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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1956

Page

8

Cedar Rapids Prepares for nine week summer recreation program

Cedar Rapids opens a nine week summer playground and recreation season with 22 playground sites and 12 toilets offering supervised activities for six to 16 year olds and a wide range of teen and adult programs. The plan includes 11 plus activities, first aid training for 46 leaders and 13 directors, and extensive facilities management supervised by Supt. Nichols.

Edar Rapids Nichols Robert Tow Red Cross Supt. Nichols

Recreation plan announced for Rompot area

The Cedar Rapids Marion Community Chest will run a summer recreation program for about 235 Rompot area children in southeast Cedar Rapids at the Jane Boyd Community House. Activities run June 18 to August 17 with playground games baseball crafts and club activities plus weekly Playmobile visits. Community House supervisor Mrs. Bartheld leads a neighborhood volunteer team including Mrs. McEndree and Mrs. Yanda who also helped at a recent workshop. An ice cream social is planned for 2373 Rompot St. SE to raise funds and interest in the project.

Marilyn Prochaska Carolyn Dougherty Fillmore Cooperaton Cedar Rapids Dave Skinner Miss Yeates Ellis Park YWCA Les Keller Dick Deih Bill Caldbeck The Softball Association Red Cross Memorial Building Linn County University of Iowa Daniels Riverside Park Coelwomen’s Roosevelt Arthur School Board of Control Recreation Department Peoples Church Third Avenue Sixth Street Iowa City Mildred Scott Charles Selzer L. J. Smith Ruth Waline Smith Fifth Street SE Miss Scott Linn County Society For YMCA Rompot Addition Cedar Rapids-Marion Community Chest Jane Boyd City Playground and Recreation Commission Parks Department William Bartheld Bartheld Robert McEndree Donovan Yanda Recreation Commission

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Ellis Pool Nevin Nichols Otto Ambroz A. T. Pleune J. A. Kitterman D. E. Grim R. D. Taylor Scott McIntyre Don Gardner Recreation Nichols Marian Wilson Ray Frame J. F Cook Albert Gandy Harold Henley Orient Mexico East Side State Postal Ming David Piersel Nancy Bailey Harrison Andy Rogers Jane Barrows Frank Barvinek Patricia Beatty Cleveland Barbara Stubbs Jerry Wilde Veterans Memorial Tennis Center Baseball Stadium Jeannet Emling Roger Delp Reed Park Taylor Martha Hubbard Tom Cain Wilson Harold Erickson Lynda Filip Hayes John Walden Mary Stemlar Don Foth Patricia O’brien Sinclair Park Rose Marie Drum Mike Kelly McKinley Don Holmes Hanna Jo Tecklenberg Buchanan Barbara Spacek Phil Bode Grant Wood Pete Anderson Shirley Norman Bever Park Bill Delp Karen Lindquist Johnson Gladys Wathan Steve Anderson Whitlam Park Emma Allen Ed McQuiston Coe Martin Pillars Nancy Nichols Daniels Park Dale Harmon Georgiana Waskow Bob Naughton Jane Wright Kenwood School Devon Schlegel Ann Farwell Jay- Iees Karen Stepanek Janice Slatternow M Avenue Fourth Street Thirtyfirst Street Emerald Avenue Eighteenth Avenue Twelfth Street Wilson Avenue Rockford Road Skinner Eunice Kuester Toi A.m Haskell Park Maple Drive P.m Donna Schlampp Brenda Beneke Franklin B Avenue Twenty-second Street Ellis Lane Doris Carolus Jo Ann Hagen Ken van Buren School Jo Ann Spaeth Myrle Schegel Dairy Dale Mt. Vernon Road Thirty-fourth Street Lincoln School Jo Ann Christensen Mary Kessler Dave Brockway Playground and Recreation Commission Waltonian Archers Club Waltonian Ellis Park Course City Parks Department Ellis Golf Joe Lodermeier Ellis Course Veterans Memorial Memorial Commission Eleanor Lathrop Burlington Ellis Bever Parks Coe ‘College Women’s C Javenue Fourteenth Street Garden Club Ellis Boulevard N Avenue Thirteenth Street First Avenue Sixteenth Street Nineteenth Avenue L Street Fourteenth Avenue Twenty-seventh Street Charlotte Matter Coe College Tenth Avenue SW Ellis Park Pool Redmond Chest Rompot McEndree Vanda Charles Horak Richard MclIntyre Fay E. Oakley John Hodges Fred Kness Glen Johnston Rompot St. S.E Tissot Swartzendruber Jewelers 318 Ave. SE Sears Smith-Corona Mochnick Typewriter Co Second Ave Strollers California Winkie Folda Siesta Taylor Tot Hedstrom Babyland
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