Palmer Museum Archives 1939 Polaris School Yearbook

The Palmer Museum has published archival material from the 1939 Polaris Palmer School yearbook. The digital record includes photographs and lists of students and staff from that academic year. The administration was led by Superintendent Harold Thuma. The faculty included Hattie Jeffery, Neil Miller, Myrtle Klovstad, Vernon Moreman, Annabelle Freeburn, Irwin Metcalf, Celia Klotz, and Lyle Rogers. Senior class members featured Stella DeLand, Merle Anderson, Ruth Cornelius, Kenneth Hurd, Lyle Bruckbauer, Helen Arndt, Robert Sieber, Lucille Maude Ring, John Walker, Grace Smith, Leonard Lamp, Margaret Miller, Eunice Bouwens, Gerald Lamp, Theresa Marie Walker, and Leonard Moffit. Junior class students included John Broostrom, Tom Skinner, Will Dreghorn, Dale Rorrison, Norbert Swoboda, Melvin Barry, an individual named Porter, Virginia Hunt, an individual named King, Priscilla Miller, Maralyn Vasanoja, Dorothy Sheely, Miles France, Patty Hemmer, and Esther Larson. Sophomore students comprised individuals with surnames Rust, Bruckbauer, Moffitt, Yohn, and Hecker, along with Duane Lee, Patricia Ring, Gladys Larson, Myrtis Gill, Gayle Pippel, Dorothy Newville, Lavonne Erickson, Eloise Kepler, Dana LeDuc, Robert Klem, James Bouwens, Gordon Dreghorn, Buddy Yohn, Angus McKechnie, Raymond Sieber, Donald Huseby, Bert Duff, Vernon France, Jack Leek, another Bruckbauer, and Frances Lake. Freshmen included Jim Ellsworth, Betty Jane Huntley, Lawrence Vasanoja, Constance Andrews, Gerald LaRose, Myrtle Childers, Melvin Bachtel, another Bruckbauer, another Hecker, Victor Falk, an individual named Lentz, Eugene Marsh, an unnamed person, an individual named Head, William Bouwens, Dale Sandvik, an individual named Hartley, and Robert Pippel. Junior High students listed include Monaghan, France, Broostrom, Robert Piaskowski, Miller, Venne, Peterson, Moffitt, Falk, Huseby, Byron Anderson, Sheely, Swoboda, Smith, Donnie Lentz, another Smith, Dreghorn, Bell, Mary Marshall, Lee, Bingle, Johnson, another Smith, Puhl, Higgenbotham, Wilson, Bouwens, Pfief, Kepler, Ben Herman, Larson, Small, Warner, and Reiten. The archival images are hosted on the Palmer Museum website, providing a historical snapshot of the school community from that era.