Numerous graduation events mark Iowa school year ends
A flood of school activities runs through May with multiple commencements and baccalaureates. Notable events include 11 graduates in one class, many high school and junior high ceremonies in towns such as Arling ton, What Cheer, Mid Prairie and Decorah, with speakers like Burton North, Rev. Wallace Jackson, Rev. Martin Prehn, Dr. Willard Lane and many more.
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Wallace Jackson
Sharon Saboe
Martin J. Prehn
Lambert School
Backbone Park
Wartburg Commencement Weekend Features Chicago Dean Speech
Wartburg College in Waverly will host Dr. Jerald C. Brauer as this year's commencement speaker with a talk themed Freedom/Security The Human Dilemma. The May 24 chapel service includes Holy Communion for graduates and families. The weekend includes Alumni Day May 28, a baccalaureate service May 29, and an invitational luncheon. The class of 1963-64 totals 211 graduates, the largest in school history, with two honorary degrees awarded to Fred Lentz of Beatrice Nebraska and Dr Theodore Speigner.
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Ted Newton
John W. Harold
Louis Trzil
Wartburg
Fred Lentz
Beatrice
Boys State selections named for What Cheer and Keswick
Loren Schmidt of Keswick and Cole Fowler of What Cheer have been named to attend Hawkeye Boys State at Camp Dodge from June 7 to 13. Loren is the son of Mr and Mrs R Carl Schmidt. Cole is the son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Fowler. Drive safely.
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Loren [Schmidt
Hawkeye
Washington Celebrates 125th Anniversary With Activities
Washington marks its 125th anniversary with daily events from June 9 to 14. Highlights include Ridiculous Day parade crowning, queen pageant directed by Larry Ruppert, and nightly Washington Way pageants with fireworks.-Parades June 11 pioneer theme and June 13 antique car parade, square dances, church observances, massed choir service, and carnival around the square. Sperry Caster chairs the committee with T. M. Nelson as vice-chairman.
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Washington
Washington Way
Fairgrounds
Larry Ruppert
The
John Rogers Co
Fostoria
Ohio
Chuck Hotle
Historical Society
Iowa
Antique Auto Assa
Sperry Caster
T. M. Nelson
Cornell Chemistry Dept Receives $15000 NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell College a $15000 grant to assist the chemistry department. Funds will buy laboratory apparatus and reference materials under the direction of Dr. Philip R. Marshall, associate professor of chemistry, as announced by President Arland F. Christ-Janer.
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Cornell
MT. Vernon
National Science Foundation
Cornell College
Department of Chemistry
Arland F. Christ-Janer
Philip R. Marshall
Iowa Nurses Hear Miss Dustan in Des Moines Conference
Laura C. Dustan will be keynote speaker at the Iowa League for Nursing annual meeting in Des Moines. She takes the dean post at the College of Nursing, SUI Iowa City, Sept. 1. The event at Holiday Inn South begins at 10 a.m. with registration 9 to 10 a.m.
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Des Moines
Laura C. Dustan
College of Nursing
SUI
Iowa City
Iowa League For Nursing
Holiday Inn South
Fleur Drive
Lakeshore
Holiday Inn
Margaret Westerhof
The
Iowa Assn. For
Miss Dustan
Surgeon General
Iowa
Myrtle Aydelotte
Veterans Administration Hospital
Etta Rasmussen
R.N
Pearl Zemlicka
State Aid Paid to 4 Delaware Schools
Checks totaling 59736.65 were distributed as general state aid to four Delaware county districts per County Superintendent Donald B. Potter. West Delaware received 26350.94, Maquoketa Valley 16243.70, Edgewood Colesburg 13536.25, and Greeley 3605.76. Greeley is now part of West Delaware with a northern portion assigned to Edgewood Colesburg.
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Delaware County
Donald B. Potter
West Delaware
Masquoketa Valley
Edgewood-Colesburg
Greeley
Edgewood- Colesburg
East Iowans To Give Recitals at Fayette
Two Upper Iowa University music majors will present senior recitals at 8 15 p m Wednesday in the C P Colegrove auditorium on the UIU campus John D Bernatz clarinetist son of Mr and Mrs Edward A Shileng of Ft Atkinson and Edward V Hupfer percussionist son of Mr Vern Hopfer of Monona will be accompanied by Nancy S Whittenbaugh and Jill M King General public is invited to attend
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Olin
Letha Cole Smith
Bessie Clymer Tibbets
Harry Houstman
Ross Miller
Elizabeth Myers Treadway
Hazel Snoddy Norton
Millersburg
Paul Vonk
Parsons College
Arlington
Burton North
Jesup
Stormont High School
Tama
Toledo
South Tama
Toronto
Toledo Gymnasium
Canada
State
West Union
Mar-Mae
McGregor School
McGregor
Manchester
Monticello
Glenn Bender
Ing
David Bluhm
Ulursuay
Stanley Woeste
Iowa Wesleyan College
Wellman
Mid-Prairie High
Sally Allen
Ron McClellan
Carmen Griggs
Mid-Prairie
Marcus O’brien
Band Mothers Club
Lee Bowden
Starmount Education Assn
Oxford Junction
Ted Urich
South Winneshirk
Decorah
Deborah
Ralph Schafroth
Dysart
South Winneshiek High School
Calmar
William J. Petersen
J. J. Riggert
Rigoberto Areces
Nevada
Linda Holtz
Sharon _Losenicky
Elkader
Kinross Gymnasium
Fred Woolsey
Chester
Berwyn Oltman
Elson
Robert Ray
University of Iowa
Shellsburg
Lowdon
Gymnnasium
Gerald Dunsmore
Davenport
Allison Wiebke
John Weiland
Wyoming
Kenneth Perinchief
Edmund Groomes
Menlo
Iowa Assn
Onslow
Dale Greenawald
Newhall
Donald Weydert
Willard Lane
David Powell
Evan Hultman
Arletta Kahler
David ‘McCormick
Williamsburg
Keola
Gordon Wasinger
Central
Linda Palmer
Decorah State Bank
Larry Sevn
Maxine Swiggum
Bill Walker
Chamber of Commerce
Art Hough
Bonnie Roveraud
Decorah High School
Luther College
Delaware
Fayette
REGAL
California
Rewn
Peg
Seventh Avenue
Marion
Forty-second Street
Johnson Avenue
Coca-Cola
Libby
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