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VOL. V. CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, JANUARY 1, 1921. No.1

GENERAL with a score of 14 to O in favor of the 30, 1920, dosed the recruiting of the Home Coming Day- October 30, Teachers College. In the evening class of 1920, when the following 1920, was assigned to the Studeruts occurred the all •schiool party at which number received thei!r diplomas: and the Alumni as the first annual joy and pleasure reigned supreme Critic Teacher , 1; Teacher of Rural home coming celebration. It began until the closing hour, eleven o'clock . Schools, 4; Commercial Education, with a preliminary meeting of the The Student Cou rucil is a strong, ef­ 1; Home Economics Education, 2; S'tudents the night before in a " pep" fective organization and together Manual Arts Education, 1; Kiruder­ meeting. The program in general with the Sponsors selected from the garten Education, 1; Primary Educa­ consisted of Mass Meeting at 9: 00 a . Faculty, have given an administration tion, 5; The J unior College Diploma, m. at which time brief addr esses were to the social activities of the College 13; Bachelor of Arts in Educati-on, 6. miade by Presiderut Seerley r epresent­ that deserves the h ighest commenda­ Total, 34. The section would have ing the Faculty, Milton Methfessel tion. been larger had school boal'dJs not per­ representing the s tudents and George Athletics- The Hawkeye Confer- suaded the candidates to Ieave before •======•

THE FOOT BALL TEAM, 1920 •======• Vernon Orr, 1908-1910, W aterloo, ence w~s r,eorganized Monday, No­ t hey graduated by offering unusual representing the Alumni. There were vember 29, 1920, by the attendan ce salaries for such early appointment. music, songs and yells and much en­ at Cedar Falls of representatives from 'l'he National Education As.sociation thusiasm to add to the s,pirit. Then Iowa State Teachers College, BuenJa will be held early in July, 1921, at at noon occurred the home comi111g Vista Colleg,e, Ellsworth College, Des Moin,es, Iowa, giving Iowa teach­ dinner participated in by all und·er Lenox College, Upper Iowa Univer­ ers and thiose of the Northern Missis­ the management of the Student Coun­ sity and Columbia College. Ivan si'ppi Valley an unusual opportunity cil, the alumni being guests of the Doser!', of Teachers College, was to a ttend this great educational con­ students by assignment to the various elected Pres institutes as a Wyoming, at a salary of $3000.00, H . Meyerholz, Head of Governme nt teach er of teachers. He had been an and began work there October 18, and· Economics Departmenit, Iowa officer in the Iowa State Teachers 19 2 O. Dr. P eterson's services, char­ State Tuachers College. This little Association and a contributor to the actell' and spirit have been appreciat­ volume deals with the guarantees of iactivities of this great convention for ed while at Cedar Falls. He n?,w llfe, llberty and property contained m any years. He h ad been a stud·ent assumes more official responsibihty in the Constitution of the United of education and h ad h ad a part in and will be expected to build up the States, sometimes designated as the the progress that had come in so department. Bill of Rights. This is a valuable many wayis and hence h e came to Laura A. Benedict, assistant prof­ book for schools, homes and for Cedar Falls with enthusiasm and with essor o f English, ,has beeru granted a clubs conducting Americanization consecrlation to help in the mighty temporary \leave of absence for part work. Other volumes are in prepara­ work of tiraining teachers for public of the Winter Term on account of ill­ tion. school work. He now withdraws 'ne.Sls and h as gone to Paraigon, In­ Home Oratorical Contest--Decem­ from the duties he has loved so well diana, for treatment, rest and re­ ber 16, 1920, occurred the annual and the tasks he h as performed so cuperation. Her illness began with a home oratwical con test for prizes well in order to have leisure and op­ mild attack of pneumonia while away and for the securing a representative portunity to carry out other service oru a study center and being in the for the Inter State Oratorical Contest for society for which his busy aife has winter season, a satisfactory recovery to occur in May, 19 21 in Missouri this so well prepared him. Hi·s many made it necessary for her to suspend next time. The contest was partici­ students and his professional asso­ her teaching tor a time. pated in by Mayme B. Larsen, who ciates will r ejoice in the good thin,gs Gladys E. Hooper, ·professor of spoke on "Chivalry-Past and Pres­ he will produce. Music a member of the public school ent," Anna D. Cordts, whose subject Iowa State Teachers Association­ music'staff since 1914, resigned Octo­ was "America and the New Era," November 4 to 6, 1920, occurred the ber 19, 1920, to accept service with Milton Methtessel. whose topic was annual meeting a t D es Moines. Presi­ Silver Burdette & Co., publishers, as "America First," Earl London, dent Seerley was in charge of the Col­ a Music Specialist, and will have her whose tiheme wa,s "Milita;rism," Mary lege and University Department and h eadquarters in New York City. Phares, on the subject "One of was Chairman of the Committee on Registrar C. S. Cory has been America's Social Problems," and Wil­ Necrol0:gy. He also gave a luncheon granted a ten weeks leave of absence liam M. Todd, on "American Heroes address bef·ore the Des Moines Cham­ during the Winter Term. Mrs. Cory of 1918." The decision of the judges, ber of Commerce on Friday, Novem­ accompanies him. They are spending Professors Lynch , Reed, Abbott, ber 5, oru " The Educational Crisis." this vacation, in the Southern States, F1agan and· Barnes, awarded the Prof. Fred D. Cram was President for 1::oing first to New Orleans for a s-bort first to Anna D. Cordts, Boone. Iowa; the sessi-on of the convention and time and then sto,pping along the the second to Milton Meth!essel,, gav,e the official adress on "Educa­ Gulf Coast a.s -suits their •pleasure as Cedar Heights, Iowa, and the third tion. Science or Philosophy." Prof. they travel on their way to Jackson­ to William M. Todd, Boone, Iowa. D. S. Wright, as Chairman of the villle, Florida. F'rom this city they The Doctor F . N. Mead trophy, pic­ Bible Study Committee, made a re­ will visit and recreate as inclination ture, was conferred upon t he A!lpha port before the Co uncil. Prof. Chas. dictates in this land of continuous Literary Society to hang in tha t ha11 H. Meyerholz, as C'hairman of the summer and sunshinie. They will for •one year as a r eminder of victory Committee on Americanization Edu­ visit Key West, Miami, St. Peters­ in Oratory. cation in the Grades, made a report burg and other places, play golf on ALUMNI the auspices of the New York State had a very successful year, sixty NEWS LETTER Educational Department, was offered meetings being necessary to conduct Issued Quarterly. Publisht by a supervisorship of physical Educa­ the business. the Iowa State Teachers College. tion in Pennsylivania at a salary of Myra E. Call, professor of Latin Entered aa second-class mall matter $4500.00, but decided to remain with for tweruty-five years and George W. at th• poat offia at Cedar Falls, the Empire State and continue his Samson, professor of education for Iowa, under the Act ot Aurust 24, work und,er Dr. John Finley, Com­ twenty-six years, will be retained on 1911. missioner of Education.. The Seymour the Faculty in some detached service family live at Syracuse, New York. work the coming year. This grants He spends two d·ays a week at home the privilege of receiving remunera­ Statement of the Owners~p, Manage­ and one in Albany. Three of the lit­ tion for part work as the assignments ment, Circulation, Ere., Required tle girls of the family were in the of the different divisions of the Col­ By Act of Con,ir8B8 of City Hospital with scarlet fever dur­ lege may give opportunity. These August 24, 1912. ing part of November. designations wilil be determinJed by Publ111her, editor, managing editor John R. Slacks, professor of Rural the Iowa State Board of Education and business manager: President H. Education, h:as been assigned to con­ before the clCalifornia, o! the delight­ Money for Teacher Training" from report there for duty. During the ful• times he and his wife, Mary L. the Iowa standpoint, and Professor war he was port officer at Hoboken, Chapman-Page, 1878, are having Charles H . Meyerho12 represented New J ersey, giving attention to the these beautiful days in Southern Cali­ the State Department of Public In­ shipping and the receiving of troops. fornia and of the many op·portunities struction on the Iowa Americaniza­ He has had constant army service they have had to renew their friend­ tion Program. since his graduation at West Point ships with former students of the Dr. C. P. Colegrove, President of Military Academy and was ;promoted Tea<'hers College who are resid•ents Upper J.owa University, and family to the brigadier general rank during ot that state or are sojourners tor a are now plelasantly located at 1079 the g-reat war. He has a family of time in that regi1on. There are no North Maremg,o Avenue, Pasadena, two sons and two daughters, who, warmer friendships tham grow out of California. No Iowa educator de­ with Mrs. McManus wm remain in college association nor no better com­ serves more richly this comfortable the United States, to continue their radeship than college days make as vacation than does he, as year in and educational work for a period. a permanent experience. Any alumni year out he has always thought of Hilda G. Lundin, 1889, Doctor of who go to Southern California and the welfare of the Iowa schools and Philosophy, State University of Iowa, who know these good people will find very little of his health or himself. 1920, has had published by the Uni­ them at 879 Willi:ams St., Pomona, Professor Ira S. Oondit, Head of v,ersity at Iowa City, a monograph California. the Mathematical !Department, has on the subject "The Influence of Roy F. Seymour, former Head of been Worshipful Master of Black Jeremy Bent hon on. English Demo­ Physical Education, an!d now an in­ Hawk Masonic Lodge, Cedar Falls, cratic Development," an interesting, spector of physical ,education under Iowa, during the year 1920, and has in terpret:ativie study in social science. commencement in F. M. Phillips, 1908-1011, received can be s upplied in regard to the ad­ institution at the his Doctor or PhiLosophy Degree dresses of f·ormer students now locat­ June, 1920. from George Washington University, ed in Minneapolis or St. P a ul should Ernest Reuben Nichols, 1882-1887, Washington, D. C. in 1919, his thesis be sent to L. W . Crawhall, 742 Builld­ Chica.go, Illinois, has sold his inter­ being prepared on "Relating Initial ers Exchange Building, Minneapolis, ests in the Thurston Teachers Agency abHity to the-extent of Improvement Minnesota. to C. M. McDaniel, former superim­ in certain Mathematical Traits,." He Mrs. · James Wolfer (Susie M. tend,ent of schoo-Is in Madison, In­ is in the Public Health Service in the Riley, 1896) Qalled at the College diana. H . E. Kratz, :l)ormer superin­ office of Industrial Hygiene and· Sani­ October 22. She wa;s. accompanied by tendent of schools a t Sioux City, has tation. her daughte,r. She lives in San Diego, so'Jd his School and College Bureau, Greetings, Home Coming Day­ California, and is visiting a rel•ative, which he has managed for ten years Prof'essor Asa L. Mathews, 1906- Mrs. J a·p McKinst r y, at Cedar Falls, to the same person. Both men have 1907, University fo Utah, Salt Lake Iowa. In coming east she came by been very ,efficient educators. Thieir City, and Pr,ofessor Thos. E. Jones, the way of the Canadian Pacific and future plans are n,ot known at this 1904-1905-1909, University or Wis­ is spen•d'ing some time among old date. consin, Madison, remembered the friends o f the years that are past. M.ary D. McDonald, 1908, r eports Football Team. l() f 1920, and their She e xpressed great pleasure in the from her missionar y station at 33 former colilege days as athletes fight­ days sh e 11:;,pent at Cedar Falls as a Kami Ni Bancho, Tokyo, Japan, un­ ing for the glory of the College by student and in the great physicaa im­ der date of October 14, 1920. sending ,greetings, congratulations, provement that the presell't College Eiessie B. Buchanan, 1899, is an and cordial good wishes to all on the shows. "Interviewer" in the Home Service day inauguration of the n ew college Ella Genevieve Knight-l!,ixler, Section of the American Red Cross at of celebration by the· Student Counclil. special teacher under the Des Moines, Iowa, add,ress 624 Flem­ e~ 1013, is a They heartily approve of the new J ames 'Law in. Muskegon, Michigan, ming Building. She finds her present terprise and commend the college which went into effect September 1 , duties interesting but she has a first spirit thus encouraged and developed. 1920. This law provides for a few lov,e for 15 chool work as an occupa­ The Alumni a.nd Faculty-At the in school each week tion of the highest h elpfulness. so hours to be spent Iowa Sta.te Teachers Association by child,ren between 16 and 18 who leg1·ove, 1907-1908, and Faculty had Jl>r. Paul C. Co many of the Alumni are ·employed in some gainful occupa­ Oberlin, Ohio, spent Sund:ay, October places on the several! programs and· of the t ime is given to en to in tion. Hal1f 1 7, at Cedar Falls. He had be were so active in committees and academic work and half to vocati-on­ family ire-union at lines that it the Colegrove many other constructive al. 120 pupils are enrolled this fi rst Fayette, Iowa, occurring at the home is impossible ,to give everyone the Bixler h as commercial Colegrove to say term. Mris. of Pl'esident and Mrs. C. P. credit that is due. Suffice it and home making for the girls and University. hers College had its ,proper of Upper Iowa that Teac industriall work for the boys, English Helen N. Hull-Orr, 1886, Cleveland, place in this great annual convention, and arithmetic following that general d , George W. among the Ohio, and h er hu•sban its representatives being lead. She teaches two classes in so­ Orr, Superintendent of the Benjamin tea·chers everywhere. l hygienie. Each half day of the called at practic­ cia Rose Estate at Cleveland, Dr. Clem C. Seerley, 1901, week a differ-ent group appears for in October and visited Bozeman, Montana, Cedar F alls ing physician at instruction. Mrs. Orr's old time friends. They has just closed his year as Worship­ ers Co'llege, at Grace Vincent, 1013, r eports Sep­ spent a day at the Teach fu;l Mas•ter or the Masondc •Lodge , and renewed acquain.t­ wh~ire he had tember 20, 1920, that she is teaching October 20 Manhattan, Montana, , boarding school ance with the Institution. Mrs. Orr resided before moving to Bozeman. this year in a girl's which i s located ahnost a thousand was the daughter of the late Prof. Though twenty miles from Manhat­ , a formler t eacher of pen­ and attended feet above sea lere1 on the iside of W . N . Hull tan, he filled the office whose marnship, drawing a nd accounts in most of the stated meetings·. Ha l-eakala-an extinct volcano crater is twenty miles in circumfer­ the early days of the normal schools. Lorne F., Parker, 1901, has become 1894·1895, Clerk of the, First National ence and deep enough to contain, all John W. Boyle, vice-president ad'dress is and Buying Steward of the U. S. Peni­ Ban•k at Cherokee, Iowa. He was of New York City. Her Miaun,oolu Seminar y, P aia, Maui, T. tentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, provides formerly connected with this bank clothing for approximately but ,of recent years H. food and for seven years, 1900 men according to "Good Words" has conducted a bank at Newell, C. B . McDonald, 1920, had expect­ school work on account the n ews,paper publ1ished by and for Iowa. He is now conn,ected with one ed to resume n al institu­ of business depression, but prospects the inmates of that Natio of the stronger and· more prominent has been in government of Northwestern improving, h e will r emain in the em­ tion. He financial in1stitutions service for a long official period. Iowa. ployment of Otis and Company, In­ Ohio, Hawley J . Whitacre, 1916, is the Kamphoefner, 1808, is in vestment Bankers , Cleveland, Chas. H. a good place for editor of The Seward Daily Tribune, charge of the Ida Grove District or where he has made all the himself. Seward, Nebraska. He gets the Methodist Episcopal Ch1trch as news, presents it in concise form, has superintendent in the I,owa Northwest J. R. Wilson, 1000, is cashier of pronounced opinions, Scot­ definite and Confere nce . The annual: session was the Gorn Belt National Bank, altho the newspaper iJs, inidependent, held recently at Humboldt, Iowa. land, South Dakotn, a financial in­ to h elp build up the capital and p!'oposes His residence is 1706 Jones St., Sioux stitution with $25000.00 interests of the people in the v•ery City, Iowa. stock,· deposits of over $335,000.00 and· for the highest pur­ $334,- best manner Twin City Teacbern College Alum­ and loans and discounts of poses. na! Association-Prof. Robert Fuller­ 494.31. J . H. Seymour, 1909, professor of ton, 1894-1895, and wife (El/la Franklin E. Willard, 1909, is now agriculture, State Normal flchool, Waters, 1895); Dr. J. D. Lyon, 1896, located on his peach orchard near Valley City, North Dakota, is ad­ and wife (Mae Eu,genie Ferris, Yuba City, CaJlifornia, and finds· the visory edl'tor of the Normal School 1896); Forest Z. Wheeler, •1902, work very pleasant a·nd much more Budget, the school's weekly paper 1905, and wife (Edith M. Anderson) remunerative than teaching. He has which has the appearance and the met at the home of L. W . Crawhall, been in this new business for three char11.cter ·of a four ,page regular all former students of I. S .. T. C., for years. newspaper. This is the sixth year the purpose ,of re-.estab1ishing the Earl A. Road.man, 1904, Professor of the publication. Twin City Ii-st of graduate and stu­ of Rural Church Improvement at l\irs. A. H. Ferris ( Gertrude Iona dents p,reparatory to holding a big Upper Iowa University for the past Magoon, 1912) is this year teaching winter meeting and banquet stnetime year, was granted the honorary de­ in the schools •of North English, in January, Any information that gree of Doctor of Divinity by that Iowa, in the ,second primary; her husband being assistant •superintend­ dan St., wheire he ls having his resi­ de811s with the History of the Special ent. dence during his leave of absence. Educational Institutions; The Col­ l\lary E. Martin, 1917, ls a student H. E . 1:r.Iackm.ar, 1893-1894, of lege for the Blind ; the School for the in the New York State Library Ottumwa, Iowa, is Chairman of the Deaf, the Soldiers Orphan·s Home, the School, her ad·dress being 225 Lark Executive Oomm!ttee for the year Ins titution 1for the FeebJ.e Minded St., Albany, New York. She :rieports 19 2 0-21 of the fowa State Teachers and the Industrial Schools. This most favorably of the great advant­ Association. v•olume is a notable contribution. to ages confenred by the School and of P. E . McClenahan, 1898-1809, the history of Education for the the fine experiences she i;s having in Superintendent of Public Instruction training of unfortunates in the Unit­ visiting many points of interest and for Iowa, gave the affic!al address ed States. attractlven,ess in that part of the before the State T eachers Association, Alexander C. Roberts, 1901, presi­ country. h!•s subject being "The Cost of Edu­ dent of the new Washington State Clark Funston, 1888, ls president cation." Normat Schol at Centralia has made of the Des Moines Chapter of the Na­ Judge Frank R. \Villls, 187,9-1905, a tour of the country visiting state tional Councill of Administrative Los Angeles, Cal!fornia, has been se­ normal schools, ·preparatory to the Women in Education. This society lected as the trial judge for the pro­ openiing of regular WlOrk n.ext year. has regular meetings in connection secuUon of Louise P eete, alleged He has visited the following state with National Education Assoc!aUon murderess. 'This cas.e is one of the normal! schools from September 15 with chapter r epresentatives. famous criminal cases that has oc­ to November 24: Ellensburg and Chas. A. Frederick, 1893, and his crurred in recent years in the United Cheney, Washington; Monmouth, wife (Ida Shaw-Frederick, 1890- States. Judge WH!is is held in high Ol'egon; Lewiston, Idaho; Valley 1891) have been living in Monrovia. esteem for his abiliity, fairness and City, North Dakota; Moorhead and California, the past summer , but are discl'etion as a judge by those quali­ St. Cloud, Minnesota; Aberdeen, now Jiving in South Pasadena, where fied to decide in these matters of jur­ South Dakota; River Falls and MB­ they have purchased a home. Both isprud·ence and law interpretation waukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, ·Ill!nols; are prosperous a nd are enjoying and -enforcement. Kalama zoo, Michtgan1; Kent, Ohio; everything in that beautiful land of S. A. Cohagan, 1009-1010•1912, West Chester, Pa.; Newark and Mt. fruit and flowiers. ii:en eral secretary of the Young Men's Clair, New Jersey; Terre Haute, In­ Minnie Moore-Gray, 1885, 1891 Christian Association at Waterloo, diana; Cedar Falls, Iowa; Peru, who is a missionary in China, with Iowa, has been conducting a great Nebraska; Emporia and Hays, Kan­ her husband has been spending a va­ campaign for the betterment of reli­ sas; Greeley, Colorado. This inves­ cation in Southern Ca.Jifornia during gious and social life in a~l ways that tigation will be the source of infor­ the past year. mean human welfare.. He lis recog­ mation for developing the scbool at Col. L., A . I. Chapman, 1892-1893 nized as one of the most ,promising Centrall!a. is an officer in the U. S. A. School at and effective y,oung men in the Y Mrs. Peter M. Fulton, Lissa Jeffers, Ft. Rilley, Kansas, a nd Is one of the work of the country as he has initia­ 1893, r eports from Phoenix, Arizona. most succesis·ful lecturers and in­ tive, vision and persistence o·f the Three of her children are in the Uni­ structors on high grade military best character. versity at Tucson, anid the fouTth a problems in the Service. He still Mrf'. Cora A. Garrett, 1917, is now junior in the Phoenix High School, maintains the r ei;mtat!-on that he Ms~ located at 6122 Elma Aven,ue, Holly­ the fifth, a ten yeiar old boy is in played while a substitute instructor wood, Ca1ifornia, wher,e she is teach­ <:i xth grade in a school four and one­ In physics whme at the Teachers Co-l­ ing in B. I Grade of the Los Angeles half miles f:rom home, and her sixth, iege. City Schools. She finds the Califor­ a bciy of ,six is being taught by his O. H. L. Mason, 1801, former Y . nia schools ,good, but not better than mother at home. She says that she M. C. A. Secretary in A. E. F. and most Iowa schools1• would enjoy visiting Cedar Falls later located with Czecho Slovakian Albert L. Comstock, 1893, is now again but that it appears not to be an troops at VJ,adivostok, Siberia, has located at Atlantic City, New Jersey, immediate privilege. returned to the United States and where he Is holding an important R. F , Clough, 1907, attorney at law with his wife hais been visiting a son nosition as an officer •of the Hotel at Mas·on City, Iowa, was at Cedar at Long Beach, California. After a Troyman, the most noted hostelry at Fa.Jls and' Waterloo on bus>iness No­ short respite for r est, he will ireturn this famous oce-an resort city. Mir. vember 22, 1920. He called at the to the work of his choice, the minis­ Comstock has been, in the hote'l bus­ College and renewed his inte!'est In try ,of the Pres•byterian Church in iness for many years in the East in the work of the institution. which he has had very notable suc­ the vicinity of New York and other H. H. Maynard, 1012, is now 'lo­ cess. great hotel centers. He is an expert cated at College Station, Pullman, Linnie Downs-Savage, 1897. is in the hot-el business as a buyer of Washington, where he is professor of teaching in the public junior high i;uppl!es and foods for this grea t bus­ business administration in the Wash­ school of Pomonia, California, as a iness of caring for the comfort and ington State College. Last summer specialist in home economics. Her welfar.e of patrons. he gave courses iDJ econ•omics at the son, George is a senior in the Edna C. Batt.In, 1912, now resides State University of Iowa. Pomona High School, treaisurer o•f his at 788 North 9th St., Colton,, Cali­ l\lrs. Joseph Pipal (Julia A. Pier­ cliass and has been in the hospital fornia. sol, 1906) sends Holiday greetings with a mild' case •of typhoid fever. Clara L. Hancock. 1906, is teacher from Prague, Czecho Slovakia, where Clifford S . Bean, 1807, is now of mathemat ics in the Junior College her husband has been in Y. M. C. A. owner and manager of the Raymond and Senior High School, Pipestone, service since the dose of the great Heralld, Raymond, W ashington. It Minnesota. world war. ls a well edited, creditable newspaper Vie Ufford, 1913-1914, is head of Charles F. Perrott, 1018, a rice and ·shows qualities and spirit of the department of Commerce, of the glrow-er near Almy:ria. Arkansas, du,r­ knowing the news and knowing how Polytechnic Institute, Billings. Mon­ ln.g the past year, has accepted an to put it in the best form and charac­ tana, this being her second year in educational rposition for the remain­ ter. that city. der of the school year at Almyra, fol­ Rev. \V. P. Pflaum, former student Oscar O. Mnell~r, 1902-1003, is lowing a superintendent who was re­ of 1896-1897, called at th,e Presi­ city attorney of Lewiston, Montana, lleased beca us,e of beirug unable to ful­ dent's office November 8, to r enew in ad•dition to his r egular practice. fill demand•s. His salary of $200.00 the friendships of former college ])r. Clarenl'r, R ay An•·ner. 1890- •a school month will be useful during days. He i•s now a resident ,of Cb!le, 1801, has just had brought from the the financial depression. He expects being 1president of Iquique English press of the Iowa State Historical to bring his family back to Iowa and Coll-ege, with an American, address at Society, his fifth volume of History of will be open for a good superintend­ Tacoma, Washington, 1118 S. Sheri- Education in Iowa. This volume ency next year. Dr., John D. Lyon, :1896, physician Ja rs that are now deemed n ecessary to J·ane Ruth Egbert, 19:16, to Thom­ and surge on, has been, chosen presi­ enforce during the unsettled condition a s G. Donovan, at Broadway Taber­ dent ot the executive board ot the effecting the populations or the nacl-e C hurch, New York City, August Council of Parents and Teachers World. She .expects to get h er p.lans 29, 1920. Mr. Donovan is a graduate Associations of Minneapolis. The accepted by spring. of Tufts College, 1907, and Harvard Patrents and Teachers Monthly Bulle­ Leonora Arent, 1911, Ph.D., 1919, Law Schooll, 1912. Mrs. Donovan tin issued November 15, 1920, pre­ Columbia Un iversity, has recently will continue h er work in dram,atic sents in print his president's message published three of her -poems, entitled art in New Y,ork. prepared tor the advice, encourage­ "Guidance," "Faith" and "Battle," in Charl03 Levi Lewis, :1894-1895, ment and inspiration o! the many one booklet that she has kind1y ,sent October 6, 1920, at Des Moines, chapters of this Association organ­ to her friends as Christmas remem­ Iowa , to Hannah Marg-ratte San.dvik. ized from the parents and teachers brances. They are thoughtful, in­ Mable Clausen, a former music ot the public schools of Minneapolis. spiring lite!'ary productions, giving student, to James Millard Bailey of This movement is one ot th·e great promise or much more that will Waterloo, Iowa, on October 14, 1920, undertakings ot the present day. to11ow. at Goldifie'.l!d , Iowa. Mrs. A. C. Ba.r1·ett, (Pearl Bills, J essie Shillini:rlnw, 1911-1914, Pauline Rose, 19:17, to Marion D. 1912-1913) with her small daughter, assumed her duties as member of the Lamb, B. S. E . E., Ames. Address Coranelle, will return to South Amer­ public school m usic staff at El Paso, 7214 Princeton Ave., Chicago, Ill. ica sometime in January, where her Texas, in Janua ry, 1921. Edith Schuneman, Student, 1907, husband Is a mining engineer, In MARRIAGES to John Berg, October 6, 1920 at charge o! a new $350,000.00 mill In Dr. Robert Lindsay Robinson, a Cedar Falls, Iowa. Mr. Berg ks a Peru. former student, now in the U. S. Pub­ druggist at Cedar Falls, Iowa. George D. Eaton, 1899-:1908-:19US, lic Health Service, at Greenville, Edith M. l\foxwell, instructor in Is field secreta•ry of the National South Carolina, November 13, 1920, Home Economics, 1918-1920, to John Committee tor the Prevention· of to Miss Edna Boyce, of Springfield, S. McBride, October 30, 1920, at To­ Blindness with office at 180 East Masschusetts. The Bride was a Red peka, Kansas. At home, Ft. Scott, 22nd· St., New York City, but is travel­ Cross. Nurse in connection with the Kansas. Ing and· working tor legislation that ll. S. Public Health Service. Their H elen Packard, 1908-:19:1:1, at Ce­ is desired to guarantee proper atten­ present residence will be at Green­ da•r Falls, J,owa, to James W. Sum­ tion to the eyes of new born infants. ville where Dr. Robinson is stati'oned. ner, Hawarden, Iowa, October 26, This 1/ast quarter he has worked in Clara E. Bennett, :1908, to Berch­ 1920. Home at Hawarden where the Missouri and Iowa. His e!Iorits de­ mans Auger, August 6, 1919, resi­ groom is in business. serve the support of every man an.4 dence at GTangeville, Idaho. Edith Kyhl, former student, at Ce­ woman In Iowa. Such laws ought to Gertrude Tyrrell, :19:10, Waverly, d~r Falls, Iowa, October 9, 1920, to be passed -even it ec-onomic reasons Iowa, Supervisor of Music, Des Kirk Fox, Waterloo, associate editor were the only ones considered. Moines, Iowa, until June, 1921, De­ of Kimball Dairy Farmer. William G. Morehead, a student of cember 7, 1920, to Joseph Lynch, Bell,e Horrigan, former kindergar­ 1908, camp, athletic di-rector, Camp Waucoma, Iowa. ten student, to Frank Nichols, Kings­ Beauregard, La ., was appointed State Hele Marr Smith, 19:12, at Des ley, Iowa, at Waterloo, October 10 Supervisor ,of Physical Education for Moines, Iowa, to Russell Reeves Van 1920. ' Penn5ylvania in November, with Tuy!, assisting secretary of the Ken­ Mary B. Head, 19:16, to John A. headquarters in the Department of yon Company, Des Moines, I,owa, on Lane ,of New York, July 8, 1920. Public Instruction a:t H a rrisburg, Pa. Thanksgiving Day. Many entertain­ From December 1, 1918 to July 1, Mrs. Harry W. Melton (Elizabeth ments were accorded the bride by her 19 2 0 the bride was a reconstruction Cahalan, 1915) is now a resident of many Des Moines friends as prelim­ a ide of the War De,partment at Bos­ Walsenburg, Colorado. A young son, inary events to h er marriage. to11, MassachuseHs; at Lakewood, N. John 'Lester Melton was born August Iowa. Lea Cl1ase, :1906-:19:12-:1916, J.; and at Staten Island, N. Y. , re­ 11, 1920. She writes for back num­ at El Paso, Texais, November 25, spectively. The present res'idence is bers of the Alumni News Letter. 1920, to Walter Edward Coburn of 8 67 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, New Marguel'ite Uttley, 19:12-19:15, Edinburg, Pa. Mrs. Coburn has en­ York. graduate student at the University o! tirely recovered her health by living Lela Belle Reed, 1920, to Ora L. Chicago, wns run down by an automo­ in the arid climate of western Frederick of W aterloo, a teacher of bile Texas on the streets of Chicago about for two years. Mr. Coburn is an the Eklund Business -College at the opening of the month and so ser­ electrical engineer and is employed· at Waterloo, November 26, 1920, at iou5Jy injured that she did not r e­ Ft. B'l~.ss in constructive Ackley, Iowa. gained work. Their consciousness !or ten clays. adcllress will be 806 Ange St., El Anna Mar"'aret Tiedens, 1020, to Her recovery became very rapid the Paso, Texas. Fred W . Miller of Spirit Lake Iowa Tatter part of December and she was Hester Julia Jacob, a former stu­ at Apl'ington, Iowa, in Nov'em.ber' brought back to her home in Dubuque. dent, county superintendent 1920. ' She may r of Ida esume her work in the County, Iowa, to Henry A. Dessel. at Hazel Rouder, of Nashua, Iowa, Universit~• of Chicago soon. Minneapolis, Minnes·ota, November Room Assistant in the city of Cedar Enoch D. Sylvester, :1899, is agri­ 2 5, 19 2 0. Her Falls for the teaching department in clliltural temporary residence director in the high school was C/lark Hotel, Los Angeles, Cali­ 1917-1918, to J ackson Eslinger, Wa­ at Annandale, Minnesota. His motto fornia. terloo, Iowa, October 23, 1920. The is "Better Stock, Better Grade." He Nellie E. Jones, :19:12-:1917, of Ce­ new home will be in Houston Texas visited the College December 20th, dar Falls, Iowa, to Charles J. Ru·ten­ in the near future. ' ' and showed· that he was deeply and beck, Lost Nation, Iowa, November Alice Whiti1ey, student 1914-1915 earnestly interested in his education­ :\0, 1920. Their to Henry E. Rohrssen, Cedar Fa.Jls: al service home will be in Lost . Nation, where the groom is a young Iowa, at Waterloo, Iowa, December Hulda Klein, :19:16-:1920, Is in pre­ business man. , 15, 1920. They will live on a farm paration for her intended missionary Marion Magda.line Cooley, 19:16, to near Nashua. service by attendin,g Moody Institute Dr. Giovanni Volpe-Serra di Paar, Alberta "\Vooclring, student 1916- In Chicago. She had hoped to go to New York City, at W ater'l'oo, 1917, Waterloo, Iowa, India October on December In October, but deJjlomatic and 26, 1920. The new home will be in 22 in Fourth Presbyterian Church, world war adjustments now in the New York where the bride has been Chicag,o, Illinois, to Giles C. Rima, making do not permit missionaries engaged in social service in foreign Warba, Minnesota. Miss Woodring even to land in any British depend­ districts ·and where her husband is had been domestic science teacher at ency without being thoroly investi­ known for his• writings and lectures Bedford, Iowa. gated as to many technical particu- on philoso,phlcal subjects. Olive Cooleclge, 1914, Albion, Iowa, to Milton Tostlebe, 1916, Cedar Falls, denly critically sick. Not being phy­ CAMPANILE , at A.1 - sically strong, she was unab'l'e to re­ Iowa, on December 29, 1920 The following is the >list of persons bion, Iowa. At home, after March 1, sist the disease. who have contributed to the Cam­ 1921, Ideal Stock Farm on Rainbow Malone (Ella Flornnce Mrs. 0 . A. October 1, 1920 Drive, Cedar Falls. • Williams, 1903) died in Medford, panile Fund between Oregon, Fel:J.ruary 4, 1920, after sev­ and J a nua ry 1, 1921: BOARD OF EDUCATION eral months illlness. She left her hus­ Amount r eported previous- nearly l\-lrs. Carrie Woodward-Brenton, of band and two sons, aged 8 and ly ...... $2 ,940.72 r , Iowa, died 1'rom a 5 years. H er sister, Mrs. F red J . Dallas Gente lives Mildred Terhune ...... 2.60 stroke of apoplexy while visiting in Fick (Nellie V. Williams, 1900) Moines, J,owa, F'riday night, No­ at Jacksonville, Oregon. Tw-o •other Edith Underwood, Esther- Des e students at vember 12, 1920. She was we'll sisters were at on,e ,tim ville ...... 2.00 and the Teachers ColJ!ege when the fam­ known in the State as a civic Grace Swartz, Estherville . . 5.00 club worker and for her being Chair­ ily lived at Neola, Iowa. man for a number of years of the Maude L. Ferguson, former teach­ Bessie B. Buchanan, 1435 State P ar ent-Teachers Association. er in the English Department for one W. 19th St., Des Moines. 10.00 is Her husband , Charles A. B_renton, year , was struck b y an automobile G. -C . Hamer sly, Rudd . .... 5.00 a member of the Iowa State Board of and instantly killed at Portland, Education, being Chairman of -the Oregon, November 30, 1920. Viola Krueger, Humboldt .. 2.00 Building and Business Committee. P earle Tallman!, Lewiston, also of a son, 24 Constance S mith, 1908, Died· at Her family consists 1920, Idaho ...... 6.00 •of age and a daughter , 17 years Waterloo, Iowa, in October, years She had aittain­ of age. from typhoid fever. Cora Belle Price, Minnea- ed distinction as a kindergartner, and polis, Minn...... 5.00 Hon. Roger Leavitt, Treasurer of was .purs uin·g the Il ast year of a post the Teachers College and former graduate course at Columbia Univer­ Daisy H elen Dewey, State member of it. he State Board of Educa­ sity when taken sick. On completion College, Pa...... 5.00 tion, delivered a highly acceptable of her work there she had planned to Helen R. Tollakson, Alta .. 2.00 addr ess before the College a nd Un1- ,go to Geneva, Switzerland. Del}artment of the Iowa State H. L. Senecal, 3 7 Cherokee vers,ity 1894-1895, Teachers Association at Des Moines, Edwin Grant Copeland, St., Denver , Co1o ...... 5.00 er 4, on the topic minister of the Gospel of the Metho­ Thursd·ay, Novemb at Fair­ Mrs. May Morgan, Mar- hen does the American College dis,t Episcopal Church, died "W mber 9, 1920. He shalltown ...... 5.00 Meet Public Demand." field, Iowa, Dece prepared for his work by graduating Mueller St. John, eceived Fanny Announcements have been r from the State University of Iowa in Sherida n , Wyo...... 5.00 of the marriage of Hazel Lambert to 1898, Boston University School of Milton G. Gage of Seattole, Washing­ Theology, 1902 , and by travel in Eu­ Leota Milburn, Swea City .. 5.00 1920. The ton, on December 18, rope before undertakin:g the Chris­ Leona M. Elliott, Swea City 5.00 bride is the daughter of Hon. Thomas tian ministry. He fi lled aP1Pointments Lamber t , of Sabula, Iowa, who is a at Norway, Kenwood· Park, Ackley, Mrs. Marie Johnson Ander- member of the Finance Committee of Lyons, Tama, Traer, Gresco and New son, 'Leland, illll...... 5.00 the Iowa State Board or Education. Hampton. His wife and his daugh­ Mrs. Ruth Dubbert Claxton, ter, Beulah, now twelve years old, are Fayette ...... 10.00 DEATHS left to mourn his departure. He was a n ins,tructor in penmanship at the J ennie M. McCall, 1328 W. Sadie Ruberta Culp, 1915, d-ied Iowa Teachers College during his 20th St., Des Moines .. .. 25.00 1918, from pneumonia. at Cedar Fails. October 24, student career , Tipton . . 5.00 This inf ormation was receiTed ir&.­ Gladys Ba ughman cently by the Col11ege officers. She BIRTHS Blanche P. Gibson, Maxwell 2.00 was pursuin,g a course in nurse it.rain­ Mrs. Cora A. Garrett, Cedar ing at the State University of Iowa Jack Llewelln Roats, son of Mr. when: she was protrated by pneu­ a n:d Mrs. Roy Hoats, 1902-1903-1906, Falls ...... 5.00 monia. w as born September 23 , 1920, weight at T acoma, Washing­ Hazel E . Ha I'll, J es\lJp ...... 10.00 Dixon, 1882, Bishop, seven pounds, John Galen ton . Ca.lifo.rnia, died fr,om typhoid teTer Carrie L . Neidy, Waterloo. 10.00 during October, 1920. He visited Ward- Born to Harry S. Ward and Cedar F alls, two years ago, on his way Doris Klinefelter-Ward, 1914, in Ce­ Minnie S. Behrens ...... 5.00 D. C ., where September 25 , 1920, a son, home from Washington, dar FaUs, Dou- he had ,presented the interests of Lloyd Klinefelter. Hazel Fairbanks, 1719 glas, St., Si