School

Cherokee County Schools

Grand Meadow
1920 - 1929

Alumni

Teachers, Custodians & School Board Members

ALUMNI

1920
*Marvin Dawson (Martha Schroeder)
Ila Kirkpatrick (Merlin Handly)
Lura Kirkpatrick (H.M. Schaffer)

1921
*Kenneth Funkhauser (Hazel Lowry)
*Fern Walker
*Esto Carver

1922
Weir Keck
*Edwina Flisher (Jack Beazley)
Opal Pixler (Delbert McQueen)
Glenn Klingensmith (Vera Robertson)

1923
Leo Woods (Helen Elser)
**Everett Carver (Mildred Paulin)

1924
**Marjorie Preston (Dale Powell)
Leslie Deedrick (*Irene Hohn)
*Helen Barkley
Dora Brooks (Howard Flisher)
Leonard Schleef
Gladys Hapgood (Jack Miller)
*Amber Paulin
Thelma Pixler (Cliff Armstrong)
Ruth McQueen (*Val Lambert)
Gladys McQueen (Dale Meyerdierch)

1925
**Dale Powell (Marjorie Preston)
*Blaine Brownlee (Virtress Davis)
**Lloyd (Bill) Mahnke (Lois Dearinger)
John Pease (Myra Seager)
Ralph Le Moine (Helen Blaine)
*Lela Paulin (Watson)
** Kenneth Walker (Ruby Dearinger)
Marie Woods (Donald Kilts)
*Forrest Denlinger (Esther Davis)
Marguerite Le Moine (Al Paulson)

1926
Frank Schleef
**Mildred Paulin (Everett Carver)
**Ruby Dearinger (Kenneth Walker)
Gladys Robeson (Raymond Murray)
Atha Sherwood (Fred Sibigtrath)
Dale Klingensmith
*Kenneth Weathers
Dora Carver (*George Mahrt)
Hazel Miller (Ed Johnson)
Vera Denlinger (Ralph Elser)
O.K. Barkley Jr. (Inez Fredenberg)

1927
Berry Campbell
Oliver Pixler (Dorothy Gardner)
Beryl Ramsden (Clarence Eischen)
Eda Denlinger (Paul Roepke)
Oma Fuller
Alice Preston (Willard Prestine)
Charlotte Preston (Walter Borgeson)
Dorothy Diller (*Almon Leonard)
Dorothy Carver (Frank Bryant)
Myra Allen
Merle Brooks (Ann Parington)

1928
Fern Baker (*Alfred Goodmanson)
Dorothy Barkley (Ab Hunter)
Rachel Keck (Brown) (Louie Miller)
Lillian Leesley (*Booth) (Verne Brownmiller)
Donald McQueen (Margaret Morton)
**Forrest Narn (Mildred Little)
**Wayne Brownlee (Charlotte Pease)
Eva Hollenbeck or Elizabeth Banning (Charles Bovies)
Marjorie Pease (Leo Farber)
Claire Denlinger (Ada Fixel)
Elenor Zike (Theron Mazon)
**Wayne Harrison (Elna Dearinger)
**Rex Klingensmith (Elma Nafe)
Theordore White (Joyce Fogleman)
Harold Robeson (Leno Shirley)

1929
Loren Carver (Erma McConnell)
*Theodore Clauson (Iola Leesley)
*Lillian Dawson (DeWitt Stauffer)
Ruth Miller (Omar Soote)
Maruice Hodge (*Opal McConnell (Woods))
Lola Diller (*Robert Waterbury)(Walter Maas)
Mildred LeMoine (William Timmins)
Malcolm Powell (Lois Boman)
Corrine Yawman (F.V. Russell)
Marion Weathers




**married fellow alumni
*deceased

1921 - 1922 teachers

Teachers in 1921 - 1922
Miss Goldie Jackson, Miss Lucille Shalla, Miss Georgia Clark, Miss June Mason, Miss Lula Heaton, Miss Alta Baker
First year after consolidation

Grand Meadow Teachers, Bus Drivers, Custodians and School Board Members



1925-1926 Teachers: J. L. Reuser, superintendent B. H. Graeber, principal and coach Ruth James Ella Irwin, 1st & 2nd Berniece Baker, 3rd & 4th Winnifred Gresham, 5th & 6th Gudrun Erickson, 7th & 8th Custodian: Frank Edminster	1926-1927 Teachers: J. L. Reuser, superintendent A. C. Hoorneman, principal and coach Betty Terhune Berniece Baker Ella Irwin, 1st & 2nd Lois Ritchie, 3rd & 4th Trula Smith, 5th & 6th Emma Specht, 7th & 8th	1927-1928 Teachers: B. H. Graeber, superintendent Glenn Klingensmith, principal Betty Terhune Carol Gethman Ella Irwin, 1st & 2nd Mary Maynard, 3rd & 4th Trula Smith, 5th & 6th Dorothy McGraw, 5th & 6th Lois Ritchie, 7th & 8th Custodian: Frank Edminster	1928-1929 Teachers: B. H. Graeber, superintendent Glenn Klingensmith, principal Leslie Deedrick, coach Wanda Livingston Ruth Paulin Ella Irwin, 1st & 2nd Luella Smith, 3rd & 4th Helen Barkley, 5th & 6th Lois Ritchie, 7th & 8th Custodian: Frank Edminster
Superintendent Christian	Berniece Baker, Winifred Gresham, Gudrun Erickson	B. H. Graeber, Ruth James, J. L. Reuser
Miss Emma Specht	School Board Members: H. U. Klingensmith, 1920-1922 & 1927 F. D. Harvey, 1920-1921 A. H. Nafe, 1920-1928 LeRoy Pease, 1920-192 Albert Keck, 1920-1923 Willis Carver, 1920-1926, (as treas. 1931-1937) T. J. Leesley, 1920-1923 O.K. Barkley, (as sec. 1921-1931) 1932-1935 A. H. Denlinger, 1922-1925 Thomas Garrod, 1922-1923 Melvin Dearinger, 1923-1925 Ralph Robeson, 1923-1935 Stewart Dawson, 1925-1926 Forrest Hiller, 1925-1928 Ellis Diller, 1926-1932 Warren Baker, 1926-1932 (treas 1937-1960) Guy Pixler, 1926-1933 Thos White, 1927-1931 Mrs. A. H. Nafe, 1928-1931 Ralph Allen, 1929-1931	Bus Drivers: (The following were the first drivers after consolidation. There were 8 buses.) Jim Irwin, 1921-1950 Leo Woods, every other month Everett Carver, 1921-1923 Dale Powell, 1921-1925 Opal Pixler McQueen, 1921-1922 Weir Keck, 1921-1922 Mrs. Levi Garrison, 1921 Leonard Schleef, 1921-1924 Clarence Casey, 1 semester Hazel Miller Johnson, 1921-1925 "Dale Powell had an old Model T Ford touring car with a brass bound radiator thta he used to use for a bus. The radiator leaked and to hold water he used to dump in a couple handfuls of corn me al. When the going was tough, the old car would boil, and you could smell boiled mush for a mile." Source: Grand Meadow Golden Jubilee publication	Bus Drivers: Marie Woods Kiltz, 1924-1925 Amber Paulin, 1922-1923 Forrest Dem;omger. 1922-1925 Bill Mahnke, 1923-1925 Ed Johnson, 1924-1925 Berry Campbell, 1925-1927 Merle Brooks, 1926-1927 F. Booth and M. Ferrin, 1928-1931 Eva Hollenbeck, 1924-1928 Everett Hollenbeck, 1928 -1930 Harold Robeson, 1924-1928 Malcolm Powell, 1928-1931

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