Deafness No Handicap to Poet of Soldier’s Soliloquy
A Cedar Rapids girl turned Des Moines writer Lucille Kendall Griswold, deaf for 22 years, composes poetry and music by ear from improvised scraps, with her famous piece Soldier’s Soliloquy published widely, read at Arlington and praised by Dr. Fosdick. Her rapid, unconscious writing births poems after short sessions, supported by Jay Sigmund who urged publication and helped secure outlets in The American Magazine and The Christian. She remains humble, notes her cottage industry of verse, and continues to write children’s poems with local art student illustrators.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Lucille Kendall Griswold
Griswold
Clifford Blum
Lucille Griswold
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Blum
Minneapolis Symphony
Lucille
Mrs. Griswold
Jay Sigmund
The
Charles Hanson Towne
Columbia University
New York
Sigmund
Cummings Art School
P. S
Western Union
E. K. Griswold
University of Iowa
Soldier's Soliloquy Missing in Action Skeleton Memory
A veteran laments decades of unclaimed fate as a missing in action record fades. He recalls war, power, and glory while calling for tolerance and an end to war. The poem presents a lone, bleached soldier's bones and a dim three word entry beside a name.
Miss Marjorie Schneider Weds Charles Richardson in Cleveland
Miss Marjorie Schneider of Cleveland and Charles Monoroe Richardson of Cedar Rapids were married at 8:30 in Plymouth church Shaker Heights. Rev Miles H Krumbine officiated. The couple will reside at 1524 Fifth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids after a Wade Park Manor reception.
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Cedar Rapids
Marjorie Schneider
Cleveland
Charles Monoroe Richardson
Plymouth Church
Shaker Heights
Richardson
Robert A. Wilson
Miles H. Krumbine
Wade Park Manor
Gustave Schneider
Mrs. Wilson
Fifth Avenue SE
Open House Honors Mrs. Ellen Doolittle at 101st Birthday
Mrs. Ellen Doolittle celebrated her 101st birthday with a Saturday open house at the Castle home 1333 A Avenue NE. About 50 attendees shared a picnic lunch before a family dinner with descendants, as friends from Central City Coggan Alburnett Marion and Cedar Rapids visited and sent cards and flowers. A centerpiece crafted by Lydia Finson featured cake icing evergreens and a milepost reading Good Luck 101 Miles.
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D. L. Castle
Avenue NE
Ellen Doolittle
Lulu Welty to entertain piano students at home
Lulu Engelman Welty will entertain a group of her piano students from 3 to 5 this afternoon at her home studio 629 G avenue NW. The program includes Bop MS TUUM Loan cess 1 and PRIS Piano eat sir O55 lookie. Mrs Watt Palmer hosted a surprise party Friday for Norma Jean Vinton on her eighteenth birthday with Arlene England Mildred Ramsey Norma Ferguson Betty Shaw Anna Mae Hodina Geraldine White Alo White Ruth Vinton and Winnie Vinton present. The Book Review group meets Monday at the YWCA with Mrs P W Jacobson reviewing Daniel Boone by John Bacheless.
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Lulu Engelman Welty
G Avenue NW
Bop
Watt Palmer
Norma Jean Vinton
Arlene England
Mildred Ramsey
Norma Ferguson
Betty Shaw
Anna Mae Hodina
Geraldine
Alo White
Ruth Vinton
Winnie Vinton
P. W. Jacobson
Daniel Boone
John Bacheless
Roosevelt P T A Founders Day Meeting and Activities
The Roosevelt P T A holds Founders Day programs in the school cafeteria with past presidents honored. Mrs R S Erickson speaks as the mothers chorus sings and meetings run 1 p m executive and 2 p m business. A radio Q A on the value of the local P T A airs on W M T 4 15 to 4 30 p m.
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Mr. Griswold
Roosevelt P.T.A
R. S. Erickson
Mothers’ Chorus
P.T.A. Council
Amos Scott
Leonard Koch
P.T.A
WMT
Arthur P. T. A
School
Helen DeWees
Herbert
Wedding of Marian Roberts and Jesse Judd announced
Miss Marian Louise Roberts and Jesse B. Judd were married February 10 at the First Congregational parsonage in Cedar Rapids. Judd owns Iowa Ice Cream Co. in Cedar Rapids. the couple will reside there after a wedding trip to Tennessee and Mississippi.
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Marian Louise Roberts
Urbana
Jesse B. Judd
Cedar Rapids
First Congregational
William Arthur Jacobs
Robert L. Carne
R. R. Roberts
Britt
Britt High School
Iowa State Teachers College
Phi Omega Pi
Tennessee
Mississippi
Judd
Joseph Burke
1622 Avenue NW
Jana A. Schuster
Marian Parr
Blanche Crawford
Elda Kekemier
Bernice Meylink
Harold Little
Merle Brody
Helen Hacker
Kurt Schaefer Speaks on Power Politics in Europe
German refugee Kurt Schaefer, an instructor at the University of Iowa, spoke to Cedar Rapids college club members at Coe College on Power Politics in Europe. He discussed economic war, Hitler's rise, and the possibility of federation arising from current conflicts.
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Kurt Schaefer
Scattergood
West Branch
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids College Club
Coe College
Europe
Irvin L. Churchill
Hitler
Germany
France
England
Schaefer
Lucille Gove
Linn County
Iowa
Inga Tapper
Frances Shimer Students Plan First Aerial Tour
Frances Shimer college students will undertake the nation s first all female aerial tour during spring break starting March 22. They will charter two American Airline flagships from Chicago to Washington and New York with stops in Indianapolis Detroit and Buffalo. Miss Velma Maul will supervise as chaperon.
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Frances Shimer College
Mount Carroll
Ill
Chicago
Washington
New York
Indianapolis
Detroit
Buffalo
Velma Maul
Frances Shimer
American Airlines
American
Capitol
Mount Vernon
Arlington
Mrs. Roosevelt
Annapolis
Rockefeller Center
Fred Allen
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Davenport
Lizst
Arlington Cemetery
Cedar View Country Club
St. James’ Methodist Church
Corita Williams
Hearing Society
Hard of Hearing Society
Wadakizapi Camp
Wadakizapi
van Vechten Shaffer
Linden Drive
L. P. Boudreaux
Shaffer
Marilyn Benson
Carol Jean Boudreaux
Sheryl Chehak
Gazette
LA Vogue Beauty Shop
Third Ave
DIAL
Miss Marjorie Schneider
Mr. Richardson
Frank Clasks
Frank J. Clask
Florida
Gasparella
Tampa
King’s Daughters
Kathleen McGladrey
iNassau Street
Mrs. Palmer
Doris Kollander
Michael Aaron Cee
Charles Dennee —_ Raymaker
Hilltop
Mildred Adair
Tease
Crosby
Kirchner
Tschaikowsky
Doris Peterson
Oyearrar Goblin
Solbrig
Peeters
Ms Cine Irrimbie
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Roosevelt
Aston Smith
Iowa City
Marian Roberts
Legion Auxiliary
American Legion Auxiliary
Hanford Post
Memorial Building
Harlan Briggs
Lisbon
Francis Beach
Association
David I. Berger
Paul Gard
Homer Hill
B. Bjorgos
V. B. Bjorgo
Glenway Drive
Lundquist
Kansky
Edwin W. Lundquist
American Legion
Hanford Post No. 5
Walter A. Kansky
Savery Hotel
Belle Plaine Club
Cleta Bergen
oOo
Minerva Delphian
Minerva Delphian Society
Y.W.C.A
Quality Street
Sir J. M. Barrie
Isabella
Gas Company
000 Beta Iota Chapter
Beta Iota
Beta Sigma Phi
Roosevelt Hotel
Mercy Auxiliary
Mercy Hospital
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Traer
Blanche Dengler
Otto Dengler
Robert Wehrhan
Ruth Wehrhan
Tama
Wehrhan
Dysart
Wehrman
Farmer’s Lumber Company
Irma Naylor
Shakespeare
Mrs. Ravenscroft
T. E. Ravenscroft
Fourth Avenue SE
Henry VI
A.A. U.W
Clare Rundle
M. R. Warren
Friendship Circle
Vernon E. Lichtenstein
Friendship Circle of the King’s Daughters
B Avenue NE
Roy V. Porter
Lee Beardsley
Porter
Nineteenth Street SE
MRS
Charles Shepard
First Avenue E
Jack Edwards
Jack L. Edwards
Third Avenue SE
Minneapolis
William Sedlacek
Mr. Sedlacek
Sally
Octettes
Dorothy Schmidt
Della O’rourke
Helen Hendal
Lorraine Wilson
George
Hilterunner
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