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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1955
Page
13
High School Junior-Senior Banquet named top social event of the year. Officers installed by Mr Ora Tool include Zenaar, Sr. vice president. Mrs. Don Van Gorp, Jr. vice president. Mrs. Ora Clark, secretary. Mrs. John Van denberg, treasurer. Zelma Shotwell, chaplain. Mrs. B. H. Langerak. Social hour followed the meeting with refreshments served by Pella ladies.
Kathryn Vriezelaar was elected president of the Monroe County Amvet Auxiliary at the annual meeting led by Mrs. John Van presiding. Reports from Mrs. Vanden Ley, Mrs. Zelma Shotwell, and others highlighted membership efforts statewide. Hostess Mrs. Shotwell announced a Social Work Institute at Knoxville Veterans Hospital and requested crossword puzzles, pocket dictionaries, scrabble sets, and used stamp donations for patients.
Pella High's track team won the Ottumwa Class B meet on April 19 with 32 percent of the points. Relay events powered the victory with the two mile relay winning in 8:41.09, the medley relay taking first in 3:53, and the 440 yard relay tying for second. Dirk Muyskens, Don Hiemstra, Herb Blom, and Alvin Hiemstra starred on multiple relays. Blom, Bogaard, Boyert, and Muyskens ran the mile relay in 3:50.9 for fourth place. Jim Duffus earned fifth in the high hurdles and Ron Bogaard tied for fifth in the high jump.
Sophia Gruys a Central College senior daughter of Mr and Mrs Simon Gruys of Edgerton Minnesota has won a $2100 Rand McNally Map Company grant. The award includes a year as a graduate assistant at the University of Georgia and a year internship at the Rand McNally plant in Chicago.
Pella High lost its first baseball game to Eddyville by 5 to 2 on the Rivermen’s diamond. Eddyville scored 2 runs in the first and 3 in the third while Pella tallied one in the fifth and one in the seventh. McCrea led Eddyville with two hits. Bogaard and Edwards contributed for Pella. Batter details list Boat Muyskens Boyert Van Rees for Pella and Beck Evans for Eddyville. Score by innings shows Pella 000 010 1 2 6. Eddyville 200 080 x 5 5 1.
Central College will confer honorary Doctor of Letters on Elisabeth Kempkes of Everett Washington and Doctor of Science on John De Valois of Katpadi South India at May 30 commencement. Kempkes, a long time Iowa teacher, celebrated 64 years in education and was honored locally as Elisabeth Kempkes Day. De Valois, a leading agricultural missionary in India, founded the Katpadi Agricultural Institute in 1928 and expanded it with World Neighbors support.
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