The Class of 1930

Wayne Althafer, Ray Arbogast, Homer Aspinwall

Evelyn Barrett, Reuben Baumgartner, Robert Baumgartner, Alice Baughman, Betty Bell, Alice Fay Best, Betty Becker, Ruth Bendick, Harold Bignall, Dorothy Gilber, Betty Bonn, Florence Boslough, Gladys Bowers, Norma Boyd, Donald Brewer, Joseph Brandt, Allen Burchell, Robert Burckhardt, Ruth Burckhardt, Edward Buss

Craig Calkins, Elaine Campbell, Joseph Clouser, John Cook, Lewis Cramer, Jack Crawford, Lyle Criddle, Catherine Cross

Merrill Ditzler, William Dorman, Ruth Dreibelbis, Jane Dupee

Annmar Eccles, Virginia Edler, Elton Eisenhauer, Ruth Erfert

Benjamin Fieselmann, Bertha Forry, Dorothy Fox, Nelson Fox, Inez Foy

Harold Franzmeier, Marjorie Fulwider

Roger Gilchrist, Imogene Goeke, Leona Goodsell, Emmerson Gunning

Mary Hannah, Helen Harlan, Harold Harnish, Blanche Heitter, John Heiden, Beatrice Holtum, Gordon Hunter, John Huss

Benno Ibler

Donald James, George Jephson, Helen Judd

Paul Kaiser, Charles Kasch, Priscilla Kempert, Jack Kerlin, Leo Kilbridge, Frederick Kiefer, Wallace Klentz, Lois Kleppinger, Helen Klever, Vernon Knauff, William Kostenbader

Gertrude Lambert, Frances Lenz, Marie Lorenz

Robert Madden, Margaret Maurer, Lowell Markel, Martha McNess, Louise McNary, Ethel Meads, Isabelle Merkel, Alice Meyers, Magdalene Miley, John Miller, Ward Moore, Irene Mullarkey, Lawrence Mullarkey, Margaret Myers

DuWayne Neff

George Ott, Alverta Otto

Alban Perry, Frances Phillips, Gilbert Phillips, Hugh Phillips, Margery Phillips, Raymond Place, Ira Plager, Kathryn Popp, Florence Prasse, Margaret Putnam

Evelyn Rahn, Gerald Ralston, Kathryn Reed, Barbara Resh, Grant Richard, Audrey Ridgway, Willard Rigby, Irene Ross, Jerome Rosenstiel, Ruth Rutter

Dan Schaefer, Wilbur Schrader, Wilbur Schauer, Jeanette Schwarz, Joan Schwarz, Margaret Sears, Dorothy Seitz, Beryl Spelman, Kathleen Snyder, Ethel Smith, Robert Smith, Roger Smith, Delmar Stabenow, Betty Steffen, Martin Steinestel, Irving Stone, Ray Stone, William Stouffer, Lester Stukenburg

Virgil Turner

Ruth Unangst

Irene Valeske, Dick Van Dyke, Gladys Van Gorder, John Vietmeyer, Harold Vincent, Herbert Vincent

Francis Wallace, Doris Ward, Hugh Wedge, Charlotte Welch, Jennie Whalen, Homer Whitford, Lorean Wiltrout

Howard Yde, Evelyn Young, Francis Young

Alvin Zurbriggen

Class Officers
President, Dan Schaefer; Vice-President, Martha McNess; Secretary-Treasurer, Joseph Brande

The 1930 Freeport High School News Staff
Back row: L. Kilbridge, G. Richard, L. Conter, C. Calkins, R. Bike, B. Ibler, J. Wheeland, R. Stuart, L. Bach.
Front Row: G. Lambert, V. Crockett, I. Merkel, M. Fulbridge, L. Wilstrout, A. Billig.

The 1930 Polaris Staff
Back row: E. Campbell, H. Harlan, G. Van Gorder, G. Hunter, G. Calkins, D. Brewer, B. Ibler, J. Brandt, W. Collier, H. Finley, B. Holtum, J. Dupee.
Front row: J. Buffin, M. McNess, M. Phillips, B. Becker, B. Bell, M. Fulwider, E. Young, L. McNary, L. Wiltrout, E. Smith, W. Carnahan.

1930's Junior Class, including my father, Ralph Bike, at bottom left.

Reuben A Baumgartner
December 30, 1912 - February 16, 2005

Born in Pearl City he was the son of Albert and Laura (Hummermeier) Baumgartner. He married Camille Mears in 1942 and she died in 1969.

He graduated from Freeport High School in 1930, then earned his Bachelor’s of Science Degree in math in 1934, and his Masters in Math in 1935 from the University of Illinois.

A veteran of World War II he taught postgraduate meteorology at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.

From 1935 to 1940 he taught math in Polo and then at the State University of North Dakota at Fargo.

From 1940 to 1956 he was head of the math department at Freeport Senior High School. From 1949 to 1956 he was director of Adult Education for District 145.

From 1956 to 1972 he was principal at Freeport Senior High School, and from 1972 to 1977 he was head of curriculum for District 145.

It was Reuben Baumgartner who first suggested the idea of establishing a community college in the Freeport area. His dedication to the community and his efforts in adult education earned him the title “the Father of Highland Community College.”

After retirement he was state coordinator of AARP 55 Alive Driving Course, senior advisory committeeman for the Secretary of State, and taught math part time at Highland Community College.

Reuben Baumgartner's senior photo.
He was principal all the years I attended FHS.
If only I had known his nickname was "Bummy" . . . .

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