Toy lending library at Jane Boyd helps preschool families
The Jane Boyd Community House launches a home visitor program in February for Tyler and Johnson School area families with a toy lending library, books on child care, and art supplies. Eleven families participate with room for twenty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Boyd
Tyler and Johnson
Merilee Rosberg
Rosberg
Betty Wilson
Wilson
Head Start
United Cerebal Palsy Center
St. Wenceslaus
Mrs. Wilson
Howard Ballew
Jane Boyd Community House
Howard
Luther Ballew
10Th St. SE
Dear Abby private showers debate fuels reader letters
Readers weigh in on the 13 year old girl facing embarrassment in gym showers. Parents and students share experiences from modesty to nudist upbringings, some urging counseling or privacy, others defending openness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Holyoke
Husband-wife team spend winter at Antarctica station
John and Donna Mitchell Oliver return from a full year at McMurdo Base the first husband wife unit to winter at a government research station. Mrs Oliver a Scripps technician helped collect animal types and study winter isolation effects while her husband pursued biological oceanography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
John
Donna Mitchell Oliver
Antarctica
Mrs. Oliver
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
McMurdo Base
Oliver
South Pole
Mary Alice McWhinnie
Mary Odile Cahoon
McMurdo
Jennie Darlington
Edith Ronne
Officers elected by League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters elected new officers including Carol Burns as second vice president and Margaret Blasingame as treasurer. Directors named were Marianne Cameron Pearl Mirich Bonnié Severn Jaroslava Wheatley Jan Martin and Lynn VanHorne. Holdover officers include Liz Bump president Judy Jardine first vice president Nancy Kellogg secretary and Dyan Smith director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Women Voters
Carol Burns
Margaret Blasinggame
Marianne Cameron
Pearl Mirich
Bonnié Severn
Jaroslava Wheatley
Jan Martin
Lynn VanHorne
Liz Bump
Judy Jardine
Nancy Kellogg
Dyan Smith
Janet Leah Null Named Finalist in Miss Iowa Teen Pageant
Janet Leah Null, daughter of Olga B Null of Sherman Street NE, has been named a finalist in the 1978 Miss Iowa National Teenager Pageant. State finals run May 19 to 21 in Des Moines, with Frost’s verse quoted in a Thought for Today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Leah Null
Olga B. Null
Sherman St. NE
Iowa
Des Moines
Legal Secretaries honor Judy Engelken
Judy Engelken of 3720 12th Ave SW was named Legal Secretary of the Year by the Linn County Legal Secretaries Association at the Roosevelt Royale Hotel. She works for John J. Shea of Shea Jackson and Irvine, leads the local chapter, and serves as historian for the state association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Engelken
12Th Ave
Linn County Legal Secretaries Association
Roosevelt Royale Hotel
Engelken
John J. Shea
of Shea, Jackson and Irvine
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Fortny Cocu
Abigail van Buren
Coats
Robert Frost
National Legal Secretaries Association
Scott’s Roll
Hach Brothers CO. Inc
First Street
S.E
Sal
America
2Nd Avenue
Second Ave
Kmart
FBI
16Th Ave
S.W
Collins Rd
N.E
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