Confirmation class at New Gottland church

This photograph shows the 1926 confirmation class at the New Gottland Evangelical Lutheran Church in McPherson County, Kansas. The pastor was Gustaf Nyquist (seated in the middle of the second row). Although their positions in the photograph are not known, members of the 1926 class included: Gladys Anderson, Bernice Borgstrom, Helen Ek, Hazel Engstrom, Ruth Hawkinson, Gladys Johnson, Mildred Johnson, Elsie Nelson, Edna Okerlund, Elsie Okerlund, Mabel Roseberg, Frances Strom, Ralph Bengston, Lloyd Burk, Virgil Freeburg, Lawrence Johnson, Earl Lundberg, Earnest Martinson, Elmer Martinson, Gilbert Malmstrom, Lowell Nyquist, Alvin Peterson, LeRoy Poulseen, Irving Rolander, Leland Stromquist, Chester Westblade, and Clifford Westblade.