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 (Alphabetical)
Class Year Class Year
1965 Allen Ernest Anderson 2004 1968 David Michael Lewis* 2009
1949 Charles Leslie Austin 1990 1964 Marjorie Lynn (Liljegren) VanVooren* 1995
1940 Neal Balanoff* 1993 1942 Nadean (Lind) Hamilton* 1992
1959 JoAnn Mary (Barberio) Zimmerman 2003 1941 James Locke Macomber, Jr.* 1988
1937 Frank John Bias* 1995 1936 Kate (Marsh) Goldman* 1989
1944 Richard (Dick) Gene Biermann* 2011 1959 Larry Clark Martindale 2015
1935 Melvin J. Bowen, Jr.* 1992 1948 Jerold Chase Mathews 2007
1940 Dr. James Everett Bowman* 1988 1965 William Lewis McGinnis 2002
1967 Linda Susan (Bowman) Lane 2005 1914 Louis Bertram McGrane* 2000
1927 Judge Howard Wilson Brooks* 2012 1948 Barbara Lenore (Meier) Prior* 1994
1947 Jack Edward Buss* 1997 1939 Robert Marshall Moorehead* 2002
1944 Cecil Hillard Brewton, Jr.* 1993 1963 Patrick Woodrow Moran* 2015
1914 Wallace Hume Carothers* 1987 1937 James Braddie Morris, Jr. * 2003
1940 Dr. George Gray Caudill, M.D.* 1989 1940 Beverly Jeanne Moses* 2003
1952 Joseph Chaikin* 1987 1925 James J. Muto* 1991
1942 John Harry Connors* 1987 1967 Michael Richard Myers* 2002
1933 Joseph M. Coppola* 1987 1956 Neil Almon Parmenter* 2006
1946 Gwendylon Davis 2011 1965 Michael Patrick Orr 2003
1961 Thomas Roscoe Drake 1997 1934 Henry Gordon Peterson, Jr.* 1995
1944 Cecil Wayne Dunn* 1996 1948 Cleota Marie (Proctor) Wilbekin 2011
1940 Arthur John Edmunds* 1990 1935 Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz* 1990
1941 Duane Walter Ellett* 1997 1948 Ruth Delores Raines* 2002
1961 Dr. Richard William Evans 1995 1940 Paul Allen Ramsey* 2010
1974 Marlene Rene Fisher, Ph.D. 1996 1952 Bob Edward Rice* 1991
1967 Myrna Elizabeth Foster 1988 1964 Connie Sue (Ritter) Cook 2012
1937 Wayne Franklin Fox* 1996 1951 Frank Booker Robinson, Jr. 1994
1953 Claradell (Gergely) Shedd 2005 1931 John Ruan* 1987
1962 Stephen Dean Gibbons* 1989 1939 Robert Ray Scott* 1987
1937 Joseph A. Ginsberg* 2004 1928 Roger Wayne Skidmore* 1987
1935 John Raymond Grubb* 1987 1955 Wardell Caesar Smith 1996
1945 Dr. Richard Wilson Hammer* 2000 1943 G. Kinsey Stewart* 1994
1953 Robert Lee Hammer 2005 1943 Judge Richard Allen Strickler* 1993
1941 Judge Joseph Clemens Howard* 1992 1963 Cristine Louise (Swanson) Wilson* 1993
1939 Philip Gamaliel Hubbard* 1989 1949 Richard Clair Swift* 2005
1952 Albert Laurence Jennings 2004 1950 Eleanor Ruth (Tannus) Brownawell Taheny* 2006
1939 Charles Christopher Johnson* 1988 1938 Lois Elaine Thompson* 2000
1941 Dr. Hugh Mitchell Johnson 1992 1924 Dr. Abraham Akiba Toubes* 2013
1967 Richard Norman Jurgens 2010 1942 Roger Williams (Louis Jacob Weertz)* 1987
1948 Celina (Karp) Biniaz 1994 1971 Bill Horace Wheeler 2012
1948 Francis Edward Keith* 1990 1932 Catherine Gayle Virginia Williams* 1991
1950 Wendell Walker Kempton* 2010 1945 James Edward Wise* 2004
1936 Sidney Maxweld Kirby* 2000 1942 Dr. R.C. (Richard Curtis) Wooters* 1991
1946 John Franklin "Jack" Krantz * 1997   1932 Ralph G. Zarnow* 1987
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