1932 Big Rapids Class Reunion
September 1982


Class Visits High School for 50th Reunion Gathering


The Big Rapids High School Class of 1932 recently took a tour through the now Big Rapids Intermediate School. This was the first class to go through the school for four years. It was also the first class with over 100 hundred students graduating. They had 104 members. Fifty years later 45 of the class members gathered for their reunion.

Shown above from left to right are (front row) Angeline (Dioniese Portincas, Helen (Dean) Everitt, Thelma (Lewis) Hyrns, Ila (Manchip) Thompson, Marguerite (Kitzman) Ellefson, Orpha (Martin) Dean, Marie (Dillyard) Poole, Monica (Burns) Buckley,Esther (Madrow) Brown and Marie (Swanson) Tetzlaff.

(Second Row): Clarence Franck, Doris (Brown) Blake, Genieve (Phillips) Sage, Ellen (Goudy) Slater, Florence (Mundy) Clymer, Florence (Palmer) Boiles, Alverta (Hammond) Mielke, Norma (Waldron) Harrison, Marguerite (Fansler) Steinmetz, Earle Totten, Al Manoski, Versil Strang

(Third Row): Lynn Cook, Lyle Montague, Harlan Rood, Florence (Larson) Clason, Bertha (Cyle) Gobson, Christina (Kranish) Gillmer, Mary (Rickney) Fetterley, Harriet (Johnstone) Ulrich, Gertrude (Goltz) Becker, Arietha (Hays) Koerner, Catherine (Blake) Damevon, Lois (Maney) St. Denis, Ruth (Hill) Meyering and Joe Sunderlin.

(Fourth Row): Charles Weld, Wayne Knopf, Ed Higley, Phillip Wisner, Walter Harrison, Frank Wentland, Dr. Ed VanAuken, James Larson, Cecil Tonkin, and William "Elmo" Rasmussen.

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