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Welcome to the "Home Page"


of the


East Des Moines High School Class of 1956.


Dear East High, You Are The School For Me !
Scalp 'em Scarlets, Ugh!

The "BIG FIVE OH" is now in the history books and a great time was had by all of us who were able to attend.



Here it is - the Class Picture taken at the 50th Reunion. Printed copies were provided at the Saturday evening event by the photographer, Eric O'Connor of "Mullicastudio".

Here is the "Class of 1956 Response" speech given by Lyle Simpson at the Thursday evening "129th Annual East High Alumni Dinner".

I have five sets of candid photos taken at reunion events by classmates:
These by Janeene (Miller) Carlisle
These by Tom Fjelde
These by Suzanne (Samo) Newton
These by Tom Pierick
These by Sharon (Burris) Howse


Here is the Class Picture taken at the 45th Reunion.

Here are a group of candid shots from reunion festivities provided by Janeene (Miller) Carlisle, Bob Trotter, Suzanne (Samo) Newton, Sharel (Truers) Spendlove, and Deanna (Wheatly) Peterson.


Having a little trouble matching faces with names? Maybe this will help. Following are links to pages which show names with the faces for each row in the photo above. I also put in the year book photo so you can see what your classmate looked like in 1956.
First Row
Second Row
Third Row
Fourth Row
Fifth Row

The class met at Pagliai's Pizza in Johnston on September 25th for one of the 45th reunion planning sessions. Pictures are here. Thanks to Janeene (Miller) Carlisle for passing them on.


Further closet cleaning (it's a BIG closet) yielded more treasure. Thanks, Mom, for never throwing anything away! Take a look at the programs for graduation, class night, and baccalaureate.
The 1953 graduating class of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School is (still) here.


EHS56 has a "Mailman" list server address called "ehs56@ehs56.org".

This email address will reach all EHS56 classmates who "subscribe" to the list.

To subscribe to this list send an email to ehs56-subscribe@ehs56.org. Please make sure your email program includes an "In Real Life" name for you in addition to your email address.
You'll receive email telling you what to do next.


Carol Adams found this original picture of the June Class of 1956 on the front steps.


NewsLink News


Larry Fogelson, newsletter editor, has provided copies of the NewsLinks for on-line publication.


The June, 2008 issue of the NewsLink, the EHS 56 Newsletter, is available by clicking here. Use the Zoom feature of Adobe Reader to get a close up of each photo..

You will need the PDF reader plug-in in order to view it. Click this button to visit the Adobe reader download page and download your copy if you need one. It is free. We are doing this because PDF formatting makes the on-line version of NewsLink appear with the same formatting as the version that is mailed out via USPS.
Links to past issues follow:

December 2007 , June 2007 , December 2006 , June 2006 , December 2005 , June 2005 , December 2004 , June 2004 , December 2003 , June 2003 , December 2002 , June 2002 , December 2001 , June 2001 , December 2000 , June 2000 , December 1999 , June 1999 , December 1998 , June 1998 , December 1997 , June 1997 , December 1996


Thinking about someone you knew in high school but not certain which class they were in? East High class of 1957 is here and 1958 is here.


The 45th Reunion Page is here. Check back frequently for updates and pictures of the event. The June, 2001 NewsLink had all the pre-event information. It is now On-Line and can be read using the link provided above.


Below are some pages form the January and June 1956 Quill. I imagine more than a few members of our class are having difficulty remembering where they put their treasured copy. These images are fairly large and will take a while to download unless you have a high speed Internet connection. Oh well, the're worth waiting for!

Here are the covers.



Here are the pictures of the January Class Officers.

Here are the pictures of the June Class Officers.


Here is the Janaury Class Board.

Here is the June Class Board.


Following references are to individual pages of Year Book pictures, indexed by name so you only have to download the pages you want to look at. Use the "Next" and "Back" buttons to browse through the pages or the "Home" button to return here.
Enjoy!
The January Class

Adams through Bellis

Belluchi through Butler

Cahow through Dixon

Doyle through Hobbs

Hodges through Lewis

Livengood through Meline

Mireles through Peacock

Pearson through Sacco

Schmeling through Snyder

Soloman through Waltz

Ward through Woxell plus Donald Kiefer (Bob Freeborn and Judy Lea Ridgeway Freel not pictured)



The June Class

Abbott through Angell

Aspengren through Beebe

Beeman through Brady

Bird through Carnel

Carrington through Cooper

Crain through Elder

Ellis through Frakes

Funderburk through Hamilton

Harris through Howser

Hudson through Johnson

Jones through Larson

Law through May

McGriff through Moore

Mullin through Owens

Parker through Rear

Reese through Rummans

Rushing through Simmons

Smith through John Sullivan

Kay Sullivan through Vantrees

Warren through Wiggins

Williams through Yarges plus Gary Mines

August Grads Anderson through Price

August Grads Shepherd through Thompson


And -- if you think thoses pictures are funny, have a look at what June class did to themselves for the "Kiddy Party" here.

Here is a link to the student built East High web site.


Updated 7/9/2008.