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LaMerne Kozlowski, 75, class of 1955, is one of the inductees into this years Sparks High School Hall of Fame.

LaMerne Kozlowski (Class of 1955)

LaMerne Kozlowski was born LaMerne Sommerhalder on March 20, 1937 in Eugene, Ore. She moved to Sparks in 1947. She attended Robert Mitchell Elementary School and Sparks Junior High, and she graduated from Sparks High School in 1955. She took two years of criminal justice at Truckee Meadows Community College. LaMerne married Gene Kozlowski on March 3, 1956 and had five sons: Mike, Casey, Kris, Todd and Scot. LaMerne was the PTA president at multiple schools, and the president of the Sparks Advisory Council. LaMerne worked a total of nine years with Jacks Carnival. Along with Bill Vallandingham, she developed a bicycle safety program that extended to all of Washoe County for which she received an award from the Washoe County Teachers Association.

She remains involved in SHS, having attended all 11 of the Quarter Auctions and served on the Hall of Fame Committee for three years. Her volunteer activities extended to sorting books for Friends of Washoe County. LaMerne worked in the post office, for Shellys Hardware and as a vault supervisor at Sierra Sids Casino. Since casinos werent really her thing, she started working for the state in the welfare department. She worked there for 17 years until retiring from Investigations in 2002.

Now she spends her time supporting her favorite hockey team, the Pittsburg Penguins, camping at Pyramid Lake with her family and friends, playing cribbage and bunco with friends, reading crime novels and attending Broadway Comes to Reno. Her favorite musical artist is Neil Diamond and she loves to travel. Most of all shes proud of her children and grandchildren and the people theyve become.

Marvin Moss (Class of 1948)

Marvin Moss was born on May 27, 1930, in Ogden, Utah. He moved to Sparks at the age of six months with his parents George L. and Veda Moss. He attended Sparks High School from 1945 to 1948. Moss was senior class president, on the Debate Team and the Boys Glee Club, part of the Boys Block S, and involved in a variety of theatrical events. He earned three letters in sports: football, basketball and track. Moss graduated in 1948 in the top five of his class. Afterwards, he attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he joined the ROTC team and earned his BA in history.

Marvin Moss served two years with the United States Army as an officer in South Korea, 28 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and retired as a full colonel. He also taught as a member of the Command & General Staff College. In 1954, he became a sixth-grade teacher at the Sparks Intermediate School. In 1959 he earned his masters in education and became the principal of South Side Elementary School. The next year he became the principal at Veterans Memorial Elementary School. Moss became the assistant superintendent for the Washoe County School District in 1975 and, in 1982, he earned his doctorate in education. That same year Moss was appointed as superintendent; Moss was twice named Outstanding School Superintendent in Nevada.

Moss is a devoted father and husband. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Albee. They had eight children. Moss later married Dixie Moss, and now has two step-sons with her.

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Sparks High Hall of Fame