Francis T. Nicholls High School
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Michael Bertrand
Riemer
After graduating from Nicholls, Mike attended Tulane University for two years. He then transferred to Concordia Teachers College in River Forest, Illinois, where he joined Nicholls' classmates Norm Hellmers and Ron Wismar. Between his junior and senior years, he taught for a year at an elementary school in Saginaw, Michigan. In 1966, he graduated from Concordia with a BA in Education. Following graduation, he accepted a position as the Director of Christian Education at Grace Lutheran Church in Mobile, Alabama. In 1968, Mike married Marion Chalker (now Kennedy). They had two children, Laura (Riemer) Kellum and Emily Riemer. After several years of teaching in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and then Atlanta, Mike accepted a teaching assignment with USDESEA, the school system for military families serving in Europe. Mike, Marion, and Laura lived two years in Regensburg, Germany, and three years in Huntingdon, England. During those years, he attended the overseas campuses of George Peabody College for Teachers and Vanderbilt University, earning an MS degree in Human Resource Development Counseling in 1976. That same year, Emily was born in England. In 1977, he returned to New Orleans to teach at St. Paul Lutheran School, where from 1981 to 1987, he also served as principal. In 1990 he married Lynne Nell Dietz. From 1987 to the present (May 2011), he has taught in independent schools, serving as Assistant Administrator at St. George’s Episcopal School and for the past 11 years at Isidore Newman School in uptown New Orleans, where he is now Middle School Dean of Students. The Riemers lost their home in Katrina and now live in a historic bungalow in Old Jefferson, just outside New Orleans. Mike and Lynne Nell are active at St. Paul Lutheran Church and spend much time with their extended families in Louisiana and Mississippi. Fun fact: Mike attended Concordia Teachers College with Nicholls' classmates Norman Hellmers and Ron Wismar. After their junior year, they went home to New Orleans on a raft, traveling 1,400 miles on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers for 30 days. The story of their trip can be found here: http://freepages.college-alumni.rootsweb.com/~neworleans/ Mike's email address
is: michaelrie5@gmail.com
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