Coe College selects five beauties for Acorn yearbook
Movie star Fred MacMurray tops the list of Coe College beauties in the 1938 Acorn contest. Agnes Johnston leads, with Lydia Ann Courtright, Betty Knox, Phyllis Closson, and Caroline Van Meter also named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Acorn
Robert Shepard
Fred MacMurray
Paramount Theater
Agnes Johnston
H. W. Johnston
Chicago
MacMurray
Miss Johnston
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Phyllis Closson
Charles L. Closson
Walker
Caroline van Meter
Thomas E. van Meter
Moline
Lydia Ann Courtright
C. S. Courtright, Jr
Fifth Avenue SE
Betty Knox
James M. Knox
Knollwood Drive
Psychologist Will Be Speaker At Pi Omicron Meeting
Dr. Daniel Fedder of the University of Iowa will address the Iota Epsilon chapter of Pi Omicron on the fulfillment of the individual's greatest need at 8 p.m. Monday in the Montrose hotel. A post lecture discussion will follow Mizpah circle meets at Mrs D L Williams home. evangel devotions, layettes for Nursing bureau and Mercy hospital auxiliary to sew dressings Wednesday at 1 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J Thornton
University of Town
Cedar Rapids
Woman’s Club
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose Hotel
Gordon Barger
Lulu Engleman Welty
Wight
Ronald
Luxembourg Garden
Manning
D. E. Rummel
C. C. Moffit
Ieader
P. M. Davis
Myrie McEldowney
F. K. Corey
Music Department
E. W. Kreikard
D. M. Fellows
C. W. Re
Dresser Hunting
Northwestern University
Evanston
R. D Hunting
First Avenue E
Pi Omicron
Daniel Fedder
University of Iowa
Iota Epsilon
Fedder
Mizpah Circle of the King's Daughters
D. L. Williams
Seventeenth Street
J. Gerber
R. Erickson
Tucker
Ed Miller
Mercy Hospital Auxiliary
J. E. Ives
Grande Avenue SE
Robert C. Toms
Lena Vogt
Cornellians Enjoy Shakespearian Swim
A Cornell campus water carnival featured a modern Shakespearean sonnet display and an all college dance after the show. Ethel Brown organized the dance. many seniors attended a reception by the Associated University Women. Other social events included informal dances in Merner hall and several faculty-hosted dinners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ount Vernon
Cornell
Ethel Brown
Oak Park
Merner Hall
Phillip Henderson
Cornell English
Associated University
Jean Jeffery
Freeport
Gerald Hill
Frank Brooks
C. M. Jarrett
Pittsburgh
F. G. Brooks
W S. Ebersole
H. C. Lane
Jarrett
F. F. Ebersole
Helen Schroeder
L. E. Bigger
Ralph Klinefelter
G. E. Bartholomew
Mount Vernon Temple Pythian Sisters
School of Instruction
E. V. R. Dvorak
D. C. Davis
Harold Burge
Ida McNally
Grinnell
Grand Temple of Iowa
Lloyd Oakland
Jacques Jolas
Jolas
Horace A. Miller
Karl Andrist
Helen Venn
Mary Parsons
Francis German
J. D. Peet
Huldah Peet
Alumnae Dance Planned by Mercy Hospital Nurses’ Guild
The Mercy Hospital Nurses Alumnae association will host an April 7 dance at Danceland with advance ticket sales. Co chairs are Miss Mary Trzil and Miss Alberta Hogan, assisted by several Misses. Chaperones include multiple doctor couples. In another note, twenty-two First Christian Church Couples class members met at 1220 Second Ave SE to review the 1937 budget, prepare notebooks, and hem handkerchiefs for the Community House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital Nurses
Danceland
Mary Trzil
Alberta Hogan
Tillie Blizek
Loretta Howe
Helen Stark
Mercedes Flanagan
Christine Marbach
Eleanor Earl
W. J. Neuzil
R. M. Chapman
C. H. Stark
Phil J. Crew
B. G. Broghammer
First Christian Church
S. C. Rice
Second Avenue
C. J. Delp
H. D. Wingert
Ea Merveaux
Fred Fleming
Floy Mel- Sa
West Union Men's Study Club and Its Long Legacy
The 1880 West Union men's study club drew fifteen founders including J. B. Knoepfler and W. E. Fuller. Notable members over the years include H. P. Hancock, Frank Camp, W. J. Rogers, Walter Beall, L. G. Meyer, and J. H. Cline, among others, with a 50th anniversary marked by letters from former members in eleven states. The article notes a parallel H. L. club at Fort Madison penitentiary and mentions early school superintendent J. C. Sanders' later warden tenure and a linked inmate study club. Also referenced are travels of the Averill sisters and John M. Hasek’s family updates from Cedar Rapids to Chicago and Mexico City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
J. B. Knoepfler
W. B. Lakin
H. P. Hancock
W. E. Fuller
T. L. Green
P. F. Sturgis
C. H. Talmadge
W. J. Rogers
Walter H. Beall
L. A. Grimes
W. H. Antes
J. H. Cline
L. G. Meyer
H. H. Buchmann
D. R. Lynch
R. W. Hoover
T.m.nielsen
Donald Brown
Marvin 'T. Nodland
Penitentiary
Hancock
H. A. L. Club
Iowa
H. L. Club
Fort Madison
J. C. Sanders
H. L. 000
Expert Cooks In Methodist Men's Club At Oelwein
The Methodist Men s Club at Oelwein supports church work with twelve unit leaders and a Boy Scout troop. Notable figures include R B Wolfe C H Gregory H Moyer E E Burdick H H Folsom H J King T S Hearne J C Leaton Wilbur Morrison L E B Boots Robert Retz and Max Jensen. Activities include repairs donations and sponsorships while Rev A W Henke expanded the program as part of uniting church life into a man s church heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Territory
R. B. Wolfe
C. H. Gregory
H . Moyer
E. E. Burdick
H. H. Folsom
H. J. King
T. S. Hearne
Wilbur Morrison
L. E B. Boots
Robert Retz
Max Jensen
E. C. Belt
W. G. Crowder
J. P. VanHorn
F. P. Shaffer
W. C
Maillie
Cook
National Boy Scout Headquarters
United States
Church Athletic Association
Epworth
A. W. Henke
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coe
C. S. Courtright
Fifth Avenue
Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority
Miss Knox
Chi Omega Sorority
Prof. Thornton
Dresser
Mizpah Circle
C. H. Newman
Nursing Bureau
John A. Holbrook
R. H. Holbrook
Second Avenue SE
Florida
Moffett Studio
Miami Beach
Louise Henderson Clark
Edward Clark, Jr
Basa del Mer
Fla
Clark
Gladys Cherry
Werbert T. Cherry
Tama
Edward C. Clark
Cornellians
Ior
Cornell Chapel
C. F. Littell
Marjorie Littell
Dorothy Dobson
Jessie
Mary Hughes
Arlene Lindsey
Margaret Dilley
Winifred Neal
Takonto
Patricia Mitchell
Mae Bovey
Ethel Colton
Evans Colton
Gertrude Midkiff
Emma Leigh
ART Association
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Nancy Finnigan
Arthur L. Augustine
Louis D. Burkhalter, Jr
Patricia Burkhalter
John E. Stansbury
Betty Davis
Nadia Thorpe
Marvin Cone
E. M Sefton
W H. Frick
Charles C Loomis
Explorers Club
Montag
Melvin L. Welke
Broadway
Mercy Hospital
Lulu Averill
Mexico
Mexico City
San Antonio
Texas
St. Louis
John M. Hasek
M. T. Hasek
Eighth Avenue
St. Petersburg
Frank Cerny
F. V. Hasek
James M. Kacena
Oelwein
F. C. Witzigman
NEUZILS BETUR _ Dre
Neusil
Grande Avenue
Miami “Beach
New Orleans
Havana
Cuba
P.E.O
M. J. Buslers
California
M. J. Busler
Nineteenth Street
Vernon Heights
Reading Club
W. S. King
Bever Avenue
Security Building
Quentia
Egat
Hollywood
Cara Dobiinsons Col Tal Food Shop
Third St
Jacques Deval
Carl Ettinger
New York
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