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1 | Untitled | Reading room in Library; photo. |
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2 | Crash the line for Homecoming, Nov. 10 | Schedule of activities; photo. |
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3 | Alumnus made dean at Louisiana | Biographical sketch of Ira F. Heald. |
4 | Washington, Iowa, California claim Class of '79 | Short biographical sketches of class members. |
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5 | Mrs. Henry J. Hermann | Living in New Jersey. |
6 | Waterloo teachers are alumni | Four new grade school teachers are alumni. |
7 | Wm. Harwood, '79, gave name for first student newspaper | Alumnus made suggestion to Principal Gilchrist; recalls early days of school. |
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8 | Drake educator, an alumnus, dies | Ella Ford Miller, Drake professor of education, dies August 9, 1934. |
9 | Secretary Perkins invited to speak at reunion | Secretary of Labor expected to speak. |
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10 | Class of '29 | Leola Benda and Mabel Borland visit Western US. |
11 | Early graduate visits campus | William W. Coates recalls early years of the school. |
12 | School teaching or marriage, students will be prepared; courses in home economics will teach women how to manage the family pocketbook | Home economics courses prepare women to be smart consumers. |
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13 | All "Voices of Iowa" had training at Teachers College | Announcers and other performers on WMT are from ISTC. |
14 | Class of '83 | W. A. Bartlett retires from teaching after fifty years. |
15 | SRE fund increased this fall | Student Relief Employment projects furnish work for 165 students; about $22,000 available for campus jobs. |
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16 | Class of '06 | Mrs. A. Albert Allen, the former Theodosia Cole, is living in Tingley. |
17 | No caps, no gowns, but smiles belied professor's frowns | George H. Olmsted recalls early days of school. |
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18 | Inspiring teachers--first need of good schools | 211 students receive degrees or diplomas at summer commencement; Professor Lynch delivers address; description of ceremonies; photo. |
19 | William H. Ray | Employed as supervisor for Federal Land Bank. |
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20 | Scholarship requirements raised; ten-minute class interval voted | 2.0 GPA required for graduation; interval between classes changed from five to ten minutes in recognition of growing campus. |
21 | Two on honor roll for four terms | John Smith and Katherine Olsen achieve distinction for four terms; Rutherford Rogers has straight As for six consecutive terms. |
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22 | Alumni dramatists on summer plays | Players present "The Late Christopher Bean" and "The Mistress of the Inn". |
23 | Music groups have busy summer | Symphony Orchestra, College Band, and Orchestra Club present concerts. |
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24 | Changes in faculty personnel | Short biographical sketches of new faculty. |
25 | Five alumni at Palmer reunion | Family tours campus. |
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26 | Alumnus finds ancient skull | Earl H. Bell finds skull in Nebraska burial mound. |
27 | Charles G. Ames | Teaching physics in Berkeley, California. |
28 | Charles S. Cobb | Teaching in Sioux City. |
29 | E. J. Warren | Farming near Keosauqua. |
30 | Jesse L. McLaughlin | Secretary of American Bible Society. |
31 | Reverend M. M. Ries | Pastor of St. Vincent's parish in Chicago; had been on faculty of De Paul University. |
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32 | Iowa schools hire all but three of 1934 coaching majors | Sixteen of nineteen 1934 graduates are coaching this year; survey of success in locating jobs in this field in recent years. |
33 | McCaffrie is coach at Dubuque | John R. McCaffrie is head football coach at University of Dubuque. |
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34 | Forty-five likely gridders answer first call | 1934 season preview; photo. |
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35 | Basketball practice started early this fall | Season preview. |
36 | Rollins most valuable man | Selected MVP on 1934 baseball team. |
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37 | Hertha O. Muller | Studies modern novel. |
38 | Spurt of interest noted in sports program | Two hundred of the five hundred enrolled men are participating in some form of extracurricular sports; survey of athletic courses and work. |
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39 | Anna Heller | Now lives in Spokane, Washington. |
40 | Ella M. Wegener | Teaches sixth grade in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and studied during the summer at the University of Colorado. |
41 | George E. Wallace | Associate professor of vocational education at the University of Alabama; assistant state supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education. |
42 | Mrs. A. S. Lindsey | The former Ferne Sours lives in St. Louis, Missouri; has traveled to the Rockies and to the Atlantic coast. |
43 | Mrs. Hazel Webster Byrnes | Librarian at the State Teachers College in Mayville, North Dakota; won an essay contest. |
44 | Mrs. Orville Stevens | The former Nellie Wilson says that all her schooling contributed to her work in her home and with her children. |
45 | Mrs. Robert Rutledge | The former Ruth McGregor Haines lives in Williston, North Dakota; her husband died on July 3, 1934. |
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46 | Albert M. Cleveland | Office manager of the Galloway Company in Waterloo, Iowa. |
47 | Alvin S. Tostlebe | Visited the campus with his wife and daughters; he is a professor of economics at the College of Wooster, Ohio. |
48 | Florence E. Wilcox | Professor of home economics at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. |
49 | M. Bess Price | Teaches kindergarten at the Grant School in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and teaches private art classes. |
50 | Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Meyer | The former Dorothy Mae Martin has done a lot of traveling over the years. |
51 | Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bentley | George Bentley works as a jeweler and optometrist in Charles City, Iowa. |
52 | Mrs. Bentley | The former Elizabeth Wilbur is a song writer of both lyrics and music. |
53 | Mrs. Charles R. Cobb | The former R. Winifred Cheery is a kindergarten teacher in Long Beach, California. Mr. Cobb is an automobile parts merchant. |
54 | Mrs. Douglas M. Hoffecker | The former Maybelle Rathes now lives in New York City. |
55 | Mrs. John McDonald | The former Helene Howell Apfel had an interesting trip to the West Coast with her mother. |
56 | Mrs. Milo C. Thompson | The former Pauline Collatt now lives on a farm near Ft. Madison, Iowa. |
57 | Mrs. W. T. Frame | The former May Wright is the vice-president of the Polk Peterson Company in Des Moines, Iowa. |
58 | Mrs. William Eilers | The former Ethel Lennon studied at the University of Wisconsin and at Berkeley. |
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59 | Bertha L. Ulm | Teaches in a superior standard school in Independence, Iowa. |
60 | Fred A. Pitz | Teaches in the Amana, Iowa, schools. |
61 | Gertrude V. Steiner | Mathematics instructor in the junior high school in Hammond, Indiana. |
62 | Henriette Steiner | Sewing instructor at the Technical High School in Hammond, Indiana. |
63 | Mina McCleary | Teaches third and fourth grades in Keota, Iowa. |
64 | Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Sokoloff | The former Olive E. White lives in Riverside, California, with her husband. |
65 | Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Eberly | The former Daphene Gatch and her family live in Lawton, Iowa. |
66 | Mrs. Albert Mix | The former Zora Kamp lives in Linden, Iowa, with her family. |
67 | Mrs. C. A. Johnson | The former Mabel Thomas has two children and lives in Moorhead, Iowa. |
68 | Mrs. Charles A. Thayer | The former Margaret E. Godfrey taught kindergarten at the Topeka, Kansas, schools for seven years and now substitutes. |
69 | Mrs. Harris E. Stacy | The former Helen R. Tollakson studied at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington. |
70 | Mrs. John Hutchison | The former Clotilda Lawler lives in Wesley, Iowa. |
71 | Mrs. Karl A. Bender | The former Esther G. Peterson lives in Waterloo, Iowa, with her family. |
72 | Mrs. O. L. Frederick | The former Lela Reed lives in Davenport, Iowa, with her family. |
73 | Mrs. V. V. Malcolm | The former Lois Fitzgerald has taken work at Morningside College and was secretary of the Iowa College Club in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
74 | Mrs. William D. Bleeker | The former Mary McMannis lives in Ackley, Iowa, with her family, after teaching third grade in Iowa Falls, Iowa. |
75 | Ruth Lash | Postmistress at What Cheer, Iowa. |
76 | Viola E. Leese | Discontinued her work at the Bennett Academy in Mathiston, Mississippi, due to an illness. |
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77 | Esther L. Nystrom | Teaches third grade at Bancroft School in Sioux City, South Dakota. |
78 | Glennys Rugg | Assistant professor of music at the Adams State Teachers College in Alamosa, Colorado. |
79 | Helen L. Bartlett | Primary teacher in Elgin, Illinois. |
80 | Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. McTavish | The former Ruth Schmickle taught in Cherokee and Northwood, Iowa, and was a librarian at the Grant High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
81 | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert I. Conrad | The former Irma C. Wagner did some traveling and lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her family. |
82 | Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Gilmore | The former Marie G. Rourke and her husband live in Imogene, Iowa. |
83 | Mrs. Benjamin S. Henry | The former Marie Schoeneich taught in the Winterset, Iowa, schools before her marriage. |
84 | Mrs. Earl L. Long | The former Doris Fleming and her family live in Ottosen, Iowa. |
85 | Mrs. Howard E. DeWees | The former Venona Davis has taught at many places before and after she married. |
86 | Mrs. J. H. Kruse | The former Essie Walker lives in Silver City, Iowa, with her family. |
87 | Mrs. James W. Thayer | The former Eloise Carroll lives in Davenport, Iowa, with her husband. |
88 | Mrs. Joseph Stanton | The former Maurine Boggs is the playground director of Mac Rae Park in Des Moines, Iowa. |
89 | Mrs. Raleigh Baldwin | The former Charlotte Coffin taught school in Vermillion, South Dakota, and was the director of physical education in the high school. |
90 | Vera A. Wissler | Teaches sixth grade at Rosedale School in Denver, Colorado. |
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91 | Delia Mulder | Visited the college with Minnie Connolly; teaches social science at the high school in Oyster Bay, Long Island. |
92 | Dr. and Mrs. K. E. Selby | The former Berta A. Morgan and her husband live in South Bend, Indiana. |
93 | Harry Heitland | Superintendent of schools in Dinsdale, Iowa. |
94 | Helen Cowie | Secretary to the dean of Faculty, M. J. Nelson, at the Teacher College; photo. |
95 | Helen L. Lincoln | Teaches home economics in Rowley, Iowa. |
96 | Mary Anderson | Stenographer to Dr. O. R. Latham of the Teachers College; photo. |
97 | Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Luyben | The former Beatrice Landes lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her family. |
98 | Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Carver | The former Louise Bowie and her family live near Zearing, Iowa. |
99 | Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Abraham | The former Jo Wilder is assistant dean at George School near Philadelphia. |
100 | Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Weible | The former Ella D. Paulsen and her husband live in Gilmore City, Iowa. |
101 | Mrs. Charlotte Kellogg Von Eschen | Now lives in Ruthven, Iowa, with her husband. |
102 | Mrs. H. W. Ricksmeier | The former Beulah Frerichs lives in Ackley, Iowa. |
103 | Mrs. Howard Horswell | The former Dorothy Myhre and her husband live in Graettinger, Iowa. |
104 | Mrs. J. Phillip Tice | The former Rubye Emmalene Blunt and her husband live in Council Bluffs, Iowa. |
105 | Nellie Loughridge | In charge of Normal Training at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. |
106 | Otto Schmidt | Lives in Oelwein, Iowa. |
107 | Superintendent Ino S. Smid | Now lives in Persia, Iowa. |
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108 | Albert W. Bender | Teaches at the junior high school in Gravity, Iowa. |
109 | Eleanore C. Martin | Instructor in education and psychology at Ellsworth Junior College in Iowa Falls, Iowa. |
110 | Ethel I. Seeliger | Teaches in the grades at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. |
111 | Eva M. Clark | Teaches in Williamsburg, Iowa. |
112 | Harland A. Reed | Postal clerk in New Sharon, Iowa. |
113 | Helen L. Wescott | Teaches arithmetic at the junior high school in Cody, Wisconsin. |
114 | Helen L. Wissler | Teaches English at the Junior High School in Sioux City, Iowa. |
115 | John E. Bertch | Enrolled at Chicago Y. M. C. A. School; photo. |
116 | Lee T. Smiley | Teaches at the high school in Barrington, Illinois; other Teacher College graduates also work in Barrington, Illinois. |
117 | Milo E. Bixler | Teaches at the University of Illinois. |
118 | Mrs. Arnold L. Strom | The former Pauline Bassett and her husband live in Giltner, Nebraska. |
119 | Mrs. F. A. McAbeer | The former Sara Harris now lives in Salinas, California, and is secretary at the Claremont Junior High School. |
120 | Mrs. R. T. Mullenger | The former Ruth Harvey and her family live on a farm near Exira, Iowa. |
121 | Mrs. Tom Ramsell | The former Hazel M. Day lives in Waterloo, Iowa, and works for the telephone company. |
122 | Thelma Boyd | Now lives in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. |
123 | Wendell Bragonier | Has a new position at Kingsport, Tennessee; photo. |
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124 | Dorothy Grubb | Acting as a normal training instructor in Grand Junction, Iowa. |
125 | Eckels Hutchison | Has a position with Waterloo Savings Bank; photo. |
126 | Edith M. Schenk | Teaches second grade in Scotland, South Dakota. |
127 | Evelyn Last | Teaches in Rossie, Iowa. |
128 | Evelyn Roskopf | Teaches third and fourth grades in Webster City, Iowa. |
129 | Everett Ludley | Assistant cashier with the National Biscuit Company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. |
130 | Geneva Nay | Secretary to Dr. E. C. Denny. |
131 | Gladys E. Wissler | Acting as secretary to the pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa. |
132 | Helen Cowie | Secretary to Dean M. J. Nelson. |
133 | Helen Hilbert | Teaches third and fourth grades in Big Spring, Nebraska. |
134 | Julia Frey | Billing clerk in the office of the Merchants Supply Company in Dubuque, Iowa. |
135 | Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Olson | The former Ann Perry and her family visited the college. |
136 | Mr. and Mrs. Clark M. Cran | The former Ardis Stoebe and her husband live on a farm near Rutland, Iowa. |
137 | Mrs. Ralph Fisher | The former Mary Maurine Runkle and her family live in Napavine, Washington. |
138 | Mrs. Thelma Wagner | The former Thelma Clawson and her husband live in Hampton, Iowa. |
139 | Olive Sinclair | Awarded a scholarship at Columbia University; photo. |
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140 | Bernice Walker | Teaches the fourth grade in Lehigh, Iowa, and has done some traveling. |
141 | Berniece Pohl | Teaches in Council Bluffs, Iowa. |
142 | Eckels Hutchison | Employed at the Waterloo Savings Bank |
143 | Evelyn M. Horvei | Working in the cafeteria at the University of Minnesota. |
144 | Harold Sissel | Teaches band and mathematics at the high school in Spencer, South Dakota; was the circulation manager of the College Eye. |
145 | Helen E. Welch | Teaches commercial subjects at the high school in Worthington, Minnesota. |
146 | John E. Bertch | Assistant boy's secretary of the Waterloo Y. M. C. A. |
147 | Leota Seyb | Teaches homemaking in Williamson, New York. |
148 | Madelyn Bergstrom | Secretary to J. B. Paul; photo. |
149 | Mary Anderson | Stenographer to Dr. O. R. Latham and office secretary in the Dean Women's Office. |
150 | Olive Sinclair | Received a Master of Arts Degree in mathematics at the Columbia University. |
151 | Wendell Bragonier | Instructor in mathematics at the junior high school an assistant coach at the high school in Kingsport, Tennessee. |
152 | Wilma Handorf | Teaches in a rural school near Marshalltown, Iowa. |
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153 | Alice Haas | Teaches sixth grade in Tipton, Iowa. |
154 | Anna R. Roderick | Married John Hus Hucko on June 23, 1934. |
155 | Announcement of the marriage of Inez Childs | Married Ford Snyder on March 29, 1932. |
156 | Arlene Handorf | Teaches in a rural school near Dysart, Iowa. |
157 | Esther Maye Coffin | Married Louis G. Boisclair on July 5, 1934. |
158 | Grace L. Mellem | Married Storey Buck on January 29, 1934. |
159 | Hazel I. Brown | Married Henry W. Gilbertson on May 13, 1933. |
160 | Irene May Strong | Married Kermit Glascott on May 14, 1934. |
161 | Jessie Hiatt | Teaches first and second grades in Somers, Iowa. |
162 | Marjorie Mace | Office secretary in the Dean of Women's Office. |
163 | Mary F. Shedd | Teaches first and second grades in Oran, Iowa. |
164 | Minnie I. Tatum | Married Delmar G. Latham on June 14, 1933. |
165 | Ruth M. Samson | Teaches music and English at the high school in Lewis, Iowa. |
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166 | Alice Fallers | Married Melville G. Lusa on February 24, 1934. |
167 | Bernice Unrau | Married Horace W. Emmert on June 20, 1934. |
168 | Cora V. Klaus | Married Myron Eighmey on July 4, 1934. |
169 | Edward Barck | Married Margaret M. Ellis on June 16, 1934. |
170 | Eula Cook | Married Dallas Flay on July 19, 1934. |
171 | Florence E. Matthews | Married Roger K. Dunkerton on July 30, 1934. |
172 | Hazel Livingston | Married Dr. Henry F. Engel on June 27, 1934. |
173 | Marjorie Kappes | Married George C. Taylor on June 9, 1934. |
174 | Pearl A. Richardson | Married Hugh I. Johnson on June 14, 1934. |
175 | Ruth Blake | Married Henry Huizinga on July 20, 1934. |
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176 | Celestia I. Stradling | Married the Reverend L. C. McDonald on April 2, 1934. |
177 | Edna F. Caldwell | Married Matt L. Lawrence on February 3, 1934. |
178 | Genevieve L. Knight | Married Harvey E. Tibbits on March 12, 1934. |
179 | Gwendolyn J. Frost | Married Henry Berkler on August 1, 1934. |
180 | Helen Houghton | Married Willis Barber on June 4, 1934. |
181 | Helen Reed | Married Marlin Granville in December, 1933. |
182 | Jeanette Burns | Married the Reverend William McRoberts on June 29, 1934. |
183 | Jessica Jones | Married William E. Hey on August 3, 1934. |
184 | Juanita Spray | Married Lyman Overholtzer on December 24. 1933. |
185 | Linda M. Eklund | Married Joseph Almquist on November 22, 1933. |
186 | Louise J. Garrett | Married Richard C. Oelberg on June 16, 1934. |
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187 | Beulah Wyatt | Married Frank Albeson on June 11, 1934. |
188 | Delia Helfter | Married Howard L. Hawley on June 2, 1934. |
189 | Elizabeth Coder | Married Milo E. Bixler on June 10, 1934. |
190 | Elizabeth Thackaberry | Married Howard H. Holdcroft on June 7, 1934. |
191 | Florence Moothart | Married Verle J. Tatum on July 30, 1934. |
192 | Helen K. Lund | Married Frank W. Hubka on August 17, 1933. |
193 | Irene Kirkpatrick | Married Duane A. Dighton on May 17, 1933. |
194 | Marie Magee | Married Lynford Bower on August 1, 1934. |
195 | Mary R. Marinan | Married Walter P. Enzler on June 28, 1934. |
196 | Reginald T. Gaddis | Married Doris E. Murphy on June 16, 1934. |
197 | Wilma Gustafson | Married F. J. Beckwith on June 30, 1933. |
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198 | Alice Dowden | Married Wendell Bragonier on June 18, 1934. |
199 | Bernice E. Brand | Married Dr. Wilbur C. Thatcher on June 26, 1934. |
200 | Bett V. Hatch | Married Herbert P. Neubauer on June 10, 1934. |
201 | Clara M. Johnson | Married Maurice E. Ames on August 30, 1933. |
202 | Doris Williams | Married Kenneth Baldwin on July 17, 1934. |
203 | Florence Trei | Married Paul J. Kessler on July 6, 1934. |
204 | Frances Ross | Married Russell Wyth on June 23, 1934. |
205 | Gladys Severson | Married Leslie E. Baldwin on June 16, 1934. |
206 | Harriet L. Skow | Married Henry C. Olson on June 19, 1934. |
207 | Helen Wiler | Married Everett Sherman on July 15, 1933. |
208 | Lucille Severson | Married Vernon Baker on June 30, 1934. |
209 | Norma R. Peterson | Married Vernon A. Stephan on May 18, 1934. |
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210 | Belle Diamond | Married David Guralnik on July 29, 1934. |
211 | John D. Sumpter | Married Margaret R. Pattee on June 28, 1934. |
212 | Julia I. Young | Married Claude A. Snyder on June 2, 1934. |
213 | Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Dravis | Parents of Dorothy Mae, who was born on July 14, 1934. |
214 | Mr. and Mrs. George Augustson | The former Velma V. Hawley and her husband are the parents of Alice Marie, who was born on June 18, 1934. |
215 | Mr. and Mrs. Harlan W. Huyck | The former Berene Millikin and her husband are the parents of Jan Van, who was born on June 26, 1934. |
216 | Mr. and Mrs. John Winga | The former Catherine Eleanor Rees and her husband are the parents of John Albert, Jr., who was born on June 19, 1934. |
217 | Mr. and Mrs. Lynne E. Fortsch | The former Bernice A. L. Morgan and her husband are the parents of David Edward, who was born on July 3, 1934. |
218 | Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Nodland | The former Julia Jameson and her husband are the parents of Carol Joan, who was born on December 24, 1933. |
219 | Mr. and Mrs. Normal Bakken | The former Constance Cran and her husband are the parents of Terry Dale, who was born on January 10, 1933. |
220 | Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bright | The former Fern Lynn and her husband are the parents of Cheryll Berrine, who was born on March 24, 1934. |
221 | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fuller | The former Doris Creswell and her husband are the parents of Robert E. Jr., who was born on June 28, 1934. |
222 | Mr. and Mrs. Verne Johnson | The former Mildred Stedwell and her husband are the parents of Roland Duane, who was born on June 22, 1934. |
223 | Pearl E. Lewis | Married Milton Dowden on July 10, 1934. |
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224 | Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Best | Died on August 29, 1930 in Clarion, Iowa. |
225 | Justus H. Stuckrath | Died on March 16, 1934. |
226 | Mrs. Philip C. Cockerill | The former Bess E. Story died on May 7, 1934, after an illness of several months. |
227 | Myrtle Edgington | Died on December 25, 1932, after teaching the first grade for eighteen years. |