State aid totals mailed to Marion County schools
The Marion County schools received 86000 to 86175.23 in State General Aid for the 1963-64 second half. General Aid is 17 cents per elementary pupil per day and 20 cents per high school pupil per attendance day. Checks totaling amounts listed were mailed by the County Superintendent.
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Knoxville
Melcher - Dallas
Pella
Pleasantville
Twin Cedars
Chicago Rural Ind
Simmons Rural Ind
Fairview Rural Ind
Washington Rural Ind
Columbia Ind
Elm Grove
Gosport
Union Rural Ind
Pleasant Ridge Risd
God and Country award to Pella Boy Scouts
Two Pella Boy Scouts Ned Hedrick and Jeff Emmert will receive the God and Country award this Sunday May 30 at Second Reformed Church. The presentation will be by Rev Harmon Wierenga as the scouts complete a year of study and service to earn the church’s honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Second Reformed Church
Ned Hedrick
Jeff Emmert
Keith Emmert
Harmon Wierenga
Second Church
Pella High Golf Team Extends Win Run to State
Pella High's golf squad upped its season record to 12-0 with wins over Sigourney 159-175 and a strong showing at the South Central Conference meet at Knoxville. Don Ver Meer led as medalist at 74, while Pella also excelled in Perry and district meets to earn a state berth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Woodside
Des Moines
Don Ver Meer
Dan du Pree
Gary Koopman
Bob Vander Linden
Ver Meer
Joel Caldwell
Chronicle News
Pella High Golf Squad
Pella High
Sigourney
Steve Patton
Charles Farrer
Kent van Vark
Ted Weirather
Hielle
Dan Morrison
Colin Boehm
Holt
Davis
Sconberg
Boehm
Knoxville
Valley High
Mason
Valley
Perry
Ankeny
Winterset
Williams
Greenfield
Pel Ja
What's Up events column listing May and June notices
A dense diary of local meetings and events from May 24 to June 10 including Mahaska Co 4 H leaders trainings Porter Grove Aid Chapel gatherings Camp Fire meetings Pella Christian graduation First Reformed church guilds and church bake sales DST daylight saving reminders Gerrit Roorda reunion Memorial Day closures and T T T Society meeting. Also noted are a Christian grade school graduation and regional textile lecture tours in Ames.
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Mahaska Co
Farm Bureau
Tues
Porter Grove Aid
Council
BU Peo
Esther
Pella Christian
Calvary Christian Ref
Thurs
First Reformed Church
Reuben van Hemert
Validictorian
George Muyskens
Trinity Reformed Church
Lynnville H.S
Wilbur Terpstra
Ulrich’s
Y. F
Gerrit Roorda
Shelter House
Pella
T.T.T. Society
Ann Mentink
First Reformed Church Y
CUI to Grant Honorary Degrees May 31
Central College will award four honorary degrees at the May 31 Commencement. Dr. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota will receive Doctor of Humane Letters and deliver the commencement address. Dr. Mary Bruins Allison, a medical missionary, will get Doctor of Humanities. The Rev. Donner B. Atwood will receive Doctor of Divinity and deliver the baccalaureate. Mr. Frank E. Brower will be awarded Doctor of Letters. Atwood has long served Pompton Plains First Reformed Church and held interfaith recognition.
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Central College
Minnesota
Walter H. Judd
U. S
Mary Bruins Allison
Arabia
Donner B. Atwood
General Synod of the Reformed Church In America
First Reformed Church of
Pompton Plains
N. J
Native Pellan to receive honorary PhD at Central
Dr Mary Allison a native Pellan will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree at Central College commencement on May 31. A Pella High School and Central College alumna, she earned an MD in 1932 and has served as a medical missionary in Kuwait and India.
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Pellan
Central
Mary Bruins Allison
Second Reformed Church of
Pella
Central College
Central Academy
Allison
Women’s Medical School of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison
Chicago
Kuwait
Arabia
United States
Englewood
N. J
Dahanu Road
India
Walter H. Judd
Judd
Dr. Judd
Rising City
Neb
University of Nebraska
University of Omaha
Field Artillery
Post Office job test ends June 1
Civil Service testing for the clerk career position in the Pella Post Office closes June 1. Salary listed at $2.48 per hour. Applications must be in the Des Moines office or postmarked by that date. Contact Et Wesselink, Pella postmaster, for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service
Pella
Des Moines
Et Wesselink
Pella Christian Grade School Graduation on Wednesday
Graduation exercises for Pella Christian Grade School are set for Wednesday May 26 at 7 30 p m at Calvary Christian Reformed Church. Rev Arthur Pontier will address the students. Diplomas and gift Bibles will be presented by the Principal Fd Vander Vin Engbers and Board Vice-Chairman Donald Van Wyngarden. Selections by Girls and Boys Junior High Glee Clubs and the class song Open My Eyes will be performed. Two students Mike Vander Weele and Terry Veldhouse will speak for their class. Public invitation extended.
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Pella Christian
Calvary Christian Reformed Church
Arthur Pontier
Fd Vander Wivin Engbers
Mike Vander Weele
Terry Veldhouse
In White America tour earns church support grant
The Central College Drama Department received a $1,000 grant from the Reformed Church in America to tour In White America a two act drama on African American history. An anonymous $500 grant was also given for touring costs. A 20 member cast departs June 1 by bus to Morrison Illinois Cleveland Ohio Wyckoff New Jersey and Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania with performances in each city and a May 18 Forreston Illinois venue for a meeting of youths from ten Northern Illinois churches. The General Synod has contracted for a Buck Hill Falls presentation in early summer.
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Central College
The
Reformed Church In America
America
Church
Committee On Race Relations
General Synod of the Reformed Church
Buck Hill Falls
Maurice Birdsall
Morrison
Ill
Cleveland
Ohio
Wyckhoff
N. J
Birdsall
Forreston
Illinois
Baptist State Convention
Tulip Time to Be On Floppy Show on WHO-TV
Duane Ellen and Floppy visited Pella for Tulip Time Press Day to film segments. The color film airs 4:00 p.m. on the Floppy Show, Channel 13, next Monday May 31, per a Floppy letter noting a great Tulip Festival.
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Tulip
Who-Tv
Duane Ellen
Floppy
Pella
Tulip Time
WHOTV
Channel 13
Tulip Time parade photographed with royal group on Jefferson Street
A post Tulip Time parade last week featured floats flags pom poms and a police escort as the procession traveled west on Jefferson Street passing Christian High School for a photo. The band led by drum major John Cruzen carried an American flag with Stephen Smith and young riders and attendants including Beth Ann Harmeling Laurie Vander Linden and Katherine Smith accompanied by a queen’s float with Carla Groeneweg and future queen Ann Harmeling.
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Jefferson Street
Christian High School
Weston Frank
Elmer Frank
Tommy Vander Linden
Ken Vander Linden
John Cruzen
Stephen Smith
Robert E. Smith
Laurie Vander Linden
Katherine Smith
Beth Ann Harmeling
John Harmeling
Peppy Smith
Sarah Smith
Susan Smith
Jillian Hoogenakker
Arvin Hoogenakker
Carla Groeneweg
Ron Groeneweg
Ann Harmeling
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Marion County
God and Country
Pella Boy Scouts Sun
By Tom Whalley
Albia
Indianola
Osceola
Chariton
What
S Up
Peoria Persis Aid Bazaar
Harmony Helpers
John Swank
Mina Baker
Iowa State University
Ames
New England
CUI
Atwood
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Rutgers University
Levittown
Long Island
Nassau-Suffolk
New York
United Church of Christ
Japan
Rev
Dr. Brower
Brower
Mary Allison
Wall Street
John Dewey
Columbia University
Walter Judd
Foreign Mission Board
Congregational Church
South China
China
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Asia
Minneapolis
Pearl Harbor
House of Representatives
House
New York Times
Pella Christian Grade School
Donald van Wyngarden
Reformed Church
Jefferson St.i
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