LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

1909 Columbus Junction City Band

 Back row from left: Don Darrow, Dean Carlisle, Roy Oakes, Hale Hanft, Oswold Bahns (band director), A. Gentzler, Paul Hannan, Arnold Bahns, Harry Hall; boys in front of Hale Hanft are Leon Thompson and Clinton Hendricks; middle row: Richard Bahns, Lou Nolton, Harry Getts, Madison Klotz, Charles Bretz, Hamlet Hall, Claude Hill, Elliott Leonard, DeWayne Brown, Glen Ayers; front row: Harold Foster,  Ralph Cutkomp, George Oakes.
 

Columbus Junction High School Photos

  
Class of 1908 1901 Football Team Class of 1917
From left: May Larrington, Edna Shellabarger, Chester Pierce, Ruby Lieberknecht, Bert Carpenter, Ruth Clark, James Reaney.
  		 First row from left: James Smith, Arthur Springer; second row: Jay Stapp, Bill Tucker, Rubin Blair; third row: Elmer Fox, Murry Hutton, Clyde Duncan,  Roy Zion?, Charles Gentzler; fourth row: Arthur Noland, Leon Thompson, H.L. McRoberts, Arthur Hall, Jay Robertson; back row: Marshall Crouch, principal, and Howard Simpson, superintendent. These names are on the back of the photo, but they may notbe  in order: G. Riddell Jones, Ruth Hannan, Merle Cecil, Ava Blankenhorn, Paul McKay, Eva McKee, Frances Ross, David W. Lewis, Edith Overholt, Paul Tedford, Lucille Duncan, Harold McCormac, Vivian Griffith, Ruth Robertson, J.E. Henson, Alice Wilson, Dewey L. Smith, Bernice Kerr, Esther Allred, William A. Rock, Mildred Davis.


1925-26 Sophomore Class
Property of Ruth Tilland
Submitted by Elaine Phillips

Eda Trikey – Class advisor
First Row: Opal Warnstaff, Iona Richter, Mildred Hanft, Helen, Barker, Opal Dear, Millicent Johnson, Murriel Keller, Myrtle Long
Second Row: Florence Owens, Ruth Reece, Esther Shellabarger, James Hall, Lawrence Rhae, William Wittich, James Robterson
Third Row: Ruth Tillard, Margaret Roderich, Eda Frickey – Sponser, Ferral Smylie, Howard Oak, Carl Teel, Burdette Duncan
Fourth Row: Allen Olshen, Herold Pine, Rex Shaw, Albert Brenneman, Ralph Howell, Floyd Walkington, Albert Toms, Cecil Lee, John Gookin
Compliments of E. P. Shellabarger, Druggist, Columbus Jct. IA


1927 Junior Class
Property of Ruth Tilland
Submitted by Elaine Phillips

Mr. Rice – Class advisor
Front Row: William Cecil “Bill”, Berdette Duncan, James Hall, Ralph Howell “Fat”, Albert Toms, Jimmie Robertson, Laurence Rhea “Club”
Second Row: Mildred Hanft, Millicent Johnston, Opal Deans, Iona Richter, Opal Warnstaff
hird Row: James Horton, Esther Shellabarger, Hellen Barker, Myrtle Long, Ruth Reece, Florence Owens, Ruth Tillard
Back Row: Ferral Smylie, Howard Oak, Cecil Lee
Compliments of E. P. Shellabarger, Druggist, Columbus Jct. IA



1927 Junior Class
Property of Ruth Tilland
Submitted by Elaine Phyllis


Miss Rose McGlennon - Class advisor
Front Row: James Hall, Allen Olshen, James Robterson, Ferral Smylie, Albert Toms, Ralph Howell, Bell Cecil, Rex Shaw, Burdette Duncan
Second Row: Albert Brenneman, Esther Shellabarger, Opal Dean, Florence Owens, Mildred Hanft, Iona Richter, Howard Oak
Third Row: James Horton, Ruth Tillard, Millicent Johnson, Rose McGlennon – Sponser, Ruth Reece, Opal Warnstaff, Helen Barker, Margaret Roderuck, Cecil Lee
Compliments of E. P. Shellabarger, Druggist, Columbus Jct. IA

Class of 1929 Class of 1932 (taken in 1928)

Class of 1934
First row from left: George Baker, William Darrow, Dorothy Morgan, Mildred McNatton, Ruth Shellabarger, Pearl Meeker, Helen Green, Lois Shellabarger, Ketchel Carey,  Gerald Allen, William Parsons; second row: Lyle Weber, Melvin Cosgro, Hilton Barker, Lois Simons, Berneice Grouwinkel, Lola Dallmeyer, Irene Foster, Opal Mishler, Roy Orr, Clyde Teel; third row: Harold Shellabarger, Merle Kulp, Marjorie O’Dell, Yeteva Robertson, Lucille Toms, Aletha May,  Martha Pratt, Ted Tucker; fourth row:  Neil Cutkomp, Leland Bell, Carlton McGrew, Walter Jennings, Virginia Cavin, Teacher, Marie Overholt, Elizabeth McWilliams, Desmond Kulp, George Burns, Rex Todd. Front row from left: Dorothy Long, Helen Grimm, Cleda Bennett, Albert Morgan, Claude Lukins, Leonard Phillips, George Hanft, Gerald Breneman, Harry George, Raymond Gunnells, second row: Gladys Latta, Edward Gentzler, Lila Walker, Nellie Olinger, Marvel Brown, Creta Knauss, Irene McRoberts, Lillian Berkshire, Evelyn Kistler, Burdette Johnston; third rRow: Wayne Simons, Wilma Teel, Juanita Woodruff, Lola Selser, Cornelia Peters, Clora Lynn, Mildred Latta, Marie Curtis, Donald Oak, Cecil Bliven; back row: Roy Maurer, Irvin Tillard, Estella Tillard, Randall Bebb, Evelyn Swailes, Eugene Gookin, Richard Fletcher, James Pierce, William Zion, Ralph Wilson. Front row from left: Jane Harbison, Wanda Marshall, Maryella Duncan, Laorene Dircks, Letha Simons, Iona Cooper, Kenneth Lokins, Jack Huston; second row: Louise Brent, Clarissa Gillette, Marie Bozman, Jean Robertson, Carol Jean Littrel, Marie Goode, Paul Shearer; third row: Ward Aldershef, Ruth Weber, Dorothy Hilyar, Lucile Davis, Nona Cooper, Madee Choroh?, Lorraine Carlisle, Tom Cutkomp; back row: Richard Honts, Bill Dunn (sponsor), Bud Newman, Carl Brown, Edgar Bush, Bill Shearer, Bill Dwinell, Warren May, Stanley Coon.

Football Team, 1931 Year Not Known

Class of 1931

Submitted by Ed Gentzler Clarence McFadden, Gordon Todd, Raymond Pine, David Olson, Clyde Turner, Bobby Kemp, Leroy Zion, Frank Miller, ? Jones, Lewis Kern, Dean Duncan, Margaret Marion, ?????, Marion Hanft, ??? Jones, Margaret James, Louise Oaks, Mary Louise Willmering, Nancy Goodin, Verlee Cassabaum, Ruth Wheeler. The teacher's surname was Green. Submitted by Ed Gentzler

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