Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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THE 1943 ROUNDUP S S S E E Ps. ARDEN COLE, 217, Commercial Geography, Commercial Arithmetic, Business Organization, Social Studies Obtained B.S. degree from Iowa State Teachers College and M.A. from the University of Iowa. He taught at Aberdeen, South Dakota, before coming to Roosevelt. His hobby is sports and athletics of all types. His favorite saying is, Batter up! NETTIE N. DONOVAN, 218, Mathematics Attended Parsons College at Fairfield, Iowa, where she received a B.A. degree. She taught at Ida Grove, Iowa, before coming to Roosevelt. She likes to collect pottery and dislikes whistling in the corridors. She often says, It seems so easy to me. I don't know why you can't understand it. ETHEL R. BALLARD, 216, Mathematics Studied at Drake University where she received her B.A. degree. She taught at Perkins before coming to Roosevelt. Her hobby is raising flowers and she dislikes moles in her garden that kill the plants. She also dislikes to hear students say, I forgot my excuse, I'll bring it tomorrow. D. ALICE HICKS, 228, English, Social Studies Received B.A. degree from the Fine Arts Academy in Chicago. She taught in Kansas City, Missouri, before coming to Des Moines, and has taught in six states, including California and Colorado. For thirty years she has never missed a day of school because of illness. She likes hiking and walking. She also likes art, particularly cartooning. Her pet peeve is whistling in the corridors. She most often says, What is the verb? J. EDWIN GREY, 237, Arithmetic, Study Hall Received B.A. degree from Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and has taken graduate work at the University of Iowa. Before coming to Roosevelt, he was the grade school principal at North English, Iowa. His hobby is collecting clocks, coins and books. He enjoys working with radio, and is now taking a course in this field at Drake. He dislikes to have people late for appointments. He constantly writes on the board, Silence! SARA M. NOLLEN, 214, Social Studies, Arithmetic NOT IN PICTURE Obtained Ph.B. degree in mathematics and science from Grinnell College. She has traveled a great deal, through Europe and England, Africa, Syria, and Palestine. Before coming to Roosevelt, she taught three years at Ana- tolia Junior College for Americans in Salonika, Greece. Her hobbies are trav- eling and reading. She also enjoys her four nieces. Her pet peeve is extra- curricular activities. She begins many of her sentences, The trouble with us American kids- Page Twenty