversations can even take place around the family dinner table.
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That might be the case for the Ziebka family if only the kids in the family could stop moving long enough to sit down for dinner. The main constant in the family seems to be constant motion, but parents Jason and Bridget ’91, and kids Jack ’21, Ryan and Emma ’22, and Kyli ’25 recently took a few minutes to provide an insight to a family that has embraced the Mission, Vision, and Values of Saint Viator High School. Only Kate, a prospective Class of 2027 member, was spared the interview process, but one can only imagine all she will have to share a few years from now. One of six children of Wally (pictured above) and Jane Liszka to attend Saint Viator, Bridget was influenced by faculty members like Jerrol Leitner and Fr. Charles Bolser, C.S.V., (who taught her freshmen Latin!) but also her parents who contributed time and energy to a number of school organizations. With some of her siblings still in the area, the total count of Liszka grandchildren to attend Saint Viator will soon be 11. “I have stayed in touch with some classmates and reconnected with others who also have kids at Saint Viator now,” Bridget said. “The school has always been about community and still is.”
