As found in the May 20, 1948 issue of the Sioux Center News:

Complete List 8th Grade Rural Graduates in Sioux County

With this week’s issue of the school news, this closes the school news for the current year.  We wish to thank the County papers for the liberal space given us through this and previous years, it is deeply appreciated. 

A release of the pupils from rural school eligible for graduation this week, includes all except a few who were ill at the time the examinations were held:

Buncombe Township

Merlyn Newman
Maxine Wendel

Capel Township

Wineva Kosters
Clarice Dykstra
Darlene DeJager
Herlon VanderSchaaf
Audrey Mae Muilenburg
Roger Rens
Lois VanderZwaag
Gilbert DeGoei
Donna DeLeeuw

Center Township

Lee Donald Harskamp
Donald Groen
Marla VanRoekel
Priscilla Statema
John Smits
Truman Raak
Stanley Lammers
Bernard Duane DeJager

Eagle Township

Audrey Wegner
Stanley Venard
Judy DeHaan
Tillie DeHaan
Cornie Roskam
Wilbur Daale
Myron Dierks
Peter Kooi
Ellen Renken
Shirley Schuller
Henrietta Huenink

Floyd Township

Sydney Joskoot

Floyd Rural Ind.

Joan VanEs
Marlys Korver

Garfield Township

Gerrit Maassen
Gerrit VanBeek
Evelyn VanBeek
Shirley McKee
Richard Wallenberg
Mary Jane Miller
Glenn Miller
Jeane Schelling
Joane Schelling
Grada Haverhals
Orville Rehder

Grant Township

Norman VanderLee
Ingetta Koole

Grant Con.

Delores Vreeman
Leroy Verrips

Lincoln Township

Marvin Wetra
Angeline Bakker
Harriet Schope
William C. Kooiman
Mary M. Durbadn
Donald Tiedeman
Tommay A. Bonetstroo

Lynn Township

Rebecca Haack

Nassau Township

Frances Noteboom
Leona Stander
Roger VanKlompenburg

Plato Township

Arlene Westra
Joan Prins
Thelma VanBerkum
Violet Kuyper
Jeanette VanVoorst
Betty VantHof
Agnes Meerdink
Delores Gayer
Arlene Rozeboom
Duane Sandbulte
Roland Bartels
Theodore Vonk
William Riphagen
Marlene Winterfeld

Reading Township

Ronald Klein
Jack Mueller
Rodney Vlotho
Mary Eifert
Arlene Ravenswaay
Joanne Kurtz
Della Janssen
Earnest Harms

Rock Township

Edward VanGrootheest
William VanderLinden

Settlers Township

Lucille Rees
Dolores TerWee
Cora VandeStroet

Sheridan Township

Rodney Grooters
Kenneth Rohde
Lavonne Meyn
Eugene Eddorf

Sioux Township

Freddy Elbert
Eileen Maasen
Cornelia Visser
Leola VanGinkel
John Schelling
Gerrit VandenTop

Washington Township

Betty Krusen
Ralph VanWyhe
Nema Bertram
Wilma Dekkers
Jean Stoltenberg
Willis Kooistra
Duane VanWyhe
Wayne VanWyhe
Jean Kamstra
JoAnn VanderFeen
Marcia VanWyhe
Jasper DeRaad
Clarence VanderStoep
Mildred Meins

Welcome Township

Gertrude J. Kuipers
Joyce Schutieman
Marilyn Kuiper
Emogene VantHul
Clayton Vreeman
Bernard Rozeboom
Kenneth VanderWeide

West Branch Township

Wilmina Schuiteman
Howard Schutt
Harold Sneller
Jacob VanRooyen
Lois Rens
Ruth Huisman
Dwaine Muilenburg
Adrian Klein

Chatsworth Ind.

Eloise Conway
Marlin Schwieson

Matlock Ind.

Larry Larson
Joan Nieuwendorp
Anna Dekkenga
Sharon Nesseum
Georgia Reekers

The four pupils making the highest scores in the County tests were Miss Jean Stoltenberg of District No. 3 Washingotn Twsp., Miss June Newman, Teacher.  Mr. Orville Rehder District No. 8 Garfield Township. Mrs. Isabel Mauere, teacher.  Norman VanderLee  Grant No.7 Mrs. Mae Lamoureux, teacher.  And Glenn Miller district No. 6 Garfield Twp. Miss Bertha VerWey, teacher.   District No. 1 of Plato Township has the largest graduating class of any rural school with six pupils.  No. 2 Eagle was the second with five pupils in the class.  Mrs. Helen Williams is the teacher. 

County Superintendent: Tye handed out Diplomas to the students in Maurice, Newkirk, Hospers, and Orange City the past week.