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Allamakee co.
Rural School Graduates
1937

The graduate lists were printed in more than one county newspaper. All duplicate names have been combined in the following:


The Rural Eighth Grade Commencement will be held in Waukon Opera House on Wednesday afternoon, June 2, commencing at two o'clock. A class of 158 will be graduated. Twenty-four of these are Honor Students; that is, they are in the upper fifteen percent of the class.

The Honor Students are:

Mae Anderson, Dorchester
Catherine Baxter, Eells,
Dorothy Beneke, Wheatland
Geraldine Bresnahan, Makee
Burgette Cahoon, Linton No.3
Wilbur Cahoon, Linton No.3
Mary Dougherty, Eells
Bennie Fiet, Ludlow No.7
Eleanor Geving, Jefferson No.1
Merlyn Gramlich, Lansing No.2
Doris Hanson, Excelsior
Hilford Hanson, Jefferson No.1
Zana Mae Harris, West Grove, Post
Norma Johnson, Village Creek
Mary Johnson, Jefferson No.8
Margot Lorentson, Center No.7
Alfred Monserud, Excelsior
Ernest Opheim, Iowa River
Vivian Quanrude, Iowa River
Vivian Reinhardt,Center No.5
Laura Schlitter, Linton No.4
LaVon Swenson, Franklin No.7
Marian Tomlinson, Jefferson No.8
Harold Zoll, Hanover No.4

Other Graduating Students:

Charles Bakke, Center No.4
Orville Bakkum, Center No.4
Norma Barr, Franklin No.8
Goldie Barrett, Franklin No. 11
Ella Barth, Franklin No.4
Lester Barth, Franklin No.5
Bernice Bechtel, Jefferson No.4
Leo Bollman, Franklin No.6
Irene Brainard, Franklin No.3
Alan Brown, Fairview, No.5
Robert Buraeth, Jefferson No.2
Roland Burroughs, Hanover No.4
Patrick Byrnes, Hanover No.3
Earl Chamberlain, Franklin No.4
Harlan Chamberlain, Franklin No.4
Harold Devitt, Hanover No.4
Freda Dickson, Franklin No.9
Vernis Engelhardt, Franklin No.5
Virginia Fitzgerald, Hanover No.1
Ruth Gilgenbach, Hanover No.3
Marie Groezinger, Jefferson No.2
Leland Hagen, Center No.6
Jean Hancock, Hanover No.4
Lorraine Hammell, Iowa No.3

Francis Headington, French Creek No.3
John Hennessey, Jefferson No.6
Fernette Luster, Fairview No.2
James Lyons, Hanover No.4
Norma Kosbaus, Jefferson No.2
Mae Kraby, Franklin No.3
Jorris Martin, Fairview No.1
Edna McCracken, Franklin No.11
Arnold Moore, Iowa No.3
Coral Moose, Franklin No.9
Rosemarie Morch, Franklin No.7
Mariette Morgan, Iowa No.4
Bernice Nelson, Iowa River
Betty O'Brien, Fairview No.2
Lilahann Opheim, Iowa River
Marian Ricker, Franklin No.5
Dorothy Schoental, Jefferson No.1
James Schultz, Iowa No.3
Anna Marie Troendle, Center No.9
Elva Lea Walters, Jefferson No.6
Margaret Ward, French Creek No.5
Jeanne Welch, French Creek No.3
Arlene Wild, Center No.2
Walter Zimmerman, Center No.2

~ The Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, Wednesday, May 19, 1937, Lansing, Iowa, Page 1
~ Postville Herald, Thursday, May 20,1937, Postville, Iowa, Page 7

~contributed by Cindy (Maust) Smith

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