North High School Alumni Hall of Fame
* = deceased
1987: North High Hall of Fame established by
North High Administration
Chair: Dr. Joan E. Roberts, Principal
Nominations must be submitted to:
North High School
Attention: Vice Principal
501 Holcomb Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50313
Nominations are due with cut-off date of February 1st.
Bios of nominees are sent by North High in mid-April to existing living members of the North High Hall of Fame who are asked to vote on their top two candidates for selection of the incoming inductees for that calendar year. Notification of inductee selection follows with induction usually occurring at North High's All-School Reunion held in early May of that year.
Class Year Class Year
1965 Allen Ernest Anderson 2004 1946 John Franklin "Jack" Krantz * 1997
1949 Charles Leslie Austin 1990 1967 Linda Susan Bowman Lane 2005
1940 Neal Balanoff* 1993 1941 James Locke Macomber, Jr.* 1988
1937 Frank John Bias* 1995 1965 William Lewis McGinnis 2002
1948 Celina Karp Biniaz 1994 1914 Louis Bertram McGrane* 2000
1935 Melvin J. Bowen, Jr.* 1992 1939 Robert Marshall Moorehead 2002
1940 Dr. James Everett Bowman 1988 1937 James Braddie Morris, Jr. * 2003
1947 Jack Edward Buss* 1997 1940 Beverly Jean Moses* 2003
1944 Cecil Hillard Brewton, Jr. 1993 1925 James J. Muto* 1991
1914 Wallace H. Carothers* 1987 1967 Michael Richard Myers* 2002
1940 Dr. George Gray Caudill, M.D. 1989 1956 Neil Almon Parmenter* 2006
1952 Joseph Chaikin* 1987 1964 Michael Patrick Orr 2003
1942 John Harry Connors* 1987 1934 Henry Gordon Peterson, Jr.* 1995
1933 Joseph M. Coppola* 1987 1948 Barbara Lenore (Meier) Prior 1994
1961 Thomas Roscoe Drake 1997 1935 Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz 1990
1944 Cecil Wayne Dunn* 1996 1948 Ruth Delores Raines* 2002
1940 Arthur John Edmunds* 1990 1952 Bob Edward Rice 1991
1941 Duane Walter Ellett* 1997 1951 Frank Booker Robinson, Jr. 1994
1961 Dr. Richard William Evans 1995 1931 John Ruan 1987
1974 Marlene Rene Fisher, Ph.D. 1996 1939 Robert Ray Scott* 1987
1967 Myrna Elizabeth Foster 1988 1953 Claradell (Gergely) Shedd 2005
1937 Wayne Franklin Fox* 1996 1928 Roger Wayne Skidmore* 1987
1962 Steve Dean Gibbons 1989 1955 Wardell Caesar Smith 1996
1937 Joseph A. Ginsberg* 2004 1943 G. Kinsey Stewart* 1994
1936 Kate Marsh Goldman* 1989 1943 Judge Richard Allen Strickler 1993
1935 John Raymond Grubb* 1987 1949 Richard Clair Swift* 2005
1942 Nadean Lind Hamilton* 1992 1950 Eleanor Ruth (Tannus) Brownawell Taheny* 2006
1945 Dr. Richard Wilson Hammer 2000 1938 Lois Elaine Thompson* 2000
1953 Robert Lee Hammer 2005 1964 Marjorie Lynn (Liljegren) VanVooren* 1995
1941 Judge Joseph Clemens Howard* 1992 1942 Roger Williams (Louis Jacob Weertz) 1987
1939 Philip Gamaliel Hubbard* 1989 1932 Catherine G. Williams 1991
1952 Albert Laurence Jennings 2004 1963 Christine Swanson Wilson* 1993
1939 Charles C. Johnson 1988 1945 James Edward Wise 2004
1941 Dr. Hugh Mitchell Johnson 1992 1942 Dr. R.C. (Richard Curtis) Wooters 1991
1948 Dr. Francis Edward Keith 1990 1932 Ralph G. Zarnow* 1987
1936 Sidney Maxweld Kirby 2000 1959 JoAnn (Barberio) Zimmerman 2003
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