Four Day Commencement Schedule at Coe College
Coe College hosts a four day slate for the sixtieth annual commencement with events led by President Anderson. Activities include an aircrew band concert, calisthenics on the athletic field, luncheons for classes of 1893 and 1918, alumni dinner, baccalaureate service, musicales, organ recital, and the commencement address by Dr. Beardsley Ruml. A Monday luncheon wraps the program.
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Coe College
Charles A. Anderson
Voorhees Qale
Coe
Voorhees Knoll
Army
Commonwealth
Voorhees
Sinclair Chapel
Anderson
Beardsley Ruml
New York City
Cedar Rapids
Voorhees Quadrangle
McKinley Students Act in Barrie Play
The McKinley high school senior class directed by Miss Marjorie Emerson presented J. M. Barrie’s Quality Street Friday night in the school auditorium. Leads were Roberta Owens Arda Mae Cox and Dean Nemececk with a large cast including Shirley Bell Dores Stalzer Norma Sorenson and Mary Ann Kubasa among others. After a three week visit in Kerens Texas Mrs Edward Hall has returned to her Commonwealth apartments and will depart for the West for the summer.
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McKinley High School
Marjorie Emerson
J. M. Barrie
Quality Street
Roberta Owens
Arda Mae Cox
Dean Nemececk
Shirley Bell
Dores Stalzer
Norma Sorenson
Mary Ann Kubasa
Ted Healey
Arthur Daniels
Leo Cabalka
Harriet Danchy
Emil Christie
Don Cass
Mary Jo Studer
Margaret Hawkins
Nita Dailey
Lyle Ogden
Charles Craven
Zora Pauk
Donna Laker
George Serovy
Kerens
Texas
Edward Hall
Commonwealth Apartments
West
Six Beauties Revealed As Coe’s Farvest 1943
The Acorn college yearbook announces six beauties for Coe College in 1943. Ronald Reagan selects the winners, with Miss Mary Jane Duffy Clinton Alpha Xi Delta and Miss Jeanne Rodgers Davenport Kappa Delta among honorees. Others include Miss Bettie Thomas Mechanicsville Delta Delta Delta Miss Mary Coyl Wilmette Chi Omega Miss Dorothy Forsyth Nashville Delta Delta Delta and Miss Mary Meacham Glen Ellyn Alpha Gamma Delta.
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Doe College
Acorn
Ronald
Dutch" Reagan
Des Moines
Mary Jane Duffy
Clinton
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority
Jeanne Rodgers
Davenport
Kappa Delta
Bettie Thomas
Mechanicsville
Delta Delta Delta
Mary Coyl
Chi Omega
Wilmette
Ill
Dorothy Forsyth
Stranger on the Highway book review sparks bleak village mystery
Hays delivers a psychological thriller set in Stubblestone where a death and a stranded insurance man reveal dreary lives. The reviewer notes plain, humorous touches and a steady hand with character drawing, while deeming the mystery secondary to mood and motives.
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Alfred Hitchcock
H. R. Hays
Faulkner
Hays
Stubberstone
Stubblestone
Eliza Bates
Chekov
Mr. Hays
Anastasia
Molly Huckle
Jane Pearson
Henry
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Wind and Rain review by Joyce Horner
A critique of Joyce Horner's first novel Too Hard to Get from Doubleday and Doran notes the author’s lack of lyrical nuance. The reviewer laments the use of adjectives and finds the work merely annoying rather than moving.
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Joyce Horner
Doubleday, Doran
Intelligent girl waits for her chance in village romance
Marion Townsend and Nickie Nicholson grow up in Little Heaton. Marion, dependable and pretty, resists Nickie as he rises in theater. She becomes a PE teacher and later marries a doctor, then finally turns down Nickie for his supposed need of security.
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Marion Townsend
Nickie Nicholson
Little Heaton
Marion
Nickie
E.N.H
Night Duty by John Stuart Arey. A hospital at blitz time.
The novel follows a large London hospital during the blitz with nurses interns and doctors. The book shifts focus as it introduces many characters and hospital complications before a bombing threat dominates the plot.
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John Stuart Arey
Doubleday, Doran
Mr. Arey
London
Miss Otis
Frankie
Johnnie
Immaculate Conception Seniors Win Loras Scholarships
Three senior boys at Immaculate Conception school Eugene Thoennes Willard Weibel and William Custer receive honors Thoennes won first place in a Loras college scholarship exam Weibel placed third and both will receive full tuition to Loras Custer passed all tests for the V-12 navy program Duster is class president All three active in extracurriculars
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Immaculate Conception School
Eugene Thoennes
Willard Weibel
William Custer
Thoennes
Otto Thoennes
Sixteenth Street SE
Loras College
Dubuque
Weibel
E. C. Duffy
Sixth Street SE
Loras
Duster
Charles Duster
Garden Drive SE
Fillmore P.T.A to Honor Teachers at Dinner
The Fillmore P.T.A will honor teachers at its annual dinner Thursday at 6 15 pm at the school. All past presidents and former teachers are invited as well as present Cleveland. The Cleveland school spring party was held Thursday with seventy five members and guests at the picnic supper. The speakers table featured a miniature victory garden. Mrs Arthur Norman council.
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The
Fillmore P.T.A
Teachers of Cleveland School
Arthur Norman
Council
YWCA Plans Nutrition Program Featuring The Business Girl's Lunch
The Linn county Office of Civilian Defense nutrition chairman Mrs. C H Geiger leads a Wednesday 7 30 p m talk at the YWCA auditorium on nutrition The event includes two educational films recipe handouts and free admission Mothers and girls are invited The health recreation council sponsors the program under Miss Mildred Feres with Helen Laipple as president and Winifred Olson as secretary.
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C. H. Geiger
Linn County Office of Civilian Defense
Health Recreation Council
Betty Konigsmark
Mildred Feres
Helen Laipple
Winifred Olson
Catholic high schools hold extensive spring graduation exercises
Seventy six students from St. Wenceslaus St. Patrick s and Mt Mercy join in commencements at Mt Mercy with 16 high school diplomas and 16 junior college degrees. Distinctions awarded to several graduates and performances by Mt Mercy choral groups accompany services. St Patrick s exercises honor 42 diploma recipients with absentia graduation for Thomas Shanahan. St Wenceslaus marks 18 graduates after the 8 pm mass. Eighth graders at St Matthew s will also receive diplomas after the 7 30 mass
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St. Wenceslaus
St. Patrick’s
Mt. Mercy
Reginia Lane
Mary Monica McAndrew
Irene Novotny
Vitalis Wordehoff
Edna Svobode
Anne
Gladys Doran
Mercedes Mary Gorman
Ruth Anne Hollander
Dorothy Kelly
Patricia Martin
Helen Kathleen Nesper
Alyce Jayne Nolan
Mary Ann O'Meara
Mary Jeanette Scolaro
Mary Rita Stark
Patricia Ann Thompson
Laurena Wall
Mary Louise Wilson
M. J. Tracy
Loras J. Holmberg
Anne Louise Broghammer
Rita Gallagher
Mt. Mercy College
St. Patrick's
Thomas P. Shanahan
Lorraine Agnes Wilson
Dorothy Eileen Schmidt
Helen Marie Shields
Mildred Winifred Ryan
Patricia Ann Hutton
Mary Pauline LaTour
Mary Jean Adams
Alice L. Fitzgerald
Charlene Agnes Walsh
Mary Quinn
Lucia Madonna Simkovitz
Bernardine Kleppe
Katherine Louise Ousiin
Mary Ellen Bevins
Mildred Louise Muller
Doris Jean Frederick
Mary Eileen Hutton
Lucille Mary Melichar
Elizabeth Jean Radeke
Deila Frances O’rourke
Dorothy B. Minninger
Dorothy J. Barta
Helen M. McLaughlin
Helen F. Cahalan
Rita M. O’connell
Donald Charles Spaight
James John Bearns
Joseph Roger Newcomb
Joseph Clair Doyle
Francis Monaghan
Hubert Barnett
Helen Cahalan
St. Wenceslaus High School
Julius Olinger
Mercy Hospital
Joseph Surovy
St. Matthew’s School
Camp Hitaga Opens with Wa-Tan-Opa Unit June 20
Camp Hitaga on the Wapsipinicon river opens June 20 with a new Wa-Tan-Opa unit and a completed cook's cabin from Cedar Rapids Scutter place. Mrs. John R. Battin says the camp will be put in first class order and offers horseback riding as a main activity. Reservations for June 20 to 27 Mother Goose Week are being taken, with a banquet on June 25 and a hayrack ride planned. Miss Marion Niehaus, from Illinois, arrives the weekend of June 5 to oversee the season and guide unit traditions.
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Camp Hitaga
Wapsipinicon
Cedar Rapids
John R. Battin
Wa-Tan-Opa
Marion Niehaus
Ilinois
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