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Grinnell College
Class of 1930

 

The spring of 1930 was not, perhaps, the best-auspiced time to be a shiny new graduate, off to seek employment, diploma carefully in hand, as the ink was still drying.  Even so, a college degree meant a good deal more at that time than now, when every other Dick and Jane has a degree of some sort, in some field.  What today is merely a pre-requisite for a job not limited to manual labor or retail sales, was in 1930 a trustworthy indicator of a superior general education with a solid specialized basis in some academic field. 

If you have the leisure, I invite you to consider not only the graduate's level of achievement, but its context.  In 1930, the Great Depression firmly established and deepening daily, a small private liberal-arts college in the middle of east central Iowa graduated a class of 137, approximately half of which were female.  Processing this information for presentation forced me to re-consider, and modify, a number of my conceptions of that time. 

One expects students from the locality, and there are a number of Poweshiek county surnames in the list of graduates.  The presence of surnames like Carino, Cohen, dePersia and Saul hints at a wider demographic, and a greater egalitarianism, than I - at least - had expected.  As a genealogist and a jack-leg historian, my curiosity is piqued.  I'd like to know where these then-young people came from, where they went, and what they did.  If you connect with one of these graduates, I'd very much appreciate hearing from you.

Without further ado, then, it's my pleasure to present to you the Grinnell College graduating Class of 1930:

  1. Adams, Eva Alberta
  2. Allen, Edward Douglas
  3. Atkinson, Margaret Ione
  4. Barnes, Andrew Thornell
  5. Bates, Mary Frances
  6. Beck, Malcolm Gerald
  7. Berg, Signa Turner
  8. Bowlin, Donald Ayers
  9. Box, Donald
  10. Bray, Henry Marshall
  11. Brazelton, Lola Irene
  12. Briggs, Charles Walter
  13. Brinkman, Geraldine Mae
  14. Brown, Edward Trebus
  15. Bryan, Charlotte DeEtte
  16. Burns, LaVera Ruth
  17. Busby, Cora May
  18. Carino, Fermin Lauchangco
  19. Carley, Thomas P.
  20. Carlson, Helen M.
  21. Carpenter, Mary Doris
  22. Clapp, Jane Alice
  23. Cohen, Aileen Bernice
  24. Conard, Rebecca
  25. Corrough, James Vincent
  26. Cox, Arthur Francis
  27. Davis, James L.
  28. Davis, Mary Elizabeth
  29. DeLong, Robert Gibson
  30. dePersia, Arthur
  31. Dewey, Carroll Martin
  32. Disbrow, Mary Ethel
  33. Douglass, Donald Wickware
  34. Dunham, Harold Grinnell
  35. Eckholm, Wendell
  36. Edenburn, M. Evelyn
  37. Edge, Virginia Evans
  38. Fansher, Vivian Nadeen
  39. Foval, James E.
  40. Fuhrer, Aceneth
  41. Gallagher, Wilma M.
  42. Gillespie, Katherine Amelia
  43. Goodman, Donald B.
  44. Goodrich, Gladys
  45. Greene, Davis Child
  46. Hafkey, Vera Irene
  47. Hall, Luella Blanche
  48. Hayes, Charlotte
  49. Hayes, Douglas
  50. Heil, Suzanne
  51. Heldridge, Meredith James
  52. Hemphill, Martha Gale
  53. Hettinger, Edith Lucile
  54. Holman, David Odgers
  55. Hotchkin, Ralph H.
  56. Howard, Mabel Louise
  57. Hubbard, Flohill
  58. Hulsebus, Blanche Marie
  59. Hurder, Marguerite Irene
  60. Jay, Edith Margaret
  61. Johnson, Al Arthur
  62. Jones, Donald Prentiss
  63. Jones, Joyce Wilda
  64. Kent, John Crossett
  65. Klinefelter, Paul Henry
  66. Knapp, Merton Howard
  67. Knight, Anna Mildred
  68. Lark, Mary Webb
  69. Laustrup, Charles Platner
  70. Liedtke, Edwin Carl
  71. Lucke, Theodore Koller
  72. Lynde, Elizabeth
  73. Lyon, Georgia Madelon
  74. MacArthur, Gretchen
  75. McCormick, Martha Jane
  76. McCornack, Doris Isabel
  77. McFarlin, Marjorie Cathryn
  78. McIntire, Ernest Eugene
  79. McIntire, Ernestine
  80. McNally, MiriamE.
  81. Madgett, Pauline Helen
  82. Mark, Robert Frank
  83. Markee, Marjorie Elizabeth
  84. Mathews, Billie Norma
  85. Matlack, Margaret Westgate
  86. Milne, Elizabeth Adeline
  87. Morris, Harold White
  88. Mutersbaugh, Loretta Ann
  89. Napier, Margaret Elizabeth
  90. Nelson, Bertha M.
  91. Nelson, Dorothy Mabel
  92. Noon, Eleanor Marie
  93. Nowlen, Annie Martha
  94. Parish, Charles Edwin
  95. Pelletier, Dyre John
  96. Perry, John Edward
  97. Peterson, Russell
  98. Phillips, Richard Malcolm
  99. Pilling, Ida Patricia
  100. Porath, Dorothy Phoebe
  101. Rathmann, Lucile Elizabeth
  102. Read, Alden Arthur
  103. Riniker, Virginia Campbell
  104. Rose, Harold Fay
  105. Rosecrans, Earleen A.
  106. Rosine, Carl H.
  107. Rutherford, Donald George
  108. Sampson, Kathryn Elizabeth
  109. Sankey, Ruth Elizabeth
  110. Saul, Helen Anita
  111. Schroer, Harold Arthur
  112. Sharnborg, Orville Edward
  113. Shaw, Leslie M.
  114. Shelmidine, Lyle Stanton
  115. Shields, John Anderson
  116. Smith, Florence Dawson
  117. Smith, Russell Jackson
  118. Snoddy, John Alfred
  119. Snyder, Oswald Hammatt
  120. Spurlock, Burwell
  121. Steenbergen, Adelaide Elizabeth
  122. Stephens, Camilla Ellen
  123. Stoaks, Mary Elizabeth
  124. Swearengen, Carroll
  125. Teget, Fern Elizabeth
  126. Thiedeman, Lydia Margaret
  127. Thompson, Margaret Kathryn
  128. Troyer, William Lewis
  129. Turner, Catherine Vernon
  130. Urban, Arline Lenore
  131. Utley, Mildred Eugenia
  132. Welton, Claude Riley
  133. Wilder, Marjorie
  134. Wilhelm, Harold Philip
  135. Willard, Ruth Eleanor
  136. Williamson, Ruth Ella
  137. Wollenweber, Decla Mary

The above content derives from a Commencement Program booklet provided by Mrs. Martha Paul, of Portage, MI.  While finalizing the estate of her in-laws, Mary Opal (Koger) and Lloyd C. Paul, she recognized the significance of historic materials, and went to considerable trouble to find repositories appropriate to their nature.

The booklet is physically archived at the Poweshiek County Historical and Genealogical Society Library. 

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