Abraham Lincoln High School - Railsplitter Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Mrs. Clara Day attended Tech High School and is a graduate of Drake University. She has been here since 1972. Mrs. Day enjoys camping, fishing, tobogganing, ice skating and needlepoint. Students learn to live in business world DECA students receive advice from Sponsor Dan Murray. Mr. Jerry Atkinson received his MA from Drake. He has been here seven years and is the Girls ' Soph- omore Basketball Coach and the Girls ' Softball Assistant Coach. Mr. Atkinson enjoys golfing and working around the house. Miss Janyce Abarr (above) attended Parsons College and is a graduate of the U of Indiana. She has been here for ten years. Miss Abarr enjoys traveling and collecting antiques. Mrs. Sally Fisher (above) is co- sponsor of Flags and Young Office Workers. She attended Roosevelt High School, Parsons College and has been here 12 years. Mrs. Fisher ' s hobbies are golf, cooking and fishing. An accounting class (above) follows instructions diligently. Mrs. Alice Else (below) attended Iowa State, the U of Colorado, and received her BS from Drake. She has been here ten years. Mrs. Else enjoys writing poetry, and owns a Welch Corgi. Miss Joan Hall (below) has done undergraduate work at the U of Iowa and received her MA from UNI. She has been here nine years. Miss Hall enjoys bicycling and needlepoint. 26

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Mr. Edward Kern received his BS from Morningside, his MS from the U. of South Dakota and has been here 13 years. He is inter- ested in all athletics, and keeps scores for all basketball games. Mr. Herbert McCaw received his BS at Ohio State and his MS at Iowa State. He has been here since 19G7. Mr. McCaw likes to repair television sets and travels to Flori- da to spend time in his summer home. Mr. Thomas Rowley received his BA from Wayne State in Nebraska and his MA from Drake. He has been here three years and sponsors the Computer Club. His hobbies are growing plants and being a ham radio operator. Mr. Wendall Stone attended Drake, South Dakota State, Iowa State University and Simpson and has been here 27 years. He enjoys fishing, bowling, and the outdoors. Mr. Kent relates to Mr. Stone (far above) one of his witty jokes. Sopho- mores Mike Marshall and Mike Lloyd (above) dissect starfish in biology. Mrs. Sarah Williams received her BA from UNI and has been here one year. She enjoys cooking, all types of sports, traveling and read- ing. Mrs. Williams in also in charge of the school ' s audio-visual equipment. 25

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Mrs. Ruth Jacobsen attended Area 11 and received her BS from Drake. She has been here one year. Mrs. Jacobsen enjoys sewing, politics, literature, and athletic participation. Mr. Richard McMahon received his BA and MA from Drake. He has been here since 1973. Mr. and has a miniature dachsund. and has a miniature dachsand. Mr. Gene Rodgers attended Lin- coln and received his BA and MS at Drake University. He has been r here five years. Mr. Roger ' s hob- NT bies are gardening and stamp col- lecting. Miss Kathryn Kirkhoff attended Longwood High School in Chicago and received her MA from Creigh- ton in Omaha, Nebraska. She has been here 25 years. Miss Kirkhoff enjoys collecting antiques, sewing, traveling, and following the stock market. Mr. Dan Murray is the sponsor of DECA, and has been here seven years. He received his BS and MS from Drake. Mr. Murray is learn- ing to play golf and enjoys vaca- tioning in California. Wendy Jones and Diane Heggen (far above) experiment with a calcu- lator in accounting. Students in typ- ing (above) await orders to begin. Some students (below) just aren ' t interested in the day ' s activities.