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GHS Hall of Fame: Kurt Wehrmeister Is the 'Voice of the Vikings'
Part 4 of 4: Kurt Wehrmeister has done the PA announcing and often sung the National Anthem for Geneva football and basketball games since he was in high school—announcing more than 500 games in all—plus conference and county track meets and the IHSA Clas
Kurt Wehrmeister, class of 1975, had a Geneva High athletic career consisting of exactly two junior-varsity baseball games with six plate appearances during his senior spring. But by that point he had already begun a career in public-address announcing for the Vikings, which, after coming back from college, he would sustain without a break for more than three decades and at which he continues on a part-time basis today—more than 37 years later. His first work behind the microphone was during the fall of his senior year in 1974, for Tuesday-night jayvee football games in the tiny pressbox at old Burgess Field south of the present high school building. That November, Activities Director Chic Williams trusted him enough to introduce just the …
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