North High School Alumni Hall of Fame
* = deceased
1987: North High Hall of Fame established by
North High Administration
Chair: Dr. Paul Devin, Principal
Nominations must be submitted to:
Polar Bear Partners
North High School Hall of Fame Committee
c/o 501 Holcomb Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50313
Nominations are due with cut-off date of January 2, 2011. Exception was for the year 2010, and the cut-off date was January 30, 2010. Nominees/candidates must have graduated from North High School. Nominations can be carried for one additional year and reconsidered a second year as well.
For the initial year of 1987, ten nominees/candidates were inducted. For every year since 1987, voting for a maximum of four nominees has occurred and those four have been designated for induction. Yearly a selection of bios of nominees is sent to existing living members of the North High Hall of Fame who are asked to vote on a designated number of candidates, not to exceed four in any single year, for selection of the incoming inductees for that calendar year. On occasion, there has been only one inducted, and sometimes none is inducted. Notification of inductee selection follows with induction usually occurring at North High's All-School Reunion held in early May of that year or at a selected North High assembly or event.
Hall of Fame Inductee List by Year of Induction
Yr/Ind Class Yr/Ind Class
1987 Wallace Hume Carothers* 1914 1994(+) G. Kinsey Stewart 1943
Joseph Chaikin* 1952 1995 Frank John Bias* 1937
John Harry Connors* 1942 Dr. Richard William Evans 1961
Joseph M. Coppola* 1933 Marjorie Lynn (Lijegren) VanVooren* 1964
John Raymond Grubb* 1935 Henry Gordon Peterson, Jr.* 1934
John Ruan* 1931 1996 Cecil Wayne Dunn* 1944
Robert Ray Scott* 1939 Marlene Rene Fisher, Ph.D. 1974
Robert Wayne Skidmore* 1928 Wayne Franklin Fox* 1937
Roger Williams (Louis Jacob Weertz)* 1942 Wardell Caesar Smith 1955
Ralph G. Zarnow* 1987 1997 Jack Edward Buss* 1947
1988 Dr. James Everett Bowman 1940 Duane Walter Ellett* 1941
Myrna Elizabeth Foster 1967 Thomas Roscoe Drake 1961
Charles Christopher Johnson* 1939 John Franklin "Jack" Krantz* 1946
James Locke Macomber, Jr. 1941 2000 Dr. Richard Wilson Hammer* 1945
1989 Dr. George Gray Caudill, M.D.* 1940 Sidney Maxweld Kirby 1936
Steve Dean Gibbons 1962 Lewis Bertram McGrane* 1914
Kate Marsh Goldman* 1936 Lois Elaine Thompson* 1938
Philip Gamaliel Hubbard* 1939 2002 Robert Marshall Moorehead 1939
1990 Charles Leslie Austin 1949 William Lewis McGinnis 1965
Arthur John Edmunds* 1940 Michael Richard Myers* 1967
Francis Edward Keith 1948 Ruth Delores Raines* 1948
Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz 1935 2003 JoAnn Mary (Barberio) Zimmerman 1959
1991 James J. Muto* 1925 James Braddie Morris, Jr.* 1937
Bob Edward Rice* 1952 Beverly Jeanne Moses* 1940
Catherine G. Williams 1932 Michael Patrick Orr 1965
Dr. R.C. (Richard Curtis) Wooters 1942 2004 Allen Ernest Anderson 1965
1992 Melvin J. Bowen, Jr.* 1935 Joseph A. Ginsberg* 1937
Nadean (Lind) Hamilton* 1942 Albert Laurence Jennings 1952
Judge Joseph Clemens Howard* 1987 James Edward Wise 1945
Dr. Hugh Mitchell Johnson 1941 2005 Linda Sue (Bowman) Lane 1967
1993 Neal Balanoff * 1940 Claradell (Gergely) Shedd 1953
Cecil Hillard Brewton, Jr. 1944 Robert Lee Hammer 1953
Cristine Louise (Swanson) Wilson* 1963 Richard Clair Swift* 1949
Judge Richard Allen Strickler 1943 2006 Neil Almon Parmenter* 1956
1994 Celina (Karp) Biniaz 1948 Eleanor Ruth (Tannus) Brownawell Taheny* 1950
Barbara Lenore (Meier) Prior 1948 2007 Jerold Chase Mathews 1948
Frank Booker Robinson, Jr. 1951 2009 David Michael Lewis* 1968
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