North Des Moines High School
Class of 1948
60th Reunion
2008

Class Meetings:

Meets monthly on the third Thursday at 11:30AM
JESSE'S EMBERS is closed for remodeling.
Jesse's Embers
4810 86th Street
Urbandale, IA 50322-1030
(515) 251-7175
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We are anticipating a 60th reunion in the Fall, 2008;
call Jim Bishop to confirm time and location
of future 60th Reunion Planning Meetings.
We will try to have current info of the reunion
specifics online as that info is supplied to the website.
Next planning meeting is February 20, 2008 @ 11:30AM at
Mama Lacona's
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2743 86th Street
Urbandale, IA 50322
(515) 270-0022

Contact:
Jim Bishop @ (515) 282-0181;
jimtess1@juno.com
or
Betty Bradley Cady @ (515) 277-4659

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Class of January, 1948 taken October 3, 1998
Photo by Stover Photographic Services   ( 515) 981-4217
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Delores Burham Wittkopp, Eula Gordinier Buzard, Phil Seidenfeld, Carol Streyffeler Needham, Doris Barnes Bristow, Fern Watts Horn, Jeannine McLaughlin Wickliff, Nadine Dingeman Markun, Betty Marmet Wilson, Pat Smith Taylor, Eleanor Miller Bauer
2nd Row Anita Benson Sheridan, Ruth Short McCormack Blesie, Thelma Garland Ince, Tom Moore, Bob Faust, Gene Jahnke, Allan Winick, Dick Roe, Jack DeCou, Bill Sodi, Harry Brodrick
Photo: Compliments of Pat Smith Taylor
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50th Reunion
Class of June, 1948 taken October 3, 1998
Photo by Stover Photographic Services   ( 515) 981-4217
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Bill Biermann, Jim Bishop, Louis Hurwitz, Nancy Annable Bailey, Jean Neidt Denhart, Don Petersen, Bonnie Henderson Ford, Adeline Lewis Epperly, Galen Murtle, Carol Jacobe Hagman, Jack Haller
2nd Row Janice Wolder Riddley, Donna Kurtz Beers, Ruth Swanson Allen, Pat Klinzman Funk, Joan McMillan Norman, Barbara Adams Keeney, Donna Klisares Munzenmaier, Virginia Peterson Wallace, Jannelle Cloud Emerling, Janice Haberer Sodi, Mary Jean Hammer Veenschoten, Ruthie Pewick Tweedt, Betty Bradley Cady, Marilyn Shaver Walston, Sherry Bruce Dean, Raullo McConahy
3rd Row Juanita Cobb Slaughter, James Richard Allen, Cleota Proctor Wilbekin, Marian Burkhalter Mann, Beverly Runyon Peterson, LaVon Smith Tyler, Sally Miller Nuss, Jerold C. Mathews, Edward Goehring, Marveline George Mincks, Eloise Luedtke Cortese, Lester Wilson, Maxine Jamison Smith, Kaye DeCarlo Rizzutti, Jean Moorehead Wallace, Carol Patera Newhard, Helen Karaidos Cunningham, Lois Baty Davis, Dick Hubbart, John Thomas, Drew Tillotson, Ted Juroe
4th Row Harry Brodrick, Clyde Titus, Dick Van Cleave, Doug Wheeler, John Nichol, Bobby Jenners, John McDonald, James Anderson, Francis Keith, Bob Swanson, John Fletcher, Bob Bailey, Wayne Harris, Max Eklund
Photo: Compliments of Jerry Mathews and Janice Wolder Riddley
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Class of 1948 taken 1968
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row names coming
2nd Row names coming
Photo: Compliments of Pat Smith Taylor
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1st Row Forrest Tullis Epperly, Eula Mae Gordineer, Beverly Fern Higday, Richard Lee Russell, Barbara Meier, Evelyn Louise Murray, Lois Bellows, Mary Lillian Mardis, Joyce Alice Bright, Barbara Ann McDowell, Darlene Delores Bigham, Robert Earl Faust
2nd Row Roberta Irene Fisher, Herbert Katz, Sarah (Sue) Elizabeth Mason, Denise Mintzer, Betty Rose Marmet, Mary Ellen Fulton, Anita Benson, John Robert Burnes, Betty Jean Porter, Phil Llewelyn Seidenfeld, Dick C. Roe, Thelma Jean Garland
3rd Row Harold Fred Vogt, Alfred Gleen Florence, Georgia Sartalis, Jean Louise McWilliams, Jon Charles Woodyard, Rose Helen Abruzzese, Virginia Josephine Thompson, Rosalie Deanna Kawarsky, Richard Frank Gibb, Arthur Allen Fulton, Jeannine Evelyn McLaughlin, Aileen Osmond, John Clayton DeCou
4th Row Robert Dameron Ewing, Doris Madeline Barnes, William Sherwood Wimer, Catherine Louise Gravitt, Carol Anna Streyffeler, Eleanor Louise Miller, William Ray Tucker, Marian Haraldson, Leland Glenn Graves, Verlin Dennis Christensen, Marian Joan Lutz, Bill Charles Sodi, Nadine Norma Dingeman, Robert James Kornhauser
5th Row Rose (Rosa) Jane McDonald, Dale Auston Hammer, Pat Ann Smith, Tom Wesley Moore, Tom William Wallace, Gary Edward Gammel, Fern Elizabeth Watts, Jim Warren Edgren, David Leon Farber, Beverly Jean House, Walt Prentice Church, Allan Jay Winick, Don Ernest Cross, Gene Jahnke, H. Vern Streyffeler
Photo: Compliments of Doris Barnes Bristow

January 1948
Class Officers

Richard C. Roe
Robert Dameron Ewing
Rose Helen Abruzzese
Denise Mintzer
Jeannine Evelyn McLaughlin
Betty Rose Marmet
Robert Earl Faust
Eleanor Louise. Miller
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(207 present for grad photo above-out of 236 names)
Photo: From personal effects of the late Ruth Delores Raines
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Photo: From personal effects of the late Ruth Delores Raines
Email me as to your location in the photo above and I will create an identifying name rollover.
Not identified in June, 1948 graduation photo: Jo Ann Agan, Herbert Bender, Marian Burkhalter, Patricia Devlin, Charles Etter, Berniece George, Beverly Gerrard, Gwendolyn Gillen, Arliss Gray, Betty Jo Hicks, Kaye House, David Hydock, Norma Kenyon, Dale League, Patricia Lowe, Vivian McMillen, Betty Jean Neidt, Carole Olson, Leo Oxberger, Jack Penn, Shirley Peper, Donna Ragan, Colleen Rubel, Mary Louise Sheridan, Phillip Sheridan, Alice Smith, Marjorie Smith, Helen Surber, Alice Wallukait, Marjorie Warren, Elizabeth Webster, Geraldine White, Wilma Williamson

June 1948
Class Officers

Richard Allen VanCleave
Richard Allen Holt
Donna Lee Kurtz
Louise Ilene London
Edward Clark Barbee
Jeanne Olive Berry
Theodore Chafer Juroe
Elizabeth Joann VanCleave
 
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Gary Scott, George Nichols, Reginald Kaiser, Conrad Jones		  
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1st Row Gaylord Troe, Nellie L. Baldwin, Helen Woodman, Theresa Anderson, H.D. McCullough, Lois Scott
2nd Row Louise Cotnam, Betty Jackson, Emily Shepherd, Ruby D. Lucas, Genevieve Moore, Josephine Samide
3rd Row Helen Hazlet, Ruth Tumbleson, Lura Long, Donly Pierson, Nellie Wilson, Alice Galvin, Litta Tumbleson, Lowell Lockridge
4th Row Walter Barnett, Mildred D. Craig, Louise McCaughan, Ellsworth E. Lory, Essie Whirry, Ruth Rickards, Harvey L. Hill
5th Row George J. Kappelman, George Falk, Mildred West, Floretta Bidwell, Hazel French, Kenneth Stanley, James Gooch
6th Row Don Emanuel, Moses A. Jencks, Fred A. Pennington, F.H. Stewart, James Lyle, Eugene R. Worden, S.E. Thompson
 
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Boys' Glee Club
1st Row Clyde Titus, Bob Hagman, Robert Heggen, Lawrence Jackson
2nd Row Joe Critelli, Dean Bell, Ted Juroe, Wendell Kempton, Thomas Brown
3rd Row Deane Nelsen,James Sylvester,Dick Holt,Kenneth Moore,George Bible,Earl Sutton
4th Row Ed McDaniel, Lester Wilson, Forrest Epperly, James Wright
 
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Student Council; January, 1948
1st Row Charley Springate, Barbara Meier, Beverly Brooks, Phil Seidenfeld, Jeannine McLaughlin, Virginia Burton
2nd Row Harry Brodrick, Charlene Ellis, Beverly Higday, Jean Lory, Lelia Weese, Jean McCauslin, Douglas Wheeler
3rd Row Dick Roe, Georgia Sartalis, Gloria Geppert, Sherry Bruce, Louise French, Clyde Titus, Ellsworth E. Lory, Bob Jenners
4th Row Tommy Ellison, Pat Smith, Rosa McDonald, Don Hohnbaum, Larry Courter, Paul Marvin, Paul Davis
5th Row Ted Juroe, Leslie Greaves, Bob Faust, Dick Stalcup, Bill Wimer, Jim Lee
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Student Council; June, 1948
1st Row Jean McCauslin, Bonnie Dreibelbeis, Paul Roberts, Lelia Weese, Charles Springate, Janet Fohner, Kathryne Allen, Edith DeCarlo, Jean Moorehead
2nd Row Marilyn Shaver, Louise London, Jean Lory, Lewis French, Myrtle Burgett, John Dick-Peddie, Charlene Ellis, Joe Critelli, Albert Sorensen
3rd Row LaVon Smith, Jack Haller, Wayne Perry, Gus Vlassis, Wilma Williamson, Maxine Jamison, Clyde Titus, Bob Gunnar
4th Row Don Hohnbaum, Charles Andrews, Charles Austin, Virginia Burton, Sherry Bruce, Frances Keith, Ellsworth Lory
5th Row Gary Scott, James Grant, Jack Rudkin, Jerry Smith, Danny Smith, Jane Steward, Jim Swallow, Bruce Melaas
6th Row Don Gray, Earl Sutton, Ted Juroe, Dick Van Cleave, Drew Tillotson, Louis Hurwitz, Paul Davis, John Nichols, Bob Jenners, Ralph Fretty
Varsity Football Varsity Football
Varsity Football Varsity Football
Varsity Football Varsity Football
Football, January, 1948 Yearbook
1st Row Harold Bingaman, Don Hohnbaum, Clyde Titus, Bob Faust, Gary Scott, Dominic Riccio, Ronald Miller, James Anderson, Bob Hagman
2nd Row George Nichols, Bob Ewing, Bob Niffenegger, Bill Sodi, Leslie Greaves, Jack Rudkin, Dick Hoskins, Harold Brown, Ray Porter, Tommy Wallace
3rd Row Coach Falk, Dick Brown, Jack Haller, Drew Tillotson, Leland Graves, Dale Hammer, Ed McDaniel, Conrad Jones, James Allen, Bob Long, Assistant Coach Bob McLaughlin
4th Row Don Gray, Howard Baker, King Auestad, Charles Anderson, Harold Lewis, Forrest Epperly, Dick Holt, Don Paulson
Graduates - January, 1948 (numbered 69)
Abruzzese, Rose Helen Fisher, Roberta Irene Kornhauser, Robert James Rummans, Barbara Jean
Barnes, Doris Madeline Florence, Alfred Gleen Lutz, Marian Joan Russell, Richard Lee
Bellows, Lois Fulton, Mary Ellen Mardis, Mary Lillian Sartalis, Georgia E.
Benson, Anita Fulton, Arthur Allen Marmet, Betty Rose Seidenfeld,Philip Llewelyn
Bigham,Darlene Dolores Gammel, Gary Edward Mason, Sarah Elizabeth Smith,Patricia Ann (Taylor)
Bright, Joyce Alice Garland, Thelma Jean McDonald, Rosa Jane Sodi, William Charles
Burham, Dolores Elaine Gibb, Richard Frank McDowell, Barbara Ann Streyffeler, Carol Anna
Burnes, John Robert Gordinier, Eula Mae McLaughlin,Jeannine Evelyn Streyffeler, H. Vernon
Christensen, Verlin Dennis Graves, Leland Glenn McWilliams, Jean Louise Thompson, Marian Frances
Church, Walter Prentice Gravitt,Catherine Louise Meier, Barbara Lenore Thompson,VirginiaJosephine
Cross, Donald Ernest Hammer, Dale Auston Miller, Eleanor Louise Tucker, William Ray
DeCou, John Clayton Haraldson, Marian Mintzer, Denise Vogt, Harold Fred
Dingeman,Nadine Norma Higday, Beverly Fern Moore, Thomas Wesley Wallace, Thomas William
Edgren, James Warren House, Beverly Jean Murray, Evelyn Louise Watts, Fern Elizabeth
Epperly, Forrest Tullis Jahnke, Eugene Arthur Osmond, Aileen Rose Wimer, William Sherwood
Ewing, Robert Dameron Katz, Herbert Porter, Betty Jean Winick, Allan Jay
Farber, David Leon Kawarsky, Rosalie Deanna Roe, Richard C. Woodyard, Jon Charles
Faust, Robert Earl x x x
Graduates - June, 1948 (numbered 240)
Adams, Barbara Ruth Eklund, Billy B. Kennedy, Barbara Joan Ragan, Donna Joyce
Agan, Jo Ann Eklund, Max Merrill Kenyon, Norma Lee Raines, Ruth Delores
Allen, James Richard Ellis, Wilda Charlene Kinley, Kennard Smith Range, Charles Glen
Allen, Kathryne Lewise Embree, Hollis F. Klinzman, Patricia Lou Ressler, Julia Ellen
Allie, Richard Omar Etter, Charles Allen Klisares, Donna Colleen Ritchie,Berkley Donald
Anderson, James Robert (1) Fastje, Annette Mae Knapp, Gloria Lee Robinson,Richard Arthur
Anderson, James Robert (2) Fletcher, John Rober Kneller, Melvin Harold Rodrick, Robert
Andrews, Charles William Francis, Daniel Ray Kurtz, Donna Lee Rogers, Ivoe Darrell
Annable, Nancy Mae George, Berniece May League, Dale Robert Routh, Martha Lou
Aschen, Carl R. George, Marveline May Leippe,Constance Christine Rubel, Colleen Ann
Auestad, King La Dean Gerrard, Beverly Ann Lewis, Lou Adeline Runyon, Beverly Irene
Babcock,Benjamin Junior Gillen, Gwendolyn Jean Logan, James Rudy Rynearson,Jack Mearle
Babcock, Betty Jean Gilmore, John W. London, Louise Ilene Sample, Barbara Jean
Bailey, Lyle Robert Goehring, Edward Lee Long, Richard Gene Scarcello, Rachel Rose
Barbee, Edward Clark Grant, James Wesly, Jr. Lory, Jean Elizabeth Schurtz, Gloria Rae
Baty, Lois Maurine Gray, Arliss Lou Lowe, Patricia Jean Scorpinita,Clement Lee
Bell, Ollie Mae Gray, Donald Loren Luedtke,Eloise Katherine Shaver, Marilyn Lee
Bell, Ronald Dean Green, Betty Frances Lyle, George Odell Shaw, Gerene Mae
Bender, Herbert Charles Green, Herbert Charles Manual, Charlotte Jean Sheridan, Mary Louise
Bernard, Barbara Ann Gunnar, Robert Warren Mathews, Jerold Chase Sheridan, Phillip Edgar
Berry, Jeanne Olive Haberer, Janice Murlee Matthes, Jerry Eugene Short, Patty May
Biermann, William Albert Hafenstein, Erwin Neal Maxson, Margaret Ann Slaughter, Verna Darlene
Bishop, James Arthur Haller, John Humphrey McCauslin, Jean Ann Smith, Alice La Von
Bittinger, Richard Russell Hamil, Anna Marie McClure, Fred A. Smith, Jerome Coover
Bonjour, Edna Hammer, Mary Jean McConahy,Raullo Justin Smith, Marjorie Louise
Boss, Joanne Frances Hansen, Marilyn Nanette McCoy, Charles Robert Smith, Velma Jo
Bradley, Betty Lou Harless, Elizabeth Mae McCoy, Lois Elaine Stayner, Allura Jean
Brodrick, Harry Albert Harris, Beverly Jean McDaniel, Edwin Arthur Steward, Jane Marie
Brooks, Beverly Jane Harris, Patricia Ann McDonald, John Wesley Steward, Jean Marcia
Brown, Harold Lee Harris, Shirley LaVonne McGuire, Conrade Lee Steward, Joye Myra
Bruce, Sherry Jo Anne Harris, Wayne Eldon McMillan, Vivian Joan Surber, Helen Irene
Brumbaugh, Russell W. Harvey, June Ann Melaas, Bruce Allen Sutton, Earl Wesley
Burkhalter, Marian Jean Haselhuhn,Donna Lou May Miller, Ronald Edwin Swallow, James Clark
Burton, Virginia Lee Hawkins, Joseph H., Jr. Miller, Sally Lou Swanson, George Larry
Cannon, Barbara Jean Henderson, Bonnie Mae Mongar, Patricia Louise Swanson, Robert Norton
Caplan, Stanley Joseph Hermon, Richard Dale Moore, Ernest Ralph, Jr. Swanson, Ruth Slyvia
Case, Marilyn Rose Hicks, Betty Jo Moorehead, Jean Evonne Thomas, John Harlan
Cattell, Shirley Eloise Hohnbaum, Donald Clair Morrow, Bettejane Tillotson, Drew Robert
Chase, David Donald Holt, Richard Allen Murtle, Galen Emery Titus, Clyde Ervin
Churchman,Raymond Guy Hoover, Andrew C. Neidt, Betty Jean VanCleave,Elizabeth Joann
Cloud, Jannelle Horrigan, Jack Allen Nelson, Wayne Arvid VanCleave,Richard Allen
Cobb, Juanita House, Kaye Deloras Nevins, Donald Osmond Wallukait, Alice Joyce
Collins, James F., Jr. House,Richard Harrison Nichol, John Robert Walston, Lorraine June
Connell, William J. Hubbart, Richard Lee Nichols, George H. Warren, Marjorie Eileen
Cornwell,William Chester Hunsberger, Warren M. Nichols, Ronald Hayes Webster, Elizabeth Ada
Coy, Harry B. Hurwitz, Louis G. O'Brien, Shirley Margaret Weese, Lelia Mae
Cranshaw, Birdie Lee Hydock, David Michale O'Leary, Norman Swain Weir, Margaret Ann
Critelli, Joseph Vincent Isaacson, Gail Gilmore Olson, Carole Lanay West, Dolores Lucille
Custer, Norma June Jacobe, Carol Lanore Owens, Patricia Lou Wheeler, Douglas Ray
DeCarlo, Antionette Jamison, Maxine Loretta Oxberger, Leo Earl White, Dorothy Ann
DeCarlo, Edith Jenners, Robert Eugene Patera, Carol Ruth White, Geraldine Loree
Devlin, Patricia Joann Johnson,Betty Jean Dolores Penn, Jack F. Wilcots, Imogene
Dewey, Bonnie Lou Johnson, Patricia Ann Peper, Shirley Jerroldine Williamson, Wilma Jean
Dowell, Nancy Lorraine Jones, Conrad Nagle Petersen, Donald William Wilson, Lester Wayne
Dreibelbeis, Bonny Lu Juroe, Theodore Chafer Peterson, Virginia Ann Wilson, Raymond Bruce
Duncan, William Theodore Kaiser, Reginald Morris Pewick, Ruthie Ericka Winchell, Alvin Dean
Eaton, Mary June Kamber, John Pierce, Mary Ann Winick, Janet Ethel
Edlund, Max Merrill Karaidos, Helen Georgia Polson, Charles Darrell Wolder, Janice Elaine
Edward, Kenneth Nelson Karp, Celina Proctor, Cleota Marie Young, Lois Marie
Eike, Robert Vern Keith, Francis Edward Quinnett, Doris Kathleen Young, Louise Marilyn
Graduates - August, 1948 (numbered 18)
Bruner, Charles Orin Goodman, Lorene Bernice Murray, Delores Mae