NMU to Confer Largest-Ever Class at 66th Commencement
Northern Michigan University will award 387 bachelor degrees and 33 master's degrees at the 66th commencement Sunday. Dr. Edgar L. Harden will confer degrees, with Dr. Milton B. Byrd presenting candidates. Kansas State Teachers College president Dr. John E. King will give the address and receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
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Northern Michigan University
C. B. Hedgecock
NMU
Edgar L. Harden
Milton B. Byrd
John E. King
Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia
American Association of Colleges For Teacher Education
Wakefield
Jeffrey W. Draker
Putnam St
William A. Knaack
Brotherton
Ronald G. Verdh
Eleanore J. Ferrando
Ashland Ave
Michigan Safety Drive Cuts Wrong Way Crashes and Costs
Michigan highway officials report progress in reducing wrong way exits with Do Not Enter signs on ramps. Last year 26 deaths from wrong way crashes prompted ongoing safety measures and a $4 million spend in 1965 with higher 1966 projections. The piece also notes political incumbency trends and university degree announcements, including Richard S. Saari’s engineering degree.
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Highway Department
Michigan
Sons Visit S Sgt Heino Seppa Family News
S Sgt David Seppa Duluth Air Base spends ten days with his parents Mr and Mrs Gordon Seppa Staten Island NY. A2c Gary Seppa previously at EI Sawyer AFB Gwinn now on 30 day leave with training at Lackland AFB. He will be stationed at Tan Son Nhut AFB Saigon Viet Nam for one year.
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David Seppea
Duluth Air Base
USAF
Gordon Seppa
Staten Island
New York
Gary Seppa
EI Sawyer Afb
Gwinn
Lackland Afb
Texas
Tan Son Naut Afb
Saigon
Viet Nam
Heino Seppa
Barn Dance Planned on KDAL Channel 3 Saturday
Ashland representatives attend a Duluth KDAL-TV meeting where the Midland family of cooperatives voted unanimously to feature the Barn Dance a good old fashioned American entertainment scheduled for Saturday night at 5 30 p m on channel 3. The half hour program promises fancy fiddling lively country and western tunes and comedy country style.
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Carl W. Maki
Wakefield Cooperative Association
Nestor Laspa
Range Cooperative
Harely
George Monish
Midland Services
Ashland
Kdal-Tv
Duluth
Midland Family of Cooperatives
KDAL
Channel 3
Park Sticker Availability In Wakefield Township
Township Clerk announces Eddy Park park stickers available to Wakefield residents from the clerk’s Thomaston office or by phone. Mr and Mrs Renaldo Negri and family of Marquette visited the Novak home and relatives locally during the weekend.
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Wakefield Township
Walter Sale
Eddy Park
Thomaston
Renaldo Negri
Marquette
Ben Novak
Elaine Pikka
Leonard Pikka
Delmar Smith
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
DeKalb
Ill
Rudolph Kemppainen
Larry DeCarmo
Rockford
Sundstrand Corp
Kennon Road
Lawrence Anderson
Brule
Wis
Arch B. Eldredge
Eldrege
Anderson
Ake
Waynard Thiel
Wakefield
Victor Nurmi
Waukegan
Ann Poikonen
Suomi College
Hancock
Eli Mustaapa
Eee
Oliver Williams
Ruth
Ronald
Julie Taylor
Glenview, Ill
Lawrence Mastalish
Green Bay
Frank Menghini
George Rosendahl
Iron Mountain
Ed Keskey
William Gill
Sheboygan, Wis
L. G. Wilson
Lee Wilson
James Wilson
Cornel, Wis
Richard Novak
Stevens Point, Wis
Community Service Leader Gordon Moyle Honored
Tpr. Gordon J. Moyle of Wakefield is credited with extending youth recreation through an outdoor skating program and a planned indoor facility. He helped form a Junior Sportsman's Club, achieved NRA membership, and organized a shooting range and gun safety training. Moyle also led a swimming program, aided in solving crimes in 1959, joined the State Police in 1957, and has a wife Mary and four children.
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Tpr
Gordon J. Moyle
Wakefield
Moyle
Delmar R. Tervo
Wakefield Area
National Rifle Association
Department
Higgins Lake
Houghton Lake
Laurium
Calumet
General Motors Institute
Flint
Michigan National Guard
Mary
Petranek Receives Arts Degree at Aquinas College
Charles F. Petranek son of Mr and Mrs Peter Petranek Wakefield earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with psychology minor at Aquinas College Grand Rapids Mich May 29 during commencement at Grand Rapids Civic Auditorium He held leadership roles including president of Young Christian Students and the men’s dormitory council and plans graduate study at Western Michigan University. Attending were his parents from Wakefield.
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Charles F. Petranek
Peter Petranek
Ascherman St
Wakefield
Aquinas College
Grand Rapids
Mich
Petranek
Young Christian Students Organization
Western Michigan University
Irene Galitzine
Rome
Mary Ann Kolak
Ann Arbor
Ironwood
Dior
Douglas Syreini
Dennis T. Morgan
Phoenixvill
Lawrence Rognn
Lansing
Sandra Grasso
Jeanne Syreini
Susan Sharpe
Chicago
Barbara Salmi
Aila Jarvi
Celeste Buccanero
Wakefield High School
School of Natural Resources
University of Michigan
Oakland Ave
Apt. 1
Joseph Kent
Deanna
All Park
M. L. Hopkins
Birmingham
Donald Luoma
Reino Salim
Ward Zuidmuider
Nels Seppa
Noomi Jarvi
Mary Kaye Jarvi
Charles Whiteman
Ypsilanti
Susan Campbell
Lan
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America
C. Herbert Carlson
Bessemer Lodge 1354
Ellis Lodges
Carlson
A. J. Tiberi
George Sabol
Robert A. Burns
Paul Hoeft
Elks
United States
Continental Congress
Ronald G. Verch
William A. Enaack
Jeffrey W. Drake
Michigan Mirror
State Highway Department
Richard Saar
U of M
Regents
U-M
U-M Law and Medical Schools
Dearborn
Flint College
Richard S. Saari
Hancock St
Ramsay
Judith L. Davidson
Hubbard St
Frederic M
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Bessemer
Kenneth A. Brors
Myron N. Re
W. Longyear
Brian K. Johnson
Hedin Ave
James B. Salmi
Sunset Rd
Wakefield Methodist Church
Heino Korpela
Ernst Mackey
Highbridge
Art Hager
Mason
Jean Stott
Cable, Wis
First Lutheran
Chaney Lake
Kemppainens
DeKalb, N. E
T. N. Komsie
Milwaukee
Eke
Elizabeth
Lauri O. Maki
Venner Salmela. Eee
Ruth Circle
Chester Pilaryzak
Loren Jakkola
Gene Jakkola
Detroit Area
Dave Kohring
Mike Diskin
Jakkola
John
Magnards
St. Germain
Ferris State University
Michigan Tech
Eric
Dennis Forney
Robert Forney
Forrest Maki
Diva Maki
Rodney Jarvela
Wayne Jarvela
Philipines
Jovita Abuan
Banana
Arlington Heights
Rodney
Richard Petrick
Sullivan, Mo
Arnold Salo
Kenosha
Philip Mattila
Karen Haapoja
Minneapolis
Art Haapoja
Sylvia Saari
Mary Trolla
Negaunee
Wally Maki
Vernon Solbergs
Mrs .Maki
Mrs. Solberg
Rose Bracket
Minoqua
A Neice
Robert Zind
James Wojciehowski
Denver
Cole
George Steinmetz
Frank Wojciehowski
Claude Cowling
James McGraw
Shan
Stambaugh
Tomi Looma
Amanda Looma
Hancock Street
Joe Mazurek
Detroit
Joe Patyk
John Mazurek
David Westland
Clarkston Michigan
Mark Allen
Tom Beber
Gladstone
John Haglund
Celeste Beber Jr
John Urbanski
Frank Urbanski
Nels Kuivinen
William Kuivinen
Saginaw
Escanaba
Neil Kevan
Kaukauna
Kevan
Charles Valesano
Eka
Lydia Lempi
Finland
Carl E. Kleimola
Eek
Adalt
Fred Brandt
Arnold Swanson
Paul
Newberry
Norman Johns
Clayton Johns
Joseph Johns
Kitty Johns
Robert Niemi
Cosmo Bonello
Ole Saxwold
Rabbit, Minn
Thomas
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