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THE ALUMNUS On- Lke d ,,ui1e-- For Men Only .. plus F OR OCTOBER, 1939 * stimulating features by and for alumni I\ -7
WE'LL BE SEEING YOU! * The gala 19 3 8 homeco11iing scenes pictured here will return with emphasis to College Hill on the occasion of the twentieth annual event, Saturday, October 21. Count Friday and Sun day in your good time, too. You will want to cheer in the new stadium as well as meet old friends on a new campus. The football game, a dance, a play, open house, dinners - all this and more awaits you. Come! See inside back cover for an alumni schedule of events. )lu ALUMNUS
OCTOBER 1 9 3 9 Volume XXIII Number 4 J iu CAMPUS PARADE
W ESHUDDER to realize that thousands of FEATURES lives have already been snuffed out, forever, For Men Only . 4 in the new European war. And we also know that Over the Fence - a Job 10 before you can poss ibly read this, thousands more I Needed a Bath . 10 will be shattered from the life which they, like us, Prelude to Success . 11 love so well. Three Faithful Servants . 12 Military The Price of Standardization . 16 men must count casualties in block of thou Laura Closson: a Portrait . 17 sands, in a so rt of cool calculation of vic tory and defeat. But freshly spilled blood is DEPARTMENTS - not cool, a The Campus Parade . 1 nd no calculations whatsoever can obscure the T he Prowl 14 precious value of a single human life. There, in the Letters . 19 ultimate, lies the end of whatever is said about war. Reunions 20 Alumni News 21 N ot So With U s!
We have our sympathies THE ALUMNUS* is a quarterly magazine in this m,H iness; we published without charge for alumni and former may even act on them. But lucky America! For students of the IowA STATE T EACHERS CoLLEGE, we c:m, if we will, escape sending our young men Cedar Falls. Approximately 16,500 copies are to a foreign war. Have you ever looked on Iowa prinred under the editorial and technical super fields in the fall and seen the hue and the sun light vision of the Bureau of Publications, with the and the rolling hills, from which the golden cooperation of the Burea u of Alumni Affairs, harvests have been gathered? And have you ever imagined which supervises the distribution of each issue. these fields, or others like them, mutilated with soldiers and * THE ALUMNUS is entered as second class mail soaked with blood? Lucky America at the post office in Cedar Falls, Iowa, under the . ... it need not be so with us! act of August 24, 1912, and the lowA STATE And, char it may not be so, what will the T EACHE RS COLLEGE is the owner of the magazine. teachers and the parents tell the youth of America * Alumni are especially invited to write special about war? Will they join the hot-heads, will articles and contribute personal news notes. Those they give W3Y to an innate spirit of violence, will interested in feature articles should write for an they so•;,: th~ fi elds with hate, and so prepare for author's prospectus. the harvest uf another war, twenty years hence? Will they pussy-foot into the complacency of more The staff: * gadget education, teaching the mechanics of avia G EORG E H . HOLMES . ... Editor tion to the exclusion of the Director, Bureau of Publications facts and emotions LEROY FURRY ...... Managing Editor that lie behind the terror of an aerial bombard HARRY G. BuRRELL . Sports ment? MILDRED HoLLY ...... Special Articles This writer hopes not. Then maybe America BENJAMIN BOARDMAN ...... Business Manager can try once again to exert pressure for a just and A. C. FuLLER ... H ead, Bttrcau of Alttmni Affairs truly lasting peace. Then maybe democracy can supply a rational answer to the question of war world's fairs. Last summer the registration totaled and peace. 1,696. As The A lumnus went to press, the busi This may not be the Campus Parade. But ness office announced that 1,200 girls and 67 4 we'd rather see a Campus Parade than a parade men, a total of I ,87 4 students, had registered at of mourners to the freshly-dug graves of America's the end of the first day of school, September 14. young men! From fifty to I 00 registrations were expected over the w eek-end. Parade of Peace * f,F you think TEACHERS COLLEGE is a spot of The Gay Nineties* ... l,1 dulcet ease during the summer months ("Oh, * SCHEDULED FOR YOUR JANUARY, 1940, issue do you go right on working in the summer!") , (yes, that's next!) is a feature tentatively entitled: you should visit the Bureau of Publications, where " College Hill in the Gay Nineties." This should be this magazine is produced. As a matter of fact, timely, because just fifty years ago the country we would like to have you visit us. During the was washing off the dust of the Gilded Age and month of August, you would have found a total limbering up for the Gay Nineties. Further, the of five student publications under simultaneous TEACHERS COLLEGE class of 1890 is celebrating its production, plus the next college catalog, with half-century mark in 1940. Wanted: your mem "Opportunity in Education" but recently out of ories of the Nineties ( they were ten years long), the way. Nor does that stint include THE ALUM and your sharp, clear pictures from the same period. NUS, The Prowl, the sports "dope" book, the If you read the Alumni News section, which weekly editions of the College Eye, and the first you probably do, you will notice an almost barren but lusty yells of the 1940 Old Gold. gap between the years 1890 and 1922. In fact, As a result, another problem further congests just three oases enliven this desert, and we want to the already heavy summer traffic : that of finding know why. If you were graduated during this a vacation. One of the members of the staff headed period - and it takes in a lot of territory- or if to the periphery for two weeks of relaxation, only you know someone who was graduated during this to go so completely daft thinking about the maga period, send in an item. You will find a personal zine - this magazine - that he drove 200 miles news blank on page 3 1. Also note the questionnaire. back, all by himself, to get the job out of the way! This practice is not recommended for general Intransigent Graduates* . . . usage, however, even if you are as busy as we, and * AL THOUGH THE TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD we know you are. So on with the Parade! OF PLACEMENT still stands admirably high - close to 90 per cent of all graduates have been Retirements, Hours,* Enrollment placed - this year's percentage dropped several * HARRY C. CUMMINS, associate professor of points below that of last year. Dr. E. W. Goetch, commercial education; Dr. Frank N. Mead, health head of the Placement Bureau, lists three reasons director; and Miss Jessie L. Ferguson, reference for the drop. In the first place, he declares, com librarian, all retired to part-time service at the petition for the same number of jobs grew espe conclusion of the summer quarter. Read the sketch cially keen, in keeping with the trend of recent about these three on page 12. years. In the second place, more teachers held on Veteran teachers, with one year of experience to their jobs for 1939-40 instead of moving out on up, had to respect hour regulations this summer to positions in other fields. As a consequence, the just as the co-eds who have yet to be tested by percentage of turnover was low. And finally, and their first job. T en o'clock on week nights, mid quite significantly, Dr. Goetch declares that a few night on Friday, eleven o'clock on Saturday graduates caused themselves much grief because those were the rules ... they persisted in demanding salaries which were Enrollment dropped to 1, 585 students for the out of reach for inexperienced teachers. In con quarter just recently ended. Blame it on the trast to these three factors, the placement head
Page Two THE ALUMNUS October pointed out that the b·•reau received about the and twenty-four enlargements from the booklet, same number of calls as it did last year, for the "Opportunity in Education." reason that more and more schools are looking to TEACHERS COLLEGE for professionally trained World Premiere, *Buildings ... teachers. * BUILDING DAY AND NIGHT, workmen readied a twenty-row addition to the football stadium in Other Faculty Changes* time for the opening of the gridiron season, Sep * CHANGES IN THE HOME EcoNOMICS DEPART tember 23. The new addition to the women's MENT faculty this year see Agnes McClelland, dormitory has taken its place among the family of instructor in home economics, serving as acting campus buildings, but the co-eds will not move head. She replaces Dr. Beatrice Geiger, now head in until the beginning of the winter quarter.. . of the Home Economics department of Indiana A world premiere enlivened the campus, July University. Elizabeth Nyholm, who has been 27 and 28, with the production of "Foot-Loose," a teaching in the Council Bluffs high schools, is a comedy written for high school presentation by new instructor in foods and nutrition, succeeding Charles Quimby Burdette and directed by Herbert Mary I. Campbell, who accompanied Miss Geiger V. Hake, technical director of play production. to Indiana. Rose Hanson of the training school Anything but shallow, the humor packed a mean will also teach part-time in the Home Economics ing, and a roar of whole-hearted approval greeted department. author, director, and players at the conclusion of Emil Bock, holder of the Bachelor and Master each of two performances. With the theme that degrees in music from Northwestern University, young people can learn more if left to their own joins the music faculty as instructor in violin. He devices - rather than to the close care of their replaces Anthony Donato, who resigned to be parents, the author developed his idea with a deft come head of the violin department of the Uni touch and caught the spirit of high school youth versity of Texas. On September 3, Mr. Bock ap exactly. "Foot-Loose" was unique in its fusion of peared as violin soloist with the Grant Park comedy and reality... Orchestra, Chicago. About 200 students were graduated at the end Taking Dr. Mead's place is Dr. Max L. Durfee of the summer quarter. Dr. M. G. Neale, former of the University of Michigan. Dr. Durfee has president of the University of Idaho and now pro been a member of the health service at Michigan fessor of educational administration at the Uni for the past three years. versity of Minnesota, was the commencement Susan B. Hill, personnel assistant in Bartlett speaker. Hall, has resigned to become dean of women at the Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Now-16,500. * Michigan. No successor has yet been selected. * WITH THE CLASS OF 1939 now on its way to success, THE ALUMNUS has increased its print Color on the Campus* ... order to 16,500 copies per issue, every single one * CoLOR AND GRANDEUR on the TEACHERS COL of which is delivered free throughout the world. LEGE campus may escape the casual eye, but not Readers may also note that with this issue the the faithful eye of the movie camera, loaded with pages have been widened and the size of type color film. High and low greens, cool blues, reds, enlarged ... flashes of yellow, purple shadows - plus the life of moving students against the background of The Cover Picture* glorious campus buildings - all this and more was * THE PICTURE OF THE CAMPANILE ON THE captured this summer on four hundred feet of COVER was taken on infra-red film by Don Gal Kodachrome film, and shown at the Iowa State breath, now teaching near Radcliffe. The negative Fair in Des Moines. Also showing at the TEACHERS was made through a deep red, almost black filter COLLEGE exhibit were color slides of the campus on film which accepts infra-red light rays.
19 39 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Three HE' 0 HI \VAY TO SERIOU BU I ' ES
* tepping down the main stairway of the new find anywhere. In eerley Hall he profit - as do Homer H. eerley Hall for Men, the young man men in the George T. Baker Hall - from an pictured above is headed for ome mighty erious ideal environment in which to study, play, and business. Book in hand, he's on his way to class. live. On the following page you will di cover And in preparing mind and body for that serious why he prefers to think of his residence as ,\ business, he ha enjoyed the opportunities offered club, not as a glorified hotel. by one of the finest units for living that he could
Page F0'/1.r THE ALUM U October nearly any time of the day you can, if you are near DFOE MDEN 0 LY enough, hear the down- stairs radio, the crack of The Alumnus invites you inside the pool and billiard balls, the shuffle of cards, the new residence halls at Teachers rhythmic snap-snap of ping pong balls. College, to see what goes on there. \'v'hat happens? "Next on that paper, Baron," announces Joe College, sauntering into the pleasant bJ, DAVID IRWIN, '42, AND STAFF solarium, or sun room, of Baker Hall. And Joe joins several other pals in reading newspapers and magazines or in listening to the radio. In both dormitories a variety of magazines and newspapers, o THE great majority of T EACHERS COL both local and state, is always awaiting those men T LEGE alumni, the new campus dormitories who are anxious to keep up with the dizzy times stand unknown, a li vely sort of mystery as yet or who want to snatch a few minutes of enter unexplored. What, for example, lies behind the tainment. modern brick and stone and glass exteriors of the As for the best good times of all , no one George T. Baker Hall for Men, completed in 1936, seems to know exactly how they start. Young men and the Homer H. Seerley Hall for Men, com begin to drift into one room or another - and a pleted in 19 3 8? And what of the life inside th::ise "bull session," perhaps a classic one, is under way. exteriors? Every topic under the su n, from religion to sex, Whether Joe College lives in Baker or in Seer is raked over the coals-and sensibly, too. Friendly ley, he is , in association w ith 229 other men, arguments arise, but nothing comes of them. At enjoying living quarters which are dedicated "to least the right of self-expression is never denied the art of living and to the enrichment of life ..." any man. And while Joe does not remain conscious of such Every once in a while, Joe College spends a a lofty declaration in his every move, yet, in few minutes in the director's office. When his best enjoying his memorable good time, he does not girl fails to write (if she li ves out of town), or think of his college home as simply a place to if the money from home is dangerously late, or hang his hat and to bunk. Residents of the new when he thinks he's flunked that important exam men's dormitories prefer to think of their halls - on th~se occasions the director will offer him a as clubs, not as glorified hotels. word of encouragement or advice. Things are not Joe College studies hard, just as hard an d so bad as they sometimes seem. perhaps harder ~han his father or grandfather, if you please. True, he is less restrained by rules D emocratic Government and regulations than his predecessors were. On For the important business of living with a the other hand, his is a personal responsibility to group of fellow students, a democratic form of succeed; and if he wanders into monkey-business government guides the men of both residence halls. at night, he has only himself to blame. Conse A democratically elected student council, in which quently, Joe College works hard in fulfilling his executive, legislative, and judicial powers arc responsibility. The lighted windows you see at vested, governs the residents. night from south of the Campanile mean but And how different are Baker and Seerley halls one thing: men at work. from the men's sleeping quarters in the old Normal Of course, Joe does not spend all his time in School of fifty years ago! As C. Ray Aurner re study. He would be less than human if he did so, called recently in THE ALUMNUS, today's men "do and, further, college officials do not want him to. not sleep ... on straw ticks and slat beds, nor do Many leisurely hours, or half-hours, or stray they" have but one bathroom for about thirty minutes are passed in the lounges, the solariums, men. or the recreation rooms ( see following pages) . A: Now turn the page for an inside view.
1939 IO\\'lA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Fi-ve This is part of the Baker H all solarim n, described below.
buff with ceiling in ivory. A rug in square, checked designs of brown, pastel blues, and ro e * SUNLIGHT STREAMS THROUGH SOFT-TO ED, covers the floor. Inviting even green Venetian blinds. It is Sunday afternoon, and to the most casual visitor are a dozen men in Baker Hall lounge luxuriously the moderni tic chairs, with their about the radio, sprawled in easy chairs, reading gleaming chromium tubes, their the Sunday paper. Having sauntered to the overstuffed cushions and backs Solarium (pictured above) on the first floor, they of brown, black, and red leather. have come to enjoy the company of other residents Chromium finished magazine "Hello, Mary.'' of the Hall, in a room as restful in its glorious, tables and lamps with crystal shades complete the golden harmony of color as it is sophisticated in furnishings. its modernistic design and furnishings. Venetian blinds admit light from three sides, Entrance to the solarium i through any one and the room faces the sou th. Walls are of mottled of five steel-framed, full-glass doors. Through these five doors Baker Hall men may enter the main lounge, described on the following page. To the front of the building on the north, beyond Getting rested for a good 11ight's sleep the lounge, is the lobby. In the lower left-hand corner of chi page one lad takes it easy in his room, reading a magazine before going to bed. The other fellow is calling, presumably his girl, over a corridor telephone. These pictures, and the others for For Men Only, were variously taken by George H. Holmes, editor; Leroy Furry, managing editor; and Don Galbreath, summer student.
Page Six THE ALUM US October Pictured here and described below is the masculine Baker Hall lounge.
for floor lamp and radio. Daily room service 1s furnished by the college. What a far cry from the day when ormal * THE BAK ER HALL LOUNGE is really what its chool men drew their water from pumps and name signifies - a handy, masculine room with poured it from pitchers! plenty of elbow room in which to spend the time lazily. Baker Hall: Facts and Figures THE GEORGE T. BAKER HALL FOR MEL , com A deep blue rug, soft and quiet to the feet, * pleted in 19 3 6, houses 111 men and was named and mottled buff walls in contrast with a lighter after the man who was then president of the State buff ceiling - these set the tone, brightened with Board of Education. On the outer quadrangle, splashes of red and gleams of shining chromium, south of the Campanile, Baker Hall measures forty sharpened with black. On the north side of the feet in width and 190 room, opposite the solarium, the men loll near a David Irwin and friend feet in length. The modernistic fireplace. Or, benea th expansive cir dormitory is a three cular mirrors at each end of the room, they sink story building plus into red leather davenports, not far from built-in basement and in book shelves, loaded with books. cludes forty-six But the lounge does not furnish the locale for double rooms, nine all operations; studying must be done, and most teen single rooms, of it is done in the single or private rooms. Stu three guest rooms, a dents' rooms in both Baker and Seerley Halls are matron's suite, a furnished with single beds, mattresses, pillows, housekeeper's suite, blankets, cot covers, easy chairs, and built-in desks an office, a lounge, a and wardrobes. Each man, further, enjoys hot and recreation room, and cold water, ample lighting at his desk, and outlets a pressing room.
1939 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Seven * u IQU . TO y H ALL LO G E are its panels of fl awle sly refl ecting mirrors, extending from the floor co che ceiling on a pare of the north ide of che room. These mirro rs, pictured below w ith ocher pares of the lounge, po s ibly bewitched you as you first glanced at the picture. The screen-covered :fireplace cand at che bottom of the c enter panel; in the in1mediace foreground A ction ht t he recret1 t imt room , Seerley H t1ll gleam p are of a bl ack, overstuffed da ve nporc. The mirrors reilecc a portion of t he res t o f ch e moderni tic furniture of red, buff, and bl ack. The room, a nd, p as t the doorways, a pare of the :fi ve double doorways, three of which r efl ect from solarium. t he mirrors in the pi cture below, open ouchward With the exception of from che lounge to the s olarium , with its light \'(l ay ne Bt1rr, B. A. ' 35 thee mirror, the remain gree n V enetian blind , it chromium and lea ther der of ee rley H all lounge fu r:i icure, it perfec cl y harmoni zing pictures. compares closely w ith chat Another fea ture of ee rley Hall is its scairw::iy, of Baker H all . In ee rley pi ctured on page four. Gray marble s eeps a nd you wi ll :find a deep b lue bras and aluminum rails lead upward against a rug of ev en, s ubdued p at background of tran lucent glass brick. tern; light b uff wall s w ith A nd if ee rley stairway lead upward to cor a ceilin g of pas tel gree n ; ridor and rooms, it also leads downward to t he built-in book cases; lamps recrea tion room, much like the one in Baker H all of chromium and ebony in its modernistic treatment, a nd to t he k itchen and fr o s t e d glass ; and across the hall.
These are the SeerleJI Hall mirrors. R ead about theni above. che picture below are two small alcoves, to right and left, furnished in chairs * 0 CE INSIDE BAKER HALL, the college man and eats of brown and passes the magic of its circular tairway with the red velour. fluted chandelier, stabbing downward in the cen To the left and in ter. (See front cover, THE ALUM us, July, 19 3 6.) the center of this page is But he does not pause long. pictured a small unit of Beyond the stairway lies the reception room, the Seerley solarium. The dividing Baker Hall into two wings, the corridor young man who is shown In Baker office of one of which is shown in the picture below. telephoning in the other The table is of dark, polished oak, the lamps of picture works in the dormitory office. dull gold with crystal shades trimmed in brown design. Two full-glass doors open into the lounge, Seerley Hall: Facts and Figur es pictured and described on page 7. ot hown in * THE HOMER H. EERLEY HALL FOR ME ' completed in 1938, houses 119 men and was named A m,it of Seerley Hall solarium after the second and long-time president of TEACHERS COLLEGE. Placed just east of Baker Hall, eerley Hall is similar in dimensions and is closely comparable in design to its neighbor. A three story building plu full basement, Seerley Hall contains fifty-three double room , eighteen ingle rooms, an office, a lobby, a lounge, a recrea tion room, a pressing room, director' and house keeper's rooms, and a kitchenette. The building o constructed that wings can be added at a later date, thus providing for a total of 297 men. WPA furni hed part of the cost.
T w o college 11ien tak e it easy in Bake1· H all reception r oo11i, described above. READ on these pages the three amusing, yet valuable articles of experience and resolution - written for The Alumnus by three of your fellow alumni . . .
OVER THE FENCE - A JOB told the wife that the first teacher that came today got it." by Mrs. Cecil L. Sickles No qualifications, no re.ferences - as simple as (Maxine Lance), Rur. '26 that. Since then I have married, and now I have four HEN I finished the old one-year w rural course sons, and I am the Director. Teachers com~ to my in '26, I came home full of hopes and ambi door to apply. The girls are well dressed; but they tions. Getting my first school was perfectly simple all seem a good deal alike. Their make-up is alike, - for my Dad. He simply said, "I've done John their hair styles similar. I look at them, wondering. King a favor or two, and he is the director over at No. 3." * * * We drove over to John King's. I sat in the car. I NEEDED A BATH Dad leaned on the fence on one side, and J. King by Clara Gridley, H.Ec. '30 leaned against it on the inside. The conversation went something like this - be- J GOT my second teaching position because I ginning with Dad: needed a bath. I had a nap and a glass of iced "Fine corn you've got there, King." tea in the bargain. And this is the way it happened. "Yeah, plenty weedy, though. Needs rain, too." After an all-day train ride, including two stop "Looks like we might get some." overs, I finally arrived in the small northwest Iowa " Not much chance. I never saw a drier July. town, where I had been summoned to make a Clouds up, but no rain." "personal." Since no one met the train, I questioned "May yet, can't tell. Say, you hired a teacher the station agent and learned that the superin yet?" tendent had gone to a nearby town, swimming. " Nope, been several around, but I hain't said Somewhat chagrined and not a little bewildered, I 'yes' to any of them yet." set out to explore the place. This didn't take long. "Well, this girl of mine just got home from col I found that there was nothing to do but sit on the lege. Made good grades, too. Like to have you superintendent's front porch or go back to the give her a chance at it." depot waiting room. I chose the former. Within "Might as well. Tell her the secretary will write an hour the superintendent came home, met me on out her contract." the door steps, and I was the target for a volley of questions in rapid-fire succession. The interview A Friend of Mine left me fairly gasping for breath. That same spring a friend of mine, worn out But the worst was yet to come. "Mrs. X, the with walking across plowed fields to hold embar only woman on our board, would like to discon rassing and unsatisfactory conversations, called at tinue home economics," remarked the superintend a director's home at 6 o'clock - in the morning ent. "If you can sell yourself to her, the job is in person. yours. I'll take you to her house in the car and The director himself came to the door in his save time." stocking feet. As soon as my friend had told him I was deposited on the woman's doorstep in who she was and what she wanted, he answered less time than it takes to tell about it. Following this way, "You sure can have the school. I just introductions, I was left to plead my cause.
Page T en THE ALUMNUS October Madame X was an attractive, well-educated 1. Be friendly. I put this first, because it seems woman who made me feel at ease almost immedi to be the quality which village folks think most ately. She asked a few questions, and soon we of. When I went for my "personal," the school were discussing recipes and I was admiring her board members chatted gaily about their corn, latest batch of apple jell. their hogs, their families, and their schools, and yet Bath Salts, T oo their enthusiasm seemed somehow contagious. Dad Imagine my surprise when she suggested that grew up in a little town himself, and he's glad that I lie down for a nap, while she made some iced tea. my first job is to teach the children of the great It was one of the hottest days in July, and I must middle class. He thinks these people are the salt have looked wilted, for the glass of tea was ac of the earth. "Spend your week-ends there, learn companied with the announcement that a tub of about the people, and you'll be happier for it," water was awaiting me in the bathroom. She had he says. even added bath salts! While bathing, I reflected 2. Be sensible. Mother pointed out that people that here indeed was the most thoughtful and con in hamlets take life a bit easier and slower than siderate school board member I had ever encoun we do here in Omaha. She says that it isn't essential tered. that one's clothes and make-up be ultra modern. I dressed carefully, wearing the new hat I had In fact, people are inclined to resent what they bought for this occasion. We proceeded to the believe is an attempt at superiority to the life and school house, where we found the other board customs they know and respect. members seated around the dining room table in 3. Have my lessons thoroughly prepared, al the home economics room. ways. Dad laughs and says I should pay the school For the third and last time, I was questioned. board my first year: but I intend to put forth my And of all things, I was asked to take off my hat, finest effort. Every day when I step before my so they might get a better view of my face! A class, I want to be in the position to answer any short discussion of methods, salary, and discipline reasonable question a student wishes to ask me. followed, after which I was asked to leave the Somehow, I don't think it is honest to accept room while the jury reached a verdict. In a short money and not give honest service in return. time (it seemed like an hour), I was recalled and 4. Adjust myself to the community in which told that I would receive a contract in a few days. I teach. My parents are rather liberal, and on oc Yet another surprise was in store for me. I casions Dad serves cocktails in our home, and I was invited to a neighbor's home to eat ice cream have been known to smoke, though not habitually. and cake. On the other hand, Dad says that if I indulge in About an hour later, I boarded the train for either cocktail drinking or smoking in the town the return trip to school, fully convinced that in which I teach, he'll take me across his knee as school board members are not such a bad lot though I were a ten-year-old. He also suggests after all. that since Bill and I have a sort of understanding, I confine my amorous instincts to him. PRELUDE* TO* *SUCCESS 5. Develop charm, poise, dignity, and broad by Mary Jane• interests. The charm, poise, and dignity of the D EAR DIARY: I am to leave tomorrow for drawing room probably aren't the same qualities my first job, and I want to make a success we find in the classroom. Fairness, courtesy, tact, of it more than I've ever wanted anything before and tolerance of another's point of view are essen in all my life! When I indulge in wishful thinking, tial. As far as developing broad interest is con I regret that I'm not to be in a large place, but one cerned, believe it or not, I've learned to knit, have must start somewhere. Besides, it's near to home, started an interior decorating scrapbook, and have and Bill. I must be a good soldier; so I have drawn a list of my favorite radio programs to tune in on up my code of ethics on the subject: "How to Live the new Philco Dad bought me. Mother entered in a Village - Happily." my membership in the Book-of-the-Month Club, ( Cone/ u.ded 011 page fifteen)
193 9 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Eleven ~hree g.aithful Servants
by MILDRED HOLLY Secretary, Bureau of Publications
A feature on three Teachers College workers, now retired to pai·t-ti11ie service
A PROFESSOR who has taught penmanship " I had a v1s1on of a separate department for for more than forty years; a physician who the training of commercial teachers. Fr Pa ge Twelve THE ALUMNUS October in football; days, too, when faculty members were of my farms. So now personally responsible for the financial success of that I will be working the teams. only part time, I will "If the games didn't pay out, Professors Wal at least have my after ters, Parish, and I often signed notes at the bank noons free for them," to borrow money to pay the deficit," he said. "I he exclaimed. After he bet there aren't many faculty members who would has completed his serv do that now. And I don't suppose I would either." ice at the college, Dr. Professor Cummins feels that after 41 years Mead plans to return of consecutive service, he deserves a vacation. to the old "home "Mrs. Cummins and I have planned to go to Miss Ferguson farm," near Shell Rock, Florida this winter, so I hope to be able to take where he was born. a term off. It will seem odd to be away from the Miss Ferguson . . . college, but at least it will be a change," he said. * AND WHAT ABOUT Miss FERGUSON? She says quietly, "I am a librarian." And she means just D r. Mead . .. that. For years Miss Ferguson has worked in * ANOTHER l'IGURE, FAMILIAR TO MANY HUN libraries - T EACHERS COLLEGE library for sixteen DREDS OF TEACHERS COLLEGE alumni, is, of years and the Chicago Art Institute before that. course, Dr. Mead, retiring health director. Nearly And she loves it. every student who has been on the campus since "It would be unthinkable for me to be away 1920 has come into contact with Dr. Mead. from a library. I always want to be near one," Students remember his "pink pills," and also she said. the physical examinations. Ask Dr. Mead what And hers is the voice of experience, for she stands out most in his college career, and the has tried other vocations. She started out as a answer will be " physical examinations." teacher in the public schools of Illinois, Kansas, "I've made a lot of them - more than anyone and Kentucky. Then she went to James Millikan else around here. Just how many I can't say. But University, Decatur, Illinois, where she received if you were to figure how many different students her B.A. degree in library science. have attended T EACHE RS COLLEGE since 1920, After a summer spent at the University of you would come pretty close to the exact number," Illinois library school, she was librarian at Ferry the venerable physician said. Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois, a six-year girls' boarding Besides the nineteen years on College Hill, Dr. school. After several years there, she became Mead has spent another quarter of a century in general secretary for the Y.W.C.A. in Evansville, private practice. After graduation from the Uni Indiana. She left Evansville, however, to go to the versity of Iowa and the University of Pennsylvania Art Institute in Chicago, where she was assistant medical schools, he returned to his native Iowa to reference librarian. From there she came to practice. He was a TEACHERS COLLEGE as head of the circulation practicing physician in Dr. Mead department. Cedar Falls for nearly In 1930, Miss Ferguson was made reference twenty years before he librarian. "Reference is my favorite work in the joined the faculty. library. I enjoy the contacts with students and What is Dr. Mead faculty so much," she said. going to do with his Always in her work this unassuming woman spare time now? The has been in touch with young people, and espe prompt reply is "farm cially with college students. Students, too, have ing." always enjoyed her helpful attitude. "She knows "I've always been a lot about everything," was the way one student too busy to take care characterized her work in the library. 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Thirteen September 30 - Creighton University at Omaha. The Prowl October 6 - Universi ty of North Dakota at Grand A Line on Panther Sports Forks. THE breaking in has been done, and now the October 14 - Kansas State Teachers College ( Em recently completed low A ST ATE TEACHERS poria) at Cedar Falls (Dad's Day). "· COLLEGE Stadium is all set for you Panther grad October 21 - Western State Teachers College uates and fans who are planning to be here October (Kalamazoo, Michigan) at Cedar Falls (Home 21. Since The Prowl is written in early August, coming). ,:- it is hard to say what kind of a team will perform October 28 - Coe College at Cedar Rapids. for you - but an interesting contest between the November 4 - Morningside College at Sioux City. Panthers and the Broncos of Western State Teach November 11 - University of South Dakota at ers College can be predicted. Win or lose, these Vermillion. two teams always put on a show. November 18 - North Dakota Stace College at Cedar Falls. ,,. The New Stadium* ... ''·Home games. * LABORING DAY AND NIGHT in order to get the * new football stadium ready, workmen have turned Basketball ... out one of the finest plants in the country. Ap * RUNNERUP FOR TWO YEARS IN A ROW , the proximately 6,000 permanent seats will be waiting T EACHE RS COLLEGE basketball squad is hoping to October 21 for the twentieth annual Homecoming move up that final notch as Coach Oliver M. game. In addition to the permanent seats, there Nordly develops his third Panther team. More will be enough temporary wooden bleachers erected soundly bolstered by veterans than at any time to handle 2,000 more spectators. since 19 3 2, the team is given an even chance to Every available form of convenience has been oust the 1938-39 champions, the Universi ty of incorporated into the new stadium. In addition to South Dakota. the 6,000 seats for the fans, there is the unique However, there are five other teams given the band section. One of the few arrangements of the same chance to oust the champions. Not for many kind in the country, the band shell is a permanent years has the North Central seen so many veteran part of the stadium and will hold both the teams in action. T EACHERS COLLEGE bands. At the top of thirty Hoping for its share of the " breaks" in order rows of seats will be a modern press box and radio to improve on its 1938-1939 record, the T EACHE RS booth. COLLEGE team can move out onto the floor with Inside the huge structure on the mezzanine last season's starting five intact. Seven lettermen floor will be rest rooms for both men and women; are expected to be on hand. Award winaers include below the mezzanine will be locker rooms, shower Fred Lofquist, holder of the all-time scoring record rooms, equipment rooms, an indoor running track, of 194 points for TEACHERS COLLEGE, and Ed and batting cages for baseball. All in all, it might Olson, both forwards; Merlyn Gersema, 6 foot 8 be worth the trip simply to inspect the stadium, inch center; and Lyle Dodd, Ted Buchwald, Bill let alone the added premium of the Homecoming Bolt, and Bill Close, guards. football game between Western State Teachers In an effort to mould a winning team, Coach College and the Panthers. Oliver M. Nordly has drawn up the toughest schedule ever to confront a Panther quintet. 19 3 9 Football Schedule* ... Eighteen games will be played, including contests * JusT TO FRESHEN A LOT OF MEMORIES, THE with such powerful non-conference foes as the ALUMNUS is reprinting the 1939 football schedule University of Detroit, Grinnell College, Coe Col here: lege, Cornell College, and the Illinois State Teach September 23 - Northeast Missouri State Teachers ers College. In addition, eight conference games College (Kirksville) at Cedar Falls. ,.. are listed. Page Fourteen THE ALUMNUS October The 19 3 9-1940 basketball schedule: it is expected that meets will be listed with such December 7 - Coe College at Cedar Rapids. regular rivals as the University of Minnesota, the December 11 - Grinnell College at Cedar Falls::• University of Wisconsin, the University of Iowa, December 14 - Coe College at Cedar Falls. ,:• Iowa State College, and Cornell College. Others December 18 - Northeast Missouri State Teachers are likely to be added at the mid-winter meeting. College at Cedar Falls. ,:. December 27 -29 - Marshall town Invitational Tournament (Carleton and Cornell are tenta tive foes). January 4 - University of Detroit at Cedar Falls. '' January 6 - Illinois State Teachers College at Ma comb. January 13 - South Dakota State College at Cedar Falls. '~ January 20 - University of South Dakota at Ce dar Falls. ,:. This is the way the 11ew stadium, with its twe11ty additio11al rows, looked toward the end of August. January 26 - University of North Dakota at Homecomers will find the im.posi11g structure completed. Grand Forks. Watch the next Alumnus for a full-grow11 picture of a full-grow,. stadium. January 27 - North Dakota State College at Fargo. February 3-University of Omaha at Cedar Falls. ,: Fred D. Cram, *M.Di. * '08; *B.A. '09; M.A. Uni- versity of Iowa '20, was re-elected N.E.A. director February 5 - Grinnell College at Grinnell. for Iowa for the seventh year at the N.E.A. con February 10-Morningside College at Cedar Falls. ,:. vention in San Francisco this summer. Mr. Cram February 12 - Missouri State Teachers College at is also a member of the national executive council. Kirksville. He is associate professor of education, Extension February 17 - University of Omaha at Omaha. Service. February 24 - Morningside College at Sioux City. ,:·Home games. 1 9 3 2 * Walter C. Clauson, B.S. '32, superintendent of Wrestling ... * schools at Farmersburg for three and one-half years, died May 17. He had previously taught at CoACH DAVE McCusKEY will have to wait * Waterville and Waukon. His wife, the former until the start of the winter quarter before know Dorothy Wright, Cedar Rapids, died on March 2, ing his wrestling personnel and will have to wait 1938. A son, Richard, survives. Mr. Clauson re until almost Christmas before he knows whom his ceived his M.S. degree from Iowa State College in grapplers are to meet. 1937. Eight lettermen have more competition in the Clesta Landtiser, B.S. '32, died in 1937 in collegiate circles, but eligibility may reduce the Whittier, Calif., following a long illness. squad before the regular season. The seniors on the list include August Bolinski, Merwyn Bahling, Prelude to Success . . . Dean Breitbach, Walter Hummel, and Hugh Rob (Continued from page eleven) erts. Juniors are Vernon Hassman, Delbert Jensen, and Jimmy, bless his heart, bought me a year's and Roger Isaacson. subscription to The Reader's Digest. Many pitfalls stand in the way of several fine They're all so good to me. I've got to succeed sophomore prospects; McCuskey, however, is hope for them. I will, so help me! ful that enough of them will hurdle scholastic diffi Good night, dear diary, culties before next December. Mary Jane,:. The schedule cannot be arranged until the De ,:-"Mary Jane" is a pseudonym and does not repre cember meeting of the Conference. At that time sent any individual who may bear that name. 1939 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Fifteen such and such a page in the approved geography THE PRICE OF books"? How can the theory of "each child to his own STANDARDIZATION best degree of accomplishment" be preserved when all must be jammed through on schedule, like GEORGE H. HOLMES, EDITOR roughed-out metal, to an approved if not an exact calibration? Certainly, it can be said that quantitative standardization has achieved in part its primary purposes. It is now possible for American families to vagabond with the relative assurance ~ HEER n Page Sixteen THE ALUMNUS October The catidid action pictm·es o,i this page were take1t by Doti Galbreath, while Mr. S11iith (that's his ktiee i1i the fourth pictm·e fro·m the left) was interviewi1ig Miss Closso,i. Note the expressive11 ess of f eatures t1nd gestu,·es. Laura Closson: a Portrait by LEE Z. SMITH, B.A. '3 5 young brother into WHEN Laura The personal f ealttre article beginning the water tank, she Closson, Pri. here tells the story of one alumna from '35 and B.A. '39, the many who, by hard work and laug hed with the knew that she was application, are succeeding. But the rest. When he start going to teach kin article is more than a success story - ed to cry, she began dergarten in Newton it is anecdote with meaning. to question the this year, she was so deed, not from any happy that she could not contain herself. squeamish concern over his physical safe Laura Closson was tickled; as a matter of ty, but from a quiet and mature con fact, she was tickled pink. sideration for his psychological future as Did she have any big plans for her job? a boy. " No," answered Laura, "except that I One day last summer Laura and the rest want to make good. I've got to, that's all." of the folks on the farm went for a hike, But only the closest of Laura's friends a long one, down the lane, onto a knew that years of struggle, indecision, country road. Since it was a long hike - and personal growth lay behind that pro and many feet grew tired, one of the men mise of victory - plus a grim determina drove along in a car to pick up the weary tion to succeed, a mark distinguishing not walkers. He picked up all of them - all, only Laura Closson but also many another that is, except Laura and brother Ted. kindergarten-primary graduate. Laura said They were having too good a time to it of tennis, but she might as well have ge ther. And besides, here was a project said it of herself in any line of endeavor: begun, but not yet finished. " I'm out to win." Determination and the willingness to An active girl, Laura likes to visit her put forth extra effort may be ingrained in uncle's farm even better than she likes to Laura Closson's personality. But that does play tennis. " The farm is a grand place not imply that she had always determined for release," she declares. " It quiets your to be a teacher. nerves." But quieting nerves means To tell the truth, Laura floundered in for Laura simply a change of activity. indecision after having been graduated When she helped her relatives dump her from West High School in Waterloo with 1939 IOWA STA TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Seventeen the class of 1931 - just as the Great Depression Indeed Laura's weakness became her strength; gathered force. for, cautioned by her love of children, she guided Wanting to attend an eastern girls' school, her nervous energy into channels more tolerant, Laura knew that step to be impossible. She con more diplomatic, more patient than she had known tinued piano lessons and enlarged an abiding love before. TEACHERS COLLEGE meant for her a of good music, earning the cost of the lessons for growth in personality, not vague, but meaningful ten years by ironing and dusting for her teacher. and specific. Nor was that all. While she marked time between In the nursery school Laura sat voluntarily with high school and the future, she cared for children, the children during rest periods, telling or reading waited table at dinners, ironed and did house work a story to them, and she often played the piano and for her acquaintances. sang. She liked especially to help the tots with "And I was lucky to get ten or fifteen cents creative activity, and amazed observers with her an hour," Laura explains. patience and dexterity in helping the children fix Then came a revealing - and saving - per broken toys. One day the nursery school decided sonal discovery. Her church in Waterloo needed a to give away a broken wagon for which they could Sunday school teacher, and the minister asked find no further use. Did Laura know of anybody Laura if she would like to try. To the challenge who might want to fix it and use it? She did. of little children, Laura responded with vigorous Laura took the wagon home to Ted, the little eagerness. And she discovered for once and all the brother, and the two of them repaired it with glee. drive of her interest in children. In that drive she found, too, a beginning interest in the work of The Story of Carl ... teaching. * WHEN LAURA WENT To QUIMBY to teach first Laura became superintendent of the nursery grade in the fall of 1936, she took with her a department. Impulsively, she altered methods personal equipment which would not have been which she deemed ill-adapted to small tots. Any possible two years before, when she had entered one else but Laura Closson might have hurt feel TEACHERS COLLEGE. ings, aroused antagonism. Her generosity, how The story of Carl tells the tale. A large Swedish ever, her good will, her determination to give more boy, Carl exhibited one outstanding trait: his ex than was required - these qualities saved her. cessive bashfulness. One day, after a long period Friends and members of her family became of silence, Carl made one sudden statement: "I've interested in her success-among them her mother, got a pony." "who thinks we children never work to the best Eager to press the advantage this statement of our capacity." With these people forming a offered, Miss Closson asked where he got his pony. background of her determination to succeed, Laura "My father bought it for me at the plowing Closson entered TEACHERS COLLEGE in the fall of match." 1934. Three and one-half years of indecision lay Seizing the opportunity to help Carl find a behind her; an unknown future opened before her, place in the group, -Laura made a room project from to test her character with the fire of actual events. Carl's statement, complete with pictures and stories. But one day, while the project was still in College - A Place for full swing, Laura met one of the boy's sisters and Personal Growth ... asked her how Carl was enjoying his pony. * ONCE IN COLLEGE, Laura's impulsiveness, her "What pony?" the sister retorted. "Carl frankness, and her quick determination led her at doesn't have a pony. He's probably told you times into hot water. Sometimes proprieties meant · another one of his lies. He's always getting spanked only impediments to the sudden accomplishment at home for telling lies." of her purpose. I mention this fact without hesi When Laura had recovered from the shock, tation, because in the light of subsequent events it she cautioned the sister not to tell the family about reveals not weakness of character, but strength. the incident. Whereupon the sister told the whole Page Eighteen THE ALUMNUS October from home, and I could easily visualize W. A. letters ~ ~ Bartlett's description. For a long time I have felt a stranger to the DEAR EDITOR: I opened my ALUMNUS today many alumni, and to the articles, but this July with a feeling of emotion, for I knew that the ALUMNUS has taken me back to the days of the October number would record the passing of an early nineties, even back to the time when we got other early day student, Alice Richardson Har out our first Iowa State Normal School paper, grave of Seattle, Washington. The Normalite! Romanzo Adams was chairman, Turning to the Alumni News section I found and I was one of the humble members of the com several familiar names, but soon I was again among mittee that brought out the first issue. I think strangers, because I had entered the Normal School Leslie R eed was on that committee, too . .. in 18 89 and was graduated in 1892 ! Ella Earheart, W. H. Manifold, Leroy Wescott, I then discovered the picture of those who had and my husband, Joseph E. Clayton, are among been graduated fifty or more years ago, and there those who have passed away. And now Allie I discovered the once familiar faces of Bertha Richardson, whose lovely voice in song and charm Bishop, Pauline Leader, C. A. Fullerton, Mrs. D. ing personality cheered us, is gone. In her home Sands Wright, and others. Somehow THE ALUM in Seattle, Vinnie Mowry, Allie, and I have often NUS was suddenly taking on new interest to me, reminisced together. Vinnie has retired after many taking me back to the days of long ago. years of teaching in Seattle, and lives at 2414 One could not mistake the portrait of Forest North Forty-First Street. Chester Ensign, whose marvelous good humor There are many of us whose names are not seems still to be with him, although his great known to the present regime, but our loyalty is dignity and gracious appearance must have added as great as ever and when recently I stood for only to the applause when he gave that wonderful and a few minutes on the old college grounds, I knew timely baccalaureate address at commencement. I that I had lost none of my interest in the welfare have just read that text with profound interest and of my Alma Mater. admiration. -Ivah Blank Clayton (Mrs. J.E. Clayton) Your "Dear Editor" column was like a letter B.Di. '92; 309 Main Street, Mobridge, South Dakota story at home, and the problem was made all the more difficult for the teacher when Carl received Standardization . . . a sound spanking from his father for telling (Continued from page sixteen ) another lie. this "quantitative" method of the present day. Undaunted, however, Laura Closson made a There is a better way, and one which fits in with friendly approach to Carl. "A joke has been the whole trend of modern educational method - played," she said, "- a joke on the teacher, or on the way of measurement of end result, the measure you, or on the class. It was a good story, Carl, ment of real accomplishment rather than scheduled just like we read out of our story-books." Never exposure to subject matter. Valid, comprehensive, once did Miss Closson mention the word "lie." objective tests, widely conceived and universally Catching the humor of the situation, Carl recognized, could be adopted. These could be so laughed with the teacher and the rest of the class. devised as to measure not merely knowledge but His triumph followed soon afterward, when he skill and understanding. They could measure the read a story before the first and second grades in real level of accomplishment as against widely a joint program. Carl had become a member of varied local tests, no two of which are the same, the group. few of which approach anything like accurate Down in Newton, Iowa, in the Lincoln School measurement of intellectual status. kindergarten, the children there are enjoying the Let's standardize on quality, rather than quan benefit of a teacher who expresses the determination tity, on an educational medium of exchange that to do the best she knows how, even if it takes extra will allow real progress in classroom method rather effort. than one that actually inhibits intelligent change. 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Nineteen Responding to Mr. Doderer's first appeal were Reunions~~ C. Ray Aurner, L. H . Bock, Bruce Francis, Maude E. Milliman, and Carrie B. H ickman, all of whom plan to attend the reunion. New Des Moines D inner Writes Mr. Doderer: "The class of 1890 num * A NEW PLACE, A NEW PRICE, a new program - bered sixty-eight, and, of these, thirty-one have and new plans in general - make the annual din passed over the Great Divide, while approximately ner in Des Moines, November 3, a unique affair thirty-seven remain on terra firma. (See Alumni for alumni. The main dining room of Y ounker's News, " 1890," for a complete list of this class, Tea Room is the place, from 5 :00 to 7 :00 p.m., as furnished to THE ALUMNUS by the Bureau of the time, and eighty-five cents the price, a reduc Alumni Affairs.- Ed.) tion from last year's dollar dinner. And, as "He who controls the destinies of man," con another innovation, the T EACHERS COLLEGE Verse tinues Mr. Doderer, "has greatly favored this class Speaking Choir, under the direction of Miss Hazel in that so many are here after a half-century span. B. Strayer, will occupy the entertainment spotlight. This will probably be the last earthly reunion, the Nor is that all. When you plan to attend the last handshake, the last farewell." dinner, you may arrange to sit at an individual table provided for alumni of various campus or Anaheim, C ali*fo rnia ganizations. Groups so far having tables of their * AN AFTERNOON OF POETRY in Anaheim, Cali own include Gamma Theta Upsilon, Miss Alison fornia, reunited several alumnae and former Aitchison, faculty adviser; Pi Omega Pi, Dr. Lloyd students of T EACHERS COLLEGE recently. The oc V. Douglas, faculty adviser; and Sigma Tau Delta, casion was the meeting of the book section of the Miss Selina M. Terry, faculty adviser. If, as a Ebell Club. member of another campus group, you are inter Leader of the meeting was Mrs . Leo J. Friis ested in reserving other table space, advise the (Lena Jane Carlson), B.A. '25. Mrs. John W. Bureau of Alumni Affairs of your interest at once. Charles of Cedar Falls, wife of Dr. Charles of the Make your arrangements early - though it may be Department of Education, was guest speaker, pre possible to make a few last minute plans at the senting a talk on Emily Dickinson. college booth in the exhibit rooms in the basement Among those attending the meeting were Mrs. of the Shrine Temple, during the forenoon of F. Ray Alden (Gladys Severin), H.Ec. '17; Eva Friday, November 3. Gregg, B.A. '10, former faculty member at Those attending the dinner this year will also T EACHERS COLLEGE; and Mrs. Harry Peterson find it important to get there early; for serving (Myrtle Ward) and Mrs. P. C. Davidson (Janet begins as soon as several tables are filled. Further Morris), both former students. more, in order to hear the choir, the general public will be admitted to unoccupied tables in the back * of the room a few minutes before 6:00 o'clock. C hicago * CHICAGO ALUMNI will gather on Saturday, * November 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Chicago Wom Golden Reunion, Class of 1 890 an's Club, just off Michigan Avenue at Eleventh * HAVING BEEN GRADUATED just as time opened Street. Expected guests include President and the door to the Gay Nineties, the class of 1890 Mrs. 0. R. Latham; Lester C. Ary, ' 15, Cherokee is looking eagerly forward to its half-century attorney; L. L. Caldwell, '13, superintendent of reunion and celebration in the spring of 1940. schools at Hammond, Indiana, who will bring Writing an appeal in THE ALUMNUS for April, some high school musicians with him; and Hazel 1938, /. F. Doderer, 425 Columbia Avenue, Pom Strayer, '14, director of play production at ona, California, sounded the first call. And now, TEACHERS COLLEGE. Paul R. Farlow, '17, is seconded by the Bureau of Alumni Affairs, he president of the Chicago unit, which usually boasts sounds another call. the largest reunion gatherings in the country. Page Twenty THE ALUMNUS October five years, and the past year was physical education Marriages instructor at the State Juvenile Home at Toledo. Mr. Tietz is a graduate of the New Boston School, * Since wedding bells rang out for so many Illinois. TEACHERS COLLEGE alumni during the summer Ruth M. Rockwell, B.A. '28, was married to months, the marriage items are given first place Norman J. Duffy, June 19, at Louisville, Ky. in the Alumni News section in this issue. Approx Mrs. Duffy is the daughter of Mrs. Will Noble imately one-half of all items for October are Rockwell, and a granddaughter of the late Charles announcements of summer marriages - and of Bemler, pioneer resident of Cedar Falls. course, new names and new addresses. 1 9 3 0 - 1 9 3 4 1 9 2 2 - 1 9 2 8 Mildred Mason, B.A. '30, and Dan Cahalan These two alumni were married on June 17: were united in marriage, June 13. They are liv Helen Ford, Pri. '22, and L. M. Van Loh, B.A. '25. ing at 624 Jefferson St., Sulphur Springs, where The ceremony took place in Bakersfield, Calif., Mrs. Cahalan taught in the junior high school for where the couple are now living. Mrs. Van Loh several years before her marriage. has been teaching primary in the Cedar Rapids She "couldn't miss seeing THE ALUMNUS," so schools for the past nine years. Mr. Van Loh is Ruth Papke, Pri. '30, sends word of her new name merchandilier of the Bakersfield Store. For six and address. On June 17 she married Elmer T . years previously he was connected with Montgom Melberg of La Moille, where the couple are now ery, Ward and Co., at Denver, Colo., and at living. The ceremony took place at the Little Bakersfield. The address: 260 H. St., Bakersfield. Brown Church, Nashua. Mrs. Melberg taught Maxine Codner, Pri. '3 8, was married to Harold in La Moille, Rockwell City, and Carpenter School, Poppen, Allison, on June 2 5. After her gradua Ft. Dodge, before her marriage. Mr. Melberg is tion from TEACHERS COLLEGE, Mrs. Poppen school custodian at La Moille. taught for a year in the Prescott Consolidated E. Lloyd Willard, B.A. '30, Cedar Falls, was School. Mr. Poppen is employed by the Allison Hardware Co. married to Elizabeth Cuddahy Shea, Houghton, Mich., on May 29. They Lauretta McCavick, B.A. '26, was married to are making their home in Detroit, Mich., where Mr. Willard represents Raymond Rice, June 5, at Vinton. The couple are making their home near Vinton, where Mr. the Reed Machinery Co. Mrs. Willard is a gradu ate of the Houghton High School, and attended Rice is engaged in farming. Mrs. Rice, the daughter the College of St. Scholastica, of Mrs. P. J. McCavick, Cedar Falls, has been Duluth, Minn. Mr. Willard has attended the teaching mathematics at the Iowa School for the graduate college of the Blind, Vinton. University of Wisconsin. Margaret Larson, B.A. '27, and J. A. Chesnut, Another June bride was Inez Becker, El. '31, B.A. '34, were married, May 30, in Sioux Falls, who was married to Burton White, Elgin. Mrs. S. D., where they now reside at 1325 W. Twelfth White is the daughter of Mrs. Ella Becker, Little St. Before her marriage Mrs. Chesnut taught at port, and Mr. White the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawton, Sioux Center, and Carroll. Mr. Chesnut, Joseph White. The couple are living near Elgin. who formerly taught at Lawton and Mondamin, Mrs. White formerly taught at Colesburg and has is now district service manager for the Sioux City been teaching at Garner for the last four years. Journal. Florence Reineke, H . Ee. '31, became the bride Elsie Randall, B.A. '27, was married to Charles of Dr. William E. Irwin, at the bride's home at H . Tietz, July 6, at Cedar Falls. The couple are Rockford, on June 11. Mrs. Irwin is the daughter living at 1015 Tremont St., Cedar Falls, where of A. G. Reineke, Rockford, and Dr. Irwin is the Mr. Tietz is employed at the Viking Co. Mrs. Tietz son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Irwin, Cassville, Mo. was swimming instructor in Clarke College for In addition to her work at TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-one Mrs. Irwin has also studied for two years at Iowa The couple are making their home in Ida Grove. State College. For the past three years she has been Mr. Pullen is supervisor of rural electrification for teaching home economics at Anson Junior High Ida County. School, Marshalltown. Margaret Parrett, Pri. '33, became the bride of Dr. Irwin was graduated from Oklahoma State John Bliese, B.A. '3 5, at the bride's home in Batavia. College and Iowa State College, and has been a Following a wedding luncheon, the couple left for staff member of the Ames School of Veterinary California, where Mr. Bliese attended the Univer Medicine. The couple are living at Ava, Mo. sity of California summer session. Mrs. Bliese was Virginia M. Graham, Pri. '32, was married to a member of Kappa Phi, Methodist sorority, and Dale L. Shuler, Waterloo, June 18 . They are now president of her class during her last year at living at 603 Washington St., Cedar Falls. Mrs. TEACHERS COLLEGE. Mr. Bliese was a member of Shuler taught at Garner for the last two years. Mr. Kappa Delta Pi, Beta Beta Beta, and Lambda Delta Shuler is manager of a Robert Drug Co. store in Lambda, honorary societies. He has been science Waterloo. instructor in the Cedar Falls High School for three Dora Nykvist, B.A. '32, and Dr. Arthur J . years. The couple are making their home in Cedar Casey, Remsen, were married on June 5 at Endora, Falls. Kan. Mrs. Casey taught last year at Remsen, and Richard C. Sucher, B.S. '33, formerly of Cedar previously taught in Traer and Clear L~ke. She Falls and Story City, and Mary Florence Coughlan was also employed for a short time at office work of Des Moines were married, Feb. 15, at Wesley in Niagara Falls, N. Y. Dr. Casey is a graduate Church, Des Moines. Mrs. Sucher was graduated of Creighton University, and has been practicing from the Drake Conservatory of Music in 1934 and dentistry in Remsen, where the couple are making has taken an active part in musical circles in Des their home. Honeymoon was spent in California, Moines and in Amarillo, Tex. Mr. Sucher directed where Dr. Casey took graduate work at the state the Campus Playboys while in college, and is now university. engaged in the band instrument business in Amar Eleanor Pres cott, Kg. '32, daughter of Mrs. illo. Present address: 1608 Monroe St., Amarillo. Mildred M. Prescott, was married to Elwin Snell, Announcement is made of the marriage of June 24. The couple are living in Waterloo. Mrs. Harriet Gowdy, B.S. '34, to Charles Hecklinger, Snell formerly taught the first grade at St. Ansgar, June 11. Mrs. Hecklinger is the daughter of Dr. and for the last five years has been teaching in and Mrs. H . L. Gowdy, Belmond. Mr. Hecklinger Madison School, Mason City. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hecklinger. Mrs. Gladys Dorothy Prescott, B.A. '32, became the Hecklinger taught in the home economics depart bride of William S. Burbank on June 17. The ment of the Waterloo schools since 1936. She couple are now at home at 1929 Fourth St. W., previously taught at Hancock. Waterloo. Mrs. Burbank taught school in Algona Margaret Sue Graybeal, Pri. '34, was married, for the past four years. Mr. Burbank is employed June 8, to Rolland W. Esslinger. They are by the John Deere Tractor Co., Waterloo. at home at 602 Forty-eighth St., Des Moines. Before her Announcement is made of the marriage of marriage Mrs. Esslinger taught at Shannon City, Katherine Udorvich, Pri. '32, to Walter J. Peterson, Thompson, and Jefferson. Mr. Esslinger is a rep Harcourt, on June 5. The couple are living in resentative of Ginn and Co. Harcourt. Mrs. Peterson, before her marriage, taught at Lanyon. Leona Isakson, Rur. '34, writes to THE ALUM Josephine Hirons, B.A. '33, supervisor of art NUS of her marriage, June 14, to Burdette Lund in the Cedar Falls schools for the last three years, berg, Harlan. Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg are living became the bride of Charles Pullen, June 4, at in Harlan. Early. Mrs. Pullen was a member of several hon Gladys E. Lockwood, B.A. '34, and John H. orary organizations at TEACHERS COLLEGE. Mr. Stroud, Cedar Rapids, were married on June 3 at Pullen is a graduate of Iowa State College, Ames. the home of the bride's parents in Independence. Page Twenty-two THE ALUMNUS October They are making their home at 6116 Kimbark served as principal of the junior high school at Ave., Chicago, Ill. McGregor. Mr. Verploegh is instructor in the Before her marriage, Mrs. Stroud taught for schools of Van Cleve, where the couple are now three years in the Indianola High School. She also living. did graduate work at Columbia University. Mr. The marriage of Zada Corbin, Pri. '3 5, to C. Stroud, a graduate of Coe College, for several years Aubrey Smith, was solemnized on June 27, at the has been employed in Iowa emergency relief work, Cedar Heights Church, Cedar Falls. The bride is and is now doing graduate work at the University the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R . M. Corbin, Cedar of Chicago. Falls, and Mr. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Virginia M. Madson, EL '34, was married to Russell Smith, Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. Smith M . W. Broughton, West Union, May 29. The are living in Marshalltown, where Mr. Smith is couple are making their home at Wadena. Since manager of the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. graduation, Mrs. Broughton taught in the public Previous to her marriage, Mrs. Smith had been school at Wadena and the rural schools of Shelby teaching in the Marshalltown schools. County. The couple's address: Box 96, Wadena. Alice Faust, B.A. '3 5, became the bride of Ruth Peterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur E. Flint, Sioux Falls, S. D ., June 10. The Peterson, St. Paul, Minn., and Burdette Moeller, Flints are making their home at 1111 Perry St., B.A. '34, son of Prof. and Mrs. H. C. Moeller, Apartment 4, Davenport. Mr. Flint is the Daven Cedar Falls, were married on June 14. The cere port representative of the Mutual Life Insurance mony took place at the Temple Baptist Church, Co. Mrs. Flint is a member of the Public Library St. Paul, Minn. staff. At TEACHERS COLLEGE she was a member Mrs. Moeller is a graduate of Fletcher College, of Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English University Park, Iowa, and of the University of fraternity. Minnesota. She has been teaching home economics Mildred at Newell for the past two years. Hale, Rur. '35, was married to Edgar H. Abels, April 30. Mr. Moeller, prominent in music and dramatic For the last four years Mrs. Abels has taught in activities at TEACHERS COLLEGE, is now speech Grundy and- Tama counties. Mr. Abels is a graduate and dramatic instructor in the Sac City High of the Rock Lake High School, Rock Lake, School. He attended the University of Wisconsin N . D. He is a partner in the Abels' Furniture Co., summer session. Mr. and Mrs. Moeller are living Cedar Falls. The couple are at Sac City. living at 1012 W. Second St., Cedar Falls. Audrey McGee, EL '34, and Charles Shelgren, Gayle Howe, B.A. '3 5, became the bride of Jean B.S. '37, were married on June 13, at Kirksville, Carlyle Hoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hoff, Mo. The couple are now living at Stuart, where Fergus Falls, Minn., May 29, at the Norwegian Mr. Shelgren is starting his second year as voca Lutheran Church, Decorah. Mrs. Hoff is the tional agriculture instructor. Mrs. Shelgren taught daughter of Mrs. Linnie Howe, Bedford. While at the past two years at Jewell. T EACHERS COLLEGE she was editor of the Old Eleanor Stoddard, Pri. '34, and Carl Rosen Gold, and was president of the Iowa College Press stock, Dumont, were married on June 23. Mrs. Association. She has been teaching in the Iowa Rosenstock taught in the Dumont Public School Falls Junior High School for the past two years. for several years. Mr. Rosenstock is employed by The couple are now living in Iowa Falls, where Mr. the Standard Oil Co. in Dumont, where the couple Hoff is manager of the Gamble store. are now living. Announcement is made of the marriage of 1 9 3 5 - 1 9 3 8 Frances Mauser, Pri. '3 5, to Paul Loomis, at the Virleen Blackmore, El. '3 5, and Russell Ver- First Evangelical Church in Waterloo. The bride ploeuh, B.S. '37, were married, April 8, at the is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mauser, Presbyterian parsonage, Maryville, Mo. Before her and Mr. Loomis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. marriage Mrs. Verploegh taught for four years, and Loomis, all of Waterloo. A dinner for 2 8 guests 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-three was given at the Hotel President following the the staff of station WMT, where he is now em ceremony. ployed. After a honeymoon in Minneapolis, the Mrs. Loomis has been teaching in the Radcliffe couple made their home at 1736 Forest Ave., schools for the past four years. Mr. Loomis is a Waterloo. graduate of Gates Business College, Waterloo. He Announcement has been made of the marriage is employed in the engineering department of the of Winifred Dodd, El. '36, to Dale Goodsell, Du John Deere Tractor Co. The couple are living in mont. Mrs. Goodsell for the past three years has their new home at 1416 Baltimore St., Waterloo. taught in the Dumont and Dows schools. The Another alumni wedding is that of MarJI Lou couple are living in New Hartford, where Mr. Mitze, B.A. '35, to Robert L. Burch, B.A. '34, Goodsell is a partner in the Frederickson-Goodsell June 3. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burch had been teach store. ing in Waverly. He was principal of the junior Mrs. Goodrick in the senior high high school, and she taught Mae Felter, B.S. '36, They will be at home this year at Geneva, school. was married in August . Burch is superintendent of schools. where Mr to Lawrence 0. Good of Announcement is made of the marriage rick, a 1937 graduate Speers, Hannah Marie Njus, B.A. '35, to George of Cornell College, Mt. State Center, June 15, at the bride's home in New Vernon. Mr. Goodrick Hampton. Mrs. Speers taught for several years in is teaching m the the John Fiske School, Waterloo, and at Alta Vista Owatonna, Minn., High and Radcliffe. Mr. Speers attended Ellsworth School. Their address: Junior College, Iowa Falls. 114 Prospect St., Owa Following the wedding ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. tonna. Speers left for a trip to the Golden Gate Exposition Cardella M. Hess, B.A. '36, was married to H. at San Francisco. They are now living at State , June 11. Mrs. Porter Center, where Mr. Speers operates Speers' Hatchery. Albert Porter Jr., Reinbeck Rein Esther Nykvist, Pri. '35, was married to De has been teaching for the past two years at to the West, the couple wayne Doerres, Lone Tree, on June 17, at the home beck. Following a trip they are making their of her parents in Cedar Falls. Mrs. Doerres is the returned to Reinbeck, where employed by the Pioneer daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nykvist, Cedar home. Mr. Porter is Falls. She has been teaching in Lone Tree for the Hybrid Seed Corn Co. past two years. Mr. and Mrs. Doerres are at home Gladys King, El. '36, was married to Vernon in Lone Tree, where Mr. Doerres operates a garage. Sash on June 15. The couple are now living at Before a bank of white roses, Dorothy Ma e Traer. Before her marriage, Mrs. Sash taught for Wilson, student from 1933-36, and L. Von Linder, several years at Dumont. B.A. '35, were married, June 22, in the First Meth Jessie Parrott, B.A. '36, and Frederick G. odist Church, Waterloo. It was a candlelight Loomis, Waterloo, were united in marriage, June 1, ceremony. at Christ Episcopal Church, Waterloo. Mrs. Loomis A member of Pi Theta Pi sorority at TEACHERS is the daughter of Mrs. Nellie Law Parrott, and COLLEGE, Mrs. Von Linder was graduated from Mr. Loomis is the son of M. H. Loomis, all of the University of Iowa with a B.A. degree. For a Waterloo. year previous to her marriage she had been art The bride was given in marriage by her grand supervisor in the schools at Indianola. She was art father, W. F. Parrott, Cedar Heights. Her maid of editor of the 1936 Old Gold. honor was Jane Parrott, a sister. John Keil was Mr. Von Linder, whose home town was Kensett, best man. Mrs. Loomis has been teaching art in was a member of Theta Alpha Phi, national honor the Cedar Rapids schools. The couple are now ary dramatics fraternity. After teaching at Au living at Iowa City, where Mr. Loomis is enrolled rora, he went to Waterloo three years ago to join in the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Page Twenty-four THE ALUMNUS October Richard P. Rollins, B.S. '36, and Eleanor Peter Another June wedding was that of H elen son were married on Oct. 9, 1938. They are now Marshall, B.A. '37, and Charles PojJpenheimer, B.A. living at Iowa Falls, where Mr. Rollins is managing '38, on June 12. The couple are living at Doon, a retail auto supply store. He was formerly athletic where Mr. Poppenheimer is science instructor and director in the Williams school. athletic coach in the Doon school. Mrs. Poppen Arlene Archer, Kg. '37, on June 8 became the heimer taught the fifth and sixth grades of Lincoln bride of Baird Mcllroy, B.A. '38, M.A. University School, Cedar Falls, for the past two years. The of Iowa '39. The ceremony was read in the First couple spent the summer in Chicago, where Mr. Methodist Church, Sioux Falls, S. D., home of Poppenheimer attended Northwestern Unive rsity. the bride. Keith McCabe, B.S. '37, and Katherine Corbin, Mrs. Mcilroy taught one year at Ledyard and former student, were united in marriage, May 3 0, one year at Sioux Falls. At T EACHERS CoLLEGE in the First Evangelical Church, Cedar Falls. Mrs. she was a member of Delta Phi Delta sorority. Mr. McCabe wore her great-aunt's wedding gown of Mcilroy was correspondent for the Des Moines ivory corded sa tin, with her great-grandmother's Register and Tribune while on College Hill and veil and cap. owed allegiance to Alpha Chi Epsilon fraternity. Mrs. A1tbrey Smith (Zada Corbin) , Pri. '35, The couple are making their home in Rock sister of the bride, was maid of honor. R obert Mc Island, Ill., where Mr. Mcilroy is teaching journal Cabe, student at T EACHERS COLLEGE and brother ism in the high school. of the bridegroom, played the Lohengrin wedding Pat McN ally, B.A. '3 8, was best man. Evelyn march. Don McCabe of Washington, D.C., brother Cappel, Kg. '37, was maid of honor. Ushers in of the bridegroom, was best man. Aubrey Smith of cluded Wilmar Dnbes, B.S. '38, and Malcolm Marshall town, Kenneth Berry of Washington, and Mclelland, B.S. '37. At the organ was Rosemary Axel Anderson of Dubuque, B.S. '37, were ushers. Johnston, B.A. '39. Mrs. McCabe was a member of Alpha Beta H elen Beed, El. '37, was married, May 28, to Gamma social sorority at T EACHE RS CoLLEGE. She Wilbur Schram, in Titonka. Mrs. Schram taught has been employed at the Latta School Supply Co., in the Arnolds Park Consolidated School last year. Cedar Falls. Mr. McCabe, a member of Phi Sigma Mr. Schram attended Iowa State College from Epsilon fraternity, is a member of the high school 1935-38, and is now employed in the Farmers faculty at Clarion, where the couple are Elevator at Titonka. making their home. Announcement is made of the marriage of Ruth A. Eddy, B.A. '37, to Eugene Coon, B.S. '37, Martha Petersen, B.S. '37, and Charles \V/. Shedd at Mason City. The bride is the daughter of Mr. were united in marriage, May 29, at the Nazareth and Mrs. G. A . Eddy, Swaledale. Lutheran Church, Cedar Falls. The Rev. Paul After the ceremony, the couple left for a trip Shedd, brother of the bridegroom, read the double through the Black Hills to Greeley, Colo., where ring service. Mr. Coon attended the summer session of the Mrs. Dewayne Doerres (Esther Nykvist), Pri. Colorado State College of Education. He is work '3 5, cousin of the bride, was maid of honor. Roy ing on his Master's degree. Olsen, B.A. '39, was best man. Mildred Filloon, Mrs. Coon has been music instructor in Beaman El. '32, Central City, and Frances Williams, B.S. the past two years. Mr. Coon is instructor in indus '3 8, Waterloo, sorority sisters of the bride, Theo trial arts in Clarion, where the couple are now dora Johnson, Williams, and Mary Frances Shedd, living. Pri. '34, sister of the bridegroom, were brides Announcement is made of the marriage of maids. Margaret Good, Pri. '37, to Oliver Larkin, Cedar Mr. Shedd is a graduate of Coe College, and is Falls, Feb. 11 , at Lancaster, Mo. Mrs. Larkin has now in his senior year at Chicago Theological Semi taught in the Janesville school. Mr. Larkin is em nary. He has been preaching a t Northminster ployed by the Townsend-Merrill Co., Cedar Falls. Presbyterian Church, Waterloo, and will be pastor 19 39 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Pa ge Twenty-fi ve at Anchor Heights Presbyterian Church, Chicago, been teaching in Waterville. The Cooks are making this year. their home at Grundy Center, where Mr. Cook is Mrs. Shedd was a member of Pi Tau Phi, social manager of a recreation parlor. sorority, and has taught two years at Williams. Word is received by THE ALUMNUS of the The couple are making their home at 2146 N. summer marriage of Loren R. Nus, B.A. '38, and Dayton Ave., Chicago. Phyllis Brunsvold, Joice, at Mason City. Mr. Nus is Mildred R oberts, Pri. '37, and Warren Sawtelle, teacher of English and speech in the Belle Plaine '37 - '39, were married June 4, at the Baptist High School. Mrs. Nus is a graduate of Waldorf Church, Hampton. Mrs. Sawtelle, the daughter of College, Forest City, and for the past two years has Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Roberts of Hampton, has been been employed in the internal revenue offices at teaching in Latimer. The couple are making their Des Moines. home in Rowan, where Mr. Sawtelle is teaching. Ruth Nykvist, B.S. '38, and William Macaulay Another summer marriage of interest to alumni were married, Aug. 12, at the bride's home in is that of Margaret Vandenburgh, B.A. '37, and Cedar Falls. The ceremony was read by the groom's Donald Ogren, B.A. '38. Mrs. Ogren has been the father, the Rev. W. J. Macaulay of Toledo. music instructor in the Sac City schools for the Mrs. Macaulay is the third daughter of Mr. past few years. Mr. Ogren is commercial instructor and Mrs. Gust Nykvist, Cedar Falls, to be married in the New Providence High School. The couple during the summer months. Dora, B.A. '32, was attended the University of Iowa summer session, married on June 5, and Esther, Pri. '3 5, was married and are now at home at New Providence. on June 17. Helen McKitrick, former T EACHERS COLLEGE Mrs. Macaulay has been teaching commercial student, and Simon J. Slitter, B.A. '37, were mar and physical education at Salix. Mr. Macaulay is ried on July I. The wedding took place in the a graduate of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, and has Little Church of the Flowers in Glendale, Calif. taken graduate work for the Master's degree at The couple were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Drake University. He has taught at Nashua, was Max Auld. Mr. Auld received a B.A. degree in principal of schools of Otto, and is now superin 1935 from TEACHERS COLLEGE, and Mrs. Auld is tendent of schools at Salix. the former Marian McKitrick, student from 1930- Elizabeth Trygg, El. '38, was married, May 30, 31 and from 1933-34, sister of the bride. to Rufus W. Epley, Waverly. The wedding took Mrs. Sluter, who attended TEACHERS COLLEGE place in the home of Mrs. Carl H. Erbe, 2216 Clay from 1934-37, was a member of Phi Sigma Phi St., Cedar Falls, sister of the bride. Following the sorority. The couple are at home in Hollywood, ceremony, 30 guests sat down to a buffet supper. Calif., where Mr. Sluter is employed in a techni Then the newly-weds left for a week's trip in color studio. northern Minnesota. The couple are at home on a Wedding bells rang recently for Frank Brandt, farm near Shell Rock. B.A. '38, and his bride, Laura Simpson, B.A. '39. The ceremony took place on June 24 at Christ * * * Episcopal Church, Waterloo. Mrs. Brandt is the News daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Simpson, Cedar Falls, and Mr. Brandt the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. 1 8 9 0 Brandt, Waterloo. Mr. Brandt is Wisconsin and Celebrating the 5 0th anniversary of their grad- Minnesota representative for the Standard Gas uation from TEACHERS COLLEGE, members of the Equipment Corp., New York. class of 1890 are already making plans for their Marie Casey, Pri. '38, Cedar Falls, was married golden reunion on College Hill, in the spring of to Herman C. Cook Jr., a former TEACHERS COL 1940. LEGE student, July 10, at Cedar Falls. Mrs. Cook The Bureau of Alumni Affairs has compiled a was a member of V. 0. V. Sigma Phi social sorority list of members of the 1890 class, for whom ad at TEACHERS COLLEGE, and for the last year has dresses are on file; also the names of members now Page Twenty-six THE ALUMNUS October deceased, and others whose present addresses are Nellie F. Anderson (Mrs. Lester W . Thomas) , unknown. B.S.; W ilbur H. Bender, B.S.; Julian Case, B.Di.; Members whose addresses are on file include: Ella M . Clark, B.Di.; Anna Cunningham, B.Di.; Minnie A . Ainsworth (Mrs. Edmund B. Wilson), Maggie L. Cunningham, B.S.; Albert E. Felmley, B.S., Jefferson; C. Ray Aurner, B.Di., 303 Lexing B.S.; Emma L. Funk, B.S.; Margaret Gilchrist, ton Ave., Iowa City; Josie Barker (Mrs. W . R. B.Di.; H elen L. Hearst, B.S.; William L. Hearst, Polson), B.Di., Bruneau, Idaho; John A . Beard, B.S.; Robert A. Jackson, B.Di.; John A . Kleinsorge, B.S., 3403 Sims Drive, Des Moines; Lewis H. Bock, B.S.; Gertrude Leland (Mrs. A. W. Isbell), B.Di. B.Di., Hills, Minn.; Matt C. C1tnningham, B.Di., Horatio Lizer, B.Di.; James I. Martin, B.Di. ; Highmore, S. D.; Fred H. Dawson, B.Di., Yale; Maude E. McCracken (Mrs. R . A. Jackson) , B.Di.; J. Frederick Doderer, B.Di., 425 Columbia Ave., Frank A . Nimocks, B.Di.; Paul Peterson, B.Di.; Pomona, Calif. Mar y Pickrell (Mrs. C. L. Michener) , B.Di.; M. Mabel Felmley (Mrs. S. E. Yaggy) , B.Di., R . Oscar Roland, B.S.; Luella V . Simmons (Mrs. No. 5, Spokane, Wash.; Pinnette Ferris, B.Di., George M. West), B.S.; Anna Louise Sitler, B.Di.; Hampton; Bruce Francis, B.Di., 1616 Seventh St. Nellie M. Starks (Mrs. E. B. Wilbur), B.Di. S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.; Charles A . Fullerton, Maude M. Stinson, B.Di.; George D . Thompson, B.S., Extension Service, Iowa State Teachers Col B.Di.; Mar y H. Thompson, B.Di.; Nellie B. Wall lege, Cedar Falls; Ella N . Gibbens (Mrs. W . S. bank, B.Di.; A ve Floy White, B.Di.; Ada Williams, Brown), B.Di., 720 Jefferson St. E. , Iowa City; B.Di.; and Susie A. Young, B.Di. Adelia 0 . Gregg (Mrs. L. A. Thomas), B.Di., 118 Members of the class of 1890 whose addresses Corning St., Red Oak; Ida L. Grimes (Mrs. S. L. are unknown are: Lillie M. Andrews (Mrs. Rolla Ingham), B.Di., Canyon, Tex.; Carrie B. Hickman S. Farnsworth) , B.Di.; Hanna M. Hess, B.Di.; (Mrs. T . P. Cowan), B.Di., 211 W . Acacia, Glen Gertrude F. Mitchell, B.Di.; and Lizzie A. Wein dale, Calif.; Libbie H . Hieber (Mrs. Charles R. schenk (Mrs. John A. Eberle), B.Di., last known Rall) , B.Di., 21 o Amber St., Pittsburgh, Pa.; at Garden City, Calif. Emma S. Mantz, B.Di., 453 N . Ave. 56, Los An Mr. Doderer, who wrote to THE ALUMNUS geles, Calif. concerning the proposed reunion, also listed the Grace E. Milliman (Mrs. Jos. H. Taylor), following graduates as participants, although they B.Di., 136 ½ E. Santa Fe Ave., Santa Fe, N. M.; are not members of the class of 1890: J. 0. Berke George H. Olmstead, B.Di., 29 Prairie Ave., Park ley, B.Di. '97, 907 Fifteenth St. N.W., Suite 137, Ridge, Ill.; Eunice Hoyt Overman, B.Di., 1025 Washington, D. C.; 0 . H. L. Mason, M.Di. '91, Trenton Ave. S., Wilkinsburg Br., Pittsburgh, Pa.; 617 E. Third St., Long Beach, Calif.; Maude E. Lucy E. Plummer, B.S. , 573 S. Boyle Ave., Los Milliman (Mrs. Maude E. Cochran), M.Di. '91, Angeles, Calif.; Etta A. Robinson (Mrs. Edward 1109 Ingraham, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Mar y I. Cantine), B.Di., 2437 N.E. Forty-Ninth Ave., Stever, B.Di. '89, Fairfield. Portland, Ore. 1913, 1916, 19 1 8 John H. Schroeder, B.Di., Arcadia; Sarah S. Cap E. Miller, B.A. '13, was one of the leaders Scott (Mrs. Herbert L. Jones), B.Di., 1019 Euclid on a two-day tour of the Red River Valley by the Ave., Berkeley, Calif.; Ida E. Shaw (Mrs. Chas. A. Northwest Farm Managers Association, July 15. Frederick), B.Di., 13 06 Stratford Ave., South Pasa Mr. Miller, secretary of the Farm Managers Asso dena, Calif.; William L. V eatch, B.Di., 409 W . ciation, is chairman of the Division of Agriculture, Sixth St., Cedar Falls; Lizzie R. Wallace (Mrs. W . North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo. The 5-mile radius Rolla Patterson), B.Di., 126 Nineteenth St., Jack farm group visited farms within a 2 of Fargo. son Heights, Long Island, N. Y.; Edmund B. Dr. Alvin S . Tostlebe, B.A. '16, head of the Wilson, B.Di., Jefferson; and Janet W ilson, B.Di., Department of Economics at the College of Woos Centerville. ter, Wooster, Ohio, is spending the year in Paris, Members of the class of 1890, now deceased, France, as Dean of Wooster's Junior Year in follow: France. The project is being launched by the Col- 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-seven lege of Wooster, in cooperation with a number of Mrs. Beatrice (Clock) Peckham, J.C. '24, B.S. eastern and middlewestern colleges and with the Columbia U niversity '28, is now head of the School faculty of the University of Paris. Department of the Elizabeth Public Library, Eliz Dr. and Mrs. Tostlebe, and their daughters, abeth, N. J. She was awarded the George P. La Patricia, Marcia, and Meriam, sailed for Paris in monte scholarship for the past summer. The prize, September. Mrs. Tostlebe is the former Pearle awarded annuall y on the basis of a s tate wide Childress, Pri. '17, B.S. Columbia University. Dr. competitive examination, entitles the holder to all Tostlebe received his M.A. degree in 1920 and his expenses for the six weeks' summer session of the Ph.D. degree in 1924, both from Columbia Uni New Jersey Library School, Trenton. versity. Mrs. R. P. Jewell (Nina Sells) , Pri. '25, sends At least two weeks of the Tostlebes' stay in word to THE ALUMNUS of her activities since Europe will be spent in Geneva, and on the return graduation. "I've been Mrs. R. P. Jewell for over trip, they will spend several days in England. Dr. ten years," she writes. Previously she taught for and Mrs. Tostlebe also expect to make several short two years at Stanley, one year at Florence, Colo., visits to points of interest on the continent. They and one year at Ft. Dodge. The Jewells have, two will return, with their family, in the summer of sons, Tommy, age 9, and Bobby, age 6. The 1940. family is living at 2565 N. Eighty-eighth St., Mil Charles F. Perrott, B.A. '18, principal of the waukee. Mr. Jewell is manager of a J. C. Penney Union High School at Turlock, Calif., visited the Co. store in Milwaukee. campus in June. He was en route to Guttenberg The Rev. Frederick Smith and Mrs. Smith to see his father. During the summer he supervised ( Altha C. Curtis), B.A. '2 5, were teachers at the the building of a half million dollar school building Epworth League Institute held at Palmer Lake, in Turlock. Mrs. Perrott will be remembered as Colo., during the late summer. Rev. Smith is pastor Lois M. Moore, B.A. '19. of the Cleveland A venue Methodist Church in St. Paul, Minn. T he Smiths live at 8 11 Armstrong Ave., St. Paul. They have two children, Rhoda NO NEWS? Kathryn, and Jerome Malcolm. A s you will notice, THE ALUMNUS prints 1 9 2 6 - 1 9 2 9 in this issue on,l,y three item s between the Married six years, and still rece1vmg T HE years 1890 and 1922. The e ditors inv ite ALUMNUS "under my maiden name," Mrs. G. H . alumni - for and b), whom this magazine Gray (Ila E. T aylor) , Pri. '26, writes that she was is written - to help close this g ap. Let's married to G. H. Gray of Blockton on May 28, 19 3 3. Before her marriage Mrs. fill these )!ears to overflowing in the January Gray taught four years in the primary department of the Blockton issue! In testi111-0n)1 of 011.r desires, w e are Public Schools, and five years in the first grade of printing a J1 ersonal infonnation blank on the Mt. Ayr schools. page J 1. T HE AL UM us may be a letter The Grays are living on a farm near Mt. Ayr. FROM home. But have ')I01t sent a letter They have a son, Melvin T aylor, born on June 19. BACK home recentl),? Do it now! A daughter, Martha Sue, born Sept. 13, 1937, died April 23, 1938. L. Berenice Gremmels, B.A. '26, received the 1 9 2 2 - 1 9 2 5 degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence from Loyola Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Friis, B.A. '22 and B.A. University, Chicago, last June. She is employed by '2 5 respectively, are living at 400 N. Janss, Ana the Robert 0. Law Publishing Co., Chicago. Miss heim, Calif. They have one son, James, age 1 I. Gremmels plans to continue her study of law, and Mrs. Friis will be remembered as Lena Jane Carlson. expects to write the Illinois bar examination this Mr. Friis is city attorney at Anaheim. (See " Re fall. unions.") Dorothy Charles, B.A. '27, has recently accept Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hammon, and daughter, ed a position as assistant editor of the bibliographi aomi Jewell, Everett, Wash., were campus visitors cal index department of the H. W. \Vilson Pub early in the summer. Mrs. Hammon was formerly lishing Co., New York. For three years previously Elean or E. Furleigh, J.C. '2 3. she served on the staff of the library school of Page Twenty-eight THE ALUMNUS O ctober University of Southern California. Miss Charles Ruth Gertrude Slemmons, Pri. ' 29. The Penning is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Charles, tons have one child, a son, Melvin Richard, born Cedar Falls. Dr. Charles is a member of the edu Dec. 23, 1938. cation faculty at T EACHERS COLLEGE. Minard Stout, B.A. '29, is now principal of the Lewis G. Hersey, B.A. '27, has recently been University High School, Iowa City. For five years appointed branch manager for the Saginaw, Mich., previously, he was principal of the Ft. Dodge High office of the Michigan Society for Group Hospitali School. He is continuing work on his doctorate zation. Following his graduation, Mr. Hersey at the Universi ty of Iowa. With Mr. Stout in taught for several years, and then became asso Iowa City are Mrs. Stout and their two sons. ciated with the Bankers Life Co. of Iowa as special agent and later as district agent. He went to 1 9 3 0 - 1 9 3 3 Flora L. Bailey, B.A. '3 0, supervisor of physical Saginaw in 1932. During the last year he ha s been ed ucation in East Orange and Maplewood, N. a representative of the Home Life Insurance Co. J. , public schools, spent several weeks at the home of of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Hersey and son, Billy, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H . Bailey, ea rly in live at I 002 Martha St., Saginaw. the summer before going to the Southwest to study L. A. Orr, B.S. '28, M.S. Northwestern Uni Navajo Indian customs and articles. She has ar versi ty '3 5, is now teaching at the Grant Com ranged with New York University to work out munity High School, Ingleside, Ill. For the past her doctor's dissertation and degree on Navajo four years he has also been teaching at the Lake customs. Miss Bailey s pent the summer of 19 3 8 in View Evening School, Chicago, and three years graduate study at the University of New Mexico. prior to that he t a,ught at the Lake College of Clyde D. Mease, B.S. '30, M.A. University of Commerce in Waukegan. Iowa '36, is serving his first year as superintendent Mr. Orr has just published a book entitled of the Alden public schools. He previously had " Educational Typing Drills," which has won five been superintendent of the consolidated school at first places in the district, sec tional, and state com Alexander for eight years, and had also taught at mercial contests. The book is designed to develop Monera, Hansell, and Pocahontas. Mrs. Mease will speed and accuracy, plus typing technique in the be remembered as Nira E. Gregory, Pri. '27, who shortest time. taught at Hansell and Hampton. Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Orr is also manager of the first national Mease have a daughter, Donna Jea n, age 4. Personality Contes t, held at Northwestern Uni Harland Hanson, B.A. '3 1, is starting his first versity, May 19, where outstanding high school year as superintendent of schools at Holstein this students competed for awards and scholarships. year. Previously he was at Arthur for six years. Mr . and Mrs. T . M. Nelson have moved from Mrs. Hanson is the former Violet B. Mills, Comm. Hastings, Neb., to Rockford, Ill., where Mr. Nel Ed. '31. Mr. Hanson received his M.A. degree in son is assistant manager of the J. C. Penney Co. education at the Universi ty of Iowa in .January, store. Mrs. Nelson will be remembered as the 1939. former Gwen Hatch, Kg. '28. The Nelsons have Sylv ia. M. Stilson, El. '3 1, Corwith, visited the two sons, Craig, age 3, and Clark, age 9 months. campus in May. They are living at 734 Napoleon St., Rockford. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wieland are living at Taking his June bride with him, Chauncey Carroll. Mrs. Wieland is the former Mabel Collison, Welch, B.A. ' 28, went to Red Oak this fall as the El. '3 1. She taught at Jackson, Neb., before her new athletic director and head coach. Mrs. Welch marriage on Feb. 5, 1936. The Wielands have a is the former Iris Mann of Lake View. The couple daughter, Laura Mae, born June 30, 1938. were married at Elkhorn, Neb. Mr. Welch had Mr. and Mrs . Edwin F. Bessey are living at coached for four years at Storm Lake - three years 2924 Woodland Ave., Des Moines. Mrs. Bessey in the high school and one year at Buena Vista will be remembered as the former Aletha M. College. Wright, Pri. ' 32. Mr. and Mrs. Bessey were mar Making the staff at Red Oak straight T EACH ried May 29, 1938, at the home of the bride's ERS COLLEGE is James De Spain ( q.v.), B.A. '36, parents in Montezuma. Before her marriage Mrs. new assistant coach. Bessey was primary teacher in Searsboro. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Pennington are living Bessey, a graduate of Des Moines College, 1s em in Independence. Mrs. Pennington is the former ployed in the Des Moines post office. 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Twenty-nine Garrett Lenhart, B.A. '32, is now in Gary, Ind., teaching the fourth and where he has completed 14 hours toward the M.A. fifth grades in Anson degree in the Calumet Center, Indiana University School. Her address is Extension Division. During the past year he has 1302 S. Center St., done publicity at the University, and has now been Marshall town. transferred to the Gary Post-Tribune. His address: 325 W. Sixth Ave., Gary, Ind. Helen Willenburg, Harlan Rigby, B.S. '33, is the new coach at the Pri. '36, is beginning Coon Rapids High School. For the past three years her first year teaching he had been coaching at Belmond. Mr. Rigby is a kindergarten in the Le former varsity football player of TEACHERS COL Miss Piper Mars schools this year. LEGE. Since graduation from T EACHERS COLLEGE she has taught one year at 1 9 3 4 - 1 9 3 6 Remsen, and las~ year is teaching Mrs. Ruth C. Goeldner, Rur. '34, at Schleswig. in the rural schools of Keokuk County this year. She will be remembered as Ruth C. Cook. Mrs. Roger Barrigar, B.A. Goeldner taught for three years in Keokuk County '3 5, M.A. University of following the completion of the one-year rural Iowa '3 8, is beginning course. On Sept. 5, 1937, she was married to his first year as instruc Walter W. Goeldner, Sigourney, who died Nov. 23, tor in the Department 1938. Mrs. Goeldner is now making her home with of Music at the Ten her parents in Delta. nessee State Teachers Announcement has been made of the marriage, Miss Willeuburg College, Johnson City. March 26, 1938, of Irene Junkermeier, Cons. '35, He will supervise the and Harold Daubenberger. Mrs. Daubenberger training of the school taught at Hedrick following her graduation. The chorus and band. He couple are living at Hedrick. was formerly music in Everett Manchester, B.S. '3 5, has been elected structor at Olin, where athletic coach of the Wells burg High School. For he had charge of both the past two years, he had been principal and vocal and instrumental coach of the Rudd Consolidated School. music in the high school. James De Spain, B.A. '36, is beginning his first Mr. Barrigar was year as assistant coach at Red Oak this fall. He married, in 19 3 6, to had been coaching at Oakland for the past two Helen Freeman, who at years. New head coach at Red Oak is Chauncey tended TEACHERS COL Welch (q.v .), B.A. '28. LEGE in 1931-32. Mr. Barrigar Jerome Cross, B.A. Martha Zickefoose, '3 8, is now in the indus EL '37, is teaching in trial actuarial division, the intermediate grades Metropolitan Life Insur at Clarion this year. ance Co., New York Previously she taught City. He is living at the the third and fourth Twenty-third Street grades in the Rowan Y.M.C.A., 215 W. 23rd Consolidated School for St. Following gradua two years. tion from TEACHERS Alice Piper, El. '38, COLLEGE, Mr. Cross is starting her second took a year of actuarial year in the Marshall work at the University town schools. She is Miss Zickefoose Mr. Cross of Iowa. Page Thirty THE ALUMNUS October B.A. ' 30. The Mahoneys are living at 1210 Second Births .. .. St., Webster City. 1 9 3 1 - 1 9 3 3 1 9 2 7 - 1 9 3 0 Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hanawalt, both B.A. '31, Dr. and Mrs. Allan R. Brown, B.A. '27 and Pri. Independence, Kan., are the parents of a baby girl, '31, announce the birth of a son, Richard Allan, Patricia Marie, born June 23. Mr. and Mrs. Hana on July 8. Mrs. Brown is the former Ethel Olson. walt hold advanced degrees from the University Dr. Brown is employed by the General Electric of Iowa. Mr. Hanawalt received his M.A. degree X-Ray Corp., Chicago. in 19 3 5, and Mrs. Hanawalt ( Mary Wheat), re Dr. and Mrs . R. T . Coe, Belmond, are the ceived her M.A. degree in 19 3 3 and her Ph.D. de parents of a daughter, Debra Ann, born June 16. gree in 19 3 5. Mrs. Coe is the former Allene F. Hosteter, Pri. '28. Mr. Hanawalt is professor of English and speech Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hutchinson announce at the Independence Junior College, Independence, the birth of a daughter, Sherritt Kae, Nov. 2, 1938. Kan. The women's debate team which he coached Mrs. Hutchinson is the former Lucille Hagaleen, at the college won the state debate championship El. '3 0. The Hutchinsons are living at Jefferson. last spring. His debate teams also took part in the Mr. and Mrs. Otis C. Jackson announce the Phi Rho Pi national convention and debate tourna birth of a daughter, Susan Virginia, May 1. The ment at Virginia, Minn., last spring. Jacksons have two other children, Jean, age 6, and While a student at TEACHERS COLLEGE, Mr. Frances, age 3. Mrs. Jackson, the former Bernice Hanawalt was a member of Delta Sigma Rho and M. Leach, Pri. '28, recently underwent a serious Theta Alpha Phi, and was prominent in forensics operation and is now recovering at her home. The and dramatics. Jacksons live at 2131 Fifth St., Bremerton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. W. R . Lawson, Spencer, are the Mr . and Mrs. Richard Mahoney announce the parents of a daughter, Sharon Joy, born Nov. 13, birth of a daughter, March 15. This is their first 1938. Mrs. Lawson will be remembered as the child. Mrs. Mahoney is the former Evelyn Roskopf, former Alice M. Lundblad, Pri. '31. Previous to Here is your personal news blank! Because THE ALUMNUS carries in this all other graduates are also welcome to issue only three items for the years 1891 its convenience. Fill it out now! Please to 1921, inclusive, we are printing this notice the questionnaire on the reverse news-about-yourself blank especially for of this blank. Fill it out, too! graduates of these years, though of course (CUT A LONG T HIS LINE) Name ( Maiden and Married) Diploma or Degree . Year . Permanent Address ...... Present Position . . Place ...... Married When . ( Month day, and year) To Whom . His or her position ...... Children Study since graduation and where . Travels Additional news about yourself or other Alumni . It's your turn to send US a letter! See questionnaire on opposite side! 1939 IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Page Thirty-one her marriage in 1936, Mrs. Lawson taught in the secretary in the bureau of publications at T EACH Spencer schools. The Law sons are living at 94 5 E . ERS COLLEGE for eight years. They are living in Fifth St., Spencer. Apartment 2, 926 Sunnyside, Chicago. "Glad to get THE ALUMNUS, eat it up, almost," Mr. Finlayson, B.A. '36, is now engaged in pro writes Mrs. James R. Mitchell (Evelyn Fish), B.A. motional publicity work for radio station WLS, ' 31. And at the same time she informs us of the Chicago. He was formerly associated with the birth of a son, James Merle, July 7. Mr. Mitchell Central States Broadcasting System at Omaha and is employed by the Luverne Fire Apparatus Co., Lincoln, Neb. Previously he also worked in the Luverne, Minn., where the family is now living. bureau of publications at T EACHERS COLLEGE. Mrs. Mitchell will be remembered as a former Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Robinson (Betty editor of the College Eye, student newspaper at Kurtz, Kg. '36), are the parents of a son born T EACH ERS COLLEGE. She was married on May 29, June 18. They are living at 929 S. Seventeenth 1938, at her home in Marathon. St., Ft. Dodge. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wagner, Waterloo, are the parents of a daughter, Ella Ruth, born June 27, * * * 1938. Mrs. Wagner is the former Ella R. W essel D eaths ing, who received a B.A. degree in physical educa tion in 19 31. The Wagners are now living at 1003 Hawthorne St., Waterloo. 1 8 8 7 - 1 8 8 9 Mr. and Mrs . Pa11-l W . Nutting announce the Mrs. E. R. Moore (Minnie V. Wynkoop), B.Di. birth of a son, John Frederick, born April 16, at '87, died, July 8, at Miami, Fla. She formerly Chicago. Mrs. Nutting is the former Louise Lacey, taught in the high school at Miami, and also in Pri. '33. The Nuttings are living at 7504 Colfax Anamosa, Maquoketa, and Savannah, Ill. Ave., Chicago, Ill. Lambert B. Moffett, B.Di. '89 and M.Di. '91; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Du.tcher, B.A. '33 and El. Ph.B. University of Iowa '04, died, June 19, at '30, respectively, announce the birth of a son, Seattle, Wash. He was a member of the class Richard Lee, May 29. They are living this year which celebrated its 5 0th anniversary at the alumni at Earling, where Mr. Dutcher is coach in the reunion on College Hill in May. public schools. Mrs. Dutcher is the former Lor Mr. Moffett had devoted 5 2 years to school raine Peterson. Last year Mr. Dutcher was at Coin. work, and for 32 years had been a principal in the Seattle schools. He had previously taught in the 1 9 3 6 schools of Marble Rock, Rockford, and Oelwein. Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Finlayson, Chicago, He retired from teaching in 1938. announce the birth of a son, Donald Stuart, June Mrs. Moffett will be remembered as Gerfr11-de 24. Mrs. Finlayson is the former Lois Dalton, Hale, a former TEACHERS COLLEGE student. Mr. THE ALUMNUS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR OCTOBER, 1 939. My favorite feature article or department in THE ALUMNUS for October is ...... I also read with interest . For improvement I suggest . My favorite magazines are .. I would like to comment further: ...... and Mrs. Moffett spent part of the winter in Cali Seattle, Wash., June 29. She was a member fornia. They attended the banquet of the TEACH of the Department of Music at the University of ERS COLLEGE alumni unit in Los Angeles, March Washington for more than 20 years. In addition, 18. Mrs. Moffett's address: 3043 Fifty-Ninth St. she taught in summer school every year, except in S.W., Seattle. 1935, when she went abroad. She served as acting head of the department for nine years. 1 8 9 2 Miss Dickey formerly taught in the Cedar Mrs. Frederick W. Hargrave (Allie Richard Falls schools, and was public school music intructor son), B.Di. '92, died in Seattle, Wash., July 9, at TEACHERS COLLEGE. Before going to Seattle, after an illness of three days. She drove East this she taught for two years at Kent, Ohio. spring, planning to attend the alumni reunion at She was the author of the book, Melody Writ TEACHERS COLLEGE. By the time she reached ing and Ear Training, and co-author with Eliene Clear Lake, however, she was too tired to continue French of Early History of Public School Music on to Cedar Falls, thus missing the reunion. Mrs. in America. Hargrave was prominent in the cultural and phil Miss Dickey is survived by five brothers and anthropic life of Seattle, being a member of the sisters: Walter, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Nelle library board and an officer in many clubs and Dickey Heiser, B.A. '12, Santa Barbara, Calif.; societies. Arthur, Toronto, Canada; Ella, National City, Calif, and Edward Dickey, B.Di. '01. 1 9 0 1 Elmer E. Kuhn, M.Di. '01, died, March 24, at Chester E. Wright, B.Di. '01, died at Beres the home of his son, Charles R. Kuhn, in Stanton, ford, S. D., July 6. He had been engaged in the with whom he had made his home since the death lumber business at Beresford for many years. of his wife in 1935. Mr. Kuhn is survived by his Frances Dickey, B.Di. '01, B.S. and M.S. Col three sons, Charles R., Stanton; Harold L., Valen umbia University '12 and '13, died at her home in tine, Neb.; and Thomas L., Bedford. An Alumni Calendar of Events Conference for Music Educators October 7 Piano Recital by Rudolph Reuter * October 8 (The Auditorium, 7:45 p.m.) Dad's Day . October 14 (D ad's Day Luncheon, 11 :30 a.m. , The Commons; Teachers College-Kansas Scace Teachers College f ootball game, 2 :00 p.m.) Annual Homecoming Play ...... October 19 and 20 HOMECOMING October 21 (Teachers College-\'Vescern Scace T eachers College football game, 2:00 p.m.; H omecoming Dance, 8 :1 5 p.m. co 11:1 5 p.m., The Commons.) Conference on High School Publications October 27 and 28 Alumni Dinner at Iowa State Teachers Convention November 3 (Younker's T ea Room, 5 :00 c o 7:00 p.m. ) Sophomore Cotillion November 3 (The Commons, 9: 15 p.m. co 12:15 a.m. ) Advance Registration for Winter Quarter, November 13 to November 17, incl. Femmes Fancy November 17 (The Commons, 8 :15 co 11:15 p.m.) Fall Quarter Ends November 29 Registration for Winter Quarter December 4 Christmas Oratorio . December 17 (The Auditorium, 4 :00 p.m.) Holiday Recess Begins December 20 (Instruction resumes January 3, 8:00 a.m.) Marshalltown Basketball Tournament December 27 to December 29 (Teachers College competes in tourney.) (For calendar of sports events, refer to The Prowl, page 14.) CO-EDS AND BARTLETT HALL ...