The Audubon County Journal said that 9 girls and 14 boys graduated from EHS in 1945.
Here is a list as close as I can make it taken from senior spotlights and the senior class play program:
Maurice Beck
Leon Benton
Nicholas Bintner
Bill Bjorn
Eugene Cannon
Erma Christensen
LaVonne Clemsen
Lyle Clemsen
George Dimick (in service)
Charles Hansen
Marjorie Frederick
Lucille Jacobsen
Jack Jensen
Roger Johnson
Haroid Littlefield
Evelyn Madsen
Mardell Munch
James Petersen
George Smith
Margaret Thielen
Maxine Williams
Vivian Wolf
Twenty-two Seniors Bid Adieu to Class Rooms and School Mates As They Fare Forth in a World Which Can Well Use Their Utmost Talents
In a beautiful ceremony at the High School Auditorium Wednesday evening, May 16th, the senior class was graduated and went forward to find its place in the world.
Nine girls and thirteen boys comprised the class, with another boy – George Dimick – in service.
The address to the class was given by Rev. Deane Chapman, pastor of the First Church of Burlington, and was one of the most powerful and dynamic ever delivered in Exira, either at a commencement or elsewhere.
Choosing the theme “A Time for Greatness,” he asserted that the present generation must do more to make democracy work, than any preceding it. The war is evidence, he said, that it has never been made to work well, or to approach perfection. He told the class that democracy must be a workable instrument not only in America alone, but throughout the world. If it does not become so, he predicted the next war will be between the yellow and white races.
In his advice to the graduates, he stressed the importance of learning to develop the thought processes so that they, like the truly great – many of whom are not recognized by the world – “may live above the fog.”
His concluding remarks left the audience feeling that he had journeyed these 300 miles from Burlington just to talk with them – to give them of his own great character and forceful personality during the hours he spent here.
Rev. Chapman’s church is the first Protestant church organized west of the Mississippi River and was founded in 1832 when it was then known as Zion church.
Class officers were Lucille Jacobsen, president; Marjorie Frederick, vice-president; Harold Littlefield, secretary. Class sponsors were R. H. Chisholm and E. E. O’Donnell. Class motto – “Launched But Not Anchored.” Class flower, orchid and colors, Fuchsia and white.
The complete program will be published in the school edition soon to appear.