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Four Coe Alumni to Receive Alumni Award of Merit
Four Coe College alumni will be honored with the Alumni Award of Merit at Saturday’s alumni banquet on the Coe campus. The four Cedar Rapids natives are Edna Dieman, James Y. Canfield, John D. Krumholtz, and Vernon P. Smith. Dieman founded the Dance Theatre of the Hemispheres. Canfield leads Acme Greeting Card Co. and sits on multiple boards. Krumholtz chairs Stanford education psychology research and has published extensively. Smith, a 1950 Coe graduate, is a health science veteran active in civic groups and Afro-American history education.
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Coe College
Coe
Coe Alumni Association
Edna Dieman
Dieman-Bennett Dance Theatre of the
Hemispheres
James Y. Canfield
Acme Greeting Card Co
John D. Krumholtz
Stanford University
Vernon P. Smith
St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Smith
St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Negro Civic Organization
NAACP
Council On Human Relations
Cochairman
United Hospital Fund
St. Luke’s and
Mercy