Schaefer to Speak at Marion Alumni Banquet
Kurt Schaefer a German refugee and University of Iowa faculty member will speak at Marion high school alumni banquet May 21 in the high school gymnasium. A Dutch treat meal will be served by the American Legion auxiliary, followed by a dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurt Schaefer
University of Iowa
Marion High School
American Legion Auxiliary
Ben Nollsch
Owen and Edison Drug
Cira Fruit Store
Phillips Smoke Shop
Alumni Association
Melvin McBride
Anna Mullaley
Marjorie Hess
Galen McDougall
Des Moines
O. H. Myers
Central City
American Legion
Harlan Briggs
Lisbon
Linn County
Local Society Notes Hear Commencement Plans
Mr and Mrs Glenn O Pyle head to Iowa City for the University of Iowa commencement where daughter Helen earns high honors in the college of commerce. Several Marion residents attend and others host campus visitors and club events across the week with meetings, picnics, and travel to Davenport and Elysian for ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn O. Pyle
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Helen
College of Commerce
Robert S Oxley
W. Schenken
Loyce
Dale Sue
John M., Burmingham
Charlese
Emery J. Miller
Charles Burmingham
John S. Miller
Bruce Phillips
Marion
Marion Marine Private Taylor Receives Purple Heart
Private Robert Eugene Taylor of the Fourth Marines is awarded the Purple Heart for valor in the Battle of the Philippines. He is son of Paul R Taylor of 1060 Fifth Avenue and a 1940 Winfield High School graduate who enlisted that year. The unit, led by Col Samuel Howard, fought at Cavite, Olongapo, Mariveles, and Bataan after arriving from Shanghai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Eugene Taylor
Fourth Marines
Paul R Taylor
Fifth Avenue
The
Philippines
Navy Department
Taylor
Winfield High School
Winfield
Anna Taylor
Col Samuel, Howard
Washington
Shanghai
Far East
Cavite Navy Yard
Olongapo
Mariveles
Bataan
George Washington
De Molay Mothers Plan Picnic Honoring Linn Chapter Members
The De Molay Mothers circle hosts a 6 30 p m family picnic supper in the Masonic temple to honor Linn chapter No 900 graduates Albert Van Fossen Mac Towers Keith Stark Bob Wilber James Marsh Billy Wahl Wayne Stephenson Bob Wainwright Lyle McConaughy Kenneth Beadle Billie Harlan and Clarence Reinhard. Meat potatoes and dessert provided reservations due by Monday noon call 830.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Molay
Masonic Temple
Linn
Order of de Molay
Albert van Fossen
Mac Towers
Keith Stark
Bob Wilber
James Marsh
Billy Wahl
Wayne Stephenson
Bob Wainwright
Lyle McConaughy
Kenneth Beadle
Billie Harlan
Clarence Reinhard
Marion social and academic notices from local events
Local residents attend picnics, sorority events and family visits. William Secrist is ill at home on Eleventh Street. Teachers meet for a Lakeside school picnic. The Bowens visit Ottumwa. Mrs Bowen stays through Tuesday. Pinochle and PTA gatherings are scheduled. Miss Eckman visits from Perry. Delta Zeta initiation at Ames. University of Iowa commencement for Clarence Reinhard. Oldfather to San Francisco via Shell Oil. multiple family dinners and guests north of Marion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G Bowen
Don Reedquist
Ottumwa
Bowen
Marion
Verle Breed
Ames
Delta Zeta
Agnes Haggen
G. L. Martin
Clarence Reinhard
Iowa City
Melvin Oldfather
Oldfather
University of Iowa
San Francisco
Shell Oil Company
Minnie Schenken
John Schenken
South Pasadena
Calif
Hugo Schenken
Dallas
Texas
A A Schenken
Albert
Eileen
Carrol] Roberts
Bernard Schenken
Rudy
Local Notes From Marion Area Club Events and Graduations
Concord Agricultural and Literary club hosted Rev Arthur W Henke on self improvement. Community guests attend Mother’s Day events as Iowa City and Cedar Rapids activities are listed along with a long Iowa graduates list including Postville, Belle Plaine, Vinton, Independence and many towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Tanner
Concord Agricultural and Literary Club
Arthur W Henke
Dave Tanner
Cahoon Kids Cross Swinging Bridge To School In Iowa Wild Spot
Eleven year old Delbert Cahoon and his sister Bonnie walk a three mile path through bottomland woods to a one room school seven miles northwest of Mc Gregor Iowa. Their father Kenneth Cahoon built a swinging bridge over Yellow River for access and safety. The children sometimes ride a pony named Buster to the bridge but now walk the route daily with their dogless miles in snow or mozzie heavy summers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ncgregor
Delbert Cahoon
Bonnie
Kenneth Cahoon
Yellow River
Iowa
McGregor
Cahoon
Little
Buster
Little Red Riding Hood
Grandma's
Government shifts labor dispute cases from courts to bureaus
The discussion centers on moving discrimination complaints and labor dispute cases from court jurisdiction to government bureaus. Judge Dewey notes Supreme Court rulings removing labor disputes from courts and criticizes opposition to transferring these matters to administrative bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver
Supreme Court
Dewey
Grinnell to Honor Ody Walters Today
Grinnell prepares a chapel service honoring all Grinnell College men in the armed services and especially memory of Edward N. Ody Walters the first Grinnell collegian killed in World War II Speakers include Dr J S Everton Henry S Conard and Louis Gonias Walters an outstanding athlete and Grinnell graduate last spring remembered in ceremony
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Edward N. “Ody” Walters
J. S Everton
Henry 5S Conard
Louis Gonias
Des Moines
Walters
College graduates listed by city and degree
A long list of names and degrees from multiple Iowa towns including bachelor and master levels in arts science commerce nursing engineering medicine pharmacy and law. Cities shown include Monticello Sigourney Cedar Rapids Keota and more with graduates such as Teddy Snakenburg Doris Lambert and Elizabeth Boulton among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Plaine
Rosemary Chambers
Robert C. Payton
George H. Chambers
Shellsburg
Alice M. Lewis
Vinton
Robert W. Scott
van Horne
Leland C Coron
Watkins
Lancelot L. Mayhew
Manchester
Don J. Ottille
Norman R. Johnson
Fern E. Keoppel
Hopkinton
Mary B. Binney
Helene B Conklin
Elizabeth A Eichler
Phoebe McLauglin
Louise M. Walters
Marilyn Blexrud
Paul D. Bordwell
William A. Buckley
Barton H. Campbell
John Cannon
Marvin S. Chapman
Eileen M. Cochenour
John C. Fetzer
Jack W. Garnant
Paul F. Gregg, Jr
Joan Hady
Dorothy W Haefner
Corrine Hayes
Janet Hodenheld
Barbara Kent
James A
Mary T Taylor
George Gaulacher
Fred F Herzog
Robert J. Knoepfler
Howard W. McLaughlin
Forrest C. Mercer
Stephen F. Nugent
Robert Osmundson
John S. Sproatt
Luther R. Wilson
John J. Young
Michael M. Bluhn
Charles M. Cole
Harvey B. Eastburn
Dennis G. Emanuel
Robert
Warren F. Burger
Francis E E. Pratt
Louis F. Jilly
Herman G. Ruppert
Donald L. Spencer
Leo F. Burger
Earl F. Crain
Joe C. Gaeta
Kenneth A Hefte
Hans C Hinrichs
W. Clair Hogan
Charles P. S. Hummer
Bob G
Romano Wallace
James S. Youtsler
Oxford
H. Vincent Harsha
Cine Marshall
Cook
Monticello
Mary Mclaughlin
Mary M. Redmond
Anna M. Melsa
Lois A Patton
Mary E. Penningroth
Richard R Proctor
Ted J. Welch
Alan W. Richardson
Frank M. Flack
Paul M. Jones
Springville
Charlotte M. Carpenter
Walker
Martin W. Skallerup, Jr
Lisbon
Helen M Graves
Columbus City
Elizabeth M. Boulton
Wapello
Richard F. Davison
Francis G. Young
F. A. Cover
Columbus Junction
Paul V. Shearer
West Liberty
Helen A Mather
Stanley E. Williams
Atalissa
Fern E Staley
Wilton Junction
Robert P. Mason
Bernard H. Duffe
Washington
Frances L. Stewart
Richard H. Johnson
Daryl L. Fetters
Riverside
John C. Bates
Harold R Cummings
Wellman
Russell M . Ross
Paul H Eimen
Ainsworth
Beryl J. Butterworth
Kalona
Earl C Hershberger
Martin Levy
Dennis E. Michum
Mother's Day Gift Son On Marblehead Is Safe
Mrs. Prescott Driver of Clinton received her great Mother's Day gift when her son Raymond 20 was confirmed safe in a home port. He had been a member of the Marblehead cruiser crew which limped into a U.S. port after an engagement in Asiatic waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Prescott
Raymond
Marblehead
U.S
Asiatic
Flying Kernels Train for Navy Flight at Glenview
The Flying Kernels at Glenview Naval Air Station undergo four weeks ground school before solo flights, with 20 hours of flying, campus routines, and strict battalion rules. Students, including Sonny Franck of Davenport, aim to join the fleet as war tensions loom, seeking to prove American pilots' excellence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat McNally
Cedar Rapids, Center
Fred Warner
Cedar Rapids
Phil Buschmeyer
Pat
Glenview Air Base
Navy
Marine Corps
Chicago
Glenview
Wilmette
Winnetka
Northwestern University
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
Franston
Liberty
Bureau of Navigaton
Flying Kernels
George
Sonny” Franck
Davenport
University of Minnesota
New York Giants
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Schaefer
Granger
John Granger
Boston
Arthur E. Granger
Harvard University
Marion Nature and Garden Club
C. A. Dykes
L. A. Levasseur
Tula Toms
Seventh Avenue
Kathryn B. Blinks
Methodist
C. C. Carpenter
O. G. Kassner
Don Kassner
Elysian, Minn
Kermit Kassner
Alice McGuire
L. Hayden
Oxford Junction
Ameigo Club
W. 3. Sebern
Mary Lowe Dickinson
King’s Daughters
Amber Travis
Fred J. Lang
Harlan F. Knight
Gas Company
Elizabeth Brown
John Taylor
Richard Hart
Marshalltown
Mr. Hatt
Elizabeth Hatt
Grove City
Rebekah
F. Hall
Ivanhoe Club
K. V
Andrew P. Munson
Glenn Kinser
Christian Church Board
A. A. Hardin
Drummond
7Th Ave
George Engstrom
Deerfield
Ruth Engstrom
Harry Emerson
9Th Ave
Pea Bunting
John
Wrenk Starbuck
Laura Starbuck
Shaffer G. Sink
William
Springdale
Marion Marine Decorated
Private Taylor
Honor de Molay
William Secrist
William P Secrist
Eleventh Street
Marion Township
Lakeside
Jack Gibney
Rural Parent-Teacher Association
Ruby Eckman of
Perry
Mayme Berryhill
Four C
Harry Milligan
Highway 30
Ivan Gillmore
Florence Scott
Lydia Gilmore
le Roy Scott
Roxie
Lynn
Leonard Holden
Ottasen
Concord Club
Charles A Burmingham
Wava Adams
Vera Reichert
J MM Burmingham
Iowa Memorial Union
Marion Red Cross
A A Hardin
Richard
Mr. Everett Buckley of
Miss Alice McGuire
Marion Fish and Game Club
Dye Garage
Guy Miller
Seventeenth Street
FE. E. Godwin
Omaha
Carolyn Hanscomb
Elsie Newell
Tennessee
Board of Review
Hutchinson
Owen
Gordon A. Rumpf
Postville
Kathryn Klingbeil
Leo E. McNeil
LaPorte City
William W Wagner
Independence
Margerr E. Gemmel
Lamont
Merlin E. Macheak
Tipton
R. Sanford Cook
Wayne F. Miller
Clayton
Marquette
William W Henthorn
Harry F Schott
Guttenberg
Harvey L Kinball
Donathion B. Meder
Elkader
Lorna D. Murphys
Nelaware
Fayette
West Union
Bradford D. Finch
Hawkeye
John H. Hauth
Williamsburg
Lorene Harrington
Dorothy E. Dane
North English
Norman Warner
John H. Evans
Walford
William J Broz
Marengo
James W Downer
Kenneth E. Voss
Victor — Leonard W. Bloethe
Amana
David F. Petrzelka
Martelle
Dorothy E. Martin
Anamosa
Arthur H. Abel
Charles W. Gray
Robert D. Paul
Cahoons
Fiqorence L. Clark
Delbert
Ody Walters
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Lasswell
Marion Golf Club
Bud Connell
Muscatine
Oscar Koon
Connell
Keokuk
Louisa
Montezuma
Lyle J. Swink
Tama
Ruth E. Betz
Warren Bogle
Lincoln
Joanne Gebers
Winneshick
Decorah
Patricia A Darling
Margaret Germann
Mark A R Kuhn
Philip E. Bernatz
Calmar
Victor Gehling
First Avenue
Ferring
Naval Aviation
Penspent
Fla
Corpus Christi
Tex
John L. Sullivan
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