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Vol I, no. 2, page 80 - Fall 1978

A-Written by Eva Morris King, Omaha
Source "History of Class 1905-1917"

1917 WATERLOO HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT, DOUGLAS COUNTY

Invocation, Rev. ANDREWS; vocal solo, Mrs. Lawrence ROBINSON: address, Rev. Chas. E. BASKERVILLE.

Graduates: Charles Vernon PEABODY, John Cullen TRABER, Elverna M. RISHEL, Hiland B. NOYES, Clara C. NOYES, Eva D. MORRIS.

History of the class 1905-1917, written in May 1917 by Eva MORRIS (now Mrs. C. J. KIM of Omaha).
     Abstracts from that history:
Vernon PEABODY started school at Long School in Omaha for 4 years and then went to Lake School. He came to Waterloo in the 8th grade.
Clara NOYES first attended Dist. 22 under the instruction of Miss Mabel FINNEY. She joined the class in the 9th grade.
Cullen TRABER started school in Waterloo in 1904.
Hiland NOYES started school in Lockwood District.
Eva MORRIS started country school in Iowa and then came to Waterloo. She started to school with Nellie RHOADES, Agnes NESBIT, Lowell TODD, Ona GOODWIN and Blanche BLAKE.
Agnes NESBIT then moved to Missouri.
During the 7th and 8th grades the class numbered 14.
     This is what happened to the others.
Charles CLIFTON went to Omaha High.
Jessie RICKETS moved to Santa Barbara and has since married.
Ernest KING, Rolo and Alvin SEEFUS quit school to farm.
Upon entering high school we met Cullen TRABER and Bertha BROWN. Bertha then moved to Elk City.
In the 10th grade there were only 6 in the class.
On the 19th of March our superintendent married Miss Ulden THARP.
In the 11th grade in Sep 1916, 7 were enrolled. Alverna RISHEL joined us. She had started school in District 24 and then on to Waterloo. Also she spent some of her early life in Elkhorn and Gretna. Her 10th and part of her 11th grades were in South Omaha and then she moved to Waterloo.
Nellie RHOADES quit school to work.

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