Alumnus — January 1, 1940

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1 Tiny camera ace flashes big-wig dad Governor George A. Wilson visits campus for Dad's Day; photo.
2 Homecoming thrills thousands Highlights of Homecoming include parade (first in ten years), displays, game, and dance; photo.
2 Faculty sharpen wits in quest for outstanding teaching work Committee will visit classes of all faculty with aim of improving teaching skills; will write reports; department heads and students will also rate faculty teaching ability.
3 Miss Emma Lambert rests; Extension borrows Dr. Bender Professor Lambert suffers stroke, but plans to return to teaching; Paul Bender works in Extension this quarter.
3 Untitled Faculty members play in combo at Dad's Day event; photo.
3 Journalists gather; Thomas talks; West Hall nears completion 125 gather at journalism conference; Norman Thomas speaks; new women's dorm will be ready for spring or summer quarter.
4 Pay checks flutter in 95% of 1938-1939 graduates found jobs; inventory of major courses of study that did best.
5 The Athenia disaster--my story Personal account by alumna Lulu E. Sweigard of experiences onboard the S. S. Athenia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine; photo.
9 Little prisoners, row on row! George Holmes believes that education is fostered in pleasant surroundings.
10 We'd love to have you over Experiences of a young male teacher in a small town.
13 The Prowl View of new stadium; football wrap-up; basketball and wrestling preview; photo.
15 Mrs. Malcolm Ross (Mary Toreva Shutts) Died Nov. 12 in Vinton. She studied at the Chicago Baptist Missionary Training School, and taught several years before her marriage in 1938.
15 Dr. Rodney M. Arey Died May 30, 1939.
15 Luella Rigby Jones Retires from missionary work in Burma; residing in Hollywood, California.
15 Gweneth Brown Killed in auto accident, November 3, 1939.
16 Reunions News of gatherings in Chicago and Sac County.
16 Dad's Day visitor Paul R. Farlow visits daughter Kay Farlow; photo.
17 Opened by censor Mabel Reid, missionary in Burma, recounts recent experiences.
18 She accounts for barren gap Alumna was missionary in China; is now pastor's wife in Maryland.
18 She praises the library Mary Mitchell lives near New York City, but still misses ISTC Library.
19 Cold--but they enjoyed it W. R. Sandy recalls school in the 1880s; students lived in rooming houses far from campus and walked to the Hill every day; remembers chapel and other entertainments.
20 Mrs. Edward I. Cantine (Etta A. Robinson) Resides in Portland, Oregon. Her husband is a civil engineer. They have three children, Helen Scott, Charles E., and Thomas Robinson.
20 W. R. Sandy Now resides in Puyallup, Washington. He entered the Normal School in 1889 and alternated teaching and attending school for a number of years. He attained his B. Di. Degree in 1895.
20 Mrs. Noah W. Gibson (Lillia Britten) Now resides in Fontanelle. Her husband is now retired. They have two children, Mary Gibson Hoagland, now teaching in Honolulu, and Paul Gibson, living in Chicago. Lillie taught at St. George school for girls in Chicago for ten years following 1927.
20 Marian E. Leonard For many years a primary teacher in the public schools of Chicago; retired in June, 1939, and is now living at Waukee.
20 Louis G. Abel A Normal School athlete from 1900 to 1902; has been engaged in wholesale and retail oil business at Ft. Madison for twelve years. His friends will remember him as winner in the high jump at the state tract meet in 1901 and at the Emporia in 1902.
20 I. N. Eaton Of Portland, Oregon, and his brother George D. Eaton, superintendent of schools at Forest City visited the College. I. N. Eaton is the father of Hazel E. Eaton, now wife of E. E. Sharp.
20 Mrs. John A. Hull (Gladys Sigworth) Married in 1904; mother of three children and grandmother of three more. Her husband is an attorney, now serving as postmaster. They reside in Boone. Gladys has travelled in Europe and nearly all parts of the United States.
20 Mrs. W. A. Sexsmith (Nellie Weldy) Resides in New Sharon. Her four daughters, Dora, Blanche, Elna, and Ethel were students of the College. Her husband died April 22, 1937. Nellie has studied at the University of Iowa and took business training in Seattle.
20 Mrs. Emma Jenny Tate Now residing in Des Moines; husband Frank C. Tate died Jan. 8, 1916. He had been associated with the Iowa Geological Survey. They had three daughters, Kathryn, who died in March, 1936, Margaret, and Alice
20 Clarence Ray Aurner Resides in Iowa City, where he is engaged in private research. His wife, the former Nellie A. Slayton, is professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa. They have two children, Robert R. and Ruth Isabelle.
20 Stella Tuttle Retired after forty-two years of public school teaching. She resides in Clarkston, Wash.
20 E. D. Y. Culbertson Resides in Topeka, Kan. To the Alumnus editor he writes, "Your October number is more than good. It is excellent in material selection and the mechanical arrangement."
21 Mabel Fonda Wells Is superintendent of education of crippled children in the Los Angeles Public Schools, where she has been teaching for seventeen years.
21 Mrs. L. F. Havermale (Clara Tolstrup) Residing in Arlington, Virginia; husband is a Methodist minister. They have one son, Jerrold Stanley. The family has traveled in Japan, China, the Philippines, Palestine, Egypt, Europe, and around the world. Clara has taken some graduate work.
21 Blanche Martin Is national sales manager of Child Development Inc., Chicago, where she resides.
21 Mrs. E. R. Greive (Catherine O'Leary) lives in Hambrook, California, where her husband is a rancher. They have four children; celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in August. She writes that Grace Strain, a former Teachers College student, lives in Grant Pass, Oregon.
21 Mrs. Joseph Lynch (Gertrude Tyrrell) Supervisor of music in the Waverly Public Schools. Her husband is manager of a hotel in Waverly. Gertrude has taken graduate work at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.
21 Altah Caroline Cole and Alice E. Cole Twin sisters now living in Washington. Altah is married to Robert Averill and resides in Bellingham. They have one daughter. Alice is married to Victor Hutt and resides in Seattle.
21 Mrs. Anna Soper Now residing in Mapleton. She taught twelve years after graduation; served as county superintendent of schools in Stanley County, South Dakota, 1931-1935. Her husband, Luverne W. Soper, was a rancher in Stanley County. He died in 1934.
21 Mrs. Laura Specht Price and Ida Louise Specht Are both teaching in California. Laura has been in Santa Barbara sixteen years and is now director of elementary education at the State College. Ida is teaching mathematics in Jefferson High School, Los Angeles.
21 Mrs. Jessie Miller Wright Resides in Riverside, California, and teaches in the West Riverside schools. She spent ten weeks of last summer traveling in Canada, thirty-four states of the United States, and also went to Bermuda.
21 Phoebe J. Dixon Attending the University of Chicago this year. Since graduation she has attended several summer sessions of the University of California.
21 Mrs. E. L. Kriel (Jessie Farlow) Resides in Madison, Wisconsin; teaching choral speaking to children's groups. Last summer she was elected a member of the national council of Zeta Phi Eta, national professional speech sorority.
21 L. Mabel Dimmitt Now resides at Huntington Park, California. She is a teacher in the third grade in the public schools.
21 Maude E. Lane Now residing in Santa Barbara; has been writing for the Santa Barbara Guide Book during the past year. She has also been serving as reporter for the La Cumbre chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was chosen as a delegate.
21 Mrs. C. J. Estal (Mabel L. Kleckner) Student in 1900 and 1901; living in Green Mountain. She taught in Osceola and Bedford, and later substituted in the Green Mountain schools.
21 Mrs. W. G. Merriam (Laura Bidlack) Now resides in North Dakota; mother of two daughters and grandmother of two more. W. G. is a farmer, rancher, and miner. As for her activities, she writes that hers is "a very busy life."
22 Fern E. Sharp Is an attorney at Elkader. His wife is the former Jessie A. Fritz. They have three children, Laura Mae, Eugene, and Betty.
22 Mary Alice Slee Is head of the Department of Education at York College, York, Nebraska.
22 Dr. Alvin S. Tostlebe The outbreak of war in Europe changed his plans to spend this year in France; sailing date was September 20, and the declaration of war came in the first week of the month.
22 Louise E. Arildson Now residing in Nyack, N. Y. She and a friend, Florence L. Halstead, traveled through the West last summer. They visited in Salt Lake City, attended the Iowa picnic at Long Beach, and attended the San Francisco fair.
22 Mrs. R. C. Keagy (Hildred Chamberlain) Has returned to Iowa and is living in Washington. The Reverend Keagy is minister of the Methodist Church. They formerly lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
22 Mrs. Joseph Schonberner (Daisy P. Wilbur) Now living at Junction City, Kansas. She and her husband have two children, Sara Lois and Lucille Elizabeth. Joseph is retired chief clerk of the Union Pacific Railroad.
22 1915 The Class of 1915, having graduated 25 years earlier, will be the honor group during the alumni reunion, June 2, 1940.
22 Mrs. Paul G. Ingraham (Marjorie Watkins) And physician husband reside in Mapleton. They have one son, Paul Watkins. They enjoyed a 6000 mile trip through the West last summer; met several alumni on trip.
22 James C. Knoepfler Son of the late Karl J. Knoepfler and the former Corrine Ponfoy Record, was awarded a scholarship to Dartmouth College. His grandfather, John B. Knoepfler, was head of the German Department at Teachers College from 1900 to 1924.
22 Mrs. Arthur R. Kearns (O'Del Barr) Now residing at Mt. Vernon. She taught for five years, three of them in South Dakota. The Kearns have six children.
22 Florence N. Brumbaugh Is professor of methods at Hunter College, New York City. Her address is Hotel Gramercy Park, New York City.
22 H. J. Kaufmann Now retired and is residing in Detroit, Mich.
22 James O. Perrine, Jr. Son of J. O. Perrine, Upper Montclair, N. J., was in charge of the American Telephone and Telegraph booth at the New York World's Fair this past summer. His father, is now assistant vice-president of the A. T. and T. Co.
22 Paul A. Davis Is now superintendent of schools at Elma, Washington. He received his B. A. from the University of Washington, and has spent two years in the United States air corps. He and his wife have one son.
22 Mrs. Alexander Henry Bradford (Marguerite Griffen) Resident of Alaska for twenty years; resides in Dillingham, Bristol Bay, Bering Sea. Married J. C. Lowe in 1920, engaged in fur business, died in 1930. Married Bradford in 1931 who was interested in salmon canneries. He died in 1937.
23 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Schroeder Living at Charles City; have one son, Larry Lee. She is the former Audrey Sherman.
23 Mrs. Arthur E. Lindsay (Beatrice Erickson) Residing in Arthur, where her husband is a merchant. The Lindsays have three children, Robert, Marjorie, and Jane.
23 Dr. Anna D. Cordts Member of the College Extension Service faculty in 1926-1927; now professor of education at Rutgers University. She has done extensive research in the problems of teaching reading.
23 Mrs. Clarence Pederson (Grace Townsend) Resides in Canton, South Dakota, where her husband is manager of the Farmers Electrical Supply store.
23 Mrs. J. B. Randolph (Mina Coronell McCleary) Living at Keota. Her husband is engaged in farming. Mina attended the college in the summer of 1936 and was married June 15, 1937.
23 Robert John Ernst Is head of the Department of Commercial Education at Plymouth Teachers College, Plymouth, N. H. His wife is the former Florence Hull Nichols. He received his M. A. degree in 1925 from the University of Iowa.
23 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Laing Reside in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he is connected with the Michigan State Normal College. His wife is the former Leela T. Linder. They have two children, Dorothy and Richard.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Thayer The former Margaret E. Godfrey and husband are residing at Fresno. They have two daughters, Catherine, and Marcha. Former residents of Topeka, Kan., they moved to California last June and are "real California boosters" by now.
23 Frank Ward Major in the 17th United States Infantry, with headquarters at Ft. Crook, Nebraska. He and his wife, the former Mary Belle Nicosom, have three children. He has been to England, France, Japan, Siberia, China, Philippines, Hawaii, and Panama.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gilkerson The former Mary Lyon and husband, of Magnolia, visited their daughter, Mary Jean, on Dad's Day. It was the first visit to the college in twenty-one years for Mary Lyon Gilkerson.
23 Mrs. Donald C. McKee (Ruby Whitham) Is living in Joplin, Missouri. She and Donald have a nine-year-old son, Louis Carter. A shut-in, Ruby writes an appeal to hear from other members of the Class of 1918.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Newkirk (Sylvia Pedersen) And family have moved to a new home in Santa Monica. They have five children, Charles, Jr., Mary Lou, Betty, William, and Bobby.
23 Gertrude Viantha Steiner Teaching mathematics in Washington Irving Junior High School, Hammond, Indiana, since 1927. She is vice-president of the Chicago area alumni group.
23 Ebelene Iblings Resumed her duties as kindergarten teacher in Seattle after a year's sabbatical leave. She and a friend made a round-the-world tour sailing from San Francisco in February, 1939, to Honolulu and then to Japan.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Cecil J. Bogard Residing in Indianapolis. Cecil is agency supervisor for the Bankers Life Insurance Co. of Iowa. His wife is the former Evelyn Patterson..
24 Mrs. R. A. Burton (Jane Esther Helmer) Moved from Charles City and now resides in San Diego.
24 H. D. Harrington Is now teaching in the science division of the Chicago Teachers College. He was a member of the State Agricultural College faculty, Ft. Collins, Colorado. He currently resides in Chicago.
24 Margaret Henderson Is teaching English at the Thornton Township High School and Junior College. She resides in Des Moines.
24 Martha A. Meyer Attended the National University at Mexico City during the summer of 1939. At present she is teaching in a Davenport junior high school, where she resides.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Miller The former Mildred L. Johnson and husband are now living at Manson. They have two children, Keith and Roger.
24 Mrs. Harold Toney (Marian Petersen), and Bessie Troutner And husband are now living in Lincoln, Illinois. The former Bessie Troutner and husband, Paul T. Betz, are also living in Lincoln. The Betzes have two children, Barbara and David.
24 Helga Urn Is teaching her fifth year at Red Oak this year. Previously she taught at Coin. She is teaching the fourth grade.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blanchard Are now living in Keokuk, where he is teaching physics and chemistry in the senior high school. Harold taught in the high school and junior college at Elkader last year. His wife is the former Elma Magee, student in 1925-1926.
24 Ida M. Shafer Now employed as secretary to the registrar of Iowa State College, Ames.
24 Bessie A. Young Is an instructor in the Commercial Department at the Waterloo West High School. She taught at the Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville, last summer. She was in charge of the Shorthand Department.
24 Mrs. A. W. Price (Alda Martin) She and her husband moved in August from Council Bluffs to Harlan, where A. W. opened a radio service shop.
24 Mrs. Harold Holthaus (Gladyce Beatty) Living at Earlville, where she and her husband farm. They have two children, Wallace and Claryce Marie. Gladyce taught rural schools for four years in Delaware and Clayton Counties.
24 Martha Weisell Now living in Fort Wayne, where she has a teaching position in the Harrison Hill School. During the summer of 1939, she took a 13,000 mile trip through Western United States.
24 Lee Smiley Teaching printing and art in the high school at Barrington, Illinois. He was art editor of the Old Gold, in 1924, and also was a member of the staff in 1927 and 1928.
24 Harold C. Sheldon He is superintendent of schools in Beech. His wife is the former Joy Paton, and they have two girls and a boy. Harold took work in vocational guidance at Iowa State College.
24 E. A. Ralston Is superintendent of schools in Washington. Two new school buildings, Stewart and Lincoln, are being used for the first time this year in Washington. He was president of the Iowa State Teachers College Alumni Association in 1934-1935.
25 Helga Christensen Is supervisor of art at Galesburg, where she resides.
25 Mrs. K. B. Cunard (Irma Cornish) Is residing in Bellflower, California. She was married to Kenneth B. Cunard of Bellflower on June 11.
25 Helen Curtis Is a member of the New York State College faculty, Albany, where she resides. She directs the Student Christian Association and assists the dean of students with freshman activities.
25 Mrs. Clifford E. Johnson (Irma R. Johnson) Is now living in Akron. She taught for five years in Akron before her marriage in 1936. The Johnsons have one daughter, Sylvia Ruth.
25 Mrs. W. M. Sherman (Sybil Sheets) Is teaching English and dramatics at Liberty Consolidated School this year. She resides in Clemons.
25 Melvin J. Slacks and Ruth Cavana Is working for the railroad retirement board in Chicago, under the Civil Service Commission. His wife is the former Ruth Cavana. They have three daughters, the youngest is a baby girl, Mirabel Ferry. They reside in Chicago.
25 Mrs. Perry St. Louis (Grace Burkardt) Is now living in Slater, Colorado. For the last eight years she taught school at Savery, Wyoming. She was married in June.
25 Alice M. Wilson Is now living in Des Moines, where she is branch librarian of the Des Moines Public Library. She has served in that capacity for the past two years. She attended the ten weeks' session at the School of Librarianship of Denver University last summer.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Carver The former Ruth Eells and husband Lowell reside in Ames. Lowell is beginning his first year as instructor in the Industrial Arts Department at Iowa State College. Previously, he taught in Geneseo, Illinois, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, high schools.
25 Faye Kelley Is a member of the physical education staff of Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Illinois. She is a graduate of the National Recreation School and received her M. A. degree from New York University in 1939.
25 James W. Kercheval Is serving as assistant professor of chemistry at Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, this year.
25 Elma Lighter Is principal of the college junior high school and supervisor of English at Central State Teachers College, Mr. Pleasant, Mich. She received her master's degree from Columbia University and attended the Writers' Workshop at the University of Colorado.
25 Liberty Maye Mattson Moved from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Ft. Thompson. She has been transferred from a day school to the reservation boarding school, teaching third and fourth grades and performing dormitory duty.
25 Mrs. G. T. Kesler (Lillie Nelson) Is now living in Minneapolis. Prior to her marriage in 1938, she taught primary grades in Swea City, Dows, and Eagle Grove.
25 Mrs. Walter Beisner (Bertha Briggs) Is now living at Tripoli, where she and her husband are engaged in farming. They have two children, Roxie Irene and Carl.
25 Mrs. Henry W. Berkler (Gwendolyn Frost) Before her marriage, she taught music for five years. She is county music chairman of Buena Vista County and appeared with the county chorus at the state fair last summer. She and her husband reside on a farm five miles north of Storm Lake.
25 Margaret M. Dunsmore Is teaching in the D. F. Hoffman School at East Moline, where she resides.
25 Mrs. Paul S. Kurtz (Ruth Kreikenbaum) Now residing in Fr. Madison. Paul is employed as a railway postal clerk. They have one son, Jack.
25 Godfrey Messer Is now principal of the state juvenile home at Toledo.
25 Mrs. Cleo M. Pratt (Cleo Wright) Is now teaching in the Sioux City Schools. She has a son, Kenneth Lyman. They reside in Sioux City.
26 Russell M. Hackler Is teacher of physical education, football line coach, freshman basketball coach, and assistant track coach at Beloit College. He had served as director of athletics and social science instructor at the Montezuma High School.
26 Herbert Hoemann Has been working in the sales department of Allied Mills, Inc., for the past years, and is living at Effingham, Illinois, where he and his wife reside. He married Anna Linnemeyer on August 12, 2009.
26 Gelia Clemans Is attending the Frances Payne Bolton school of nursing of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, this year. She is the daughter of Bertha P. Clemans, Manchester.
26 Thorrel B. Fest Is assistant professor of speech at the University of North Dakota. The work includes direction of all constructive speech. His wife is the former Lucille Etzler, former student. Before going to Grand Forks, Thorrel taught in the Spencer schools.
26 Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Bosch (Violet A. Erickson) Are living on a farm near Melbourne. She is the former Violet Erickson. They are parents of a son, Dale Marvin.
26 Leola M. Catlin Resides in Yakima, Washington, where she is teaching fifth grade and music in the Broadway Grade School. This is her first year teaching out West.
26 Fred W. Schlesselman Is beginning his first year as assistant professor of art in the College of Fine Arts at Drake University. He married the former Norene Griebel on September 10. They reside in Des Moines.
26 Mrs. Fred Stopplemoor (Ethel Hersey) Is living at Shell Rock. She has been serving as deputy county superintendent of schools, but resigned effective Jan. 1. Her husband is manager of a gas station in Shell Rock.
26 Mrs. Paul J. White (Marie c. Gillespie) Is living in Winterset, where her husband is news editor of the Madisonian. They have a son, John Paul.
26 Orville O. Orr Is an instructor in economics and coach of wrestling at Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they reside. He is married and has two children, Jack and Jean.
26 Mrs. Earl Loveless (Mary Harryman) Is living in Birmingham, where her husband is engaged in electrical work and trucking. They have a baby girl, Nancy Kay. Prior to her marriage, Mary taught in the rural schools of Jefferson County and the consolidated school at Douds.
26 Mrs. William E. Irwin (Florence Reineke) Is now living in St. Louis. Dr. Irwin is serving as animal pathologist with the Ralston Purina Mills.
26 Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Darrah (Imogene Anderson) Are now residing in Chicago, where he is the export manager for the Dixon Exporting Company. They have a daughter, Babs Karen.
26 Carl B. Johnson, Mary Jane Silence, Martha Brownlie, Kathleen Meyer, Evelyn Challe, Ethel Cox, Lois Kirkpatrick Six of the ten faculty members of the Albion school are graduates of Teachers College, and one other is a former student, who has not yet completed requirements for a degree.
26 Mrs. Thomas L. Simms (Elizabeth Ruggles) Is now teaching in the Murray schools. She was elected to fill a vacancy in the third and fourth grades and assumed her duties November 6.
27 Harriet A. Woods Is teaching this year in the Clarinda Junior College. She is in charge of work in teacher training and two classes of geography in the high school.
27 Paul F. Hill Is now director of safety education for the State Department of Public Safety in Des Moines. His duties consist of educational promotion for safety.
27 Wiert G. Johnson and Dorothy Anderson Married on June 10 and now reside in Sioux City, where he is teaching commercial law in Central High School. Before marriage, Dorothy taught at Bellevue one semester and then in Central High School, Sioux City.
27 Marguerite L. Miller Is director of the women's glee club at Ohio State University. The group appeared in a concert over the Columbia Broadcasting System December 2. She resides in Columbus, Ohio.
27 Mary Frances Shedd Has returned for her third year at Nashua as second grade teacher. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder last summer.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shepard (Luella Scurry) Now reside in Silver Spring, Maryland. Paul is engaged in government service in Washington, D. C.
27 Mrs. Allen Palmer (Lovina Shafer) Married December 10, 1935. She and her husband Allen have one son, Larry Allen; they reside in Keota.
27 Wendell Bragonier and Alice Dowden Has a teaching fellowship in the Botany Department of Iowa State College, Ames, this year. He has been teaching at Lincoln High School, Des Moines, for the last two years. He and his wife, Alice, have a son, Robert.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dahlin (Arlene Olson) Are residing on a two hundred acre farm near Fonda. They married on Feb. 12. He is vice president of the Iowa State Vegetable Growers Association.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Lynford Bower (Marie Magee) Reside at Brandon, where he is superintendent of schools. They have one son, Richard Edward. Lynford received his M. A. degree from the University of Iowa in 1938.
27 H. M. Nicholas Is teaching industrial arts and biology in the Bradford Township High School, Bradford, Illinois, this year.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sanderman (Mabel LeNore Chamberlin) Are living on a farm northeast of Schaller. They have a baby girl, Karen Louise. Prior to marriage, she taught in rural schools near Schaller for eight years.
27 Mrs. Harold R. Murphy (Ora Irene Wilson) Is a substitute kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn, Iowa. She married on June 28. Harold is an employee of Iowa Southern Utilities.
27 Maurice Kramer Is manager of the convention bureau of the Davenport Chamber of Commerce, and is also President of the Davenport Junior Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he was personnel manager of the American Institute of Commerce at Davenport.
27 James Luker Received his commission as second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Aviation Corps and is stationed at Moffett Field, California. He is the nephew of C. W. Wester, Mathematics Department.
27 Margaret Kennedy Is now teaching in the grades of the Cherokee Public Schools.
28 Marjorie E. Schnable Married Harold L. Bitting of Freeport, Illinois, September 1. Harold is now head of the Economics Department of the Freeport High School. Marjorie taught at Dike and Sioux Center before her marriage. They reside in Freeport.
28 Mr. and Mrs. Markus Zimmerman The former Wilmetta "Billie" Whitelock, and husband, of Huron, Ohio, have a daughter, Peggy Ann. Wilmetta was society editor of the College Eye in 1936-1937.
28 Don Baldwin and Dorothy Lamb Is an instructor in English in the high school at Grosse Isle, Michigan. His wife is the former Dorothy Lamb, former secretary in the Bureau of Research.
28 Harold E. Harryman Is teaching at the Cedar Falls High School. Since graduation he has taken advanced work at the University of Iowa. He and his wife, Ethel, have two daughters, Marilyn Jean and Shirley Ann.
28 Mrs. Charles L. Lehman (Audrey G. Fritz) Is residing in Algona, where her husband is sales manager of a garage. They were married on September 2.
28 Dorothy Millard Is teaching fourth grade of Emerson School, Sioux City, where she resides.
28 Bernadine Rench Is teaching ninth and tenth grade English and dramatics at Hawarden this year.
28 Margaret Robertson Is teaching in Montezuma this year.
28 Mrs. Dalton Dooley (Esther Mae Heller) Is living in Aredale, where her husband operates a hatchery. They have one son, Dickie Dean Dooley.
28 David M. Grant and Elinor Brokaw Is teaching debate and speech at Thomas Jefferson High School, Council Bluffs, this year. For the last two years he taught in the Estherville High School and Junior College. His wife is the former Elinor Brokaw.
28 Marjorie Palmquist Is studying on her master's degree in music at the University of Iowa this year, in Iowa City, where she resides. She expects to graduate in June.
28 Recene Ashton Is a member of the faculty of the New Mexico State Teachers College, Silver City. She is supervisor of third and fourth grades in the training school and also teaches a college course in children's literature.
28 Evelyn, Florence, and Hazel Lindberg The three Lindberg sisters of Cedar Falls are living among exciting times in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is now the center of an important United States defense zone.
28 Mrs. F. N. Wheelan (Loretta Walker) Is now residing in Omaha, where her husband is on the faculty of Creighton University.
28 Joseph B. Anderson Is assistant principal and science teacher at the Garner High School. Last year he attended Iowa State College, taking work in zoology for his master's degree, with a minor in education.
28 Madeline Marie Anderson, and Mary Sydness Is teaching in the Commercial Department of the Woodward High School. Mary Sydness is working in the alumni office of Iowa State College
28 Mrs. Howard Boeke (Anna Mae Erb) Resides in Rockford, Illinois. Before her marriage to Howard Boeke of Brandt, South Dakota, June 15, she taught in the primary grades at Alpine, near Rockford.
28 Nora M. Bowen Is enrolled in the graduate school of Northwestern University, where she is working on her M. A. degree in music education. She was vocal music supervisor at Sidney last year. She resides in Evanston.
28 Mildred Cunning Is teaching commercial subjects in the Pleasantville High School this year.
29 Doris Priest Married Everett S. Bennett Aug. 12., and reside in Los Angeles. Before marriage, she taught in Hammond, Indiana, public schools. Everett is in the electroplating and enameling business.
29 Adelaide C. Gray Married Dale P. Carpenter Sept. 30. Dale, a graduate of Drake University law school, is practicing law at Coon Rapids, where they reside.
29 Raymond Manship and Henrietta Jackson Married June 8, and reside at Van Horne, where Raymond is superintendent of schools. Before marriage Henrietta taught four years at Newhall and five years in the second grade of the Anamosa schools.
29 Marjorie Bywater Is teaching art and penmanship in the Polk School at Cedar Rapids, where she resides. Previously, she taught two years at Clear Lake Junior High School and in the primary grades of the Carpenter Consolidated School.
29 Ruth C. Meyer Is teaching in the third and fourth grades at Durant, Iowa.
29 Eileen Rutherford and Lela Van Engen Are teaching in the Iowa City schools. Eileen is teaching in the junior high opportunity room, while Lela is teaching grade 4A in Longfellow School. They reside in Iowa City.
29 Mr. and Mrs. Leland Snell Living in Clarence, where Leland is athletic coach. Mrs. Snell is the former Freda VanDeHaar, and taught at Laurel following graduation.
29 Cleo Bouchton Married R. S. Geary, August 16. He is salesman for the Brown Camp Hardware Company, Des Moines.
29 Reva Milroy Married G. F. Montgomery of Boston, June 8. They now reside in Des Moines. He is employed by the Iowa State Department of Health.
29 Andrew Roeder and Ray Shepard Are now residing in Sioux City. Andrew teaches commerce at the National Business Training College, and Ray is teacher of English and advisor of the annual at Central High School.
29 Shirley Sherman Is employed as counselor at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.
29 Harold Simmers Is now teaching history and serving as assistant coach in the Marengo Community High School, Marengo, Illinois.
29 Edwin Ball Is a graduate assistant in botany at the University of Wisconsin.
29 John H. Calhoun Is now teaching at Griswold, where he is head basketball and assistant football coach.
29 Beulah Carlisle Is now teaching in the Ft. Dodge schools. Her address is in care of the Y. W. C. A., Ft. Dodge.
29 Allen Carpenter Is now teaching in Washington Irving Junior High School, Des Moines; has written a series of newspaper articles on Iowa history. An "Iowa at War" series appeared in a Des Moines paper, and another in a Waterloo newspaper.
29 Mrs. Gary Hertz (Dorothy F. Meyer) Is living in Whiting, where her husband is principal of the school. They were married April 15, 1939.
29 Mrs. Boyd Emde (Wilma Raben) And husband reside in Wellman, where he is engaged in farming. She taught second and third grades in Wellman for two years following her graduation.
29 Mrs. Vern Frieden (Joyce Pixler) Married Vern Frieden on June 20 and resides in West Union.
29 Clarence W. Hach Is teaching journalism and English in the Davenport Senior High School. He taught in Crystal Lake in 1937-1938.
29 Don Stout Has accepted a position as field representative of the American Red Cross. He taught at Sibley following his graduation, and cooperated in Red Cross Work. His radio play, dramatizing Red Cross work in Sibley, attracted attention of national headquarters
30 Geraldine M. Schmitt Married Clarence C. Miller Aug. 21; reside in Evanston. Clarence is manager of the Emerson Manufacturing Co., Chicago. She was music supervisor at the Prescott Consolidated High School. Her mother, Geraldine T., teaches business classes.
30 LaVonne Walsh Married Stanley L. Bourne, Radcliffe, June 21; reside in Ellsworth. Before marriage LaVonne taught at Ellsworth and at Woolstock.
30 Harriett Binkard and Robert Donovan Married August 27. She has served as a switchboard operator at the Commons. They reside at Dumont, where Charles is teaching.
30 Joyce Averill and Warren Raver Married June 4. She taught two years in Beaver before her marriage. He is assistant county engineer at Jefferson, where they reside.
30 Aletha Freet and Fred C. Liffring, Jr. Married October 1. Fred is employed by the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway in Cedar Falls, where they reside. Aletha has been teaching English and speech at the Edgewood High School for the last two years.
30 Irene Glasnapp Married James R. Montz of Whitten, August 17. She had been teaching in Whitten Consolidated School for two years.
30 Mary Jean Hemsworth and William E. Day Married August 18. William teaches commercial subjects in the Clarinda High School. For the last two years Mary taught at Lake Center.
30 Dorothy Jean Peterson Married Richard H. Mylin on August 18. They reside in Granite Falls, Minnesota, where he is music director in the high school.
30 Inez Marie Johnson and Kermit Francis Hosch Married August 27. Kermit has taught at Baxter and Jefferson, and this year is teaching at State College, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Inez taught at Wartburg College and in the Oelwein and Des Moines schools.
30 Lela Grace Good Married Elmer W. Specht, of Specht's Ferry, Iowa, on June 18; currently reside on a farm near Dubuque. Before marriage, she taught five years, the last year at Grandview.
30 Hattie Zoe Short Married Max Shoesmith on Aug 14. They reside at Guthrie Center, where Max is deputy clerk of Guthrie County. Hattie taught at Bristow, New Providence, and Guthrie Center and is a member of Phi Sigma Phi social sorority.
30 Irene Stearns Married Jack Jorday. They reside in Spencer.
30 Dolores R. Stone Married George W. Mann, Chicago, June 12. He is an engraver with the Pontiac Engraving Co. She taught at Muscatine for four years prior to her marriage. They reside in Chicago.
30 Amy Austin and Charles E. Hill Married September 2. Charles is teaching in Penn College, Oskaloosa, where they reside.
30 Lillian Thein Married Marvin H. Tow, Oct. 16. He is associated with the United States Engineers at Vincennes, Indiana She taught in the home economics department of the city schools of Muskegon, Michigan in 1937-1939.