Awards Presented to Thirty four at Convocation at Central
At Central College convocation Wednesday thirty four students were honored for scholarship sports journalism and athletics. Larry Wendell won the Julian Van Houweling Medal for highest grades across the last two semesters. Morgan McLeland received the Prins Sportsmanship Award for outstanding conduct on campus. Carl Wassink earned the Murray Cox journalism prize for cultural contributions to Central in band or orchestra. Journalistic honors went to Carl Wassink Audrey Keuning Carol Ver Steeg and Beulah Roorda. Bette Brunsting won the Keables poetry medal for local contest success and Kirksville rating.
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Central College
Ath Iner
Julian van Houweling
Larry Wendell
A. T.van Houweling
Prins
Morgan McLeland
T. G. Fultz
T. W. Prins
Central
Beulah Roorda
Audrey Roorda
John Korver
LeRoy Nixon
Chager
Carl Wassink
Ron Zoutendam
Keables
May Keables Smith
Alhambra
Cal
Bette Brunsting
More
Kirksville
Bob Omick to Head Pella High School Speech Department
Bob Omick a 1952 Central College graduate has been hired by the Board of education to lead the Pella High School Speech and Dramatics Department next year. He served in the army in Korea after high school at Fenger High School Chicago and studied drama at Central College where he starred in Mr Birdsall's plays. His wife Ruth Brown Omick also a Central College graduate has taught in Biggsville Illinois. Local theatergoers welcome the Omicks back to Pella.
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Bob Omick
Central College
Board of Education
Korea
Fenger High School
Chicago
Minois
Bob
Mr. Birdsall
Ruth Brown Omick
Biggsville
Ilinois
Elcome the Omicks
Ella
Singing Groups From Pella High Win Top Ratings
Pella High School singing groups led by Miss Anne Tusseling earned superior ratings at Ottumwa Saturday sweeping all three divisions. The mixed chorus girls glee club and boys glee club each received Division I honors from judges with only one of nine votes not listing superior. Town City and Valley High also earned superior ratings in their events. The groups performed pieces including Out In the Fields With God and Prelude to Cycle of Life.
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Anne Tusseling
Pella
Ottumwa
Valley High of
West Des Moines
Glee Club
Pella Tulip Time Event Betty Wells to Speak at Club Luncheon
The May 18 meeting of the Woman's Federated Club in Jordan Hall will feature Betty Wells of KIOA as guest speaker on imported cosmetics. Attendance costs $1 for lunch, with dues set at $3 annually thereafter. prospective members may reserve via Mrs. Ellis Christianson.
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Woman's ‘Federated Club
Jordan Hall
Betty
Wella
Kioa
Miss Wells
Pella Woman’ Federated Club
Ellis Christianson
Chrie- Siangon
Wiewine
Chris Janson
Fey
Henry Vanderoort
Kenneth Bean
Glen Koopman
Elven Holler
Arthur
Tulip Time Telecast Planned by WOI-TV Tonight
Pella's Tulip Time will be televised by WOI-TV Ames at 10:00 tonight on the festival eve. Gene Thompson of WOI staff will interview Queen Judy Cook and attendants at the Cook home and will photograph flowers and parade scenes. The piece notes the crowded city schedule and praise for WOI's past support.
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Pella
Woi-Tv
Ames
Gene Thompson
WOI
Judy Cook
Cook
Paris
College Anival
Parade urged for all children to wear Dutch costumes
The Parade Committee asks all children to wear costumes during Tulip Time days. Scouts and organizations should ensure members dress in Dutch attire for the parade with outfits possible to switch later. A local photographer plans a group photo of all grades in Dutch uniform on Saturday, so attendance is important.
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Scouts
Capable Judges Secured for Pella Tulip Show
The Misses Ada and Iva Swall of Collins, Iowa will judge the Pella Tulip Show. They are trained and competent, with one to judge artistic classes and the other cultural classes. Judging will follow an approved systematic method and exhibitors will receive comments from the judges.
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Ada
Iva Swallwell
Collins, Towa
Postal mail receptacle protection quoted manual decree
The text cites a rule from the Post Office Manual of Instructions by Arthur Klein, Postmaster, prescribing penalties for willful damage to mail boxes on mail routes. The law imposes a fine up to 1000 dollars or up to three years imprisonment for destroying, tearing down, or defacing mail receptacles or mail deposited therein.
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Post Office Manual of Instructions
United States Post Office Department
Arthur Klein
Baccalaureate and Commencement Events Scheduled
Events at baccalaureate exercises on Sunday May 28 and commencement on Thursday May 27 are listed. Plans include speakers and program details for graduates and families.
Omission in Tulip Time tribute corrected in Chroni cle
The May 6 Tulip Time memorial in The Chronicle omitted Hugo W. Kuyper first secretary of the Society due to oversight. The error was only discovered after printing and mailing. The omission was unintentional and regretted.
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Hugo W. Kuyper
Barbara Bosch Earns Excellent Rating in Speech Contest
Barbara Bosch of Pella High School earned an I rating in radio speaking at the Iowa High School Speech Association state finals in Waterloo. The event drew 68 contestants in that division and awards were presented at a banquet in the Masonic Temple at 6:00 p.m.
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Barbara Bosch
Pella High School
Iowa High School Speech Association
Waterloo
Masonic Temple
Women's Auxiliary Of Central College Meeting May 22
The Central College Women's Auxiliary will hold its annual meeting on Saturday May 22 at 2 00 pm in Douwstra Chapel. President Joyce Kuyper urges all members including those from Leighton Oskaloosa and Sully Lynnville to attend. A music and drama program will be presented followed by a Home Economics exhibit in Jordan Hall and tea in the Jordan Hall Lounge.
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Central College Women’s Auxiliary
Joyce Kuyper
Leighton-Oskaloosa
Sully-Lynnville
Douwstra Chapel
Jordan Hall
Miss. Baker
Mrs Harriet Prins Named Dean of Women at Central
Mrs Harriet Prins, acting dean since 1949 and on leave six months, will return to Central College next fall as dean of women with the rank of assistant professor. She will live at Graham Hall, teach Freshman Orientation, and counsel girls. Prins is pursuing an MA at Drake and is a Hope College alumna. She and her late husband served churches in New Jersey and New York before moving to Central in 1949. The community welcomes her return.
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Harriet Prins
Central College
Central
G.T. Vander Lugt
Graham Hall
Prins
Drake University
Hope College
Holland
Michigan
Tunis Prins
New Jersey
New York
Hastings
Neb
David Prins
Pella
Federated Club
A.A.U.W
Tri T
Mizpah Guild
Ladies’ Aid
Second Reformed Church
Reading Circle
Famed Lecturer to Speak at Central May 21
Dr. Joseph Dunner, Grinnell College political science chair, will lecture at the Alpha Zeta Mu Convocation in Douwstra Chapel on Thursday May 21 at 11 00 am. New Alpha Zeta Mu members will be announced and honored at a luncheon in Jordan Hall at noon. Dunner, a Berlin Basel educated exile, has held Brookings and NYU posts and authored works on international politics and Israel.
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Joseph Dunner
Grinnell College
Alpha Zeta Mu
Douwstra Chapel
Central
Jordan Hall
Dunner
Univer of
Berlin
Frankfort-Main
Basel
Switzerland
Tulip Time in Iowa promises best show ever
Visitors assured of lovely flowers for Iowa's Tulip Time festival. William D. Van Sittert reports 1954 preparations on schedule with near perfect blooms and a strong volunteer organization. Tickets sold, Tulip Show expected to be the best yet, parades and evening programs set, weather favorable for mid May events.
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Iowa
William D. van Sittert
The
Historical Society
College Chapel
Legion Hall
Pella Products Co
Broadway
Church
Jim Wisse
John Shirley
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Hoffmans
Ed Sullivan
Connsonata
Hal Shover
Des Moines
Tulip Time Operetta Draws Packed House at Central College
The tulip festival operetta HMS Pinafore enchants Central College audiences with 19th century costumes, songs, and lively English dances. Morison Illinois tap dancer Fast Footwork De Vries, first male tapper in a Pella Tulip Time operetta, headlines as hero Rafe on certain nights with a sailor’s hornpipe and a roster including John Korver and Glenn Gosselink in a sailor's jig during A British Tar.
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HMS
Central College
Central
Morison
Ilinois
de Vries
Pella
Rafe
John Korver
Glenn Gosselink
Char
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