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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1977
Page
4
Cedar Rapids officials seek an extra 180000 for the Five Seasons Community Center furnishing and equipment. The project total would rise from 450000 to 574000 with new seating benches and added design costs. Center manager Mike Gebauer says the council must approve or plans may be scaled back.
Critics said the North Portico interiors looked too palace like. In 1902 a South Portico entrance was built to better receive state visitors.
Grace F. Tschirgi Scholarship funds awards nearly nine thousand five hundred dollars to twenty three recipients for fall study at Mt Mercy College. Listed students include Sharon Banowetz Beverly Barg Duane Beer Anne Dale Maureen Dale Joetta Dietiker Elaine Drakozal Peggy Gainor Helen Gase Gary Goodhall Diane Jellison Marion David Knight Natalie Lyons Kaye McIllrath Marsha Milbach Mary Noonan Barbara Sexton Kim Shields Jeffrey Stuckenschneider Elverna Vaske Marion Julie Wahlstrom Peggy Weber Nancy Yohe. Qualifications require financial need academic potential and Linn county residency.
Dora Jane Hamblin, Life magazine veteran and author of That Was the Life, visits Cedar Rapids on a eight city tour to discuss her anecdotal memoir. She says promoting the book is harder than writing it and notes it is in a third printing. Her niece, Liza Ovrom, recalls her aunt as a ham who enjoys public exposure.
Norma Kirsch of 2890 Alburnett road Marion was elected chairman of the Grant Wood area chapter of the American Red Cross. She previously headed Linn county's swine flu program and was a former vice-chairman, succeeding A C Topinka.
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