North Des Moines High School
Class of 1930
Class Meetings:
No class meetings scheduled, but the class of 1932 meets:
January and June classes meet the fourth Thursday of each month at
(new location since Baker's Cafeteria closed?)
Sherwood Forest
73rd and Hickman Road
Windsor Heights , IA 50322-4619
map
We need the January, 1930 cap and gown photo. Know anyone from that class?
Class of January, 1930
January, 1930 group cap and gown enlarged left side
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January, 1930 group cap and gown enlarged center
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January, 1930 group cap and gown enlarged right side
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Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930
Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930
Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930 Class of June, 1930
Class of June, 1930
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Class of June, 1930
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Class of June, 1930
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Class of June, 1930
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Class of June, 1930
Photo by W.L. Baird, Des Moines, Iowa
Photo: Compliments of Virginia Wirt Deuben, Class of June, 1930
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January 1930 Class Officers (do not have appropriate photos yet; these are 1933)
June 1930 Class Officers
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June, 1930 Student Council June, 1930 Student Council
June, 1930 Student Council June, 1930 Student Council
June, 1930 Student Council June, 1930 Student Council
Student Council
1st Row Esther Bunge, Marian McClure, Iva Jeanne Signs, Garnet Henderson, Miss Helen Grace Adams, advisor; William Moore, Robert McColgan, Walter Jewell
2nd Row Belle Hurwitz, Marian Johnson, Virginia Schaal, William Drake, Louis Ogden, Mike Bognanno, Orien Brewbaker
3rd Row Robert Asarch, Chester Arthur, Kathleen Porter, Arnold Knutson, Delbert Sterrett, Robert Laidley, Wilson Burke, Rose Ellison
4th Row Earle Barclay, Frederick Little, Elmer Taylor, William Taylor, Leo Pearlman, Don Hagen, Roy Weston
5th Row Carl Stieper, Joe Naab, William Meyers, Arthur Guile, Cyril Smith, Harrison Bennett
June, 1930 National Honor Society June, 1930 National Honor Society
June, 1930 National Honor Society June, 1930 National Honor Society
June, 1930 National Honor Society June, 1930 National Honor Society
National Honor Society
1st Row Marjorie Moffatt, Jane Kahn, Adele Weiser, Joe Naab, Rose Ellison, Grace Hodson, Wanda Coan
2nd Row James Touissaint, Charlotte Brown, Minnie Silke, Gerene Peterson, Genevieve Fish, Mignon Eaton, Mildred Williams, Bernice Nelson
3rd Row Clifford Fisher, Belle Hurwitz, Gretchen Teuber, Emily Witter, Janet Jones, Wana Jasinsky, Bill Drake
4th Row Gordon Couchman, Walter Rollman, Marian Brewer, Virginia Schaal, Iva Jeanne Signs, Garnet Henderson, Delbert Sterrett
5th Row Orien Brewbaker, Alice Feige, Ella Feige, Ruby Buhrmaster, Francis Knecht, William Myers, Kenneth Stewart, Robert McColgan, Louis Ogden, Esther Bunge, Mary Dudley, Robert Asarch, Sidney Levin, Earle Barclay
Absent Miss Helen Grace Adams, advisor; Dorothy Hickok, Frederick Little, Kathryn Roberts, Elmer Taylor, Roy Weston
Oracle Staff Oracle Staff
Oracle Staff Oracle Staff
Oracle Staff Oracle Staff
Oracle Staff
1st Row Esther Penny, Miss Elizabeth Butler, advertising advisor; Adele Weiser, editor-in-chief; Miss Blanche Calvert, news-writing advisor; Bill Taylor, Ruby Buhrmaster, editor-in-chief; Mr. McCullough, business advisor, Rose Ellison
2nd Row Jane Kahn, Joe Naab, Ellsworth Walker, Louis Ogden, Wana Jasinsky, Johnita Holliday
3rd Row Wilson Hickerson, Charlotte Brown, Maxine Leonard, Ruth Westerman, Gertrude Miller, Janet Jones, Lois Combs
4th Row Blanche Thompson, Gordon Couchman, Francis Bowdewyns, Harold Hockenberg, Burnham Orwig, Herschel Wolk, William Marohn
5th Row Marjorie Dorman, Gertrude Ellis, Florence Turney, Verna Smith, Mignon Eaton, Catherine Wood, Roy Startzer, Georgia Barton, Ben McDonald, Walter Miller, Don Armington
Absent Alice Schaefer, Mabel Hall, Bob Hoffman, Arthur Guile, Ruby Ogilvie, Sam Green, Maxine Calhoun
Vice Presidents and Secretaries Vice Presidents and Secretaries Vice Presidents and Secretaries
Vice Presidents and Secretaries Vice Presidents and Secretaries Vice Presidents and Secretaries
Vice Presidents and Secretaries
1st Row

Randall Conner, Wilma Francisco, Gordon Couchman, Miss Helen Grace Adams, advisor; Wilma Millington, Kathryn Roberts

2nd Row Ray Cummings, Thelma Elliot, Eveline Benson, Doris Stevens, Vivian Himan, Harlan Watkins, Maude Blackledge
3rd Row Jan Kahn, Thelma Norman, Dorothy Linn, Juanita Davis, Gerene Peterson, Wana Jasinsky
4th Row Sarah Siegel, Barbara Isaacs, Gladys Geil, Agnes Slattery, Charlotte Brown, Elizabeth Walker, Clarice Bowman, Wanda Nelson, Josie Sheldon
5th Row William Heggen, Robert Stong, Wilson Hickerson, Lucretia Woods, Eleanor Woods, Kathryn Thelan, Gail Baty, Maxine Mapel, Kathryn Foster, Blanche Thompson, June Asman
6th Row Ellsworth Walker, Sidney Omerod, John Diehl, Alice Booth, Dorothy Brown, Mildred Hatch, Margaret Conley, Julia Snow, Kenneth Stewart, Felix Braden, Dick Work
7th Row Don Evans, Bob Erickson, Amos Jencks, Roy Huntoon, Bob Ticrick, Joe Conkling, Herschel Wolk, Arabelle Flatley, Dorothy McPhail, Jeanne Gordon, Karl Feise
Above photos: North High Oracle of June, 1930;
from memorabilia of Virginia Wirt Deuben; June, 1930
   
Hit song - "On the Sunny Side of the Street"   1930 -- Here comes Mickey!
Graduates - January, 1930 (numbered ?)
Need names Need names Need names Need names
Miller, Arnold F.
Porter, Kathleen? (Ashby)
Graduates - June, 1930 (numbered 234)
Abel, Lillian L. Eaton, Mignon E. Knutson, Arnold E. Robert, Kathryn
Anderson, Virgil L. Eby, James M. Laidley, Robert A. Robinson, Ted
Armington, Donald R. Eggers, Hugh S. Larsen, Betty Vivian Rogers, Harvey H.
Arnold, Maxine Wilma Elbert, Clark Larson, Ronald Rollman, Walter F.
Arthur, Chester Edward Emmke, Eleanor L. Lashbrook, Thomas S. Roth, J. Harold
Asarch, Robert Evans, Abbie Lazurus, Harry Rouse, Margaret E.
Barnes,Marion Marguerite Evans, Fern Leo, Thoms P. Rowe, LaVere Catherine
Barsetti, Faustino A. Feige, Alice Anna Levin, Sidney Rowen, Elizabeth E.
Barton, Georgia M. Feige, Ella Louise Lindroth, Cyril C. Rule, George E.
Bash, Marjorie Ellen Filley, Geneva Linn, Jessie D. Sandberg, Jack
Baty,Gail Fingert, Henry Louis Little, Frederick E. Sawhill, Mary Eleanor
Bennett, Harrison B. Finley,Bernice Vaughnceil Lorey, Fred R. Schaal, Virginia Louise
Benning, Harold Leon Finn, Betty Ann Lounsbury, William E. Schaefer, Alice M.
Benson, Eveline C. Fish, Genevieve Lyman, Kathryn Schrenck, Jean M.
Berman, Robert H. Fisher, Clifford R. Mapel, Maxine Schwartzman, Fannie
Bingaman,Kathryn Lorraine Fitzgerald, John J. Marohn, William Ernest Shaw, F. Clarke
Biondi, Wilma Ruth Fultz, Helen M. Mattausch,Margaret Maxine Shiffler, H. Kirby
Block, Rose Gabbert, Raymond Mays, Carl M. Shryock, Bernard J.
Bognanno, Mike Galantine, Cecilia Anne McClure, Marian M. Signs, Iva jeanne
Bowles, Littleton, Jr. Geil, Gladys O. McDonald, J. Ben Silke, Minnie
Bowman, Clarice Gooding, Roberta Vivian McElrea, Samuel J. Sinnard, Marjorie
Braden, Felix Dale Gordon, Louis Edward McMurray, Maurice E. Skinner, John Benton
Brewbaker, Orien M. Green, Sam McRae, W. Arnold Smith, Mary R.
Brock, Louise Charline Gresdal, Lloyd L. Meyrat, Marguerite Marie Smith, Verna M.
Brockerman,Margaret Virginia Griesbaum, Firmin J. Miller, Gertrude, R. Stenoish, Cleo
Brown, Charlotte M. Guile, Arthur A. Miller, Walter R. Stephenson, Leighton
Brundage, Fern O. Hagen, Charles Donald Miller, William H. Stevens, Doris C.
Bucknell, Stanley F. Harlan, Marie C. Millington, Wilma Amy Stevens, Evelyn Jean
Buhrmaster, Ruby E. Henderson, Garnet Mintzer, George Stotts, Emma LaVaun
Bunge, Esther Ruth Henning, Madalyn L. Moffatt, Marjorie R. Stout, Genevieve L.
Burke, Wilson F. Herdman, Genevieve Moore, Marlyss M. Swanson, William Donald
Butler, Pearle C. Herzer, Fred P. Moore, William J. Swarm, Jack
Caldbeck, Wendell L. Hickerson, Wilson K. Moroney, Helen Irene Taylor, Elmer R.
Calhoun, Maxine Hickok, Dorothy Jane Morris, Kenneth Roland Taylor,William M.
Carris, Wilma Frances Himan, Vivigan Morris, Robert W. Templeman, Maudell
Carson, William Edward Hockenberg, Harold I. Mudgett, Ruth C. Teuber, Alice Gretchen
Childress, Alpha Seay Hoffman, Robert Murdock, Laura Jean Thompson,Blanche Elaine
Christenson, Doris Hohe, Lawrence J. Naab, Joseph W., Jr. Thompson, Howard W.
Clark, Dorothy Marie Hopkins, Vivian Gertrude Nelson, Wanda Morrisine Toussaint, James T.
Clayman, Abe House, Doris Newby, Gertrude Regena Turney, Florence
Clayton, Henry W. Humburd, Calvin Ogden, Louis B., Jr. Edy, Richard
Clulow, Eva Gretchen Hurwitz, Belle Ogilvie, Ruby May Van Dranke, Vance
Coan, Wanda Irwin, Lois Olsen, Margaret G. Veenschoten,Frances Louise
Cody, Catherine M. Isaacs, Barbara G. Olson, Delmond R. Vernon,Gwendolyn Imogene
Conley, Margaret A. Jacobs, Audrene Mildred Pace, Viola C. Vessels, Mary C.
Copple, Clarence J. James, Wilma Willetta Parlee, Byrdie Vono, Michael P.
Couchman, Gordon W. Jasinsky, Wana Pearlman, Leo R. Walker, Ellsworth
Daitch, David Jenkins, Lucille Peck, Mary Elizabeth Walton, Ruth Elizabeth
Davies, Blodwin Jewell, Walter S. Peterson, Gerene Beatrice Weiser, Adele Kathryn
David, Frances Lucille Johnson, Elma Petty, Edward C. Westerman, Ruth Geraldine
Davis, Juanita Jones, Ruth Rowena Pope, Claire W. Weston, Roy Oliver
Deming, Winifred C. Jury, Leona Porter, Luella Widde, Clarence D.
Diehl, John N. Kahn, Jane Purdy, George E. Wilkison, Harold
Dorn, Wendell Katusa, Anne Louise Reeck, Louis James Winick, Anna
Doty, James Katzenbarger,Rowena Helen Reed, Willa Marie Winner, Libby E.
Dougherty, Helen Marie Kemp, Ruby Elizabeth Reeves, Katherine May Wirt, Helen Virginia
Drake, William B. Ketman, Evelyn Reinhardt, Bruce Wolk, Herschel M.
Dudley, Mary Frances Knecht, Francis R. Rice, R. Lena Wood, Catherine E.
Duffy, Rose Alice Knight, Delno x x
In Memoriam
Class of January/June/August, 1930
January, 1930
Miller, Arnold F. (d.06/10/05) 2005 Porter,Kathleen (Williamson)(Ashby) (d.06/22/06) 2006 x
June, 1930
Armington,Donald R.(d.08/21/00) 2000 Diehl, John N. (d.02/1984) 1984
Arthur, Chester E. (d.10/22/98) 1998 Dorn, Wendell D. (d.03/09/04) 2004
Barsetti, Faustino A. (D.10/22/70) 1970 Finley, BerniceVaughnceil (Shepherd) (d.09/05/65) 1965
Block, Rose (d.10/31/87) 1987 Nelson,Wanda Morrisine (Katz) (d.12/20/07) 2007
Bognanno,Michael (Mike) (d.07/21/93) 1993 Peterson,Gerene Beatrice(Eness) (d.01/24/06) 2005
Brewbaker, Orien M. (d.05/07/94 1994 Reeck, Louis James (d.08/07/06) 2006
Caldbeck, Wendell L. (d. 09/06/05) 2005 Rollman, Walter Fuhrmann (d. 1985) 1985
  Clulow, Eva Gretchen (Lassiter) (d.09/84) 1984 Schaal, Virginia L. (d.05/02/05) 2005
Copple, Clarence J. (d.02/1974) 1974 Vono, Michael P. (d. 1956) 1956
August, 1930
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