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Wartime Skip Day held Students rake leaves and participate in other activities on October 27, 1943, Skip Day.
Our cover boys Former ISTC students Donald Knight, Maurice Springer, and John Yousling training at air field in Texas; photo.
Melton wins new fans James Melton performs; other performers on Lecture-Concert Series include American Ballad Singers, Zino Franscescatti, and Mona Paula.
War activities organized Student War Activities Committee organizes to keep up morale of former ISTC students now in military service, promote campus spirit, and to sponsor Red Cross and War Chest drives.
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Melton wins new fans James Melton presents concert; schedule of other performers in Lecture-Concert Series.
Radio for the classroom Brief history and description of ISTC radio programming; photo.
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Another award to Capt. Olsen Roy W. Olsen, killed in action June 23, 1943, awarded Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and Silver Star; description of the battle in which he was killed; photo.
Guy S. Lowman dies Distinguished teacher of physical education and ISTC alumnus dies September 14, 1943; photo.
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He's with the infantry John Ullrich describes training in Louisiana.
South Seas are no longer romantic Robert C. Krulish describes Pacific scenes.
Is in "chairborne command" Eugene C. Bovee describes duties as mail censor in England.
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Bouquets to Teachers Notes citation of work of Laurens school in recent Time magazine article.
Alumni reunion cancelled War forces cancellation.
Bureau offers advancement for teachers All 1943 graduates have found jobs; report of placement of recent graduates and alumni.
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Ted Cross receives degree while in the Army Receives bachelor's degree in commercial education.
Time mentions alumni Article cites Laurens school as typical of those with teacher shortages.
C. J. Hearst marries WAVE Charles J. Hearst marries Gladys Henderson.
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Former professor dies George R. Mach died October 14, 1943; obituary; photo.
WAVES, cadets are dance guests All school dance includes invited WAVES and cadets, though formal dress is dropped.
Faculty appear in play "Papa is All" presented; photo.
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Women in uniform Roster of women who are in military service.
Gold star added to flag Star represents thirteen servicemen killed in war; 1350 alumni now in service; star added by Theta Theta Epsilon home economics club.
Librarian sponsors book talks Marybelle McClelland initiates new series.
Guests speak at chapel Roster of speakers at campus chapel services.
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Reunion dinner at Des Moines Commemorate first anniversary of college radio program.
Miss Clappison marries Marian Clappison marries Bruce Meier; publications duties will be taken over by Ruth K. Hughes.
Legion commander speaks Charles R. Logan speaks at Armistice Day remembrance.
Orchestra has first concert Concert broadcast later over radio.
Fall enrollment is lower Fall 1943 enrollment was 744 women and 76 men.
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Service men's directory Roster of men in military service, who have graduated from or attended ISTC.
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Women war workers Roster of women who are involved in war work.
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Among those who serve Extensive survey of wide range of war-time activities and service of ISTC alumni; photo.
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Alumni president gets Ph. D. Minard Stout received his doctoral degree from the University of Iowa; serving as principal at high school in Rochester, Minnesota.
New address for war prisoner Edward Volberding is a prisoner of the Germans after being captured in North Africa.
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At the 1943 session of the Administrative Women's Group The former Hazel Webster was honored for her work as Head of Library Service at the Mayville State Teachers College in North Dakota.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Crouse The former Ella McLain lives in Manhattan Beach, California.
Mrs. Clay Toney The former Martha McIntosh lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Mrs. Frank A. Koehler The former Alice Roebuck lives in Tampa, Florida.
Cleo Hurley Registrar at the largest high school in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Fred H. Anthony The former Berenice Sweeney lives in Redwood Falls, Minnesota; has two sons in the service.
Louis E. Eickelberg Wrote two books; his son is an army private.
Miss Phoebe Jane Dixon Lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Mrs. R. C. Faust The former L. Grace Bates lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wells The former Alma Belle Culp lives in Lake View, Iowa.
Myrta Abigail Shannon Elementary school principal in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mrs. H. W. Darr The former Coral M. Smith is spending time with her son in Pennsylvania.
Lou P. Barrett Retired from teaching; lives in Staples, Minnesota.
Mrs. Blanche LeValley Burchatt Retired from teaching; lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Harry Chamberlain The former Inez E. Palmer lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Blackmar The former Mary K. Fluke taught at the extension division of Hunter College, wrote a book, and worked for the Columbia University Press.
Mrs. C. A. McChesney The former Nellie Maynard lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Stuckey The former Adella J. Gibson lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
Owen P. McElmeel Instructor of speech and law at Loyola University in Los Angeles, California.
C. L. V. Craft Retired from railway service; lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
James Alderson Retired and lives in Dubuque, Iowa.
Theodore P. Ebersole Retired from doing social work; lives with his wife in Manson, Iowa.
Mrs. Avery S. Grimsby The former Minnie Mack does social work at the Simpson Methodist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Charles M. Thompson Lives in Columbus, Nebraska.
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Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Silverthorne The former Gertrude A. Pierce lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Georgiana Ruff Becker Teaches public school music in Webb, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Borden The former Alice Esther Peek and her family live in Waterloo, Iowa.
Mrs. H. C. Metcalf The former Ruth E. Young lives in Lindsborg, Kansas.
Mrs. John Hutchison The former Clotilda Lawler is the director of the Kossuth County department of social welfare.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Armstrong The former Mary Handorf and her family live in Canon City, Colorado.
Delinda Roggensack Supervisor of music at the public schools in Newton, Iowa.
Sister Mary Agnella Keefe The former Edna Marie Keefe is the principal of Sacred Heart School in Waterloo, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Phenicie The former Gladys Sabin lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Gladys M. Baughman Accountant's assistant in Los Angeles, California.
Paul G. James President of the Nebraska-Iowa District of Kiwanis International; attorney in Des Moines.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester McCauley The former Ruby Barker and her family live in Ionia, Iowa.
Lulu E. Sweigard Lives in the country near New York; associated with New York University.
Mrs. Harry W. Melton The former Elizabeth Cahalan lives in Lewiston, Idaho.
Ira Francis Heald Head of the department of education and director of teacher placement at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hoskins The former Elsie Whitford lives in Palo Alto, California.
Mrs. Carl E. Stone The former Mable V. Hanson teaches fourth, fifth, and sixth grades at North Grant Consolidated School in Nevada, Iowa.
Since the death of her husband in 1938, Mrs. G. W. Hawkins The former Edna Hale teaches junior high English in Mitchellville, Iowa.
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Chauncey M. Welch Works in Canada for Al Johnson Construction Company of New York.
Marie Yaryan Junior social welfare worker at the Jasper County Welfare Office in Newton, Iowa.
Irene Higgins Teaches commercial subjects in Independence, Wisconsin.
Lieut. and Mrs. Henry Huizinga The former Ruth Blake and her family live in Santa Ana, California.
Myron E. Lapp Principal of the grade school in La Junta, Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Williams The former Kathryn Skemp and her family live in Adrian, Michigan, where she is a substitute teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Perle E. Rider The former Myrtle Madson lives in Clinton, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Larson The former Dorothy Schlosser and her family live in Waterloo, Iowa.
Jeanette Boomhower Lee Postmaster in Ventura, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Caviness The former Irene A. DeLong and her family live in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Clara V. Madson Military editor for the Mason City Globe-Gazette in Mason City, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ryner The former Ida C. Hulberg and her family live on a farm near Rudd, Iowa.
Leta Schneider Clerk in the Navy Department in Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Roby The former Gladys M. Bryson and her family live on a farm near Rockwell City, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Lewis The former Ida Bullard and her family moved to Des Moines, Iowa.
Mrs. Mildred Hastings Bogle Teaches social studies at the junior high school in Selby, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. DuBois The former Kathryn E. Peterson lives in Wayne, Indiana.
Helen Pfrimmer Teaches at the high school in Centerville, Iowa.
Mrs. B. W. Phillips The former Jessie Archer teaches commercial subjects at the high school in Charles, Montana.
Mrs. L. C. Sturdevant The former Elizabeth Thompson teaches at the Kessler School in Oakton, South Dakota.
Zelda Lane Principal of Lincoln School in Burlington, Iowa.
Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Nestingen The former Frances E. Bartle and her family live in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mary Hart Zink Teaches mathematics at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois.
Florence Davis Head of the home management department at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Borgen The former Marguerite Niemeyer and her family live in Des Moines, Iowa.
Russell E. Dickinson Assistant professor on the athletic staff at Iowa State College.
Vincent C. Hall New address is General Delivery, Oak Ridge.
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Mrs. Carol Payne Johnson Teaches commercial geography and history at St. Joseph High School in Bay City, Michigan.
Wayne G. Johnson Coaches at the Theodore Roosevelt School in Peoria, Illinois.
Mrs. Vern Stump The former Eda Matusick is principal of the elementary school in Richvale, California.
Mabel Thompson Teaches high school commercial subjects in Waukegan, Illinois.
Mrs. Karl Westenberger The former Betty McElhinney lives in San Pedro, California.
Mrs. Nell Pickerell Ayres Teaches at the junior high school in Montezuma, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hadley The former Bernice Nash and her family live on a farm near Nichols, Iowa.
Mrs. H. C. Parks The former Helen Morse lives in Inglewood, California.
Florence E. Reid Instructor in elementary education and supervisor of student teaching at the University of Vermont.
Miss Clara Marie Secor Stenographer for the Corps of Engineers in the War Department in Washington, D. C.
Albert H. Berg Commissioned second lieutenant in the US Army at Fort Washington, Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Burns The former Bernice Opheim lives in Estherville, Iowa.
Murvle H. Hanawalt Professor of English at Nebraska State Teachers College in Wayne, Nebraska.
Mrs. Lyman Overholtzer The former Juanita Spray is doing the bookkeeping at Swanson's Grocery in Cherokee, Iowa.
Gladys Powers Teaches at Grant Independent Standard School in Castana, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Ubbe A. Reiter The former Marie Volberding works at Manitowoc Ship Building Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Merle De Good The former Myrtle Kleist works at the Ordnance Plant in Burlington, Iowa.
Rubye I. Bradshaw Dowell Grade school teacher in Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. McFarland The former Lucy Alice Curtiss works at Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California.
E. J. Albrecht Superintendent of the Box Elder Public School in Box Elder, Montana.
Mrs. Dale P. Carpenter The former Adelaide C. Gray lives in Coon Rapids, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Harper The former Glenniss Bower and her family live in Steamboat Rock, Iowa.
Mrs. Stella Kelly The former Stella Higgins teaches in Minor County, South Dakota.
Dillon Lowell Head of public school instrumental music in Fairfield, Iowa; his wife is the former Dorothy Dawson, who teaches piano and voice.
Mrs. Wallace Mertz The former Marion Dierksen and her family live in Superior, Wisconsin.
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Mrs. Bridget A. Wells Clerk in the Central Provisions Office in Bombay, India.
Bernice Boddicker Lives in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren A. Campbell The former Irene Meindl lives in Berkeley, California.
Mrs. E. E. Cleveland The former Zadie M. Brown is assistant director at the Halsted Street Institutional Church in Chicago, Illinois.
Melvene M. Draheim Instructor in the Department of Communications at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Clinton G. Kelley Manager of the Surgeon Mercantile Company in Washington, Iowa.
Myra A. McDowell Teaches in Springfield, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Malven The former Etwina Belschner and her family lives on a farm near Maynard, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Burdette E. Moeller Teaches speech and drama at the Rochester High School in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Newman Assistant professor of music and director of band at the West Texas State College in Canyon, Texas.
Dorothy L. Misbach Organizing and teaching a sight saving class at the Iowa School for the Blind.
Mrs. Emery D. Stewart The former Bernice Van De Water lives in Orchard, Nebraska.
Mrs. Alvin W. Vande Ven

The former Olive M. Morgan lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Lillian Voss Teaches kindergarten in Clinton, Iowa.
Mrs. Harold Beidatsch The former Alice M. Haas lives in West Allis, Wisconsin.
Robert L. Burch Superintendent of the schools in Hudson, Iowa; his wife is the former Mary Lou Mitze.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Crowell The former Dixie I. Neal now lives in Neola, Iowa.
Maxine Ellerbrock Now Sister Mary Coralita; lives in Detroit, Michigan.
Marion T. Haahr Office manager at the C. F. Lytle & Green Construction Company in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Heritage The former Laura Christensen and her family live in Correctionville, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Hillman The former Evelyn L. Sime and her family live in Northwood, Iowa.
Ens. Edward C. Lambert Taking communications courses at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.