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1945-46

October I I -Concert, Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano, 8 p. m., College Auditorium

October 13-Dad's Day, luncheon, 11 :45 a . m., the Commons. Football, Loras College at Cedar Foils, 2 p. m.

October 20-Footboll, Hemline University at St. Poul.

October 21-Piono Recital, Rafael de Silva, 8 p. m., College Auditorium.

October 24, 25, 26-County Teachers Examinations, 8 a . m. to 5 p. m., Auditorium Building.

November 3-Homecoming, footbol!, South Dakota State College at Cedar Falls,

2 p. m.

November I 0- Footboll, Droke University at Des Moines.

November I I-College Symphony Orchestra Concert, 8 p. m., College Auditorium.

November 26-Registrotion for W inter Quarter.

December I-Normal Training Subject Motter tests, 8 a . m. to 12 noon, Administration Building.

December 12-Concert, Patricio Travers, violinist, 8 p. m., Co llege Auditorium.

January 16-Concert, Igor Gorin, baritone, 8 p. m., College Auditorium.

January 23, 24, 25-County Teachers Exominotioris, 8 a. m. to 5 p . m., Auditorium Building. IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, CEDAR FALLS, I OWA

V-J Day Service Held "There are but two words which adequately c-Jl,,e CAMPUS TODAY express the feeling of all of us this evening. Those two words are "Thank God," said President Malcolm Price in opening the V-J Enrollment Increases 41 % Day service in the college auditorium Tuesday, The end of World War II brought a 41 August 14. per cent increase in enrollment at the Teachers The program continued with prayers and College with 1,228 students enrolled as con­ hymns of Thanksgiving, a pledge of peace, and trasted with 866 students registered for fall meditation by Dr. Vernon P. Bodein, director quarter last year. a of religious activities at the college. Male enrollment jumped from 81 last year to 202 men for the 194 5 fall quarter. Fifty­ "Against a background of a world drenched eight of these are veterans. Enrollment of in blood comes the tidings of world peace," women increased from 785 to 1026 students. said Dr. Bodein. "Our first thought is a happy The enrollment of freshman women in the one," he continued, "but in the midst of all degree curricula shows an increase of 87 per our gladness comes a note of sadness. Let us cent over that in 1939 with a proportionate remember those who gave their lives that we drop of 64 per cent of those registered for the might live. Those boys will have laid down two yea r curricula. their lives in vain unless we see that our thoughts and actions permit no more war. The * problems of peace are appallingly vast. Global Dad's Day Scheduled for October 13 war means global peace. We must continue to As The Alumnus goes to press final plans think in terms of other nations besides our are being made for the fifteenth annual Dad's own." Day at Teachers College on October 13. Main event of the day will be the football game with Loras College, at which all fathers will be guests. The week-end program begins Friday night, October 12, with an out-door pep meeting. Registration will be Saturday morning and luncheon will be served at noon in the Com­ mons. Following the game, a campanile con­ cert will be given by Cecil Craig, Salix, Iowa. Dr. Vernon Bodein, director of religious education, will speak Sunday morning, October • These " Frosh" are obviously enjoying the at the college 14, in a special Dad's Day service watermelon feast which is o traditional event chapel on "Beams That Hold Life Together." of freshmon week. Robinson and Wagner in England Dr. George C. Robinson, professor of govern­ The Alumnus Cover Picture ment, and Dr. Guy Wagner, director of the Pictured on the cover this month is Coach instructional materials laboratory at Teachers Clyde " Buck" Storbeck, skipper of ·College, were recently appointed instructors in the l 940 l -4 l -4 2 cham­ the American University, Shrivenham, Eng- pi onship " Mighty Midgets," land. Dr. Robinson is instructor in political watch ing a scrimmage of the science, and Dr. Wagner in public school cur­ 1945 Panthers. Teachers College football fans are riculum, administration, and supervision. seeing the Panthers in ac­ High praise was expressed to Iowa State tion fo r the first time since Teachers College by C. M. Thiele, Brigadier Coach Storbeck 1942. General, Commandant of the Army University Center, "for the excellent results being obtained Concert Series Scheduled with members of the armed forces by Dr. Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano star of the Robinson and Dr. Wagner." Metropolitan Opera, opened the concert series One of several university study centers at Teachers College with a concert, October 11. organized for education of troops in the Rafeal de Silva, Chilean pianist, will present a European theater of operations, Shrivenham recital October 21 under the auspices of the American University has an enrollment of American Association of Colleges and Uni­ about 4,000 students. versities. Patricia Travers, 18-year-old virtuoso, will * appear as guest artist on D ecember 12. Igor Miss Carl New Editorial Assistant Gorin, baritone, who is featured soloist on radio Virginia Carl, who received the Master of programs, will present the first concert of Science in Journalism degree from the Medill the winter quarter, January 16. Robert School of Journalism at Northwestern Uni­ Casadesus, French pianist and composer, will versity in August, assumed her duties as edi­ be heard on February 4. torial assistant in the Bureau of Publications The Minneapolis Sym phony Orchestra con­ on September 10. Miss Carl received the B.S. ducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, will give a degree from Oregon State College, Corvallis, concert on April 25. The college symphony Ore., in June, 1944. orchestra and chorus will present concerts throughout the year.

Volume XXIX October, 1945 Number 4 Dr. Nelson Contributes* to Dictionary THE ALUMNUS is entered as second class mail Dr. M. J. Nelson, dean of the faculty at at the post office in Cedar Fal ls , Iowa, with the Teachers College, is one of the contributors Iowa State Teachers College as owner of the to the "Dictionary of Education" which has magazine. As s uch it is not forwardable without just come from the press. The new book is extra cost. W ithout charge to alumni, l 7,000 sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, national copies are printed and distributed quarterly. Ed i­ honorary and professional education fraternity. torial and technical duties ore handled by t he Professor Carter V. Good of the University Bureau of Pub Iications. of Cincinnati is general editor. Dr. Nelson George H. Holmes ______Editor served as coordinator for terms used in the Director, Bureau of Publ icati ons field of achievement testing and as reviewer of Virginio Corl ______Managing Editor terms used in teacher personnel, including cer­ Gail Fluhrer ______Alumni News tification, employment, tenure, ethics, and Benjamin Boardman Bu siness Manager salaries.

Page Two THE ALUMNU S October • Halfback George Dutcher (in white jersey) i s shown here picking a nice gain down the sidelines as the Panthers won the opening game of the season on September 22, with a score of 3 8-14 against Central College, of Pella.

RIES of "Fight, team, fight!" and "Rah! at Cedar Falls. The fourth game scheduled was C. Yeah, Panthers!" echoed across campus with Hamline University at St. Paul, October from the Teachers College stadium this fall 20. Homecoming was set for November 3, as the Panther again went on the prowl and with a game with South Dakota State College athletics came alive after two years of inactivity at Cedar Falls. The final game of the season during the war. would be November 10 with Drake University Football ·came into its own again as Coach at Des Moines. Clyde "Buck" Starbeck fielded a green but The grid season got off to a good start promising squad. Basketball, too, was resumed with Teachers College defeating Central College as Coach Arthur Dickinson was appointed to of Pella, Iowa, to the score of 38-14. In the take over the cage squad in the absence of second game, the Panthers, beset with injuries, Coach "Hon" Nordly, now on leave serving found their outfit too inexperienced to stack in the Navy. up against the veteran group of Iowa State The schedule this year called for the opening College and took a drubbing to the tune of game with Central College, September 22, fol­ 48-13. lowed by a resumption of competition with Iowa With only three veteran players who had State College at Ames, September 29. October seen action in previous Teachers College com­ 6 was scheduled as an open date, while October petition, Coach Starbeck has had a big job 13 was set for Dad's Day, with Loras College cut out for himself in training some 42 men,

1945 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Three ground for a minute in the determined attempt 1945 Football Schedule to win each game as it comes along. As for basketball, when Coach Arthur September 22-Central College at Cedar Falls. Dickinson issued a call for candidates early September 29-Iowa State at Ames. this year he had no idea of what sort of material he would find available, but was October 6-( open date) . greeted by 60 men, all eager to get the sport October 13-Loras College at Cedar Falls, off to an auspicious start. Although practice Dad's Day. sessions are being started early, it is too soon to predict how the material will develop. October 20-Hamline University at St. Paul. Three of the prospects are former letter­ October 27-(open date). men. Don Dutcher won his letter in 1942; Bill Mulley, a '42 letterman, expects to be dis­ November 3-South Dakota State at Cedar charged soon from service, as does Jim Bigler, Falls, Homecoming. a member of the 1941 freshman squad at November 10-Drake University at Des Teachers College. The men reporting will Moines. make up the first Panther cage outfit at Teachers College since intercollegiate athletics were discontinued in 1943. practically all without previous collegiate com­ Coach Dickinson has been assisting Coach petition. Teachers College sports fans of pre­ Starbeck with the football team this fall. war years will remember the three veteran Coaches Nordly, McCuskey, and Bender are players, Norm White who went in this year still serving Uncle Sam. On the campus now again at his old position at the center of the are director · of athletics, L. L. Mendenhall, line; George Dutcher, rampaging back; and Coach "Mon" Whitford, and Starbeck, and Jim Fox, a linesman. Dickinson. Present plans anticipate the re­ As alumni follow the news of Teachers sumption of baseball and track providing College games and watch them, they will get material is available. to know such names as Dean Selken, end, of Vinton; Dale Thierer, tackle, Traer; Melvin Kuhl, guard, Waterloo; George Case, guard, Kingsley; Harlan Roloff, tackle, Waverly; Alumni Postpone Reun ion Paul Mohling, end, Cedar Falls; Bill Berner, The annual Teachers College reunion and halfback, Mason City; Don Brandt, quarter­ dinner in Des Moines which normally occurs at back, Waverly; Bill Cribbs, fullback, Daven­ the time of the Iowa State Teachers Associa­ port; Paul De Van, halfback from Des Moines; tion convention in November has been post­ Jesse Palmer, end, Hampton; and Dale Peter­ poned. man, fullback from Tipton. The professional meeting of the LS. T.A. As The Alumnus went to press it was too may be held early in 1946 and the Teachers early to single out men with special promise. College alunmi may schedule their reunion for This was especially true since the style of play that time, according to Albert C. Fuller, and training for which the "Mighty Midgets" director of the bureau of alumni service. are best known does not lend itself to develop­ The delegate assembly of the I.S.T.A. is ment of a few star performers but features scheduled for November 1, 2, and 3 in Des teams working as a complete unit. In character­ Moines. Approximately 275 representatives are istic form the skipper of the "Mighty Midgets" expected to attend. Dr. E. L. Ritter, professor is going methodically about his business of of teaching, has been elected by the Teachers building for the future, although not giving College as its delegate to the assembly.

Page Four THE ALUMNUS October rr

• Benjamin Boardman (right ) and Leslie I. Reed (left) busi­ ness manager, and dean of men, re­ spective I y were given emeritus sta­ tus beginning July I , 1945.

Dean Reed, Boardman Assume Emeritus Status

Classmates in 1899, appointed to the ad­ he helped to keep the walks and halls swept ministrative staff in 1916 and 1917, and re­ clean. He was prominent in the literary societies cently given the emeritus rank in recognition of of that day, president of the student Y . M . C. long and distinguished periods of service, Leslie A, and of the Normal School Tennis Asso­ I. Reed, dean of men, and Benjamin Boardman, c1at10n. He took part in school plays and business manager, find their lives complimentary oratorical contests and can remember the day to each other in the history of the Iowa State when students lived and ate entirely at Teachers College. One handled money, the private residences. There were no restaurants other handled men. on College Hill and the only transportation to Mr. Boardman has served continuously for downtown Cedar Falls was by the old-fashioned 28 years since coming to the college in 1917, method of "legging it." Horse-drawn hacks while Dean Reed has served for 29 years since and landaus served in place of the present-day his appointment in 1916. They received th~ taxis, but they were far too expensive for meager emeritus status beginning July 1, 194'.i student funds of those days. The two officials, both graduates of the "Butter sold for 10 cents a pound," said college, were active in student affairs when Dean Reed. "Eggs were 7 cents a dozen, and enrolled at the then Iowa State Normal School. potatoes 25 cents a bushel. Students in those They have seen their Alma Mater grow from days were older and more serious, partly because an enrollment of 900 to a normal peace-time everyone was hard up. But essentially they were registration of 1,900 students, and from three no different from the boys and girls of today." principal buildings with a faculty of 40 in­ Dean Reed was made adviser of men and structors to one of the largest teachers colleges assistant to the president in 1916 and dean of in the country with a faculty of 160 instructors men in 1924. He was graduated from Teachers and 26 principal buildings located on a 179-acre College with the master of didactics degree in campus. 1900 and received his master of arts degree In his student days, Dean Reed learned what from the State University of Iowa in 1903. the working students had to contend with, when, After his advanced studies at Harvard Uni­ as a member of the campus "Cleanup Squad," versity, he served as superintendent of schools

1945 row A STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Five successively at Northwood, Odebolt, Jefferson, Miss Haight Retires and Missouri Valley. In 1914 he was inspector Miss Mary E. Haight, gracious hostess and of Iowa secondary schools as a representative friend to girls who have lived on the Teachers of the State Board of Education. College campus smce 1921 , retired from her During his service at Teachers College, Dean duties as director of Reed acted as director of one of the college Seerley Hall at the end branch summer schools for the first seven years of the spring quarter. after their establishment in 1917. During She is at present at World War I he was acting adjutant of the home in the Common­ student Army Training Corps organized on the weal th apartments m campus. Cedar Rapids. Although Dean Reed's retirement became Miss Haight f i r s t effective July 1, he will serve until a new man came to T eachers Col­ is appointed. lege in 1921 as director of Bartlett H a 11 , i n Mr. Boardman, then Benjamin Boardman, Miss Haight student, was prominent in dramatics and public which position she serv­ ed until 1940 when she speaking activities and was a member of the became director of Law­ ther Hall. She also served college football and track teams. He was as director of foods from 1925 to 1930. a fullback on the Tutor football squad of 1898 In 1944 she became direc­ tor of Seerley Hall that earned eternal fame among Teachers for Men, which was con­ verted into a dormitory College sports fans as the only Cedar Falb for college women with the coming team to defeat the University of Iowa. of the Navy WAYES in 1942. Perhaps the most important characteristic Mr. Boardman graduated from Teachers which persons who have known her will recall College with a master of didactics degree in may be summed up in the words of Miss Sadie 1899 and received the bachelor of philosophy B. Campbell, dean of women at Teachers degree from the University of Iowa in 1901. College: "Miss Haight represents th~ highest He served successively as city superintendent development of the art of being friendly and of schools of Shelby and Greene, Iowa, and having friends." Because she always had time later as editor and publisher of the Butler to visi t with students, former students, guests County Press at Greene. He was made county and others, and because she never fo rgot an superintendent of Butler County in 1914 and anniversary or birthday, Miss Haight was well­ served there until assuming his duties as busi­ known to everyone at Teachers College. ness manager at Teachers College. He is a Miss Haight graduated from the Cedar member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Rapids high school and attended the Bradley In his 28 years of service as business man­ Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Ill.; Stout Insti­ ager, Mr. Boardman has reported at his office tute, Menomonie, Wis.; and the Iowa State nearly 6,000 days with no absences because of Teachers College. She traveled in Scotland, illness. He has supervised the collection of England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, exactly 113 term enrollments, with over 200,000 and Switzerland in 1922. Prior to her appoint­ individuals registering. He has written checks ment as direc tor of Bartlett Hall, she was to pay for more than $1,000,000 worth of food supervisor of home economics in th-: Cedar used in the college cafeteria and has issued Rapids schools. She is a member of the State payroll checks for more than $10,000,000. His Teachers Association; State Deans Association; annual checking account has averaged over National Education Association; Faculty W o­ $1,000,000 and has reached more than one mens Club; chapter FY of P.E.O., educational and three-fourths million dollars when building and social organization; and the Cedar Falls projects were carried on. Womens Club.

Page Six THE ALUMNUS October • These cheerleaders will be on hand to rally Teachers College pep at Homecoming. Left to right, Gerald Stephenson, Sigourney; Rosemary Carney, New Hampton; Lolly Murphy, Rockford; Pat Kn ight, Des Moines; Marianna Treke ll , Davenport; Dwayne Schramm, Ida Grove.

T. C. Homecoming To Be Held November 2-4

HE FIRST post-war Teachers College Home­ will trek to the 0. R. Latham stadium to watch T coming to be held November 2, 3, and 4, the Panthers in action against South Dakota will have many of the traditional features, State College. tentative plans indicate. Following the football game "coffees" will On Friday afternoon, November 2, the be given in the dormitories. Organization decoration of campus residence halls and off­ dinners are being scheduled for Saturday night campus residences will be judged. At 7 p. m. The Homecoming dance starting at 8: 30 the cheerleaders will take charge of a pep p.m., will feature the homecoming queen spon­ rally to get everyone in the mood for the foot­ sored by the "I" club. Awards for residence ball game on Saturday. decorations also will be presented at the dance. The curtain will rise at 9 p. m., Friday, for Sunday morning breakfasts sponsored by the the traditional homecoming play. "Listen Pro­ various organizations will be followed by fessor!", a modern Russian comedy by Alexan­ services in the college chapel at 10:30 a.m. der Afinogenov, will be presented by College Players under the direction of Miss Hazel B. Strayer, associate professor of speech. The Lyon and Coobs Work on Atom Bomb play will also be given on Thursday, November Ward Lyon of Waterloo, and John H . 1, with curtain time of 8 p.m. Coobs of Monona, Iowa, students at Teachers Departmental open houses are scheduled for College in 1939 and 1940, were among the 10 a.m., Saturday, and organization luncheons group of scientists to work on the atomic bomb in honor of "alums" are being planned for project at Iowa State College, Ames, where Saturday noon. At 2 o'clock all football fans they are now seniors, it was revealed recently.

1945 row A STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Seven • Members of the doss of 1895 who held their fiftieth onniversory reunion on the campus on June 20. Standing - left to right - Mrs. Mary Wilson FitxGerald ('93 ), Mrs. Ella Waters Fullerton, Mr. Robert Full erton , Mr. William H. Reever, Mr. Guy H. Scobey, Mr. Ed Ra yburn, Mr. Cassius E. M. Tool, Mr. James FitxGerald. Seated - left to right - Mrs. Cora Bryant Hilleman, Mrs. Adella Gibson Stuckey, Mrs. Ne llie Maynard McChesney, Mrs. Minn ie Mack Grimsby, Mrs. Katie Harrod Forby, Miss Eth e l L . Arey, Mrs. Myrtle Bell Tool. etau a/, 1a95 e~ 5ott,, ,4~

The fiftieth anniversary of the Iowa State Mack Grimsby, Minneapolis, Minn.; and Cas­ Normal School class of 1895 was observed sius Tool and Mrs. Tool, the former Myrtle C. with a reunion on the Iowa State Teacher; Bell, Edmond, Okla. College campus, Wednesday, J une 20. Oass members receiving 50 year badges in­ Members of the group were guests of the cluded: Miss Ethel L. Arey, M.Di., Cedar college at an informal dinner party in the Falls; Mrs. Cora Bryant H illeman, ISP, State Commons dining room at noon at which Center; James E. FitzGerald, M.Di., Sioux President Malcolm Price presented gold medals City; Mrs. Mary Wilson FitzGerald, M.Di., to the persons attending their first reunion '93, Sioux City; Mrs. Adella Gibson Stuckey, after at least fifty years had elapsed since their B.Di., Fairfield; Mrs. Katie Harrod Forby, graduation. The afternoon was spent reading B.Di.; Miss Susie A. Hemenway, B.Di., letters from absent members and in informal Lansing; Harlan R. Holies, M.Di., Hudson; visiting. Miss Nellie Hudson, M.Di., Eldora; Mrs. Of the total of 14 5 members, 94 percent of Minnie Mack Grimsby, M.Di.; Mrs. Nellie the class of 1895 have been engaged in teaching, Maynard McChesney, B.Di., Cedar Falls; 22 members have a teaching record of more Lewis H. Minkel, B.Di., Ph.B., State University than 40 years each, and nine members have of Iowa, '02, Fort Dodge; Ed Rayburn, B.Di., spent at least 50 years teaching. Five members Washington; William H . Reever, M.Di., Ph.B., have received the Ph.D. degree or its equivalent, State University of Iowa, '97, Glidden; Guy 10 the M.A. degree, 39 the B.A. or B.S. de­ H. Scobey, B.Di., Mr. Vernon; Cassius E. M. grees, and 103, diplomas. Tool, M.Di.; Mrs. Myrtle Bell Tool, M.Di. . Out-of-state guests included Mrs. Karie '96; Mrs. Ella Waters Fullenon, B.Di., Harrod Forby, Faulkton, S. Oak.; Mrs. Minnie Parkersburg.

Page Eight TI--IE ALUMNUS October Fifteen New Members Added to College Staff

HIRTEEN new f acuity members and two Agnes McClelland who resigned at the end Tnew dormitory directors have been added of the summer term. to the Teachers College staff since July. New Miss Holmblade, instructor in home eco­ faculty additions were in the departments of nomics, a graduate of Michigan State College, education, music, English, art, women's physical received her M.S. from the University of education, home economics, and in the Campus Minnesota. Miss Holmblade will be instructor School. in home furnishing and do extension work in the winter quarter. Dr. Cliffton B. Huff,* new assistant professor of education, has his Ph.D. from the Univer• Dr. Solomon Simonson* comes to the English sity of Kansas and has served as head -of department from Northwestern University. He education and teacher training at the junior received the B.A. and M.A. from Brooklyn college in Ioa, Kansas. During the past two College, New York; L.L.B. from St. Lawrence years he has been on the faculty of the Uni­ University; Ph.D. from Northwestern Uni­ versity of Kansas. versity. He has been speech clinician at Brook­ Miss Louise Sires, instructor in education, lyn College and instructor and director of graduated from Northwestern Missouri State debate at the University College, Northwestern Teachers College, received the B.A. and M.A. University. He has acted in New York stage degrees from Oberlin College Conservatory of productions and directed apprentice produc­ Music, Oberlin, Ohio, and also attended the tions in the Civic Repertory Theatre under the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She direction of Eva La Gallienne. formerly taught piano at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. Willis H . Wagner,* instructor of art, Mrs. Leonard Bundy of Cedar Falls, who received his B.S. from Central Missouri State formerly attended Teachers College, will assist Teachers College and M.E. from the University Miss Robbins with accompanying. of Missouri. He has been an instructor in the schools of Liberty and Kansas City, Mo., and at Central Missouri State Teachers College. Three additions to the home economics de- * He was employed as an engineer with North partment are Dr. Margaret Randolph, Margaret American Aviation, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., Mary Kelley, and Amy Holmblade. Dr. Randolph, assistant professor of home before coming to Teachers College. in art, obtained economics, graduated from Southwestern Col­ Archie Bauman, instructor of Minnesota lege, Winfield, Kan., and received both her his B.S. from the University He has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia and M.A. from Harvard University. , and taught University. She has been assistant professor supervised art at Winona, Minn. , Minneapolis. of foods and nutrition at Michigan State art at Miller Vocational School College. Miss Kelley, instructor in home e conomics, New to the women*' s physical education received her M.S. from Columbia University, department are Shirley Winsberg and Elizabeth and has begun work on her Ph.D. degree at Oldenberg. the University of Iowa and Colorado State Miss Winsberg has the B.S. degree from the College. During the past two years she taught University of Illinois and M.S. from Wellesley clothing construction at Stephens College, College. She has been instructor of physical Columbia, Mo. She assumes the duties of Miss education in the public schools of Whiting,

1945 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Nine Ind., and at the Massachuse tts State College and the University of Illinois. Miss Oldenberg has her B.A. from Iowa State T eachers College and has taught physical education at Storm Lake, Iowa, for the past two years.

Four new instruct*ors will teach in the Campus School. Melvin Schneider, instru­ mental music instructor, has the B.M. from the University of Wisconsin and has been instructor in the public schools of Wisconsin and Illinois. Manford Sonstegard, instructor in teaching, has the B.E. from the State Teachers College, . A VE you ever walked down from Bartlett St. Cloud, Minn., and M.A. from the Uni­ H or Lawther Hall to get a sack of popcorn versity of Minnesota. He recently taught in the just before the ten o'clock closing hour? State Teachers College, Chadron, Nebr. Then you no doubt recall the saltv wisdom Miss Florence Kasiske, instructor in social of the little popcorn man. studies, obtained her M.A. from the University "Been a success 'cause I made the popcorn of Illinois and taught social studies in the high good," is the philosophy of Dad Aldrich, the schools of Orangeville and Edinburg, Ill. little man who stands behind the door of the Miss Dorothy J. Welch, sixth grade super­ popcorn stand at Twenty-Third and College visor, received her B.A. and M.A. from the Streets. Sixteen years of supplying Teachers State University of Iowa. She has taught at College students with the "best popcorn in the the State University of Iowa Elementary School state" has made "Dad" and his popcorn stand and the Centrnl Washington College of a traditional part of Teachers College life. Education, Ellensburg, Wash. Born 87 years ago in Wisconsin, he moved to Iowa to become a farmer. Unfortunate circumstances caused him to abandon his farm Miss Rena Matson, *director of Lawther Hall, and invest in a popcorn stand. received her AB. at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Students quickly learned where they could Ohio, and her M.A. at Columbia University. get good popcorn. With the coming of the She was formerly secretary to the provost at WAYES Dad's business was stepped up to Teachers College, Columbia Un\versity. double production; but in the second week of Mrs. G. A Rhodes, director of Seerley Hall, school this year business was "the best it has attended Iowa State Teachers College. She ever been," boasted Dad. "And it promises to has taught at Oelwein, Iowa, and Bisbee, Ariz. continue," he exclaimed. In anticipation of the post-war rush in business Dad has bought a whole ton of popcorn, shelled, fanned, cleaned, Miss Humiston Goes to Arkansas and ready for the popper. Miss Dorothy Humiston, who was assistant Dad has received many letters from former professor of physical education for women at students addressed merely to Dad's Popcorn the Iowa State Teachers College since 1924, Stand, Twenty-Third and College. "They resigned in August to become director of resi­ always get to me, too," he says, but adds with dence halls for women at the University of a twinkle, "Why not? I've been here for a Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. long time!"

Page Ten THE ALUMNU S October Faculty on Leave Return Three faculty members who have been on leave of absence returned to their positions at Teachers College this fall. They are Dr. H . Willard Reninger, head of the department of English; Harold C. Trimble, assistant professor of mathematics; and John Bliese, instructor in teaching. Dr. Reninger, lieutenant, United States Navy, has been on leave of absence since April, 1943, as commanding officer of the • Dr. Alexand er C . Roberts o t h is Desk Navy V-12 unit at Park College, Parkville, Mo. He assumed inactive duty status when the V-12 unit at Park College closed, August 5. of Iowa Mr. Trimble, who left Teachers College in Dr. Alexander C. Roberts, graduate his posi­ July, 1944, traveled extensively in his work of State Teachers College, retired from State setting up studies to get evaluation of new tion as president of the San Francisco . war weapons and techniques. He was connected Teachers College in July of this year with the 20th Air Force during the fall of Dr. Roberts, popularly known during studen~ 1944, but later transferred to the 11th Air days as "Eck," received the B.Di. diploma Force and was sent to the Aleutians for four from T eachers College in 1901, tl,e B.A. months early in 1945 . He returned to Teachers degree from the University of Wisconsin in College this June to teach during the summer 1906, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from session only to be called back by the Navy a the University of Washington m 1917 and week later. He returned to Cedar Falls again 1922 respectively. in September. Prior to his appointment as university Dr. Roberts served as superintendent Mr. Bliese has returned after an absence of president, Marathon, Cresco, and Fairfield, Iowa, three years. After special training at Chanute of the principal of the Everett, Washington, Field, Ill., in 1942, he taught aviation electricity schools; school; and director of the extension at the Lincoln Army Air Base, Neb. Later he high service at the University of Washington transferred to the University of Nebraska where he taught elementary .physics to air cadets. Before returning to Teachers College he worked on the atomic bomb project at Oak Dr. Max Durfee Returns Ridge, Tenn. Dr. Max L. Durfee, former health director at Iowa State Teachers College, who served during the summer as health director at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Teachers Former Department Head Dies College in September. Dr. George A. Underwood, head of the Dr. Durfee had resigned to accept a position department of romance languages at Teachers at the University of Oklahoma, but later was College from 1918 to 1924, died November re-employed at Teachers College. He came to 24, 1944, at the age of sixty-two. Since 1924 Cedar Falls as health director at the college in he had been professor of French at the Womens 1939 after four years of general practice in College of the University of North Carolina, Michigan and later service as medical adviser Chapel Hill. at the Uniwrsity of Michigan.

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A 4,000 Mile Cheer for Dear T.C. "Registrars" Even in Fighter Command Dijon, France . . . I have fallen off quite a Iwo Jima ... We've started a school here bit in my correspondence with good old T.C., in the Fighter Command and there were more but today I received The Alumnus for July and enrollments than we had anticipated. I was have been reading it over and over. acting in the capacity of registrar and the I am in the Army of Occupation, but at office was filled with prospective students from the present time am attending the University early morning to late night. Now that the all­ of Dijon, studying French Language and important enrollments are over, I can sit back Civilization under the Army education program. and relax .... My regular station is near Stuttgart, Germany. It was like a page out of T. C. when I ran Leafing through the pages of The Alumnus into Barney Llewellan and Frank Panasci out really brought a lump to my throat as I here. Incidentally, Panasci is no longer on the thought how the school must look this fall; "rock" with us. He was a navigator on a B-29 that cool, colorful football weather, and many and at first he was flying regular missions over other pleasant memories. the Jap homeland. Then they decided that All over my room back in Der Fatherland our fighters needed navigation to take them are pictures of the campus taken from past from here to Japan. Frank's crew wa s chosen issues of The Alumnus. as one of the ships to fly the navigations mis­ As for the task of occupying Germany, it is sions. rather distasteful, but probably necessary. The I just received a letter from Dick Holsteen country itself is undoubtedly the prettiest in from Okinawa. Dick and I were together in Europe, along with Switzerland. the Gilbert Islands and we came back to Oahu I hope that by next fall I shall be cheering together. My outfit came to Iwo while he was T.C. on at a football game, instead of "sweat­ still on Oahu. Later, his organization went ing out" the occupation 4,000 miles away.­ to Oki and on the way down, Dick was on the Donald Hackett, '40-'43. same boat on which Bill Close was the naval

Page Twelve THE ALUMNUS October ~ nn,ry office<. Dick also tel~ m, eh>t h, This Fellow Knows What War Is w~s up to T. C. at the beginning of the Brigham City, Utah (Bushnell General year .... He said something in his last letter Hospital) ... Just to show you I am still alive about going back to T. C. I believe that there and getting along very well I am enclosing a will be a great many former T. C.ers commg picture taken a couple of weeks ago. back to the old homestead. . . . The last three weeks have been full of Give my very best regards to all the in­ happenings. Over Labor Day week-end we structors in the P.E. department. Say "hello" drove to Yellowstone and really en joyed ;eeing to anyone else who might be around from old everything. Then about two and one-half weeks times.-Capt. Michael Goodman, B.A. '41. ago I was listed for surgery and on September 10 I had the final operation. I still am a bed * patient but will be up and around in a few "Alum" Teaches Art in Chinatown days. Chicago, Ill . ... I have just returned from From now on I can count my days in the California after spending the summer and Army. I should be ready for my furlough by found the ever-welcome Alumnus waiting for November 1, and soon after be ready for my me. I will be on the Fine Arts faculty of discharge. We plan on going to school again Scholastic High School in Chicago this year ... as I get a good deal for rehabilitation training. After teaching fine arts all summer to How are prospects for Teachers College Chinese children in San Francisco's Chinatown, this fall? I certainly wish I could get there I am now attacking a full high school schedule. for a football game or two this_ fall. I believe If the powers-to-be are willing, I also hope to fall is about the nicest time of the yea r. complete my Master's Degree studies at North­ As I lie here thinking, I naturally recall western this year. Those tasks, plus Saturday all pleasant experiences we had, but still I at Great Lakes Naval Hospital working in can't help thinking that there is a lot of good physio-therapy with the boys back from the things in store for us. I have lots to look battle areas, keep my mind occupied. forward to and am rather excited about enter­ Thank you for our magazine. It is practically ing college again.-Roland Wick, B.A. '42. my only contact with Teachers College and Editor's Note: Roland "Bud" Wick, one­ helps make me feel that I still "belong."­ time editor of the Old Gold, was seriously Marie Tully, B.A. '29. wounded in the "Battle of the Bulge." * * Let's Get Back to Insurance-for Peace Holy Ground Sure Looked "Hole-ly" San Francisco, Cal. ... I thought you might Enroute to Leyte . . . It is now ten minutes like to have a souvenir copy of Navy News. after midnight, the time for all good law-abid­ Of course, we're all happy about the great ing citizens to be comfortably tucked under the news. I haven't enough points to be released sheets. We're c1t1zens, we're law-abiding, now, so I presume I'll be here for awhile. but somehow in the navy, come war or I'm personnel officer at this unit. My work peace, the midwatch seems to come to that very is interesting, but getting into office work again annoying frequency. creates a real desire to get back to the insurance Now with the censorship of personal mail business. lifted, a person feels that he can write again. Some units here are preparing to move into And some of our enlisted men told me that Japan. As our camp has been used for re­ for the first time since the war started, they habilitation, we feel certain some change will could write love letters again. come soon for us.-Lt. Bob Brown, B.A. '34. ( Please turn to page 18)

1945 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Thirteen ( Jennings Gets New Position Philip C. Jennings, who has been assistant ~etUJtuvu e~ o1 tk ~~ business manager at the college since Novem­ Dial 1540 ==~-1~ ber, 1942, was appointed as business manager July 1, 1945. He fills the I position left by Mr. Ben­ jamin Boardman, now em­ eritus. Mr. Jennings came to Teachers College follow­ ing seven years of service as auditor at the Iowa Ph ilip Jenn ings State College, Ames. He is a former student of Teachers College, having attended school here from 1926 to 1928. H e is a graduate of Iowa State College with the bachelor of science degree in general engineer­ • A Schoolroom Audience ing and the master of science degree in indus­ trial economics. He received the B.S. degree in "-: EVERAL new programs have been added to March, 1932, and the M.S. degree i n June. I.J> the "Iowa State Teachers College of the 1935. He held a graduate teaching assistant­ Air" schedule for this year. ship in the department of economics at Ames At 4 o'clock on the first Monday of the in 1934-35. month the program, "Echoes of Congress," Mr. Jennings is married and has two chil­ dramatizes some of the significant debates in dren, Philip, Jr., age 7, and Natalie Jean, 2. Congress. Every Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock "The Inquiring Parent" is heard. A portable recording outfit is taken to the Campus School Lynch Appointed Director of School playground and the supervisors are interviewed John Lynch, graduate of Iowa Stat

Page Fourteen TI-IE ALUMNUS October A-B Erwin R. Goff, B.A. '34, Pfc., Army, overseas. JoHn Abramowitz, B.A. '41, Lt., Medical Ad- Michael Goodman, B.A. '41 , Capt., Army Air 11ini stration Corps, Army A ir Forces, E urope. Forces, Pacific area. Victor Argotsinger, '39-'43, T / Sgt., Infantry, Harland Han on, B.A. '3 1, Lt., avy, Pacific Pacific area. area. ick W. Avelchas, '40-'42, T / Sgt., Army Medi­ Ralph G. Hoxie, B.A. '40, Capt., Army Air cal Corps, Europe. Force , E lmendorf Field, Alaska. oel R. Bacon, B.S,. '38, Lieutenant Com­ Harlan W . Huyck, B.S., '30, Storekeeper F irst mander, Navy operations officer, Pacific area. Clas , avy, Pacific a rea. Clarence E. Bain, B.S. '34, Lt., Navy, overseas. J-K Richard Banfield, '41-'42, Capt., Army, St. ophu C. Jacobsen, B.A. '17, Lt. Col. , Army, Joseph, Mo. Charles D . Bennett, B.A. '43, Lt., Army, ve r­ Camp Livin g ton, La. Frank J ohn on, B.A. '22, Major, Army, Santa seas. Lloyd E. Bevans, B.A. '36, Army, Riverside, Fe, 1. Orvill e F. Kahler, I '38, L t. (jg), Navy, Cal. John A. Brenton, B.A. '42, Sgt., Army, oversea . Great Lakes, Ill. Robert R. Buckmaster, B.A., '33, Lt., Marine \,Va lter W. Knapp, B.A., '39, Lt., Army Com­ munication officer, Pacific area. Air Corps, Cherry Point, N. C. C L-M Jack Carey, '42-'43, Pfc., Army, overseas. John W. Lee, '35-'38, Capt., Assistant Adjutant, W right Carl on, '42, Sgt., Army, E urope. Chin ese Combat F ield Headquarters, South John F. Charles, B.A. '40, Lt., Navy, Kingsville, Centra l, hina. Tex. V ictor I·. Lunn, B.A. '30, Army, Sprin O' field, W illiam Clo e, B.A. '41 , Lt. (jg) , C ast Guard, Mo. Pacific area. Howard T. Marquardt, B.A. '40, Cpl., Army, Edward L. Corton, Jr., '33-'36, / Sgt., Army over eas. Air Forces, E urope. Charles Me er chmitt, B.A., '41, S o- t., Army, H iram F. Cromer, B.S. '29, Lt. (jg) , avy, Mitchell F i Id , 1 . Y. Pacific a rea. Roger E. Miller, B .. '41, So- t., Army, French Duane C. Cumpston, '42-'43, Lt., Army Air Morocco, North Africa. Forces, Europe. 0 D-F Ralph O 'Brien, '43-'44, Pvt., Army A ir Forces, Arthur Dickinson, '43, Seaman F irst Class, al in a, Kan. Navy, Pacifi c area. William D. O'Connor, '38-'43, Pvt., Army, Ca rl W. Dre selhau , '40-'43, S/ gt., Army Air Taft, Cal. Forces, Albuquerque, 1. Arthur P . Olsen, B.S. '33, Lt. (jg), 1 avy, Richard E. E lwood, B.A. '42, L t. (jg), avy, over ea . Banana River, Fla. p Robert R. Ferris, '40-'43 , First Lieutenant, C. A. Paul on, B.A. '3 1, Lt. (jg), Navy, over­ Army Air Forces, Fort Worth, Tex. Thomas P. Fisher, '38-'40, Army Air Forces, seas. Dona ld E. Philli p , '41-'43, ~gt., Army radio Philippines. technician, Pacific area. Donald E. F li eder, '42-'43, Ens., Navy, Jack on­ A. Rupert Pipho, '42-'43, Musician Third Class, vill e, Fla. Carl Formanack, '29-'30, Capt., Army, E urope. avy, Port mouth, N. H . Milton P ixler, B.A. '43, Ens., Navy, Pacific G-H area. J . Wayne Gnagy, '36-'37, E lectricians Mate Robert W. Porteous, B.A. '42, T / Sgt., Army, S-econd Class, Navy, over eas. overseas.

1945 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Fifteen R-S James Reese, '40, Pfc., Army Air Forces, over­ seas. Wayne R. Roth, '42-'43, First Lieutenant, Army Air Forces, Pacific area. Bert L. Shepard, B.A. '40, First Lieutenant, T / Sgt. Walter W. Johnson, B.A. '38, re­ Arm y Air Forces, Hunter Field, Ga. ceived the Purple Heart for wounds receive in Stanle,r H. Simonsen, B.A. '40, Army, Ft. Dix, the kg from a Jap hand grenade on Le, te, N. J. Robert E. Simpso n, '38-'41, T/ Sgt .. Army, November 28, 1944. He has a daughter, Jen- overseas. alie Elizabeth, whom he has never seen. / T-V Charles F. Todd, B.A. '42, Sgt., A rm y, Orl ando, * I Fla. Harland T roy, B.A. '41, Fi rst Lieutenant, First Lieutenant Dayton Mak, '35-'37, was Marines, Pacific area. awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for John P. Ullrich, B.A., '41 Pfc., Army, overseas. activities in the Italian theater of war with the Russell A. Ve rploegh, B.S. '37, First Lieutenant, 34th division. Lt. Mak served over3eas 29 Army, overseas. w months, and is now stationed at Ft. Bliss, Tex. Before entering service, he was employed as Clyde Ware, B.A. '40, Ens. , avy, overseas. Wayne M . Wilbur, B.A., '43, Pfc., Army, assistant traveling auditor for the Illinois Cen­ Europe. tral Railroad in Waterloo. Ivan C. Wi ll iam s, B.S. '31, Chief Storekeeper, Nava l Air Stati on, Oakland, C al. * Tech. Fifth grade Don McPherson, Student Professor Hersey Dies '41-'43, was awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action on Luzon when he exposed Professor S. F. Hersey, member of the science himself to enemy fire to rescue two wounded department at Teachers College from 18.99 Americans who were pinned down by enemy until 1935 when he became emeritus, died fire. He also wears the Purple Heart, Medical September 27 at Cheyenne, Combat badge, Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon Wyo., where he had gone with one campaign star, Philippine Liberation this summer to make his ribbon with one campaign star and the Good home with his daughter. Conduct ribbon. He received the bache­ lor of philosophy degree at Beloit College, Beloit, 131 Are Graduated August 23 Wis., in 1892; studied at F. Hersey Washington University, Degrees and diplomas were awarded to 131 St. Louis, Mo.; Harvard University; and the students at the Iowa State Teachers College University of Wisconsin. Before coming to annual summer commencement exercises Thurs­ Teachers College as professor of physics and day, August 23, in the college auditorium. chemistry, he served as superintendent of schools Forrest W. Seymour, associate editor of the at Epworth, Farley, and Earlville, Iowa. He Des Moines Register and Tribune, delivered also taught in Washington University for three the commencement address, "An End to Grop­ years. ing Blindly." President Malcolm Price con­ Surviving are a da~ghter Frances, Cheyenne; ferred the degrees and diplomas. three sons, Samuel, Chicago; Dr. Nelson, Of the graduates, 54 received the bachelor Navy; and Louis, Des Moines. Mrs. Hersey of arts degree; 16 the kindergarten-primary died in 1944. ( Pleose turn to poge 18)

Page Sixteen THE ALUMNUS October A-B tional worker, Ashburn general -hospital, is Luella Addy, B.A. '41, American Red McKinney, Tenn. \ Cross staff assistant, Pacific area. Bertha L. Mead, '27-'29, Lt., Army Nurses D rothy Jean A nderson, Kg.-Pri. '41, American Corps, Springfield, Mo. Red Cross staff assistant, Europe. J ean E. Melin, '24-'27, Major, WAC, West II a Mae Austin, Rural '43, Pvt., WAC. Lafayette, Ind. Adah W. Bauerle, Student '34, American Red Alta Lucill e Merkley, Kg.-Pri. '40, Storekeeper Cross secretary, India. First Class, WAVES, Pacific area. Beatrice Bourquin, B.A. '43, Seaman First F lorence C. Mesha, '32-'34, American Red Class, WAVES, Bremerton, Wash. Cross account clerk, Hawaii. Marjorie L. Brunsvold, Com'l. '30, Aviation Catherine M. Miller, B.A. '41, L t., WAC, Machinist Mate Second Class, WAVES, Camp Breckinridge, Ky. Corpus Christi, T ex. 0 C Ramona Olsen, '40-'41, Army Nurses Corps, Mrs. Mary Jean Cassaday (Crowell ), B.A. '39, Fort Riley, Kan. American Red Cross staff assistant, overseas. E leanor B. O lson, E l. '36, Specialist (Gunnery) Mary Katherine Clo son, B.A. '39, Lt., Army First Class, WA \TES, Corpus Christi, Tex. urses Corp , overseas. Zoe Cleveland, B.A. '37, Pharmacist Mate P-R Mary Lucill e Padovan, B.A. '36, Lt. (jg ), Seconc\ Cla ss, WAVES, New York, N. Y. WAVES, Seattle, Wash. F-G Lucille L. Patterson, B.A. '39, Ens., WAVES, Hazel Fenimore, Student, '40-'43, Pfc., Marines, Washington, D. C. Camp Lejeune, N. C. Mrs. C. W. Rodgers (Mildred Jacobsen), B.A. Geneva H. Fober, B.A. '24, First Lieutenant, '25, Lt. (j o- ) , avy, San D iego, Cal. WAC, overseas. s Viola M. Grell , P ri . '39, Sgt., WAC, Bolling Margaret Schmidt, B.A. '38, Cpl., WAC, Camp Field, D. C. Carson, Colo. H Ruth E laine Scott, El. '38, Ens., WAVES, San Jeannette Dorothy Halverson, El. '40, Lt. (jg), Francisco, Cal. WAVES, Chevy Chase, Md. Flora Thane Shaw, B.A. '33, Yeoman Second Kathleen Hea, '39-'40, Yeoman Second Class, Class, WAVES, overseas. WAVES, Chicago, Ill. Gracia L. Smith, B.A. '41, American Red Cross Katherine Powers Hiatt, Kg.-Pri. '43, Pvt., staff assistant, European Theater of Opera­ WAC, Camp Crowder, Mo. tions. Jeanette Hiersche, El. '39, Red Cross staff Margaret Stephenson, '38-'40, Lieutenant Com­ assistant, Europe. mander, Coast Guard, Manhattan, R. I. Phoebe M. Hilmer, El. '39, Sgt., WAC, South Mary Jeanette Stevens, B.A. '43, Sgt., Marines. Camp Hood, Tex. Morehead City, N. C. Miriam Hol t, B.A. '39, S/ Sgt., WAC, Aber­ Laura Jane Stuntz, S,tudent '42-'43, Aviation deen Proving Ground, Md. Machini t Mate Third Class, WA \TES, Glen­ Elaine Homan, B.A. '36, First Lieutenant, view, Ill. WAC, Homstead, Fla. T-W J-K Mabel R. Thurber, El. '30, -gt., WAC, over­ Marvel J. Jones, B.A. '44, Apprentice Seaman, sea . WAVES, New York, New York. Ureela B. Wald, '38-'39, American Red Cro s Helen Gertrude Kemis, B.A. '37, First Lieu­ staff as istant, India. tenant, Marines, Santa Ana, Cal. Evelyn E. Wall er, El. '33, Sgt. , WAC, overseas. Ellen G. Kopplin, '36-'44, American Red Cross H elen Marie W egner, B.S., '33, Lt. (jg), assistant prog ram director, Pacific area. W AVES, W a hington, D. C. M Dorothy A. W epler, Kg.-Pri. '38, American Red Yvonne McGrane, B.A. '42, Red Cross recrea- Cross ta ff assi tant, India.

1945 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Seventeen LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ( Continued from page 1 3) THE ROLL OF HONOR

For the censor, like myself, well, we'll be First Lieutenant Perry Benfer, Student '3 , able to look an outgoing letter once more was kill,d in .ction ••: Au,ttia, Ap,il 8. l in the face. Besides, it will save us loads of work and time. Lt. Charles G. Cassaday, Student '37-'39, 'M s The Harris is returning from a trip from killed in action June 4, 1944. Y okohoma, where we were among the first Mrs. Cassaday (Mary Crowell), B.A. ' 9, bunch to land troops on the "Holy Land." 1s an American Red Cross staff assistant in Believe me, it was holy, too, but in a different India. sense of the word. I never did see so many holes in the buildings and ground as I did * there. Those sky boys really did a good job. Technician Fifth Grade John M. Currell, A touch of Gilbert and Sullivan comedy was Student '35-'36, was killed in action near Bas­ afforded by the policeman's plight. They're toque, Belgium, January 2. He had previous­ still allowed to keep their swords as a symbol ly been reported missing in action for several of authority, but they do little save sit on the months. street corners, while the MP's run the show. He joined the Army in April, 1943, received basic training at Camp Fannin, Tex., in the Impressive as it might have been, though, ordnance department; and left for overseas in I'd gladly chuck it all overboard in favor of June, 1944. He served in England France a dash of Iowa weather. and Belgium. ' ' There's a distinctive odor about every far Surviving are his wife and two children his eastern port we've hit, and the cool breezes of father and mother, two brothers in se rvice' and sea are a welcome relief. We did carry some one sister. of their flies and mosquitoes for awhile, but the spraying took care of that. Lt. Guy Iversen, Student* '37-'40, was lost on Aside from that everything else is going a Japanese ship which was sunk on October 24 smoothly for the present. Please pass along my 1944. Lt. Iversen died with the honor of bein~ sincerest regards to all.-Ensign Aaron Levine, the first man from Cedar Falls to enlist, the B.A. '43. first man to be wounded (December 1944) and the first man to be taken prisoner ( captured on COM MENCEMENT Bataan) and was on the historical Death (Continued from page 16) March. Lt. Iversen enlisted in the air corps July 29, 1940. He left the United States diploma; P the elementary diploma; 9 the rural June 6, 1941, for the Philippine Islands. teacher diploma; 16 the four-quarter rural certificate; and 9 the one-year rural certificate. Lt. Earl Oakley Petersen* , Student '39-'40, The baccalaureate services for the graduates was reported killed in action September 23, were held Sunday, August 19, in the college 1944. He was previously reported missing in auditorium, with Dr. Gerald E. Knoff, director action. Pilot of a plane which was forced to of the educational program of the International land, Lt. Petersen lost his life when he failed Counsel of Religious Education, Chicago, and to bail out in time. He is survived by his wife former director of religious act1v1t1es at who lives at Boone, a small son, his parents, Teachers College, as guest speaker on the sub­ and two sisters. ject, "Beyond Ideals."

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1897-1920 dres is 1020 North Bonnie Brae, Los Angeles 26, Cal. Minnie Rose Carlson, '97, retired from teach­ ng in June 1944. She formerly taught in Mrs. Rebecca Bryant (Rebecca Ruby Lude­ shton, Idaho, and Des Moines, Iowa. Her man), J.C. '18, is head of the art department iddress : 118 N. Carondelet, Los Angeles, 26, and associate professor of art at Queens C ol­ al. lege, Charlotte, N. C. I Anna R. Kuebler, B.Di. '98, is a teacher in Mrs. Alice Schuck (Robinson), Pri. '18, is a the State Juvenile Home at Toledo, Iowa. Her teacher in the city of Los Angeles nursery address is State Juvenile Home, Toledo. schools. She formerly taught kindergarten in James A. Boyle, '00, is employed in war Perry, Iowa. Her address : 800 South Norman­ industry in Seattle, Wash. His address: 9332 die, Los Angeles, Cal. US S. W., Seattle 6, Wash. Mrs. Vernon S. Flinders (Eleanor M. Mrs. George L. Thompson (Ida Harmon), Sweeney), B.A. '20, is living at Sutherland, El. '01, is on a leave of absence as mathematics Iowa. She has two children, Marilynn and teacher at Jefferson Junior high at Minneapolis, James. She recently taught mathematics in Minn. Her Waterloo address is 1021 Fletcher S.utherland high school. Ave. Mrs. S. W . Arthur (Mabel A. Christian), M.Di. '06, is living in Manitoba, Canada. She 1921 - 1925 has a daughter, Jean C .Arthur, '33-'34, who is Hazel C. principal at Swan Lake, Manitoba. Mrs. Ar­ Davis, Pri. '21, is assistant pro­ fesso thur's address is Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, r of elementary education at Teacher · Box 1028. College, University of ebraska. Mrs. Sarah B. Perkins (Barrett), Pri. '08, is Mr. and Mrs. L. R. MacNeill (Esther Belle living at 1005 Oregon St., Muscatine, Iowa. Whitaker, Pri. '23) are living a t 1910 Park Her son, L t. Paul L. was killed August 17, 1944, Ave., S. E ., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. MacNeill while serving with the 15th Army Air Force is field training instructor with Metropolitan over Ploesti, R umania. Life Insurance Co. for the state of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F . Schweiker, B.A. '09, Shirley Z. Scott, B.A. '23, is now a merchant are living in Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. at Paton, Iowa. He was formerly Superintend­ Schweiker i s proprietor of the East Side Seed ent of Schools at Paton. Store. They have two daughters, Virginia and Marie Harrison, B.A. '24, M.A. University of Marilyn, and one son, Chas. F. Jr. Their ad­ Michigan, is professor in social studies, State dress : 3616 Crocker St., Des Moines 12, Iowa. Coll ege, Johnson City, Tenn. Her address is Mr. and Mrs. H . C. Marks (Bessie Black­ 923 W. Maple Street, Johnson City, Tenn. mun), El. '15, are living at 1709 W. W ashington St., Eldora, Iowa. Mr. Marks is Hardin County Helen K. Ocker (Conroy), Pri. '24, B .A. '44, is a primary recorder. Their daughter, Mrs. Marvin Catlin teacher at Bay City, Mich. Her addres (Carol Marks), '38-'39, is living with them, s i s 512 N. Sheridan Ave., Bay City, Mich. while her husband is s erving in the infantry Helen Ara Wayne, Pri. '24, Drake University, overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Catlin have a daughter, who has taught in Des Moines, Iowa since 1925, Rebecca Jo. Mr. and Mrs. Marks also have is now teaching at Lucas school. Her address: two sons in the service. 1323 Capitol Ave., Des Moines 16, Iowa. Mrs. Geo. C. Ryan (Mildred Tahor), Pri. Oran Beaty, Manual Arts, '25; B.A. '29, '16, is a primary teacher at Monmouth, Iowa. M.A. '34, State University of Iowa, has been Her address is 316 S. Matteson Ave., Maquo­ appointed Director of Trade and Industrial keta, Iowa. She has a daughter, Georgia. Education by the State Board of Vocational Helen E. Vieths, Kg.-Pri. '16, has been Education, Topeka, Kan. For the past six years granted a year's leave of absence from her he had served as assistant state supervisor of duties as kindergarten teacher in Madison trade and industries, State Teachers College, school at Davenport, Iowa. Her present ad- Pittsburgh, Kan.

1945 IOWA ST ATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Nineteen Mrs. Thomas Chambers (June Rose Meyer), the department of speech at the University of Pri. '25, is living at 6507 17th Ave., Seattle, South Dakota, Vermilion. Wash. S-he is teaching in the Bailey Gatzert He had served as head of the public speaking School while her husband i stationed in the department at River Fall s Teachers Coll ege, District Property Transportation office 111 Wisconsin ; as dean of men and professor o Seattle. He is 'a Lt. (jg) in the Navy. speech at State Teachers Coll ege, Mayville Henry Foster, B.A. '25, has resigned his N. D.; and in the speech department at the pos1t1on as superintendent of ora Springs Univer ity of Colorado, Boulder. schools to move to Eagle Grove, where the Mrs. R. W. O'Connor (I abel Murphy), Pri. Fosters purchased the Opal Food store. Mrs. '26, is li vi ng at 2523 Montgomery St., Louisvillf , Foster (Metta Tanck), '21-'23, taught in rural 12, K y. Mr. O ' Connor is employed in Louisville. schools for three years and at ew Hartford They have a daughter, Maureen Ann. for two years. After their marriage, she taught Mrs. Oscar Thorson (Nora Knudtson), '26, at Gray, Iowa, under h er husband's superin ­ is li ving at 22733 South Main S,treet, Torrance, tendency. They have a son, Jim, 15 . Cal. Mr. Thorson, B .S. '28, is a Chief Warrant Mrs. A. K. Lewis, Pri. '25, is living at 817 A - officer in the a vy. Mariposa, Glendale 5, C al. H er husband is do­ Mrs. R. 0. Turner (Lorna F ern anders), in o- war work. They have two c hildren, Patty J. C. '26, li ves at Rodman, Iowa. She has two 14, and Sally I I. children, Mildred Joan, 6, and J o eph Edward, Mrs. M. T . Muzzey (Dorothy C. Muell er), 4. B.A. '25, is on abatical l eave. H er address: Mae Whitmer, B.S. '26, ha been erving 838 Riversid e Drive, Apt. SB , e w York, 32, sin ce January, 1944, a In tructor of Dietetics ew York. in the Vetera ns Administration Hospital, Hines, Eva A. Sherwood, B.A. '25, ha been director Ill. Thi newly created training program was of nur in g and professor of bi ological science organi zed to meet the need of providing well­ at Seattle Pacifi c Coll ege, Seattle, Wa h. , s ince trained professional per onnel fo r the rapidly 1943. P reviou l y, she was director of nursin g g rowing veteran administration hos1 itals. Miss and in structor in ' nursin g arts a t Deaconess Whitmer majored in home economics at Teach­ Hospita l, Great Fall s, Mont. er Col lege. She received the M.A. degree in zoology from Winona Williams, J. C. '26, B.A. '41, Univer­ Emory Univer ity, Atlanta, Ga., in 1933; re­ sity of Wa hin g ton, is cl ean of boys a nd high ceived training in pedi atrics a t Bellevue Hos­ school t eacher at Thomp on Falls, Mont. pital, ew York City, and nurse trainin g at T hompson Fall s hi 0 ·h school has dormitories Emory University School of N ursing. ihe for rura l a nd i olatecl pupil s from many tates, pent one year at the New Haven Ho pita! and it is located in the Rocky Mountains. affiliated with the Yale School of N ursin g, New Haven, Conn., fo ll owed by a year of post­ 1927-1928 g raduate nursing at the Unive1·sity of ·washing­ ton, eattle. Kathryn M yers, J.C. '27, ha been teaching r[i s Sherwood visited the campu in ep­ second g rade at Villi sca, Iowa. Her address: tember with her niece, Dorothy H a in of T ipton, 635 E. S_lta te St., Mason City, Iowa. Iowa, who enroll ed at Teachers Coll ege fo r the Dr. James A. Storing, B.A. '27; M.A. '31 and fir t time. She i resuming her dutie in eattle Ph. D. '38, tate U ni versity of Iowa, ha s been this fa ll, where her address i : Seattle Pacific appointed director of studies for veteran at College, 3307 Third Ave. West, Seattle, 99, Co!o·a te U ni versity, Hamilton, N . Y. He has Wash. a lso been promoted t o an a sociate professor- Mrs. L. B. Wilhelm (Ruth Beck), J.C. '25, hip in I oli tical science. B.A. '34, State Univer ity of Iowa, i li vi ng at Dr. Storing will direct a ll educational work 1422 W. Rosemont, Chicago, Ill. for returning servicemen, including assistance Mrs. Don Driskill (Amelia E. Chri ten), in the c hoo in g of courses of tudy, supervision P ri. '26, is li vin g a t 1525 E . 6th St., Fremont, of tes"tin o- programs, and as ignment of veterans Neb. H er husband is maintenance welder at to faculty advisers. ebraska O rdinance P lant at Meade, Neb. Before joinin g the Colgate staff in 1938, D r. Elbert W . Harrington, B.A. '26; M.A. '30 Storing was prin cipal of the high school at and Ph.D. '38, State U niversity of Iowa, was Lo t Nation, Iowa, superintendent of the E l­ recently appointed to the position of head of wood, Iowa, high school, and social science

Page Twenty THE ALUMNUS October tf acher and supervisor of the Iowa .City public Ora L. Cramer, El. '30, B.S. '41 , Iowa State schools. College, is a high school teacher at Moorland, William D. Glasgow, B.A. '28, M.S. '30, Iowa Iowa. Before teaching at Moorland, s he taught Srt:ate Coll ege, Ames, has been Principal of at Packwood, Iowa. She also did some Social Ca/amus Consolidated school. His home ad­ Service work at Sioux City, as supervisor in dress is Mechanicsville, Iowa. a home for delinquent and dependent children. Vera Kellogg, B.A. '28, M.A. '42 Michigan Helen C. Curtis, B.A. '30; M.A., Teachers University, is teaching speech at La Porte, Coll ege, Columbia University, assumed the po­ Ind. She was formerly speech and English sition of D ean of Women a t Massachusetts in tructor at East Waterloo. Her address: State Coll ege for Women, Amherst, Mass., 1603 Richard, La Porte, Ind. beginning September 1. Mrs. Kenneth L. Santee (Mildred Trickey), Miss Curtis had previou ly served fo r three P ri. '28, is living in Cali fornia, while her hus­ years on the personnel staff of ew Jersey ba nd is employed in war work. T heir address College for Women, Rutgers University, New is 3680-14th St. , Riverside, Cal. Brunswick, . J. S.he is the daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Curtis, 1715 Tremont, Cedar 1929-1931 Fall s. Keith L. Benner, B.A. '29, is a scout execu­ Mrs. Charles E . Elmquist (Mary Sheets), tive in professional scouting. Prior to his B.A. '30, is li vin g at 302-4th Ave., S. E., present po ition, Mr. Benner was Supervising Hampton, Iowa. Until recently, Mr. E lmquist P 1·in cip al in the Davenport Public Schools. taug ht at Vail, Iowa. His address : 1440 Wildwood Drive, Cedar Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Hawley (Delia .M. Rapid , Iowa. H elfter, Pri. '30) are living in M uskegori, Willard E . Davenport, B.A. '29, is in charge Mich., where Mr. Hawley is a Government of F ield Re earch in the Institute of Transit Auditor fo r R econstruction Finance Corpora­ Advertisin g in Chicago. His address is 5527 tion. They have two daughters, Caroldee, 9, and North Campbell Ave., Chicago 25, Ill. Maralee, 7. Their address: 11 88 ummit Ave., Mr. and Mrs. H. Dayle Frame, B.S. '29, are Muskegon, ,C ich. li vin at 205 <::o uisa Street, Seattle, Wash. Mr. Vera Leonard, Pri. '30, i employed in office Frame formerly taug ht at Aimsworth, Letts, work in Dayton, Ohio. H er addl'ess is 230 Vail , Brandon, and Iowa City, Iowa. He is Riverbend Drive, Dayton, Ohio. now with the A ll state ·Ins. Co., in C: iea ttle, Everett Ludley, B.A. '30, i workin g with the Wash. W estmoreland S,terling Silver Company, 221 Mrs. Everett Hoover (Maude Fey), Pri. '29, North LaS.alle t., Chicago I , Ill. D u1·in the is li vin o- near cranton, Iowa. earl y part of the war h e worked in the metal Harold Hopkins , B.S. '29, is living at Ana­ producing plant of the Alu minum Company of heim, Cal. H e is head of the Physical Educa­ America at Badin, I _ C., and later in the pro­ tion Departme nt a nd coaches football in the duction and pla nning department at ew public school there. Kensington, Pa. Alice M. Reynolds, El. '29, is a Junior Social E. J. Petersen, B.A. '30, is district manager \Ve lfa re Worker. H er address is Primghar, Iowa. of the J ames M. P ierce Corp. of Des Moin es. He is living a t 223 North 13th St., Fort Dodge, H enry L. Schwartz, B.A. '29, M.A. '32, Iowa Iowa. tate University, is li ving at Boone, Iowa. He is a dealer in farm seeds and pop corn specialist. Mrs. D. J. Querio, Jr. (Colene Whitte), E l. H e wa formerly s uperintendent of schools. '30, is employed a a secretary by the Army_Air Mrs. Elrick Vangsness (Lillian M. Lee), Forces. Her addres : 1133 E . 55th, Chicago R ural '29, is living at Decorah, Iowa. 15, Ill. Dorothy M. Wilson, B.A. '29, is living at Mrs. Greta Worth (Bowers), B.S. '30, has 617 Dakota Ave., Midford, Ore. She is teaching resigned as home economic teacher in the Spanish and Latin. S.he formerly taug ht at Zearing, Iowa, hig h school, to accept the post J erome, Idaho. Durin g the summers she has of Marshall county extension home economist. bee n employed at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, Basil M. Finch, B.A. '31, is Supervisor of Wash. Civilian Training and Employee Relations Mrs. Gale C. Anderson (Gertrude B. Young), Counsell or, at Schick General Ho pita! at Clin­ El. '30, is living at Laurens, Iowa, while her ton, Iowa. Hi address: 1306 Woodlawn h,u_sband is serving overseas. Avenue, Clinton, Iowa.

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Ruth Graper, B.A. '31, is e111pl oyed by the Theological Seminary. Mr. and Mrs. O lson and Vance Music company, Mason City, Iowa. She two sons live at 11 6 E . Washington St., Wel t had been an in structor of music in the O sage Chicago. schools for 14 years. Mrs. Emmett Potter (Arla Holden), Com'! her Frances C. King, Pri. '31 , is e mployed in the '32, is liv ing in Iowa City, Iowa, where fo rce. / Federal Reserve Bank, Omaha, eb. Her ad­ husband is a member of the police Holden), dress: 308 Oakland Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa. A sister, Mrs. L. 0 . Finch (Erma B.A. '29, lives at Box 126, Manistique, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie L. McCreedy (Ethel R. Mrs. W. H. S'chultz (Stella M . Hadley) B.A. Alexander), B.S. '31 and '26, respecti ve ly, are '32, is living at Rinard, Iowa, where she ha s living at 415 Vermont St., Waterloo. M r. Mc­ been teaching in the Rinard high school. Mr. Creedy is a building contractor. Mr. a nd Mrs. Schultz is employed by Farmer's Elevator McL,eeuy have three children. Co-op. They have one daughter, Nancy Anne. Mrs. H. Emil Nissen (Jean E . Watson), Margaret C. Barnes, B.A. '33, is Guidance Public School Music '31, is li ving a t Reinbeck, Director and Girls' Counselor, in Oak Ridge, Iowa. She has two c hildren, ancy 6, and Bill Tenn. 4. Mrs. Robert E. Bowman (Gayle Lois Ris­ Marjorie Paulus, El. '3 1, B.A. '36, University trim), B.A. '33, and B.S. in Library Science, o f I owa, a nd M.A. '38, New York University, University of Denver, Colo., '41-'42, is Senior is teaching in Ketchikan, Alaska. H er a ddre s Assistant in the reference department in the is Box 1332, K etchikan, Alaska. De nver Public Library. . Lah­ Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert W . Winter (Glady Mrs. Ernest M. Hamilton (Mary M Eighth Ave., Meir), Rural '31, are living o n a farm near mon), B.A. '33, is li vi ng at 901 teaching in Hubbard, Iowa. Mr. Winter is a farmer and Belle Plaine, Iowa. She has been her husband storekeeper. They have two c hildren, Richard the fifth grade at Belle P laine s ince S,he formerly Don, 7, and Connie Jean, 3. is serving in the armed forces. taught at Ruthven and Marengo, Iowa. Mn. T ed Vangsness (Olga Lee), Rural '33, 1932-1934 is living at Decorah, Iowa. Mrs. J. B. Agler ( Audrey Lucill e Morris), Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Boyd (Della M . '32, is living near Mason City, Iowa. She has Smith), E l. '34, are living in Waterloo, where three children, Sharon Lee 8, Jay Morris 6, Mr. Boyd is employed at Booden's Soy Bean and a ra Lynn 4. Processing Company. T hey have three children, Mrs. Russell L. Bowers ( Lillian G. Garra­ Marilyn, 5, David, 3, and Janet, 2. Their ad­ brant) B.A. '32, has been teaching music and dress: 1608 Burton Ave., Waterloo, Iowa. English at New Hartford, Iowa. Her add1·ess: Mrs. Edgar P. Swanson (lrene E. Warner) , 928 W . 9th t., Waterloo, Iowa. B.S. '34, is living a t Northwood, Iowa. Mrs. Swanson was formerly office manager at Iowa Mrs. Ecvin Koke ( Ruth Noren), Consolidated State College. Her husband is stationed 111 ·32, is now living at 1413 East Ovid, Des Chicago, Ill. They have a daughter, Lynn. Moines I 6, Iowa. Mr. Koke is a tool in spector. They have two children, Herbert Ervin and Lee Noren. Mrs. Koke taught in rura l schools of 1 9 3 5 Marshall county. Ida Mae Anderson, Pri. '35, is living at 212 Leonard 0 . Olsen, B.A. '32 ; P h.D. '37, ~-tate S. Williaman Drive, Beverley Hills, Cal. She Uni-..- ersity of Iowa, was promoted to associate has been teaching first grade at Santa Monica, professor of physics at Case School of Appli ed Cal. Science, Cleveland, Ohio. During the war he Mrs. R. W. Barlow (Jerene Frances Dunn), was engaged in government-sponsored war re­ El. '35, is doing office work as a clerk and search and taug ht V-12 students in engineering. typist at the Richmond ASF Depot, Richmond, Mrs. Olsen is the former Margaret Watson, Va. Mrs. Barlow was formerly sixth grade daughter of Professor E. E. Watson of Teach­ teacher at Dumont, Iowa. ers College. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen live at 2548 Vern E. Miller, B.S. '35, is living at Burn­ Eaton Road, University H eig hts, O hi o. side, Iowa. Mr. Miller is superintendent of Emerald Olson, B.A. '32, was ordained in the schools at Burnside. First Congregational Church, West Chicago, Roy V. McLain, B.S, '35, has accepted a Ill ., June 20, after graduating from the Chicago position as head of the enginee ring department

Page Twenty- two TI-IE ALUMNUS of t he I nnes Company, Bettendorf, Iowa. (Richie Church) , B.A. '37. Mrs. P rescott's H e was fo rmerly supervisor of drafting in husband is a Navy Lieutenant, w ho has- been the engineering department of the American in the Pacific area in cha rge of the publi c work~ Machine & Metals Co., and was employed in program in that area. tool a nd design work by the Reynolds Engin­ Mrs. Charles W. Poppenheimer (Helen L. eeri ng Co., and International Harvester Co. Marshall) , B.A. '37, is living at 211 S. 12th St., Alwin T. Stewart, B.A. '35, is again teaching, Sac City, Iowa. She has been teaching in the after being discharged from the army. He is Sac City schools. Lt. (jg) C. W .- Poppenheimer hi g h chool principal at Eldon, Iowa. He for­ B.A. '38, U.S.N.R., is servi'ng · in the Pacific merly taught a t Centerville, Iowa. area. .1 Mrs. Robert B. Young (Katherine A. Kes­ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rothlisberger (Barbara ney), Fri. '35, is at present with her husband Brooks), E l. '37, are li vi ng in Bartlesville, Okla. who is a glider pilot instructor at Laurinburg, Mr. Rothlisberger is a research chemist in Maxton Army Air Base. Her home address is P hillips Petroleum Co. T hey have a son, Wa hington, Iowa. Charles J ames, and a daug hter, Ca rla Ruth. Their address: I 549 S. J ennings, Bartlesville, Jean W . Currens, B.A. '36, a science and O kla. language teacher at Jackson school at Cedar Bernard Arthur Schmidt, B.S. '37, has re­ Rapids, Iowa, was appointed principal of Lin­ ceived a medical discharge from the Army and coln school. Before coming to Cedar Rapids, is athletic director in Washington school, she taug ht for three years at Grand Mound, at Clinton, Iowa. His address: Wartburg Apts., Iowa. o. 49, Cli nton, Iowa. Jean Sloan, B. A. '37, has been appointed 1936-1938 Dean of Women at Christian Coll ege, Columbia, Cpl. Duane E. Hoephren, Student '35-'36, Mo. S,he had been instructor in Engli sh in is stationed at a prisoner of war camp in East High School, Waterloo in ce 1942. Coolidge, Ariz. He is working in the publica­ Hadwyn L. Zoller, B.S. '37, is living at 354 tion section of the post, which publishes a orth McLean St., Ottumwa, Iowa. He is a mimeographed camp paper each week. partner in the Park Chemical Co. Irene Casey, E l. '38, will continue as junior Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Olson (Nadine Bel­ hig h principal and teacher at Belmond, Iowa. ding), B.A. '36 and F ri. '35, respective.ly, are Miss Casey came to Belmond from Hampton, living at Meadeville, Pa. Mr. Olson is employed Iowa. as Chief Inspector of Keystone Ordinance Mrs. Clara Speers Millard, B.A. '38, is teach­ works. ing in the public schools at ome, Alaska. She Mrs. Robert Sandberg (Helen Putnam), E l. had previously taug ht in rural schools in Hardin '36, is living at Gowrie, Iowa. Mrs. Sandberg and F ranklin counties in Iowa. L ivi ng with her formerly taught at Randall, Iowa. is her son, DougJas, 13. Reta Thomas, E l. '36, B.A. '. 43, 'Colorado State LaVonne Sherburne, B.A. '38, is teaching in Coll ege of Education, Greeley, Colo., has been Frankli n Jr. hig h at Vall ejo, Cal. H er add ress: teaching in Lafayette, Colo. She was library 1227 Georgia St., Vall ejo, Cal. assistant in the Navy Supply Base, Oakland, Cal., during the summer of 1944. H er address Mrs. Orrin Stephen (Helen B. Harding), i 501 Cannon, Lafayette, Colo. B.S. '38, has been teaching commercial at Alberta H. Tigges, B.A. '36, is a secretary Waverly, Iowa. Mr. Stephen, B.A. '38, was in the office of the Y.W.C.A. in Chicago, Ill. vocational agriculture instructor at Inde­ She formerly taught commercial at Fort Dodge, pendence, Iowa, before he enlisted in 1942. Iowa. Her address is 101 South Ashland, Rev. and Mrs. D. D. Thorgerson (Ruth Mat­ Chicago, Ill. son, Kg.-P ri. '38), who have been living in E. Virginia Landsberg, B.A. '37, is living at Cushing, W is., are moving to Rt. 6, Portland, 1629 Central Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. She Maine. They have two children, Dorothy, 6, is attending Midland Radio School, preparing and David, 2. to be a reservationist with the airlines. Mrs. Margaret Wittrig (Margaret I hrig), Mrs. Roy B. Minnis (Jean Reynolds), B.A. K g.-Pri. '38, is living at 496 Greer St. , Memphis, '37, is living in San Francisco, while her hus­ Tenn. S.he has been teaching a nursery school band, Roy Minnis, B. A. '38, is serving in the in Memphis. H er husband, Cpl Ray Wittrig, avy overseas. She is living in the same B.A. '40, is stationed in the Fourth Ferrying apartment building as Mrs. Russel Prescott Group in Memphis.

1945 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-three Mrs. Charles E. Cooper (Ruth E. Harding), Vivian Eileen Wahl, B.A. '40, is with the B.A. '39, is teaching high school commercial at T WA Airlines as a teletype operator. S,he Rockwell City, Iowa. formerly taught at Waukon, lowa. She is living at 4132 Washington St., St. Louis 8, Mo. Mary Elizabeth Colburn, B.A. '39,. is em­ ployed as a war department clerk. Her address is D 205 Kansas Hall, Arlington Farms, Va. 1941-1942 L. Frese (Adeline L. Miller), K g. Mrs. Ted Mrs. Thomas E. Church (Joyce M. Jan­ ow living at 411 North Vine St., W est '39, is n sonius), El. '41, is living at 1125 ½ Eighth Ave., Union, Iowa. Rock Island, Ill. She was married in May, Floyd E. Johnson, B.A. '39, is at Augustana 1944 and has been teaching since then. I sland, Ill. He studying Seminary at Rock I ris Ione Cummings, K g.-Pri . ' 41 , is now for the ministry. manager of Cumming's Dry Goods store, Man­ Margaret M cElhinney, B.A. '39, is teaching son, Iowa. She formerly taug ht in the g rade freshman English and dramatics a t the M il ­ school at Webster City, Iowa. Seminary, a private g irls· waukee Downer Capt. and Mrs. Richard P . DuBois ( Ann L. ress: 2440 North Lake D rive, school. Her add Hauck), B.A. '41, are living a t Greenvill e, Milwaukee, Wis. S. C., where Capt. DuBois is an instructor on Irvan J. Rich, B.A. '39, is engaged in farming B-25 Bombers. They have a son, Gary Richard, near Well man, Iowa. His address is Route 1, who was born December 29, 1944. Wellman, Iowa. Lt. (jg) Leslie J. Fry, B.A. '4 1 Navy and two Virginia Rohde, B.A. ' 30, is assistant professor other men of the Navy have been featured in a of mathematics at Ohio -:,tate University, Co­ New Pacific War Book, "Helldiver Squadron" lumbus. he received the master of music de­ by Robert Olds, just published by Dodd, Mead gree from Eastman School of Music a nd in June and Company. received the master of arts degree at Miami Mr. and Mrs. Isadore M. Kaufman, B.A. '41 , University, Oxford, Ohio, where she served as are li vi ng at 230 East 167th St., New York City. instructor in mathematics and music. Before entering the Army, Mr. Kaufman taught Mary Margaret Schmitt, B.A. '39, received her health education at Evander Childs high chool, master's degree at the University of Minnesota New York City. H e was married in J anuary, on June 16. S.he has been teaching a t Red 1943, and received his discharge the following Wing, Minn., fo r the past two and one half December. The Kaufman's have one child, born years. in November, 1944. L. Lovik (Doris M. Hobbs), Helen Bainbridge, B.A. '40, is doing Civil Mrs. Norman '41 , is living at Creptal Lake, Iowa, and Service work with the Treasury Department. B.A. g as principal in hig h school. Her hus­ Her address : 708 Rock Creed Road . W., servin has been stationed in the Aleutians. Washington, D. C. band Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. McFate (Mildred Doris I. Frantz, Kg.-P ri. '40, is a govern­ Lucile Wendel), B.A. '41 , are living at Audubon, ment employee in the Army Signal Corps in Iowa, Rt. 2. M r. McFate is pastor, and Mrs. Washington, D. C. H er address: 1133-1 3th McFate is teaching music and English in the St., N. W., Washington, D. C. (Apt. 603.) Viola Twp. Consolidated school. Mrs. Ray Halverson (Thelma I. Moore), Mrs. John F. McNamara (Helen C. Ward), K g.-Pri. ' 40, is li vin g at 17 Noyes St., Port­ B.A. '41, is teaching fourth grade in Lincoln land, Maine. Her home address i Keswick, school in Cedar Falls. Her sister, Marie Ward, lowa. H er husband is in the Navy. he K g. -Pri. ' 40, is teaching third grade at Council formerly taught at Montezuma, Iowa. Bluffs, Iowa. Mrs. William F. Sears (Opal Clarissa Hall), Charloette L. Severson, B.A. ' 41 , is living at B.A. '40, is living at New Virg inia, Iowa. She 115 North Oneida Ave., Rhinelander, Wis. She has been employed as music supervisor, while is employed a s music s upervisor. her husband, a Lieutenant (jg) in the Navy, is Mr. and Mrs. Koert Smith (Eleanor Stiles), serving o n a destroyer in the South Pacific. Kg.-Pri. '41, are living at 523 ½ -18th Ave. Elsie Stewart, B. A. '40, was appointed in South, C linton, Iowa. Mr. Smith is employed August to the position of staff assistant at the by the Pillsbury Mills Inc., Fred Mills Division U .S.O . Club in Newport, R. I. She previously in Clinton. They have three children, Gwendo­ taught music in the schools at Ame , Iowa. lyn Marie, Koert Robert Jr., and Jane Frances.

Page Twenty-four TI-IE ALUMNUS October Mrs. Stanley Thompson (Dorothy Jean Tos­ department with the Hall icrafter Radio Co. in tlebe), B.A. '41, is living at 1365 L ucerne, Chicago. She formerly taug ht kindergarten a t Fresno, Cal. Gi lman, Iowa. H er address: 1211 E lmdale Ave., Mr. Thompson is in service in Alaska but Chicago, I ll. expects to be discharged soon and plans to Mrs. Richard Paine (Helen R. Pearson), E l. teach in the hig h school in Nome, Alaska. Mrs. '43, has been living with her husband, Pvt. Thompson will join him there a nd may a lso Richard Pain e, who is stationed at Camp Swift, teach in the Nome schools. Texas. Her addre s : Bastrop, Texas, Box 51, Ro Mrs. Paul Hassel (Clara G. D uer ), E l. '42, ute 2. is li vin g at Graettinger, Iowa. Mrs. Hassel Helen I. Sublett, B.A. '43, who has been i n fo rmerly taug ht at Call ender, Iowa, in the \Va hing ton, is teaching kindergarten-primary grades. in the Iowa City public schools. Dorothy E Wilda McCutcheon, B.A. ' 42, is attending . Baker, B.A. ' 44, is living at 707 Spu Central Radio a nd Television Schools, Inc., at rgeon St., Santa Ana, Cal. She has been tea Kansas City, Mo. Her address : 1 629 Central, ching in the g rades at Anaherm, Ca l. Kansas City, Mo. Ruth Collins, B.A. '44, has accepted a position to teach primary age chi ldren at Maracaibo, Donald L. Nelson, B.A. '42, is assistant Venezuela, South America. Miss Collins w ill manager of the Lutheran P ublishing House, teach children of several nationalitie Blair, ebr. and will study Spani sh. S he has bee n a member of the Marjorie J. S,candrett, E l. '42, i s employed as Iowa City school fa culty the past f ive years. a bookkeeper with the Midwest Mineral Com­ Veronica Griffin, B.A . '44, is teaching at pany, Grinnell, Iowa. Miss Scandrett was for­ Peoria, I ll inois. Before her graduation, she merly a junior hig h school instructor at Gil man, taug ht at Cherokee, Iowa. Her a ddress: 302 Iowa. Elmhurst Ave., Peoria 4, I 11. 1943 - 1944 Joan Merryman, B.A. '44, is attending Colum- bia Lois Barriger, B.A. '43, has been teaching at University, ew York City. H er mail ing address : R. Storm Lake, Iowa. She has been teaching band l , Marshalltown, Iowa. and orchestral instruments in the three grade buildings, junior hig h, and high school. Ruth Willard, B.A. '43, is teaching in the Alumna Writes Fourth later elementary g rades in the Long Beach, Book Cal. public chool system, and has been as­ Mrs. Howard Imhoff (Betty Clock) J.C. sig ned t o the s ixth g rade in t he Roosevelt '24, who writes under the name of Betty Peck­ school. She fo rmerly taug ht a t L iscomb, Mar­ ham, had her third book published in September shalltown, and Des Moines, Iowa. and her fourth will appear in October. Mrs. Evert Baumann (Ma rjorie H. Snyder ), Scheduled for September publication was Kg.-Pri. ' 43, is e mp loyed by Roos Brother's her "Women in Aviation," a career book for as a sales clerk in Palo A lto, Cal. Her address is 1403 E merson, Palo A lto. high school and college girls. Her two previous books in the same field were "Sky Hostess" Marilyn Hull, K g.-Pri. '43, was employed in and Minneapolis, Minn., by the War Emergency "Other People's Children," the latter deal­ Child Care Committee for the summer as teach­ ing with vocations in child care. er in one of the c ity's nursery schools. For the In collecting material for "Women in Avia­ past two years Miss H ull has been teaching in tion," the author traveled thousands of miles the Rolfe public schools. and visited many of the outstanding personalities Mrs. Earl Kotz (Dolores E. Meyer), El. '43, among women in aviation today. In the course is employed at the May Co. Department store of her investigation she was checked on by the in Los Angeles, Cal. She was formerly fifth and sixth o- rade teacher at Milford Twp. school, FBI, fingerprinted repeatedly, and accompanied Nevada, Iowa. Her husband is overseas. H er most of the time by an armed guard. address: 28 12-Sth Ave., Los Angeles 16, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Imhoff and daughter live Mrs. Robert E . Maron (Dorothy J . Lincoln) , in the country on Route 7 just outside of '43, is e mployed as a secretary in the p ublicity York, Pa.

1945 IOW A S T ATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page T wenty-fiYe Crawford taught home economics, a nd Mr. Crawford served as high school principal. • • • Charlotte Jane Curtis, B.A. '43, a nd Sgt. Richard S. Worthley, '40-'41, were married May Wilma L. Abbey, '39-'44, summers, and 27, at Cherokee, Iowa. Mrs. Worthley is Durean L . Lampman, B.A. '40, were married enrolled in Cadet Nurses training at the Uni­ May 23 . Mr. Lampman is e mployed in St. versity of Minnesota. Mary's H osp'tal in Rochester, Minn. Dorothy Deane, B.A. '44, and Lt. (j.g.) Leon B.A. '43, were married July 21, a t the Ruth Ball, Kg.-Pri. '38, was married to Frank Martin, First Lutheran church at Cresco, Iowa. Mrs. E. Binkard, P harmacist Mate Second Class of Martin had previously taught in the public the Navy, July 29, at the home of her parents schools of Tipton, Iowa. Since the close of near Eldora, Iowa. Mrs. Binkard will continue school last spring she has been on the p hy ical teaching first grade in the schools at Garner, staff of Iowa State Teachers College. Iowa. education Lt. Martin is a Naval officer on a P.T. boat. Kg.-Pri. '42, was mar­ Katherine Blumgren, Cpl. Robert G. Derflinger, '42-'43, was mar­ Rev. Hiram Hogberg, June 12, in the ried to J. ried to Barbara Ruth Fry, January 20, at Rock­ olt Lmheran church at Odebolt. Iowa. Odeb ford, Ill. The couple will reside in Tacoma, H ogbr1g taug ht sc hool at Iowa Falls, Mrs. Wash. Cpl. Derflinger is stationed a t Ft. Lewis. 1-1 ogberg accepted a c all at Long Iowa. Rev. Jane E. Dickinson, B.A. '41, was married to h, Cal. Beac Llewellyn E. Slade, June 8, at St. John's Evan­ Mary LeMere Boller, K g. -Pri. '43, was mar­ gelical Lutheran church, Des Moines, Iowa. ried to Don,i iJ Nolan, June 6 , in the Sacred Mrs. Slade has been teaching for the past four Heart Catholic church at Waterloo. Mrs. Nolan years at Jefferson school in Davenport, Iowa. has be-en instrnctor in the primary department Mr. Slade is employed by the Iowa Power and of the school at Van Horne, Iowa, the past two Light Company in Des Moines. Their address: years. Mr. Nolan is now employed at the John 1815 Sixth Ave., Des Moines. Deere plant in Waterloo. Their address 329 1/, Gayle Edwards, B.A. '41, and Cpl. P erin W . Jefferson Ave., Waterloo. Rotter were married August 25, 1944, at Colum­ Marion Virgina Brown, B.S. '39, was married bus Junction, Iowa. Mrs. Rotter taug ht in to T ech. Sgt. Harry J . Barmettler, May 6, at Ottumwa, Iowa, and Saginaw, Mich. the St. Luke's Episcopal church in Cedar Falls. Doris Ellerbroek, El. '42, was married to Mrs. Barmettler t aug ht a t Tora Springs and Arthur Bonath, June 20, at the First M ethodist Sioux C ity, Iowa. church, Worthington, Minn. Mrs. Bonath has Helen Busch, K g.-Pri. '44, was m ct rried to taug ht at Magnolia and Primg har, Iowa. Mr. Alvin Has ebroek, June 6, at the P resbyterian Bonath taught at Holly Springs and Archer, Church in Luverne, Minn. For the past several Iowa. They are living at Primg har. years, M r . H assebroek has taught in rural Margaret Ann Entz, B.A. '43, and Robert W. school . Mr. H assebroek i s e mployed b y the Brindley, '39-'44, were married May 16, at the Albert Patton trucking line. The couple will St. Joseph's Catholic rectory at Waterloo. live at 309 outh U ni on Street in Luverne, Val Jeanne Fairlie, B.A. '45, and Travis J . Minn . Phillips, B.A. '41, were married August 16 in Marian Calderwood, B.c: , '37, married P fc . Iowa City. Mr. Phillips was recently discharged Ralph E. Marti n, Ma rch 6, in the Washington from the Navy where he had served fo r three Avenue Met hodist church in Kansas City, Mo. and one-half years as a lieutenant. H e is now Mrs. Martin ta ug ht home economics at O elwein , doing graduate work at the S tate University Iowa. of Iowa. Mrs. Phillips has been teaching p iano. Mary Elizabeth Case, B.A. '42, was married They will live at 715 Iowa Ave., Iowa City. to Lt. H enry Schoenfield, Jr., July 20, in the Dorothea Feisner, B.A. '40, was married to Dickman road chapel at Fort Custer, Mich. George Alban Sacher, Jr., July 28, at Thorndyke Mrs. Schoenfield is recreati on worker at Percy Hilton chapel at the University of Chi cago. Mr. Jone H o p ita! Ce nter a t Fort Custer. Sacher was graduated from the University of Dwight Crawford, B.A. '30, was married to Chicago, where he is now a research a ssistant The couple is living Hulda Jacobson, May 27, at the Central E van­ in biology and statistics. Chicago, Ill. gelical Free church at Minneapolis, Minn. Both at 6205 South Kimbark street, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford have been instructors Jean Ferguson, '41-'43, and Cpl. Charles F. at the Rock Rapids, I owa, hi g h school. Mrs. Todd, B.A. '42, were married May 5, a t the

Page Twenty-six THE ALUMNUS October Cedar Heig hts Community church at Cedar 26, at Portsmouth, Va. Mrs .. Larsen taught fifth Falls. Mrs. Todd has been a graduate assistant g rade in Arnolds Park. in the speech clinic at the University of Iowa. Lucille E. Holm, El. '40, was married to At pre e nt Cpl. Todd is a radar instructor at S/ Sgt. Robert W. Boyenga, .July 8, 1944 They Robins, F ield, Ga. are li ving at 151 3 Robin Hood Road, Durham, Mary Lois Flemmig, B.A. '42, and Lt. Ev­ N. C. erette L. Bell, '40-'41, were married November Lucille Horning, Kg.-Pri. '36, was married to 5, 1944. Mrs. Bell taught high school home W illiam A. F uhrman, in, May, at K ansa City, economics at Sioux Rapids, Iowa. Lt. Bell is Mo. Mrs. F uhrma n taug ht school fo r several serving overseas with the A.A.F. years and then wa employed in the T rans­ Sgt. Robert N. Ford, '37-'42, was married continental Western Airlines ai rport in · Chicago, to Darlene I. McGahuey, yeoman third class in Ill. For the past five months s he has been the coa t guard, June 19, at Anamosa, Iowa. working in a radio manufacturing plant in Lois Fry, B.A. '35, was married to Theodore Council Bluff . Mr. F uhrman i s di strict super­ F. Janocho, September 19, 1944. Mrs. Janocho visor at the Tran continental Western Airlines received h er M.A. from the State University of office in Chicago. Iowa in 1942. The couple now resides at Oak Barbara Howard, B.A. '38, was married to Ridge, Tenn. Capt. Robert M . King in July in Europe. Mrs. Ruth Fulton, B.A. '40, was married to Wendel King is a fi eld director with the civi li an war K. Porter, June 18, in the Presbyterian church reli ef of the American Red Cross overseas. She in LeClai re, Iowa. Mrs. Porter has been a was an instructor in the schools at Tipton and kindergarten teacher in Rockford schools for Davenport, Iowa, before enterin g the e rvice the last two year . Mr. Porter is news director in 1942. for radio station WMBI in Chicago. The couple Mary Margaret Humphey, K g.-Pri . '39, was live at 3212 West Hadden Ave., Chicago, Ill. married to M / Sgt. Nayland C. Kay, June 6, at S/Sgt. Louis E. Glaza, Jr., Student '38-'39, Coff eeville, Ka n. Mrs. Kay taught in the was married to Phyllis Olsen, July 25, at Cedar Toledo, Iowa, schools the past t wo years. Falls. ~.gt. Glaza had recently returned from Maxine Hunter, B.A. '38, was married to Lt. England where he served with the ground crew Colonel \ i\Ti lliam T . Alexander of Emporia, of the Eighth Air Force. Kan., June 20, in the American Cathedral, Paris, Marilyn Greenlee, Kg.-Pri. '44, and Kenneth F rance. R. Church, '40-'41, were married June 10, in the After graduation Mr . Alexander taught Hamilton Methodist church at San Francisco, physical education in the Knoxvill~ a nd T ipton, Cal. 1 1· s. Church attended Denver unive rsity Iowa, schools. Since 1942 she has been asso­ and taught at Alton, Iowa. ciated with the American Red Cross as a Kathryn F. Hackbarth, El. '42, and Basil D. hospital recreation worker. She was stationed Gray, B.A. '44, were married August 15 at at Camp McCoy, Wis., before going overseas Morgan Methodist Church, Dows, Iowa. Mrs. in 1943. In August, 1945, she returned t o the Gray has been an instructor in the schools U nited States after 28 months in Army hospitals at Colwell a nd New Hartford, Iowa. Mr. Gray in Egypt, L ib ya, North Africa, Corsica, and is an in structor in the schools at State Center, F ra nce. Iowa, where they will live. Co l. Alexander attended Kansas State College Dorothy Hansen, '39-'44, and John A. Bar­ a nd was a ociatecl with the Santa Fe Raliroad rigar, B.A. '42, were married August 27, 1944. before entering the A rmy Air Forces in 1941. Pfc. Barrigar trained at Sioux Falls Air Base, Mrs. Alexander is now li ving at Sloan, Iowa. and Mrs. Barrigar taug ht grade two at La Porte Florence Hussel, E l. '30, was married to City, Iowa. Homer J ames, July 6, 1944. M rs. James taught Mabel Heller, B.A. '16 and Orral G. Hinds, for the past nine years at West Burlington. Mr. Student '17-' 18, were married June 25, at Water­ James is manager of the Becker Roofing Co. loo. T he couple will live at 1032 W est Fifth They are li vin g a t 1200 Harrison Ave., Burling­ St., in Waterloo. Mrs. Hinds has been an ton, Iowa. in structor in American government in West Mrs. V. Carol Johnson (Payne) B.A. '32, was Waterloo hi gh school. Mr. Hinds is employed married to J . Haas, July 17, at Oelwein, Iowa. in the composing room of the Waterloo Daily Mr. and Mrs. Haas li ve on a farm near Maynard, Courier. Iowa. Joyce Hiler, El. '44, was married to Neal Harriet P. Jordan, B.A. '45, was married to Larsen, Seaman first class in the Navy, June S/ Sgt. Walter P. Souci er, July 18. For the

1945 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-seven duration Mr . Souder will continue residence instructor a t Lincoln school, Cedar Falls. She at her parental home at Glidden, Iowa. During formerly taught in the rural schools of Fayette the past school year she taught art in the junior county and at Waucoma. hig h at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mary McGee, B.A. '27, was married to Sgt. Josephine Kerr, B.A. '40, was married to Kurt Medler, December 5, 1944, in the Little Capt. John McElmurry, July 6, in the home of Brown church at Nashua, Iowa. Mrs. Medler, the bride's mother in Grundy Center, Iowa. formerly visiting teacher in the Sioux City Mrs. McElmurry has been employed as a Red schools, is continuing her work as director of Cross ·recreational director at Ashburn hospital, U.S.O. Travelers' Aid in Des Moines, Iowa. McKinney, Texas. Sgt. Medler is an interpreter with the U. S. Viola Kelting, El. '36, was married to Harvey army intelligence department, working with Gildemeister, June 17, at Williamsburg, Iowa. prisoners of war. Mrs. Gildemeister has been teaching in schools Bernadine E. McLaughlin, Rural '42, was in Iowa and Illinois. Mr. Gildemeister has married to Raymond F. Rosenbaum, June 3. been engaged in farming at Hubbard, Iowa, Mrs. Rosenbaum taught three years, including where the couple live. a rural school and elementary grades at Somers, Ina Kenyon, E l. '37, was married to S/Sgt. Iowa. The couple live on a farm near Pomeroy, L eonard Weishaar, June 23, in St. Mary's Iowa. church at Mallard, Iowa. Mrs. Weishaar taught Phyllis Malmanger, B.A. '43, was married to in Buffalo Center, Iowa. Robert C. Hermanson, June 18, at Story City, Doris Kilpatrick, '42-'45 and Eldon Archam­ Iowa. For the past two years Mrs. Hermanson bault, B. . '45, were married May 26, in the has been music instructor at Otho, Iowa. The First Methodi t church, at Waterloo. Their couple is li ving in Story City, and Mr. Herman- address: 1221 West 23rd street, Cedar Falls. on i s e ngaged in work at the Woodland Dairy. Mabel Kruse, B.A. '39, was married to Rev. Marjorie Mantor, B.A. '29, was married to Chester Brockway, August 16 at Holland, Iowa. Edward Bos, August 23, 1944. Mr. Bos is in­ Mrs. Brockway has been director of high school structor at the Radio Material School at the and junior coll ege vocal music at E therville, Naval Station at Dearborn, Mich. Iowa, for the pa t fo ur years. S/S'gt. Ellis Mathers, B.S. '37, was married Rev. Brockway i a graduate student at to Ida Reiks, May 25. Mrs. Mathers is at her orthern Baptist Seminary, Chicago, and is home in Melvin, Iowa. pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Berwyn, Ill. Mavis Meek, B.A. '42, was married to L t. Lois Kurtz, E l. '36, wa married to Andy (jg) A. Tilman Holland, May 21, in Central Miller, J une 9, at the Little Brown church at Methodist Church at Charles City, Iowa. Mrs. Nashua, Iowa. Recently, Mrs. Mill er has been Holland taught in the Roland, Iowa, high chool. employed in the Knoxville, Iowa, hi gh school. Cpl. John Messerli, '41-'43, was married to Mr. Mill er is e ngaged in farm in g nea r J ewell, Loma Caspers, Student '43-'44, December 20, a t Iowa. the Castle Grove Lutheran church, Monticello, Genev.ieve Clara Lambertson, El. '40, was Iowa. Cpl. Messerli has been in Europe ince married to First Lieutenant Kenneth V. Lesli e, February. October 3, 1944. Lt. Leslie i with the Signal Maryann Meyers, Pri. '27, was married to Corps. The couple i li ving in vVashington, Thomas D. Reeder, June 12, at Grundy enter. D. C. Mrs. Reeder has been t eaching at O neida and Cresco, Iowa. The couple w ill li ve near \,Ve st Pauline Larsen, El. '39, wa married to gt. Union, where Mr. Reeder is e ngaged in farm in g. S,tanley R. Roel of , June 6, in Cedar Fall s. Mrs. Inez Moklebust, B.A. '43, was married to Roelof wa a grade school instructor for five Sigvald Holt, June 24, in the Lutheran church years before accepting a position last year as at Thor, Iowa. The past two years Mrs. Holt a secretary a nd medical technician in Denver, has taught in Reinbeck, a nd is now music super­ Colo. visor in the Ellsworth schools. Mr. and Mrs. to Pvt. Mary Leo, Kg.-Pri. '44, was married Holt are living in Ellsworth, and Mr. Holt is Kenneth Largent, June 9, at Oelwein, Iowa. engaged in farming east of Ell worth. Mrs. Largent taught grade school in Grundy Gladys Myers, B.A. '41, was married to Dean Center, Iowa. E . Moore, June 24, at E ldon, Iowa. Mrs. Moore Margaret Lynch, B.A. '39, was married to taught in E ldon, and for the last f ew years Eugene Canty, Jr., May 30, in St. Mary's Catho­ has been principal of Orchard school in Ot­ lic C hurch at Waucoma, Iowa. For the past tumwa. Mr. Moore is a Rock I sland Railway six year Mrs. Canty ha been a sixth grade employe at Winterset.

Page Twenty-eight THE ALUMNUS October Arlys A. Norcross, '41, and Ens. William L. Lindian J . Swaim, September 15, 1944. T heir Miller, '41-'42, were married F ebruary 16, in the address: 2105 Elsinor Ave., Baltimore, Md. First Methodist church at Cedar Falls. Mr Isabelle R. Rohrer, Kg.-Pri. '41 , was married Miller has been employed in the offices of the to Lt. J ohn Wm. Gaalaas, May 9. Mrs. Gaalaas J ohn Deere Company a t Waterloo. was fo rmerly an air hostess with T ranscon­ Pauline Norris, B.A. '42, was married t o tinental and Western Airlines located at Kansas Stuart E. Parker, June 24, at Cedar Falls, Mrs. City, Mo. Parker taught in Sloane Wallace Junior high Gladys E. Roulstone, B.A. '40, was married school in W aterloo. Mr. Parker is associated to Harry Miley Goodman, June 20. Mr. Good­ in business with his father in E. H . Parker and man is a draftsman. Their address: 77 16 South sons store in J esup, Iowa. Saginaw, Chicago, Ill. Phyllis Okerstrom, P ri. '34, and S/ S:gt. Ed­ Rachel Adelaide Salt, B.S. '38, was married ward F. Volberding, B.S. '36, were married to Algernon Wilson Forbes, September 1, 1944. July 3 1, a t Cedar Fall s. Mrs. Volberding for­ Their home is in Harris, Iowa. merly taught school at Watertown, S. D., and Luverne M. Schaefer, B.A. '44, was marrie d Alburnet, Iowa, and more recently was employed to James L. Adams, J une 3, in the Grace Evan­ at t he Locke Aircraft Co., in California. Sgt. gelical and Reformed church at Sioux Ci ty, Volberding, who recently returned from the Iowa. Mrs. Adams has taught home eco­ E uropean t~eater of war, where he was a nomics in the Hartley, Iowa, high school, and prisoner of war for 27 months, was formerly a for the past two years Mr. Adams was instructor teacher at New Hampton and Mallard, Iowa. of music in the Hartley schools. Lt. Lawrence Orton, B.A. '41, was married Cpl. Verne E. Seidel, '37-'38, was married t o to R uth P hyll is Hoffman, May 12, in O ur Irene V. Berend, April 24, in St. Joseph's Savior's L utheran church in Radcliffe, Iowa. At Catholic c hurch in Raymond, Iowa. Cpl. Seidel, present Lt. Orton is serving as instructor in a member of the army medical detachment of the Seamanship school at Little Creek, Va. Mr. the 3 4th divi ion, was released by the advancing and Mrs. Orton's temporary address will be Russian army after being taken prisoner Feb­ 210 San Antonio Blvd., orfolk, Va. ruary 17, 1943, at Faid Pass in North Africa. Lee F. Parman, B.A. '39, was married t o Margaret Siemers, B.A. '38, was married to Edith Morrissett, May 15. They now live at Carl Peterson, July 25, at Webster City, W esleyan Station, Box 99, Middletown, Conn. Iowa. Mrs. Peterson, a teacher at Irving school Mrs. Parman i employed in secretarial work in Waterloo for se veral years, formerly taught in We leyan Coll ege, and Mr. Parman is work­ in Charles City, Iowa. Mr. Peterson was re­ ing in a hospital in Middletown. cently g iven an honorable di charge from the Elsie Paulsen, Kg.-Pri., '39, was married t o army. Burnell V. J ones, June 23, at the Lutheran church at Ruthven, Iowa. The couple live in Tech. Sgt. Robert E . Simpson, '38-'41, was Clay county, w here Mr. Jones is engaged in married to Gladys Margaret Ford, March 10, farming. Mrs. J ones formerly taught at Gillet~ in Amesbury Wilts, England. Mrs. Simpson has Grove and c:.utherland, Iowa. bee n employed by the American Red Cross F ield director in Sali sbury, England. Jean Peterson, Kg.-Pri. '45, was married to Chief Petty Officer Gerald Griswold, July 1, First Lieutenant Kenneth W. Speck, '42, was at f inneapoli s, Minn. They li ve at 1300 Powder married to Jeannette A. Roedel, April 3, at H orn Terrace, Minneapoli s. Austin, Texas. The couple now resides in San Ruth Potter, Kg.-Pri. '38, wa married to Marcos, Texas, where Lt. Speck is an instructor Sgt. Raymond D rake, December 1944, at at the army air field. Nashua, Iowa. Mrs. D rake has been a n instruc­ Lora Stark, B.A. '4 1, and Frank Butler, B.A. tor in the kindergarten in the Waverly public '21, were married June 9, in the Methodist schools. parsonage in Cedar Falls. Mr. Butler is em­ Polly Prichard, K g.-Pri. '42, a nd Lt. Harry ployed as production manager for the Chamber­ G. ~life, '41-'43, were married May 12, in the lain Corp. in Waterloo. Santa Margarita Ranch House chapel at Camp Berniece Stelzmiller , El. '41, was married to Pendleton, Cal. Mr . Slife taug ht one y ear in Cpl. John R. Wal h, June 30, in St. Mary's Doon, and fo r the past two years was employed Catholi c c hurch, at Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Walsh in a war plant at Detroit, Mich. taug ht in the rural schools of Fayette county Dorothy A. Quirin, B.A. '41, was married to fo r the past fo ur years. Cpl. Walsh i s s tationed

1945 !OW A ST ATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page T wenty-nine at Mountain H ome army air base, and their at T rea ure I la nd, San F rancisco, Cal. Mrs. home is in Boise. Somers wa a n in structor at Edison school Jeanette Mary Stevens, B.A. '42, was married in W aterloo. Mr. Somers is a pharmacist's to Sgt. Robert W. Schmidt III, August 16, mate third class with the navy. 1944. Mrs. Cc hmidt is Sgt. J eanette Stevens Fern Vust, Rural '43, was married to Lyle Schmidt with the Marines, sta ti oned a t Bogue Popkes, June 22, at the P resbyterian parsonage Field, Morehead City, N. C. at George, Iowa. Mr. Popkes is engaged in Doris Stevenson, K g.-P ri . '42, was ma rried to fa rming. P fc . Vernon J. Arends, June 21 , in the Christian Betty Sue Watters, K g.-P ri . '38, was married Reformed church at Austinville. Mrs. Arends to Clyde Bra ndhorst, April 5, at the L ittle has bee n teaching in the Thornton and Reinbeck Brown Chu rch, Nashua, Iowa. Mrs. Brand­ consolidated schools for three years. horst taught in the school s a t Altoona and Clara Steyaert, H om~ Ee. '29, was married to W ebster City, Iowa, and was principal at P eter Mangan, in June, at Davenport, Iowa. Mr. W ebster City fo r the past four years. Mr. and Mrs. Mangan are li ving a t 1943 Perry and Mrs. Bra ndhorst are now livin g on a fa rm Street, Davenport, Iowa. near Hudson, Iowa. Ruth E. Stillwell, B.A. '33, was married to Marjorie Louise Wenstrand, E l. '42, was mar­ Thomas W . Kell y, June 22, a t Grinnell, Iowa. ried to Austin T . H elgerson, July I, at Red Oak. The couple li ve at Altoona, w here Mr. K elly Mrs. H elgerson has taught school in Red O ak is in business with his father. and at Redfield. Mr. H elgerson holds an Helen A. Streed, B.A. '41, was married to administrative position with Eastman's at Oak William J . \i\/atts, March 26. P ri or to her mar­ Ridge, Tenn. riage, Mrs. Watts had charge of physical Louise Williams, B.A. '34, was married to education in hig h schools at Montezuma, Iowa. W illiam Arthur Cotter, June 9, at the First ow she is in the W AVES at Little N eek, P resbyterian church, Casey, Iowa. Mrs. Cotter orfolk, Va. ha been teaching in the Des Moines schools. Mr. Cotter is a avy veteran of World War II Mabel Stubbs, K g.-Pri. '44, was married to and is employed as a building contractor in P vt. Alvin Parsons, August 18, 1944, at Nashua, Des Moin es. T hey live at 1435 W . 24th St., Iowa. Mrs. Parsons taug ht primary grades at Des Moines. the Jubilee Consoli dated school. Muriel Wood, K g.-P ri. '42, was married to Lulu E. Sweigard, B.S. '18; M.A. '27 Colum­ Couler Poots, June 10, at the Alden Memorial bia U ni versity, P h.D. '39, New York University; church, at Alden, Iowa. Mrs. Poots taught at was married to F ritz E. P opken, August 11 Amana and Iowa Fall s, Iowa. Mr. Poots owns at Tompkins Cove, N. Y. and operates a garage in O maha, eb., w here Mrs. Popken is a nationa lly recognized kine­ the couple live. siologist and received an award from the Gladys Wortman, Rural '40, was married to Academy of P hysical Education for her "Skele­ E lmore Geerdes, J une 14, at George, Iowa. Mrs. tal Research." She is a survivor of the S. S. Geerdes has been teachi ng rural schools fo r the Athenia which was torpedoed west of Scotland past five years. T he couple will live on a fa rm on September 3, 1939. near George. Mr. Popken is a biochemist associated with Edna Wrede, E l. '41 , was married to George Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N . Y. H e Boehmke, in July at the St. Paul' s L utheran received the bachelor of science degree from church in Garner, Iowa. Mrs. Boehmke has Columbia University and is a member of the taug ht the past fo ur years at Blairsburg and New York Academy of Science. Webster City, Iowa. The couple live a t Spirit Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Popken are li ving at "J eanora" on Buckberg Mountain, T omkins Cove. Harold R. Yeoman, B.A. '42, was married to Sylvia A. Slavik, June 29, at Cedar Rapids, Margaret Toedt, B.A. '41, was married to Iowa. T hey w ill re ide at 161 N. Austin Blvd., E ns. Thomas F. O ehrlein, April 6. Prior to her Chicago 44, Illinois. Mr. Yeoman is a pharma­ marriage Mrs. O ehrlein taug ht in the high cist mate first class in the Navy. school at W elton, Iowa, and Hollywood, Cal. Samuel C. Zimmerman, '38-'39, was ma rried H er present address is Welton, Iowa. to Kathryn J . T ehan, December 29, in Bell e Mary E. Uban, B.A. '44, and Harold Somers, Plaine. Mr. Zimmerman is aviation machinst's '41-'42, were married J une IS, in the chapel mate first class with the Navy.

Page Thirty TI-IE ALUMNUS October Pfc. and Mrs. Merritt Ludwig (Mary Cul­ bertson), '42-'43 and '41-'43, respectively, an­ • • • nounce the birth of a daughter, Mary Susan, July 27 . Mrs. Ludwig lives at 207 Rose Avenue, Rockford, Ill. Pfc. Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Baumgarten (Ula recently returned from Europe. Thomas, Kg.-Pri. '41), are the parent of a son, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pendleton Steven Thomas, born August 3. Mr. and Mrs. (Marjorie 0. Thoma , B.A. '3 Baumgarten live at Sutherland, Iowa. 7) announce the birth of a daug hter, Marjorie Ruth, April 14, 1942, at Mr. and Mrs. Antone Berver (Laura Martz, Kingsport, Tenn. This is their second child. J.C. '26) announce the birth of a daug hter, Doris Rev. and Mrs. Howard Raid (Pauline V. Jean, March 6, at Estherville, Iowa. They have Krehbiel, El. '38) are the parents of a daughter, two other children, William, I 6, and Margery, Elizabeth Ann, born June 19, 1944, 11. at Fortuna, Mo. Rev. Raid is doing graduate study at Mr. and Mrs. Merton Bratton, B.A. '27, are Iowa State College, Ames, and they are living at the parents of a daughter, Sharon Lorraine, 30 12 Oakland, Ames. born June I. They have two other children, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Roberts (Marjorie Merton Jr., 16, and Charles, 5. They live at Foster, Pri. '31) are the parents of a daughter, Laurens, Iowa, where Mr. Bratton is engaged Charlotte Elizabeth, born December 21, 1944. in farming. They are living at Ainsworth, Wash. Coast Guardsman and Mrs. Frederick Farmer Mr. and Mrs. W.. M. Shank (Mary Ann (Rita Elizabeth Brown, Kg.-Pri. '42) are the Sheridan, B.A. '36) are the parents of a daugh­ parents of a daughter, Sue Ann, born June 14 ter, Anita Marie, born June 2. They live at at San Rafael, Cal. Mrs. Farmer taught at Indianapolis, Ind., and have two other children. Hayes Twp. School, Buena Vista County, and Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Stolz (Dorothy at Manson and Washington, Iowa, a well as Thomas), B.A. '39, are the parents of a daugh­ Bolinas, Cal. ter, Sheila Ann, born June 11, at New Hamp­ Capt. and Mrs. James A. Hemstreet (Mary ton, Iowa. E. Robinson, B.S. '36) are the parents of a Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Weidner (Shirley son, James A., Jr., born June 8. Mrs. Hem­ Orcutt, El. '43) are the parents of a son born street is living at 1411 N. Fourth t. , Waterloo, May 9. Mrs. Weidner is making her home at Iowa, while her husband is serving in Europe. Montour, Iowa, while her husband is serving in the Navy. Cpl. and Mrs. Harry Hummel, Jr. (Dolores Hull, '43-'44) are the parents of a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Wells (Ruth Richard, Judith Marie, born February 5. Mrs. Hummel Com'! '29) are the parents of a son, Donald is residing temporarily at 3122 Brady St., Ray, born February 16. They have two other Davenport, Iowa. The parental granmother, sons, Richard Allan 7, and Larry Lee, 3, and Mrs. Harry Hummel, Sr., is the former Jessie are living at Grinnell, Iowa. M. Barnes, B.A. '16. Lt. and Mrs. Wm. D . Wesselink (LaVina C. Haahr, B.S. '35) are the parents of a son, Fred Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Kugley (1v1arion J. Thorlund, born November 28, 1944. They Myers, Pri. '32) are the parents of a daughter, have another on, David De Wayne. Mrs. Wesselink Jill Nadine, born September 17, 1944. Mr. and is li vin g with the children at 1117 Clay, Cedar Mrs. Kugley lived at Oelwein, Iowa, before Falls. moving to Faribault, Minn. Prior to her mar­ riage Mrs. Kugley taught at Chapin, Iowa. They Specialist First Class and Mrs. Hubert W. have a son, Jack, 5. Their address : P. 0. Box White (Mary Ruth Bristol), B.A. '39 and B.A. 199, Faribault, Minn. '40, respectively, announce the birth of a son, Truman William, March 8. Mrs. White and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laird (Clarice Shaw­ son li ve at 8700 Hickman Road, Des Moines, ver, B.A. '33) announce the birth of a son, Iowa, while Specialist White is with the Naval Thomas Gordon, May 29. They are living at ir Corps. 2577 lorth 89th St., Wauwatosa 13, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Edward M .. Wiler (Joyce Dr. and Mrs. Paul Laube, Jr. (Lavon Dunlea, vVengert), B.A. '28, M.S. Northwestern '39; and B.A. '33) are the parents of a son, Edgar John, B.A. '36, respectively, are the parents of a born June 22, in Chengtu, China. Dr. Laube is daughter, Kathryn Joyce, born February 2. They· located at the Medical School, Cheelvo Univer­ have another daughter, Linda Lou, 5, and are sity, Chengtu. li ving at 322 Sixteenth Ave., Belmar, N. J.

1945 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Thirty-one · 25 at 't. Loui , Mo. Foll owing g raduation Mr. Ewers taug ht at • • Albia, Iowa; Madelia, Minn., and Davenport, Iowa. In 191 2 he joined the hi gh school staff Mrs. Alfred H. Eddy (Eliza Montgomery), at St. Louis, Mo., serving there for 12 years. B.Di. '96, died at her home in Aurelia, Iowa, He wa a member of the faculty at Harris March 25. Foll owing her graduation she taught Teachers Coll ege in St. Louis until 1933 when school for five years. Surviving are her husband he became principal of the elementary school and two children, Margaret and Maurice. there. Clarence E. Steele, B.Di. '97, died July 17 at Mrs. LeRoy Pinckney (Mayme B. Lar en), his home in Hagerstown, Md. More than thirty B.Di. '06, M.Di. '12, and B.A. '21, died July 25 years of his life were spent in se rvice with the at an Omaha, Neb., hospital. Young Men's Christian Association, the last 18 Mrs. Pinckney taug ht high school in Forest years, before retiring in 1935, being s pent in City, Garner, and various other cities in Iowa Hagerstown. Associations served prior to for twenty-two years. In 1909 she made a trip Hagerstown were Poctage Lake Y.M.C.A., to Europe, spendin g much time in Denmark. Hancock, Mich.; Billings, Mont.; and Staunton, Mr. and Mrs. Pinckney had made their home Va. in S,henandoah, Iowa, since 1932. Mr. Pinckney After retirement, Mr. Steele did re earch preceded her in

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