Creation Date

1918

Description

In 1918, the Preston High School Class graduating class gathered in front of their high school to be photographed one last time with each other and their teachers.  The class is flanked on either side by their male teachers.  Local Preston photographer Moen took the picture. 

The teachers and graduating class are identified as such: seated from the left are Myrtle Thatcher, Virginia Snyder, Eleanor Hanning, Mae Kirk, Ladice Dovenberg, Clarissa Kaump, Marguerite Hauge, Blanche Hecker, Loretta Young, Marion Satterlee, Hortense Kuethe, Julia Grebin, Elizabeth Hutton, Bubye Langan, Lucille Wright, and a teacher for normal training. Standing from the left are J. K. Ward - Agriculture teacher, William Fuerhauk - Janitor, Mr. Roberts - Principal, Miss Mueller - Teacher, Cora Danielson, Doris Shattuck, Mercedes Wintz, Nathaniel Shattuck, Harold Link, Goldie Olson, Frank Fraser, Ronald Knapp, William Thompson, Paul Pooler, Lester Ott, Charles Passe, Ella Scanlan, Elfrieda Erickson, Serena Spalhaug, L. C. Marthy - Superintendent, and Homer Barns - Manual training. One graduate, Daniel Wilson, was not included in the picture.

The photo is held in its original, simple wooden frame of black and brown marble or grained patterns.