Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04
ALUMNI WIDELY SCATTERED
Omaha High School Graduates Found
in Many Lands.
THEY PLAN For A REUNION
FunctiOn VIII he Held at Field Club
Monday, Jane NiReteenth. for
Gathering OF the Former
mer students.

With Interested members In three Tor
eign countries Alaska the Philippines and
practically every STATE in the union. follow
ing all the regular lines Of occupation and
many unusual pursuits. the Omaha High
School Alumni association can truly claim
TO be International In scope and varied In
membership.
Even a woman clown at Coney island.
Miss Maude r. Kimban OF the class Of lisa
is included in it's roster. She was formerly
a fun maker at the New York HippOdrome
Russell Wilbur OF the class Of 1898 is an
other alumnus who recalls with fond mem
cries his high school days at the old school
on the hill. although he is now Catholic
priest in Rome. Selling American radiators
10 Frenchmen in Paris is the unusual &C.
cupation OF Lewis B. Reed, 81. Sull an
other slumnus in distant land is Frank
DetWeiler. g. who is now a missionary in
Chill. South America
Prominent soldiers and sailors under the
Stars and Stripes also are proud to count
themselves former students of the local
high school. Captain Fred W. Sladen Of
the general staff Of the army. stationed at
Washington, d. c., was graduated with the
class Of ISIS. Harry oury, once famous
cadet and gadiron hero of the high school
and State university and more recently
commandant of the Omaha cadet battalion.
is now a captain in the Third infantry
serving In the Philippines. He belonged to
the class Of 1891
Wallace Cadet Taylor Of the class OF 1881.
IL colonel OF Philippine constabulary, al
though temporarily located in California.
Louis Shane, ~, is an Annapolis graduate
and now an officer on one Of the big dread
son and several other former high school
students are now attending the naval
and army academies.
one OF the most active workers in the
reorganization OF the Alumni association
was Writ Thompson, 90 After a, career
with the army in the Philippines during the
war. he returned to the scene of his high
school education and is now a money order
official in the postoffice. He has made out
an almost complete roster Of his class and
has aroused strong alumni spirit within
it.
Many Newspapers.
Wen known local newspaper men also
count an Omaha High school course among
their education assets. They include. Vic
tor Rosewater, 81, editor-in-chief of The
Bee. Joseph Polcar. IS, managing editor
city editor of The Bee; Miles Greenleaf, 90,
and Leslie Higgins, %, Of the staff of the
World Herald; Lyman l. Bryson, O5. and
Stuart Gould, 10, of The Bee staff. James
Houston. formerly of the Daily News and
now of the Denver Post, graduated in 1898.
Doane Powell, staff artist of The Bee,
graduated in 1899
The professions OF law. medicine and
teaehingg are not without prominent fol-
lowers from OmAha's High school. A dis
trict just Howard Kennedy Of this city,
and q city attorney, John w. Shank of
Los Angeles were graduated here in 1856
and 1885 respectively.
Following are some of the other attor-
neys who claim Omaha as their high school
Alma mater; Carl NJ Johnson. S. Alaska;
Z. N. Morsman. So: Edward J. Bradley,
~: Phillip W. Russell, 81; Stanley N. Rose
water. 90; Charles s. Elgutter 81; Herbert
A whippIe. -; Willard Chambers, IS
Physicians and surgeons who gained
! their high school education here are now
found in all parts Of the country, and one,
| DR.. Bert Butler SO, Is now q surgeon in
the Philippine constabulary. Some of the
! local high school graduates who have since
! been accorded the degree OF m. D." are:
/ DIR. George Gilbert, 80. Morrill,, Neb.. DR..
John Nelson. g, jamestown, N. Y; DR..
| Luther Leisenring, 90. Placerville, Cal.
| DR.. H. s. Gillespie. 80. Mapleton, Ia; DR..
A K. Detwiler. 81; DIT. H. Leroy drummer.
20; DR.. Charles Morrison, ~; DR.. Alfred
o. Peterson, 80: DR.. James Goetz, rs; DR..
Frederick F. Teal. "a: Dr. Burton Christie,
IS; DR.. Anthony H. Gsantner, 90; DR..
Harrison A. Wlgton. 81; DR.. w. Wherry,
50
Hear Call of Glass ROOz.
| A number OF the alumni have risen 10
! positions OF prominence in the nation
corps OF university professors. Hal T.
Beans is now a professor at Columbia
university. while Joel Stebbins. Robert
Lansing and Alvin A. Steel held similar
positions at the universities Of Illinois.
Minnesota and Wisconsin. All four be-
longed TO the class of 1885 Van Zant Cor
| telyou, professor at the University OF Mis-
souri,, and Fred Van Horn. a member OF
the faculty Of the Milwaukee High school
both belonged TO the class OF 1888.
Not a few alumni of the local school
graduates. after completing their educa-
| lions and becoming teachers, have decided
that nothing would be better than being a
member OF the faculty where they once at
tended as students. So the following are
| now numbered among the Instructors al
the Omaha High school:
Miss May Copeland. 81; Nathan Bern.
stein, IS: Miss Lydia McCague Sc: Miss
Eunice Stebbins. 'sS; Miss Carrie o. Brown
80; Miss Jessie Towne, 20: Miss Abba
! Bowen. sc; Miss Florence MeHuEh, 80
Miss Helen Mackin. 's5; Miss Nell Randall
| IS; Miss Helen Brandeis 50; Miss Jean.
netts Monroe Wallace, 's6: Miss Z0rl
Shieids ~; Miss Pearl ROckfellOw. 81.
One Of the comparatively few business
! women OF Omaha is Miss Theodore Borg
lum OF the Delft Tea room. who was grad
usted from the high school with the elssi
of 1896
Many Business Men Grads.
Many local business men proudly CLAIM
graduation or former attendance at the OLE
school on the hill A few OF them ar,
Thomas II. McCague, 81: Alfred c. Ken
needy, 81: Clement c. Chase. 81: Browe
E. MeCague, 81; George W. Sumner. 81
Ross B. Towie. -; Samuel Burns. ir., IS
Mosher Colpetzer, IS: Clarke Powell, IS
Fred B. Dale, IS; George W. Morton. 81
Henry W. Yates. jr.. ~; r. L Robson
IS; Gerald Wharton. IS; Glenn Wharton
So
Henry T. Clarke. jr.. son OF one OF Ne
braska's pioneers and a member OF IN
, State Railway commission. graduated iron
the Omaha High school in lssz