This is a personal appeal for information about B. Piitz. Adrian de Laat generously digitized the very first OCHS yearbook. As I was going through the pictures, this one caught my eye. My niece is married to a Piitz. I immediately fired off an email to him, asking him what relation this was. He didn't know. But he did tell me that Piitz is a manufactured name. When his ancestors came from Europe, the double i was a vowel with a diacritical sign over it (for example like the cedilla under the "c" in the borrowed French word façade). To make things easy, a double i was used. So they are probably related in some fashion.
If anyone knows the first name (what B. stands for) or how to contact this individual, please let me know.
Ken
I believe that is Brian Piitz
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