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NewsDecember 4, 2012

Mystery photo gallery #36

Help us identify these pictures. If you spot someone you know, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com. Readers have identified more than 50 mystery photos. See them in these "f/8 and Be There" blogs by Fred Lynch: July 18, Sept. 3 and Nov. 5.

March 9, 1955 Southeast Missourian. Indicating the interest in uranium, even locally, since recent finds in Illinois, this group is examining a Geiger counter at the Montgomery Ward store in Cape Girardeau. From the left are K.D. Neal, manager of the appliance department; David W. Graves, story manager; Mrs. Floyd Davis and Bud Cummings. The model is a professional type used to locate either uranium or oil. On the table is another model. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive) [The device was a Model 111B Scintillator.]
March 9, 1955 Southeast Missourian. Indicating the interest in uranium, even locally, since recent finds in Illinois, this group is examining a Geiger counter at the Montgomery Ward store in Cape Girardeau. From the left are K.D. Neal, manager of the appliance department; David W. Graves, story manager; Mrs. Floyd Davis and Bud Cummings. The model is a professional type used to locate either uranium or oil. On the table is another model. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive) [The device was a Model 111B Scintillator.]
March 1, 1961 Southeast Missourian. Cheerleader champions were chosen for the elementary schools in Cape Girardeau this year and this group, from Trinity Lutheran School, won the title, the champs being picked by the basketball coaches of the elementary schools. From the left, kneeling, are Bonnie Strom, Jean Siemers and Emma Jo Pensel. Standing, Patricia Johnson, Judy Schrader, Della Dee Heise and Cheri Huckstep. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
March 1, 1961 Southeast Missourian. Cheerleader champions were chosen for the elementary schools in Cape Girardeau this year and this group, from Trinity Lutheran School, won the title, the champs being picked by the basketball coaches of the elementary schools. From the left, kneeling, are Bonnie Strom, Jean Siemers and Emma Jo Pensel. Standing, Patricia Johnson, Judy Schrader, Della Dee Heise and Cheri Huckstep. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
This photo of State College coeds may have been taken at Kent Library. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
This photo of State College coeds may have been taken at Kent Library. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
May 13, 1953 Southeast Missourian. Teenage models of Franklin School pose in their new summertime clothes they made in home economics class this year. The eighth grade girls modeled the garments in a fashion show for the Franklin Parent-Teacher Unit meeting last week. Here Ruth Ann Drum, left, and June Bowden, right, are wearing smart skirt and blouse ensembles, and June Fingerhut, center, sports a light check pattern sunback dress. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
May 13, 1953 Southeast Missourian. Teenage models of Franklin School pose in their new summertime clothes they made in home economics class this year. The eighth grade girls modeled the garments in a fashion show for the Franklin Parent-Teacher Unit meeting last week. Here Ruth Ann Drum, left, and June Bowden, right, are wearing smart skirt and blouse ensembles, and June Fingerhut, center, sports a light check pattern sunback dress. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
Lunch was served to these youngsters in the gymnasium of an unidentified school. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
Lunch was served to these youngsters in the gymnasium of an unidentified school. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
May 15, 1958 Southeast Missourian. Pupils at Indian Creek School, one of the rural schools in the R-4 District north of Cape Girardeau, pose for a picture at the end of the term. From the left, front row: Jackie Aufdenberg, Wilburn Richardson, Johnie Aufdenberg, Gary Lunsford, John Richardson, Shirley Ford, Wesley Farrow, Jennifer Singleton and Patricia Lunsford; second row: Gene Davis, Charles Richardson, Michael McLaird, Stanley Farrow, Kenneth Aufdenberg, John McLaird, Charles Lunsford, Henry Schuessker, Ruth Schuessker and Michael Ford; back row: Mrs. Sewell S. Wood, teacher, Gene Farrow, Dean Farrow, Barbara Lunsford, Jimmy Edmonds, Mary Dields, Yvonne Richardson, Lyman Gohn, Gene Godwin and Carl Wright, teacher. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive) [The district became part of the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District which opened in 1960.]
May 15, 1958 Southeast Missourian. Pupils at Indian Creek School, one of the rural schools in the R-4 District north of Cape Girardeau, pose for a picture at the end of the term. From the left, front row: Jackie Aufdenberg, Wilburn Richardson, Johnie Aufdenberg, Gary Lunsford, John Richardson, Shirley Ford, Wesley Farrow, Jennifer Singleton and Patricia Lunsford; second row: Gene Davis, Charles Richardson, Michael McLaird, Stanley Farrow, Kenneth Aufdenberg, John McLaird, Charles Lunsford, Henry Schuessker, Ruth Schuessker and Michael Ford; back row: Mrs. Sewell S. Wood, teacher, Gene Farrow, Dean Farrow, Barbara Lunsford, Jimmy Edmonds, Mary Dields, Yvonne Richardson, Lyman Gohn, Gene Godwin and Carl Wright, teacher. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive) [The district became part of the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District which opened in 1960.]
Third from the right in his candle-lit photo is Cape Girardeau businessman Marty Hecht. The others pictured are unknown. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
Third from the right in his candle-lit photo is Cape Girardeau businessman Marty Hecht. The others pictured are unknown. If you can provide information about this image, send an email to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.
Oct. 26, 1960 Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau’s public school kindergarten teachers combined their subject resources at a Franklin School Parent-Teacher Unit meeting Tuesday night to tell of their work and how it prepares small children for the challenges that lie ahead in the more formal classroom. Participants were, from the left: Mrs. E.E. Palsgrove, Jefferson; Mrs. Frank Hartman, Lorimier; Miss Clara Mae Dickey, May Greene; Mrs. William H. Headrick, Washington; Mrs. Tom Simpson, Franklin, and Mrs. I.E. Beard, Alma Schrader. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
Oct. 26, 1960 Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau’s public school kindergarten teachers combined their subject resources at a Franklin School Parent-Teacher Unit meeting Tuesday night to tell of their work and how it prepares small children for the challenges that lie ahead in the more formal classroom. Participants were, from the left: Mrs. E.E. Palsgrove, Jefferson; Mrs. Frank Hartman, Lorimier; Miss Clara Mae Dickey, May Greene; Mrs. William H. Headrick, Washington; Mrs. Tom Simpson, Franklin, and Mrs. I.E. Beard, Alma Schrader. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
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Help us identify these pictures. If you spot someone you know, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com. Readers have identified more than 50 mystery photos. See them in these "f/8 and Be There" blogs by Fred Lynch: July 18, Sept. 3 and Nov. 5.

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