The 1948 Polaris showed unmarried teachers grouped together, and married teachers with their families.

Shown are Marguerite Huebner and Carolyn Musser.

Mabel Bowers, Dagmar Hansen and Josephine McHenry.

Lorraine Marcum, Christine Eklund and Elizabeth Harmon.

Many were still teaching when I graduated in 1966.

Shown are the Richard Lumby family with John.

Edith Lyle, Fern Kuhlemeyer and Jeannette Lloyd.

The Reuben Baumgartner family with Richard.

The Woody Fulkerson family with John & Mary Jane.

Alma Rucker and Harry Kruse.

Lillian Matthiesen and Dorothy Nelson.

The Howard Doolin family with Michele.

The Harry Kinert family with Karen & Tony.

Murry Funk and Boyd Garns.

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Farr.

The Ralph Enstrom family with Mary Louise and George.

The Thomas Spring family with Gary.

Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Allen with Billy and Charles.

Mr. and Mrs. Josef Spudich with Stephen.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nicklas with Dick and Ted and their cocker spaniel.

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Carpenter with Janet and Ann.

Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Seeman with Linda and Larry.

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Durham with Ralph and Michael.

FHS Principal L. E. Mensenkamp and Mrs. Mensenkamp.

Naomi Anderson, Registrar with Mr. Anderson.

The Library and Drivers' Ed.

Nice cars!

And some pretty cheerleaders!

J. Kutsus, D. Smith, J. Kutsus,
D. Eckert, A. Vohlken,
N. Rasmussen and J. Lenz.

William Stevens

The Alvernian, the yearbook of the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, celebrating the 25th year of the school.

I was born in St. Francis Hospital in 1948!

St. Francis Hospital in 1948.

The original hospital is at the left, the new addition on the right.

The driveway at the far right is the ambulance entrance.

I was born on the third floor of the old wing at the far left.

The top photo shows the Delivery Room where I was born.

The Delivery Room nurse shown is Sister M. Luella, R.N.

The center photo shows the Nursery.

I cannot make out the names on the labels showing who the babies are.

The nurse shown in the Nursery is student nurse Ida Mae Vittorio.

The bottom photo shows the Nursery in 1923, with student nurses Hillebrecht and Niles, and Sister M. Ermalinda.

Dr. Marie H. Bohn, shown at top right, was the doctor who delivered me.

Other doctors shown are Wiley, Kortemeier, Bess, Doelker, Rockey, Shelly and Karcher.

Doctors shown on other pages are Grant, Linden and Graff.

The student nurses go bowling.

The sign on the wall says it is the Pla-Mor Bowling Alleys.

The bowling alley was later known as the Sports Bowl.

Mike Meade, who now owns the building, wrote that the address is 301 W. Main Street.

Mike says that the building is now known to most as Freeport Beauty Supply, but originally, the building was the Oddfellows Temple.

He wrote that the lanes were removed sometime after the previous owner had it, and the wood was stored in the basement.

The student nurses playing softball on the front lawns of some houses.

I'm guessing this is S. Walnut Avenue, near the hospital.

Does anyone recognize these houses?

The student nurses playing tennis.

I have no idea where this is.

Does anyone recognize this?

Inside the Nurse's Home, and the basement laundry.

Shown is the Easy Washer.

My parents had one like this in our basement. The left side is the washer with agitator; the right half has a spinner.

The laundry basket on the floor is also like one my parents had; it is a peck with a plastic liner.

The laundry was then laid out to dry on racks.

The student nurses' underwear is drying on the center rack! LOL

The Junior Class.

Back row: Patricia Sauer, Mary Henen, Mardell Johnson, Alice Then.

Front Row: Alta Tielkemeier, Florence Caygill, Mildred Then.

The Class of 1947

Shown are Elsie Mae Banwarth, Mary Ann Beckmann, Jean Onalee Chapin, Helen Elizabeth Cleary, Mary Kathleen Daly and Carol Marion Ditzler.

Not shown are Dorothy Elaine Ellis, Della Marie Gitchel, Agnes Berniece Heiring, Germaine Marie Heiring, Mary Ilene Hill, Jean Marie Johnson, Woneda Ann Martel, Florence Margaret Marx, Margie Mary Murray, Elsie Cecelia Untersee, Irma Elizabeth Walker, and Elizabeth Vera Werner.

The Class of 1948

June Elouise Chapin, Elizabeth Lucille Jaeger,

Julia Arlene Robbe, Dorothy Mae Stichter,

Ida Mae Vittorio, Betty Jane Weber,

Gertrude Priska Ziehli

In the bottom photo, Nurse Frances Steinmetz is shampooing a patient's hair.

The top photo is perhaps my favorite in the entire yearbook.

The caption states:

"Sisters ready to take off for their annual picnic. Fishing rods, worms, ball and bat, are important things for the day's outing."

And they are riding in the back of an open-air dump truck!