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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
8
University of Iowa president urges graduates to combine thoughtfulness and discriminating perspective with intelligent optimism and constructive leadership. He warns against seductive panaceas and calls for balance between reason and emotion to support societal progress.
Cornell seniors processed in robes to the chapel for the eighty fourth commencement. Joseph Fink Charlotte Radsliff and Mary Ellen Moore shared the history award, with Phi Beta Kappa members named. Distinguished guests Dr. Raymond Kent and Prof. Horace Miller received degrees, as Steiner delivered the baccalaureate address on the creative teacher amid a disintegrating society. Alumni elected a new president James McCutcheon and new council members for three-year terms.
Henry Wormer 75 longtime Center Point resident and cattle buyer died Sunday at 6 p m He was injured five years ago and semi invalid since then He is survived by wife Gladys Bartleson and two sons Harry of Atkins and Charles of Perry Funeral services set for 2 30 Tuesday at Dennison and Beatty chapel Center Point with Rev A L Walker Cresco officiating.
Miss Loletta Mabel Branson and Charles E. Mackey wed at the Branson home with fifty guests. Rev. Horace A. Larsen officiated. The bride, a Coe College alumna and Alpha XI Delta member, will teach. groom works at West Liberty State Bank. They plan a East Fourth Street home.
Des Moines speech by Walter Lippmann at Drake University warns that moderates must gain strength to curb extremists on both sides. He likens world conditions to a theater fire and urges practical compromise to preserve liberal civilization.
Miss Eileen Patricia McPartland daughter of Mrs Kathryn McParland of Monti wed B W Flannigan of Manchester son of William Flannigan of Ryan at St Patrick's church Monti. Attendants were James Flannigan and Miss Loretta McParland. They plan to reside at 200 East Fayette Street Manchester after June 15.
Scotch Grove marks one hundred years since pioneer settlers from Manitoba arrived. A planning meeting at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian church elected Frank Sutherland chairman and Mrs. May Himebaugh secretary. Committees include civic and religious observance planners with wide local and area involvement for a late summer event near September 1.
Commercial club members met Friday to map a July 3 celebration. I F Street served as acting president guiding the movement.
Leo Troendle, about 40, a veteran living eight miles northeast of Waukon, Iowa, was killed Sunday afternoon when a grindstone burst while he sharpened a corn plow. A fragment struck his jaw, breaking his neck. Survived by his widow and four children.
About 1,100 students from 200 Iowa high schools attend University of Iowa testing through Tuesday. Red Oak leads with 27 participants, Fairfield and Creston with 26 each, many schools sending 10 or more. Only individual honors awarded. seven students will take four subjects. A round table for educators convenes at Old Capitol Tuesday at 10.
Funeral services for Henry F. Townsend longtime Cedar county resident were conducted Sunday by Rev. Otis Moore. Burial followed in Rochester cemetery. Townsend, born July 4, 1856 in Potsdam New York, died at his Tipton home Friday after farming north of Wilton Junction for years. Survived by three sons Louis of Tipton Frank and George of Wilton Junction. wife preceded him in death.
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