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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
7
Community notes describe Tulip Time planning in Pella with revised rules to widen prizes in Divisions I and II. Entries due by 10:00 a.m. May 8, bulbs may win special prizes. 1952 show in Slobe Building across from the square.
An unusually busy two weeks fills the site with hammers, paint, and installations as preparations for A land, the Little Dutch Village, take shape. Staff led by Mrs Larry Grooters will guide visitors through thirty five units and a Tulip Time slide show in the auditorium. A Dutch Kitchen by Miss Nieburgs girls, Saylers Commercial Dept handles tickets, 9:30 am to 8 pm daily, parade hours 1 to 8 pm.
Tulip Time committee led by Connie Van Roekel seeks volunteers to scrub streets across the three day festival May 8 9 10. Aides Vivian Weirather and Martin Nelson urge volunteers to commit for one two or all days and to call committee members to offer participation.
Central College will present a varied selection of musical numbers each day during Tulip Time. Programs will be at 8, 4 and 8 o'clock daily in Douwstra Chapel. The performances feature instrumental and vocal numbers by students and faculty members of the music department.
During Tulip Time friends are invited to visit the Central College campus. An art exhibit will be in the gallery in Central Hall and each afternoon students and faculty will present varied programs hourly. Prospective students should tour the campus.
Reverend Russell J. Redeker was installed as Pastor of the Third Reformed Church on Thursday evening April 24. The service featured hymns, devotions, a sermon, an installation charge, and a benediction. A reception for Reverend and Mrs. Redeker followed at the church with representatives of various organizations in attendance.
Help Put the Night Show under way for the Hollandse Kermis as women lead planning with John P. Ver Meer and Carl Vogelaar assisting. Tickets cost $2 for three and buyers are urged to purchase multiples for flexible use or gifts, benefiting the festival funded by the Historical Society and Chamber of Commerce.
The school invites all students to join the parade for Tulip Time and urges parent cooperation to provide costumes. The board faculty and Tulip Time Committee seek 100 percent participation, noting possible afternoon dismissal to accommodate the event.
Joan Schagen, a Pella High School senior, was named Queen of the 1952 Tulip Festival at a Country Club party on April 28. Attendants are Barbara Buyert, Lou Ann Le Cocq, Marlene Sels, and Retha Vande Haar. Judges Herb Plambeck Gordon Gammack and a Des Moines Register writer selected the quintet after interviews.
Children who participate will earn full day attendance credit. Each grade will be photographed in Dutch costumes before the parade. The march line forms at 2:00 p.m. east of Van Houweling's Garage as in previous years.
Rooms for visitors to Tulip Time will be offered again at the Office of the Pella Products Company on Garden Square. Strangers seeking lodging will be directed to Pella homes and information will be labeled. The service is run by Mrs. D. C. Van Zante and Mr. Van Zante with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Van Hemert. Families with available rooms should list them with Mrs. Van Zante, Black 153, 1005 Broadway.
The May exhibit at Central Galleries showcases Lawrence Mills art instructor and Patricia De Graff senior Haz elcrest Illinois. Mills presents oil tempera and abstract works praised by a Chicago Art Museum critic who saw eight pieces in Marshalltown last winter. De Graff contributes ceramics silk screen printing drawings watercolors and oils, highlighting diverse media.
The Tulip Time committee promotes Hol landse Kermis on Tulip Bowl stage with nightly shows. Director James Stanton brings cinema and stage experience from Chicago to stage vast production with 32 chorus, many comedy teams, and specialty acts like Bob Dotzauer the Human Seal. Tickets 8 for 2.00 or 0.86 single. reserve seats 15 cents extra at Rexall or ticket office May 8 9 10.
About one hundred IAHA hardware dealers employees and wives expected to attend a district meeting in Pella May 8. John Hoeksema states the Ley building will host a dinner meeting as part of twelve events statewide by the Iowa Retail Hardware Association. Betty Kinsley home economist will speak sharing store attractiveness sales- person alertness and training demonstrations observed during statewide store visits.
Central College radio station will air Tulip Time afternoon programs daily starting at 12 30 pm with play by play coverage of parade street scrubbing Dutch dances and events The service extends to those unable to attend and also includes Sunday vesper service in West Market Square.
The bulletin from Supt. C. C. Buerkens invites teachers and pupils to Pella’s 15th annual Tulip Festival. Kool Hours run May 8 and 9 with half days, buses at 8 20 a.m. and 4 p.m. Parade participants include all departments with group lineups.
The Pella Christian High Choir led by Mr and Mrs Ed Vander Weele toured northern Iowa towns last week. They left Pella Thursday by Greyhound, dined with Chr Reformed Church hosts in Wright, Kanawha hosted an all sacred concert and hospitality, then a picnic at Little Wall Lake State Park before another concert in Wellsburg, returning home after the performance.
Des Moines Art Center hosts an exhibit featuring works by college art department students from April 23 to May 18. Central contributors include Lou Ann Le Cocq, Patricia De Graff, Wavern Garner, Robert Halterman, Robi Huibrogtse, Algimantas Kelertas, and Jeanne C. Walstra. Media include Gouache drawings, pen and ink, silver screen printing, poster design, letter analyses, and watercolor.
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