Maude Gilchrist, 90, daughter of the first president, died Thursday in Ft. Dodge, according to word received at the college
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Funeral services will be at Laurens, Monday. Gilchrist was a member of the first graduating class, then Iowa State Normal School, in 1878. Her father, the late James Cleland Gilchrist, served as head of the school from its founding in 1876 to 1886.