SOME OF OUR TEACHERS

Here are some of the names of our Ottawa teachers pulled 
together from the e-list and yearbooks. It will be 
cleaned up and checked for accuracy, then reformatted 
when the list is fairly complete. If you remember more 
or spot spelling errors send email to:  
                                jthomas@math.niu.edu




PRINCIPLE:   Elmo Wierenga
Ass't Principle: Marion Campbell

Pupil Personal Advisor: Robert VanderMolen

Truant Officer:
   --Clarence Stoppels
   --Earl Jarvis (also civics teacher? gone by '59)

History/Social studies:
   --Katherine Doezema
   --William Abendschein
   --Richard Blake
   --Bob Hendrickson (also JV basketball coach?)
   --Clarence Taveggia (also basketball coach)
   --Bruce Wagner
   --Elsie Tracie
   --Clarence Brauer

History/Driver' Ed - Rip Collings (swimming, football coach)

Math
   --Lenore "Ma" Bader
   --Elsie Baehre
   --Mary Grant
   --Ernest Green
   --Cornelius Koets
   --Donald Kooiman
   --Gordon Langeries
   --Byron Love (also senior class advisor)
   --David Newton (senior class co-advisor)
   --Dorothy (?) Borden

Music
   --Merwyn Mitchell
   --Arthur Gorman (gone by '59)
   --Robert Pratt
   --Roland Vashaw

Business
   --Charles Chanter
   --Dorothy Hill
   --Nancy Lindeman
   --Alma Stace (gone by '59?)

Home Economics
   --Joy Shaw
   --Eileen Rattasep
   --Shirley Davis
   --Sally Ware (gone by '59)
   --Barbara Carls (gone by '59)

Science
   --Frank Pulte
   --Anna Nelson
   --Ted Nicolette
   --Burton Quist
   --Warren Smith

7th/8th grade teachers
   --Tena Vandellen
   --Marjorie Tappen
   --John Rose
   --Carol Ridge
   --Mary McHugh
   --Donald McFarland
   --John Lane
   --Joan Kleynenberg
   --Mildred Goudzwaard
   --Jerry Herman
   --Caroline Haven (gone by '59)
   --Jeanette Hazenberg (gone by '59)
   --Carolyn Haven (gone by '59)

Vocational training, mechanical drawing
   --John Hage
   --Lloyd Soper
   --Clay Utter
   --Fred Thurston
   --Mr. Peterson

English and Speech
   --Ms DeJong
   --Mabel Tenhaaf (gone by '59)
   --Elva Van Haitsma (gone by'59)
   --Kathleen Smith
   --Marlene VanHall
   --Bertha Lewis
   --Mary LaClaire
   --Nelle Curry
   --Owen Leister
   --Joanne Clayton
   --Herbert Brenner
   --Laura Blandford (gone by '59)
   --Mabel Byrne (gone by '59)

Languages
   --Lydia Cook (nee Vega)
   --Arlene Darby
   --Mary Horn
   --Katherine Hampares
   --Mary Smitter

Art
   --Vernise Pruitt (and her rubber tree)
   --Glenn Raymond

Phys ed
   --Ethelyn Ellinger
   --George Cleveland
   --Joseph Leonard
   --Gordon Hunsberger (gone by '59)
   --Charlie Davidson (gone by '59

Librarians
   --Mary Lieffers
   --Isabella Sullivan

Updated: May 12, 2009

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