Mother's Day Art Contest Awards in Iowa Schools
Prizes go to Kathleen Irwin and ten other students across Cedar Rapids Decorah Monona Anamosa and more for essays paintings and drawings in The Junior Gazette Mothers Day contest. Winners include Kathleen Irwin 16 11A McKinley Cedar Rapids grand prize 10 in books and ten others each awarded one book. Further names listed with ages grades and schools across Iowa.
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Kathleen Irwin
McKinley High School
Cedar Rapids
Helen K. Irwin
Fifth Street
McKinley
A Mother's Day Poem Tribute From Anamosa High
OEMS received many poems for a Mother's day contest. Betty Ann Day, 16, 10th grade at Anamosa High School submitted A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER. The piece reflects on maternal love, sacrifice, and the custom of honoring mothers with gifts and words of appreciation.
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Betty Ann Day
Anamosa High School
M. Ruth Pratt
Mother's Day Poems From Monticello Students Printed
A Monticello Iowa letter page features fifth and eleventh graders sharing Mother's Day poems and dedications. Poems express love, memory, and gratitude, with teachers and students from Decorah High School and local schools contributing verses about mothers, guidance, and comfort.
Call at Gazette for Cedar Rapids prize books
All Cedar Rapids winners are asked to call at the editor's office on the top floor of The Gazette building, any time Saturday or the following week, to claim prize books. Prize books will be mailed to out-of-town winners.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Roosevelt Pupil Writes A Lullaby
A 16 year old, Alice Earl of Roosevelt Cedar Rapids, offers a lullaby prose piece for The Junior Gazette Mothers Day contest. The scene centers on a mother softly rocking her sleeping baby as twilight fades, a prayer for the child’s innocence and beauty.
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Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Mother by Patricia Robinson
A short poem praising mothers as a perfect blessing for mankind. The speaker, Patricia Robinson, notes God made many perfect things yet created no one more perfect than a mother, celebrating maternal love in a reverent tone.
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God
Mother's Day Tribute Poem by Margaret Blaine
A poem by Margaret Blaine from Cedar Rapids portrays a mother in quiet celebration on Mother's Day. Luminous moonlit water, roses, and distant chimes frame memories of a mother and her children. The piece blends dreamy imagery with a quiet, enduring gratitude across time.
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Margaret Blaine
Franklin, Cedar Rapids
Our Mothers shown by Perry Woodward and Titon Hopker
Two poems portray mothers in family life and praise their guiding, loving role. The first compares mothers to judges who comfort and correct, while the second notes modern changes in mothers with painted nails and stylish dress, yet affirms enduring kindness and a loving heart through a child’s homecoming.
Prayerful Dedication Poem for a Sixth Grade Student
A devotional verse by Bernice Vavroch celebrates a sixth grade student at St. Wenceslaus in Cedar Rapids. The lines plead for God to keep and bless the mother who supports and cheers the child throughout the year, asking that she be led to God and His Son when her days end.
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Bernice Vavroch
St. Wenceslaus
Cedar Rapids
Johnny makes a special Mother's Day for his mother
Elaine Anderson tells how Johnny Brown skips gifts on Mother's Day and creates his own annual celebration. He hides his plan until a week later when his mother finds a bouquet, a locket, and a cake marked Mother. Johnny explains his aim to show love beyond borrowed gifts.
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Johnny
Browns
Mrs. Brown
Mr. Brown
When God Thought of MOTHER Beecher Quotation Note
A brief quotation notes Henry Ward Beecher praising mothers as rich deep divine souls. It emphasizes creation, soul power and beauty in motherhood. This compact item reflects religious literary praise rather than a news event.
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Mother
Henry Ward Beecher
Quote by James M Barrie on a mother’s eyes
A reflective line attributes a mother’s purpose to opening minds to beautiful thoughts as expressed by James M Barrie in a thoughtful quotation.
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James M. Barrie
Mother praised as blessing by her children
A proverb from Proverbs 31 28 extols a mother whom her children arise to bless. The biblical line emphasizes honor for motherhood and family esteem as a moral ideal.
The Answer by Kenneth Poole
A poem fragment notes a boy crying for guidance and a stranger points him to his mother as the kind, gentle, loving, and wise source of counsel. The verse emphasizes maternal love as a remedy for troubles and acknowledges a mother’s supportive role.
Mother Poem by Kathryn Ann Steuber in Cedar Rapids
A 10 year old student from Trinity Lutheran School Cedar Rapids presents a short poem about a mother. The piece reflects devotion and heavenly imagery with lines on angels whispering love.
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Kathryn Ann Steuber
Trinity Lutheran School
Cedar Rapids
Mothers Across The World Poem Remembrance
By Enid Neff a Calamus High student prints a reflective poem praising mothers. The piece contrasts global maternal love with the influence of a mother’s watchful smile guiding toward success and blessings, mentioning aging and comforting maternal qualities.
History and Background of Mother’s Day Contest Entries
Two entries from Iowa pupils for The Junior Gazette Mother’s Day contest recount the day’s history and observance. Virginia Russell notes the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day, carnations as symbols, church sermons, programs, and family reunions, and traces origins to 1907 by Anna Jarvis. She adds Congress resolutions in 1913 and a 1914 proclamation establishing the date with flag display nationwide.
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Iowa
Anna Jarvis
Philadelphia
Congress
Executive Department
United States
Mother’s Day tribute and Lincoln’s view on mothers
Lawrence Anderson recalls Abraham Lincoln’s praise for his mother and explains the origin of Mother’s Day. The piece notes the universal respect for mothers, cites Miss Anne Jarvis as founder, and quotes her dedication to honoring all mothers everywhere.
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Lawrence Anderson
Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln
Mother
Anne Jarvis
Philadelphia
By Mary Kay Angerer poem tribute in Cedar Rapids
A short verse by Mary Kay Angerer from Cedar Rapids praises a friend whose laughter warmth and kindness define life. It extols her tone sparkling eyes jovial countenance and sincere heart as the most valued aspects of friendship and happiness.
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Mary Kay Angerer
Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Margaret Roberts
Decorah
Grove Street
Virgina Russell
Monona
Anamosa
M. Ruth Crall
Enid Neff
Calamus Consolidated School
Calamus
Kennesh Poole
Franklin High School
Eighteenth Street
Lulu E. Peterson
Roosevelt High School
Patricia Robinson
Peterson
Marilynne Milner
Twenty-third Street
Rose Mary Mann
Ellis Boulevard
Iowa School
Superior
Elizabeth L. Billings
Coggan
Tilton Hopker
Alburnett
Helen MacLean
Lyman Euken
Trinity Lutheran
Alice Earl
Elaine Anderson
Franklin
Perry Woodward
Norma Jean Johnson
Lois Warner
Washington School
Lisbon
Dorothy M. Salisbury
Randalia
Hawkeye
Phyllis Crosier
Delhi
Robert Kucera
Parnell Consolidated School
Route Three
Williamsburg
Rachel Stanley
Grinnell
Patsy Milroy
West
Vinton
Edna White
Roscoe Paulson
Wilson High School
Route Two
Thelma Risk
Barbara Orwell
Pauline Warner
Doris Arnold
Central City
Vivian Arlene Blake
Marie Sutcliffe
Frances Fiala
Natalie Meade
St. Patrick’s
Joan Carol Sidlinger
Kenwood
Clyde Durr
Delores Siemer
Jane Taylor
Anon
Earth
Cloud Mother
Monticello, Iowa
Miss Grace Searles
Irma Jean Pickett
Barbara Heeren
Margaret Roberts
Decorah High School
Florence Kelley
Goldilocks
Irma Schoon
Claire Shannon
Bobby Thoeni
Loretta Ostercamp
Carroll Schneider
Titon Hopker
William Allingham
Roosevelt, Cedar Rapids
Thomas Carlyle
Kenneth Poole
Calamus School
Charles S. Ross
Virginia Russell
Monona High School
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