Aerial Views of John Deere Junior High. Photographed by Kris Streed's Father

Thank you, Dave Coopman, for sending the photos.

Eighth Grade at John Deere Junior High

Left-click on the class photos and you will get a quick memory refresher about those half-remembered classmates...and their names.

Eight Grade Homerooms, John Deere Junior High

John Deere Junior High, Student Activities

John Deere Junior High, Drama

John Deere Junior High, Tomahawk Staff

Deere Cheerleaders

Weren't some of them posing as grade school students
on other blog pages?
And as Brownies?

John Deere Junior High, Pow Wow Staff

We knew each other from church, from walking to each other's homes. Many of our parents also went through school in Moline.

The 1963 Pow Wow was well organized - with high quality photos, labeled carefully. I am using them to help people remember classmates. And just for the fun of seeing old pictures.

Trivia question: whose brother appeared in The Fly and Blood Simple?

John Deere Junior High, When Hearts Were Young and Gay

John Deere Junior High

Most Garfield graduates went to John Deere Junior High, which was reasonably close to my house. Some of us were split off and exiled at Coolidge, due to crowding from the Boomers. Later, we also had split shifts at the high school. Liz Copeland sent this photo of her John Deere class, graduating in 1968 from Moline High School. I wondered if I could find something about John Deere on YouTube. The first link was a clip of the late Leo Brunner as coach at John Deere. He had a photographic memory of all the sports stats of all the professional sports teams - a real phenomenon and a very nice guy.