1918 South High School Yearbook
Includes Faculty, Students and members in WWI

 

SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL-1918
FACULTY
Watson L Adams Etta Fisher Beatrice O'Callaghan
Alfred W Allen Maud Fuller L W Olds
Ethel Andrews Sue Gross Lura Overholt
Kathryn Baxter Mary Harden H W Pabst
Oscar Bishop May Hewitt C W Satterlee
Frances C Bouwman Lena Hoffman Louise Schweitzer
Lena Brockmeier James Hole Rachel V Shaw
Laura Carpenter Hirsch Hootkins Edith Smith
Elizabeth Cavanaugh Lois Inglis Reuben S Smith
P L Churm J R Jensen Ruth Steglich
May Cornell M E Knoll W D Sterling
J C DeBruyn Etta E Lambert Ruth Stone
Edith Dennis Helen Mac Lennan Grace J Strauss
Emilie Donner Evangeline Morrisey L E Swenson
Ruth Dunbar Marie Muller Alice C Vevia
Mary Eaton Hazel Mullins Laura Wilson
Hazel Fairbanks L W Newton Lou Wilson
Bertha Field
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SENIORS
Ernest Anderson
Public Speaking Club, '17; Athletic Association, '16-'17; Chairman of Memorial
Committee "18.
"We thank you, Ernest, for your efficiency in typewriting."
Helen Arthur
Patriotic Club '18; Scribbler's Club '16; Athletic Association '17-'18.  Orchestra
"15-'18; Orchestra Club, '16-'18; Stringed Quartet, '17-'18; Public Speaking Club, '17;
Studio Club, '18; Secretary '18; Class Prophetess '18; Commencement Day
Committee "18.
"She is a product to be marvelled at."
Hazen Averill
"I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as lief been left alone."
Lloyd Backart
Orchestra, '15-'18; Orchestra Club, '16-'18; Assistant Advertising Manager of
Annual "18; Public Speaking Club '17; Motto Committee '18.
"Ambition personified."
Mary Baker
Fauna and Flora, '16-'18; Patriotic League, '18; Athletic Association '15-'16; Chorus
"16-'17; Glee Club '16-'17; Athena Society '16; Scribbler's Club '16; Chairman of Pin
Committee '18.
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary."
Hazel Barclay
Entered South High as a Senior, September '17; Patriotic League '18; Chorus '17; Atheletic Association '18.  
Athletic Association '18
"A maiden never bold."
Helen Barton
Athletic Association '16-'18; Orchestra Club '17-'18; Fauna and Flora Club '18; Vice
President '18; German Club '16; Pioneer Staff '16.
"A reminder of sweet sixteen."
Milton Brewer
Hi-Y Club '16-'18; Public Speaking Club '17.
"A young man ought to be modest."
Marion Buech
Athletic Association '16-'18; Scribbler's Club '16; Patriotic League '17-18; Chorus
17-'18; Studion Club '18; German Club '16-'17.
"Is she not passing fair ?"
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Laura Cavanaugh
Orchestra '15-'18; Orchestra Club '16'-18; Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Patriotic
League '17-'18; Corresponding Secretary '18; Athletic Association '15-'18; Public
Speaking Club '17; Athena Association '16; German Club '16-'17.
"Sweet smiles, and household graces."
Harold Chambers
Public Speaking Club ' 17; Glee Club '17; Chorus '16-'18.
"He was a good man, and a just one."
Cuthbert Chandler
Football, second team '15-'17; Athletic Association '16-'17.
"Oh, that I could be what I am not !"
Randall Clark
Public Speaking Club; '17; Art Editor of Pioneer '15-'17; Track Team '18; Hy-Y Club
15-'16; Basket Ball, second team '16'-'17; Yell Master '15-'16; Assistant Advertising
Manger of Pioneer '15; Snap Shot Editor of Annual '18; Art Club '15; Cast of "Oh
Joy '17; Proprietor School Store '17; Senior Leaders '17; Junior Association of
Commerce '15-'16; Athletic Association '15-'18; Commencement Day Committee
18; Monogram Club '18.
"Innocent of books."
Dorothy Converse
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Treasurer "16; Patriotic League '18; Studio Club '18
Cast of "Oh Joy" '17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Athena Society '16; Chairman of
Color Committee '18; Public Speaking Club '17.
"Thou art pale with studies grown."
Marjory Converse
Studio Club '18; President '18; Patiotic League '17-'18; Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18;
President '17; Secretary '16; Athletic Association '15-'16; Art Editor of Annual '18;
Public Speaking Club '17.
" I love art, for art's sake."
Lloyd Cooper
Hy-Y Club '15; Athletic Association '15-'18; Public Speaking Club '17.
"The eyes of the nation, and farseeing."
Albert Covell
Monogram Club '18; Business Manager of Annual '18.
"Wisdom shall die with you"
Albert Croninger
Entered South as a Senior September 1917; Athletic Assoication '17-'18.
" The magic of a face."
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Melvin Dahlin
Entered South as a Senior September 1917.
"Democracy now, and democracy forever"
Logan Degen
Pioneer Staff '15; Joke Editor of Pioneer '16; Athletic Association '16-'17;
Public Speaking Club '17; Hy-Y Club /16-/17; Commencement Day Committee
18.
"How various his employments whom the world calls idle."
Everett Eaton
Athletic Association '15-'18; Public Speaking  Club '17; Cast of "Oh Joy" '17;
Hi-Y Club '17; Commencement Day Committee '18.
"And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me."
James Fortier
Basket Ball, second team '15-'17; First Team '18; Hi-Y Club '18; Monogram
Club '18; Athletic Association '15-'17; Senior Leaders '17-'18; Usher '16-'17;
Public Speaking Club '17; Color Committee '18.
"His friends were many-his enemies few."
Barney French
Pioneer staff '16; Athletic Association '15-'18; German Club '16; Class Historian "18.
"High erected thoughts, seated in the heart of courtesy."
Charles French
Athletic Association '16-'18; HI-Y Club '17; Basket Ball, second team, '17; Foot Ball,
second team '17; Athletic Editor of Annual '18; Public Sdpeaking Club '17.
" And a wise old owl was he."
Earle W Gordon
Foot Ball, second team '15; Captain '15; Chorus '15-'17; Hi-Y Club '16-'18; Vice-
President '17; Art Club '17; President '17; Usher '15-'18; Yell Master '17; Cast of "Oh
Joy" '17.
"Humor to be had fpr the asking."
Mabel Gordon
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Orchestra '15-'18; Orchestra Club '16-'18; Patriotic
League '17-'18; German Club '16-'17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Athena Society '16;
Public Speaking Club '17; Color Committee '18.
" Blessed with plain reason and common sense."
Roscoe Graves
Entered South as a Senior September 1917; Athletic Association '17; Cross Country
team '17; Captain '17.
"Thou little knowest how great his accomplishments are."
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Theron Hammond
Orchestra '17-'18; Orchestra Club '17-'18.
"Blessings on thee, old man."
Leona Hessey
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Vice President "18; Patriotic League '18; Studio Club "18;
Cast of "Oh Joy" '17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Atena Society '16; Flower Committee
18.
" Where pleasure and duty clash let duty go to smash."
Mattie Ingersoll
Athletic Association '16-'17; Scribblers's Club "16; Pioneer Staff '17-'18; Literary Editor
16-'17; Patriotic League '17-'18; Public Speaking Club '17' President '17; Chorus '17-'18;
Literary Editor of Annual '18; Commencement Day Committee '18.
" Haunts the depths where sharks are found."
Florence Jackson
"She's a pearl of great price."
Janet Jenkins
Orchestra '15-'18; Girl's Glee Club '17; Chorus '17-'18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Athletic
Association '16-'18; Organization Editor of Annual '18; Class Musician '18.
"Bent on gentle deeds."
Smith Johnson
Hi-Y Club '16-'18; Athletic Association '17; Memorial Committee '18.
"Hail fellow ! Well met !"
Marjory Kimes
German Club '15-'16; Athena Society '16; Debating Society '16; Athletic Association
16-'18; Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Chairman of Motto
Committee '18; Writer of Class Sone '18.
"Still waters run deep."
Bertha Kirtland
Chorus "16-'18; Glee Club '16-'17; Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; Patriotic Leageue '18.
"All's well to her."
Jean Klaassen
Patriotic League '18; Fauna and Flora Club ''17-'18; Chorus '15-'16; Glee Club '16
Athena Society; Athletic Assocation '16-'18; Debating Club '15; Motto Committee '18.
" Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose."
Elmer Knee
Basket Ball, first team '16-'17; Hi Y Club '16-'18; Senior Leader '18; Monogram Club '18;
Treasurer '18; Athletic Association '15-'17.
"As proper a man as you will see in the twentieth century."
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Jane Lakie
Fauna and Flora Club '15-'18; Patriotic League '17-'18; German Club '15-'16; Athletic
Association '16-'17; Public Speaking Club '17.
"She has the enormous faith of many, made for one."
Mildred Lehnen
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'17; Patriotic League '18; Chorus '16-'18; Glee Club '16-'17.
" A gentle maiden, yet she knows her way."
Minnie Lentz
Entered South High as a Senior February 1918.
"We hoped you liked us."
Harry Lewis
Athletic Association '15-'18; Band '16-'17; Orchestra '15-'18; Orchestra Club '16-'18;
Vice President '16; Treasurer '17-'18; Pin Committee '18.
"Perseverance is his virtue."
Morris Louks
Hi-Y Club '18; Athletic Asociation '15-'18; Proprietor School Store '17.
"He is of a commercial mind."
Carl McManamy
Hi-Y Club '16-'17; Football, first team '16-'17; Athletic Association '15-'18; Monogram
Club '18; Junior Association of Commerce '15-'16; Public Speaking Club '17; Class
Treasurer '18.
"Wisely and slow, they stumble that hurry."
Dorothy Mapes
Fauna and Flora Club '15; Patriotic League '17-'18; Scribbler's Club '16; Public Speaking
Club '17; German Club ' 16; Athletic Association '16-'17.
"The type of Puritan Maiden, modest, sweet, and merciful."
Gladys Marcussen
Cast of "Oh, Joy" '17; German Club '16-'17; Athletic Association '15-'16; Pioneer Staff
18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Treasurer '17-'18; Class Secretary '18.
"Little, but, O my !"
Melitta Miller
Debating Club '15; Athletic Association '15-'18; Athena Society '16' Pioneer Staff '16-'18;
Chorus '17; Fauna and Flora '17-'18; Treasurer '18 ; Memorial Committee '18.
"As a proverb for endless industry."
Irma Neureither
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Athletic Association '16-'18; Athena Society '16; Patriotice
League '17-'18; Reading Circle '18.
" Always, thoughtful, kind and untroubled."
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Leo Oppeneer
Entered South as a Senior September 1917.  Athletic Association '17-'18.
" A man for a' that and a' that."
Martha Osborne
Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; President of the Patriotic League '17-'18; Public Speaking
Club '17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Alumni Editor of Annual '18; Staff Orator '18.
"Such a glorious thing is knowledge."
Frederic Plasman
Orchestra '15-'18; Orchestra Club '16-'18; Athletic Association '15-'18.
"The courageous captain of compliments."
Ruth Powell
Debating Club '15; Athletic Association '16-'18; Scribbler's Club '16; Glee Club '17-'18;
Chorus '17-'18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Cast of "Oh Joy" '17; Fauna and Flora Club '16-
18; President '16-'17; Pioneer Staff '17-'18; Humor Editor of Annual '18; Public Speaking
Club '17; Class Poetress '18.
"Mistress of herself though Germany fall."
Wilma A Pratt
Fauna and Flora Club '16; Chorus '16-'17; Glee Club '16-'17; Patriotic League '17-'18;
Studio Club '18; Public Speaking Club '17.
" She is withal a bit of a coquette."
Howard L Richard
Entered South as a Senior September 1917.  Basket Ball second team '17-'18.
" Many a girl is thrilled by him."
Edelaine Roden
Cast of "Oh Joy" '17.
"She is pretty to walk with--witty to talk with, and pleasant to think about."
Thomas Read
Glee Club '17' ; Orchestra '15-'17; Orchestra Club '16-'17; Public Speaking Club '17;
Hi Y-Club '16-'17.
"Let his object be--his country, his whole country, and nothing but his
country."
Gertrude Ryan
Scribbler's Club '16; German Club '16; Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; Patriotic Leauge
17-'18; Public Speaking Club '17.
" Her very frowns are fairer far, than smiles of other maidens are."
Hazel Sayles
Fauna and Flora Club '15-'18; Treasurer '15-'16; Chorus /15-'18; Patriotic League '18.
" One of those even temperaments."
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Bertha Schipper
Athena Society '16; Debating Club '15; Patriotic League '17-'18; Athletic Association
16-'18; German Club '15-'16; Chairman of Flower Committee '18.
"Short, but sweet."
Henry Schuiling
Athletic Association '15-'18; Public Speaking Club '17; Cast of "Oh Joy" '17; Pioneer
Staff '16; Assistant Advertising Manager of Annual '18; Flower Committee '18.
"An exception, but a good one."
Paul Shepperson
Orchestra '15-'18; Orchestra Club '16-'18; President '16; Glee Club '16; Athletic
Association '15-'18; Commencement Day Committee '18.
"Hear him touch those I-vor-ies."
Carl H Sigtenhorst
Basket Ball, second team '17; First Team '18; Monogram Club '18; Cross Country
Team '18; Public Speaking Club ' 17.
"He knows a thing or two."
Harold L Smith
Hi- Y Club '15-;16; Track Team '16; Second Team '17; Public Speaking Club '17;
Editor of Pioneer '17-'18; Monogram Club '18; Editor-in-chief of Annual '18; Track Team
18; Athletic Association '16-'18.
"A progency of learning."
Hilda G Smith
Scribbler's Club '16; Athena Society '16; President '16; German Club '16-'17; Studio Club
18; Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; Treasurer '17; Secretary '18; Public Speaking Club
17; Patriotic League '17-'18; Athletic Association '17-'18; Cast of "Oh Joy"; Reading
Circle '18; Chairman of Entertainment Committee '198.
" Fate tried to conceal her by calling her Smith."
Raymond Smith
Athletic Association '15-'18; Hi Y Club '17; Public Speaking Club '17; Football, second
team '16; Class President '18.
"The glory of the firm capacious mind."
Ruby Stockdale
Entered South as a Senior September 1917; Fauna and Flora Club '17-'18; Patriotic
League '17-'18; Secretary '17-'18; Athletic Association '17-'18; Cast of "Oh Joy" '17'
Entertainment Committee '18; Subscription Manager of Annual '18.
"Her heart, they say, is not in her work, but elsewhere."
Alice Stover
German Club '16-'17; Patriotic League '17-'18; Athletic Association '17-'18.
" The wisest of the wise."
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Everett Swanson
Football, first team '16-'17; Basket Ball, first team, '16; Track Team '16; Senior Leaders
16-'17; Usher '17-'18; Pioneer Staff '16-'17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Monogram
Club '18; Public Speaking Club '17.
"Hurrah for Sweden ! "
Genevieve Taylor
Entered South as a Senior September 1917.  Athletic Association '17-'18; Patriotic
League '17-'18.
"One of us, but not forward."
Marie Townsend
Fauna and Flora Club '15-'18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Public Speaking Club '17.
"Marie--your graces charm us."
Hazen Van Order
Public Speaking Club ' 17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Pioneer Staff '17; Track Team
18
"Silence has become his mother tongue."
Arthur Van Sledright
Public Speaking Club '17; Athletic Association '16-'18; Pioneer Staff '15.
" All we ask is to be let alone."
Sadie Vonk
Scribbler's Club '16; Athena Society '16; Public Speaking Club '17; Patriotic League
17-'18; Athletic Association '16-'18; Fauna and Flora Club '18; Pioneer Staff '18;
Chairman of Commencement Day Committee '18; Class Vice President '18.
"The power of Thought--the magic of the mind,"
Douglas Walker
Hi-Y Club '16-'18; Junior Assoication of Commerce '14-'17; Monogram Club '18;
Football, first team '17; Track Team '17.
"Looks handsome in two hundred pounds
Lois Waterman
Public Speaking Club '17; Secretary '17; Athletic Association '16-'18; German Club
16-'17; Scribbler's Club '15-'16; Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; President '18; Patriotic
League '17-'18; Reading Circle '18; Pioneer Staff '16-'17; Exchange Editor of Annual
18; Commencement Day Committee '18; Class Prophetess '18.
"Merry, indeed, but always ready to talk."
Virginia Watkins
Athena Society '16; Fauna and Flora Club '16-'17; Patriotic League '17-'18; Athletic
Association '16-'17; Public Speaking Club '17; German Club '16.
"She has learned the luxury of doing good."
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Genevieve Willette
Entered South as a Senior September 1917.  Athletic Association '17-'18; Chorus
17-'18.
" Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
Madeline Wilson
Fauna and Flora Club '16-'18; Athletic Association '16-'18; Athena Society '16; Studio
Club '18; Patriotic League '17-'18; Reading Circle '18.
"How eloquent are eyes."
Willis A Witkop
Football, first team, '17-'18; Usher '17-'18; Public Speaking Club '17; Monogram Club
18; President '18; Entertainment Committee '18; Assistant Advertising Manager of
Annual '18.
"A mighty gridiron hero."
Harold Worth
Football, first team '15-'16; Captain '17; Yell Master '15-'16; Monogram Club '18;
Coach of Second Basket Ball Team '18; Track '16; Senior Leader '16-'18; Head Usher
15-'17; Cast of "Oh Joy" '17; Entertainment Committee '18; Advertising Manager of
Annual '18.
"Nothing escapes his participation."
Vivian Wright
Fauna and Flora Club '18; Chorus '17-'18; Patriotic League '18; Athletic Association
16-'18; Cast of " Oh Joy" '17; Pubic Speaking Club '17.
"We leave the daintiest last, to make the end sweet."
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GRADUATES OF THE SHORT COMMERCIAL COURSE
Peter D'Archangeli
Lenore Hamstra
Audrey Mickam
Joseph Noorthoek
Cornelia Olthouse
Clarence Roth
Helen Spoelstra
Marie Stroonsnyder
Ione Vanderwerf
Bertha Veen
Helen Wissmiller
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JUNIORS
ROOM 213
Margaret Aikens Harry Fleckner Howard Osborne
Pauline Bigelow Margaret Huighouse Everett Paalman
Richard Boeskool Marion Isaac Harold Payne
Emmett Bolden Smith Johnson Marion Runnels
Frank Bremer Erroll Kenyon Viva Short
John Brummeler Marie Kirkpatrick Daisy Sterling
Ruby Cavanaugh Olga Koch Gertrude Sterling
Ralph Creshaw Leo Kyser Harry Vandermeer
Helen Dale Howard Matheson Marinus Vander Ess
Herman De Ruiter Leonard Merrill Vera Jean Welch
Florence Disk Merritt Moon Florence Williams
Donald Eardley Harold Morgan Dick Wren
Edward Elsacer Bernice Newcomb
ROOM 215
Leonard Adams Grace Hartman Lena Moffitt
Russell Berry Walter Higby Margaret Price
Richard Boulard Katheryne Huizenga Hazel Sayles
Hazel Duiven Marguerite Hunt Doris Sedelbauer
Ellen Forsyth Fred Hutchinson Ethel Simmons
Jospehine Gibson Arthur Kling Mildred Sneden
Dorris Gilbert Waldo Leyda Lewis Tenckinck
Dorothy Goldener Ruth McClain Esther Terry
Alfred Hannah Elizabeth Meyer Erma Turner
ROOM 303
Richard Aument Dorothy Haynes Marie Shoemaker
Ray Backart Hattie Hondorp Frances Simmons
Frederick Brown Harold Howell Gerturde Sonnema
Frances Chapel Edna Larrabee Earle Stadel
Donald Ephlin Floyd Lilly James Tuuk
Perry Galer Carmen Miner Pearl Vanstratt
Werner Groening Chas Osborne Helen Wissmiller
Naomi Hackmuth John Price Frances Wolf
Gilbert Haire Albert Schoonbeck Helen Wright
Randall Harper Harold Schuster
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ROOM 215
Cora Allen Claude Dykema Marcellus Verhoek
Hilda Bell Anna Eikenhout Louise Wells
Fern Burd Wilber Krieger Fred Welmers
Nannette Cleveland Ariel Needham Erroll Zipp
Grenville Davis Gerritt Van Ringelesteyn
ROOM 317
Luella Allen Thelma Mae Hattie Cornelia Olthouse
June Beggs Lucille Heth Royal Osterhout
Orland Bennett Beryl Holben Glenn Oversmith
Gerald Bletcher Dorothea Hoogersteger Arthur Quackenbos
Vera Braun Mildred Jones Omer Schoonover