Cedar Rapids Class of 87 celebrates fiftieth reunion memories
Cedar Rapids women and one man mark fifty years since graduating from the local high school. The feature recalls small classes, teachers troubled by the pupils, and the playful era with dances, sleigh rides, and paper wads, highlighting how their era shaped later careers and views on today’s students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
California
Texas
Montana
Michigan
Leven
Palisades
I Can Live in My House Till Cleaning Returns
A speaker longs for calmer days and wishes for order to come back. They describe sweltering afternoons and nighttime chaos in a house, then express relief when the home is orderly again and life settles for a season until fall cleaning returns.
Silent Classroom Rituals Echo Through Months
Mrs Forsythe recalls a nightly ritual where teachers would announce that The Misses Porter Seely and Ramsden must remain after class. The practice continued for months before a change occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Seely
Ramsden
Weekend luncheon club echoes from class of 87
A reminiscence recalls Miss Forsythe and Mrs Godfrey now in Cedar Rapids, the former attending luncheon while the others plot a lighthearted escapade. The piece notes the urban attitude, knitting as modern, and a toast to the belief that youth overestimates monotony before finding life’s thrills.
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Forte
A. VII
Lucy Miller Harmer
Minnie Pollins Cobb
First Avenue E
Mae Whitlam Greene
Tenth Street
May Olver Hale
Florence Wallace Lebkicher
Miles City
Mont
Clara Webb Scott
Hastings
Mich
Maude Seely Godfrey
Third Avenue SE
Mollie Ho
Anna Phipps Johnson
Duraré Orla
Wol Phipps
Woodlard Dive SE
Craters
Forsythe
Godfrey
Miss Seely
Cedar Rapids
Godfreys
Local Want Ad Highlights Bargains Under Classification 29
Readers are informed they can buy a sewing machine, electric refrigerator, or washer at money-saving prices listed under classification 29 in the Want Ad section. The note is an advertisement.
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Carl Dueser
Iso
Oto Moore
Thompson Photo
Sparish
Newman
Fred C. Henson
Gatt
Sythe
Gazette
Electrolux
Electrohux
Iy Vines
Cine
Cedar Rapids Gas CO
Third ST. S
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