Coe College 1954 graduates receive numerous honors
James Norland Tone tops the class and earns summa cum laude at Coe College commencement. Six Cedar Rapids seniors gain magna cum laude and many others receive scholarships, prizes, and departmental awards from Coe, highlighting a broad array of honors for the 1954 graduating class.
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Coe
James Norland Tone
LaPorte City
Coe College
Tone
Coe Audi
Cedar Rapids
Donald G. Fitzgerald
Carole Hamilton Murfield
Marilyn J. Claassen
Wellsburg
Betty May Hunt
Sumner
James G. Madden
Freeport
Ill
Gaylord B. Treu
Clear Lake
Ann Brooks
Jay S. Caldwell
Albert Hybl
Norman J. Murfield
Gerry Lee Lorenzen
Ronald J. Peck
Shirley Stockberger
Joan Lee Williams
Jeneane B. Bartels
Dakota City
Neb
Phyllis M. Clendening
Elgin
Bruce B. Trevor
Moline
Knox
Rowena K. Connell
Murray-Fuller
Wilbur C. Delp
Murray
Carol J. DePressles
David L. Marner
Wellman
Palmer Dyal
Crawford Music
Carole H. Murfield
Phyllis Clendening
Myrtle J. Maidlow
Downers Grove
William Shakespeare
Alpha Xi Delta
College Newsaper
Karen Alt
Irkwood
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Winston M. Watson
State Center
Grace Episcopal Church Plans East Wall Start
Grace Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids will begin building an east wall as the first step in a planned renovation of its 104 year old shrine. James D. Bever says sketches are nearing completion and construction will start once drawings are finished. The east wall has stood bare since 1948 after an adjacent addition was razed.
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Toddville
Air Force Association
Robert J. Lagerstrom
Elgin
Ill
Chicago Tribune
Bruce B. Trevor
James Madden
Thomas C. Hopkins
Kansas City
Charles D. Metcalf
Anamosa
Mu Phi Epsilon
Woeass
Phyllis M. Clendening
Mu Psi
Kay Bruhn
Preston
Sigma Nu
Paul J. Riley
Minneapolis
Minn
Grace Episcopal Church
Cedar Rapids
James D. Bever
Bever
Radio Engineers To Hear Fubini In Cedar Rapids
Dr. Eugene Fubini of Long Island will speak to the Institute of Radio Engineers in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. in the Collins Radio Company building cafeteria. He will discuss experiments to improve high frequency electrical circuits using stripline over coaxial cable. He earned a physics doctorate in Rome in 1933 and did WWII research at Harvard, later working with the Airborne Instrument Laboratory. Attendees should use the north door.
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Eugene Fubini
Long Island
Cedar Rapids
Institute of Radio Engineers
Collins Radio Company Engineering
Fubini
Rome
Harvard Laboratory
Airborne Instrument Laboratory
Burgess Says Reddy Fox Won’t Catch Peter Rabbit
Thornton W. Burgess, 60, author of the Peter Rabbit tales, says Reddy Fox will never catch Peter. He plans to keep Peter one jump ahead in bedtime stories and expects to work another 20 years, not retiring until 100. Burgess is vacationing in New Brunswick from Springfield, Massachusetts.
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ST. John
N. B
Thornton W. Burgess
Reddy Fox
Peter Rabbit
Peter
Waeney
Burgess
Springfield
Mass
New Brunswick
U.S. Officials Eye Close Ellis Island
U S Immigration officials may close Ellis Island and relocate operations to mainland facilities to cut costs and improve accessibility. Once the busiest gateway to America, the station now handles fewer than 5,000 immigrants per year while inspections increasingly occur aboard ships or at airports.
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New York
Ellis Island
America
Little Island
Statue of Liberty
New York Harbor
United States
Man freed by tree after Norfolk ditch crash
State troopers said John Harwood of Newport News Va was bruised when his car careened into a ditch and lodged in a tree. The tree had to be cut down to free the auto.
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Suffolk
John Harwood
Newport News
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Sigma Nu Fraternity
Chi Omega Sorority
Joan Williams
Erskine
Hanson
Virginia M. Mawdsley
Palo
Marvin Hromek
David Nelson
Kappa Delta Sorority
Department of
Sally Carbinger Eggleston
Claudia A. Wayson
Jesup
Barbara L. Anderson
Betty J. Howe
Batavia
Thelma Lamb
James N. Tone
Psa Seywne
Rigg
Accousticon
Noti. Bk
Jone
U.S
Edward Shaughnessy
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Orarey
General Electric
Modern Appliance Company
Third Avenue
Craemer News
Basket
Craemer's
Craemer
Reed
Swan
Lade
Ee . Pre
Maynard
David Lewis
Ee Sen
Atve
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