Alumnus — July 1, 1946

Page	Title	Summary
1	Capricious cover girls	Three women play at Prexy's Pond; photo.
1	Enrollment increases 72%	Summer session enrollment was 1459, including 549 men; 85% of men were veterans; branch schools enrollment up 50%.
1	Married students organize	Students' wives group hears advice from faculty; Couples' Club organizes.
2	Palmer heads association	Professor Harold Palmer elected president of American Industrial Arts Association.
2	Student leaders hold workshop	Participate in leadership workshop; Henry Wieman and Helen Rush were guest speakers.
2	Miss Brugger resigns post	Had been director of campus pre-school for fifteen years; photo.
2	Senior group elects members	Five new members of Torch and Tassel.
2	Fraternities organize again	Forty-eight men initiated into reactivated groups: Xanho, Lambda Gamma Nu, Phi Sigma Epsilon, and Alpha Chi Epsilon; IFC officers elected.
2	Band tours high schools	Sixty-five member band visits eleven schools in three days.
3	Alumni attend their first post-war reunion	Over three hundred alumni attend first reunion since 1942; description of program; photo.
6	Home on wheels solves GI housing crisis	Rapid increase in enrollment leads students to seek many different kinds of housing; canvass town for spare rooms; college acquires Quonset huts to house married students; photo.
8	Teachers College inaugurates safety course	Safety education will be offered as a teaching minor; driving course will be developed south of campus.
9	Commencement is colorful this year	170 students received diplomas or degrees in first full-dress ceremony since war; Joseph J. Sittler delivers address; students honored with awards; ten veterans included among graduates.
10	Violin playing comes naturally to youngsters	Melvin Schneider teaches very young children at Campus School; expresses philosophy of teaching music; photo.
12	Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Carroll, (Mary Heckel)	Resides at Shenandoah, Iowa. They have two sons, Donald and Dick, and one daughter, Mary Jayne. Louis is working for the Central Surveys of Shenandoah.
12	John E. McCoy	Is helping out on the old farm home at Crawfordsville, Iowa, assisting an invalid brother. John has taught in Crawfordsville, Elgin, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in Marmion Military Academy at Aurora, Illinois. He is married to the former Edna Wenger.
12	Sister Theresa Gertrude, (Mabel F. Murray)	Is professor of education at Seton Hall College; entered convent of the Benedictines 20 years ago; prepares counselors for school work, public and Catholic, personnel workers for industry and rehabilitation people for the Veterans Administration.
12	Verne Orr	And his son, Verne Orr, Jr., have purchased Verne Orr Motors in Pasadena, California. For fifteen years, Verne Orr, Sr., was vice-president of Chrysler Motors of California. He resides in Pasadena. His son was discharged a lieutenant from the Navy
12	Ann C. Lynam	Is the new superintendent of the Des Moines Children's Home. She taught in Corning, Iowa, schools for the past two years. She also taught at Lewis, Iowa. She was superintendent of the Iowa Training School for Girls in Mitchellville, Iowa.
12	Edna E. Klisart, (Edna Elster)	Is serving as an army hostess at the GI country club, Bremen, Germany. Arriving overseas in July, 1945, she was assigned to Bremen to start a service club. Previously she had been a service club director at Sioux Falls for three years.
12	Hjalmar Ostergaard	Visited the campus in July. He also visited relatives in Illinois and Mt. Vernon, Iowa, during the summer. He resides in Bellflower, California.
12	Mrs. Royal N. Reedy, (Breeze Heacock)	Resides in Baldwin Park, California. She is editor of the Baldwin Park Bulletin. The Reedys have three sons: Gale, a newspaper writer; Richard, a doctor; and Donald, a Claremont College student.
12	Charles F. Johnson	Has retired as superintendent of the Kis-Lyn, Pa., Industrial School, a position he held since 1912; with the Y. M. C. A. in Des Moines for nine years and general secretary in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. His wife is the former Myrtle Boardman of Manson, Iowa.
12	Charles Norman McMullen	Has retired and resides at Farragut, Iowa. He received the D. O. degree from Des Moines Still College in 1924 and the B. A. from Western State College of Colorado in 1927. He also did some graduate work at Colorado College of Education, Greeley.
12	Clarence R. Golly	Resides in Peoria, Illinois. He is a retired agency manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. He married Lou F. Millis in 1906. They have three children living, Millis, Bernita, and Perry.
12	Edna Detwiler	Has retired from practicing chiropractic and resides in Audubon, Iowa. She is interested in gardening and belongs to a garden club in Audubon. Last fall she taught for three months in a rural school where she had taught 43 years before.
13	Mrs. G. L. Reddish, (Lora Sandy)	Resides in Madrid, Iowa. Her husband is in the lumber business. They have two children, a daughter, (Charles McCutchen) of Vallejo, California, and a son, Gene L., who is attending the Navy's submarine school in New London, Connecticut.
13	Gladys Sleichter	Will be the home economics teacher at the high school in Albia, Iowa, this fall. She has taught for the past seven years at Sanborn, Iowa.
13	Mrs. W. S. Clover, (Ethel Horn)	The Clovers own and operate a farm south of Lohrville, Iowa.
13	Mrs. W. W. Van Meter, (Gladys F. Rogers)	Resides in Marshalltown. Her husband is manager of the paint department for Montgomery Ward in Marshalltown. The Van Meters have two sons, Jack and Walter, Jr. Gladys did substitute teaching last year in the Marshalltown public schools.
13	Bernice Mohlenhoff	Is a fashion market reporter for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation and resides in New York City. She has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology and at the Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers in New York.
13	Mrs. J. A. Gorzney, (Louella L. May)	Resides at Morrison, Illinois. She is principal of the north side grade school there. Her husband is a plumber. Their son, Gary Lee, died April 15, 1945.
13	Anita Wright Carlson	Is director of social welfare for Calhoun County; resides in Rockwell City, Iowa. Her husband Seth E. Carlson, died in 1927. She has two children: a son, Seth W. Carlson, with the Veterans Admin.; and a daughter, Dorothy Jeanne Davis of Rock Rapids, Iowa.
13	Mrs. Alvin Dunham, (Ethel Morgan)	Resides in Loxley, Alabama. She has taken advance work at Iowa State College and the University of Iowa. She is now busy writing drama at home.
13	Charles F. Perrott and Lois Morris	Charles Is principal of the high school at Turlock, California; serves as secretary of the California State Tuberculosis Association. He and Lois have four daughters. The youngest is Donna Jean, a junior at the College of the Pacific.
13	Panthers seek fourth conference crown	1946 football season preview; photo.
14	Athletic teams garner twenty-eight victories	Season wrap-ups for wrestling, baseball, and track; photo.
15	Musicians hold festival	Two hundred students participate in various events in May.
16	Reconversion is here	Marjorie Palmquist is teaching again after being released from the service.
17	They favor new name	Three alumni favor name change; three like the old name.
18	Debaters win honors	Winners in two speech conferences.
18	Well done, says Navy	Government sends college certificate of thanks for hosting WAVES.
18	Hill edits workbook	Professors Hill and Searight edit second edition of music workbook.
19	Lauren L. Hagge	Red Wing, Minnesota, Marines, Pacific.
19	Rudolph C. Haglund	Sioux City, Army, Pacific.
19	Lester L. Hamilton	Derby, Army, United States.
19	Helen Ann Foote	Anamosa, WAC, Europe.
19	Flanders, Mark W.	Waterloo, Army, United States.
19	Donald G. Goslin	Clarion, Army, United States.
19	Robert Lee Granger	West Union, Army, Europe.
19	Kenneth N. Griffin	Jamestown, North Dakota, Army.
19	Carl John Grosland	Lake Mills, Army, United States.
19	Herbert L. Dorsey	Gravity, Army.
19	Carl W. Dresselhaus	New Albin, Army, Italy.
19	Oliver Warren Eason	Waterloo, Army, Europe, Panama, Pacific.
19	Bill L. Eells	Cedar Falls, Army, Europe.
19	Lynn Milford Ellis	Cedar Falls, Army, Europe.
19	Charles Edward Ferguson	Lake View, Army, Pacific.
19	Adolfo M. Davitti	Providence, Rhode Island, Army.
19	Norman Paul Dearborn	Rock Valley, Army, United States.
19	Clarence LeRoy Devine	Algona, Army, Italy, Aleutians.
19	Meredith Nicholson Dix	Cedar Falls, Navy, Pacific.
19	Lyle Everett Dodd	Emmetsburg, Navy, United States.
19	Albert D. Donovan	Waterloo, Merchant Marine, Atlantic, Pacific.
19	Leonard Ward Cole	Jesup, Navy, Atlantic, Pacific.
19	Raymond Collins	Pasadena, California, Army.
19	Willis B. Colville	Cedar Falls, Marines.
19	Paul J. Connolly	Monticello, Army, United States.
19	Kenneth Church	Muscatine, Marines.
19	Jack L. Darland	Waterloo, Navy.
19	Richard William Bowen	Cedar Falls, Army, United States.
19	Arthur Brevick	Chicago, Illinois, Army, Aleutians, Italy.
19	Russel C. Calkins	Cedar Falls, Army, United States.
19	August L. Camarata	Cedar Falls, Marines.
19	John E. Carey	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
19	John C. Clark	Waterloo, Army, Africa, Italy.
19	Cyril I. Bellock	River Forest, Illinois, Army, United States.
19	Robert E. Benson	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
19	Howard O. Bidne	Northwood, Army, Europe.
19	Hubert A. Bierbaum	Garnavillo, Army, Europe.
19	Emery P. Bliesmer	Alvord, Army, Europe.
19	Sara Ann Booth	Perry, WAVES, United States.
19	Nick W. Avelchas	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
19	David Richard Aylesworth	Sheldon, Marines.
19	Loren O. Barker	Osage, Army, Europe.
19	W. Eugene Barlow	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
19	John A. Barrigar	Cedar Falls, Army, United States.
19	David George Barry	Belmond, Army, Europe.
19	Theodore A. Anderson (Ted)	Gilbert, Army.
19	Victor Eugene Argotsinger	Harlan, Army, Pacific.
20	George Thomson	Stanwood, Army, United States.
20	Emerson C. Thorsrud	Cedar Falls, Army, United States.
20	Melvin W. Thurston	Marshalltown, Coast Guard, Africa.
20	Donald W. Todd	Morning Sun, Navy, Pacific.
20	John D. Stark	Cedar Rapids, Army, Pacific.
20	Ronald Lee Sterrett	Des Moines, Army, Europe.
20	Dean W. Stoakes	Dysart, Army, Europe.
20	Harold E. Sturm	Cedar Falls, Army, Pacific.
20	Herman S. Tharp	Waterloo, Army, United States, Canada, Alaska.
20	Mrs. Herman Tharp, (Rosemary Fleming)	Cedar Falls, WAVES, United States.
20	Donald A. Scovel	Dunlap, Army, United States.
20	Dwight Shafer	Minneapolis, Minnesota, Army, Europe.
20	Charles K. Silvy	Bethany, Missouri, Navy, Pacific.
20	Harold John Smith	Reinbeck, Seabees, Pacific.
20	Harvey P. Smith	Independence, Navy.
20	Richard A. Snyder	Waterloo, Navy, Pacific.
20	Ormand K. Philson	Harlan, Army, Europe.
20	Edward B. Richards	Ft. Madison, Army, Europe.
20	Benjamin W. Rodamar	Waterloo, Army.
20	Charles Gordon Sanders	Cedar Falls, Army.
20	Robert F. Schoneman	Aplington, Army.
20	Erwin R. Schumacher	Waterloo, Army.
20	Phillip Barlow Moore	Hudson, Army.
20	James Nelson, Jr.	Waterloo, Army.
20	William S. Noble	Cedar Falls, Army.
20	Garnet Dale Olive	La Porte City, Army, United States.
20	Aldrich K. Paul	Waukee, Army, Europe.
20	Donald E. Phillips	Cedar Falls, Army.
20	Ben F. McCabe	Naperville, Illinois, Army, Europe.
20	William H. McCabe	Naperville, Illinois, Army, Africa, Italy.
20	Daniel W. McNabb	Cedar Falls, Army.
20	Eldon L. Modisett	Cherokee, Army, Europe.
20	Thomas Marsh	Cedar Falls, Army.
20	Archie W. Martin	Cherokee, Army.
20	Leon E. Martin	Eagle Grove, Navy, Atlantic.
20	Boyd S. Mast	Cedar Falls, Army, Pacific.
20	Laverne J. Kobliska	Waterloo, Army, Pacific.
20	William H. Koll	Ft. Dodge, Army, Europe.
20	Eugene W. LeVine	Cedar Falls, Army, Pacific.
20	Richard E. Lewison	Newton, Army, Europe.
20	Russell H. Llewellyn	Cedar Falls, Army, Europe.
20	Edward Lyons	Rochester, Minn., Navy.
20	William T. Jochumsen	Cedar Falls, Army, Europe, Pacific.
20	Lloyd G. Johnson	Garwin, Army, Pacific.
20	Patrick Dale Kelly	Buckingham, Navy, British West Indies.
20	Fred Kercheval	Rowan, Army, Europe.
20	Herbert E. Kilgore	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
20	John A. Kittrell	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
20	Edgar Warren Hermann	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
20	George William Hermann	Waterloo, Army, Pacific.
20	Kent Hershire	Clinton, Army, Europe, Pacific.
20	Clarence Cecil Hightshoe	Oxford, Army, Europe.
20	Richard William Humphreys	Waterloo, Navy, United States.
20	Kenneth H. Humphry	Waterloo, Army.
20	Leonard J. Hardy	Greene, Army, United States.
20	George Heintz, Jr.	Waterloo, Army, South America, Africa, India.
20	Robert James Herdman	Riceville, Army, United States.
21	Carl Lee Webber	La Plata, Missouri, Army, Canada.
21	Alvin M. Welbes	Waterloo, Army, Europe.
21	William W. Wetz	Marshalltown, Army, Greenland.
21	Bob Williams	Ottumwa, Army.
21	Maurice H. Wilson	Lewis, Army, Pacific.
21	Glenn M. Wistey	Clear Lake, Navy, Pacific.
21	Warren Earl Tyler	Baxter, Army, Pacific.
21	Joe Valenta	Hudson, Army, Pacific.
21	Robert Allan Van Houten	Hampton, Merchant Marine.
21	Robert Van Arkel	Prairie City, Navy, Pacific.
21	Edward N. Vozbut	Sioux City, Army, Pacific.
21	Roger W. Wahl	Waterloo, Army.
21	Donald Lyle Tracy	Guthrie Center, Army.
21	Richard O. Traugott	Cedar Falls, Navy, Pacific.
22	Samuel T. Neveln	Was honored on May 22, 1946, at a dinner given jointly by the Austin school board and the Austin Education Association in celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as superintendent of Austin public schools.
22	Mrs. Grace Hillier Grimm	Has been teaching for several years in the schools at Compton, California, which is about ten miles from Long Beach. Since her husband's death one year after their marriage, she has been living with her mother in Long Beach.
22	Lenore Shanewise	Was recently honored by the Women's Civic League of Pasadena, California, for her outstanding work during the past 25 years in building the Pasadena Playhouse. She heads the playhouse casting office, and has directed plays on all Playhouse stages.
22	Mrs. Frank L. Byrnes, (Hazel Webster)	Is librarian at the State Teachers College, Mayville, North Dakota. She is also director of Forum-Institutes and director of extracurricular organizations on the campus.
22	Mrs. Alvin J. Fluck, (Iva Magoon)	Resides in San Diego. Her son Richard is in the Navy and her daughter Mildred is doing clerical work in Alaska.
22	Mrs. Arthur H. Ferris, (Gertrude Magoon)	Has been teaching in the primary department of the schools at South English, Iowa. Arthur has been superintendent of the South English schools for eighteen years. Their daughter, Ruth, is now attending the Teachers College.
22	Mrs. Harry C. Graham, (Rowena Greeley)	Resides with her family at Lakewood, Colorado. A son is attending the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, and a daughter is a junior in high school.
22	Mrs. J. R. Haubenschild, (Marie Magoon)	Is teaching in the primary department of the schools at Artesia, California. Her son, Jerry, is in the second grade. Marie taught in the schools at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, eleven years before moving to California.
22	Mrs. William Beall, (Edith Curtis)	Resides in Ft. Collins, Colorado, with her sister Alice B. Curtis. Edith's husband died in 1924 in New Mexico. Edith is the author of two juvenile novels, Children of the Prairie and Winter on the Prairie, and is working on a third in the series.
22	Everett P. Bettenga	Has retired from the teaching profession and is living in Carthage, Missouri.
22	Mrs. C. W. Henderson, (Nettie Arnold)	Resides in Portland, Oregon. They have one son, a graduate of Willamette University and the Stanford graduate school.
22	Alvis M. Lane	Resided with his daughter and family in Seattle, Washington. He has four children and ten grandchildren. He died in March 1943.
22	Mrs. J. Hulbert Loper, (Myrtle Millicent Benson)	Resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a past supreme officer in the International Order of Job's Daughters. Her husband is president of the Star Van and Manufacturing Company.
22	Mrs. H. L. Walter, (Wilma Hegner)	Resides in Los Angeles, California. She is district superintendent in charge of teaching Bible history to the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in the public schools.
23	H. Robert Cummins	Has been named advertising and sales promotion manager of the Coca-Cola Cooling department of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the East Springfield, Massachusetts,` Works.
23	Lyman P. Stevens and Mrs. Stevens, (Hazel Doris Diggins)	Lyman has been elected president of the Iowa Association of Western Washington. He is doing physical training work at the Veterans Hospital at American Lake, Washington. Hazel works at Pierce County Health Dept. They have two sons, John and Bill.
23	Edward M. Wiler and Mrs. Wiler, (Joyce Wengert)	Edward received recognition in Electronics, a national scientific magazine. His latest invention enables the blind to use radar in place of "Seeing Eye Dogs." He and Joyce have two daughters, Linda Lou and Kathryn Joyce; reside at Belmar, New Jersey.
23	Earl J. Stout	Has been appointed as deputy director of claims service for the Red Cross at Washington, D. C.
23	Agnes C. Barron	Is teaching in the elementary grades of the Hinsdale, Illinois, schools. During summers she is working on a library science course at the University of Minnesota. Her permanent address is Alvord, Iowa.
23	Melva Bakkie	Has been named to the Red Cross advisory board on health services, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. She is also director of the national service of the Red Cross.
23	Mrs. C. W. McLaughlin, (Hazel Ames)	Enjoyed the alumni reunion on May 25 because she located her first teacher in the class of 1896, W. H. Goff (Jennie Smuck). Hazel had not heard of her for years.
23	Mrs. Clarence Hanson, (Lois Edgar)	Has been teaching for several years in the primary department of the public schools of Phoenix, Arizona. Clarence is a teacher of wood work and drawing in the Phoenix schools. They have one daughter.
23	Mrs. Anne K. Weaver	Was recently appointed field welfare and work relief specialist for the UNRA China program. She left with 31 other UNRA specialists on the SS Marine PHOENIX which sailed from Seattle in March. She was with the Federal Works Agency in California.
23	Agnes McKay Simms	Under the name of "Marie Mode" is now editing the fashion page for the Los Angeles Evening Herald Express. She went to California in 1938 to do the "Women's News Parade" on the KHJ. She has two sons, one of whom is attending the University of California.
23	Mrs. Mina Wilson Tracy	Visited Iowa from December to April with her sister Inez Wilson Chase (Howard Chase), in Cedar Rapids, and her brother, Clark L. Wilson. Mina has been living in California for several years.
23	The Reverend and Mrs. Armin F. Meyer, (Hulda Klein)	Have been doing missionary work in India since 1921. Their oldest son, Paul, served with the American Forces in India and is studying in Union Theological Seminary in New York. They have two other sons, John and Armin. John is still in the armed forces.
24	Mrs. R. F. Scott, (Thelma De Bolt)	Resides at Macedonia, Iowa, as a housewife and substitute teacher at the Macedonia Consolidated School.
24	Charles G. Fry and Mrs. Fry, (Doris Kirgis)	Charles is sales representative for Salsbury Laboratories at Charles City, Iowa, after receiving a discharge from the Navy in January. He held the rank of lieutenant, senior grade, and was serving as executive officer aboard a troop transport.
24	Raymond Berrier	Has been appointed dean of the junior college at Ft. Dodge, Iowa. He was instructor in speech and debate at the junior college for three years before entering service in June 1943.
24	Kenneth Cook	Has been elected superintendent of schools at Postville, Iowa, for the coming school year. Prior to accepting this position, he served as principal of the high school at New Hampton and superintendent of schools at Rhodes, Iowa.
24	Richard K. Chapman	Employed as an administrative analyst in the Office of the Fiscal director, Army Service Forces, Washington, D. C. He recently received an exceptional meritorious award from the War Department for his services to the Army Service Forces.
24	Harriet Woods	Has been appointed to direct teacher training work in the junior college at Clarinda, Iowa. She served at Clarinda College for four years until it closed in 1943; she has been teaching at Estherville, Iowa. She also taught at Winterset and Woodbine, Iowa.
24	Rachel Rosenberger	Is a member of the music faculty of Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, and at Peace Junior College, Raleigh; she is choir director at the United Church in Raleigh and violinist with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
24	The Reverend Mr. Philip L. Shutt	Became news editor on of The Witness, a weekly news magazine of the Episcopal Church. Philip's father was one of the founders of the magazine. His mother, Edna Poor Shutt, was at one time in charge of the placement service at the College.
24	Mrs. David Deane Wenstrom, (Mary B. Merritt)	Resides in Columbia, Missouri, where her husband is on the faculty of Stephens College. Mary recently exhibited five large stencil tapestries at the college, which were done when she was a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota.
24	Mrs. C. L. Edwards, (Alma S. Parker)	Resides at Williamsburg, Iowa. She previously taught in the high school at South English, Iowa.
25	Richard G. Kadesch	Son of Professor W. H. Kadesch; now director of research for the plastics division of the Reynolds Metals Company. He received his Ph. D. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1941.
25	Arlene E. Peters	Received the master of religious education degree in May from the Biblical Seminary in New York.
25	Ruth G. Turnbull	Is now teaching home economics at Parkersburg, Iowa. Before coming to Parkersburg she taught at Marble Rock, Rowley, and Beaman.