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Larry Nemmers is a retired educator and better known as a former American football official in the National Football League . Nemmers made his debut... as an NFL official in the 1985 season and continued in this role until the end of the 2007 season. Prior to his officiating career, he was a college football player at Upper Iowa University. Nemmers is notable for officiating in Super Bowl XXV, as well as several playoff games. Beginning his seventeenth season as referee with the 2007 NFL season, Nemmers' officiating crew consists of Undrey Wash, Mark Baltz, Mike Spanier, Mike Weir, Carl Cheffers, and Dino Paganelli. The 2007 season will also be the final year for Nemmers as he as announced his retirement. Larry Nemmers, the eldest of nine children, is a native of Waterloo, Iowa and a 1960 graduate of Columbus High School in Waterloo. There he was a good friend of future professional baseball player, Virg Erickson. He later attended Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, graduating in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in biology.
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Tracie Monique Spencer is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, actress, and model. Spencer was born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa. She... began singing by the age of three and modeling in pageant competitions at age five. Tracie performed, produced and directed her first music videos before she was ten years of age. This led to her competing on Star Search the 1980s CBS televised talent competition. She performed Whitney Houston's 1986 hit "How Will I Know" and won the competition. Shortly thereafter, she became the youngest female artist to sign a record deal with a major label, Capitol Records, and to release a self-titled debut album on January 16, 1988. She found success with the singles "Hide and Seek", "Symptoms of True Love" and her remake of John Lennon's "Imagine". Her second album, Make the Difference, was released on August 27, 1990. The first single, "Save Your Love", showed an impressive standing at #7 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Her following single, "This House", became her biggest hit to date reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Forry Smith is an American actor most notably recognized for his role as Reese Walker on NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara. He portrayed the role from... 1992 to 1993. He's also credited as Forrest or Forrie Smith. He was also a 11th round selection in the 1976 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills out of Iowa State University as a wide receiver.
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Jerry Mayer was an actor.

Tracie Monique Spencer is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, actress, and model. Spencer was born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa. She... began singing by the age of three and modeling in pageant competitions at age five. Tracie performed, produced and directed her first music videos before she was ten years of age. This led to her competing on Star Search the 1980s CBS televised talent competition. She performed Whitney Houston's 1986 hit "How Will I Know" and won the competition. Shortly thereafter, she became the youngest female artist to sign a record deal with a major label, Capitol Records, and to release a self-titled debut album on January 16, 1988. She found success with the singles "Hide and Seek", "Symptoms of True Love" and her remake of John Lennon's "Imagine". Her second album, Make the Difference, was released on August 27, 1990. The first single, "Save Your Love", showed an impressive standing at #7 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Her following single, "This House", became her biggest hit to date reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Bonnie Koloc is an American folk music singer-songwriter, actress, and artist who was considered one of the three main Illinois-based folk singers... in the 1970s, along with Steve Goodman and John Prine forming the "trinity of the Chicago folk scene.". Koloc was the least successful of the three, but her material did sell modestly. Koloc was born to a working class family: "I guess you could say we were poor; we lived in a cement block house outside the city limits of Waterloo, IA, and my dad worked in the John Deere factory. Money was very tight. I wore a lot of hand-me-downs, and I thought that people who had indoor johns must be rich. I had a really unstable childhood, because my parents were divorced when I was 12, and there was a lot of chaos. I spent a lot of time during my high school years trying to get myself together from my childhood." The first of her family to attend college, she enrolled in the University of Northern Iowa, first majoring in drama, then art, paying her way by singing, but earning poor grades. She abandoned her studies to go to Chicago, where she became a fixture of the influential Earl of Old Town.
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Forry Smith is an American actor most notably recognized for his role as Reese Walker on NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara. He portrayed the role from... 1992 to 1993. He's also credited as Forrest or Forrie Smith. He was also a 11th round selection in the 1976 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills out of Iowa State University as a wide receiver.
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