School Graduates - St. John's
St. John's parochial school was started in 1877, very near
the beginning of Rev. A. J. Sauer's pastorate of St. John's
Catholic church. It was first housed in a one-story frame school
building on the north side of South Main street, nearly opposite
the present two-story brick building, which was erected in 1904,
during the pastorate of Rev. J. J. Driscoll. It continued for a
number of years teaching only the elementary branches, and many
of its pupils entered and graduated from the Carrollton High
School. From the start the school was taught by Dominican
Sisters. Enrollment in 1896, 85.
The school building had been planned with a view to the
ultimate establishment of the hight school, and the plan was
accomplished in 1922, during the pastorate of Rev. Thos. E.
Cusack.
The frame building for the Dominican Sisters adjoining the
church on the south, built in 1881, was removed in 1922, and a
larger and more modern home for the instructors was erected east
of the school building.
The first graduating class, composed of eight boys and eight
girls, received diplomas at the commencement exercises June 1,
1926.
Enrollment, September, 1937, High School 58; grades 115.
Class of 1926
Mary Carmody, Helena Goeddy, Agnes Frank, Stephen Grummels,
Francis Geers, Anthony Geers, John Heraty, Kathryn Hanson, John
Kirbach, Louise, Kirbach, George Koster, John Koster, Margaret
McMahan, August Pohlman, Louise Thien, Louise Wagener
Class of 1927
Mary Brennen, Ruth Heraty, Charles Kirback, Julia Longmeyer,
Francis Meyer, Bernard Thien
Class of 1928
Edward Fisher, Kathryn Fleming, George Goeddy, Lawrence
Kirback, Francis Pohlman, Leo Rawe
Class of 1929
Mary Carmody, Francis Hill, Frances Kirbach, Helen Koster,
Rosemary Longmeyer, Mary Thien, Frank Wagener
Class of 1930
Mary Louise Becker, Anna Goeddy, Hazel Heraty, Howard Heraty,
William Keiper, Clement Koster
Eleanor McMahan, Francis Rawe, Catherine Thein, Bertha Thien
Class of 1931
Leonard Carmody, Floyd Kelly, Marie Klunk, Louis Meyer,
George Pohlman, Elizabeth Schmitz, Leonard Stone
Class of 1932
Vincent Becker, Louise Gehlhausen, Leo Grummel, Anthony
Hansen, Mary L. Postlewait, Mary L. Rawe, Marjory Schmitz,
Catherine Schnelten, Helen Thien
Class of 1933
Wilma Bowie, Philip Ewen, Joseph Goeddy, Edward Hansen,
Raymond Kerchoff, Francis Kirbach, Norbert Koster, Genevieve
Naber, Chris Schroeder
Class of 1934
Irene Banghart, Leo Thien, John Bernard Schnelten, Florian
Naber, Celeste Schmitz, Hester Batty, Marjorie Thien, Mary
Catherine Cordes, Mary Keiper, Irene Rawe
Class of 1935
Marie Kaiser, Ethel Heraty, Mary Catherine Bowie, Catherine
Kirbach, Teresa Fleming
Class of 1936
Ursula Abeln, Jerome Pranger, Leonard Hansen, Ernest Pohlman,
James Becker, James Carmody, Harriet Varble, Clara Thien,
Margaret Wagener, Margaret Roth, Helen Hartman, Margaret March,
Barbara Kuhnline, Virginia Seimer, Leonore Naber, Helen Sethaler
Class of 1937
Junior Seimer, Evelyn Kirback, Phillip Pohlman, Ernest
Ridings, Eileen Ridings, Virginia Heraty, Mary E. Pranger
Class of 1938
Mary Agnes Carmody, Ena Caselton, Catherine Hartman, Rosemary
Kirbach, Margaret Kuhnline, Kathrun Perry, Margery Rawe,
Florence Roth, Robert Cronin, Francis Becker
