Local students win district state and national honors in Cedar Rapids music program
Cedar Rapids public schools showcase a robust music program led by Miss Alice Inskeep with bands choirs and choruses across grade levels. Senior high schools Grant and Washington host mixed choirs glee clubs and an A Capella group while elementary and junior high ensembles enroll about 400 pupils and roughly 100 instrumentalists per junior high.
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Cedar Rapids
Grant High School
Jace Meloney
iGrant High School
Sie
Bornesinga
En Jess Chaney
Gerzthe
Euvem
Cecelians
Mide School
Psic
Washington
Miior High
Eges
Alice Inskeep
Mipervisor
Miss Inskeep
Roland L. Mochimann
WF. Vesely
Margaret Dietz
Helen
McCahon
Roosevelt High Progress Inspires Diverse Student Projects
Roosevelt junior high showcases varied work across Latin music social science and home rooms. 9A Latin students studied a newspaper column for Latin derived English words while Cantorian glee club and Earl Youtzy joined an East Side WCTU program at the Home for Aged Women. Frances Welch’s 7B class studies US food products and student inspectors lead a travel talk on state imports and exports. Vocational guidance culminated in an assembly with many boys presenting occupations before an employment manager.
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Roosevelt Junior High School
Cantorian Glee Club
Earl Youtzy
East Side
Frances Welch
United States
Bobby Averill
Marion Johnson
Don Maloney
Don Spicher
Elmer Grissel
Frank Martin
Richard Elliott
Robert Blaine
Gilbert Fattig
Charles Swope
Robert Erickson
Rex Hinman
Ralph Cerney
Harry Drehouse
Virgil Richardson
Robert Fandrey
John Hobel
Robert Wicant
Don Jones
Junior Cady
Fred Mineck
Taylor 6A Class Leads In Spelling Grade Scale
Miss Eva Brider displays a color coded chart in Taylor school showing five colors for grades. Green marks excellent blue satisfactory yellow good red poor black failure. The 6A class topped elementary grades with 5B second after the first count.
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Eva Brider
Taylor School
Chorus And Choir Organized By Boys And Girls At Two Senior High School Buildings
A listing shows students from two senior high schools forming choruses and choirs. The image caption enumerates five rows of participants including Lilyan Shepherd Miriam Hungerford Grace Dawson Virginia Terrall and others along with staff names and a row of boys. The narrative emphasizes the organization of musical groups across both buildings.
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Lilyan Shepherd
Miriam Hungerford
Grace Dawson
Virginia Terrall
Ora Mae Edwards
Betty Ringsmuth
Hazel Capron
Jeanne Curry
Miriam Ogburn
Jean Eddy
Jane Fuhrmeister
Dorothy Beals
Charlotte Minehart
Dorothy Whipple
Rachel Austin
Marguerite Grime
Madge Jones
Mary Lou Shillinglay
Mary Nelson
Evelyn Fawcett
Genevieve McCulloch
Dorothy Mortis
Dorothy Novotny
Lila Haxby
Marian Wienands
Don Kreuger
Warren Walters
LeRoy Carson
Gertrude Shoemaker
Betty Walters
Coral Martin
Norma Glass
Bob van Orsdal
Floyd Fisher
Waldo Bundy
Bob Hansen
Lynn Fix
Howard Stiles
Homer Stone
Donald Reipa
Bob Beals
Howard McLaughlin
Jerry Petranek
Winfred Jones
Franklin Reading Class Birds Project Highlights Students
The 8B2 reading class at Franklin school completed a bird themed project featuring poems, poet biographies, bird drawings, and descriptions of habits. Harold Parkes built a bird sanctuary model and several students earned excellence including Peter Thurman Virginia Baker Billy Lattner Elsie Ainsworth Darlene Baker Betsy Jean Flodin John Pickford David Pickford Lorraine Crago Helen Smetna Kathleen Carey Agnes Hermanek Mary Jane Murdock Dorothy Ann Graham.
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Franklin School
Harold Parkes
Peter Thurman
Virginia Baker
Billy Lattner
Elsie Ainsworth
Darlene Baker
Betsy Jean Flodin
John Pickford
David Pickford
Lorraine Crago
Helen Smetna
Kathleen Carey
Agnes Hermanek
Mary Jane Murdock
Dorothy Ann Graham
Thanksgiving Poems Written at Van Buren School
The GB reading class at Van Buren held two programs featuring original Thanksgiving poems by students such as Thomas Kelly Jesse Wright Clifford Jensen and Lillian Kelly. Announcers Bernard Gallagher and Mabel Wilkinson introduced the readings with musical numbers and a harmonica solo by Bernard Gallagher.
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van Buren School
Bernard Gallagher
Mabel Wilkinson
Thomas Kelly
Jesse Wright
Clifford Jensen
Dona Jean Temple
Lillian Kelly
Fern Mrstik
Libby Flkish
Dorothy Konigsmark
Virginia Lynn
Luella Jones
Iola Jones
Ruth Dill
Dona Davis
Mary
Franklin attendance records honor perfect ten week run
Franklin pupils maintain perfect attendance for ten weeks across many classes. Names span 7B2 to 9B4 and include Ralph Petry, Jack Sapousch, Lorraine Debe, Jean Richardson, Betty Shaffer, Thera Sherman, Barbara Shonka, Dorothy White, Jane Wurster, and dozens more under 7B3 7B4 7B5 7AG TA7 VA8 8A5 9Ri1 9B2 9B3 9B4 9A5 and 6Jimmie Howcerry Ginrie er Jane Bachman.
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Franklin
Ralph Petry
Jack Sapousch
Lorraine Debe
Jean Richardson
Betty Jane Shaffer
Thera Sherman
Barbara Shonka
Dorothy White
Jane Wurster
James McArthur
Gladys Coats
Jane Hahn
Eloise Heath
Janet Jeffries
Shirley Linn
Geraldine Sheriff
Peggy Young
Martha Ratterman
Elaine Helm
Helen Drake
Dick Rice
Steven Sutton
Charles T'schirg
Eleanor Christian
Virginia Dodds
Gwendolyn Guy
Theone Larson
Betty Mac Leinbaugh
Marjorie Moravec
Beulah Pierce
Betty Pollock
Anna Jean Sallach
Myron Hasbrook
Mark Hunnicut
Jack McDonald
Allen Petersen
LaVerne Sandberg
Wilma Clark
Dorothy Tanner
Anthony Tschirgi
Kenneth Tucker
Virginia Bowker
Dorothy Uae Sramek
Jean Severson
Gloria Ax
Junior Delzell
Harold Filsenworth
Jane Ellen Beltz
Cavita Filini
Marilyn Ingham
Jean Knight
Mabel Paustian
Howard Beals
Marvin Berggren
Gerald Faber
Richard Gitt
Harold Kindler
Adolph Maciejewsky
Frank Maciejewsky
Floyd McGuire
Jean Dollman
Phyllis Hatton
Katherine Luberger
Margaret Massey
Tamar Meister
Emily Morrison
Mary Jane Plate
Donald Donegan
Guy Hamilton
Richard Kine
George Nassiff
Robert Johnson
Beth Allen
Roma Dickson
Edith Gardner
Marjorie Greer
Barbara Reysa
LaDonna Rich
Priscilla Rickey
Ruth Simmonds
Steven Belehrad
Herbert Eckert
William Esnerson
George Hodge
Charles Maresh
Harlan Rice
Garnett Walker
Howard Hutchins
Vivian Dabler
Rose Marie Giord
Lucile Hamlin
Betty Jane Johnson
Kathryn Owen
Yvonne Roberts
Batsiels
Salter
Pauline Schmidt
Luluver
Junior Freeman
Edwin Hanson
Billy Lattner
George Ludlow
Harold Parkes
Elsie Ainsworth
Darlene Daker
Virginia Baker
Betty Gage
Betty Stanley
Frank Carpenter
Joe Crawford
Jim Dres
Hilly Engel
Walter Grady
Bob Johnson
Charles Seaton
Hazel Kitts
Jean Rowe
Mary Rudish
Margaret Stalford
Marjorie Murdock
Big Layton Curtis
Merril Phillips
Everett Siver
Charles Winkert
Betty Busenbark
Jean Douglass
Ruth Arlene Pike
Pauline Schloss
Betty Jean Seysier
Vun Tey Shelquist
Velma Sutherland
Marjoriene
Junior Jurgersen
Betty
Jean Fosnacht
Ruth Jane Hubbard
Ruth Rich
Lerdy Swiser
Frank Byers
Billie Cejka
Wesley Dusck
Alfred Sandstrom
Vernon Voracek
Dorothy Bowser
Mary Kathryn Flebig
Maxine Huff
Jane Schlemmer
Jack Cochran
Gerald Grorpper
Billy Hefner
Edgar King
Ted Kubicek
Harry Lutz
Evelyn Bucy
Ruth Esther Morgan
Lois Pirrim
Mary Tighe
Martha Jane VanMeter
Raymon Lessner
Hohumil Smetana
Boys Play In Soccer Tournament At McKinley High
Three grade level intramural double elimination soccer tournaments at McKinley junior high draw 88 games this fall. Winners include seventh grade A2 champions, eighth grade 8A2 champions, and ninth grade fifth hour gym class champions. Team members include Melvin Cooley Ted Wienands Paul Vavra Dean Stoner Russell Smith Mike Slaman Wain Kearns Norman Korsmo John Hartford Clyde Gourley Alfred Berry Raymond Baird Paul Olson Clair Burgess Ralph Anderson Charles Hadley Aaron Hanks Howard Herman Joe Kadlee Carl Miller Richard Montague Ray Phillips Ray Robinson Oldrich Vopolka Pete Verticko Leland Hite Frank Stroleny Dean Smith Robert Beasley Godfrey Platz Dean Kirkpatrick John Hathaway Fred George Don Book Don Clement Orton Gralund Milliard Powers.
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McKinley Junior High School
Melvin Cooley
Ted Wienands
Paul Vavra
Dean Stoner
Russell Smith
Mike Slaman
Wain Kearns
Norman Korsmo
John Hartford
Clyde Gourley
Alfred Berry
Raymond Baird
Paul Olson
Clair Burgess
Ralph Anderson
Charles Hadley
Aaron Hanks
Howard Herman
Joe Kadlee
Carl Miller
Richard Montague
Ray Phillips
Ray Robinson
Oldrich Vopolka
Pete Verticko
Leland Hite
Frank Stroleny
Dean Smith
Robert Beasley
Godfrey Platz
Dean Kirkpatrick
John Hathaway
Fred George
Don Book
Don Clement
Orton Gralund
Milliard Powers
Map Drawing Projects at McKinley Junior High
McKinley junior high 8A1 art class students Margaret Fredrickson produced map drawings showing early explorer routes and discoveries. One map highlights U S Indian reservations with tepee and tribe imagery. Another depicts Cedar Rapids landmarks in color, plus a vivid Iowa map. 7B students sketch early American lantern designs to be crafted in tin by the boys in manual training.
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Margaret Fredrickson
McKinley Junior High School
United States
Cedar Rapids Island
Iowa
Dolls in Foreign Costume Display at Garfield School
Lois Barnhart a 5B pupil dressed two dolls to show classmates India and China outfits. The Indian doll wore a long skirt with a short blouse and shawl. The Chinese doll wore bright blue trousers and waist embroidered in scarlet.
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Lois Barnhart
Garfield School
India
China
McKinley School Talks English Lit Tour by Miss Hickok
McKinley junior high students heard Miss Eliza Hickok, attendance clerk, describe her recent tour of England’s literary byways in class. The talk highlighted authors and places shaping English literature.
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McKinley
McKinley Junior High School
Eliza
Hickok
England
Roosevelt School Notes playlet on good manners
A clever 7B Girl Reserve performance titled Dis Courtesy features patient gum chewitis seeking cures from Dr. P Light and nurse Eta Kett. Set in cafeteria and library, the sketch promotes proper conduct as Wilma Clark, Marianne Corey, Eloise Heath, and Gladys Linge participate.
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P. Light
Eta Kett
Wilma Clark
Marianne Corey
Eloise Heath
Gladys Linge
Van Buren Pupils Build Water Works Exhibit
In Van Buren, Miss Leone Burgert's sixth grade hygiene class created miniature open bucket wells and pumps inside boxes to illustrate early water supply. The display includes a model local water works with river, filtering basins, an engine, and a reservoir, plus a contrast between old and new methods using a tin bucket and a drinking fountain. Students include Jesse Wright, Bernard Gallager, Clifford Jensen, Virginia Lynn, Ruth Dill, Mabel Wilcoson, Dorothy Miner, Roy Carlyle, Charles Rocarek and Fern Mrstik.
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Jesse Wright
Bernard Gallager
Clifford Jensen
Virginia Lynn
Ruth Dill
Mabel Wilcoson
Dorothy Miner
Roy Carlyle
Charles Rocarek
Fern Mrstik
Roosevelt Classes Craft Graphs and Scrapbooks
In Miss Frances McNamara’s social science classes at Roosevelt junior high students created a graph of the rise in public high schools from 1880 to 1933 showing growth from 1,000 to 20,000. They built an educational ladder from kindergarten to college, and made charcoal pictures contrasting old and new schoolrooms. Some pupils studied colonial dress, and others compiled Iowa scrapbooks from Gazette clippings. This week the class debated whether the South was justified in seceding from the Union.
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Frances McNamara
Roosevelt Junior High
James Holton
Jack Schultz
Jane Baker
Iowa
The
Gazette
Favorite Books Shared By Polk Reading Pupils
Polk school students celebrated Book Week by sharing favorite titles through written and oral reports. Exhibits featured scenes from various books and showcased reports by Marcia Kensinger Bonnie McGregor Paul Loepp Mary King Betty Ahrendson Irwin Sword La Verne Grippe Marilyn Newman Daryl Keith Ascile Kirkman Jeanne Rodgers Miriam Armstrong Helen Prochoska Henry Haegg Albert Thompson Jack Hamiston Doris Smith Dorothy Mickelson Darlene Vaughn Junior Wilcox Gerald Wachal Jimmie Israel Jerry Clift Guy Clark Elvin Konzen Betty Stephenson Howard Cropp Ronald Filipy Dorothy Mueller Dorothy Staley Dale Morningstar Robert Schneider.
Alaskan Town Letters Sent To Wilson Juniors
Alaskan children described Ketchikan Alaska to Dorothy Gabbert’s Wilson Junior High pupils in Cedar Rapids Iowa. A million dollars in gold rode on the Victoria with letters and photos detailing Alaskan life, fishing methods, and local slogans. One writer, a twelve year old Girl Scout born in Juneau, shares school life, family, and Alaska’s pack of salmon culture.
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U. S. Victoria
Ketchikan
Alaska
Dorothy Gabbert
Wilson Junior High School
Cedar Rapids
Indrinmtarte
S.t. Victoria
Nome
Juneau
Revillagegedo
Seattle
Lincoln Pupils Pick Indian Names For Thanksgiving Program
Second grade pupils at Lincoln School chose Indian names for themselves as part of a Thanksgiving program with third graders. Mrs Elizabeth Dennis led the project creating Indian headbands tepee and crafts, with songs dances and stories about Indian life.
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Lincoln School
Elizabeth Dennis
Melvin Wolf
Lone Wolf
Cyrus McCalley
Red Feather
Thomas Sturgeon
Red Eagle
Donald Fugate
Black Hawk
Donald Merklen
War Cloud
John Dochterman
Grey Fox
Dean St. Germaine
Little Wolf
Paul Valliere
Chief
Flying Cloud
Grace Vernon
Rainbow
Sybil Kenney
White Cloud
Lyndell Jensen
Morning Star
Earl Kinney
Black Thunder
Robert Birkicht
Grey Cloud
Dale Green
Red Bird
Science Projects Attract Interest At Jackson Building
Science projects across classes at Jackson school engage students. 6A demonstrations by William Ridge and Dick Staves show tiny steam engines. 5A displays include a mounted red squirrel loaned by Dale Rummens. 4B studies cover snow and cloud crystals, with paper cuttings for mounting. 6A built a miniature island bird sanctuary led by Harold Grimm. 5B displays eighty rocks from the Black Hills owned by Dorothy Bailey.
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Jackson School
William Ridge
Dick Staves
Dale Rummens
Harold Grimm
Richard Brammer
Margie Sleight
James Livingston
John Robinson
Black Hills
Dorothy Bailey
Franklin School displays colonial era artifacts
In a study of Colonial art at Franklin school pupils contributed items used in the period. The display includes an old lantern a candle mould and flint lock rifle by Billy Rankin a handwoven bed spread dyed and woven from locally raised wool by Lorraine Debe bellows by Jane Wur eter. The January 4 1800 edition of Ulster County Gazette is included by Kathryn Hesser.
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Franklin School
Billy Rankin
Lorraine Debe
Jane Wureter
Ulster County Gazette
Kathryn Hesser
Miniature Julius Caesar Scenes Built by McKinley Class
The McKinley school English room hosts a miniature theater built by Miss Elsie Pritchard 9A class. Wilbur Buresh and Richard Besta supervise. Act I scenes crafted by Marion Wing Mary Ann Pohorsky Zona Hill Jean Hamblin Jeanne Anthony Betty Allender. Act II by Dorothy Sebrecht Martha Zemlicka Frank Fulkerson Robert Lindahl Jack Kofron Harold Stickney Marvin Stoner is the electrician.
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Julius Caesar
Elsie Pritchard
McKinley School
Wilbur Buresh
Richard Besta
Marion Wing
Mary Ann Pohorsky
Zona Hill
Jean Hamblin
Jeanne Anthony
Betty Allender
Dorothy Sebrecht
Martha Zemlicka
Frank Fulkerson
Robert Lindahl
Jack Ko
Kindergarten Van Buren Works Out Story Project
Miss Marion Putnam leads Van Buren kindergarten in a hands on drama project based on The Little Wooden Farmer. Students built a river scene, a wooden boat, and cardboard farm figures then acted the tale and plan to share make believe kits at home.
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van Buren
Marion Putnam
van Buren School
Gertrude Braque
Lillian Caperonis
Shirley Cook
Callie Dudley
Lucille Hodina
Evelyn Lattner
Betty Martin
Donna Mefford
la Verna Ward
Carolyn Wilson
Dorothy Zvacek
Wilma Maleck
Donald Bye
Albert Cones
John McKee
George Naxera
Leland Nowadsky
Raymond Schorr
Robert Smith
Francis Wilson
George Wamacha
Ralph Bradley
Washington Debate Meet Won By 12B
The 12B class led by Culver Brooks Bernard Kehoe Catherine Wise and Marjorie Lois March captured the interclass debate trophy at Washington senior high school with the championship cup. Second went to 10B team of Joan Miller Helen Pleshek Philip Klass and Louise Shaffer. Judges were Arthur Brooks and William Whipple Coe college students. Walter Peterson the debate coach selected the teams now training for the season opening today against Vinton. First teams list both sides with names and alternates for affirmative and negative.
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Culver Brooks
Bernard Kehoe
Catherine Wise
Marjorie Lois March
Washington Senilorct
Joan Miller
Helen Pleshek
Philip Klass
Louise Shaffer
Arthur Brooks
William Whipple
Coe College
Walter Peterson
Vinton
Washington
John Salloch
Marjorie March
Lewis Holtman
Bob Waples
Eliot Waples
Homer Stone
Mary Lahr
Eileen Wiles
Velma Rose Love
Maxine Reams
Walter Reitz
Tyler School Notes Revel In Class Project Creations
Eighteen Tyler pupils have completed a required number project in arithmetic. They made two triangular red dressing tables trimmed in black for the cloak rooms. Dollies decorate the tops, with handkerchief cloth squares, combs, files and sewing boxes nearby. A girls cloak room mirror was donated by Ida Shulman.
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Tyler
Blanch Trachta
Beryl White
Milfred Myer
Frances Kacerovsky
Carl Berry
Adella Joyner
Robert Stewart
Velma Ruffin
John Madlock
Frances Hubota
Richard Cabrinock
George Kavroulakis
Maxine Lund
Carla Jean Phillips
Byron Peterson
Junior Keyes
David Gonzales
Louis Pernicka
Ida Shulman
GANG AGE OF CHILD DISCUSSED IN MURRAY BOOK
The article reviews Mrs F G Murray's third Parent Education booklet on the 12 to 18 gang period. It outlines parental influence from ages eight to adulthood, discusses inferiority complexes, adolescence emancipation, and chapters on relationships and choosing a vocation, ending with a play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Murray
Scrapbooks Are a Hobby of Roosevelt Pupil
Rachel Baumgartner an eighth grader at Roosevelt junior high gathers scrapbooks as class projects. Her works mix subjects from music to history and US presidents, using pictures, biographies, and clippings from The Gazette and church periodicals. Other Roosevelt students also build Iowa themed scrapbooks from Gazette items.
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Gazette
Tru
Laura
Wilson Junior High
Peter Murtaugh
Lara Jean Stary
Roxie Wilkinson
Georgia Merrifield
Robert Cray
Evelyn Sigmund
Richard Hollister
Rachel Baumgartner
Roosevelt Junior High School
United States
Pook Club
White House
Washington
Independence
Hall
J . Rachel
Roosevelt
Iowa
Johnson Kindergarten And 1A's Give Program
Johnson Kindergarten and 1A group staged an afternoon assembly with 1B pupils as guests. The program featured group songs, orchestra selections including Ferry Boat and In The Orchard, soloists named from the kindergarten and 1A programs, and multiple student compositions by Harriett Bernstein Sally Henry and others. Ten thousand wooden 2 cent pieces will be retired as currency at Aberdeen Washington next July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Margaret Stepanek
Dorothy Victorine
Billy Chadima
Margie Race
Barbara Dunshee
Jack Day
Dick Moon
Bobby Manatt
Alyce Mary Chadima
Jane Pardera
Jimmie Grissel
Eleanor Albert
Mary Ella Wolverton
Betty Jo
Aberdeen
Wash
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FACS
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Taylor
A Capella Choir
Montleur
Janice Lancaster
Mildred Pazdernik
Catherine Collins
Mary Gerber
Dorothy Blodgett
Miranda Steffans
Jean Remington
Caroline Hodgdon
Helen Rupperle
Hazel Aupperle
Jane Fieseler
Catherine Timm
Gertrude Hien
June Hansen
Dorothy Svec
Katherine Raftis
Lillian Navratis
Rose Kosina
Margaret Frye
Helen Johnson
Evelyn Kazebier
Muriel Sandberg
Crystal Bell Lego
Irene Smith
Bob Eckert
Fred Johnson
Emmet Evans
Richard Bush
Kenneth Berger
Gilbert Feierelsen
Esther Lorenc
Milo Mahring
Charles Bush
Ted Wichman
Bob Larimer
Arthur Harman
Bob McCune
Leroy Green
Dick Moore
Robert Kenney
Howard Chalmers
Elmer Rompot
Curtis Hunt
Fred Kosek
Donald Johnson
Joe Konigsmark
Paul Samek
McKinley High
Garfield
Roosevelt School Notes
Polk
Wilson
Lincoln
Jackson Bldg
Franklin School Notes
Tyler School Notes
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