MARION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1894
Handwritten date: June 22, 1929. Click on above image to enlarge.
Top row, left to right: Fred Hann, Cedar Rapids; Kate Travis Penn,
Mount Vernon; Ella Wiley Tallman, Cedar Rapids; Ellen Gongwer Stewart,
Cedar Rapids; Essie Johnson, Cedar Rapids; Effie Coenan Reimers, Cedar
Rapids.
Second row: Dr. A. E. Crew, Marion; Flora Goodhue Fishel, Mount Vernon;
Carrie Davis Reichert, Marion; Minnie Burns Wright, Des Moines; Roy
Todd, Marion; Frank Straley, Marion.
Third row: Bertha Ives Crew, Marion; Ruby Mills Drake, Palo; Myrtle
Rundall Coquillette, Cedar Rapids; Charlotte Reichard Holloway, Ames;
Ethel Crew Booth, Marion; Alice Borton Roller, Green Forks, Ind.
The "forty-fours of '94" celebrated their fourth reunion here May 25.
This class of 1894 of Marion high school was at that time the largest
ever to be graduated from the school. The course then was of three
years, and Supt. Dofflemeyer was in charge. The alumni organization was
formed fifteen years ago, and plans were made to hold a reunion every
five years.
Eighteen members of the class attended this year's reunion, held at the
home of Miss Sophie Coenan, sister of Mrs. Effie Coenan Reimers,
president of the class.
A seven o'clock dinner was served to twenty-five by the first division
of the Presbyterian Ladies Aid society. Mrs. Reimers presided, giving
the address of welcome, and calling the roll, to which members
responded with letters from absent members as follows: Mary White
Adams, Long Beach, Calif.; Blanche Kerr, Pasadena; Amanda Baughman
Goudy, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Will Lathrop, Norton, Kan.; Warren Yates,
Monrovia, Calif.; Mary Reichard Louellen, Lincoln, Neb.; Alice Willard
of Dakota, and Mary Buzza, Minneapolis.
Following the report of the nominating committee, Mrs. A. E. Crew was
elected president of the class, Ella Wiley Talman, vice-president, and
Roy Todd, secretary and treasurer.
Several issues of the "Class Critic," the high school publication of
1894 and the commencement program were shown. Mrs. Flora Fishel read
the class prophecy, written by Will Bell. It was noted that only one of
the prophecies -- the marriage of "Art" Crew and Bertha Ives, had been
fulfilled. Eight members of the class are dead so that one-half the
number living attended the reunion.
Members present were Minnie Burns Wingert, Des Moines; Flora Goodhue
Fishel, Kate Travis Penn, Mount Vernon; Ruby Mills Drake, Palo; Esther
Johnson, Fred Hann, Myrtle Rundall Coquillette, Ella Wiley Tallman,
Effie Coenan Reimers, Cedar Rapids; Lottie Reichard Holloway, Ames;
Alice Borton Roller, Green Forks, Ind.; Frank Straley, Roy Todd, Ethel
Crew Booth, Carrie Davis Reichert, Bertha Ives Crew, Dr. Arthur Crew,
all of Marion. Other guests were Mrs. Fred Hann, Mrs. Frank Straley,
Mr. Wingert, Mr. Fishel, Mr. Penn, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Drake.
|
Home
|
