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

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DALE CHADVVICK Editor. Senior Railsplitter IOURNALISM II-Back row, lefi to right: Simpson, Keeley, Fosdick, Polson, Chad- wick, Smith, Mr. Sanders, Cavender, Van Ginkel, Doane, Caponigro, Furnal. First row: Slater, Davis, Bergstrom. IOURNALISM I-Back row, left to right Mr. Sanders, D. Van Ginkel, Newman, Broschied, Cherry, Van Ginkel, Roland, Orr. Fourth row: Ruble, Lacey, Fletcher, Head, Gabriel, Montognese, Noe, Hull, Third row: Wineland, Carier, McConnell, Porier, Comito, Pearce, Bequeaiih, Haifa. First row: A, Carter, Easton, Giannoble, Riepe, McKinnon, Gale, Hedberg, Morise, Millstead, sis, ,,l , l

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r,na Lucille Elizabeth Slater . . . lovely . . . natural blond hair . . .sports a beautiful diamond and a pair of bright red shoes . . . lack takes most of Cele's time . , . claims all big moments excite he: ...hopes someday to own a neat apartment . , . too many deep, dark secrets to reveal . , . likes picnics, dancing and lack ,..another journalist . . . Y- Teen . . . often seen with Simp and Fran . . . Blondie . . . neat little dresser . . . Lincoln's debutante . . . Iuanita. Anna Smith . , . loves to sing . . . classics, popular or jive . . . always singing . , . twirls a snappy baton, too . . . future plans reveal . . . college, profes- sional singing and a good house- wife . . . biggest thrill . . . Dick . . . hobbies include scrapbooks, Dick and singing with dance bands . . . Smitty served as publicity manager on the Rail class day committee . . . Sis is always happy . . . neat seen around with Pauline and Dona . . . George Thomas . . . handsome . . . looks stern . . . two timer student at East and Lincoln . . . good grades . . loves to go yachting with Nan at Spirit Lake . . , birth- day comes on Friday, the l3th ...with Les Bartlett in lapan . . . basketball fiend . . . stamp collector . . . in upper tenth of class . , , ambition to be a bil- lionaire and loaf . . . favorite teacher is Mr. Tomlinson, who rules service homeroom . . . big- gest thrill was his trips to Colo- rado and Canada . . . Gawrge . . , Tommy . . . Helen Evelyn Thompson . . . short cute swell new to Lincoln . . . to be an airplane hostess is Toots ambition . . . so embarrassed when she criti- cized her date's dancing . , . only to find out he was taking dancing lessons . . . home ec. staff , . . dance commiltee . . , hobbies are waiting for Skip . . . Shortie is Moroney's right hand man . . . a nice little gal to know . , . Roberta Van Ginkle . . . known to all as Bobbie . . . classy gal . , . really gets around . . . al- ways in the middle of some big time business . . . circulation manager. regular Rail . . . organ- ization, Senior Rail . . . loves to swim . . dance . . . go to par- ties . . . Y-Teen and S,A.S. club member . , . hopes to be a good nurse like older sister . . . ans- wers to Bobbie, it not try, B.V.G. . . . pals with her bud- dies Cork and lan . . , brown eyes .,.. light brown hair . . . curling bangs , , . typical high school girl . . . Ioan M. Warrick . . . sports a beau- tiful diamond from Bill . . . at- tendant to Miss lowa at the Cen- tennial program . . . just how did that picnic bench get on top of you lo . . . when you were sitting on it? ? ? . . . another Maple Grove kid . . . was shaken in early grades for talking . . . wants to work at the telephone company after graduation . . , get-together committee . . . loves ice skating, dancing, and Bill . . . bums around with Bet, Nel and Evelyn . . . nicknames . . . loannie . . . lo . . . Robert Arthur Wittkowski , . . tall . . . dark and oh, so handsome . . . has the wierd hobby of col- lecting bones and eye balls of all animals . . . likes the study of animals . . . plans to be a veter- inarian . . . dream man of all the girls . . . claims he has eaten every kind of animal in Iowa . . . biggest thrill will be shaving a germ's whiskers . . . says he was so-o-o-o embarrassed while with Avis , . . but will not ex- plain further , . . nickname is Speed . . . masculine . . . he man type . . . Charlene Wright . . . friendly . . . swell girl , .. wants to be a singer . . . vocalizes everything from spirituals to jive . . . chorus . . , can really jitterbug . . . beats out the boogey on the piano . . . really in the groove . . . loves home ec . . . splendid designer . . . makes most of her clothes . . . was frightened once at Road- side . . . slayed everyone at the get-together with her costume . . . sent Mrs, Hall into hysterics . . . a cute gal with a merry laugh . . , Charlene has that winning way . . , super person- ality . . .

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lVlR. AARON C. HUTCHENS MRS. VIDA HALL NIR. VVALTER BESLEY Principal Girls' Adviser Viceeprincipal aculfml of Qlvfzalmam incoln High gcluool 1946-1947 FACULTY-Back row, left to right: Cox, Klumper, Schwartz, Morgenthaler, Fox, Nelson, Harris, Tomlinson, Talarico. Second row: Sanders, Meilert, Hardy, Wilson, Arnold, McEniry, Holt, Holmes, Hurd, McWhirter, Ator, Graaff. First row: Smith, Ebers, Selby, Mitchell, Scanlon. Besley, Lewis, Strieby, Mapel, Scholfield, Farley, Dunkelberg. -is