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The rapidity with which schools were established in the county will appear in the following, where dates of the organization of dis- tricts is given :
1872
District No. 2 was organized January 30th, first meeting of the board, March 15th; No. 4, January 6th, first meeting of the board, January 20th; No. 5, January 6th, first meeting of the board, Janu- ary 20th: No. 9, March 18th, first board meeting, March 25th; No. 10, March 25th, officers of the board, Henry B. Munson, John Duncan and John Woods; No. 12, March Ist, first board meeting, March 9th : No. 13. March 14th, first board meeting, March 20th; No. 14, April 2d; No. 15, organized 1872; No. 16, June 1, 1872: No. 17, 1872; No. 18 ( Hastings) July 13th, first board meeting, July 20th; No. 19. August 10th, first board meeting, August 24th: No. 20, September 23d, first board meeting, October 5th; No. 21, September 23d, first board meeting. October 5th: No. 22. September 28th, first board meeting, October 6th; No. 24, October 10th, first board meeting, October 15th; No. 25, October 26th, first board meeting. November 2d; No. 26, September 23d, first board meeting. November 12th; No. 28, December 2d, first board meeting, December 7th; No. 29, Decem- ber 18th, first board meeting. December 26th; No. 30, December 30th, first board meeting, January 4th.
1873
District No. 6 was organized August 21st, first board meeting. August 28th; No. 31, January 2d, first board meeting, January 11th; No. 32, January 7th, first board meeting, January 14th: No. 33, February 3d, first board meeting, February 10th; No. 34, March 6th, first board meeting, March 12th; No. 35, March 10th, first board meeting, March 15th; No. 36, April 8th, first board meeting, April 16th: No. 37, July 14th, first board meeting. July 30th; No. 39. October 2d, first board meeting, October 11th; No. 41, December 31st. Vol. I-9
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1874
District No. 7 was organized May 18th, first board meeting, Jan- uary 6th; No. 27, November 25th, first board meeting, December 25th; No. 40, December, first board meeting, January 26th; No. 42, January 30th, first board meeting, February 25th; No. 43, January 30th, first board meeting, February 25th; No. 44, February 3d, first board meeting, February 28th; No. 45, March 17th, first board meet- ing, March 30th; No. 46, February 17th, first board meeting, April 1st ; No. 47, March 17th, first board meeting, March 31st; No. 48, March 27th, first board meeting, April 2d; No. 49, February 5th, first board meeting February 28th: No. 50, September 5th, first board meeting September 14th; No. 31, September 17th, first board meeting. Sep- tember 26th; No. 52, November 16th, first board meeting, November 25th: No. 53, December 15th, first board meeting, December 21st.
1875
District No. 54 was organized January 4th, first board meeting, January 5th; No. 55, January 20th: first board meeting, January 30th; No. 56, February 22d, first board meeting, February 25th; No. 37. February, first board meeting, February 3d; No. 58; No. 59, April 3d, first board meeting, April 10th: No. 60, organized April 16th: No. 61, April 14th, first board meeting. April 25th.
1876
District No. 63 was organized January 5th, first board meeting, January 15th; No. 64, January 31st, first board meeting, February 10th.
1879
District No. 62 was organized April 18th, and the first meeting of the board was on May 2d.
1880
District No. 65 was organized February 18th; No. 66, February 15th: No. 67, June 9th.
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GROWTH IN SCHOOL POPULATION
Children of school age in 1876 and 1916:
1876
1916
District No. 1.
74
155
District No. 2.
39
36
District No. 3.
. .
207
District No. 4
14
13
District No. 5.
17
35
District No. 6.
21
96
District No. 7.
17
42
District No. 8.
10
80
District No. 9.
23
53
District No. 10
23
40
District No. 11
16
61
District No. 13.
15
46
District No. 14
20
37
District No. 15
76
30
District No. 17.
76
31
District No. 18
189
3009
District No. 19
24
40
District No. 20
12
37
District No. 21
20
17
District No. 22
39
33
District No. 23
27
34
District No. 24
29
34
District No. 25
14
12
District No. 26.
. .
21
District No. 27
. .
18
District No. 28
19
48
District No. 29
7
31
District No. 30
12
44
District No. 31
21
46
District No. 32
18
23
District No. 33
34
41
District No. 34.
12
6
District No. 35
30
39
District No. 36.
37
District No. 37
. .
46
District No. 38
20
145
District No. 12
24
District No. 16
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Children of school age in 1876 and 1916:
1876
1916
District No. 39.
20
20
District No. 40
11
36
District No. 41.
12
55
District No. 42
14
126
District No. 43
59
26
District No. 44
16
16
District No. 43
21
22
District No. 46.
5
39
District No. 47
16
36
District No. 48
22
32
District No. 49
5
3.5
District No. 50
17
32
District No. 51
17
38
District No. 32
15
51
District No. 53
10
31
District No. 35
31
29
District No. 36.
21
29
District No. 57
11
42
District No. 58.
1
. .
District No. 39
4
. .
District No. 60
18
53
District No. 61.
7 21
Distriet No. 62
44
District No. 63.
. .
53
District No. 64.
48
District No. 65.
. .
31
District No. 66.
. .
38
District No. 67
.
57
District No. 68.
. .
21
District No. 69.
.
27
District No. 70
. .
20
District No. 71
.
41
District No. 72
9
District No. 73
. .
23
District No. 74
. .
36
District No. 75.
.
37
District No. 76.
. . 29
District No. 77
.
39
83
District No. 54
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Children of school age in 1876 and 1916: 1876 1916
District No. 78. . 26
District No. 80. 13
District No. 81
. . 70
District No. 101
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GRADUATES OF HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL
1884
Clara Green, Leta Horlocker, Carrie Kimball.
1885
Edwin Crane, Bertha Green, William Jones, Edward Fowlie, Fannie Green and Olga Jorgensen.
1886
Will E. Adams, Mabel I. Brobst, Lulu E. Burbank, Anna Cham- berlin, Kate E. Crane, Aaron W. Croft, Will H. Wigton, Maud H. Jorgensen, Emma M. Nowlan and Fannie E. Shedd.
1888
Jennie Carpenter, Emma Chamberlin, Alonzo M. Crisman, Mame W. Dungan, Lenore J. Fountain, Bertha F. Kent, Julia E. Noyes, Grace Phillips, Florence B. Work.
1889
Clyde B. Aitchison, Effie Albright, Fay G. Babcock, May Bern- hard, Sarah J. Bushnell, Alma J. Chapman, Lena A. Cramer, Frank C. Doty, Edith Hayzlett, Josie M. Hoeppner, Sherman G. Miller, George E. Payne, Rose E. Stine, Jennie L. Walker, Lila HI. Weeks.
1890
Birdie Atwood, Frank Kennan, Maggie Monroe, Willard Tobie.
1891
Hattie Burke, Belle Caldwell, Will Dungan, Ella Dust, Bessie Nowlan, Fred Shurb, Elsa Tedrow and Cora Woods.
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1892
Helen Allen, Mary Adams, Florence Jones, Silas B. Lyman, Addie Morrill, Myrtle Pease, Mara Sill, Hal B. Tedrow and Milton P. Yocum.
In 1893 Miss Bertha Horlocker was the only member of the senior class. Miss Horlocker chose to be graduated with the class of the following year.
1894
Myrtle M. Brown, John D. Fuller, Phillip Hart Fuller, Lucy Hakes, Bertha Horlocker, Edith Lamson, Etta Lamson, Arthur Palmer, Roy Stone, May Wanzer and Ruth Wilson.
1895
Grace Albright, Mabel Baily, Maud L. Bowman, James B. Brown, Louise Carnahan, Will Clarke, Paul B. Dungan, Ida E. Gilbreth, Rose Hynes, Frank P. Newmyer, Alfred Pettygrove, Alma Radinski, Bert W. Serf, Ethel Shumway, Charles Stein, Wilson Stichter. Edwin L. Tobie, Arthur W. Walker, Fannie B. Williams.
1896
Effie I. Eekles, Elizabeth E. Fisher, Merton L. Francis, Aleck Groenewold, Ella Groenewold, Julia Heartwell, Fenton P. Kelsey, Marie Kinnan, Arthur J. Niles, Margaret Pickens and Eva Stewart.
1897
Henry B. Allen, Waldorf A. Baker, W. Bechtelheimer, Edward A. Beck, Nellie Bratney, Earle Casto, E. Lulu Coleman, May E. Comley. Grace F. Fouts, Julia M. Jones, Florence Letson, Carrie J. Mansfield, Marie P. MeCreary, Adna H. McDonald, Lulu M. Moeller, Julia M. Palmer, Jessie B. Pease, Marion Stichter, Smith W. Stoddard, Edna L. Webster, Gertrude Weingart, Zelma Wil- loughby.
1898
Earle T. Arnold, Ira E. Campbell, Jessie F. Cramer, Viola Croft, Christine B. Deines, Arthur F. Douglas, Melvina D. Eckels, Ralph
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R. Ferguson, Mabel MeGaw, Vera A. Mann, Edyth Payne, Pearl Pettygrove, Mae E. Rees, Zetta Rowe, Faye P. Shumway, Lulah E. Taylor, Charles Vastine.
1899
Grace Bigelow, Ralph Deets, Luella Douglas, Goldie Edgerton, Grace Edwards, James Ferguson, Ola Ladd, Laura Mann, Mary Mead, June Newmyer, Marjorie Russell, Lawrence Scott, Robert Scott and Samuel Steward.
1900
Ben Baily, Hardy Cloyd, Esse Hamot, Grace Noyes, Corinne Althen, Luman E. Morgan, Lydia II. Morgan, Laura Payne, Mary Kelley, Mary D. Baker, Lillo A. Bratton, Archie B. Hopper, Miriam Alberta Maxon, Nellie Sherman, Gertrude E. Winter, Bertha A. Yost. Mattie E. Hedge, Walter Lamoreaux, Wallace Phillips.
1901
Daisy Carnahan, Belle Chambers, Lylle Coleman, Mabel Croft, Alex Dunlap. Clara Fisher, James Fisher, Ada Garver, Albert Goe- bel, Guy Kress, Harry Kidder, Jessie Lamoreaux, Victor Langevin, Hattie Ogg, William Pickens, Tracy Rapp, Lillian Shellak, Helen Stein, Emma Stichter, Mabel E. Stone, Florence Sherman, Roy Shuf- fleberger, Mabel D. Stone, Bessie Stone, Bertha Stout, Flossie Stout, Henrietta Weymouth. Grace Winter, Harriet Pearson.
1902
Ena Brach, Grace Bunce, Estella Craig, John Carnahan, Mabel Cramer, Rena Deets, Charles Dner, Margaret Dunlap, Edna Dunbar, Fred Fairman, Bertha Groenewold, Blanch Hoagland, Teresa Kelley, Minnie Larsen, Arthur Lockwood, Anna McDonald, Mattie Noyes, Beatrice Oliver, Ona Reed, Laura Stark, Paul Stark.
1903
Madge Baily, Ruth Bates, Blanche M. Cantwell, Naomi Chap- man, Bessie L. Duer, Nellie Edith French, Abbie Mabel Hallock, Hale M. Hunt, Mary Alice Jordan, Thomas B. Kerr, Helen Meston,
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Henry R. Sewell, Bernice Aldrich, James E. Boehne, Edwin C. Boyd, Eugene Star Cole, Mildred Dunn, Pearl Edna Farney, Lulu E. Funk, Cora E. Hutchinson, Ira S. Mansfield, Lauren O. Millikin, Lydia A. Woodbury, Thomas A. Atkinson, Mary Amelia Fawthrop, Harvey Howard Jones. II. Grace Lamoreaux, Kathryn Stichter.
1904
Inez Bratney, Florence Benedict, Edna Johnson, Francis Doug- las, Kate L. Lippert. Alice Batty, Vida Ferguson, Veva Russell, Grace Phillips, Maude Johnson, Edith Lehr, Bessie Crites, Kate Lenhart, Lou Howland, Ross Sexson, Sigfried Jacks, Helen Dillen- bach, Minnie Durkee, Elsie Moore, Ethel Doyen, Edward Barrett, Stella Trimble, Myrtle Fisher, Agnes Langevin, Anna Barrett.
1905
Louise Baehr, Mabel Bates, Rose E. Bowles, Kurt Boyd, Latta Devereaux, Clara M. Drollinger, Shepherd M. Dunlap. Sidney Evans, John A. Ferguson, Ena M. Hamot, Ethel Baker, Etheloyn Willey. Carrie Woodbury, Henry Blomenkamp, William Coleman, Irene Conoughy, Nelly Daly, Milford Deets, Robert L. Hitch, Al- bert L. May. Effie Peabody, Elwood M. Pinkerton, Harry Proffitt.
1906
Flora Cantwell, Erma Spicer, Minnie R. Spicer, Mabel Richey, Florence M. Miles, Doris Toedter, Mary Koehler, F. W. Blomen- kamp, Bessie Hammonds, Erlem Bratney, George Panzer, Malcom Sewell, Charles Wicker, Grace Wicker. G. L. Greenfield, Latta Snider, Willard Mann, Elizabeth Bowlus, Lulu Hoppe. Forrest Sims, Harold Snyder, Ruth C. Fahrney, Gertrude Crowley, Daisy Hall.
1907
Marguerite M. Alexander, Theodore H. Bierman, Harry R. Ball, Helen M. Barrett, Elgin F. Bratney, E. Gertrude Croft, Julia E. Cass. Florence Dutton, Faye E. Edgerton, John L. Hamsher, Jennie M. Jordan, Olive M. Jones, Grace E. Knicely, Charles M. Mathews, Walter L. Meyer, Florence Newmyer, Clara M. Panzer, William F. Raney. Carl O. Rinderspacher, Helen L. Stein, Howard M. Sheaff, and Hazel L. Wheeler.
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1908
Elvira Balfanz, Verna M. Barrett, Majorie A. Blaekman, Ilva Boller, Pearl Boyd, Gretehen Campbell, Ernest Cornelius, Leo E. Crowley, Joseph D. Dallas, Graee O. Dick, Ida Drollinger, Bessie Dunlap, Stella A. Eggers, Nora Fouts, George Flowerday, Dorothy D. McCreary, Bedford Johnson, Marie Kauf, Marie Keal, Irene A. Kernan, Pauline Lynn, Mabel Hansen, Lillian Mason, Hattie M. Miller, Lawrenee Nance, Doris E. Roelse, Elizabeth K. Slaker. L. Birdie Sleuman, Albert B. Tibbets, M. Ruth Tibbets, Garet Vreeland, and Blanch E. Weeks.
1909
Mabel D. Alexander, Elsie Behrens, Luella Balfanz, Paul Bam- ford, Ella Batty, August Blomenkamp, Charles C. Benediet, Edward L. Baugh, Lorene J. Barlass, Raymond Brown, Hazel Catterson. Delevan J. Cole, Franeis P. Dameron, Ethel E. Decker, Marie 1. Dillow, Reuben G. Dunlap, Edgar C. Dykeman, Mae B. Edwards, Oliver C. Forrester. Orpha O. Funk, Lillis J. Tennant, Lilia I. Fleming, Elnora N. Foster, Guy C. Gossard, Perly E. Hansen, Ethel H. Greenfield, Grace H. Hoppe, Effie L. Hoeking, Clyde H. Kinsey, Marguerite M. Levy, J. Frank Mead. Ida H. Panzer, Effie M. Rapp, Una Reed, Mabelle Riffe, Raymond M. Roelse, Jennie B. Rozelle, Marion B. Slater, Louis II. Stein, Clara M. Schaff.
1910
James Everett Allison, Arthur Ernest Allyn, Bessie Irene Barr, Wilhelmene Berdine, Winfield Grant Boyd, Clarence Frederick Brownell, Carl William Cooke, Edna May Davis, Ella Sarah Deeker. Hannah Maines Dunlap, Carl Andrew Funk, Martha Marie Guef- froy, Clarissa Ella Hall, Lura Ellen Haskin, Julia Holm, Alberta Hosier, Howard Homer Huxtable, Gertrude Kathryn Johnston, Hazel Eleanor Klein, Beryl Anna Laird, Ruth Elizabeth Martin, Merle Merritt, Rufus Glenn MeCue, Lorena Elizabeth MeKeone, Carl Herman Panzer, Edith Vietoria Patterson, Augusta Anna Schlick, Walter Scott Spieer, Helen Henrietta Taedter, Nellie Emma Tomlinson, Leah Eveline Tresenriter, Irma Louise Vance, Graee Marie Weiler, Erma Fyetta Wheeler, Forest Greenfield Wheeler.
1911
Nell Pieree, Albert Edgar Raney, Harold V. Roelse, Hazel Rob- inson, Paul Sehissler, Jr., Hazel E. Shouse, Helen O. Jones, Ruth
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Levy, Beatrice Langevin, Elsie Jean Martin, Lorenzo Mann, Clare Joseph Meyer, Uretta Miller, Orpha Tresenriter, Louis E. Uden, Viola E. Uerling, Arthur C. Vance, M. Marie Vastine, Bessie Wat- kins, Clarence Yager, Martha Butzirus, Norma Carson, Beulah E. Davidson, Winnie Davy, Esther Dreitzler, Donald Duane Duncan, Bessie B. Moore, Hattie Moore, Vera McCroskey, Antonie M. Otto, Florence L. Parks, Hazel E. Parks, Luke Parker, Eloise M. Barlass, Ralph G. Batty, Alvina Blomenkamp, Ida Blomenkamp, Mary Virginia Bowles, Mae Brennan, Donovan A. Brooke, Julia Guil- mette, Harry Forrest Hayward, Ruth Holmes, Hester Marie Hoon, Clarke J. Johnston, Daisy Anita Joynt. Rodney Samuel Dunlap, George R. Dutton, Della Hyacinth Fuehrer, Emma Fuehrer, Theo- dore L. Frank, Alice Gowdy and Gertrude E. Greenfield.
1912
Lee Elliott Browne, Marguerite Adams, Waldorf HI. Brach, Vera L. Brown, Josephine Laura Blue, Vern Elber Christopher, Viretta V. Deets, Erma Doty, Yale H. Cavett, Beulah Grace Erwin, Mabel M. Eastwood, Clifford Carl Fink, Pauline Anna Felzein, Ermil J. E. Forrester, James Gibson, Gladys Beatrice Garratt, Ralph Arthur Gossard, Olive Marie Graham. Wayne Hayward, Mae Gaines, William A. Hardin, Elsie Winifred Gildea, George Ebert Kline, Louise O. Hamel, Carl F. Kohl, Allie D. Harrenstein, George B. Kindig, Hazel R. Holder, Walter McCarty, Lucile Helms, John E. Matheny, Leta Frances Itzen, William Ward Martin, Wanda J. Kimmel. James Reed McCreary, Selma L. Kauf, Carl E. Pratt, Sadie E. Knopf, Laverne A. Pope. Elizabeth Lehr, Clarke L. Ryan, Nina A. Montague, Rolland L. Ritchey, Elizabeth Gladys Morgan, Joseph Spellman, Elsie R. Patterson, Joseph Hugh Steele, Viola I. Pielstick, Winfield Stein, Neva B. Rhiner, Henrietta M. Raney, Sadie Rosenau, Mildred Stein, Tracy Ferris Tyler, Nelton H. Baker, Mabel Mae Stiner, Rilla E. Scherrich, Ruby Leon Smith, Zelma G. Shore, Paul Spurgeon Walters, Clara Swanson, Clara R. Suchland, Wanda Iona Strong, Esther F. Schultz, Bruce Foster Whitney, Marjorie L. Simpson, Daisy O. Tompkins, Vi Eva Vastine, Vera Williams, M. Jean Laird, Elsie May Hibbard, Mary E. Higin- botham, Ella M. Tresenriter, Nora E. Brown, Mae E. Christopher. Alice Emma Hibbard.
1913
Joe Davis, Renata Otto. Paul Mann, Bert Barr, Ruth Mann, Ruth Bracken, Florence Holder, Everett Newkirk, Beth Tomilson,
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Hazel Williams, Harold Rosenau, Margaret Lay, Ada Kee, Fred Johnson, Eunice Taylor, Vida Coulter, Vance Hewitt, Bessie Reese, Hazel Hawthorne, Wilbur Smith, Ellzola Banta, Florence Squires, Grover Helmann, Katherine Parker, Cecil Howard, Edgar Huxtable, Mareta Lepinski, Marguerite Hughes, Roy Phelps, Flossie Bute, Mildred Foster, Herman Biskie, Eva Smiley, Ruby Marion, Gayle Foster. Helen Keith, Robert MeLaughlin, Gleah Brown, Allosius Siren, Earl Paik, Glenn Crafford, Tay U. Chung, Ina Owens, Fred Pagenkhoff, Marian Egelhoff, Julia Bushee, Lawrence Van Sickle, Esther Stein, Addie Spangler, Harry Walters, Blanche Westering, Ethel Sheaff, Lawrence Hines, Frida Stulken, Ida Anderson, Roy Ramsey, Carolyn Kimball, Ada Hatfield, Ernest Swanson, Elsie Way, Alfreda Clark, Sylvester Siren, Madge Rauch, Nettie Lorentz, Virgil Stuart, Ethel Vance, Vera Maunder, Walker Sleuman, Melva Vance, Marie Strouse, Lloyd Williams, Mildred Van Avery, Ida Lindsay, Maynard Edwards, Howard Turpit, Merville Vance, Will Lowman, Henry Kim. Blanche Whisnand.
1914
Elmer Scott, Elizabeth Simpson, Edna M. Siekman, Helen Sheaff. Gladys Sutter, Florence Sliger, Albert Theobald, Gordon Taft, Ray Trowbridge, Miniva Tomlinson, Henry Taedter, Anna Traut, Lois Tooley, Don Webster, Rose Waldron, Marion Catherine Wood, Helen Weiler, Kenneth Westering, Frances Wyckoff, Helen Williams, William Wheeler, Minona Winter, Howard A. Arasmith, Howard Barlass, Guy Bonham, Frances M. H. Bamford, Fern Beigh, Paula Brennen, Eloise Boller, Marguerite Bracken, Burgess Creeth, LeRoy Cook. Melvin Cramer, Nellie Cook, Ruth Deveraux, Kathryn Dunlap, Irene Doty, Gertrude Dreitzler, Viola Drollinger, Artha Englebright, Ruby Eversman, Harriet Greenfield, Kathryn Gildea. Edna Gartner, Louis Goldenstein, Frank Gaston, Ruby B. Grabill, Edgar Huxtable, Helen Hallock, Gertrude Horn, Samuel Hong. Oscar Hansen, Oneta Hollister, Isadore Johnson. Lenore Johnson, Joseph Kealy. Julia Keal, Lucile Kieth, Merle J. Likeley, Catherine Lynn, Mary Lovell, Sadie Mitchelmore, Ellen Maunder, Hazel Messick, Ruth Mc Whirter, Tecal MeKeone, J. H. Neu, Clar- ence Orton, Merle M. Peterson, Grace Patterson, Rant Peters, Wini- fred Paden, Helen Pyle, Gertrude Rees, Clarence H. Seherrick, William Schaufelberger, Vernon Shueman, Earl Smiley, and Riley Stein.
1915
Harry W. R. Anderson, Edith Helen Ashley, E. Janet Benedict, Carl W. F. Blomenkamp, Chester D. Bobbitt, Carter Allen Cannon,
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Polly Cannon, Bessie I. Clark, Laurence Palmer Clark, Ruth Daugh- erty, Esther Laura Fisher, William Hugo Flynn, Diantha J. Fran- sisco, Walter L. Good, Norma Lee Graham, Ivan M. Hall, Myrtle Lillian Harrell, Hazel L. Harter, Gilbert M. Haynes, Hazel Eliza- beth Hitch, Wilhelmena M. Janssen, Bessie S. Kaser, Louise L. Kinsey, Frederick D. Klein, Katherine C. Kohl, Viola J. Lange, Marion L. Lawler, Howard Choo Lee, James Lee, Margery D. Likely, T. Darwin McCarl, Erla Thelma MeCarl. Pearl Magner, Vern Manahan, Helen M. Nance, Anna Marie Pagenkopf, Willard Holcomb Parks, Maceo M. Richardson, Glenn Rife, Margie R. Riley, Harry A. Rinderspacher, Russell L. Rohrer, Esther E. Scherick, W. Russell Sheets. Mertice Marjorie Shreve, Grace Simmering, Susan May Simpson, Mary Armilda Steele, Gladys M. Stephenson, Luther E. Stein, Ruth Elizabeth Straight, Hattie Van Boening, John J. Van Boening, Mabelle B. Vance, Verna Leigh Vance, Marion Van Every, Lela E. Van Matre, Lloyd J. Whitehouse, Frieda Wiegman. Com- mercial Course-Margret E. Bramble, Lester R. Coulter, Henry E. Davidson, Edith L. Fairbanks, Nevada Almeda Winter.
1916
Genevieve C. Addleman, Nellie E. Aikman, Ruth Arasmith. Dora Ashby, Sigred B. Benson, Anna L. Binfield, Bess Ruth Binfield, Irene Brannagan, Gertrude Maric Brown, Veda B. Chaney, Mabel E. Clark, Mary Helen Coon, Marjorie May Cornelius, Ruth Eleanor Doty, Mabel Alto Doty, Armilda Dutton, Ida Mae Elliott, Audrey H. Farrell, Ielen Esther Fawthrop. Grace Olive Gibson, Nita Pau- line Grubb, Dorothy M. Hansen, Pauline L. Hardt, Irene Myrtle Hawthorne, Hazel Holmes, Julia Starr Jordan. Bernice Keith, Mu- riel R. Lee, Frances Eugenie Lorentz, Allegra Edith Maunder, Ruth Paulene Motter, Crystal Leonell Munroe, Mary Helen Murray, Ruth Clorinne Nellis, Ethyle Marie Parry, Laura Belle Poulson, Pauline Price. Retta Marian Rainforth, Agnes Mae Siren, Esther C. Sopher, Ruth Stein, Ada Anetta Terhune, Esther Tresenriter, Hedwig Clara Way, Florence Gue-da Woerner, Marie Elizabeth Wevenberg, Lola S. Smith, Virginia Ruth Kindig, Adison Adams, C. Howard Aikman, W. Mercer Alexander, Robert B. Ash, Jr., Elbert A. Baugh, Loyd A. Behrends, Charles Burton Brown, Ellsworth Clayton Brown, Morris D. Cramer, Wayne II. Denning, Sarah Martha Hollister, Fred M. Deutsch, Howard M. Doty, Ward D. Dunlap, Floyd Eller, George J. Fisk, Charles E. Francis, Glenn McLean Geyer, Charles Lamont Geyer, George E. Hall, Duff S. Hansen, Carroll D. Hilde-
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brand, Charles William Keal, Harry Kreiger, Clyde S. W. Martin, Alexander Meininger, Ray W. Meserall, Elwood Murray, Clifford Poulson, Jim P. Rigg, Henry Herman Schleuning, Sylvester Leo Schlick, Harold II. Schultz, Lloyd Slife, Bryan W. Stromer, Fred J. Whitaker, Fred C. Weigman, Marguerite Beatrice McIntosh, Edna Elizabeth Knapp, Elsie M. Needham, Opal Rosamond Nich- olas, Rose Katherine Polenske, Grace Roth, Hazel M. Shore, Paul L. Yundt, Verna Celesta Stover, Helen E. Suchland.
HASTINGS COLLEGE
Describing the beginning of Hastings College in a commencement address delivered June 3, 1907, the first president of the institution, Dr. W. F. Ringland, said: "In August, 1873, in a frame store on the northwest corner of Hastings Avenue and Second Street, about half way back in the store on the east side, there stood, inside the counter, Mr. Samuel Alexander and Captain A. D. Yocum, and on the outside of the counter, Mr. A. L. Wigton. The latter gentleman said to the other two, 'Why not have a Presbyterian college in Hastings?' The idea of Ilastings College thus sprang into existence."
Mr. Wigton was the editor of the Hastings Journal and a short time thereafter gave expression to the idea in his newspaper. The result of this expression of an idea is noticed in the record of the first meeting of the Kearney presbytery which then inchided all the terri- tory covered by Hastings and Kearney presbyteries. This meeting was held in November, 1873, and the question of founding a college at Hastings was discussed. The Synod of Nebraska was not yet formed, but it was anticipated that it would be at the next general assembly. At this meeting of the presbytery a committee composed of the Rev. James A. Griffes, Rev. Nahum Gould and A. L. Wigton, was appointed to receive propositions for donations of lands and funds to be used for the founding of a college. When the Synod was formed in May, 1874, it extended its moral support to the project of founding a college at Ilastings, but declined to take the financial responsibility of the enterprise.
The promoters, however, were by no means discouraged, and in November, the board of trustees elected the following officers: Pres- ident, James A. Griffes: vice president, J. S. MeIntyre; secretary, J. Balangee; treasurer, Samuel Alexander. The board itself had been formed some time in 1873, and was composed of the following: Sam- nel Alexander, A. L. Wigton, Samuel Reed, M. K. Lewis, A. W. Cox, George W. Dade and the Rev. James A. Griffes. In 1874, the
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PAST AND PRESENT OF ADAMS COUNTY
grasshoppers destroyed the crops in Adans County, and there resulted a spirit of depression not calculated to further new enterprises involv- ing the hazard of a new college. Not until 1879 did the movement take on an encouraging aspect.
In September, 1882, the college was organized and opened for the work of instruction. It was located in apartments over the postoffice, which was then located at the corner of First Street and Hastings Avenue. There were forty-four students and three instructors in the literary department of the work. In addition were music and art departments. The instructors in the literary department were Prof. George E. White, Prof. J. M. Wilson and Miss Abbie Brewer. In the music and art departments were Prof. John Rees and Miss Lou Vance. The college did not come under the care of the synod until 1884, and until that time was controlled by trustees selected from the Hastings and Kearney presbyteries, which, meanwhile, had been separated.
April 1, 1883, Dr. W. F. Ringland, pastor of the First Presby- terian Church, became the president of Hastings College. Dr. Ring- land learned that the Presbyterians were contemplating the creation of a board of aid for colleges and academies. Accordingly, he for- warded to Dr. Herrick Johnson, chairman of the committee charged with the duty of reporting to the general assembly concerning the advisability of creating the board of aid for colleges, a report on Hastings College, its needs and its outlook. With this report was sent a communication to be given to Cyrus HI. McCormick of Chicago, and soliciting $5,000 for the erection of the first building, to be given through the new board, subject to its approval, and to constitute the beginning of the work of that board. The privilege was also asked of Mr. McCormick of naming the first building McCormick Hall. Both requests were granted.
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