Home of the Bronchos. The hallways, the gym, the track, the newspaper, the yearbook, the Friday night games — and the friendships that lasted a lifetime. Welcome home, alumni.
Carol (Endermuhle) Winter, Class of 1963, passed away on February 9, 2026.
Portrait restored from the 1963 baylesshigh.com / bay63 yearbook archive via the Wayback Machine.
See all Silent Bronchos — the Class of ’63 in memoriam →
Donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the Boar’s Head Festival at Peace Lutheran Church are appreciated.
Sally (Wohlschlaeger) Wear (Class of 1958)
President, Bayless Alumni Association
4532 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
swear@bayless.k12.mo.us · 314-256-8600, Ext. 8617
Bestselling author and motivational speaker John O’Leary named Bayless School District Superintendent Amy Ruzicka as his model of leadership that changes lives. In his April Monday Motivation, O’Leary contrasted the loud, sure-of-themselves leaders we see everywhere with the quieter ones who actually move the needle — selfless, humble, sacrificial, other-focused — and pointed to Amy as a living example. She was, he wrote, “rooted in her why,” investing in teachers and students rather than managing them. Amy joined O’Leary live on the Teacher Appreciation edition of Live Inspired Together, and the call was open to the public. — Thanks for sending this to us, Jack Newsom, Class of 1963.
This is real content from the site Paul Walhus first built in the late 1990s and hosted through his BBS at spring.net. Group photos, class portraits, the original Class of ’63 roster — restored from the Internet Archive’s November 2005 capture. Where the originals had personal phone numbers and addresses, we’ve left those off in this modern revival out of respect for the classmates who are still with us.
Larger team and activity photos from the same 2005 directory.
Every individual photo we could recover from the bay63 directory. Click any portrait to open the original on the Wayback Machine. See the full yearbook thumbnail wall →
Sourced from Paul’s ongoing Class-of-’63 reunion spreadsheet (the live source used to organize the Bayless Zoom calls). All phone numbers, emails, and addresses are stripped — only names and bio prose appear here. Contact Paul to be added, corrected, or removed. For a sortable, full-page view of just the names + city/state + notes, see the Class of ’63 roster table →
Affton, Missouri — where South County kids became lifelong friends, won championships, and learned that the best years of your life really were the ones you didn't appreciate at the time.
Bayless Senior High School in Affton, Missouri — an unincorporated community in south St. Louis County. Small enough that everyone knew your name. Big enough that you could reinvent yourself between sophomore and junior year.
Our colors. Gold and green. The Bronchos. Every pep rally, every game, every banner in the gym — gold and green. If you bleed these colors, you're one of us.
Generations of Bayless graduates spread across the country and the world. Doctors, teachers, soldiers, builders, artists, engineers, and one guy who became the King of Twitter. (That's Paul. Class of '63.)
Friday nights in the Bayless gym. The squeak of sneakers on the hardwood. The roar when we hit a three. The Bronchos basketball program was the heartbeat of the school — and every alum remembers at least one game that felt like the whole world was watching.
The oval behind the school where sprinters, distance runners, and field athletes competed under the Missouri sun. Spring afternoons, stopwatches, and the thrill of breaking a personal record — or a school record that stood for decades.
Friday night lights were only a dream to the Class of 1963. Today's Bayless High actually has a football team. We only had 50 guys in our whole class, hardly enough to man a gridiron.
Spring meant baseball at Bayless. The crack of aluminum bats, the smell of fresh-cut grass, and doubleheaders that stretched into the golden hour. The diamond was where slow afternoons became fast memories.
The school paper — where future journalists, writers, and troublemakers learned that words have power. Reporting on games, dances, and the occasional editorial that got someone called to the principal's office.
Every face. Every club. Every superlative. The yearbook captured who we were — or at least who we were trying to be. If you still have yours, you're holding a time machine.
The Bayless School District formed in south St. Louis County, serving the communities of Affton and surrounding areas. Named after the Bayless family, early settlers in the region.
Baby boom fills the hallways. Bayless becomes a thriving high school with strong athletics, active student organizations, and a community that shows up for everything. Friday night games pack the gym and the football field.
Future web pioneer, BBS founder, and King of Twitter walks across the stage. He didn't know it yet, but the curiosity and community spirit he learned at Bayless would define his entire career — from the spring.com BBS to 20 websites built in 48 hours with AI.
New generations carry the gold and green. The school evolves but the spirit stays the same — small school, big heart, lifelong connections.
Paul creates baylesshigh.com as an alumni reunion site — connecting classmates scattered across the country. Basketball memories, track records, yearbook photos, and "where are they now" updates.
The alumni site is rebuilt and reborn as part of the WholeTech Network. New tools, same mission: keep the Bayless community connected. Because no matter where life took you, you're still a Broncho.
Paul opened a discussion topic called “Bayless High 63” on his spring.net bulletin board on March 17, 1998. 71 responses accumulated over the years — classmates checking in, sharing news, finding each other. A few of those actual posts are below, restored from the Wayback Machine and reproduced verbatim. The BBS is still alive in its successor at austinspring.com.
Whether it's your 10th, 25th, 50th, or 60th+ reunion — this is where we organize. If you're planning a Bayless reunion or know of one coming up, let us know.
Contact Us About ReunionsClass of '63 — Paul Walhus is always looking to connect with fellow classmates.
Web pioneer. Founded spring.com BBS — one of Austin's first online communities. Became Twitter's first celebrity at SXSW 2007 (@springnet). Now runs the WholeTech Network — 20+ websites built with AI. Still bleeds gold and green.
Are you a Bayless grad? We're building the alumni directory. Send us your name, graduation year, and what you've been up to. Every Broncho has a story worth telling.
Help us find lost classmates. If you know a Bayless grad who should be on this site, send us their info. The more alumni we connect, the stronger the community.
The Wayback Machine has captured baylesshigh.com 135 times across 25 years. Each snapshot is a frozen moment of the site as the crawler saw it that day. This is priceless history.
No captures in 2010. The years with bigger numbers are the ones with the fullest, most-navigable snapshots.
How to navigate: click any year above and the Wayback Machine opens its calendar view for that year. Bigger blue circles = fuller captures (more pages saved that day). Click a blue circle to see the site as it appeared on that exact day. Once you’re in a snapshot, the links work — you can click around the historical site like it’s 2005 again. The black bar at the top of the page is the Wayback toolbar; it tells you the date and lets you jump to other captures.
A note from the editor: sorry this looks a little link-farmy — there’s just no graceful way to lay out 25 years of archive snapshots without a wall of small buttons. The Wayback Machine itself is organized by year, and each year is a separate page on archive.org. Pick a year and start scrolling. The gold is in the early-2000s captures.
