1980 MHS graduates: James Dean Bauer, Jerry Alan Carter, Rebecca Kay Clipperton, Mark J. Drees, Connie Lou Eischeid, Karen Ann Freese, Melvin Francis Gawley, Dana L. Genzen, Paula Jean Genzen, Steve Grau, Randy J. Gross, Dwight Allen Gruhn, Ivy Lynn Grundmeier, Shona June Hagedorn, Jeffrey Lynn Hagedorn, Patricia Ann Handlos, Tracy S. Hansen, Dawn Renee Hargens, Joan Marie Hinners, Bradley Lyle Joens, Deanne Sue Joens, Steven L. Johnson, Lisa Marie Justice, Laura Ann Kalkhoff, Ron Robert Kerkhoff, Timothy Alan Lee, Zammya Ivette Moreno Ubidia, Peggy Jo Muzney, Rhonda Jean Opperman, Brian Keith Pfoltner (valedictorian), Jeffrey Lee Potthoff, Lisa Jo Phillips, David Dennis Ramsey, Carla Rae Reynolds, Wayne Leo Rosonke, Lori Ann Rothfolk, Kristine Marie Sailer, Michael William Schmidt, Darla Mae Schroeder, Dean Edgar Schulte, Elton Robert Schultz, Vicki Renee Schwiesow, Terri Jo Sextro, Debra Kay Stoberl, Randy Ray Stoberl, Steven Lee Stripling, Rebecca Lucille Thompson, Bradley Brian Vollstedt, Karen Jean Vollstedt, Joni Kay Wanninger, Keith Gerard Wanninger, Michael John Warner, Roger E. Wegner, Bonnie Sue Weller (salutatorian), Patricia Ann Weller, Carol Ann Williams, Thomas Earl Wittrock, Susan Gerette Zubrod

1980 former students: Leah Adams, Dennis Barten, John Blum, Brent Branning, Lisa Bruch, Celia Davis, Paul Espenhover, Michelle Feick, Leilani Granowski, Danny Gray, Larry Hagedorn, Lony Haubrich, John Hoffman, Jene Kasperbauer, Shirley Kasperbauer, Julie Kunkel, Veronica Lake, Gene Leinen, Tracy Leinen, Neil Lerssen, Cynthia Linder, Bruce Meeves, Dawn Mueller, Randall Nissen, Gina Orey, Ruby Orey, Ricky Petersen, Steven Pierson, Gene Rauch, Alan Ress, Debra Ridgley, Terri Rix, Tammy Rowedder, Jerry Rutherford, Wayne Sebring, Alan Vaughn, Michael Walsh, Linda Warnke, Sheila Wilde, Kelleen Willis, Mark Yarrington, Jack Zerwas

Lots of faces are familiar but can't put a name to them...
Please e-mail me with IDs
Sixth Grade 1973-74

Top: Dean Schulte, ??, ??, ??, ??
Third: Laura Kalkhoff?, ??, Lisa Phillips?, ??, ??
Second: ??, ??, ??, ??, Randy Nissen
First: Jerry Carter, ??, ??, Melvin Gawley
Bottom: Dick Maxwell, ??


Melvin Nissen MHS 1942

1942 MHS graduates: Pearl Armstrong, Vera Bald, Maxine Bauer (valedictorian), Agnes Blum, Jeanne Bohnsack, Robert Bonnesen, Sheldon Book, Norene Fairchild, Ellen Fielweber, Phyllis Firth, Willis Grimm, Ludwig Hammer, Herbert Hansen, Wayne Hargens, Lee Himes, Letha Joens, Phyllis Joens, Donna Keat, Calvin Kruse, Robert Kuhl, Margaret Lake, William Meggers, LaVerne Meyer (salutatorian), Marilyn Mohr, Beatrice Joy Moore, George Musfeldt, Melvin Nissen, Orlo Nissen, Marian Ohrt, Donald Petersen, Phyllis Pfoltner, James Rowedder, Jack Scanlan, Virgene Schacht, Donald Schroeder, Dorothea Schrum, Leona Schrum, Geraldine Siem, Shirley Stahl, Joyce Strathman, Maurine Wegner, Dorothy Welch, Marilyn Whiting, Pat Wood

1942 former students: Pearl Anthony, Rhea Jean Bingham, Ruth Bingham, Wava Bingham, Carl Carlson, Harold Christie, Bonnie Cole, Ronnie Cole, Lila Dalgety, June Doyle, Warren Farrell, Edna Flenker, Edward Free, Mildred Grummer, Virgil Hagedorn, Leroy Koester, Velma Lohmeier, Berthelene Meyer, Eveyln Meyer, Emmett Mitchell, Richard Pare, Joan Paysen, Yvonne Puck, Jack Ramsey, Dorothy Ruhde, Kenneth Schroeder, Norman Schroeder, Lyle Sievers, Marita Signall, Olga Soll, Janice Stoelk, Dorothy Weinhart, Pheby Wiley


Melvin's schooling thank you


Melvin made this in school for his mother, Jessie

First Grade 1929

Back Row: Milo Voss, Orlo Nissen, Gene Strathman, Wayne Witt, Warren Petersen
Third Row: Daryl Mohr, Betty Grelck, ??, Lyle Hoffmann, ??, Norma Dietz
Second Row: Dale Bingham, Wayne Barnes, Donavieve Anderson, ??, Louise Kuhl, Viola Rostermundt, Dorothy Dethlefs, Ruth Schelldorf
Front Row: Keith Wunder, Bob Rostermundt, Anetha Graves, Lorraine Kuhl, Mary Jane
Fritz, Patricia Lawbaugh, Joyce Hunter, Jim Rowedder

Ewoldt No. 3
1 Alvin Kuhse, 2 ??, 3 Ivan Opperman, 4 Harold Schmidt, 5 Orlo Nissen, 6 Helen Hansen, 7 Melvin Nissen, 8 ? Heine?, 9 Herb Hansen, 10 Lois Weinbrandt, 11 Norma (Nissen) Weems, 12 Donna Weinbrandt, 13 Donald Jackson, 14 Marjorie Hansen, 15 Maryann Kasperbauer?, 16 ??, 17 ??, 18 Bill Opperman, 19 Mike Kasperbauer?, 20 Lyle Hansen, 21 Glen Kuhse, 22 Glen Schmidt

Ewoldt No. 3 - 7th & 8th grade 1938

Melvin Nissen, Ivan Opperman, Orlo Nissen, Herb Hansen (son of Hugo Hansen)


Norma Nissen MHS 1945

1944 MHS graduates: Betty Lou Bauer, Joyce Bingham, Hilda Buschman, Ellen Coleman, Audrey Cramer, Edna Mae Dammann, LeNora Dethlefsen, Betty Lou Ehrichs, Shirley Ehrichs, Allan Grage, Leora Grau, Clifford Hacker, Ruth Hammer, Helen Hansen, Kenneth Jensen, Lyle Joens, Harvey Kienast, Verna Kroeger, Clarence Lamp, Valdean Larsen, Vincent Lyden, Marie Meister, Dale Mohr, Donald Neal, Myna Nissen, Norma Nissen, Rita Nissen, Donna Pahde (salutatorian), Beverly Peters, Shirley Peters, Carl Petersen, Harold Petersen, Lila Ranniger, Burton Rutz, Gerald Schroeder, James Schrum, Ray Schrum, Eleanor Sutherland (valedictorian), Agatha Stangl, Alys Thompson, Lois Weinbrandt, Jeanette Weiskircher, Lucille Wegner, Sam Wiese

1944 former students: Glenn Anthony, Olivia Bueltel, Jerome Callender, Norman Ehlers, Robert Free, Patricia Fritz, Merlin Fuss, Lester Hargens, Ralph Hargens, Donald Joens, LeRoy Joens, Naomi Joens, Harold Juels, Arthur Kuhn, Evans Kuhn, Robert Lake, Elverda Lamp, Mary Lippold, Amos Lohmeier, Raymond Lohmeier, Shirley Moeller, Donald Nickum, Lawrence Nickum, Mae Ann Ostermeyer, S. John Rapp, Jr., Franklin Rice, Betty Jane Schieffer, Merlin Sievers, Bernard Soppe, Beverly Stevens, Berdene Stoelk, Harvey Thomsen, Kenneth Weinhart


Melvin Nissen back - first person on left


Mae Bogatzke & Norma Nissen at Normal Training School - Mae married Ken Fogleman - Norma married "Bud" Weems