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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1962
Page
2
Central College graduated 81 seniors at spring commencement as Dr Gerrit T Vander Lugt urged graduates to cast away apathy and indifference and be bearers of enduring values. He warned the fight against Communism rests on strengthening Christian tradition in democracy.
Monroe residents share weekend visits with relatives in Des Moines and Bethany Missouri. Russ Van Dyke keynotes high school commencement exercises for 50 graduates. Clyde Livingston funeral held at the Methodist church. he died May 21 at Skiff Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs Clifford Nolin visit Blanche Stines. Clyde Livingston was a longtime local farmer near Monroe.
The Monroe based obituary fragment notes interment in the Monroe Silent City. It mentions Mr and Mrs Elwyn Ver Dught and their Blue Springs Missouri sons visiting the parental John Clark Dunreath and Lester Ver Dught in Monroe. Also indicates Mrs Glen McConeghey is a patient in a Des Moines Methodist hospital.
Ray Pugh a Des Moines teacher and head coach at North High School was installed as president of the Central College Alumni Association. A 1952 Central graduate, he succeeds Robert Gosselink of Chicago. Pugh won the Schilder Blanket Award for football and the Prins Sportsmanship Trophy, later earning a masters from Drake University in 1958 where he joined Kappa Delta Phi.
Mrs Minnie Goprend of St Lucas found an 1862 tax receipt issued to Henry Kramer for 900 acres in Auburn township near West Union. The bill totaled 6 dollars 53 cents, owed by the ancestor of current owner A Kuen rien.
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