Alumnus — October 1, 1943

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1 "Chanticleeer" is summer play All-woman cast presents play.
1 Boost rural teachers' wages In campus convocation, D. E. Lindstrom suggests raising wages in order to keep up quality of instruction.
2 A practical laboratory in home economics education Five students move into home with Professor Sutherland to study real home economics; photo.
4 Football is dropped for the duration at TC North Central Conference disbands; many men drafted; faculty in service or teaching military subjects; football discontinued.
4 Dr. Schneider to New York Will direct driver training program in New York.
4 Compete in track events Students compete in AAU meet, even though regular schedule was cancelled.
5 "Teachers College of the Air" is one year old KXEL has broadcast a variety of ISTC programming in its first year; fall broadcast will feature Joe DuMond in his Josh Higgins character; photo.
6 From Tunisia to Texas come letters to the editor Selections from letters sent to the editor of the Alumnus; most of the letters relate to the writers' war experiences.
8 With the changing colors of autumn Celestine Paule is ready for football game; photo.
8 Child health workshop Thirty public health and school nurses attend meeting.
8 Ruth Suckow lectures Summer series on contemporary novel includes lecture by Ruth Suckow.
8 Visiting opera star John Gurney presents selections.
9 Becomes professor-emeritus Professor Slacks retires after fifteen years of service to ISTC; photo.
9 Miss Anne Duncan resigns Head librarian retires after thirty years of service to ISTC; Marybelle McClelland will succeed her; photo.
9 Miss Spooner to Stephens Catherine Spooner, social and personnel director at ISTC, has new position at Stephens College; Elizabeth Emerson will succeed her; photo.
9 194 are graduated August 19 Robert Bell Browne addresses graduates.
9 It's Seerley Boulevard now 24th Street renamed in honor of President Seerley; change promoted by local Rotary Club; Seerley family expresses gratitude.
10 Scenes like this Homecoming and associated activities are cancelled; Lecture-Concert Series will continue; photo.
11 Service men's directory Roster of men in military service, who have graduated from or attended ISTC.
19 Dr. Fossum replaces Henrikson E. C. Fossum joins speech correction staff.
19 Opening convocation held Formal matriculation convocation called by President Price; first in a planned series.
19 Mrs. Latham visits campus Mrs. O. R. Latham and her daughter Shirley visit campus; Miss Latham will take secretary position in Massachusetts.
19 New instructor in education Esther Hult joins faculty; brief outline of her experience.
20 Roll of Honor Neil W. Johnson, Dwight G. Bacon, and Roy Olsen have been reported as killed in the war; Robert McCowen and H. Allen Oehlert are reported as missing in action.
21 In the Army now There are two men in the Army Air Corps training group who share the names Frank Hill and Martin Nelson with ISTC faculty members.
21 Civilian soldiers Brief notes on ISTC alumni and former students who are contributing to the war effort outside of military service.
22 Rev. and Mrs. F. M. Smith The former Altha C. Curtis and her family live in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
22 Comm. and Mrs. J. J. Potter The former Iris E. Mattheis lives in Great Lakes, Illinois.
22 Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Schindler Mr. Schindler is professor of education at the University of Maryland; his wife is the former Doris Hood.
22 Mrs. Marie J. Stearns The former Mary J. Horak lives in Baldwin Park, California; her sister, Bessie Horak, lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
22 H. R. Cummins Assistant manager for the Westinghouse Appliance Engineering Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
22 Mrs. A. W. Price The former C. Alda Martin lives in Allenhurst, New Jersey, with her husband.
22 Delinda Roggensack Vice-president of the North Central Music Educators Conference; teaches in Newton, Iowa.
22 G. A. Kaltenbach Chaplain at the 324th Station Hospital at Camp MacKall, North Carolina.
22 Mrs. H. L. Leech The former Berniece Grover works for the Iowa Department of Social Welfare in Des Moines, Iowa.
22 Lorna Seabury Instructor at the University of Minnesota.
22 Mrs. Ramon Sonosto The former Jessie Hall teaches first grade in Los Angeles, California.
22 Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Clinton The former Edna E. Gunderson and her family live in Omaha, Nebraska.
22 Mrs. George L. Lakin The former Icel Snider lives in Sacramento, California.
22 Mrs. Mattie Tannatt The former Mattie Woodruff works at the Des Moines Ordnance Plant in Des Moines, Iowa.
22 Bess Howell Taking flight training in Sweetwater, Texas.
22 Mrs. Ted Muller The former Margaret Schoeneman is the elementary supervisor at the public schools in DeWitt, Arkansas.
22 Hazel MacDonald Instructor in music at the State Teachers College in Towson, Maryland.
22 Mary Eide Lives in Newell, California.
22 Mrs. N. A. Gangsei The former Thelma Carlson and her family live in Northfield, Minnesota.
22 Thomas Teackle Teaches history in Spokane, Washington.
22 Tura A. Hawk Teaches biological science at the Technical High School in Oakland, California
22 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew N. Wray Live on a farm near Paynesville, Washington.
22 Peter G. Fullerton Serves as a U. S. commissioner for the western district of Oklahoma.
22 Mrs. Francis A. Ballard The former Adah Snedicon lives in Hollywood, California.
23 Lois E. Anderson Public health nurse for the city-county health unit in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Caudle The former Mildred Peterson and her family live on a farm near Ellsworth, Iowa.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Colburn The former Marjorie McKibben now lives in Torrance, California.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Heath The former Katherine Rose lives in Encino, California.
23 Mrs. Marvin H. Tow The former Lillian R. Thein and her husband live in Norfolk, Virginia.
23 Mary E. Butler Teaches commerce at the high school in Balboa, Canal Zone.
23 Lillian Paula Dresser Assistant principal of the St. Anne's School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hawks The former Alice Boers and her family live in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
23 Nina Rietz Heathershaw Teaches seventh and eighth grades and grade school music at the Consolidated School in Rowan, Iowa.
23 Rev. Philip L. Shutt Pastor of the Calvary Episcopal Church in Lombard, Illinois.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Berry Mr. Berry teaches instrumental music and directs the municipal band in Clarion, Iowa; his wife is the former Frances Van Dyke.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Paige The former Helen I. Tisdale and her husband live in Athens, Ohio.
23 Mr. and Mrs. Alden W. Bauder The former Bertha May Tracy and her family live in Golden, Colorado.
23 Mrs. Carl Meehan The former Avis Newbury lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
23 Mrs. Marguerite Chester Lives in Roselle, New Jersey.
24 Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Horn The former Marie Morrison and her family live in Kirkwood, Missouri.
24 Word has been received at Teachers College Earl E. Snell, Jr., was promoted from lieutenant to captain; killed on September 10, 1942, in a crash of an Army bomber.
24 Carl E. Benander Pastor of the Lutheran Church in Manson, Iowa.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Struthers The former Margaret Huntrods lives on a farm near Collins, Iowa.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gregory The former Ruth Becker and her family live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
24 Mrs. Edgar P. Swanson The former Irene Warner is office manager at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa.
24 Mrs. Howard Boeke The former Anna Mae Erb lives in Durand, Illinois.
24 Henry Dodson Captain in the Army Air Corps.; received an award for successful completion of one hundred hours of operational flight missions.
24 Alma Thiese Teaches intermediate school in Van Port City, Oregon.
24 Paul F. Hill Commissioned lieutenant in the Navy; Bert L. Woodcock serves as director of Iowa's highway safety education program while Hill is away.
24 Mrs. W. B. Morganson The former Beatrice Moore lives in Bremerton, Washington.
24 Mrs. Alvin Stieger The former Miriam R. Marston teaches junior high school music in Mason City, Iowa.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sherman Mr. Sherman is secretary for junior work at the Y. M. C. A. in Colorado Springs, Colorado; his wife is the former Helen E. Wiler.
24 Mrs. Dora D. White Teaches fourth and fifth grades in Buffalo, Iowa.
24 Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Laube The former Lavon G. Dunlea and her husband are associated with the China National Aviation Corp.
24 Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Martin The former Lucile Dennis and her husband live in Wichita, Kansas.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Risse Mr. Risse works at Lockheed; he lives with his family in Arcadia, California.
24 Mary Jo Read Took a leave of absence from the Milwaukee State Teachers College to do research with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D. C.
24 Catherine B. Ascherl Lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
24 Dorothy Hansell Teaches primary grades at the school system in Des Moines, Iowa.
24 Byrl D. Houck Director of the Webster County Department of Social Welfare in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
24 Mr. and Mrs. Glenn M. Johnson The former Audrey Hayward lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
25 Miss Henrietta Thornton dies Died August, 1943, in California; had served on the faculty for thirty-seven years before her retirement in 1932.
25 Leo E. Olson Works for the Fraser-Brace Engineering Company in Johnson City, Tennessee.
25 W. Wendell Phillips Supervisor of production for the Glenn L. Martins Company in Omaha, Nebraska; his wife is the former Ruby Willoughby.
25 Virginia C. Loy Works for the Bank of America in San Francisco, California.
25 Mrs. Kenneth Markham The former Agnes Simonson lives in Lyle, Minnesota.
25 Alice D. Miller Teaches fourth grade in Anamosa, Iowa.
25 Dorothy May Myers City reporter and staff photographer for the Davenport Democrat.
25 Harold Plank Operates the Hillside Café in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Christ The former Mildred Karr and her family live in Spencer, Iowa.
25 Dorothea Fitzgerald Lives in Rapid City, South Dakota.
25 Erwin A. Gaede Minister of the First Congregational Church in Argo, Illinois.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hart The former Muriel E. Warnock lives on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa.
25 Mrs. Lloyd C. Larson The former Lola Hauser is a case worker in the home service department of the Red Cross in Chicago, Illinois.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Dwight S. Winter Mr. Winter works at the defense plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
25 Orville W. Thurston Deputy zone collector of internal revenue in Ames, Iowa.
25 Leland Usher Member of the Royal Canadian Air Force was shot down and is prisoner of war in Germany.
25 Lieut. and Mrs. L. E. Carpenter The former Bernadine Rench and her husband live in San Luis Obispo, California.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Rex D. Longhorn The former Laura R. Ligget lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
25 Mrs. Howard W. Rabey The former Virginia Frank teaches in Lawton, Iowa.
25 Capt. Wayne Rathbun Received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal.
25 Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Sampson The former Mary Jane Stewart and her family live on a farm near Gray, Iowa.
25 K. X. Utterback Teaches commercial subjects at the high school in Clarinda, Iowa.
25 Guy Iversen Taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines in July 1942.
25 Mrs. Robert H. Lage The former Dorothy Seeman and her husband are in Dunedin, Florida.
26 Charlotte Curtis Participated in Home Management House course; photo.
26 Norman W. Dierks Junior high school principal and mathematics teacher in Odebolt, Iowa.
26 Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ehlers The former Grace Wylie lives in Maquoketa, Iowa.
26 Mrs. Paul A. Grummer The former Florence Wheeler lives in Columbus, Ohio.
26 Mrs. Beryl Wyatt The former Harriet Gouge teaches in Corwith, Iowa; Gertrude Dunlap also teaches there.
26 Elizabeth Witt Works at the diesel plant in the inspection department at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan; lives with Jean Morton.
26 Leroy E. Bauman Minister of the Quarry Street Methodist Church in Fall River, Massachusetts.
26 Elenora Bohne Teaches second grade in St. Ansgar, Iowa.
26 Doris DeJong Junior weather bureau observer in Kansas City, Missouri.
26 Mrs. Harvey H. Denter The former Ruby Belle Jensen teaches fifth and sixth grades in Sabula, Iowa.
26 Marcella Trottnow Taught commercial subjects in Aurelia, Iowa.
26 Lela Van Engen Filling in for a leave of absence at the University of Wyoming.
26 Hartley Westbrook Prison of war in Germany.
26 Maxine White Director of social welfare of Plymouth County in Le Mars, Iowa.
26 F. Virginia Rohde Instructor of brass instruments and theory at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
26 Frances Sadoff Teaches commercial subjects at the Ann Arbor High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
26 Harry A. Schley Coaches at the junior college and high school in Bloomfield, Iowa; his wife is the former Frances LeValley.
26 The new address of Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Starke The former Isabelle Mowbray and her family live in Davenport, Iowa.
27 Earl Kellar Teaches in Joplin, Montana.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Verno W. Kinsinger The former Arlene E. Marken lives on a farm near Eldora, Iowa.
27 Marguerite Dickinson Teaches at the John Deere Elementary School in Moline, Illinois.
27 Mrs. Richard P. DuBois The former Ann L. Houck lives in Plover, Iowa.
27 Grant Herbstruth The grade principal and eighth grade instructor in Corning, Iowa.
27 Florence E. Jensen Instructor of music in Brighton, Iowa.
27 Carol E. Johnson Teaches at the Edison Building in Gary, Indiana.
27 Mrs. LeRoy F. Jungjohann The former Joyce E. Hushaw teaches in Preston, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Richard W. Abele The former Jane Borchardt lives in Atlantic, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Daniel K. Brown The former Carol Jane Osterholm is an accountant clerk at the Compton Junior College in Compton, California.
27 Margaret P. Cupp Physical education instructor in Charles City, Iowa.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Darling The former Lucile M. Baxter lives on a farm near Sac City, Iowa.
27 Martha E. Stout Works at the Collins Radio Corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
27 Marion Tonsfeldt Works in the Procurement Office for the Ducommun Company in Los Angeles, California.
27 Muriel Tvedt Teaches junior high science in Tama, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Charles Vorderberg The former Florence Arnold taught in Bridgewater Iowa.
27 Henry A. Peterson Athletic coach in Radcliffe, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Claude Santee The former Ardell Peterson teaches third grade in Algona, Iowa.
27 Irene Schroeder Taught fourth grade in Brooklyn, Iowa.
27 H. Edna Schutt Doing department work at the Perkins Elementary School in Burlington, Iowa.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Carrol C. Soenke The former Anne Placatka lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Keigan The former Nellie E. Johnston does substitute teaching at the school in Norman, Oklahoma.
27 Grace J. Leask Clothing instructor in Crystal Lake, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Earl R. Legler The former Pearl Elaine Hass teaches kindergarten in Oakland, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Carl R. Lund The former Doris Harris teaches home economics and science in Geneva, Iowa.
27 Lucille McBride Now Sister Marie Eugene in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin.
27 Mrs. Alvin C. Nesheim The former Dorothea M. Gulbranson teaches in Rembrandt, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Don B. Hanson The former Andrea Bear teaches in Manly, Iowa.
27 Mrs. Willard G. Hatfield The former Betty Ann Hall lives in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
27 Mrs. M. W. Hemphill The former Helen Benzing teaches at the What Cheer High School.
28 Dorothy E. Willard Married Lieut. John H. Mayer on December 9, 1942.
28 Elsie Graham Married George Dieleman on July 30, 1943.
28 Clara E. Mast Married Helmer W. Malstrom on March 5, 1943.
28 Corrine B. Preston Married Oliver Hoyt Williams on June 14, 1943.
28 Lillian Wulke Lives in Lohrville, Iowa.
28 Dorothy Milversted Training at the O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.
28 Merna LaRue Married Raymond T. Winterton on December 25, 1942.
28 Betty Peckham Married Howard Imhoff on July 26, 1943.
28 Janann Downie Teaches physical education in Hutchinson, Minnesota.
28 Mrs. Ruth W. Gordon Teaches fourth grade in Fairfield, Iowa.
28 Grace Lynch Teaches in Corcoran, California.
28 Mrs. Dorothy B. Hillerson Chief supervisor in the nursery in Waterloo, Iowa; teaches at Grant School there.
28 Yvonne McGrane Teaches kindergarten in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
28 Juanita Steele Teaches grade 3-A at the Johnson School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
28 Dorothy Lichty Taught music at the high school in Callender, Iowa.
28 Aurloine Thompson Teaches in Rock Rapids, Iowa.
28 Mrs. Manford F. Whitney The former E. Vivian Miller teaches in Zearing, Iowa.
28 Mildred G. Armstrong Governess and tutor to the two children of orchestra leader Little Jack Little in Yonkers, New York.
28 William B. Berntsen Associate pastor and director of music at the Scofield Memorial Church in Dallas, Texas.
28 Lois D. Coffman Teaches third grade in Highland Park, Illinois.
28 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Klitsch The former Frances Laurie lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
28 Virginia Lewis Teaches grade school music at the public schools in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
28 Mrs. Mary E. Olsen Normal training instructor at the high school in Coon Rapids, Iowa.
28 Mrs. R. M. Phillips The former Marion Larson teaches first grade at the Roosevelt School in Spokane, Washington.
28 Mrs. Robert De Witt The former Jean Meils teaches in Farnhamville, Iowa.
29 Ella Carstens Married Rudolph Droegmiller on May 26, 1943.
29 Juli Anne Christensen Married Lieut. Russell A. Cantine on June 20, 1943.
29 Kathryn E. Peterson Married Donald Kollman on June 9, 1943.
29 Lieut. Robert E. Wilkinson Married Antoinette Miele on March 21, 1943.
29 Bernita Brundage Married Sydney S. Wert on March 7, 1943.
29 Kathryn V. Hiller Married Harold D. Justice on July 23, 1943.
29 Florence Neumeier Married Ens. J. Woodrow Christianson on August 21.
29 Mary E. Willits Married William L. Wantiez on October 24, 1942.
29 Richard G. Kadesch Married Eloise DePue on July 11, 1942.
29 Esther H. Miles Married Lester N. McClary on January 23, 1943.
29 Edith Gardner Married Sgt. Marvin LeFever on June 9, 1943.
29 Carol Jean Knipe Married Robert E. Fischer on July 3, 1943.
29 Ens. George W. Miner Married Millicent M. Kimball on June 5, 1943.
29 Dara Jeanne Pappas Married Edward P. Wooten on August 6.
29 S/Sgt. Eugene M. Cheney Married Sally Fortune on June 29, 1943.
29 Lieut. Gelia Clemans Married Lieut. Joseph L. Clyde on June 30, 1943.