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New buildings Construction under way on new dorm west of Commons; will cost $400,000 of which $180,000 is granted from Public Works Administration; should be complete in fall; $125,000 renovation also underway on Women's Gym; PWA will finance 45% of cost.
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Tragedy in China . . . . War continues in China; fate of alumna Eugenia Hsia Chen unknown.
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Forecasting success in college Professor Paul analyzes correlation between placement tests taken by over three thousand ISTC students from 1929-1933 and their academic success; finds that placement tests are good predictors.
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The life one teacher lives Imaginary letters of new teacher to friend.
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A pension plan for Iowa teachers General Assembly will again consider measure; similar plan defeated in last session.
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Cecilians plan golden jubilee; will honor friends and alumni Professor Olive Barker will organize reunion.
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Youth goes to college Several creative pieces on college life from recent Purple Pen.
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College invites 155,000 alumni to spring reunion, May 28 Invitation to graduates; photo.
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Record of placements reaches ten-year high Bureau locates 615 positions for 631 graduates for 97% success rate; breakdown by major course of study.
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The Prowl . . . . Sports round-up for basketball, wrestling, and football; photo.
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Homecoming hockey Students play alumnae in Homecoming field hockey game; photo.
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Tutor Tickler circus Preview of acts.
Opportunity in education . . . . Bureau of Publicity produces booklet showing alumni in their occupations; will distribute to high schools.
Professor E. E. Watson Teaching class; photo.
Debaters go East . . . . Women head for Eastern schools.
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New counseling plan . . . . Faculty Senate recommends formation of advising board to help freshmen in choice of major.
Odds and ends . . . . Current students come from twenty-five states and the Philippines; fall quarter enrollment was 1926 and winter term was 1885; students note their favorite activities.
The winning house Alpha Delta Alpha wins first prize for best off-campus Homecoming decorations; photo.
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Mrs. Charles T. Kramer, (Esther G. Shoemaker) Is president of the Arkansas State Home Economics Association. She is also national chairman of the department of Home Economics in Extension, elected at the meeting of the American Home Economics Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in June.
Mr. Kramer A former student at the College and a former member of the football team; is in the regional office of the Farm Security Administration in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Kramers reside in Little Rock.
Helen Barber Married Walter W. Voss on October 15, 1938. Helen has been doing secretarial work for the Baker Paper Company in Chicago, and Walter is manager of the instruction department of the Utilities Engineering Institute. They reside in Chicago.
Dr. Clifford P. Archer Was elected president of the Minnesota Education Association on October 27, 1938. The new president was awarded the master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of Iowa; January 1, 1938, became associate professor in the College of Education.
Mrs. William H. Harwood, (Jennie Macy) Resides in California. Her husband died July 3, 1935, five years after they had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Her son, Herbert M. Harwood, is engaged in public relations work in Los Angeles.
Eunice Acheson Married George Pugh on August 25, 1938; resides in Bradford, Massachusetts. Eunice is retaining her position as assistant to the president and instructor in psychology at Bradford Junior College.
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Margaret J. Busch Is first grade teacher at Aaron Palmer School in Marshalltown, where she resides. She visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs during recent weeks.
'92 From Hawaii to College Hill, Romanzo C. Adams, C. A. Fullerton, T. B. Morris, Forest C. Ensign Adams has been professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii since 1919. He and C. A. Fullerton revived many personal and group reminiscences recently including T. B. Morris, Professor Albert Loughridge, and Forest C. Ensign.
Mrs. H. C. Fugl, (Thursa E. Slattery) Has taught in Los Angeles for eighteen years.
Mrs. W. M. Peterson, (Gertrude B. Riefe); Mrs. W. A. Carter, (Lura Mae Wentworth); Mrs. Edna Liek Wilson Gertrude and Lura, both of Mason City, Iowa, were en route to Waterloo to meet another member of the Class of 1911, Edna Liek Wilson, of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Carter's have three children, Wentworth, Elizabeth, and Richard.
Carrie McLeod Of Central City, Iowa, taught in the Marion, Iowa, Public Schools for several years. She visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs during recent weeks.
Mrs. Robert M. McDowell, (Mary D. Anderson) Of Denver, Colorado, served as stenographer in the President's office at the College for several years previous to her marriage in August, 1937. She visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs during recent weeks.
Raymond H. Smalling Raymond is coach in the high school at Ames, Iowa, where he and his family reside. He visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs during recent weeks.
Mrs. Paul Menzel, (Muriel E. Swarts) Residing in Janesville, Iowa; visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs during recent weeks.
Alumni officers elected in annual business session The following officers were elected at the annual business meeting, October 29. President: F. Eugene Mueller; Vice President: Mildred E. Smith; Director, three year term: Tommy D. Priest; Member of re-union committee, three year term: Jane Eccles Merner.
Mrs. M. A. Hadsell, (Katherine Jenness) The Hadsells of Boston, Massachusetts, have three children, Tom, Donna, and Ben. During recent weeks, Katherine visited the office of the Bureau of Alumni Affairs.
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Mrs. G. B. Cumming The former Lulu Montgomery is working in the Department of Home Economics in the high school of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mrs. Cumming has received her B. A. and M. A. degrees from Columbia University. She was married in New York City three years ago.
Mary Alice Sinn Hall Is now teaching in the Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where she resides. In 1922 she was graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph. B. degree.
H. A. Mueller Now an agent for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company in St. Charles, Iowa; sends in memories called forth by a recent picture in The Alumnus. "You could not smoke on the campus," and asks: "Wonder if the co-eds smoke cigarettes these days there?
Chloris Anderson Has retired from teaching after twenty-two years of junior high work in Riverside, California, where she resides. She now enjoys owning a delicatessen shop in Riverside.
Arthur J. Calderwood Has been engaged in farming on the family homestead in Tama County, near Traer, Iowa. He has served upon the Tama County Board of Education and has exercised helpful community leadership in many lines. His brother William S. is deceased.
Charles C. Mantle Is now teaching social science at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah. He was formerly in Ames, Iowa.
Owen Hamersly Is owner of a café in South English, Iowa.
Florence A. Fallgatter Has been appointed professor and head of Economics Education at Iowa State College, Ames.
Professor C. A. Fullerton, P. G. Fullerton, Robert Fullerton, A. M. Fullerton, H. J. Fullerton, J. E. Fullerton, and J. K. Fullerton Seven Fullerton brothers, ranging in age from sixty-six to eighty years, attended a reunion recently at the home of Professor C. A. Fullerton, Teachers College's "grand old man of music," now a member of the Extension Service. Three brothers are alumni.
Mrs. Otto F. Burgess Mrs. A. B. Johnson, the former Minnie Lane, now lives with her daughter in Louisville, Kentucky. Minnie lost all of her records, diplomas, cherished letters, and pictures in the great flood that devastated Louisville in 1937.
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Mrs. Roger Jennings The former Vera B. Shirer is now living in Janesville, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Labor They and their nine year old son are enjoying their own home at Dallas Center, having made some important and worthwhile improvements this spring. She was formerly Doris Husband.
Mrs. E. G. Lager The former Dorothy G. Niemeyer has moved from 43rd to 49th Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Van Meter They and their two sons reside at Ida Grove, Iowa, where he has a variety store. She is the former Gladys Rogers.
Mrs. Harold T. Carver The former Ardis Hareim and her husband are happily married in Atlantic, Iowa. They have one boy, Richard James, three years old.
Siemers Writes from Scotland H. H. Siemers, is now an exchange professor at the Bell-Baxter School, a semi-private institution, in eastern Scotland about thirty miles from Edinburgh. He says that the landscapes in Fifeshire have a charm not found anywhere in the U. S. A.
Helen Forney Is now teaching foods and nutrition at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas. She received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936.
Arno Carl Halbfass Is operating a general travel bureau and summer tours to Europe, with headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. After his graduation, he was assistant educational director of the Central Y. M. C. A. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, until 1926.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivon McRae Pike Their home in Anaheim, California, was flooded on March 3, 1938, leaving twenty-four inches of silt in the house and a sandbank two to three feet high all over the acreage. Ivon's wife is the former Onetta Haney.
Mrs. George W. Trammell, Jr. The former Norma E. Ley is now living at E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California.
Eldred A. Ash Is coordinator in the vocational school at Muskegon, Michigan. He was married to Julia Louise Rawson on June 26, 1937.
Mrs. Stuart Meyers The former Alice Stromgren has moved to another address in Davenport, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abel And son Dickie recently moved to Des Moines after Richard was transferred there from Rock Island, Illinois. Richard's wife is the former Louise Sater.
Mrs. Clifford E. Stewart The former Nellie Hand is living in Newton, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Trachsel Are now living in Iowa City, Iowa, where Herman is associate professor of political science at the State University of Iowa. His wife will be remembered as Thelma R. Martin and received a B. S. degree from the University of South Dakota in 1931.
Ella Mae Williams Is now teaching first grade in Prescott, Arizona.
Mrs. C. G. Lunoe The former Bernice Wadsworth is a housewife in Lake Mills, Iowa.
Anna Sampson Has for ten years been a teacher of history at a Chicago high school.
Ann Hoover Is teaching at Emerson School, Gary, Indiana, where she is residing.
Miller Christiansen Recently became a stockholder in the Security State Bank at Mt. Ayr, Iowa. For the last two years he has been in charge of a CCC camp. The Christiansens have two children, Curtis and Joan.
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Ruth Aurilla Smith Is teaching music in Taylor School, Davenport, Iowa, where she resides.
Jessie Williams Van Steenwyk Is now living in Pisgah, Alabama, where she is in charge of the commercial department of a consolidated school. She married Williard L. Van Steenwyk of Mitchellville in 1934. They have one son, Billy Edwin, aged two.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. White The former Pearl Dwyer and husband are now living in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is a field representative for the C. F. Lytle Construction Company of Sioux City, Iowa. They were married in 1931 and have one son, Robert E. White, age 3.
Kenneth M. Gittins Is teaching arithmetic and physical training in the McKinley School at Des Moines, Iowa.
Mrs. Walter A. Hartung The former Adaline Howe and her husband are living in Omaha, Nebraska. They have three children, Margery, nine; Joan, eight; and John Walter, born 1938.
Beth E. Webber Is a teacher in the Missoula, Montana, elementary schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Adams The former Martha Jennings and husband are living in Wellman, Iowa. They have a son, James Elwin.
The Rev. Paul R. Brown Was recently ordained in the First Methodist Church at the annual conference in Cedar Falls. While in college, he worked on the staff of the College Eye. He received his theological degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, last spring.
Mrs. Alma Graham Mann Has retired from educational work after twenty-two years of teaching, the last ten in the Webster City Junior High School.
Gladys Head Is teaching in a rural school in Jackson County, Iowa, and is making her home at Maquoketa.
Mrs. E. A. Hellem The former Margery Banton is now living in Waterloo with her daughter, Joyce, nine years old.
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Catherine B. Ascherl Is now director of relief of the Sioux County Department of Public Welfare at Orange City, Iowa.
Bonnie B. Bereiter Is now the wife of Glenn S. Jennings. Her home is at Emmetsburg, Iowa.
Alice Arney Of Green Mountain, Iowa, is now the wife of Dwight E. Lynk, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Stewart Cooper and Mrs. Cooper The former Esther Thon and her husband now live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he is teaching. They have two children, Stewart, Jr., aged three, and Ann Thon, three months. Stewart has written two articles for the Athletic Journal.
M. H. Hanawalt Is now teaching English in Independence Junior College, Independence, Kansas. During the past summer he studied at the State University of Iowa working toward his Ph. D.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold C. Meyerhoff The former Lillian C. Ernsting and husband live in Readlyn, Iowa, where he is a painter and interior decorator. They have two children, Joan Joyce, four years old, and James Lee, two years old.
Lloyd C. Paul Now resides in Chicago, Illinois.
E. A. Ludley Formerly field manager in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company of New Kensington, Pennsylvania; now division supervisor for the territory which takes in the entire state of North Carolina.
Mrs. Donald Wise The former Evelyn Sorenson and her husband are living on a farm near Newell, Iowa. They were married June 10, 1936.
Mrs. Arthur Youtz The former Ruth Carstensen is now living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Martha A. Meyer Is teaching junior high English in Davenport, where she resides.
Mrs. Bert B. Miller The former Neva M. L. Bailey is living in Hampton, Iowa, where her husband is a florist. They were married in June 1938. Prior to her marriage she taught at the Dumont Consolidated School and at the Waverly Public School.
A. Marguerite Graham Will have four of her poems published in the "Mitre Anthology," London, England. She lives in Dubuque, Iowa and has read poetry over several radio stations.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Dinsdale The former Virginia Havens and husband live on a farm near Traer, Iowa. They have four children, James Edward, Leah Jean, Darlene Louise, and Shirley Lee.
Frank M. Everhart Is now manual arts instructor in the Pleasantville, Iowa, High School. Previously he had taught in the high school at Fontanelle, Iowa, for nine years. His wife is the former Janette Jaeger. They have three daughters, Betty, Ina, and Loraine.
Lillian S. Hanson Is teaching sixth grade in New Rochelle, New York, where she resides.
Percy J. Letson Is employed by the Extension Service at Iowa State College. His advice: "What should be taught to teachers is that they should be on the lookout for new things and not be reluctant to try them."
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Mrs. E. D. Stewart The former Bernice Van De Water is now living at Orient, Iowa. Her former address was Ireton, Iowa.
Ida Elizabeth Snelling Is now the wife of William Schlichting, residing in Denver, Iowa. Ida Snelling has had five years of teaching experience.
Bradner S. Gilson Recently transferred by Rath Packing Company from Waterloo to its division in Albany, New York. His wife is the former Velda Rath whom he married in 1936. He was a member of the business staff of the College Eye, student newspaper.
J. B. Lake and Mrs. Lake The former Marjorie Snell and husband are now living in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is production manager of station KITE. He was formerly chief announcer at KFAB Lincoln, Nebraska, and station manager at KWBG in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Edward Lambert Is in his second year as instructor in the Aurora, Illinois, school, where he supervises the high school newspaper, The Auroran. The paper was recently awarded the International Honor Rating, highest award of merit given by the National Quill and Scroll.
Leo A. Martin Has been named to the faculty of East High School, Waterloo, Iowa, as a teacher of dramatics, debate, and speech; was principal of the Mapleton, Iowa, High School for four years. He expects to obtain a master's degree next summer.
Wilma Roben Is teaching in the second grade of the Rochester, Minnesota, schools.
Ralph C. Evans Formerly superintendant at Agency, Iowa, now lives in Osceola, Iowa, where he is instructor of industrial arts in the high school.
Ruth Ewing Is engaged in public school work in Hammond, Indiana, where she resides.
Mrs. Pete Grimes The former Lorna Smith is now living in Spencer. She taught at Farnhamville, Iowa, for two years, and at Spencer for the last four years. Pete is employed by the Hatten Beverage Company at Spencer. He attended Teachers College in 1932.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Huntoon Now holds an instructorship in the Department of Physics, New York University, New York City. He and his wife, the former Olive Sinclair, enjoy living in New York City.
George Lindsay Formerly business manager of the College Eye; now editor and manager of the Mitchell, Nebraska, Index. He has had varied and valuable experience in journalism.
Roland G. Ross Is employed as a teacher in the field of special education at Niles, Michigan, where he and his wife reside. He works with twenty-two boys whose chronological ages are about sixteen or seventeen but whose mental ages are about six or seven.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard L. Berry Are now living in Alton, Illinois. He is teaching industrial arts in the senior high school there. She is the former Beulah M. Nash.
Mrs. John Carter The former Marie Wilson is teaching with her husband at the Eldora Training School, Eldora, Iowa.
Elmer P. Christensen Has accepted a position teaching commercial subjects and agriculture in the Arnolds Park High School, Arnolds Park, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Decker Are now living in Royal Oak, Michigan. She will be remembered as Bernice Graham. He is a relief case worker.
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Recene Ashton Is now supervisor of third and fourth grades in the Campus School of Eastern State Normal School at Madison, South Dakota. She received her M. A. in education at Iowa City in August, 1938.
Mrs. Emma C. Johnson Is teaching at Glidden, Iowa, where she has a position as junior high principal.
Mrs. Alice Owens Lovee Began teaching this year at the Braiside School at Highland Park, Illinois. Her address is the Ridgeview Hotel, Main and Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
Neal H. Zike Is now teaching music and social science at Denton, Montana.
Richard Harden Married the former Mary LaDage. He is formerly of Shell Rock, Iowa and is director of a 75-piece band with its own band-house in Aransas Pass, Texas.
Jay Ronald Johnson Is now teaching in the Commercial Department, Central High School, Duluth, Minnesota, where he resides.
Dorothy Logan Is alto soloist for the largest Methodist church in the world, located in Los Angeles, according to Professor W. H. Hays. Dorothy Logan is a niece of Professor Hays, under whom she received all her training.
Anson Vinall Shorthand instructor and assistant athletic coach at West Waterloo High School.
Rachel Rosenberger Received a teaching fellowship for the coming year at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y., where she is working on a master's degree. This summer she was a member of the Gillette Chamber Orchestra, which made a concert tour of colleges.
Richard Sucher Is a member of the faculty of the Amarillo College of Music, Amarillo, Texas.
Robert A. Warner Is a new member of the music faculty of the Eastern Illinois State Teachers College, Charleston, Illinois. He is teaching theory and appreciation. During 1937-1938, he took graduate work at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.
Mrs. Alan Bound The former Irene Starling and her husband are now living in Scranton, Iowa.
Lydia Oberdoerster Is director of the adjustment room of the Elmhurst, Illinois, Public Schools. The pupils enrolled in this room, of various ages and abilities, have handicaps which require individual study and attention.
Lola Schoellerman Is a first grade teacher at the Longfellow School, Iowa City, Iowa, where she resides.
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Shirley Sherman Is vice-counselor at Stephens Junior College for Girls at Columbia, Missouri, where she resides.
Grace E. Williams Married Frank Field May 26, 1937. She was student health physician at the University of Iowa before her marriage, and is now employed in the city health department in Louisville, Kentucky. Frank is a sanitary engineer in the Department of Health.
Gladys Silsby Married B. L. McFerran in Lamoni, Iowa, June 23, 1938. He is the purchasing agent of the Public Welfare Department for the State of Montana. They reside in Helena, Montana. Prior to her marriage, she was the supervisor of music at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Arvilla Benshoof Was married June 12, 1938, to George O. Michaels of Chicago. She is teaching at Gregg College, and he is associated with the International Harvester Company. They reside in Chicago, Illinois.
Laila Eckholm Was recently married to George W. Hall, Northwood, Iowa. They are living in Mason City, Iowa, where he is an employee of the independent schools. She was a primary teacher in the Mason City schools for eight years previous to her marriage.
Dorothy Anne Seemann Is teaching the third grade in Tipton, Iowa, where she resides.
Edith E. Gardner Is teaching the second and third grades in the Hansell Consolidated School, Hansell, Iowa.
Al Heuring Is now working on a master's degree in social work at Notre Dame University. He received a scholarship from the Knights of Columbus.
Floreine Hudson Is teaching second grade in the Whiting, Iowa, schools this year.
Hazel Lincoln Has returned to Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, to teach, after a year's absence.
Opal M. Dunn Is now teaching the primary grades in the Woodside School, Des Moines.
Norman Mikkelson Is teaching in the public schools of Superior, Wyoming.
Frank E. Rollins Is now in his second year of graduate work at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Simms Have moved from Royal Oak, Michigan, to a farm near Lake City, Iowa. She is the former Elizabeth Ruggles.
Gunther Steinberg Is working on his Ph. D. degree at the University of Chicago.
Sophie Larsen Is doing graduate work in the Department of Classical Languages at the State University of Iowa this year. She resides in Iowa City, Iowa.
Ruth Willard Is now teaching in the Harrison Grade School in Council Bluffs.
Jessica Lowry is now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Elizabeth Mast Is working toward a master's degree at Northwestern University, School of Education. She is specializing in personnel and guidance. From Willard Hall, Evanston, Illinois.
Frances Mengel Writes that she is now teaching in a Government Indian School at Chilocco, Oklahoma, where there are 700 students enrolled. While the emphasis is along vocational agriculture lines, she teaches vocal music, private piano, and has a special choir.
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Julia A. Nelson Married to Delos H. Walke, Guttenburg, in October. He is employed by the Central States Power and Light Company at Guttenberg, where they will reside. For the past year she has been secretary in the Placement Bureau at Teachers College.
Margaret Ann McHugh The daughter of C. N. McHugh of Cedar Falls, married Donald Chehock of Osage, Iowa, in June 1938. He is the son of the late Henry Chehock and the late former Beulah Bryan. He is city attorney at Osage.
Amanda Meswarb Married Hans Schmidt in September 1938. They will reside near Clarissa, Minnesota.
Frances Olson Married John G. Dornon, Harlan, Iowa, in June 1938. They will reside in Harlan, where he is a member of the high school faculty. For the last four years she had been teaching first grade at Laurel School, Harlan.
Dorothy Yeager Married Lawrence J. Turley in September 1938. Now living in Rolfe, Iowa, they plan to move to a farm in Competine Township after March 1.
Isabel M. Ryan Of Le Claire, Iowa, married Edwin H. Busching, Olin Iowa, in August 1938. They are residing on a farm near Stanwood, Iowa. She taught at Bettendorf for four years previous to her marriage.
Marcia Griggs Married Glen Cocking of Manchester, Iowa, in September 1938. She has been employed as secretary in the Horticulture and Forestry Department at Iowa State College, Ames. They will reside in Iowa City, where he will continue his work at the University.