Monti High Class of 1948 Graduation Reflections
The Monti High senior class of 1948 graduates after a long journey from kindergarten to seniors. Notable names include Bob Luett Bernice Schmidt Lee Warner and Carlene Winkler as remaining graduates. The year features homecoming queen band triumphs and a senior play Lost Horizon with Duane Slauson as old doc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Null
Old Monti High
Jim Bader
Mildred Rieniers
Monti High
Ray Stumbaugh
Donna Aitchison
Phyllis Cox
Audrey Egger
Elizabeth Wilson
Charlotte Deischer
Jake
Clara Kehren
Evalena Harms
Don Henry
Bernice Schmidt
Wills and Bequests Passed Among Local Youth in 1948
A 1948 document lists gifts and bequests from several residents to juniors and peers. Items include musical instruments, hair traits, driving gear, and personal skills. The signatures hover around a council of eighth graders and younger, with a formal date noted as May 20, 1948.
Alumni Banquet And Dance At Monti High
Monti High hosts its annual Alumni Banquet and Dance on Thursday May 20 at 6 30 PM in the Community Building with theme Now Is The Hour Leslie Balster serves as toastmaster The program features welcomes speeches honors for 60 year alumna Imogene Stuhler and decades 50 and 25 year alumni followed by dancing to Bob Welty and his orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti High
Leslie Balster
Kathryn Bender
Ray ‘Null
Harold Yeoman
Gladys Shelley
Paul Kehoe
Imogene Stuhler
Bob Welty
Montinapo Camp Fire Holds Spring May Dance at Youth Center
The Montinapo Camp Fire group hosted a spring May Dance in the Youth Center led by Mrs Deischer. Attendees enjoyed square dancing social dancing and games with cookies and cupcakes served at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montinapo
Hold Award Assembly In Auditorium Thursday
Thursday May 13 an award assembly was held in the high school auditorium. Coach Linn presented varsity letters to Ray Null Dean Willworth Roy Dreibelbis Karl Behrends Don Skelley Mifred Claus Paul Schneider Gerald Dirks and Gene Hanken Rex Martinsen received a manager's award. Phyllis Cox and Joyce Rink earned cheerleading letters. Junior high cheerleaders and small M's were awarded to a list of students including Don McChristy Harold Brokaw Harold Gottleaber Jimmy Paulsen Larry Paulsen Richard Schone Gene Gesse Marvin Schneider and Donald Appleby. A large group received minor M's from Mrs. Ross and band letters went to twenty seven musicians. After announcements the assembly was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti High
Kaldal
Karl Behrends
Ruth Boots
Marvin Boysen
Elmer Brokaw
Audrey Behrends
LaVern Hannan
Patrick Kavanaugh
Donald Lambert
Bobby Luett
Don Miller
Minnie Otten
Hazel Reyner
Gerald Rynerson
Bernice Schmidt
Donald Shelley
George Stahler
Lee Warner
Carlene Winkler
Genevive Wright
Larry Carston
Paul Fletcher
Bob Luett
Marjorie Hoffman
Dorothy Maire
Donna Stahr
Patricia Tarbox
Mary Fahrin
Beverly Hansen
Mary Lou Luck
Elizabeth Wilson
Duane Clough
Dewain Fluckiger
Leo Grimm
Eugene Hanken
Dean Musgrove
Stanley Morning
Donald Robinson
Dale Yousse
Mifred Claus
Norman Hubbard
Loren Woellert
Ina Cruise
ABC
Miss Gray
John Boysen
John Clark
Edward Griffith
Eugene Buler
Jack Butler
Herman Yossi
Lucille Himes
Dorothy Marsh
Sylvia Gutensohn
Jacqueline Johnson
Karl Osterkamp
Kenneth Brokens
Doris Eggers
Marvin Etten
Jane McQuillen
Joyce McQuillen
Jean Rathbun
Betty Reyner
Joyce Appleby
David Tull
Miss Harrier
Miss Kirchner
Grant Adamson
Robert Veitch
Marvin Jacobs
Alice Cantrell
Mary Brown
Verda Ray
Art Jurgenson
Miss Searles
Solburn Paulsen
Ray Null
Richard Dietiker
Betty Lou Vernon
Arlene Tutt
Ann Carter
Juanita Rohr
Margaret Marugg
Robert Rickels
Donna Aitchison
Margaret Stripe
Robert Gesse
Richard Rickels
Bob Lubben
Elaine Buol
Charlotte Deischer
Audrey Egger
Irene Peterson
Beverly Simmons
Berkley Holmes
Good Old Monti High
Phyllis Cox
Gene Oltmann
Duane Slauson
Maldean Dirks
Lucretia Fairbanks
Elfriede Behrens
Clifford Heyen
Betty Craig
Dorothy Behrends
Joyce Slauson
Thomas Garlow
Don Hagen
Dick Williamson
Dorothy Grant
Marjorie Wells
Tale of Two
Circles
Linn
Dean Willworth
Roy Dreibelbis
Don Skelley
Paul Schneider
Gerald Dirks
Gene Hanken
Rex Martinsen
Mr. Cram
Joyce Rink
Marilyn Landis
LaVonne Fluckiger
Don McChristy
Harold Brokaw
Harold Gottleaber
Jimmy Paulsen
Larry Paulsen
Richard Schone
Gene Gesse
Marvin Schneider
Donald Appleby
Mr. Stumbaugh
Mary Wilcox
Shirley McCurdy
Roma Hoult
Margie Paulsen
Anna Diers
Miriam Young
Joan Ireland
Lyle Behrends
Don Martin
Noel Henderson
Doris Zimmerman
Marjory Luett
Chancey Dirks
Joanne Otten
Paul Grossheim
Marileigh Clark
Marjory Hoffman
Jean Barnts
Jim Robinson
Betty Lou Bebee
Beverly Hanken
Shannon
Monticello High School
F. H. Kehren
Clyde Parker
Cedar Rapids Public Schools
Boyd Shannon
Ed Huibregtse
Board of Education
Andrew Mast
James Bader
Robert First
Richard Williamson
Carlena Winkler
Arthur Jurgensen
Robert Lubben
Mildred Rieniers
Milred Claus
Eighth Grade Class Plans Outdoor Measurement Project
The eighth grade arithmetic class will measure heights of objects such as a flagpole trees and football field poles using shadows and ratios. They plan to make a quadrant from a board protractor and apply Pythagoras rule to compute diagonal distances across the school street corner.
End of term hot lunch menus listed for May 24 25
Miss Nicoll plans two school dinners for May 24 and 25. On Monday the menu features beefburgers with buns carrots peas milk apple pie and cheese. Tuesday serves scalloped potatoes and meat with cabbage and apple salad milk bread and butter and prune whip.
Senior Class Play Is Great Success
The final performances of Lost Horizon delighted audiences with strong portrayals including John Hein as Conway and Bob First as Mallinson. Donna Aitchison, Duane Slauson, Phyllis Cox, Eugene Oltmann and others delivered notable roles amid ornate stage design and lighting. Director Donald Henry earned praise for his effort and the cast presented Mr. Henry with a gift after both shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost Horizon
Phyllis Cox
Miss Brinklow
Albert Heiken
Eugene Oltmann
High Lama
Clara Kehren
Ai Ling
Duane Slauson
Chang
John Hein
Conway
Donna Aitchison
Helen
Joyce Slauson
Tashi
Don Henry
Bernice Schmidt
Audrey Egger
Mallinson
Shangri-La
Lamasery
Bob First
Helen Brian
Chopin
Providence
Mifred Claus
Barnard
al Ling
Elizabeth Wilson
Lo Tsen
Mallison
Myra
Elizabeth
Wyland
Rutherford
Charlotte Deischer
Dorothy Behrends
Gerald Dirks
Dick Williamson
Donald Henry
Marileigh Clark
Mr. Henry
Senior Sketches Highlight Monti High Senior Girls
Betty Lou Vernon Phyllis Cox Bob First Audrey Egger and Donna Aitchison are profiled for many activities. Each student shows leadership in pep clubs bands orchestras and school publications with plans for college and careers in teaching or secretarial work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lou Vernon
Betty
Monti
Panthers
Donna Aitchison
Donna Beth
Them
Glee Club
Aitch
Donna
Red Cross
Philomonte
Westminster Fellowship
Monticello High to Hold Baccalaureate and Commencement
Monticello High School will host a Friday May 21 8 p m commencement in the school auditorium. Activities include processional bands invocations speakers and selections by the glee club with diplomas presented by Ed Huibregtse and class officers named for the Class of 1948. Class Day exercises and a long program feature the traditional pomp and circumstance ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Grossheim
Ray Stumbaugh
Hildreth
Oswald Sandbach
VaLara Maiden
Franck
Mozart
Andrew Mast
Mast
dIrma Bohlken
Dean Willworth
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M” Club
Art Jurgensen
James
Speed” Bader
Veronica” Vernon
John Casper Hein
Bernice
John
Marvin Arnold Jacobs
Ireland
General Jacobs
Mr.Marston
Bob “Brilliantine’ Veitch
Montini
Elizabeth “Casanova” Wilson
Tommy Manville
Tommy
Duane Paul Slauson
Mad Russian
Joan
Dyersville
Jean
Jacobs
June
Vera Fae Null
Carlene Maggie Winkler
Lucretia Ann Fairbanks
South Sea Islands
Audrey Jean Egger
Claus
Miled Claus
Podhaski
Betty Lou Craig
Bob Rickels
Harvard University
Future Farmers of America
Badlands
Don “Shorty” Hagen
New York Philharmonic
Mildred Marie Rieniers
Secretary of
Donald Clinton P. Anderson
Elfriede Ann Behrens
Eugene Fredrick Oltmann
Monsieur Albert Lou Heiken
Clifford
Heyen
Old Town
Robert
Lubben
Leona
Tapken
Lee “Chub
Warner
Chub
Chubberettes
Chub Warner
Bob Veitch
Dot Behrends
Marilyn
Hein Triplets
Cascade
Durango
Betty Fass
Lou Fairbanks
Bob Spahr
Marvin — Jacobs
Chas
Luett
Babe Kebren
Bud Morrison
Liz Wilson
Wayne King
Blondie Winkler
Ruthie Ambuehl
Don Robinson
Mary Hoffman
Ruthie Kromminga
Krom
Toots Claus
Arlene Arduser
Margaret Eilers
Harmsie
Jimmy Robinson
Eyp Duane Slauson
Loren Hayes
Ralph Marolf
Cox Twins
Vera Nuil
Dutch Heyen
Bob
Mary Luett
Cascade-Monticello
The
Highway Commission
Ford
Albert Eileen
Leona Tapken
Joanne Wright
Jean Harms
Willis Harms
Rex Schrader
Don Schrader
Carl Leesekamp
George Schneiter
Bob Reade
Marv
Don Zimmerman
F.F.A
Towa
Phyl
M Club
G.A.A
F.H.A
Panther
Rainbow
Choir
Peppy Coxie
University of Dubuque
Harry James
Guy Lombardo
Bobbie
Vinton
Eggs
Triem
Presbyterian Church
Audrey
Donnal
Baccalaureate
P.E.O
Arthur- Sensen
Monticello
Mig
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