LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

Muscatine Journal & News Tribune, June 21, 1920 page 8
Transcribed by Lynn McCleary, May 16, 2019

WAPELLO CLASS OF 1915 HOLDS FIRST REUNION

Wapello, Ia., June 21. – The class of 1915 of the Wapello high school held their first reunion since graduation at Meyerholz lake last Friday evening. At the time of completing the course in our public school the young folks, then thirty-two in number, planned to meet in reunion in five years. Since that time a number of the boys have been overseas ad returned; others have moved from the city and one has passed away. An invitation was sent to every member but some were too far away to attend. Those present were: Misses Nellie Carey, Florence Potter, June Hawkins, Nellie Graves, Messrs. Frank Hook, Frank Deihl, Mike Herrick, John Otts, Charles Reutinger, Donald Rogers, Mrs. Mary Poster Wiederrecht and husband, Mrs. Stella Foster Wiederrecht and husband, Mrs. Bertha Torode McCulley, and Mrs. Myrle Hammond, whose husband, Captain Leon Hammond, was a member of the class but is now in the Hawaiian Islands. Other members of the class are: Mildred Meneice, who is employed in Fort Madison; Inez Eversmeyer, who is visiting in the west; Lucile Graham Parsons, Gladys Guthrie Rogers, of Wapello; Gladys Friend Bates, of Oakville; Edith Weldin, of Washington, Ia.; Nellie Kallenbarger Tanner, of Fort Madison; Dessie Shefor Paxton, of Oskaloosa; Roy Murphy, of Burlington; Ray Hammond, of Clay Center, Kan.; Maurice Keck and Harry Jamison of Los Angeles, Cal.; Carter Hamilton of Thornburg, Ia.; Harold Redmile, of Cedar Rapids; Benjamin Schwartz, of Grinnell; Paul Nichols, of Portland; Charles Hixon, of St. Louis, and Rex Thomas, deceased.

The young people drove to the lake about 6:30 p.m. and enjoyed an elaborate picnic dinner, after which all gathered around a bonfire and talked of the schooldays and the events occurring since graduation. It was planned to make the reunion an annual event and next year the invitations will be sent out early enough so that those who are unable to attend may send letters.