Alumnus — October 1, 1944
| Page | Title | Summary |
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| 1 | Lecture Concert Series | Schedule of season performers; will include Eleanor Streber, Ralph W. Sockman, Isaac Stern, Alexander Brailowsky, and the Budapest String Quartet. |
| 1 | Enrollment increases 8 per cent | Fall 1944 enrollment is 866; 785 women and 81 men; special activities for freshmen; photo. |
| 2 | Man captures top honors | Jack Kruegel has highest grades for spring 1944. |
| 2 | $10,000 in war bonds and stamps | Five thousand attend bond show at Stadium on July 4; purchase $10,000 in bonds and stamps; WAVES buy $17,000 in bonds and stamps. |
| 2 | Teachers College of the Air | Schedule of radio programming. |
| 2 | Join publications staff | Betty Willhoite and Gail Fluhrer join staff. |
| 3 | Alumnus follows grads to many distant lands | Description of system used to get Alumnus delivered safely to all alumni; subscription list now at 18,000; photo. |
| 4 | Province directors | Olive Barker is province president of Sigma Alpha Iota; Frank Hill is province governor of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia; photo. |
| 5 | Teachers College prepares for G. I. Education | Registrar preparing to deal will college credit earned while in service; college accepted first student under G. I. Bill of Rights last March; three more veterans were enrolled during the summer term. |
| 6 | Lt. Robert E. Ludtke | Training with ferrying division in Texas. |
| 6 | Member of art faculty dies | Professor Agnes B. Cole died July 29, 1944; served ISTC for twenty-three years; photo. |
| 6 | First Lieutenant Craig K. Fullerton | Promoted to captain in Medical Corps in Texas. |
| 7 | Teachers College receives citation for service | Receives award for meritorious service from Army Air Corps; brief description of Corps training on campus; photo. |
| 9 | Service men's directory | Roster of men in military service, who have graduated from or attended ISTC. |
| 11 | Bookkeeping in Naziland | Sister says that brother Ed Volberding is teaching bookkeeping classes in German POW camp. |
| 11 | Can hear rattle of dishes | Donald Goslin misses ISTC campus and its activities. |
| 11 | Reunion in Saipan | Fred Ritze met friends during operation on Saipan. |
| 12 | Have a piece of shrapnel? | R. J. Cutshall commands PT boat. |
| 12 | Like a letter from home | Aldo Podesta appreciates news; now recuperating from injury in Canada. |
| 12 | Air strips, goal lines--same as gridders | R. M. Hackler recalls good old days on campus. |
| 12 | Postcard from Germany | James C. Jensen recounts experiences as POW. |
| 12 | History real for lady lieutenant | Gelia Clemens Clyde has visited many interesting sites in North Africa and Italy. |
| 13 | Roll of Honor | Brief accounts of the ISTC men who have died in military service: John R. McElroy, Thorvald Anderson, Robert Hagerstrom, Dale F. Smith, and Robert Gray. |
| 13 | He's done a great job | Gene Bovee commends soldiers serving in France. |
| 14 | Dr. Trimble leaves | On leave of absence to do research with the Office of Scientific Research and Development.. |
| 14 | Music, humor, drama | Summer lecture series includes ISTC faculty. |
| 14 | Radios are miraculous, cats are, too | Mr. Hake's cat gives birth to kitten in Patty Hake's lap during radio broadcast. |
| 14 | Starbecks lose second son | Clyde Starbeck, Jr., dies of embolism on August 29, 1944, just three months after his brother Karl died. |
| 14 | A night of thrills | Students present "A Night at the Inn". |
| 15 | Let's face the future, says Norman Cousins | 124 students receive degrees or diplomas at summer Commencement; Norman Cousins delivers address; awards announced. |
| 15 | Early graduate dies | Obituary for Charles Lincoln Johnson, who died September 4, 1944; graduated in 1881. |
| 15 | Vernon H. Kruse | Promoted to the rank of captain in the Army Air Force in England. |
| 16 | Students reclaim dormitories as Air Corps closes campus unit | Men students are back in Baker Hall; women students still in Lawther Hall and back in Seerley Hall; Bartlett Hall still used by WAVES; photo. |
| 20 | Mae E. Ruppel | Will be in Australia as Red Cross recreation worker. |
| 20 | British king honors Olsen | King George VI confers Distinguished Flying Cross on Roy Olsen, who was killed in action on June 23, 1943. |
| 20 | Mrs. Emma Shillinglaw | Mother of six ISTC graduates and students died May 2, 1944. |
| 20 | Girl flier rescues cadet | Virginia Streeter works as test pilot; ferries repaired planes from place to place; picks up cadet who had landed in a small field. |
| 20 | Women in uniform | Roster of women in military service and their current assignment. |
| 21 | Ten new names on faculty rolls | Roster of new faculty and their appointments; photo. |
| 22 | Shares Alumnus with cousin | Randall Bebb serves in Signal Corps. |
| 23 | Purple Hearts | Three men have recently been awarded Purple Hearts: Maynard Newhouse, Gerald A. Pieres, and James Vaughn. |
| 23 | Extension Service expanded | Sixteen faculty now engaged in extension work around state. |
| 24 | Helen Ileen Stolle | Teaches at the Roosevelt School in West Missoula, Montana. |
| 24 | Mrs. Ralph C. McKinney | Margaret Tift lives in Los Angeles, California. |
| 24 | Mrs. A. W. Price | The former C. Alda Martin lives in Linden, New Jersey. |
| 24 | Mrs. Lorna Lengfeld | The former Lorna Seabury is the instructor of speech at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 24 | Mrs. Robert Lammer | Teaches at Hawthorne School in Waterloo, Iowa. |
| 24 | Nanette Waldman | Teaches at the East Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa. |
| 24 | Mrs. F. Keith Young | The former Mary Barnett lives in North Ogden, Utah. |
| 24 | George Failor | Retired and lives in Arvada, Colorado. |
| 24 | Mrs. L. R. Chapman | The former Alice Grier is an assistant principal at the Washington School in Sioux City, Iowa. |
| 24 | Mr. and Mrs. William Lyman | The former Lorna Flagler is a member of the American Association of University Women in Bremerton, Washington. |
| 24 | Mrs. A. H. Ferris | The former Gertrude Magoon will teach the primary grades in South English, Iowa. |
| 24 | Mrs. Alexander H. Bradford | The former Marguerite Griffen lives in Bellevue, Washington. |
| 24 | Thomas U. McManus, Jr. | A Major in the Army; son of Dr. and Mrs. McManus. |
| 24 | Mrs. Adah E. Ballard | The former Adah E. Snedicor lives in Hollywood, California. |
| 24 | Jessie Miller Wright | Lives in San Diego, California. |
| 24 | J. Ernest Carman | Retired as head of the geology department at Ohio State University but remained on the staff as a teacher. |
| 24 | Mrs. Jessica Dunn Simmons | Director of student nurses and supervisor of men's occupational therapy shop at Montana State Mental Hospital in Warm Springs, Montana. |
| 24 | Ella Shaffner Dietz | Has a grandson in the service in Burma. |
| 24 | Mrs. George I. Gillespie | The former Emma Shaffner has two grandsons in the Navy. |
| 24 | Brig.-Gen. George Henry McManus | Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 25 | L. H. Shepoiser | Lieutenant in the navy and stationed in Plattsburg, New York; formerly the superintendent of the schools in Independence, Iowa. |
| 25 | A. James Ebel | Assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois. |
| 25 | Josephine K. Goldsmith | Principal of the high school in Clarion, Iowa. |
| 25 | Mrs. Ivyl F. Pirtle | The former Ivyl Leora Fleming teaches third grade at Stuart Elementary School in Stuart, Florida. |
| 25 | Mrs. John H. Catlow | The former Olive Winn reported that her husband died on June 1, in Barrington, Illinois. |
| 25 | Ora Natvig | Teaches at Lowell School in Waterloo, Iowa. |
| 25 | Esther L. Compton | Works at the University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 25 | Julia M. Rowe | Assistant auditor for the business manager of Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa. |
| 25 | Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Jones | The former Margaret Metcalf lives in Boone, Iowa. |
| 25 | Hildegard Wellhoefer Liebers | Lives in Jamaica on Long Island, New York. |
| 25 | Eleanor M. Volberding | Teaches psychology at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. |
| 25 | Darrel D. Slocum | Superintendent of the schools in Lewis, Iowa. |
| 25 | Everett Davies | Member of the Iowa Falls High School coaching staff in Iowa Falls, Iowa. |
| 25 | L. F. Tellier | State conservation officer for Delaware and Dubuque Counties. |
| 25 | Leonard A. Steger | Superintendent of the schools in Webster Groves, Missouri. |
| 25 | Mrs. Fred B. Lewis | The former Ruth A. Balm lives in Grand River, Iowa. |
| 25 | E. S. Cortright | Assistant professor of speech at the Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. |
| 25 | Mrs. Thomas C. Kelley | The former Dorothy Wald teaches an adult education class at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 25 | Laura E. Robbins | Works for Scott's Run Settlement in Morgantown, West Virginia. |
| 26 | Mrs. Lloyd Moats | The former Lucile E. Livingston and her family live in Roundup, Montana. |
| 26 | Harriet Hallett | Lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
| 26 | Lt. and Mrs. William B. Fagan Jr. | The former Lois Kendall and her husband live in Fredericksburg, Virginia. |
| 26 | Edwin Ball | Does research on penicillin for the Lederle Company in New York City. |
| 26 | Mrs. Everette Foster | The former Blanche Pfaltzgraff teaches piano in Waterloo, Iowa. |
| 26 | Carl C. Speck | An ensign in the Naval Reserve. |
| 26 | Mrs. O. E. Koontz | The former Beryl Dowden visited her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota; she lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. |
| 26 | Elsa Anderson | Teaches at the junior high school in Grundy Center, Iowa. |
| 26 | Lt. Robert E. Wilkinson | Serves with the army in England. |
| 26 | Lorene Campbell | Teaches at the high school in Springfield, Illinois. |
| 26 | Ruth Kyhl | Teaches second grade in Davenport, Iowa. |
| 26 | Nora Bowen | Teaches music in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 26 | Harriet Zlatohlavek | Taking course at the University of Southern California for occupational therapy. |
| 26 | Word received by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Stout | Their son, Donald W. Stout, is sick with malaria. |
| 26 | Lt. (jg) Joseph B. Anderson | Back in the U. S. after being stationed in Italy; awaiting reassignment. |
| 26 | Mr. and Mrs. Roland W. Scott | The former Carol Culver and her husband are in India on a missionary trip. |
| 26 | L. Von Linder | Manager of the Waterloo studios of Radio Station WMT. |
| 26 | Helen Jo Jasper | Principal of the school in Wilton, Connecticut. |
| 26 | Gordon H. Arends | Captain in the First Bombardment Division and stationed overseas; his home is in Aplington, Iowa. |
| 26 | Mrs. Frank A. Konz | The former Helen Kyhl teaches at the junior high school in Kingsport, Tennessee. |
| 27 | Saul L. Diamond | Received Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University; manager of the Syracuse Orange college paper. |
| 27 | Rachel Baumgartner | Teaches at the Oak Street Junior High School in Burlington, Iowa. |
| 27 | Lyle B. Matthews | Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve. |
| 27 | Lt. John I. Jenkins | Completed the overseas orientation course in Europe. |
| 27 | Irene Fockler | Lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
| 27 | Emmamarie Theimer | Teaches first grade in Rock Island, Illinois. |
| 27 | Merle R. Moothart | First lieutenant in the Army Air Force in Galveston, Texas. |
| 27 | Jean Miller | Teaches in Charles City, Iowa. |
| 27 | Mrs. W. E. Morse | The former Velma L. Jacobsen works in the contract division at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland. |
| 27 | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Beaver | The former Arlys Cummins and her family live on a farm near Harvey, Iowa. |
| 27 | Ruth Behrens | Vocal music director in Mason City, Iowa. |
| 27 | Maurice C. Springer | Second lieutenant; edited class book; lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| 27 | Lt. William C. Wright | Pilot at the Walker Army Air Field in Kansas; his wife is the former Wynona Wilson. |
| 27 | Edward Jack Webster | An ensign in the Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas. |
| 27 | Apprentice Seaman A. O. Noxon | Taking college training at Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, Michigan; finished tour of duty in Brazil. |
| 27 | Sgt. Vernelle Miller | Part of the airborne division and a musician in New Guinea. |
| 27 | Dorothy H. Dubbert | Works at the public school in Independence, Iowa. |
| 27 | Mrs. Arnold R. Bode | The former Ruth Rosenberger lives in Calamus, Iowa. |
| 27 | Lt. James Hagerstrom | Joined the Army Air Forces in Evansville, Indiana. |
| 27 | Marion Brown | Teaches in Sioux City, Iowa. |
| 27 | M. Katharine Hubbard | Works at Leo J. Meyberg Company in Los Angeles, California. |
| 27 | Inga G. Gran | Teaches third grade at the public elementary school in Bemidji, Minnesota. |
| 27 | Mary Elaine Ellerbrock | Works for Transcontinental and Western Airlines as an airline hostess; lives in Hollywood, California. |
| 27 | Mrs. R. E. Dean | The former Marjorie Duffus teaches at the high school in Cambridge, Iowa. |
| 27 | Mrs. Marcia Jamerson | Teaches at the Edison School in Waterloo, Iowa. |
| 27 | Beth Cole | Teaches first grade at the Willard School in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 27 | Mrs. Milo L. Lawton | The former Charlotte Steinkamp teaches in Hawarden, Iowa. |
| 28 | Ruth J. Strahorn | Married Edward B. Lovan on August 16. |
| 28 | Harriett L. Herron | Married Myron Jorstad on January 26. |
| 28 | Esther Winger | Married Clifford R. Howlett on November 24, 1943. |
| 28 | Margaret T. Hanlon | Married Leo M. Gallagher on June 7. |
| 28 | Grace Heath | Married Cpl. Herman W. Schulz on December 30, 1943. |
| 28 | Rose Woodward | Married M. A. Wiehl on June 8, 1943. |
| 28 | Esther Ryan | Married Harold Squiers in 1935. |
| 28 | Joan O'Neil Spink | Teaches at Shellsburg Public Schools in Shellsburg, Iowa. |
| 28 | Marian Roose | Teaches at a high school in Iowa Falls, Iowa. |
| 28 | Richard Van Dyke | Teaches at New Hampton High School. |
| 28 | Phyllis Reeve | Teaches at the high school in St. Ansgar, Iowa. |
| 28 | Ruth Lundvall | Kindergarten supervisor in Columbus Junction, Iowa. |
| 28 | Ruth Patridge | Teaches at the high school in Colesburg, Iowa. |
| 28 | Jean Elbert | Teaches at the North Manchester School in Manchester, Iowa. |
| 28 | Miss Helen Sublett | Health education director at the Y. W. C. A. in Bellingham, Washington. |
| 28 | Joyce McKercher | Lives in San Francisco, California. |
| 28 | Elvira Locker | Lives in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 28 | Dolores Dodd | Teaches fifth grade at the Lake Mills public school. |
| 28 | Ens. and Mrs. Robert Kadesch | The former Arline Tow and her husband visited in August; Mr. Kadesch teaches navigation at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 28 | Pvt. F. John Pylman | Stationed with the Rainbow Division at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; he played bass drum and sang tenor. |
| 28 | Cpl. Kenneth Humphry | Serving as a gunner with an anti-aircraft unit; went to England. |
| 29 | Harold McConeghey | Married Lois Baldwin on August 15, 1943. |
| 29 | Dorothy Linnea Hanson | Married Pfc. John Alva Barrigar on August 27, 1944. |
| 29 | Virginia Wood | Married Forrest Rivers on August 19, 1944. |
| 29 | Virginia Lee Jowell | Married Lt. James P. Hagerstrom on July 25. |
| 29 | Sgt. Lloyd H. Clingman | Married Catharine Farlow on June 25. |
| 29 | Lucetta Cook | Married Lt. Donald H. Howard on March 11. |
| 29 | Marion Mueller | Married Ed Poduska on June 10. |
| 29 | Rheon Zack | Married Sgt. Joseph P. Lacke on April 21. |
| 29 | Lt. Vlasta M. Chalupa | Married Lt. Mike Rajcevich on June 19. |
| 29 | Ruby Franzenburg | Married Henry Rice on August 27, 1944. |
| 29 | Bertha E. Wise | Married Wilbert W. Kroeger on March 1, 1943. |
| 29 | Miss Leona Marie Wheeler | Married Dr. Robert R. Baldwin on June 4. |
| 29 | First Lieutenant Richard Thomas Eaton | Married Patricia Stanley Umstead on August 19. |
| 29 | Pvt. Mary E. Pieracci | Married S/Sgt. Edwin A. Schwartz on July 28. |
| 29 | Miss Ruth F. Hawkins | Married Lt. Norman C. Klug on September 12, 1943. |
| 29 | Miss Dorothy Hansell | Married Cpl. Leon H. Laird on June 24. |
| 30 | Rita M. Dunn | Married Ralph R. Howe on June 1. |
| 30 | Hester Storey | Married Ens. K. H. Wise, Jr., on August 31. |
| 30 | Bonnie Johnson | Married Lt. L. L. Campbell, Jr., on June 10. |
| 30 | Beulah Ellen Dawson | Married Carl S. Wise on June 10. |
| 30 | Ruby Christensen | Married Lt. Dewey H. Hollis on July 3. |
| 30 | Helen Frances Bowlsby | Married Cpl. Charles W. Parker on July 4. |
| 30 | Dorothy M. Brobeil | Married Lt. Roger V. Kepford on April 15, 1944. |
| 30 | Kathryn Ward | Married Dick Dewees on March 14. |
| 30 | Miss Irene Marie Graber | Married Frank A. Branagan on July 20. |
| 30 | Helen Risser | Married Sgt. Keith Able on June 8. |
| 30 | Ens. Charles Carpenter | Married Ida Mae O'Loughlin on August 8. |
| 30 | S/Sgt. Merritt W. Albright | Married Louise Ruth Hall on July 7. |
| 30 | Genevieve Rankin | Married Lt. Owen H. Scheldorf on March 4, 1943. |
| 30 | Sgt. Howard McConeghey | Married Antonia Kotthoff on October 19, 1943. |
| 30 | Wilma Mae Jochumsen | Married Pfc. Calvin O. Brewster on March 30. |
| 30 | Julia Elizabeth Entz | Married Paul J. Boysen on June 3. |
| 30 | Kathryn Kittlesby | Married Dale L. Creeden on August 31. |
| 30 | Miss Gwendolyn Cakerice | Married Miles V. Albright on July 4. |
| 30 | Avis Lorraine Fossler | Married Pfc. Arthur C. Dense on August 3. |
| 31 | Lt. (jg) Jed H. Miller | Parents of Judy Kay, who was born on May 4, 1944. |
| 31 | Maj. and Mrs. Donald Stout | Parents of David McIntyre, who was born on September 8, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kelly | The former Catherine Schersach and her husband are the parents of Kwin, who was born on November 11, 1943; Mr. Kelly died April 22, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Bosch | The former Violet Erickson and her husband are the parents of Dennis, who was born on July 9, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Lenhart | Parents of Garrett A., Jr., who was born on June 5, 1944. |
| 31 | Lt. (jg) and Mrs. E. E. Andrews | The former Leola Moore and her husband are the parents of John Jordan, who was born on July 25, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Ridenour | The former Ruth Boardman and her husband are the parents of a boy, who was born on August 30, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. Wyman Walrod | The former Phyllis Julius and her husband are the parents of Judith Ann, who was born on July 17, 1944. |
| 31 | Miss Doris Anna Jipp | Married Charles A. Slessor on August 29, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Bell | The former Grace E. Loder and her husband are the parents of Claud Kimball, who was born on June 7, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams | The former Eileen G. Jones and her husband are the parents of Wayne Allan, who was born on February 27, 1944. |
| 31 | Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Carver | The former Ruth Eells and her husband are the parents of Lowell Craig, who was born on June 29, 1944. |
| 31 | Lt. and Mrs. Norman C. Klug | The former Ruth F. Hawkins and her husband are the parents of Kathryn Ann, who was born on July 3, 1944. |
| 31 | Lt. K. A. Safely | Parents of Kathleen Kenny, who was born on July 30, 1944. |
| 31 | Josephine Faris | Married J. Wayne Gnagy on August 29, 1944. |
| 31 | Shirley Orcutt | Married Hershal Weidner on May 20, 1944. |