North Des Moines High School
Class of 1950
55th Reunion
October 1, 2005

Class Meetings:
January Class meets:
Meets on third Thursday in January, April, July, and October. at 11:00AM at:
Chicago Speakeasy
16th and Euclid (1521 Euclid Avenue)
Des Moines, IA 50313-3010
(515) 243-3141
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Contact:
Donna Peterson at (515) 283-2048

June Class meets:
Meets on third Thursday in January, April, July, and October. at 12:00PM at:
Chicago Speakeasy
16th and Euclid (1520 Euclid Avenue)
Des Moines, IA 50313-3010
(515) 243-3141
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Contact:
Roger Raines @ (515) 223-6090

55th Reunion held September 30, 2005
and October 1, 2005!
West Des Moines Marriott Hotel
55th reunion of January, 1950 55th reunion of January, 1950 55th reunion of January, 1950
55th reunion of January, 1950 55th reunion of January, 1950 55th reunion of January, 1950
Class of January, 1950 taken October 1, 2005
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Patty Moomaw Winchell, Donna Kachelhoffer Peterson, Gloryne Shaffer Ruby, Darlene Robinson Sullivan, Norma Amsberry Stapleton, Eleanor Tannus Taheny, Roberta Grady Bethard
2nd Row Janet Petty Fletcher, John Hetherington, Omer Thompson, Jay Hytone, Onalee McKean Bambha
55th reunion of June, 1950 55th reunion of June, 1950 55th reunion of June, 1950
55th reunion of June, 1950 55th reunion of June, 1950 55th reunion of June, 1950
Class of June, 1950 taken October 1, 2005
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Dorothy Russell Dougherty, Frances Mikelson Davis, Anne Dallager Broshar, Janet Bradley Albright, Bonnie Barnett Norcross, Sally McGlothlen Roe, Nancy Joy Borg, Nancy Atwood Wix, Jody Cloud Sparks, Barbara Cottington Penquite
2nd Row Roy Dougherty, Robert Edwards, Margene Eng O'Leary, Joyce Acuff Minor, Maureen McMillen Henning, Roger Raines, Lorenzo Duke, Robert Sheets
3rd Row Ron Tyree, Max Isaacson
Not shown Wendell Walker Kempton
Robert Sullivan and
Darlene Robinson Sullivan 		Eleanor Tannus Taheny
 Donna Kachelhoffer Peterson Janet Petty Fletcher
and John Fletcher
Onalee McKean Bambha, Patty Moomaw Winchell,
Roberta Grady Bethard, Gloyne Shaffer Ruby		 Roger and Sara Raines
Above photos by Stover Photographic Services (515) 981-4217
January Class of 1950 taken September 30, 2000
Photo by Stover Photographic Services (515) 981-4217
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Darlene (Robinson) Sullivan, Norma (Amsberry) Stapleton, Gloryne (Shaffer) Ruby, Jackie (Mongar) Coellner (deceased), Jane (Betzenhouser) Shever, Gloria (Geppert) Cole, Onalee (McKean) Bambha
2nd Row Patty (Mooma) Winchell, Phyllis (Osmond) Christensen, John Hetherington, Roberta (Grady) Bethard, Jim Lee, Omer Thompson, Janet (Petty) Fletcher, Donna (Kachelhoffer) Peterson
Photo: Compliments of Norma (Amsberry) Stapleton
June & August Class of 1950 taken September 30, 2000
Photo by Stover Photographic Services (515) 981-4217
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Pat (Heefner) Jensen, Joyce (Acuff) Minor, Susan (Hamilton) Wilson, Mildred (Hensley) Biermann, Lois (Moore) Logan, Jo Ann (Jeffries) Sorensen, Beverly Robinson, Sally (McGlothlen) Roe, Margaret Overton, Lenore (Hollingsworth) Markey
2nd Row Dorothy (Russell) Dougherty, Patty (Brown) Wadsworth, Jody (Cloud) Sparks, Maureen (McMillen) Henning, Gloria (Pederson) Lang, Anne (Dallager) Broshar, Roberta Baty, Joyce (Loy) Murtle, Patsy (Smithson) Hancher, Nancy (Williams) Lyons, Nancy (Atwood) Wix, Margene (Eng) O'Leary, Patty (Finley) Varnum
Back Row Bob Wilber, Roy Dougherty, Walt Woody, Max Isaacson, Ruth (Robinson) Reynolds, Paul Slack, Delores (Ringgenberg) Downard, Ira Melaas, Russ Bullard, Barbara (Erb) Davis, Ron Granzow, Jim Saylor, Margaret (Shackelford) Courter, Carl O'Neill, Dick Palmer, Dan Reece, Don Poulson, Bob Edwards, Lorenzo Duke, Janet (Bradley) Albright, Ron Tyree, Dorthea (Butler) Sparks, Barbara (Cottington) Penquite, Roger Raines, Carolyn (Huggins) Stag
Photo: Compliments of Roger Raines
Class of 1950 (January)
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Eleanor Tannus, Norma Stapleton, Bill Greaves, Jane Betzenhouser, Myrna Morrison, Doris Elings, Minnette Tull, June Deierling, Faye Chaiken
2nd Row Marilyn Lyon, Krenio Polydoran, Ruth Johnson, Ruth Edgren, Butch Grady, Kathryn Richmond, Gloria Anderson, Jean Short, Patty Mooma
3rd Row Lelida Huffaker, Don Woods, Pat Thomas, Don Tshantz, Georgia Pownell, Carol Jackson, Jerry Howlett, Helen Burrell, Darlene Robinson
4th Row Paul Bosley, Bob Fuller, Doug Hutton, Jerry Callanan, Gloria Westing, Phyllis Osmond, Jim Lind, Wilma Woolsley, Janet Petty
5th Row Bob Barns, Louise Savage, Phil Brown, Barbara Cohen, Connie Carlson, Donna Kachelhoffer, Nadine Andrews, Ruth Herbert, Clara Dunlap
6th Row Jackie Mongar, Charles Springate, Harry Lawdahl, Don Baldwin, Jay Hytone, Jim Lee, Pauline Berry, Omer Thompson, Barbara Mylon
Photo: Compliments of Norma (Amsberry) Stapleton
Class of 1950 (June)
Photo: Compliments of Dorothea (Sparks) Butler and Roger Raines
Starting first row, bottom left
1st Row Clela Philleo, Barbara Erb, Donald Blakely, Russell Bullard, Wynetta Frakes, Bara Jo Smith, Ruby Livingston, Nancy Haag, Barbara Fisher, Wendell Kempton, Joe McDole, Allen Gilmore
2nd Row Margaret Overton, Marjorie Schnieder, Dorothea Butler, Margaret Shackelford, Charlene Young, Nancy Andreas, Francis Kious, Martha Bowlsby, Rosalie Schillinger, Bonnie Vande Venter, Joyce Acuff, Mary Powers, Marilyn Moser, Kurtis Werner, Colen Scales
3rd Row Jo Ann Smothers, Hal Stookey, Patricia Campbell, Jerry Bowlsby, Perle McMulin, Norman Linn, Joy McWilliams, Tom Davis, Joann Hill, Erma Hopper (?), Beverly Garrison, O'Joy Oaks, Donna Buss, Beverly Lewis Harriet Lautenbach, Janice Wallace, Robert Coellner
4th Row Bonnie Barnett, Ronald Ewing, Vance Brennan, Fannie Webster (?), Jo Ann Jeffries, Rosemary Freestone, Bill Burgett, Carolyn Renshaw, Donna Hazelwood, Charlene Marcovis, Dorothy Miller, Maxine Norstrum, Ruth Henneman, Jo Ann Sopher, Lenore Hollingsworth, Virginia Boys, Margene Eng, Max Isaacson
5th Row Bruce Nichols, Jim Amend, Delores Hedrick, Denzil Jones, Gloria Pederson, Esther Pace, X(?), Patricia Heefner, Jacqueline Henderson, Beverly Stephenson, Raymond Tait, Jean Pierce, Janette Zavatsky, X(?), Rosemarie Meeks, Donna Shoffner, Delores Riggenberg, Earl Richardson, Roger Raines, Ronald Potts, Richard Palmer, William Poe, William Hayes
6th Row Nancy Joy, Betty Thornes, Nancy Williams, William Kalsow, Kenneth Bobbitt, Delores Glider, Eleanor Specht, Harriet Hoffman, Nancy Atwood, Charlene Rynearson, Margaret Anderson, Sally Jo Strom, Darlene Wildt, Patricia Finley, Mollie Lamar, Joyce Fiscel, Mary Ann Firkins, Carl O'Niell, Robert Wilber, Margo Page, Dolores Ellis, Betty King, Ruth Robinson , Mildred Hensley
7th Row Mary Damon, Carolyn Huggins, Betty Van Dyke, Norma Holton, Jay Roy, William Tew, Robert Edwards, Lee Custer, Patricia Marquette, Patricia Brown, Janet Bradley, Evelyn Pontius, Nan Price, Evelyn Houghton, Marcia Pettey, Joanne Wilson, Donald Tuttle, Donald Bales, Harriet McGlothlen, Sally McGlothlen, Mary Delk, Jacque Morgan, Ann Dallager, Dorothy Knapp
8th Row Jerry Bloom, Marlene Turk, Joy Anderson, William Brown, Dorothy Andrews, James Saylor, Donald Poulson, Ira Melaas, Adeline Robison, Walt Woody, John Hillis, Susan Hamilton, Marilyn Coultas, Roberta Baty, Dorothy Russell, Jody Walther, Richard Brown, Barbara Cottington, Bette Christenson, Beverly Olson, Glenn McClintic, Maureen McMillen
9th Row Lois Moore, Patricia Smithson, Gloria Tingley, Dorothy Williams, Patricia Messer, Joy Mittlestadt, Dennis Denger, Jerry Walter, Cecil Pace, Daniel Reece, Herb Hanson, George Warren, Howard Van Burkirk, Roy Dougherty, Paul Slack, Anita Crivaro, Wayne Tjaden, Beverly Robinson, Darl McCullough, Roland Tyree
Photo identification: Compliments of Roger Raines
There were 198 graduates;
175 in class photo; 23 absent=14 boys, 9 girls
3 not pictured in the Polar Bear Yearbook
Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950
Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950
Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950
Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950 Student Council, June, 1950
Student Council-June, 1950
1st Row Max Isaacson, X, Jo Ann Smothers, Norman Linn, Nancy Joy, Ruby Livingston, Janice Wallace, Barbara Hankins, Nancy Newbiggen, Clela Philleo
2nd Row Don Blakely, Andy Wolder, Delores Riggenberg, Delores Ellis, Nancy Gordon, Jody Cloud, Mollie La Mar
3rd Row Toby Robinson, Bruce Nelson, Bob Hermon, Ann Dallager, Marjorie Berson, Lois Moore, Janet Green
4th Row Dale Lucas, Bill Brown, Paul Slack, Colen Scales, Mary Ann Nance, Rosemary Heritage, Bill Poe
5th Row Gary Scott, Junior Melaas, Wendell Kempton, Bill Newcomb, Gerald Winget, James Gunn, Mr. Lory
6th Row Jim Donovan, Don Paulson, Bill Duffy, Bob Wren, Bob Wright, Kurt Werner, Bill Wright, Carl O'Neill
7th Row Harrison Weber, Ronald Potts, Joe Veverka, Cecil Pace, Vance Brennan, Glenn McClintic
Booster Committee Booster Committee Booster Committee Booster Committee
Booster Committee Booster Committee Booster Committee Booster Committee
Booster Committee
left to right Toby Robinson, Dick Miller, Mary Lou Maltus, Bob Antrim, Geraldine Lundy, Pat Miller, Pat Pomroy, Pat Peterson, Shirley Knorr, Jean Kochheiser, Gladys Howard, Beverly Olson, Carla Payton, Miss Galvin, Andy Wolder
Graduates - January, 1950 (numbered 61)
Anderson, Gloria Roena Drucker, Private Robert R. Kachelhoffer,Donna Jane Richmond,Kathryn Cornelia
Andrews, Nadine Joanne Dunlap, Clara Jane Lawdahl, Harry Thomas Robinson, Darlene Joan
Baldwin, Donald Lee Edgren, Ruth Beverly Lee, James David Savage, Harriet Louise
Barnes, Robert Lee Elings, Doris Alda Lind, James Richard Schuetz, Marilyn Lee
Berry, Pauline Ruth Fuller, Robert Owne Lyon, Marilyn Elaine Short, Jean Ann
Betzenhouser,Neelie Jane Grady, Roberta Evelyn McKean, Onalee Marie Springate,Charles Stephen
Golden, Velma Ray Greaves,William Beresford Mongar,Jacqueline Hariett Stapleton, Norma Jean
Bosley, Paul Benjamin Herbert, Ruth Anne Moomaw, Patricia Ann Tannus, Eleanor Ruth
Brown, Philip Merle Hetherington,John Nelson Morrison, Myrna Frances Thomas, Patricia Ann
Burrell, Helen Howlett, Jerry Howard Mylon,Matilda arbara Jane Thompson, Omer Liburn
Callanan, Jerome Vincent Huffaker, Leila Fern Osmond, Phyllis Ann Tschantz, Donald Leo
Carlson, Constance Joanne Hutton, Douglas Carroll Petty, Janet Charlene Tull, Minnette Ann
Chaiken, Faye Hytone, Jay Maxwell Plummer, Albert C. Westing, Gloria Christine
Coellner, Robert Lee Jackson, Carol Boone Polydoran, Krenio A. Woods, Donald Edward
Cohen, Barbara Ann Johnson, Ruth Elfrieda Pownell, Georgia McKinney Woolsey, Wilma Mae
Deierling, June Evalee x x x
Graduates - June, 1950 (numbered 197)
Acuff, Joyce Ellis, Dolores Jane Linn, Ivan Dean Riggenberg,Delores Mae
Amend, Jim George Eng, Margene Joan Linn, Norman Kent Robinson, Beverly Ann
Anderson, Joy Ruth Erb, Barbara Janet Livingston, Ruby Eilene Robinson, Ruth Carol
Anderson, MargaretElaine Ewing, Ronald Leslie Loy, Joyce Elaine Robison, Adeline Mae
Andreas, Nancy Lee Finley, Patricia Louise Marcovis, Charleen Ann Roy, Jay Ronald
Andrews, Dorothy Ann Firkins, Mary Anne Marquette,Patricia Yvonne Russell, Dorothy Lucille
Atwood, Nancy Ann Fiscel, Joyce Arline McClintic,Glenn Arthur Rynearson,Charlene Ellen
Bales, Mervin Bales Fisher, Barbara Jane McCullough, Darl Gene Saylor, James Russell
Barnett, Bonnie Beatrice Frakes, Wynetta Alice McDole, Joseph Elwood Scales, Colen, Jr.
Baty, Roberta Mabel Freestone, Rosemary McGlothlen,Harriett Louise Schackelford,MargaretViola
Blakely, Donald Curtis Garrison, Beverly May McGlothlen, Sally Ann Schillinger, Rosalie Anne
Bloom, Jerold Merle Gibbens, Donna Marie McMillen, Maureen Joan Schneider, Marjorie Ann
Bobbitt, Kenneth Robin Gilmore, Allen Stafford McMulin, Perle Samuel Shoffner, Donna May
Bowen, Mary Ann Glider, Delores H. McWilliams, Joy Irene Slack, Paul Davis
Bowie, James Neal Grant, Merion Charlott Meeks, Rosemarie Smith, Bara Jo
Bowlsby, Jerry L. Granzoe,Ronald Luverne Melaas, Ira Joseph, Jr. Smithson, Patricia Ruth
Bowlsby, Martha Joy Haag, Nancy Jane Messer, Patty Lee Smothers, Delores Jo Ann
Boys, Virginia Mae Hamilton, Susan Lynn Mikelson, Francis Ingrid Sopher, Jo Ann
Bradley, Janet Roberta Hansen, Herbert Loye Miller, Dorothy Marie Specht, Eleanor Marie
Brennan, Vance Edward Hayes, William Alonzo Mittlestadt, Joy Stephenson,Beverly Rae
Brown, Gloria Patricia Hazelwood, Donna Lee Moore, Lois Carolyn Stookey, Hal Allen
Brown, Patricia Ann Hedrick, Delores June Morgan, Jacquelyn Lee Strom, Sally Jo A.
Brown, Richard Russell Heefner, Patricia Ann Moser, Marilyn Lu Tait, Raymond LaVerne
Brown, William Kieth Henderson,JacquelineBurdean Nichols, Bruce Eldon Tew, William Franklin
Bullard, Russell Junior Henneman,Ruth Anna Rose Norstrum, Maxine Helen Thornes, Betty Ann
Burgett, William A. Hensley, Mildred Lea O'Neill, Carl Richard Thorpe, Jack Harlan
Buss, Donna Mae Hill, Dolores Joann Oaks, O'Joy Billie Tingley, Gloria Lou
Butler, Dorothea Virginia Hillis, John Bussey Olson, Beverly Ann Tjaden, Wayne Herbert
Campbell, Patricia Ann Hoffman, Harriett Louise Overton,Margaret Jeannette Turk, Marlene Esther
Christensen, Betty Alyce HollingsworthLenore Marie Pace, Cecil George Tuttle, Donald Ries
Christian, Bonnie Lou Holton, Norma Jane Pace, Esther Roberta Tyree, Roland Wayne
Cloud, Jo Ann Hopper, Erma Jean Page, Margo Jean VanBuskirk,John Howard
Coellner, Robert Lee Houghton, Evelyn Viola Palmer, Audrey Loraine VanDyke, Betty Lou
Cottington, Barbara Ann Hudson, Kenneth LeRoy Palmer, RichardCharlesJames Waldner, Robert Ernest
Coultas, Marilyn Ruth Huggins, Carolyn Rose Pedersen, Gloria Rae Wallace, Janice Louise
Crawford, Joann Ellen Hydock, William George Pettey, Marcia Lee Walter, Jerry Douglas
Crivaro, Anita Mae Isaacson, Max Delmar Philleo, Clela Mae Walther, Joanne Cecilia
Custer, Norman Lee Jeffries, Jo Ann Pierce, Jean Ann Warren, George Allen
Daily, Jack T. Jones, Denzil Dean Poe, William J. Webster, Fannie Mae
Dallager, Anne Louise Joy, Nancy Marilyn Pontious,Evelyn Lucille Werner, Leon Kurtis
Damon, Mary Joanne Junkin, Jack Potts, H. Ronald Wilbur, John Robert
Davis, Thomas H. Kalsow, William B. Poulson, Donald Lee Wildt, Darlene Dicus
Dean, Richard Lee Kempton,Wendell Walker Powers, Mary Jane Williams, Dorothy Alice
Delt, Mary Evelyn King, Betty Berneil Price, Nan Ellen Williams, Nancy Jo
Denger, Dennis Charles Kious, Frances Marie Raines, Roger William Wilson, Donna Joanne
Disbrow, Charles Dean Knapp, Dorothy Emma Rasmussen, Alice Marie Woody, Walt John
Donovan, James Frances Lamar, Mollie Elizabeth Reece, Daniel Richard, Jr. Yates, Ronald Lee
Dougherty, Roy Lautenbach,Harriett Lee Renshaw, Carolyn Joyce Young, Charlene Mary
Dray, Alan Obert Lewis, Beverly Jean Richardson, Earl Leroy Zavatsky, Janette Ella
Edwards, Robert Eugene x x x
Graduates - August (numbered 15)
Clearman, Mary Ball Grimm, Donald Dudley Rote,Robert Dean Summy, Don Gene
Duke, Lorenzo Herman Hall, Phillip Wayne Sheets, Robert H. Treon, Keith Eugene
Edwards, James Robert Hohl, Jimmie Virgil Shepherd, Babara Lou Witt, Josephine Henrietta
Ganoe, Dwight Eugene Morgan, Mattie Sue Spray, William Hugh x
In Memoriam
Class of January/June/August, 1950
January, 1950
Andrews,Nadine Joanne(Ross) 2000 Elings, Doris Alda (Johnson) 1997
Barnes, Robert Lee 1975 Greaves,William Beresford (d.05/12/06) 2006
Bosley, Paul Grossman, Phyllis L. (Weber) 1998
Burrell, Helen 1983 Howlett, Jerry Howard 1972
Callanan, Jerome Vincent 1967 Jackson, Carol Boone, Sr. (d.08/10/07) 2007
Coellner, Jackie (Mongar) Lind, James Richard 1975
Coellner, Robert Lee 1984 Pownell, Georgia McKinney 2004
Drucker, Robert R. 1975 Tull, Minnette Ann (Copeland) 1989
June, 1950
Bales, Donald Mervin 1991 McCullough, Darl Gene (d.02/10/04) 2004
Blakely, Donald Curtis (d.06/16/86) 1986 McMulin, Perle Samuel 2004
Bloom, Jerold Merle 1991 McWilliams, Joy Irene (Colson) 1984
Bobbitt, Kenneth Robin 1997 Melaas, Ira Joe 2005
Bowlsby, Martha Joy (Calland) 1991 Nichols, Bruce Eldon 1992
Brennan, Vance Edward 1973 Pace, Esther Roberta unk
Brown, Richard Russell 1999 Page, Margo Jean (Vugrinovich) 2005
Brown, William Keith 1997 Philleo, Clela Mae 1954
Burgett, William A. 1999 Poe, William J. 1991
Ewing, Ronald Leslie 1991 Pontius, Evelyn Lucille 1999
Gilmore, Allen Stafford 1997 Potts, H. Ronald 1992
Hall, Phillip Wayne 1973 Price, Nan Ellen 1980
Hamilton,Susan Lynn(Wilson) (d.02/26/06) 2006 Richardson, Earl Leroy 1989
Hayes, William Alonzo 1991 Scales, Colen, Jr. 1969
Hohl, James Virgil 1990 Thorpe, Jack Harlan 1989
Holton, Norma Jean (Burg) 1980 Tjaden, Wayne Herbert 1995
Hudson, Kenneth LeRoy 1990 Van Buskirk, John Howard 1991
Hydock, William George 1960 VandeVenter,Bonnie B. (Rood) 1996
Joy, Nancy Marilyn (Borg) (d. 10/05/06) 2006 Walter, Jerry Douglas 1998
Junkin, Jack Breckinridge 1953 Walther,Joanne C.(McGrane) 1982
Kalsow, William B. Werner, Leon Kurtis 1960
Kempton, Wendell Walker (d.01/06/08) 2008 Witt, Josephine Henrietta unk
Marquette,Patricia Y.(Fritz) 1984 Zavatsky, Janette Ella (Carey) 2003
McClintic, Glenn Arthur 2005 x
Others
Belding, Pat Hancock, Gene
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