Educator Dennis McNamee joins Wise Summer Teaching Program
Dennis McNamee participates in an experimental in service summer program in Racine Wise funded by Title III. He works in a 12 teacher team at a model school with 120 seventh to tenth graders focusing on English and social studies under the Election 68 theme. He and 11 other Wisconsin educators write their own classroom materials to replace textbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis McNamee
Racine
Wise
Wisconsin
Dennis
Ed McNamee
Cedar Falls
Tripoli High School
Washington Junior High School
Looking at Life as It Used to Be
A compiled page notes local life events. Paul Dettmer ordained a Lutheran pastor near Williamstown. August Panzer Sr. age 92 fell and broke a rib while cherry picking at home. Grace Beebe and William Tofte wed June 14. Charles F. Martin filed bankruptcy. The Chicago Great Western Railway plans extensive summer repairs on the stockyards. Mary Bouton and Lyle Bergmann married June 20 at Siegel. Tripoli Cub Scouts join Food for Victory by weeding oat fields on four farms. Funeral services held for Fred Krueger, 55, of heart ailment. A. A. Belknap elected Frederika public school superintendent. Eldon Bahlmann listed in serious condition at University Hospital Iowa City. Work to start soon on new Wapsie Valley high school southwest of Oran. Lou Ann Everding married Harold Laurie at Readlyn. Ruth Weidler to teach vocal in Nora Springs schools. Jeanette Pavelec and Romayne Coontz wed June 8. Gerald Mohling and Lola Simmons wed June 1. Butler Bremer telephone subscribers to direct distance dialing June 24. Arnold Poock and Readlyn celebrate 25th wedding anniversary. Daryl Byers family of Kent, Washington, visited Tripoli. One year ago June 21, 1967 council approved curb guttering and street surfacing for 22 blocks. Robert Meyer became Tripoli Jaycee president. R F Klemp won a five-day Acapulco vacation for May sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bouton
Lebanon
Lyle Bergmann
Siegel
Tripoli
Fred Krueger
A. A. Belknap
Frederika
Eldon Bahlmann
University Hospital
Iowa City
Wapsie Valley High School
Oran
Lou Ann Everding
Harold Laurie
Readlyn
Ruth Weidler
V. D. Weidler
Nora Springs
Jeanette Pavelec
Romayne Coontz
Gerald Mohling
Lola Simmons
Butler-Bremer
Arnold Poock
Daryl Byers
Kent
Wash
Robert Meyer
Tripoli Jaycee
R. F. Klemp
Acapulco
Mexico
Tripoli Leader front page June 26 1968
Local newspaper notes events in Tripoli Iowa with brief items from town life. Community updates include announcements and schedule notes for residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli
Iowa
Community hosts and visitors share weekend gatherings
Fremont area residents welcomed friends and relatives visiting from Cedar Falls Readlyn Dunkerton Fairbank and Wa terville among others. Guests included Dorsey Steere Brian Hagenow Kay Rathbone Debbie Chapin and many extended families during dinners suppers and outings. Local trips covered Iowa City Waterville Tripoli and Pilgrim Heights Camp as social ties strengthened over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Wikner
Albert Peterson
Jesup
Dorsey Steere
Brian Hagenow
Cedar Falls
Jerry Snelling
Don Koschmeder
Douglas
Stephanie
Readlyn
Lawrence Snelling
F. B. Schuldt
Merlyn Heidemann and Sons
James Anderson
Dunkerton
George Gundel
James McManus
Aledo III
Verna Hazen
Palamas
Jerry Seelhammer
Denver
Jerry Suhr
Waterloo
Larry Hagenow
Wilbert Hagenow
Sherri
Lester Peters
Henry Seelhammer
Wm. Seelhammer
Leslie Dettmer
Robert Rathbone
Lester Deterding
Barbara
Henry Deterding
Clarence Buchholz
Dennis
Diane
Walter Hinrichs
Dwight
Donald
Darrell Mixdorf
Arlin Matthias
Debbie
Mark
Fairbank
Gene
Brian
Kent Larson
Kay Rathbone
Becky Sassman
Judy Kirchhoff
Lori Chapin
Pilgrim Heights Camp
Marriage Licenses Listed for Several Couples in Sumner Tripoli and Waterloo
Kenneth Wayne Poock 22 and Joyce Elain Evans 17 of Sumner. William D. Kuker 26 and Ann Marie Platte 19 of Tripoli. Larry E. York 26 and Joyce Sehneider 20 of Fairbank with Delwin Meier 19 and Carla Lang 19 of Sumner. Grover J. Fauser and Lisa Ellen Hepperle of Waterloo. Steven Hicks 1% of Waverly and Linda Rae Gersma 18 of Waverly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Wayne Poock
Sumner
Joyce Elain Evans
William D. Kuker
Tripoli
Ann Marie Platte
Larry E. York
Oelwein
Joyce Sehneider
Fairbank
Delwin Meier
Carla Lang
Grover J. Fauser
Legal
Lisa Ellen Hepperle
Waterloo
Steven Hicks
Waverly
Linda Rae Gersma
British Reporter Offers Bread for Labor Across Cities
A British reporter tested the world’s abundance and scarcity by standing on street corners offering a three pound loaf in exchange for work. In Hamburg locals laughed, in New York police arrest him, in Nigeria people would work three hours, in New Delhi a thousand men lined up to work a full day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
New York
Nigeria
New Delhi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paul Dettmer
Fred Dettmer
Williamstown
Lutheran Church
August Panzer, Sr
Grace Beebe
William Tofte
Charles F. Martin
Chicago Great Western Railway
Morton House
del Brook
Wibur
del Monte
the Mercantile
Libby
Swift’s
Franks
Pillsbury’s
ODS
H. J. Heinz
Maxwell House
Califor
Nestle’s — Crunch
Swift
Jar
California
NEW
DIAL
Fremont
Adolph Brase
Edw. Selck
Mr. Brase
Veterans Hospital
Dean Butterfield
Randy
Rathbones
Quasqueton
Louis Gienan
Glenn
Robert
Waterville
Minn
Robert Chapin
Lori
Mary Hankner
C. L. Syverson
Mark and Dean
Lake Mills
Jay Banard
Dale Steere
John Gosse
Leslie Gloede
Paul Lahmann
Fort Wayne
Ind
Robert Judisch
Bill McCurdy
Scott
Louie Becker
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