2020/06/23

Barbershop Men

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Photo believed to be either late 1940s or early 1950s. Please help identify these men!

Front Row: 
1)  Don Rex  2) Harry Sommers   3)               4) Ed Korneisel  5)  Ted Metier  6)  Dr. F.W. Worth  7) Jay Wicker

Middle Row:
1) Don "Spike" Einsphar ??   2) Elwood Deibert     3) Dr. James McAllister    4)            5) ??Russ Peters ??   6) Richard Swanson    7) Don Potter

Back Row
1) Marion Hix??     2)            3)           4)         5) Harry Swanson    6)  Frank Shaw   7) Dwight Meyer

Bonnie Ekse found the following:
The Rotary quartet, called “The Felony Four” in an article in the November 20, 1952 Chronicle. These are the men in the photo holding canes!
    Don Potter (far right, middle row)
    Ted Metier (3rd from right, first row)
    Jay Wicker (far right, first row)
    Ed Korneisel (middle of first row with cane)

 
Bonnie also searched Odebolt newspaper archives from 1/1/1952 to 3/1/1953 for names of Rotary members:
  (Perhaps you can spot some of these men in the photo?)

Dwight V. Meyer (in photo)
Merle Sanders
B. G. Ogden
A. W. Lewis
Dr. James McAllister (in photo)
Nate Skalovsky
Paul Fox
Herbert Turin
E. B. Deibert (in photo)
Richard Swanson (in photo)
Rev. W. B. Bell
Walter Lundblad
Harry Sommers (in photo)
Dr. F. W. Worth (in photo-top hat)
Bob Dannenberg
Marion Hix (in photo)
     (start P. 3, rotary 01/01/1952-03/01/1953
Wally Hamann
Ralph Swanson (in photo)
Francis McCorkindale
 
Went back farther and found:
Rev. Palmer Sellstrom
Dean Brown
Rev. Albert Peters
B. B. Strieby
M. H. Paul
Harry Iversen
 


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