Alumnus — January 1, 1932

Page Title Summary
1 Alumni pay reverent tribute to "First Teacher" Professor David Sands Wright died at his home October 30, 1931, following stroke; biographical sketch; tributes; also tribute to Professor Melvin F. Arey; photo.
2 Alumnus receives honor J. R. Magee receives honorary degree from Morningside.
3 Alumni reorganization discussed at dinner Description of dinner program and summary of speakers' remarks.
4 The Seerley Foundation Organization to promote welfare of students preparing to teach; description of programs, especially student loans.
5 "Be Human" urges speaker in fall term address Fifty-two students receive degrees or diplomas; description of ceremony; address given by Frank Cody; list of graduates; photo.
6 Mrs. John H. Fellingham Died November 15, 1931.
6 C. E. Gregg Lives in Oakland.
6 Graduate rides elephants Alumna Dixie Willson writes of her experience of riding circus elephants.
7 Here's help for alumni who direct school plays Professor Holden outlines play production curriculum; gives directions on construction of scenery and settings; photo.
10 Rites held for Mrs. Walters Florence Griffith Walters dies of stroke November 19, 1931.
10 Mrs. Harry B. Peck Lillian G. Goodwin Peck visits campus.
11 Circle letter record broken Alumnus claims that his class letter has been circulating since 1894.
11 Placement Bureau offers service Outlines services and procedures of bureau.
12 Boy Scouts rally 550 strong Boys enjoy campus activities.
12 Homecoming is different Description of activities; photo.
14 Scholastic team chosen Professor John W. Charles selects the eleven strongest students from all of his years of teaching.
14 Bureau of Public Relationships Will enhance attention to alumni activities.
15 Enrollment increases Winter term 1931 enrollment is 2028.
15 Extension Service reaches 115,000 Breakdown by major line of service.
15 Six instructors are state officers Six elected to ISTA offices.
15 Professors attend convention 109 attend, twenty-one appear on ISTA program.
15 Paderewski at college March 10 List of performers on Lecture and Entertainment Course.
16 Dads feted at annual day Dads tour campus, attend class.
16 Faculty aid to student fund Faculty will contribute 1% of their October, November, December, and January pay to the Student Loan Fund to raise about $1800.
16 Dr. Latham speaks at convention Speaks at Northwestern Iowa Teachers meeting.
16 Debaters meet Oxford Report on British style during split team debates.
17 Graduates invited to press prom Will sponsor second annual prom.
17 Heating plant progresses Shops and garages nearing completion; smokestack completed November 27; structural steel for heating plant almost done; description of plant facilities.
17 Debaters to meet at college Students from thirteen colleges will meet.
17 Enrollment of men increases 628 men enrolled for winter 1931 term; proportion of women to men is down from about 4:1 to about 2:1.
17 Orators to meet Iowa U. First extemporaneous meet with UI to be held.
17 Noted educator speaks at college Sarah M. Sturtevant addresses students.
18 Technological unemployment Urges teachers to continue their education in order to weather difficult economic conditions.
18 Branch school selected Branch summer school will be in Creston.
19 Basketball squad whips pre-holiday foes Wins first two games; season preview.
19 Panthers supplant Tutors Burl Berry submits winning entry in contest; athletic teams will have nickname of Purple Panthers.
19 Most valuable player honored Burl Berry is 1931 football MVP.
20 Mat men drill for season Season preview.
20 TC letter changed to I New letter is 8-inch purple chenille I; letters currently awarded in football, basketball, baseball, track, wrestling, and tennis.
21 Purple warriors show fight despite injuries Football team finishes at 3-5; season wrap-up; photo.
22 Mrs. J. Percival Huget The former Annie Lees is the wife to Dr. J. Percival Huget, pastor at the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church in New York; has written many pieces of literature including, "The Unspent Day".
22 Mrs. Fred C. Danforth The former Electa Waterbury was a student during the time of the founding of the institution in 1876; visited campus recently and was amazed by the changes.
22 Robert A. Mallory Teaching sixth grade in Swea City, Iowa.
22 Ethel L. Arey Resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota; working at the Deaconess M. E. Hospital and Home.
22 Eva Pettengill Taught school for several years.
22 Charles S. Cobb Head of the Biology Department at Sioux City.
22 Mrs. May Hopkins Teaching in the Port Jervis Schools in New York; supervisor of the grades and junior high.
22 Samuel Quigley Professor of education at the University of Texas; author of "World Book for Teachers from the Kindergarten to the Senior College".
22 Mrs. Henry D. Jones The former Maurine Fink is now living in New York City; had previously taught physical education in Indiana.
22 Effie Bathurst Research associate of the Institution of School Experimentation; received M. A. and Ph. D. degrees.
23 Elmer P. Schindler Formerly superintendent of schools at Rippey, Iowa; now an agent for the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York.
23 Irene Lenahan Rural school teacher at Knoke.
23 Charles W. North High school principal in the New Hampton High School.
23 Wilbur D. Russell Now teaches Auto Shop in Balboa High School in San Francisco.
23 Jim Strawn Founder of the Xanho fraternity at the college visits campus.
23 Mrs. Emmett Peck The former Genevieve Hays is a voice instructor at Cluthe Music Conservatory in Evansville, Indiana.
23 Harriet A. Cunningham Now lives in Anamosa.
23 Frank Church Superintendent of schools at Keota, Iowa.
23 Mrs. H. O. Sandberg The former June Marquis now lives in Waterloo.
23 Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hochstetler The former Helen Fuller and her husband moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
23 Earl Stout Works in the English Department at the University of Iowa.
23 Finn Eriksen Went to Columbia University to get his M. A. degree.
23 Gerald Baxter Went on to Cambridge University to take up business organization; participated in many activities.
23 Emmett Van Cable Went on to Cambridge University to take up business organization; participated in many activities at the college.
24 Mrs. Bruce A. Rogers The former Stella Handorf lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
24 Roy N. Collins Supervisor of music of District No. 1 at Pueblo, Colorado.
24 Mabel Parish Teaches history in the high school and junior college at San Mateo, California; has traveled to many places.
24 Mrs. Everett C. Gray The former Garnet J. Vollertsen now lives in Pelham, New York.
24 Mrs. S. R. Hoyt The former Frankie Wilcox; works in the Weekday Religious Schools of Wichita, Kansas.
24 Jean M. Gleaves Spent a summer in Europe to study education in the countries that she visited.
24 C. R. Cronk Superintendent of schools in Denver, Iowa.
24 Mrs. Earl A. Roadman The former Irma Keene wrote an article; Earl Roadman is president of the Dakota Wesleyan University at Mitchell, South Dakota.
24 Ira F. Heald Works at the Louisiana State Normal College and is on the athletic council at the school.
24 Mrs. Sara P. Pryor The former Sara P. Sherman is an assistant professor of English and Director of Drama at Grinnell College.
24 Mrs. Preston Lindley The former Mary Walters teaches at Tipton, Iowa.
24 Arnold Stientjes Teaches science at Beresford, South Dakota.
25 The following item appeared in "Who's who in Engineering" Biographical profile of Leo Ranney.
25 Rex C. Haight Attended Stanford University.
25 Frank S. Jewell Manager of insurance, taxes, and leases for an automobile corporation of Detroit, Michigan.
25 Alice I. Cramer Voice and public school music teacher in Chicago.
25 Mrs. Myron W. Omlie The former Helena Bakewell now lives in Chicago, Illinois.
25 Helen M. Christianson Assistant professor of education at the San Francisco State Teachers College.
25 At the Cosmopolitan Club dinner Cap Miller spoke at meeting.
25 Mrs. Al J. Kuhn The former Abbie Fluckey and Mrs. Elmer Wallace, the former Georgia Fluckey, called at the home of Dr. Homer H. Seerley.
26 Norma Gillett Transferred to the Teachers College from the Northern State Teachers College at Marquette, Michigan.
26 Mrs. C. S. Aldrich The former Bess Streeter took a vacation and renewed old friendships.
26 Thora G. Iverson Teaches English and speech at Rock Valley, Iowa.
26 Mrs. John C. Bennett The former Elizabeth Hart is a critic and English teacher in the Training School at Western Illinois State Teachers College.
26 Mary P. Snyder English teacher at Dalton, South Dakota.
26 Mrs. F. W. Watson The former Ruth M. White now lives in Oakland, California.
26 Leora Boetger Teaches English and dramatics in the high school at Oelwein, Iowa.
26 Dr. Clem C. Seerley Is a physician and surgeon at Bozeman, Montana.
26 Allen W. Read Professor of English at the University of Missouri.
26 Mrs. Erwin H. Sherman The former Elizabeth Bingham lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and works at the General Motors Company.
26 John R. McKee Lives in Spencer, Iowa.
26 William Wood Supervisor of vocational and industrial arts in the Davenport Public Schools. One of his two daughters is the music supervisor in the public schools in Independence.
26 Ruth L. Hanson Teaching primary grades at Gayville, South Dakota.
26 G. A. Kaltenbach Now lives in Dausman, Wisconsin.
26 Miss Naomi Langhout Teaches physical education at the University of South Dakota.
26 Howard Lee Cundy History teacher in a high school in Downers Grove, Iowa.
27 Miller Christiansen Insurance adjuster at Madison, Wisconsin.
27 Mary Tuynman Teaches sixth grade at Mitchell, South Dakota.
27 Irene Tuynman Teaches English in Junior High School in Mitchell.
27 James E. Fitzgerald Principal of the Hopkins School at Sioux City.
27 Douglas Barnes Enrolled at Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
27 Jesse L. McLaughlin Agency secretary of the American Bible Society in Chicago, Illinois,
27 Dorothy Magee Called on Dr. H. H. Seerley with Mrs. Magee known as Harriet A. Keeler.
27 Dr. J. Percival Huget Minister of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York.
27 Harry E. Kelley Teaches biology in the Washington Senior High School at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
27 Merle Wayne McKeever Works on a farm at Mitchellville, Iowa.
27 Isabel M. Ryan Now lives in LeClaire, Iowa.
27 Theodore A. Gerard Secretary of the committee seeking immediate relief for the South Dakota strike.
27 Pearl M. Shaffer As a Colonel in the U.S. Army, he is an instructor for the Iowa National Guard.
28 Dr. Bennett Intern at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago.
28 Mrs. Lewis Havermale The former Clara Tolstrup and her sister Mrs. S. A. Cohagen, the former Syrena Tolstrup, visited Dr. H. H. Seerley and D. S. Wright.
28 Mr. Cohagen Received degrees at the Teachers College.
28 Mrs. Havermale writes that she and her husband have spent the past two and one half years in China. The former Clara Tolstrup taught English in the Precollegiate Department and advised in the Goucher Junior High School while her husband was dean of the Faculty of Religion.
28 Mrs. John C. Bennett The former Elizabeth Hart and Mrs. Franklin Zink, the former Marion Hart, visited their parents in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
28 Delia Mulder Instructor in Oyster Bay Public Schools of Oyster Bay, New York.
28 Katherine Berkstresser Studying at the University of Columbia.
28 Mr. and Mrs. F. W. McLaughlin The former Gladys Henderson and her husband now live in Northwood, Iowa.
28 Mrs. Arthur E. Simpson The former Anna R. Border now lives in Sebeka, Minnesota.
28 Merle M. Sliter Student at Northwestern University.
28 Helen L. Landsberg Now lives in Hinsdale, Illinois.
28 Mrs. C. K. June The former Loma Lyle now lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
28 Alice Hadley Works at a tea shop in Sioux City, Iowa.
28 Frank C. Popham Called on Dr. H. H. Seerley.
28 Hubert Lewis Moeller Social science instructor and assistant coach at Bedford, Iowa.
28 Agnes Mellem Teaches fourth grade at Park Ridge, Illinois.
29 Ruth Mowbray Married Hess P. Jasper and lives in Newton, Iowa.
29 Irene Vogelsang Married Henry Janssen and lives in Ackley.
29 Hazel Weisbard Married K. John Cook and lives in South Minneapolis, Minnesota.
29 Aurelia Bender Married Irwin Dickson and teaches in Wood High School.
29 Nira E. Gregory Married Clyde D. Mease on August 4, 1931.
29 Reverend Charles H. Kamphoefner Pastor of the Methodist Church at Sioux City, Iowa.
29 Lloyd Groff Now teaches in a rural school in Harris, Iowa.
29 H. C. Moeller Extension professor of rural education at the College and co-wrote two books.
29 Elva Boland Married Raymond Hildman and lives in Clarion, Iowa.
29 Neva Gleason Married Elston W. Chapin on November 1, 1931
29 W. W. Patty Professor of secondary education in the School of Education at Indiana University; co-wrote an article.
29 J. F. Treasure Ex-county agent of the Hossier Building Tile & Silo Company of Albany.
29 Theresa C. Schreckengast The former Theresa Coffman now lives in Keota, Iowa.
30 Jessie Storie Married Ralph Morgan and now lives in Ames, Iowa.
30 Eula M. Wintermute Married Tom R. Masters on June 22, 1929
30 Ethel LuVerne Erickson Married Ross S. Strong on November 12, 1930.
30 Martha Jennings Married Keith Adams on June 16, 1931.
30 Christine E. Wilken Married Dr. Alfred H. Brauer and now live in San Francisco, California.
30 Junetta Stolt Married Elmer J. Melvey on September 2, 1931
30 Armyn Huglin Married Karleton Crain and lives in West Lafayette, Iowa.
30 Elva M. Robinson Married Clovis Adams on December 25, 1930.
30 Elizabeth M. Burgess Married W. L. Egglesten on May 2, 1929
31 Mr. and Mrs. Marsten Sweet Parents of George Marsten was born on October 25,1931.
31 Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Cook Parents of Constance Arduser, born on August 4, 1931.
31 Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Knoepfler Brought a boy into the world on September 18, 1931.
31 Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wallace Bought a girl into the world on July 22, 1931.
31 Mr. and Mrs. Fay Cook Parents of Marilyn Fay who was born on March 9, 1931.
31 Mary L. Nauman Married Arthur Pearse on September 6, 1931.
31 Martha M. Hinrichs Married Frank A. Nelson on September 9, 1931.
31 Grace E. Nolan Married Leo J. Knepper and now live in Ames, Iowa.
31 Mayona C. Johnson Married R. L. Lubsen on August 31, 1930.
31 LeClair Eells Married Dorothy Dongall on September 10, 1931.
31 Ruth E. Blow Married Charles E. Peterson on November 29, 1930.
31 Lois M. Jester Married Harold O. Wahl and now lives in Paton, Iowa.
31 Crissie Tjossem Married Arnold I. Manville and now live in Inglewood, California.
31 Izetta Henningson Married Ben Iverson on May 21, 1931.
32 Mrs. George Breitenstein The former Ida Montalon Sala died in August, 1931.
32 Edward Bronson Died in the summer of 1931.
32 Mrs. William Karr The former Mabel Dayton died on October 22, 1931.
32 Mrs. Percy Burroughs The former Violetta M. Fields died on April 20, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Vermilya Parents of Douglas Kent who was born on April 5, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Moser Parents of LeRoy Clifford, who was born on October 8, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Preston Parents of Robert Randall, who was born on October 23, 1931.
32 Willard H. Lyon Died on September 7, 1931.
32 Mrs. Ralph Ross The former Ruby E. Crawford died on May 31, 1930.
32 Mrs. Charles Bloomfield The former Grace Eimers died on May 29, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Dudley Parents of Richard Daniel who was born on May 26, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Elwin R. Miller Parents of Janice Rae who was born on October 14, 1930.
32 Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Luyben Parents of Joanne Delphine who was born on June 21, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore C. Linka Parents of Norma Helen who was born on September 6, 1931.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Kramer Brought a girl into the world on September 27, 1930.
32 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pringnitz Parents of Helen Lavonne, who was born on February 9, 1931.
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