Montezuma, Iowa High School
Graduation Class Photographs


1884, First class to graduate from Montezuma High School
Back row (left to right): Mattie Woods Hawkins, Lillie Robinson Hines,  Leslie Platt Harter.
Front row (left to right): Charles Finnigan, Edward C. ( E.) Carr, Charles C. Miller.



Class of 1889
Back row (left to right): George E. Philippi, Verona Bell (Assistant Teacher), Lulu E. Hines Slucum, Thomas Harris, Lizzie F. Taylor
Davis, J. W. Jarnagin (Superintendent), Arthur A. Varner.                                                                                                                              
Middle and front row: Sara E. Glass Swafford, Estella Kate Lisor, Minnie B. Waters Stone, Mayme A. Poole Hunter, Nannie A. Wilson,      
Ida B. Gordon Hibbets, Inice L. Varner Morgan.                                                                                                                                                          


Class of 1903
Back row (left to right): Ethel Duffus Forcum, Arthur McGill, Bertha Williams Boatman, Warren Pollard, Italy Malcom Zorn,
Ward Forcum, Mae Wells Ludemann, C. E. Douglass (Superintendent), James Cummings, Clifton Blakely.                                     
Front row (left to right): Nellie Harden Bell, Anna Allen Marsh, Eliza Davis Kirby, Ethel Sheley Sharp, Ethel Gorsuch McKee,
Daisy Davis Clark,                                                                                                                                                                                                

  Names Not Available At This Time


Graduating Class of 1918
Front row: Ernest Peterson, Hazel Miller, Neola Morgan, Lee Tyndal
 Middle row: Ethel Sweeney, William Peterson, Sara Hall, Philip Burkett,Venefrum Horn.
 Back row:  Vada Smith, James Rempp, Ray Farmer, Ralph Peterson, Iva Quaintance, Ruth Zorn.


Graduation Class of 1920
Paul "Zip" Zirble, Wendale(Wendall) "Gunnie" Gunderson, Ferrell Rodgers, Emerald Peterson, Clara Gross, Freida Powell,
Neva Elliot, Lenore Harden, Lela Quaintance, Anna Levy, Zelda (Grace?) Brazer, Tressie Berkes (Burks), Wilma Heath.
She has the name John Ingram in parenthesis.


In No Particular Order
Frieda, Anna, Lela, Wilma, John, Emerald, Tressie, Zella, Clara, Lenore, Ferrell, Paul, Neva, Wendall 



Class Of 1922
First Row: Zelma Johnston, Clarence Smith, Helene Conn, Gildree Gunderson.
Second Row: Helen Allison, Elizabeth Harris, Garnette Steele, Ruth Levy, Lila Moran.
Third row: Aleta Smith, Edith Hockey, Leona Farmer, Doyle Cady, Isabel Saunders, Alice Johnston



High School Class Of 1927
Back Row Left to right: Agnes Le May, Frieda McCormick, Marie Ludeman, Kathryn Zirbel, ? Hadley,
Constance Schoales, Thelma Johnson, Nellie Tish, Alice Underwood, Velma Dickson,.
Middle Row: Charlotte Lohr, Leona Hesselshwerdt, Ferris Seaverns, Ernest McFerren, Dorothy Putnam.
Bottom Row: Harold Broadston, Clifford McKeag, Raymond Ayres, Ned Alexander, ? Harden.


Starting at bottom. First row: Hugh J. McMeekin, Jean B. Brooks, Vivian Tindle, Warren A. McCaw,
Rachel B. Hicks, Opal G. Hicks, Ruth Dugger, Lela M. Speas, Donald Crider.
Second row: Alvin W. Rempp, Dorothy L. Bone, Harry Bunnell, Alice M. Kingery, Maurice Van Zee,
Charleene Johnson, Ben Braafhart, Anne I. Jones, Cathleen Sharp.
Third row: Claire C. Gregory (Treasurer), Louise Boyd (Salutatorian), Raymond C. Beason (President and
Valedictorian), R. L. Van Deventer (Vice President), Russel Sanders (Secretary).
Fourth row: Paul M. Cook, Velma I. Gilliard, Maxine H. Dull, Virginia Troth, Mildred E. Hicks, Paul Troth.


Class of 1937

                                        Top Row L to R: Garold Lidtka, Maynard Hutchinson, Margaret Kline, William Silvers, Mae Reynolds.
                                        Second row: Verna Stevens, Raymond Tarvin, Readelle Morgan, Lloyd Van Deventer.
                                        Third Row: Earl Martin, Pauline Jordan, Lauren Henry, Mildred Bowers, Lester Baird, Alberta Richman,
                                                          Keith Steffy, Pauline Smith, Eugene Smith, Harold Taylor.
                                        Fourth Row: Howard Mckee, , John Groenenboom, Niesje Groenenboom, Cleland Freeborn, Vera Peterson,
                                                            Melvin Dugger, Lois Fish, Melvin Inman, Dorothy Jenkins.
                                        Fifth Row: Allen Cox, Mildred Putnam, Earnest Van Cleave, Margaret Cox, James Van Arkel, Marjorie Ve Verka,
                                                         Mearle Hicks, Virginia Kingery, Faye Wasson, Lucille Inman.
                                        Sixth Row: Lucille Cox, Jean Husted, Helen Kime, Pauline Ingram, Marjorie Tarvin, Edna Purdum, Mary Buffum,
                                                         Alice Goodale, Maxine Rempp.

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