Drama dept. collects Monticello High costumes
Monticello Community High School now has a large costume collection donated by Mrs. Agnes Wilcox of Monticello. Quest students catalogued seven trunks and 700 boxes, storing dresses, coats, shoes, jewelry and accessories in The Vault above the second floor.
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Agnes Wilcox
Monticello
Quest
Julie Reade
Jane Caraway
Sue Manternach
Anne McLaughlin
Don Peters
Jan Hoag
Costume collection anchors Monticello high school drama lore
Mrs. Wilcox has built a 50 year hobby of collecting costumes from Civil War era garments to modern attire. The Monticello High School drama department now maintains one of the area’s finest costume collections for shows, with loans to schools churches and clubs across eastern Iowa. A small rental fee funds upkeep and future acquisitions, while the department invites donations to expand the lot and sneak in new items for productions.
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Wilcox
Monticello
MHS
Esther Gilbertson
Gilbertson
Costume donation by speech instructor with historic dress
Jan Hoag, a speech assistant, holds hat boxes containing items for donation. The 1930 slipper satin dress held by Mrs. Wilcox is linked to the evangelist Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Four-Square Gospel.
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Jan Hoag
Students donate time cataloguing attic collection items
Five students painted and carpeted an attic room and catalogued the garments and accessories. Seven trunks and 700 boxes of items were included in the collection.
City Council Review Of Park Board Budget And Street Plans
The council discussed the 1972 park board budget noting $600 for summer band concerts was used for another priority. City attorney said the board acted within its prerogative. The 1973 budget contains no summer band allocation. The meeting also covered street lot relocation, new assistant city clerk, a cigarette permit, loan transfers, final street work bill, and reflectors at intersections. Present: Townsend, Savage, Arduser, Hargrave. Absent: Durst, Kaiser.
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Cecil Goettsch
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Sue) Burrichter
Roy Simmons
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McMahan
S. Cedar Street
James Townsend
Robert Savage
Paul Arduser
Glenn Hargrave
Mary Durst
Don Kaiser
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