North Des Moines High School Class of 1933

Class Meetings: No regularly scheduled meetings are being held.

Herb Welch, Jimmy Jay Chuck Orebaugh, Mary Root Orebaugh, Lois Bumgardner Hall, and Ben Hall Dorothy Grother Stewart

Pictures taken at the 60th Reunion, May 7, 1993 Courtesy of Herb and Martha Curtiss Welch

Class of January, 1933 Photo by: John M. Houlette, 910 31st Street, Des Moines

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Above January, 1933 class photo: compliments of the late G. Ethel Stevens (Peacock)

January 1933 Class Officers June 1933 Class Officers

Student Council-January, 1933 1st Row Avol Thompson, Michael Costello, treasurer; Miss Helen Grace Adams, faculty adviser; Jack Faust, president; Warren Maple, vice president; Marion Foster, secretary; Virginia Wheeler, Charles Jackson 2nd Row Ted Nugent, Gladdine Henderson, Dorothy Walrod, Ruth Hodgson, Bernice Grant, Dorothy Drake, Jay McKissick, George Earhart 3rd Row Bennie Hall, Earl Dennis, George Leedham, Phil Hoffman, John Snyder, Dale Darland, Don Hatch, Charles Neal, Arden Lee, Margaret DeVinney, James Iles, Sarah Dawson, Daisy Snedden, John Wright 4th Row Claire Curtis, Claude Christenson, Francis Gibson, Bob Gooch, Gerald Morris, Harry Harris, Leonard Rhoades, Bob Trotter, Keith Kirstien, Basil Gray, Charles Orebaugh

Student Council-June, 1933 1st Row Margaret McKain, Mildred Richards, Janie Hoffman, Ruth Hodgson, Jack Faust, Margaret Marchino, Miss Helen Grace Adams, advisor; Mike Costello, Margaret DeVinney, Daisy Sneddon 2nd Row Gladdene Henderson, Charlene Henson, Marjorie Allen, Lois Bumgardner, Charles Orebaugh, Mary Richmond, Dwight Russell, Bob Trotter 3rd Row Beverly Beaty, Mildred McDole, Billie Mason, Michael Moscow, Albert Senechal, Jack Morgan, Ray Pederson, Loren Conklin, Don Hatch 4th Row Don Scott, Robert Denny, Harold Smith, Dale Clark, James Ahern, Russell Barnes, Robert McClish, Jack Frame, Harry Wilmot 5th Row James Lyle, Stanley Wheatcraft, Henry Fries, Dale Darland, George Grooms, Gerald Morris, Beauford Marshall, Harry Harris, Amos Pearsall, John Bognanno, Howard Anderson, Bennie Hall

Aelioian Chapter National Honor Society, June, 1933 1st Row Mildred Richards, Phyllis Woods, Doris Hufnagel, Margery Zimmerman, Mrs. Grace M. Behr, adviser; Ruth Hodgson, Serella Rosenbaum, Marguerite Whaley, Lucile Wait 2nd Row Wilma Baker, Evelyn Kramer, Margaret Marchine, Eleanor Guerrero, Lois Bumgardner, Margaret Stiles, Edwina Sheeler, Beverly Beaty 3rd Row Dalen McClintock, Avis Carr, Elizabeth Addington, Glandene Henderson, Betty Bauserman, Betty Stribling, Rachel Ash, Eugenie Curless, Doris McLaughlin 4th Row Dwight Russell, Genevieve Evans, Ann Elizabeth Williams, Francis Barnett, Janet Simmons, Robert McClish, Elizabeth Lamb, Jack Frame, Walter MacGregor 5th Row Charles Wilson, Bill Trotter, Helen Doud, Harry Harris, Ada Graham, Joe Coppola, Ola McCraney, Louise Holmes, Tom Case, Bennie Hall, Francis Brotchi

Faculty - June, 1933 Note: Copied names from yearbook, but they are not accurately identified. 1st Row Earl S. Kalp, Josephine F. Willard, Nellie E. Wilson, Martha Hutchinson, Nellie L. Baldwin, Ruby D. Lucas, Gwen Perkins, Litta Tumbleson, Ellsworth E. Lory, Theresa Anderson, Willard J. Combs 2nd Row Ronald H. Lyman, Donald E. Read, H.D. McCullough, Lura C. Long, Mildred D. Craig, Agnes Sears, A. Louise Cotnam, M. Pearl Hansen, Helen Grace Adams, Essie M. Whirry, Mary E. Foley, Blanche A. Calvert 3rd Row H.T. Steeper, M.A. Jencks, James H. Gooch, A.H. Horsburgh, Ruth Tumbleson, Raymond W. Jones, F.J. Meier, F.H. Stewart, Frances G. Pickrell, Helen Halbersleben, Grace M. Behr, George E. Strawn, A. Irene Moroney, Clara Foss, Harvey L. Hill, Adelaide B. Wilson, Lois Elwood, S.L. Thomas, C.R. Stewart, Inez I. Hovey, Walter B. Besley

North's Vocal Groups; June, 1933 Miss Ruth M. Rickards, Director

District Winning Orchestra; Mr. Raymond W. Jones, Director

Secretarial Club; January, 1933 No identification given in yearbook

Life Saving Club; January, 1933 No identification given in yearbook

1933 Baseball Team (City and County Champions) 1st Row James Ahern, Phil Hoffman, Junior Riggs, Jimmy Iles, Joe Leo, Albert Senechal, Dick Donner 2nd Row Julius Bellomo, Verle Wright, Jack Stein, Keith Kerstein, Harley Barrett, Max Grimes, Don Beal, Leo Barton, Alonda Lucia, Floyd Schreck, Howard Smith

Fall 1932 Football Team (Class of 1933) 1st Row Keith Kirstein, James Ahern, Harold Smith, Don Scott, Jack Faust, Francis Gibson, Stanley Wheatcraft 2nd Row Howard Smith, Ray Turner, Charles Orebaugh, Frank Gallagher, Orlando Johnson, John Wright, Dick Peck, Frank Martin 3rd Row Jerry Morris, George Ogden, Robert Peck, Basil Gray, Kay Shepherd, Dale Clark, George Grooms, Wendell McLaughlin 4th Row Charles Jackson, student mgr.; Ray Pederson, James Main, James Lyle, Al Senechal, Bill Frame, Leland Johnson, Ed Shepherd, Wade Hammer, Earl Fletcher

Yearbooks: Compliments of Clifford M. Brafford (Class of January, 1933)

Now playing...hit song in 1933... "Say It's Only a Paper Moon" from the Warner Brothers movie, "Too Young to Know"

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Class of 1933 Graduation

Starting first row, bottom left 1st Row Names coming. 2nd Row Names coming. Photo: Compliments of Graduates - January, 1933 Shrine Auditorium Des Moines Public Schools Combined 4 high schools--East/North/Lincoln/Roosevelt graduation exercises; 169 graduating from North High January, 1933 January, 1933 (class totaled 169) Adkins, Georgia F. Gooch, George W. Overton, Mildred Jean Anderson, Axel 2002 Goodsell, Ernestine Jane (Koons) Owen, Paxton J. Anderson, Elden Ray 1997 Gray, Basil H. 2000 Parker, Dorothy Louise Arenson, Helen Green, Ruth E. Peck, Rober t E. Arenson, Minnie (Sofen) Gunderson, Gurena (Pottinger) Povall, Lester Dale Armstrong, Helen Hamburger, Naomi Powell, Alberta Ellen Bailey, Doris E. Hamilton, Loretta Regan, George R. Ball, Dorothy Pearl (Thomas) Harberts, Florence R. Rhoads, Leonard A. Bassman, Rueben Hare, Charles M. 2004 Robinson, Leota Adeline Bayle, Nicolas P. Hartzer, Roger E. 1975 Ross, Ona Maxine Beach, Bettye Haubert, Jack Schreckengost, Minnie B. Bickley, Dorothy Irene Henry, Viola Wanda Searcy, Charles Ira Bliedorn, Juanita O. Hetherington, Helen E. Sherman, Howard K. Boitnott, Neill W. Hoff, Edward G. Snyder, J.B. 1997 Bonner, Emelyn Iles, Marjory Marium Spear, Virginia Boudewyns, Mary Louise Jarnigan, Louise Spencer, James B. Boydston, Jack Jay, James L. (Jimmie) 1999 Spiwak, Bessie R. (Levine) Brafford, Clifford M. Jessen, Ramona Eilene Sposeto, Pasquale E. Bright, Rose Eileen Jewell, Kenneth T. Stevens, G. Ethel Brown, Loretta M. Jones, Burney B. Stephan, Harriett R. Brumbaugh, James (Jimmie) Kesterson, Robert Wilson Stotts, Alice May Buehrer, Beverly L. Kilgore, Lucille I. Tenley, Frances Elizabeth Butcher, Helen Martha Lawhead, Lorna L. (Williams) Tenley, Norah Loure Carlson, Edwin Leaverton, Jack D. Thomas, Florence E. Carlson, Kenneth F. Lee, Arden William Thornton, Violette Mae Carr, Ferne R. Leedham, George E. Tobin, George L. Chenoweth, Kenneth William 1978 Lemmon, Dorothy D. V. Tolchinsky, Julius Christianson, John Alvin Lenhart, Adaline Priscilla x Tovey, George E. Clark, Virginia May Levin, Harold Turner, Ray Clevenger, Wayne F. Lounsbury, Nancy Edwyna(Daggett) Vander Wal, N. Deborah Clopton, Beatrice Virginia Lyman, Arvis H. (Bill) 2004 Wallace, Lela Ruth Coffman, Cedric Lyon, Sallie L. Walrod, Dorothy Colby, Elizabeth Ellen Mack, Rose Ann Walsh, Teresa Clare Cole, Donald Mains, Leland E. Walrod, Dorothy Conner, Rober t C. Maple, William Warren Ware, Leon N. Coontz, Eleanor Ferne Martin, Frank A. Warner, Bette Jayne Crawford, William R. Mayer, William Michael Webley, Gladine Mildred Critchitt, Lois Drake (Brown) McCaughtry, Gretchen Welch, Herbert Frederick Crowell, Dale D. McFarland, Maxine Joanne Welch, Margaret Marie Dawson, Sarah E. 2005 McKissick, Jay E. Wensel, Thelma Bernice DeArmond, Gerald 1982 McLaughlin, Lucille May Weyrauch, Ruth Frances Dennis, Earl C. McNaney, Elizabeth J. Wheatley, Joseph L. Diehl, Bert E. Medd, Evelyn M. Wheeler, Virginia M. Drake, Dorothy R. Miller, Fred M. White, Helen Louise (Read) Dubois, Doris M. Morain, Marjorie C. Whitmore, Jack E. Dumas, Georgia A. Morgan, Rich R. Whitehead, Virginia Earhart, George A. Neal, Charles V. Williamson, Evelyn M. Edwards, Clarence Frank Nelson, Edwin J. Wilson, Evelyn E. Foster, Marion E. (Rickard) Nelson, Norma L. Woods, Ruth Elizabeth Frame, William W. Nelson, Ramona Wright, John Gamble, James DeKalb Nevonen, Howard E. Yarowsky, Koffey Dammon, Dorothea M. Nicols, Gretchen E. Yeglin, Lillian Garth, Mary Etta Nugent, Theodore L. Young, Ruth Arline Gibson, Francis Pickrell Oehlert, Emmett Marion, Jr. Zachary, Alvin L. Gibson, Ruth M. (Morgan) O'Neil, William H. Zavat, Ida Glynn, Dorothy E. Orcutt, Harold Zimmerli, Frederick S. Goldberg, Herbert Graduates - June, 1933 Shrine Auditorium Des Moines Public Schools Combined 4 high schools--East/North/Lincoln/Roosevelt graduation exercises; 278 graduating from North High June, 1933 (class totaled 278) Abruzzie, Louise J. Gruber, Phyllis Louise Parker, Robert (Bob) Allen, Marjorie Louise Guerrero, Eleonor Maria Patton, Dorothy Marie Alexander, Helen G. Hagan, Bob (Robert) Henry Paulson, Donald M. Andrew, William S. Hall, Ben Payne, Margaret E. Arlaud, Ned J. Hamilton, Mary Dorothy Petty, Gussie A. Ash, Rachel Sebley Hammer, J. Wade Pidgeon, Leo L. Ashton, Streeter Woodrow Hanthorn, Charles William Price, Eileen Vivian Baker, Wilma L. Hartman, Dorothy Jo Ragland, Cleo M. Barnett, Frances Heath, Katherine Reaugh, Letitia R. Bassman,Jeanette (Dukelsky) Heggen, Betty E. Reinhardt, Emma Mae Beaty, Beverly Belle Heimbach, C. Beatrice Richards, Mildred P. Beavers, A. Maxine Heinzman, Esther Arlene Richmond, Mary Della Becker, Mildred (Olson) 2005 Henderson, Gladene Roberts, Margaret Alice Beeler, Colette M. Henderson, Virginia Mae Roberts, Pauline Bem, Ruth M. (Boyd) Heskett, Alice Gertrude Rogers, Pauline Benson,MarvelleArlene (Kaloski) Hinds, Gerald Neven Rome, Dorothy Marie Bierwirth, Bernice R. Hoffman, M. Janie Root, Mary Margaret 1996 Borrud, Einar E. Hoke, Zella Elizabeth Roth, Mary Louise Boyd, Herbert R. Holden, Marvel Maxine Rouine, Veronica Mary Boydston, Mary Jane Holmes, A. Louise Row, George R. 1996 Bridenstine, Charles B. Howard, Margaret Louise Russell, Dwight E. Brosman, Catherine Adele Hubler, Gretchen F. (Wade) Russell, Louis E. Brotchi, G. Francis Hufnagel, Doris Virginia (Lynn) Saddoris,CatherineLeota(Courtney) Bruce, Alfred Hunter, Willis S. Saluri, Rose Carmen (Carroll) Brunia, Alice (Proudfit) 2004 Imes, Mary Eleanor Sampson, George C. Buhrmaster,Polly Rae (Warren) Jackson, Charles Kneeland Sapper, Catherine Bullis, Frederick R. Jacobsen, Clarence H. Schmidt, William L. Bumgardner, Lois E. Jacobson, Robert Louis Schoonover, Gertrude E. Cadwell, Darlene G. Jaquinta, Kathryn Scott, Albert Cameron, Wynford Ruth Jenks, Robert Edwin Scott, Don R. Campbell, Germaine Marie 1998 Johnston, Martha E. Scurry, Irene Marie (Breeding) 2006 Caple, Frank Kemp, Lee O. Sharon, Jesserean Carpenter, Johna Bethel Kephart, Vivian L. Shaw, Carlton B. Carr, Avis L. King, Catherine (Ballinger) Shebeck, George E. Case, Thomas B. Klemm, Ruth Ann Sheldon,CeciliaDorothy(Gaffield) Chrenen, Raymon