The Class of 1948

The cover of the 1948 Polaris.

William Altenbern

Laverne Baker, Patricia Bangasser, Marilyn Bardell, Laurence Barker, John Barrett, Mary Ellen Bast, Jeanine Bauer, Jack Bauscher, Jewell Bendt, Jack Bentley, Janice Berends, Norma Bessert, Sheldon Best, June Boeke, Bion Birkett, Norma Born, Elvera Bowers, Lorris Bowers, Betty Breeze, David J. Brinkmeier, Lois Brinkmeier, Mary Broge, Robert Brown, Lloyd Brumfield, Patricia Burns, Charles Butcher

Robert Camerer, Arnetta Campbell, Edward Cardinal, Aphrodite Chiames, Leonard Christen, Marjorie Clark, Beatrice Coomber, Raymond Cronau, Carol Crowe, Betty Cummins

Kenneth Datt, Donna Davidson, Erma Lee Davis, James Davis, Laura Dean, Laraine Deethardt, Willis Dickens, Norma Dieterman, Richard Ditzler, Daniel Dominick, Mary Lou Donahue, Priscilla Dorsey, Russell Dorsey, Cynthia Dreibelbis, Janice Dyslin

Richard Eastman, Raymond Eder, David Eisenbise, Catherine Elliott, Joanne Ely, Robert Ely

Ernest Fike, James Fink, Wayne Finkboner, Anthony Fontana, Nunzio Fontana, Darrell Frank

Hobart Gaar, Roger Gallagher, Keith Garns, Glorianne George, Shirley Gibson, Georgia Gienapp, Frederic Gill, Kenneth Gore, Dale Gramley, Thomas Grattelo, Richard Graves, Kenneth Greene, Teddy Greier, William Guffey

John Habecker, Doris Haight, Donn Hannah, Russell Harlacher, Norbert Harnish, Jean Harris, Harvey Heidel, Robert Heilman, Iola Henry, John Hess, Charles Hickman, Robert Higley, Herbert Hildebrandt, Everett Hoefle, Lester Horton, Quentin Howarth, John Howington, Rita Ann Hrubecky, Helen Huesing, Paul Hutmacher, Vernon Hykle, Martha Hyslop, Florence Hyzer

Irma Jacobs, Myla Jacobs, Philip Jeffrey, Phyllis Johnson, Robert Johnston, Sandra Jury

Elizabeth Kahl, Alice Kahly, Shirley Kaiser, Evelyn Kant, Jean Kasten, Lowell Kasten, Wayne Kempthorne, Malcolm Kennedy, Marjorie Kent, Robert Kilker, James Kintzel, William Kinzig, Allen Kirchberg, Jean Kirkman, Audrey Klaus, Gloria Klaus, Joyce Klosa, Joan Knauff, James Kneller, Mills Thomas Kneller, Betty Knipschild, Shirley Koch, Marilyn Koeller, Christie Kortes, Leo Krueger, Ruth Kurth

Charlotte Lamm, Leonard Lamm, Paul Lamm, Delores Law, Harold Lawson, Albert Lenoir, Wesley Liebergesell, Iva Liscom, William Liscom, Margaret Little, Beatrice Long, Charles Loring, Betty Jean Lubbers, Lorna Luebbing

Jo Anne MacKenzie, Oliver Mackett, Robert Mackey, Ena Mae Maeder, Donald Mammoser, Donna Mantzke, Chester Marcum, Betty Marsh, Joyce Maukstad, Marilyn Maukstad, George Maxey, Edward McClanahan, Ernest McGee, Nola McGee, Clarence McIlvanie, Lucean McNair, Norma Mensenkamp, Carol Merchant, Betty Lou Meyer, Herschel Meyer, Gerald Miller, Lucille Miller, Phyllis Miller, Leland Mitchell, Shirley Morden

Mary Jane Nesemeyer

George Oberhart, Joan Olson, Melvin Olson, Louis Otte

Joan Palmer, Jean Panske, Jean Pashley, Evelyn Peacock, Helen Peacock, Lionel Pearson, Dolores Peck, Donald Peifer

Shirley Rahn, Gerald Rampenthal, Darrell Ransom, Betty Ann Reed, Myra Regez, Fred Reid, Marilyn Remmers, Molly Rideout, Sally Rideout, Norma Rockow, Betty Ross, Jarol Ross, DeEsta Roth

George Sabin, Ralph Sabin, Clara Scaros, Barbara Schimelpfenig, Jack Schlaefer, Dorothy Schlegel, Joan Schrader, Richard Schweder, Lyle Schwitz, Ernest Schult, Patricia Sellke, Edward Shepler, Marilyn Shouer, June Sisler, David Smith, Elvera Smith, Loren Smith, Gordon Snyder, Elliott Soliday, Carla Spielman, Mildred Spliethoff, Norma Staas, Ronald Staben, Frank Stanfield, Charles Stauffer, Gerald Stees, Neal Steinhoff, Kenneth Stephens, Dolores Stephenson, Dwight Stephenson, Joel Stevens, Jack Stocker, Clifford Stout

Carl Thompson, Clarence Thompson, Harold Tucker

Glen Underwood

Quentin Valkema, Harry Vandenberg, Delores Veach, Janice Vietmeyer, Robert Vohlken, Maxine Voss

Donald Wachlin, Clark Wagner, Donna Wahler, Darline Wales, Norma Waller, Robert Walter, Merle Wardlow, Betty Weckerly, Betty West, Douglas Whalen, William Wheat, Ruth Whitsell, Jerrye Willits, Claude Wilson, William Winters, Hilda Wirtjes, Kendel Witte, Polly Wootan

Dorothy Yahnke, Betty Young, Stanley Young

The Commencement Program, Thursday June 10, 1948, in the FHS Gym.

The 1948 Polaris showed unmarried teachers grouped together, and married teachers with their families. Shown are Marguerite Huebner and Carolyn Musser; Mabel Bowers, Dagmar Hansen and Josephine McHenry; and Lorraine Marcum, Christine Eklund and Elizabeth Harmon.

Many were still teaching when I graduated in 1966. Shown are the Richard Lumby family with John; Edith Lyle, Fern Kuhlemeyer and Jeannette Lloyd, and the Reuben Baumgartner family with Richard.

The Woody Fulkerson family with John & Mary Jane; Alma Rucker and Harry Kruse; Lillian Matthiesen and Dorothy Nelson.

The Howard Doolin family with Michele; the Harry Kinert family with Karen & Tony; Murry Funk and Boyd Garns.

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Farr; the Ralph Enstrom family with Mary Louise and George; the Thomas Spring family with Gary.

Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Allen with Billy and Charles; Mr. and Mrs. Josef Spudich with Stephen; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nicklas with Dick and Ted and their cocker spaniel.

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Carpenter with Janet and Ann; Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Seeman with Linda and Larry; Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Durham with Ralph and Michael.

FHS Principal L. E. Mensenkamp

There were eight sets of twins at FHS in 1948, including two sets of teachers!

Senior officers: Lee Mitchell - President, Ollie Mackert - VP, Betty Young - Secretary-Treasurer

Some of the Seniors from the Class of 1948.

Junior officers from the Class of 1949: Jack Gift - President, Peggy Myers - VP, Ann Wheat - Secretary-Treasurer.

Sophomore officers from the Class of 1950: Ronald Polhill - President, Donald Fogel - VP, Lewis Wilson - Secretary-Treasurer.

Freshmen officers from the Class of 1951: Dick McGill - President, Melvin Johnson - VP, Cynthia Ousley - Secretary-Treasurer

Eighth Graders, the Class of 1952

Here are the subjects they were studying in 1948.

The Library and Drivers' Ed. Nice cars!

The Board of Education and the new Agriculture building.

Instead of girls' sports, there was the Girls' Athletic Association.

And some pretty cheerleaders! J. Kutsus, D. Smith, J. Kutsus, D. Eckert, A. Vohlken, N. Rasmussen and J. Lenz.

The 1947 football team won just two games on the field, and one by forfeit.

The 1947-48 Varsity basketball team was about 16-8.

The various basketball teams.

The Freshman-Sophomore team won its first 16 games. They were the seeds of the 1951 State Championship team. McKinley "Deacon" Davis is shown at bottom, second from right, palming two basketballs. He went on to star for Freeport and the University of Iowa. He played three seasons for the Harlem Globetrotters. He spent the rest of his life as a humanitarian.

Freeport then played in the Big Eight conference. Shown are the other seven schools with their school songs.

Footprints in the snows of time.

The FHS tower in springtime.

The FHS War Memorial. The plaque states:

IN MEMORIAM
TO THE STUDENTS OF FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II

DEDICATED BY CLASS OF 1945
AND STUDENT COUNCIL OF 1946

The Alvernian, the yearbook of the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, celebrating the 25th year of the school.
I was born in St. Francis Hospital in 1948!

St. Francis Hospital in 1948. The original hospital is at the left, the new addition on the right. The driveway at the far right is the ambulance entrance. I was born on the third floor of the old wing at the far left.

The top photo shows the Delivery Room where I was born. The Delivery Room nurse shown is Sister M. Luella, R.N. The center photo shows the Nursery. I cannot make out the names on the labels showing who the babies are. The nurse shown in the Nursery is student nurse Ida Mae Vittorio. The bottom photo shows the Nursery in 1923, with student nurses Hillebrecht and Niles, and Sister M. Ermalinda.

Dr. Marie H. Bohn, shown at top right, was the doctor who delivered me. Other doctors shown are Wiley, Kortemeier, Bess, Doelker, Rockey, Shelly and Karcher. Doctors shown on other pages are Grant, Linden and Graff.

These pages show Freeport, and tell Freeport's history. Clockwise from upper left: the map shows Freeport in the center of the midwest; the Lincoln-Douglas debate memorial; the bridge at Krape Park; the original St. Francis Hospital; unknown house; Freeport High School; the statue of Lincoln in Taylor Park. Can anyone help me identify the house?

The student nurses heading off on a field trip to the State Hospital at Dixon.

The student nurses go bowling. The sign on the wall says it is the Pla-Mor Bowling Alleys. Does anyone know where that was?

The student nurses playing softball on the front lawns of some houses. I'm guessing this is S. Walnut Avenue, near the hospital. Does anyone recognize these houses?

The student nurses playing tennis. I have no idea where this is. Does anyone recognize this?

Inside the Nurse's Home, and the basement laundry. Shown is the Easy Washer. My parents had one like this in our basement. The left side is the washer with agitator; the right half has a spinner. The laundry basket on the floor is also like one my parents had; it is a peck with a plastic liner. The laundry was then laid out to dry on racks. The student nurses' underwear is drying on the center rack! LOL

The Junior Class.
Back row: Patricia Sauer, Mary Henen, Mardell Johnson, Alice Then.
Front Row: Alta Tielkemeier, Florence Caygill, Mildred Then.

The Senior Class
Dorothy Stichter, Julia Robbe, Betty Weber, June Chapin, Gertrude Ziehli, Betty Lou Jaeger, Ida Mae Vittorio.

Graduation Day
The Class of 1947 taking the Florence Nightingale Pledge.

The Class of 1947
Shown are Elsie Mae Banwarth, Mary Ann Beckmann, Jean Onalee Chapin, Helen Elizabeth Cleary, Mary Kathleen Daly and Carol Marion Ditzler. Not shown are Dorothy Elaine Ellis, Della Marie Gitchel, Agnes Berniece Heiring, Germaine Marie Heiring, Mary Ilene Hill, Jean Marie Johnson, Woneda Ann Martel, Florence Margaret Marx, Margie Mary Murray, Elsie Cecelia Untersee, Irma Elizabeth Walker, and Elizabeth Vera Werner.

The Class of 1948
June Elouise Chapin, Elizabeth Lucille Jaeger, Julia Arlene Robbe, Dorothy Mae Stichter, Ida Mae Vittorio, Betty Jane Weber, Gertrude Priska Ziehli

In the bottom photo, Nurse Frances Steinmetz is shampooing a patient's hair.
The top photo is perhaps my favorite in the entire yearbook. The captions states: "Sisters ready to take off for their annual picnic. Fishing rods, worms, ball and bat, are important things for the day's outing." And they are riding in the back of an open-air dump truck!

My father's 1948 license plate.
This plate was made from a heavy cardboard because of
a shortage of metals during and after WWII.

In comparison, the Oregon 1948 license plate was made from steel.

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