Orphan Train Survivor Recalls Dysart Roots and TV Moment
Benjamin Pippert of Dysart 85 returned to New York to appear on Good Morning America with his six children, sharing memories of boarding the orphan train in 1894 at age one with his siblings. He learned his birth name Morris and the truth of his parents later, while Dorothea Petrie and James Magnuson discuss the Orphan Train in a new novel.
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Dysart
Benjamin
Brooklyn
New York
Benjamin Morris
Ben
Iowa
Ben Pippett
Good Morning America
ABC
Channel 9
KCRG
Morris
Pippett
Dorothea G. Petrie
Los Angeles
James Magnuson
Orphan Train
Children’s Aid Society
Aid Society
Henry Pippert
Laura
Teresa
Johnny
Charles
Margaret Barrette Morris
Charles Morris
Pippert
Dysart Savings Bank
Marie Schmidt
Marie Pippert
Roland Degner
Myron Schuchart
al Meymer
Howard Pippert
Lee Bendall
Vinton
Stanley Halupnik
Tracr
Midwest
Iowa professor teaches a new kind of pool English
Bob Froeschle, longtime Iowa Memorial Union billiards expert, runs a popular eight week course teaching English style cue work and game rules. He directs national billiards bodies, refereed Mosconi Gleason match, and prides on student progress from beginner to competent player.
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Iowa
Froeschle
Iowa Memorial Union
University of Iowa
Billiard Congress of America
Joe Balsis
Mosconi
Jackie Gleason
Cornell names six department chairmen at Cornell College
Dr. Robert P. Lewis announces six new chairmen for 19 academic departments at Cornell College. The appointees are Hugh Lifson art Dr. Tom Garst English Dr. Eugene Hinman geology Dr. William Carroll history Dr. Donald Bailey mathematics and Dr. B Charles Tatum psychology. All outgoing chairs stay on the faculty. Each chairmanship rotates among faculty members with Hinman from Rockford Ill Lifson from New York City Garst from Sioux City Bailey from Cliffside N C Carroll from Peekskill N Y and Tatum from Albuquerque N M. Hinman joined in 1956 Lifson 1963 Garst 1965 Bailey 1969 Carroll 1971 and Tatum 1973.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Robert P. Lewis
Hugh Lifson
Tom Garst
Eugene Hinman
William Carroll
Donald Bailey
B. Charles Tatum
William Heywood
Bailey
John Meyer
Tatum
David Pierce
Pierce
Cornell
Hinman
Rockford, Ill
New York City
Lifson
Garst
Sioux City
Cliffside
N.C
Carroll
Peek
Workshops for area towns set
Des Moines Iowa Development Commission ICB will hold July 31 through August 9 workshops for 203 communities in the Iowa Community Betterment program. Eastern sites include West Branch Marion Vinton West Union Waukon and Edgewood with dates and venues listed for each location.
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Des Moines
Paul Comer
ICB
Iowa Development Commission
Iowa
West Branch
Marion
10Th Ave
Vinton
State Bank
Fifth and A Avenue
West Union
Interstate Power Company
Waukon
Allamakee County
Edgewood
Community Savings Bank
Main Street
Cornell College Receives $100000 Joyce Foundation Challenge
Cornell College in Mount Vernon announced a $100000 challenge grant from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago to support the 1978 79 Annual Fund. The grant will be awarded if donations from new donors and increased gifts from existing donors match the amount by year end.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Joyce Foundation of Chicago
Cornell
Joyce Foundation
Joyce
United Negro College Fund
Box L
East 62Nd St
New York
N.Y
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Teresa Schilig
Newton
Laura McNamee
Johnny Morris
Morris Minkel
Ing. Morris
John Carlson
Iowa City
Bob Froeschle
Chicago
Willie Mosconi
Willie
Florida
Gleason
Jackie
U of Billiards
Eyes
Department
Lisson
Douglas Hanson
Robert Dana
Paul Garvin
Philip B. Secor
William B. Ramsey
Cor
Beatrice Joyce Kean
David Joyce
James Stanley Joyce
Louisiana
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