High Schools Stage Matinee Performances Across Iowa Week
Davenport high school presents Caleb Stone's Death Watch directed by Don Tornquist and Gene Tornquist's brother. Marengo high school offers The Trysting Place by Booth Tarkington directed by Chester Webb. Wilton Junction group performs Pierre Patelin directed by Tom Nelson. Mason City junior college casts Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden. All actors dine with the college Saturday noon and attend tea after the matinee in Armstrong hall. Directors' luncheon in Merner hall.
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Davenport
Marengo
Wilton Junction
Mason City Junior College
Little Theatre
Marengo High School
Chester Webb
Cornell
Booth Tarkington
Tom Nelson
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Pierre Patelin
Thornton Wilder
Trenton
Camden
Mason City
Planets and Angels Set for Campus Release
Eugene Jolas praises a new poetry chapbook Planets and Angels Chapbook Number Fourteen will debut on the campus Wednesday March 6. It is handset by Cornell student printers with forty four pages bound in blue and white and priced at fifty cents with a discounted student rate.
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Eugene Jolas
Planets and Angels
Cornell
Anya Plummer
Ruth Crisman
Virginia Mergy
Lloyd Starr
Mildred Preston
Clifford Hand
Weekend Campus Events Spark Student Activities
Events this week include Cochere Fresh basketball at 6 30 p.m. and varsity at 8 p.m. Friday in the gym. Saturday offers four plays at 2 30 p.m. in the Little Theatre, Sweater Swing dance 7 30 to 11 p.m. in the gym. Sunday features a vesper service at 4 p.m. in the chapel. Dr Popenoe speaks Thursday at 8 p.m. on Marriage and Human Nature with class discussions and interviews Friday. Gordon Myers gives a senior recital at 7 p.m. in the chapel.
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Marjorie Humby
Dorothy Beach
Paul Popenoe
Popenoc
Gordon Myers
Cornell Radio Program Promotes News Carrier Scholarships
A Des Moines Register and Tribune sponsored program aired on KRNT and WM MT featuring Dean MacGregor and Gordon Meyers to support a scholarship plan for news carriers. Top 150 graduates of town high schools from Des Moines were judged on scholastic standing, citizenship, service to customers, funds management, and route handling for awards. The event was recorded in Des Moines and aired on two stations.
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Cornell
The
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Dean MacGregor
Men’s Quartet
Gordon Meyers
Des Moines Register
Tribune News
W.M.T
Des Moines
Rich Presents Grad Reports on Cornell Class of 1989
Survey by Professor Rich shows optimism six to eight months after graduation with no unemployment. Of 100 graduates, 66 are married, 60 work, 32 teach, 27 attend graduate schools in 27 different institutions, and five are in miscellaneous categories.
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Cornell
Rich
Chapel
Business
Senior Trip Debaters Plan Midwest Tour
Debaters Blanche Hamm and Mary Samson depart Saturday morning for a Chicago panel on Women in Industry with Wheaton College representatives. The 2 to 2 30 p m WCFL broadcast follows. Monday Professor Littell escorts them to Greencastle Indiana for a DePauw debate. Tuesday they contest Franklin College and then Berea Kentucky.
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Blanche Hamm
Mary Samson
Chicago
Wheaton College
WCFL
Littell
Greencastle
Indiana
DePauw University
Franklin College
Berea
Kentucky
It's Perfectly True Faculty Told at Gridiron Banquet
At the Gridiron Banquet 304 Cornell lians allegedly tore the faculty apart with satire. Ed Weismiller led a controversial song and waiters sang scandalous numbers. Herb Owens forgot his speech and Frank Nelick with Marty Kestenbaum and Bob Osburn staged a ripping parody provoking boos from the audience.
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Herb Owens
Barrymore
Frank Nelick
Third Term Wrangle on Roosevelt Run Question
Friday discussion at 4 pm in the Grill debated should Roosevelt seek a third term. Professor Littell and Russell Cole led with Francis Allen and another student contributing to the local and national issue dialogue.
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Roosevelt
the Grill
Littell
Russell Cole
Francis Allen
Phi Beta Kappa Elects Six Members at Chapel
Six students, Phil Carspecken Eleanor Gough Charles Harris Margaret Roberts Mary Samson and Ruth Weber, were inducted in the second PBK election of 1939 40. Carspecken economics major from Burlington active in track tennis CCA Epworth League. transferred from Burlington junior college. Gough music major from Mount Vernon member of oratorio English club Royal Purple beauty queen. Harris chemistry major from Rochelle Illinois three letter winner in football and former Chemistry club president. Roberts English Latin major from Carroll band Purple Masquers. Samson field major in social sciences from Barrington Illinois prominent debater member of Tau Kappa Alpha oratory WAA and Purple.
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Phil Carspecken
Eleanor Gough
Charles Harris
Margaret Roberts
Mary Samson
Ruth Weber
Carspecken
Burlington
C.C.A
Epworth
Cornell
Burlington Junior College
Miss Gough
Mount Vernon
Royal Purple
Harris
Rochelle
Ilinois
Miss Roberts
Carroll
Purple
Miss Samson
Barrington
Tau Kappa Alpha
Cornell lecture series hosts Dr. Paul Popenoe
On Thursday March 7 at 8 pm the Cornell lecture series welcomes Dr. Paul Popenoe a noted biologist and lecturer. The talk is expanded to include a Friday schedule of lectures and discussions sponsored by campus organizations. Dr. Popenoe serves as general director of the Institute of Family Relations.
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Cornell
Paul Popenoe
Popenoe
Dr. Popenoe
Institute of Family Rela
Marriage lecturer Popenoe to speak at Upper Iowa
Dr. Popenoe, a California educator and biologist, will lecture on marriage and human nature at Upper Iowa events. Invitations extend to ministers of the Upper Iowa conference and representatives from seventeen coeducational Midwest schools.
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Tions
Los Angeles
California
Adult Education Council of Chicago
University of Southern California
Journal OF Heredity
American Social Hygiene Association of
New York
Human Betterment Foundation of
Pasadena
Popenoe
America
Columbia University
Upper Iowa
Middle West
A.W.S
C.C.A
Men's Senate
Armstrong
Pfeiffer
Merner Commons
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