Washington High class of 1908 memory lot revived
A Cedar Rapids feature recalls Washington High School 1908 graduates from The Reveille yearbook. Many members stayed in the area or gained prominence in law, finance, education, and athletics while others moved to California, New York, and Oregon. The piece notes Grant Wood contributions and traces dozens of former students and spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muriel Arthur
Harold Trewin
Cedar Rapids
Marvin R. Selden
Greenwood Drive
Abbie S. Abbott
Washington High School
Grant Wood
Selden
Andrew “Cam” Sloss
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Marion
Cam
Campbell
Floyd Scott
Newburg
Portland
Ore
Arthur Towne
Beverly Hills
Calif
Leo Novak
Novak
United States Military Academy
West Point
Liam Ross
Charles Huber
Lloyd Miller
Charles McDonald
California
Edward Norris
Coggan
Howard Talbott
Paul Brecht
Ray Moore
Milwaukee
George Williams
Ralph “Deany” Brown
Chicago
Harold Conn
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
O. Harold Cooper
Des Moines
Lloyd Derflinger
Elizabeth Blizard
Derflinger
Earl Grissel
Springbrook
Wis
Philip Playter
Oldrich Konigsmark
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
James Faulkes
Gazette Company
Milo Hanzlik
Joseph Hronik
Miss Abbott
W. R. Boyd
Bob Cousins
United States
Washington, D. C
Cousins
Committee On Foreign Affairs
George Washington University
Georgetown
James Brown
Coy Rickoff
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Harry “Dutch” Heil
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Fred “Fritz” Harper
Mirror of All
Welch Cook Bears Company
Ray Jackson
Howard “Reddy” Graham
Clarence “Shortie” Gourley
Robert McLeod
Leonard “Bang
Angel- Face” Stark
Edgar Tapper
Ernest Wenig
Quaker Oats Company
Carl Stookey
Iowa State College
Ames
Old Washington High School
Eugene Pinney
Chester Ainsworth
Gertrude Bachmans
Gertrude W
William Rinderknecht
Gertrude M
Trudschen
G. Hue
T Artis
Florence Talbott
W. A. Gouldin
Blanche Stuart
Lucy Steele
Howard Preston
Seattle
Wash
Washington University
Katharine Bingham
White Mountains
Jerome C. Fisher
Cleveland, O
Little “Chubby
Leona Pressler
Riverside
Ray M. Stark
Betty
Donald
Ethel Mills
Ethel “Lolly” Byers
Charles Mills
Florence Morehouse
James Mc Raith
Libbie Machula
R. R. Downer
Josephine Hamilton
Pulse
Smith College
Europe
Clifford Hubbell
Buffalo, N. Y
Hubbell
Buffalo
Josephine
Billy
Nichols School
Ann Sage
Urbana
New York
Demure Ruth Morcombe
Cornell
New York Library School
Gladys Young
Leslie Howard
Young Men Organize New Youth Movement
Three 19 year old Salt Lake City men J Allan Jensen Burton S Miller and Leonard Hubbard start a youth movement by youth and for youth to provide recreation for men 18 to 25 decide methods of assessing and collecting taxes a decade hence and consider all civic enterprises and their effect on youth Jensen says most of us are too young to vote or belong to civic groups yet too old to be guided by present youth movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
J. Allan Jensen
Burton S. Miller
Leonard Hubbard
Jensen
U. S. Expands To 3 Little Pacific Isles
The article notes changes in island designations in the central Pacific. It mentions Baker Island Nantucket ties and notes that Howland and Jarvis had former names Newlands and Bunker respectively. It references corals slabs as gravestones for nameless dead guano diggers and sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Pacific Isles
Baker Island
New Nantucket
Nantucket Island
Phoebe
Baker’s
Howland Island
Newlands
Jarvis Island
Bunker
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Washington High First
Cam” Sloss
Naomi Doebel
Minnie Beenk
Junior Society
Buchanan School
Louise Brownell
Roosevelt Junior High School
Genevieve Bergstresser
Oak Park
Ill
Marjorie “Sorgum
Josselyn
Paterson
N. J
Emily Matousek
Roosevelt School
Beatrice
Frank Fidema
Fairfax
Bee
Jean Ellen
Gertrude “Ducky” Rabus
Oscar F. Benecke
Essie
Guy Hillier
Margaret
Peggy” Donnan
Miss Donnan
Wayne Tabor
Lincoln Highway
West
Martha Fox
Paul Belding
Vinton
Edith Myrtle Gray
Clark Jack
Ross
Eleanor
Quiet Bernice
Bonnie” Grout
S. E. Coquillette
Merchants National Bank
Edna O. Henson
H. E. Hayden
Emma Houser
Jay Watts
Alice R. Howe
Owen Barry
Clara
Clarissa” Luberger
Marion Reiff
Olive McDuff
Max Bromwell
Mildred MacDanes
Charlotte Pinney
Monogram
Laura
Betsy” Warner
Davenport
Glen Golden
de Elda Wardle
J. Ross Lee
Eva Munn
David Freeman
Moline
Tillie Musik
Wesley Trachta
Mary Reaugh
Mary- Ann-Jane-Snap
Carl Arp
Shirlie Shean
Brownie
Emil Petranek
Alice Sirowy
Frances “Fanny” Jameson
Clarence Fish
Vermont
Ettemnan
Dol H
Peer Nobliss
Puzzle No
Mer
Kitterman’s
Call
Annabelle Bridges
9Th St. NW
Dorothy Freeman
Newhall
Iowa
Katharine Fredric Hepburn
Scotland
Iowa Theater
Gazette
Kitterman
Saar
3Rd Ave
Gest
Maxwell House Coffee
Dene
Peere
S. E. UW
Ieee
Skrip
Tasilab
Peterman’s
ANT Food
A.C
D.C
Second
Evered
DE Witt
BOWE
Bellans
Squibb
Williams
Phillips Dreams
KOTEX
Pama
FITCH
Bauer & Black
Miles’ Alka
Seltzer