1954 The Peru Stater (Nebraska)

THE PERU ST ATER

Volume 1 Number 3

January, 1953

Official publication of the Alumni As.>ociation of Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska. Published quarterly, funds pErmitting. Sbscription by contribution to the Alumni Fund. Extra copi·es of the PERU TATER, when available may be secured for twenty-five cents each. Office - Administration Building, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska.

Kenneth Heywood

OFFICERS, PERU STATE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President ______________ Glen Sheely, '39, Per.u, Nebr.

First Vice-Pres. ______ Jack!e Cole, '51, Tecumseh, Nebr.

Second Vice-Pres. __ Bill Vacek, '52, Nebraska City, Nebr.

Secretary ___________ Carol Hawxby, '51, Nemaha, Nebr.

Treasurer ____________ Don Johanns, '52, Bellevue, Nebr.

Executive Sec. ____ Kenneth Heywood, Peru State College

COVER PICTURE

The Peru Stater cover for this issue features a typical scene which can be observed in the T. J. Majors Campus School on any school day as Peru State students participate in the new "block" system of student teaching.

Cooperating in the conduct of a class. in reading are Letarae Stucker, Effingham, Kan., and Jean Malek, Hampton. Both girls are sophomores and are preparing for careers as elementary teachers.

41 Earn Degrees or Diplomas As Summer Enrollment Grows

Peruvians who had earned their degrees primarily in hot-weather study received special commendation as the 1953 summer session closed with commencement exercises for 23 graduates. Both President Neal S. Gomon and Dean Lester Downing paid tribute to those who had alternated public school teaching and campus study, continuing their college work over a period of years.

Graduating with high honors was Josephine M. Schram, whose college career began in 1942. Lucille McDermott King, who first enrolled at P.S.T.C. in 1937, and Ilene M. Thiltges, who enrolled in 1941, graduated with honors.

Others who earned degrees were: Harriette Anville, Marilyn Baucke, Donald Bressler, Ellen Casey, Ruth Casey, Gertrude Chase, Ruth Cloutier, Verna Davis, Mildred Beam Elliott, Betty J. Hartley, Nelle M. Rumberger, Robert Kechely, Ruth Leonhardt, Emma Pfister, Mildred Warner, Bertha Wenz. Carlene June Cox, Nellie Cowell Pattison, Francis L. Rose and Georgie Fitz Stutesman.

Seventeen two-year diplomas and one one-year diploma also were granted in July, and the recipients "I.Vere honored at the same convocation.

Fifteen per cent more students were enrolled for the 1953 :::-:immer session in the 1952 term, with nearly 50 in the post-graduate division. In the undergraduate division 260 were registered.

Among those who joined the regular P.S.T.C. faculty for the summer term were Lois Christensen, '48, and Myrle Argabright Niccoli, '52.

Prominent Nebraska Publisher Praises Peru

Sweet Editoria I Treats New Policies, Improvements, Growth

As a summary of the current campus scene, this editorial which appeared in the Nebraska City NewsPress of August 10 will be of especial interest to Peru State alumni. It is by J. Hyde Sweet, News-Press editor and a member of the Board of Education for State Normal Schools.

"In the belief that attractive and convenient surroundings are hfapful to students, Peru State College soon will place b:::>:::>ths in the college cafeteria dining room so that those who wish to sit 'cozily' may do so

It was' not permissable to smoke in the cafeteria until about two years ago when the resident member of the board urged the innovation

It was contended that they smoke anyway, so it might be just as well to let 'em do it under the right so;rt of superwhich isn't too much, when they eat . . . Some of the old timers objected, but the complaints ceased several months ago.

"The Peru college situation under Neal Gomon, the energetic young president, has improved enormously in the, past two years, much to this writer's. pleasure and approval Not only was the physical plant

renovated until as ·Of today every major repair and addition has been completed at a cost of about $500,000 in the past five years, but morale is amazingly high

The athletic prowess of the school was so notable last year that Al Wheeler was named coach of the year for his 100 per cent winning football team which, as most sports readers know, won distinction all over the United States The instructional staff never was better than it is now with the slow but sure addition of capable department heads and instructors who were selec!:ed for their capabilities, youth and ambitions Peru still is referred to as the "old school" by many persons. who think of it in terms of the early nineties, but it is a NEW school in every sense the term denotes The college enters in on the autumn beginning with high hopes and a marvellous staff of teachers, none better in the Midwest

If any aspiring young people in this area are looking for advanced training at reascnable cost and under advantageous conditions, Peru is a mighty good place to find it I shall be very haupy to supply information as a member of the Board of Education to all those who are interested."

New 'Block' System Replaces Traditional 'Practice Teaching' Experience

Peru State Pioneers Program 1n Nebraska Higher Education

A more complete understanding of "what iL's all about" i.:; now carried into that important first job by Peru State trained beginning teachers. The Ii.es in an entirely new concept of the "practice t;:;,1ching" experience which now is known as BLOCK TEACHING ;:,,n<::; bears small res1emblance to its predecessor.

Peru State pioneered in block teaching in Nebraska, beginning the program in 1951 and today is the only college in the state that has full day block-teaching future public school ele1nentary teachers.

Briefly, the program works like this. All sophoiinores who are candidates for two-yea1 diplomas and who seek a degree in elementary education are divided into three groups on registration day in the .faJJ. Group one begins imrnediately on the activities of a nine-week period in which they give full time to observation and study of methods. This is the final preparation before student teaching.

At the completion ·Of this nine weeks each student is assigned to one of the elementary grades for a nine weeks period during which they live the life of a regular teacher. They are expecfed to be at school at 8:30 in the morning, have charge of the youngsters during the noon cafeteria hour, help with playground duties c;nd. attend Parent-Teacher As:::-ociation meetings. Of -.:ourse they also teach each full day's classe.s anc1 at the end of the nine weeks period they learn to meet parents through the new reporting program which has suhstituted parent-teacher conferences for the traditional grade cards. In short, during this nine weeks period they do everything that will be expected of them when they become a full-time teache:i;: in any community.

At the end of this professional 18 weeks the student is prepared to go into any school situation and know what is expecfed of him during the entire day. New teachers now go out from Peru not only understanding the school day as a whole but also understanding the proble1ns of scheduling, realizing that courses can be integrated, that they do not need to stop work on an interestin;g subject at the end of a given time as would be necessary if they were doing student teaching for only short periods

When group A completes its observation and methods at the end of the first nine weeks, group B starts the same process, then fakes over the teaching duties as group A finishes. Group C then follows through ih8 same process nine weeks later.

Favorable comments coming to the college from school administrators indicate that they are beginning to recognize the superiority of teachers thus trained l:nder th·e block system and it is becoming increasingly ci.ifficult to meef the demand for Peru trained elementary teachers.

Other colleges in the state are beginning to follow, in modified form, the new Peru system but the program in none compares with that of Peru State in the length of time devoted to student feaching.

An 80-acre campus that "looks like a country club" is the pride of the Cochella Valley, Calif., high school, where Dan McSwan, '31, is principal. Oranges, dates, lemons and poinsettias grow on the campus, and the district mea:::-ures 60 by 80 miles. Dan and his wife, the former Myrtle Merchant, '31, have four children: Sharilyn, 19, Franklyn 17, Betty 12, and Joyce 10.

N ow teaching in Montana is Nellie Kelly Rosean, '19 Her home is in Columbus, Mont., and she has had summer study at colleges in that state since her graduation from :P.S.T.C.

New to the mathematics faculty of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., is Hubert L. Hunzeker, '48. He holds a Master of Science degree from Iowa State College and has done further graduate work at the University of lViichigan, where he also served as instructor in mathematics and as a research assistant at the school's Willow Run Research Center. A veteran of Navy service in World "\Var II, he taught at Ohio University from 1950 to 1952, and for one year was director of student work at Athens' First Christian Church.

Ka therine Bartling O'Dell, '41, is making progress in her recovery from a sever·e attack of polio in September, 1952. She is now a wheel chair patient making steady gain in recovery of the use of her Her home is at Three Rivers, Mich.

Early this summer daily newspapers carried a picture of a "Baller-to-Baller Combination" featuring Dr. Stuart Baller, now dean of Carthage (Ill.) College, as he handed a Bachelor of Music diploma to his son, Richard. Dr. Baller was Peru State's assistant director of physical education from 1936 to 1938.

Distinguished Peru Grad, Fulbright Lecturer, Returns to U. of C. Position

Dwight

on leave from his position as a professor of poht1cal science at the University of California. Prior to his appointment as one of 10 noted educators lecturing in England under the Fulbright progra1n, he "\Vafi> on sabbatical leave for 10 months, serving in \Vashi.ngton, D.C., with the Temple University Survey of Federal Reorganization. He received national i"ecognition ior the part he took under civil service during the Tn.1:rnan administration in seeking ways of trimrni'ng the President's paper work.

"Ideas and Issues in the Public Administration" is his second published textbook, and he is working on a new volume under a fellowship granted by the Ford Foundation. The Peru alumnus holds the master's degree from the University of Nebraska and the Ph.D. from the Yale University.

DWIGHT WALDO

Waldo, '35, returned in September after a tour of lecture engagements at Oxford University and Magdelen College in England.

1953 Football Record Champions

Won 8 Lost 0

Peru 13 Panhandle A. & M.

Peru 33 Iowa Central

Peru 27 Hastings

Peru 33. Chadron

Peru 30 Wesleyan

Peru 25 Midland

Peru 27 Doane

Peru 13 Wayne Peru-Kearney (Canceled)

SlJPERIORITY of Peru State's program of Health, Physical Education and Athletics was demonstrated even more convincingly in 1953 as the Bobcats •vent through their second successive season •vithout a defeat.

After the season, conference coaches and area newspapers further ackno\'>•ledged Peru's outstanding performance>:. by naming six Bobcats to the AllConference tearn.

For the second straight year tackle Bob Lade was named to the Associated Press Little All- American first team. Junior guard Darrel Rosenquist also received honorable mention.

BOB LADE SENIOR ALL-NCC TACKLE - 1951, 1952, 1953 ALL-AMERICAN - 1952, 1953

BOB S.tMPSON

NED E.CKMAN .JUNIOR Sl!:N'.IOl't.

KEN CLARK

FRED .APPLEGATE .llJNIQR JUNtQR

Bill Johnson's Cagers Invade

South land in Early Season Play

A swing into Dixie featured early seaso-.1 play for the Peru State College Bobcats this winter.

An early December road trip found Coach Bill Johnson's cagers appearing at Kentucky Stafe College, Frankfort and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. Both are schools for colored students, both are new members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics of vvhich Peru's Al Wheeler is national presid;ent and, according to Wheeler, Peru State was one the first colleges in the nation to schedule games these fam.ous old institutions.

Bobcats opened the season with promising disvr.>ins in their ov.,·n Thanksgiving tournaberth in the Tarkio Christmas tourover the Alumni, Tarkio College, ChadrorL But further NCC play found that took them to the bottom only three wins in league and Ken Hoag were BiU Johnson's future wiU have much hopes for a games

Represent,ing a total of 175 years of teaching, a group of 1906 graduates of Peru State held their 1953 reunion in California. This account reached the Peru Stater through the courtesy of Harriett Carter Blythe:

"Maude Boyd Oglesby invited California members of our 1906 class to meet at her holllle in Porterville March 28 and 29. Ten members and two in-laws responded: Vanche Plumb, Santa Ana; Mae Leetham Brown, Tulare; Harry and June Beck, Tipton; Henry and Nellie Broderson, Menlo Park; Bessie Manuel, Palo Alto; Charles and Bereniece (MacHirron) Weigand, Berkeley; Martin Ju._<:Sel, Oakland; and Harriett Carter Blythe, At:orro Bay. We missed Ilma Kennedy Bickel and Daisy Nettleton Taylor, who were at the 1947 reunion, but unable to attend at this time. Some of us had not met since we separated May 24, 1906 at Peru, but the years rolled back as we caught up on everyone's activities in all the intervening years.

"Each one present had kept in touch with several other '06 members and by exchanging news we all learned about many whom we had not heard of in years. Our class numbered 89, at least 15 have passed away. so we had more than 10 per cent of the ones living.

"Words cannot express the wonderful visit we enjoyed, the hospitality of Maude's home, the deep friendship we renewed, as we sang the old school color song with Harry Beck as leader and Nellie Broderson at the piano. Most of us are not now teaching but engaged actively in welfare work, church work, youth Christian movements or hospital and prison visitation."

Mrs. Blythe also reports that plans already have been discussed for the next get-together, to be at or near San Francisco, and that the 1906 graduates are talking of their 50-year reunion at Peru in 1956.

1906 Peruvians Unite California Confab . In

Events of a half-century ago were the subject of reminiscences last May, when the class of 1903 met as the honor group at the opening of graduation week.

An 8:30 breakfast Sunday morning at the college cafe started activities for the 50-year alumni, which included Bessie Carter Amman of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. John Pierson, Auburn, Nebr.; Miss Katherine Roddy, Nebraska City; Mrs. Lillian Jewell Barnes, Peru; and John F. Johnson, Shickley.

Following a class meeting, the honorees were taken on an automobile tour of familiar haunts and made acquainted with recent campus improvements. At their noon luncheon, a centerpiece of red and white carnations symbolized the flower and colors of the class.

The 1903 graduates also were honored at the afternoon baccalaureate services, at which the speaker was Dr. Charles Gomon of Omaha, father of Peru President Neal S. Gomon.

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Posing for the camera at the California reunion of the class of 1906 are: Seated, left to right-Vanche Plumb, Harry Beck, Bereniece (MacHirron) Weigand and Charles Weigand; standing-Bessie Manuel, Mrs. Henry Broderson, Mrs. Harry Beck, Jussell, Maude Boyd Oglesby, Harriett Carter Blythe ""a:n'!11 Henry Broderson.

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The coming reunion of the class of 1904 was uppermost in the mind of Mrs. Albert Boley (Catherine Hicks, '04) when she and her husband visited the campus late in September.

The Boleys, who live in Redmond, Wash., (Route No. 1, Box 1321) were on their way to Washington, D. C. to visit their son, .Jack and inspect the grandchildren. From there they will go to Florida for the winter and start the homeward trek in time to be in Peru for the '04 reunion on May 23.

Mrs. Boley has been active in the field of education almost continuously since her graduation until two years ago when she retired. Her service includes 14 years as a supervisor in the Campus School at Kearney State Teachers College and a number of years as an occupational therapist in veterans hospitals as well as public school work in Washington. Mr. Boley recently retired from a career in real estate development. ·

Mrs. Boley's brother, J. L. Hicks; '06 lives in Farnam, Nebr.

ANNABELLE EIS RUMBAUGH, '51, is employed as a chemist at the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, and is living at 3417 Holdrege Street in Lincoln. She was married July 5, 1953, and her husband is in military service.

FRANCES E. KOEBLE, '30, writes from Los Angeles, Calif., that the Peru Stater brings back "many happy memories." She is now a nurses' aide at the Orthopaedic hospital, and lives at 2500 South Flower Street.

MR. AND MRS. D. T. MANRING are the parents of a daughter, Darilyn Dee, born August 14. Mr. Manring is vocal music director at Peru State.

MARIAN MARSH BROWN, '27, of Omaha was named president of the Nebraska Writers Guild at an October meeting. Among her recently published writings are three serials in Presbyterian youth publications and stories for adults in Trailer Travel and Family Digest.

EUGENE RARICK, '32, is the new superintendent at Superior. With his wife, the former Zoe Nicholas, he moved to Superior from West Point.

CARLOS HARRISON, '51, received his Master of Arts degree in schoc·1 administration from the University of Nebraska in .June, 1953. His address is 7 North Myrtle Street, Glenwood, Ia.

BILL M. WOODS, '45, is map librarian at the University of Illinois library in Urbana.

Unable to teach since a severe illness in 1951, MATILDA FRITZ, '41, writes that she is nevertheless "i:i her element" as she works parttime in the children's department of the Grand Island city library, where she enjoys associating with little children and helping with researeh material for teachers.

MARY ELLEN NAVIAUX WIGNALL, '34, of Virginia, Nebr., is combining the duties of housewife, mother to a 14-year-old girl and a 'hov two years younger, and commercial teacher in Lewiston High School. Her husband onerates a grocery store.

R. L. SANDBERG has been wit:b <he San Bernardino, Calif., schools since 1936, and is principal of Sturges Junior High School in that citv He has sent the Alumni headquarters several copies of the school pape:::-, for three years winner of a firstnlace rating among 800 junior h).shs in the nation. "Sandy" is president of District 20 of the California Asscciation of School Administrators, :=tnd a member of the state's standing advisory committee for junior highs. He attended P.S.T.C. in 1912-''18 and 1923-'24, and received the A.B. :-3.egree in 1932. His wife, the former BELL MEYER, completed the twoyear course at Peru in 1917. Their son is also a California teacher, and they have a 7-year-old granddaughter.

Although she retired from teaching in 1945, VERYL WEA VER CAMERON, '27, finds that a varie+;y of activities keep her busy: She edits a daily column in a North Platte newspaper, helps ·· manage the family ranch, specializes in roses, iris and gladioli in the garden of her new home, and does private tutoring. Her address, is 2302 West Fourth Street North Platte.

BILL ALEXANDER, '50, moved recently from Kansas City to Topeka, Kans., where he is an investigator with the United States Civil Service Commission. He lives with his wife and two children at 902 East 31st Street.

AGNES 0. MORTIMER died in August, 1952, after a brief illness. She was a graduate of Peru in 1916.

RAYMOND B. BAUMAN and his wife, the former NEVA HINTON, who now live at 6009 Evans in Omaha, are parents of a son, Stenhen Raymond, born April 13, 1953. Both received their two-year diplomas in 1941.

A wedding ceremony was performed June 12 at Auburn for NORMA .JEAN HALBERT of Salem and Neal Banks of Auburn. The bride was a Peru State student in 1952-53.

PERU

It was a case of divided loyalties for WALTER D. MARSHALL when he attended the Peru-Wesleyan Homecoming gan1e, since he earned an A.B. degree at Wesleyan after leaving P.S.T.C. in 1943. He is now Methodist minister at Western and Swanton, Nebr., and he and his wife, (MAXINE SHOWEN, a student here in '42-'43) have two daughters, Re·becca, 6, and Priscilla, 5.

JOAN THICKSTUN BUHRMANN, '46, is living at Martell, Nebr., and is the mother of four children. Her husband, Wayne, is with the Goodyear company as a production design engineer.

ETHEL .JONES WILLIAMS, '27, is living with her husband and two children on a farm near Verdon. After completing her work at Peru State she taught 25 years in kindergarten and the primary grades.

MARGARUETTE DALL FINNEY of Manley, who last attended Peru in 1943, is now working in the accounting department of the ordnance plant at Wahoo. She is married and has one child.

MILDRED WILSON DUCKWORTH, who received the two-year diploma in 1923, has returned to the teaching profession and is at a Sarpy county school. Her address is Bellevue Boulevard, Route Five, Omaha.

CORA BRUNSDON ZELENY, 3623 North 36th Avenue, Omaha, who graduated in 1916, is teaching fifth grade in Omaha. Her husband and one of their two daughters accompanied her to Peru for the 1953 Homecoming.

BETTY HOGREFE, Peru State summer student in 1953, was married .June 26 to Harlan Hillers oI Auburn. who is now in Navy service. Mrs. Hillers is teaching at the Shurtleff school this year.

NORRIS G. HALE, '51, was commissioned a second lieutenant upon his graduation from the Engineer Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir. Va. His wife, Margaret Genoa Hale. who received her degree from Peru State this year, is teaching at Western. They have a small daughter.

A .June ceremony at Sidney, Ia united JEAN ANN GRAHAM and THOMAS WILKIE, who completec1 two-year and four-year courses, respectively, at Peru State in M"1y. Among Peruvians in the wedding narty were Donna Mae Hill. Ruth .Johnson, Carolyn Hardy, Pat LaRue, Virginia Ferguson, Joan Reimers, Marilyn Hawxby, Ben Duerfeldt and Alvin Lowe.

WILLA JEAN SODMANN, who attended Peru State summer sessions in 1951 and 1952, was married May 5 to Dalen Kracke. She is teaching in Nemaha county, and her husband is employed in Elk Creek.

MRS. MAUDE EBERT of Otoe, who was a Peru student in 1910 and 'll, returned to the campus this summe:::for the Education Workshop.

VIANA

Rev. HERBERT .E. IVENS, '31, is pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Pinckneyville, Ill.

IN. D. REDMOND, .Peru State registrar from 1902 to 1908, died thjs autumn at the Nebraska Masonic Home in Plattsmouth.

CHARLES COATNEY, who last att0nded Peru in '51, is in Navy service, af. Norman. Okla., as a photographer's mate third class. His \Trife (BEVERLy HOUSER, '52) has a secretarial position in the School of Drama at the University of Oklahomn.

It's no wonder that ERNEST STRAUSS, '47, has recently taken up photography as a hobby, for he admits to much pride in the three boys of whom he and MARIAN DECK STRAUSS, '46, are parents. The Strauss family lives in Audubon, Ia., 'vhere Ernie is teaching industrial arts.

Although she and her husband own a chicken ranch near Hudson, Colo., EDNA MAYSTRICK FITCH, '34, has not lost touch with the public schools. Not only does she have four school age children-Karen, 16, Sandra, 14, Judith, 13, and Michael, 6, but she also does substitute teaching and her husband directs the school band.

JACK KENT, '49, is the new superintendent of schools at Johnson, Nebr. He holds the Master's degree from the University of Nebraska.

KATHERINE TYNON, an honor graduate with the class of 1893, died May 7 at the family home in Peru. She had taught for many years in the schools of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska City, and Peru. Services were held at St. Clara's Catholic church in Peru, with music by St. Joseph's choir of Auburn and soloists.

BARBARA JOAN MILLER, '52, became the bride of William Thomas Rawson of Lexington in a ceremony July 28 in Elmwood. They are livjn.g in Lexington.

Performing again under the baton of Victor H. Jindra, several PerLl alumni joined the college orchestra for the Homecoming musical program. CAROL DUERFELDT, '52, of Plattsmouth, was in the flute section, and among violinists were EUNICE BURBRIDGE NA VIAUX, '35, Omaha; WINIFRED PETTIT YOUNG, '33, Eugene, Ore.; ARTHUR LINDAHL, '27, Nebraska City; and MARGARET' ULBRICK, Omaha, who last attended in '52-53.

HAZEL WILLIAMS, member of the class of '29 and onetime Peru State faculty member, died September 22 at Auburn. Funeral services and burial were at Auburn. Miss Williams taught in Auburn and Beatrice, and during World War II joined the college faculty as instructor in dramatics and speech.

MARJORY COATNEY SINES. '37, returned for Homecoming fro; n Hamilton, Colo., where her husband is a rancher. They h<i\Y<;! 9. f.our-yearold daughter.

MABEL ZAJICEK NOVAK, '32, has returned to teaching after several years as a fulltime homemaker while her two children were small. She is now teaching kindergarten and elementary physical education at Wilber, where her husband is associated with a bank.

ORIVELL YOCUM, '47, who holds the all-time state college discus throw record of 158' 61/2 ", is the new footnall coach at East Alton, Ill. He had been head coach at Crete, Nebr., the past four years.

Named acting postmaster of Nebraska City on August 1, NELLIE JAMES UERKVITZ is the first woman to hold that position since the uosto:ffiee was established 101 years- ago. She attended Peru State m 1915. Mrs. Uerkvitz taught in rural schools prior to her marriage, and later operated a creamery with her husband, the late William Uerkvitz. She was Otoe county recorder for 181/z years.

NEVA MAE RUSSELL WALKER, 'vho received a one-year diploma from Peru in 1947, is living on a farm south of Peru. She taught in Nemaha and Red Willow counties prior to her marriage in 1951.

County Londonderry in Northern Ireland is the new home address of FRANCES ANN BLACK ALCOF.N, a Peru State summer student in 1949. Miss Black, who holds degrees from Park College and Michig-an State College, was married June 19, 1953, at Auburn, to William Millar Alcorn. They met while she wBs teaching at East Lansing, Mich .. where he was an exchange teacher from Ireland.

MR. AND MRS. THOMAS HOPKINS are living at Omaha, where he is teaching elementary physical education, following their marriage at Wymore on August 16. Hopkin:> is a 1953 Peru State graduate, and his bride, the former Patricia Sailing, vvas in the class of '56. Amon.:! Peruvians in the wedding party were Mary Vanderholm. Norma Boyer, Harley Rector and.Ernie Meyer.

MRS. FERNE DEAN, '42, is part of her hospital fraining in occupational therauy ::it McMillan hospital in St. Louis. Mo. She will be in St. until late December. Her home address is 6417 Platk A venue. Lincoln.

ANNA MAY SANDIN BROITENBACH is the mother of a son bnrn 28. 1953. The Broitenbachs Jive at 49 Grove Street in New York Citv. After Peru in 1937. she earned a Master's degree at Columbia. University.

EDITH STRAUBE SYKES, '48, is teaching in Alcott Elementary Schoo? in Denver, Colo. She and her husband. Robert R.. Sykes, who is associated. with Armour and Company live at 4500 East Dartmouth Avenue.

LORENA T. CROWLEY, '18, is teaching kindergarten at Highland School in Omaha. Her three chil · are gro,vn, and she has "five 'vonderful grandchildren," she re-ports.

FRANCES M. KNIGHT, '43, is teaching in Kansas City, Mo. Her home is at 1520 East 50th Street.

Returning to the campus for the first time in more than a half-century, Emma White Rishling of Neligh was a P.S.T.C. visitor September 25. It was her first glimpse of Mount Vernon Hall and other familiar spots since she received her two-year diploma here in 1902.

As a district deputy of the Royal Neighbor Lodge, Mrs. Rishling was enroute home from a national meeting at Hot Springs, Ark., where she received recognition for leading the entire nation in the Lodge's fraternal insurance sales.

The former Peruvian taught near Omaha before her mariage, and has lived at Neligh nearly 40 years. She and her husband, Oliver Rishling, a retired farmer, have three sons and a daughter, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

DONALD L. GRAHAM, '51, has returned to a Nebraska City junior high for his second year on the faculty. He is married and has one son, David Lee.

PAUL A. LANDOLT, '33, has joined the University of Nebraska faculty as instructor in physiology. He moved this fall from Scottsbluff to 5534 Hartley Street in Lincoln.

Two sons. David, 10, and Johnni<e, 6. keen MAXINE GALBRAITH MARCUM busy at her farm home near Fairbury. She received her A.B. degree from Peru in 1939.

Writing from Treasure Island, Calif., BILL PHARAOH, RDSN, of the class of '52 reports that after a 12-week Radar Operators' School he will return to the USS Natchaug AOG-54.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Benson died of leukemia in April, shortly after his 16th birthday. Both the boy and his sister, now 14, were dd.opted by the Bensons in 1946. Mrs. Benson, formerly CHRISTINE RASMUSSEN, received her two-year diploma at Peru in 1937, and was on the Tekamah faculty prior to her marriage. The Benson home is a ranch northwest of Sargent.

The banana tree which has been in Peru State's greenhouse for many years gained widespread attention this summer, when a picture of its bountiful 1953 crop appeared in a number of Nebraska newspapers.

The tropical plant was brought to Peru from British Guiana by Prof. A. E. Holch, former faculty member, and since 1946 it has been under the care of John Christ, science division head. It took months of effort and meticulous care to produce this year's crop.

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MISS ZELLA SEARS, who graduated from Peru State with the class of 19(}2, died early in October at Lincoln. She was a member of the Baptist church and of the Order of Eastern Star. At the time of her death she was living in Lincoln, car1ng for an invalid brother.

Weather conditions kept one loyal member of the class of 1903, W. H. DAVIS of Maywood, Nebr., from atlending the 50-year reunion on the Mr. Davis had planned to join his classmates for the day, but v,·as forced at the last minute to cancel his trip.

MISS ANNA TIBBETS, remembered by many Peru alumni as principal of the campus high i>chool, died February 18 at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., at the age of 92. She was credited with organizing, at Lincoln, Nebr., one of the nation's l'rst parent-teacher groups, and was' a member of the A.A.U .W ., the American Association for the United Nations, the League of Woman Voters, the American Association of University Professors and the American Academy of Political Science.

Under the leadership of the REV. JOHN A. REGER, '51, members of the Stella, Nebr., Community church this year completed the new building toward which they had planned for more than a quarter century.

Ora Ethel Fowler Burnham, member of the Peru State class of 1909 and a teacher in the Idaho schools for 33 years, died October 14 at her home near Meridian, Ida.

Two Peru music graduates, EUNICE BURBRIDGE NAVIAUX, '35, and GERA GRAHAM, '36, were mentioned prominently in connection with the 1953 all-city elementary concert in Omaha. Eunice was one of four directors of the 160-piece orchestra, and Gera and three other conductors were in charge of the 140-member band.

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Training in art which began at Peru State in 1927 has brought top honors to Felix Summers of Milwaukee; Wis., whose emblem for the Soil Conservation Society of America was winner in a nationwide contest. The honor was the highest national award conferred on any artist in the field of agriculture in 1952.

A native of Malvern, Ia., Summers studied art at P.S.T.C. for two years, and later earned degrees in fine arts at the University of Nebraska and Yale University. He painted murals for many famous New York spots before World War II, but after his military service he turned his back on the bright lights and joined staff of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service.

Former Peru Dean Governs Samoa

Newly-appointed gov2rnor of American Samoa is Barrett Lowe, former dean of Peru State College. His appointment was announced in early October.

Class of

98 Keeps College Memories

Alive 5 5 Years

A class letter still in circulation after 55 years is the pride of the Peru State class of 1898. With less than half the class of 31 members still living, the letter travels in eight states, crossing the nation from Delaware and Louisiana to Washington and California.

Old arguments and jokes are occasionally revived in the letter, to the delight of its readers, and pictures often are included. Nearly all those who participate have been teachers since their graduation.

As the letter crosses and re-crosses the continent, it makes stops at the homes of these alumni: Ida Wade Bloomingdale, Nebraska City; Belle Parkhurst Elder, McPherson, Kans.; Walter Campbell, Tecumseh, Nebr.; Robert Campbell, Harvard, Nebr.; W. W. Waters, Lexington, Nebr.; Miss Serepta Crabtree, Minden, Nebr.; Vera Barden Batcheldor, Shreveport, La.; Aurelia Crangle Grace, Ogden, Utah; Laura Reynolds Manning, Ashton, Ida.; Alma Case Cole, San Marcus, Calif.; Sarah Ransom Fales, Minta Hall and Della Borst McClellan, all of Seattle, Wash.; L Homer Watt, Farmington, Del.

Mrs. Burnham went to Idaho to teach shortly after her graduation from P.S.T.C., and was married in 1913 to Zelotus E. Burnham. The last years of her teaching career were at Kuna, where she was junior high principal. She was a member of the Methodist church and a past state president of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

Survivors are her husband, two children, and four grandchildren.

Charles P. Weigand, California banker and one of Peru State's most loyal sons, died April 27. Death came just a month after he and his wife, Bereniece MacHirron Weigand. had attended a California reunion of the class of 1906. of which both were members.

A year of teaching in Norfolk, Nebr., and study at the University of Idaho preceded Mr. Weigand's banking career, which began in Kellogg, Ida. He served as a state bank examiner and later a national bank examiner, and in 1933 he became associated with the examination department of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, remaining there until his retirement. Later he joined the Oakland Bank of Commerce as its auditor, and held this position at the time of his death.

Survivors are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Philip Woodworth, a son, Clarke, an attorney, and four grandchildren.

(Pi cut re at Right)

Formerly president of Sioux Falls, S. D., Junior College, Governor Lowe first came to Peru as commandant of the Navy V-12 unit here during World War IL Later he served as P.S.T.C. dean of men, and in recent years he had been stationed at Washington, D. C., as a lieutenant commander.

Governor and Mrs. Lowe have two sons, Bruce and Cameron.

"Coach of the Year" for 1953 is the title conferred upon Oliver Mayfield, '50, for outstanding achievements in his first coaching asign:ment. The Peruvian was singled out for the statewide honor by the Sunday Journal and Star afte:r his Alvo high school athletes earned a long list of championships in various sports. Mayfield left Alvo this year for Ralston, where he is coach at the new high school. His wife is the former Opal Reehle, '50.

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Peruvians Honor

Prof. Gregg at Ca I!forn ia Gathering

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55 Homecoming Dates Are Set

Dates to be red-circled on the calendars of Peru State alumni for 1954 and '55 are already set: November 6, 1954, and October 15, 1955, are future Homecoming dates.

Next year's event, later than usual in order to avoid conflicts with football dates of other colleges, will bring Nebraska Wesleyan back to the Oak Bowl where it suffered defeat in the 1953 Homecoming tilt. The Kearney State Antelopes will furnish the opposition in the 1955 game.

Professor F. M. Gregg, remembered with affection and deep respect by alumni who studied psychology under his guidance some three decades ago, was honored guest when a group of Peruvians met at the La Habra, Calif., home of Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Charlton. Professor Gregg is living at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, on the farm that was his boyhood home, and finding .great pleasure in managing it and making improvements. Two years ago he sent to the publishers his latest book, "The People's Psychology."

Mrs. Charlton. the hostess, is the former Hazel Beck, '09. Others present included Rowena Maurer Beck, with her husband and daughter, of Los Angeles; Clara Beck Campbell, '19, LaMesa; Loyd V. Prante, '20, and Mrs. Prante of San Gabriel; Superintendent Alex J. and Sadie (Gillan) Stoddard, '10, Palos Verdes; W. A. and Cecile (Sheely) Kelly, Long Beach; Jesse F. and Cordia (Fisher) Hendricks, '09, Pasadena; Daisy Nettleton Taylor, who taught dramatics in Peru early in the century, from Temple City; Mrs. R. D. Overholt, whose husband was once from Omaha; Donald and Grace (Hallett) Redfern, Long Beach; Ilma Kennedy Bickel, '06, El Monte; Jennie Lee Joy of San Gabriel, whose mother was Anna Moorhead Joy of the first Peru graduating class in 1870; and Nona Palmer, professor emeritus of commerce, of Bradshaw, Nebr.

Old Glory still flies proudly on Peru State's hilltop, but the man who raised and lowered the flag daily for 24 years has left the campus. Albert Dahlstrom, custodian of the administration and •industrial arts buildings, retired on June 13.

When Mr. Dahlstrom joined the college staff in 1929, his primary thought was to make possible the education of his three children. His son Roy, now a prominent chemist living in Westfield, N.J., and one daughter, now Mrs. Margaret Bosley of Evanston, Ill., graduated in 1926 and '27, respectively, and the other daughter, now Mrs. Daisy Timmons of Burlington, Colo., was a member of the class of '36. In addition, Mr. Dahlstrom watched thousands of other young people as they pursued college careers, and he recalls that he has never gone on a vacation trip without meeting Peru grads scattered over the nation.

Shortly after his retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Dahlstrom observed their golden wedding anniversary.

Other custodians who retired 'lt ·Peru during the summer were Edmund Velvick and Homer Craig, Sr. Both had been working at the campus school. Mr. Velvick had completed nearly 11 years of service, and Mr. Craig had worked for the college about two years. Roy Clevenger, night watchman and library custodian, suffered a fatal heart attack April 27 while at work on the campus.

Now

Brownells Have

Peru Background

The family .of a one time Peru faculty member has provided two top-ranking appointees in the Eisenhower administration. Both Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Commissioner of Education Samuel M. Brownell were born in Peru while their father, the late Professor Herbert Brownell, headed the college's department of physical science.

Dr. Samuel Brownell, formerly pre10>ident of Newhaven State Teachers College in Connecticut, is the husband of Esther Delzell, '23, daughter of the late Peru Dean W. N. Delzell. They have four children.

assigned to the Naval Security Station in Washington, D. C., Ensign Dorothy Erhart, '53, is pictured during her teletype training at Bainbridge, Md.

Peru Grads Hail 1 53 Homecoming; Enjoy Reunions, Coffee, Pageantry

"Best in years" was the way returning alumni tagged Homecoming, 1953, as the good humor of the weatherman, the gridiron talent of the Peru Bobcats, and the enthusiastic efforts of faculty and students combined to give campus visitors a memorable day.

Former students were present for the October 11 event from many Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri communities. From the greatest distances were Winifred Pettit Young, '33, of Eugene, Ore., Charles and Beverly (Houser) Coatney, '51 and '52, of Norman, Okla.; and Marjory Coatney Sines, '37, of Hamilton, Colo.

Of course the home team football victory in a 30-13 thriller over Nebraska Wesleyan was easily the highlight for most but few there were who did not seem to REGISTRATION

get a real kick out of inspecting the campus improvements and, the offspring of former classmates while taking in the many other attractions planned by the Student Council and the faculty Homecoming committee.

The campus bore a county fair atmosphere Saturday morning as the ingenious campus decorations put up by competing organizations were judged to determine the winner of the trophy and the cash prize donated by the Student Council. This was won by the Blue Devils, student men's pep organization, with a huge spider web in which a Bobcat spider had entangled a Wesleyan Plainsman. Sound effects lending atmosphere to the display v.rere based on the "Dragnet" theme.

Gallons of coffee and hundreds of doughnuts were consumed by returning alumni at the coffee hour sponsored by the college in the forenoon and a number of former "P" winners, athletes of past years, gathered for a noon time pre-game luncheon with the 1953 Peru State squad.

The capacity crowd at the football game saw the newly uniformed Peru State marching band in a halftime show commemorating the seventeen straight victories' already in the Bobcat bag and predicting that the Homecoming fray would be number eighteen. This was concluded with formations paying special tribute to Bobcat mentor Al Wheeler.

9oncluding the half-time show were the traditional

coronation ceremonies honoring the 1953 HoDlecoming queen, Miss Virginia Ferguson of Falls City, and her two attendants, Miss Phyllis Davenport of Peru and Miss Marilyn Hawxby of Nemaha_

An evening musicale, featuring the college and the Peruvian Singers, was held in eoftege· auditorium. A last minute substitution. the· canceled Homecoming play, the production '"ms received.

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FRIENDLY GREETINGS

Alumni Association Helps--

Peru State Dedk:ates New Organ

After nearly 20 years, a fund set aside by the Peru Alumni Association toward purchase of an organ has helped make possible a major addition to the musical facilities and activities of the campus. A Connscnata electric organ was installed in the colleo-e auditorium this fall, with dedication October 27 in a r;;cital by Mr. Robert T. Benford of the faculty.

The event represents culmination of plans made in the '30's by forward-looking Alumni As-sociation officers and members. At that time, a $1,000 government bond was purchased by the associ::ition with the s.tipulation that lC be used for an organ. "eRr the State Normal Board provided the additionai funds needed for the instrument, ar..d tl:e bend "\\':::..S and used in the purchase.

Placement Office Has Busy Seasoni Many Grads Move to Better Positions

Attractive sal:;iries and working conditions prompted many Peru alumni to change their teaching posit'ions last year, records of the P.S.T.C. Placement Bureau show. The larger cities of the area attracted many Peruvians both 1953 graduates and alumni '

Of the persons requested service from the Bureau during the spring and summer, 87 were former students and 55 were persons currently enrolled. A total of nearly 500 credentials was submitted to school and boards of education during the hiring season.

La ura Jordan, '99. died in her sleep at San Francisco, Calif., on March 2, 1953.

B::irn in Decorah, Ia., she taught in numerous Nebraska communities and in Milwaukee Wis. before going in 1919 to California, where she taught' in the John Muir and Le Conte schools before her retirement in 1945. She had been a teacher for 43 years.

Miss Jordan was a member of the Berkeley Women's City Club, the Builders Club of San Francisco the Omaha Club of San Diego, and the Retired Teachers 'Association. She is survived bv her sister. Florence Jordan Post, who also attended Peru and is a former Omaha teacher.

W o rd has been received of the death of Henry P-ruce Duncanson, 91. early instructor in biology at Peru State. He is survived by his wife, a s.:::;n and two grandchildren.

May Graduation Adds 48 New Members to Peru Alumni Association

Membership in the Alumni Association was conferred automatically upon 48 Peruvians as they received diplomas lViay 22, 1953, marking completion of four-year, two-year and one-year courses.

Military service promptly claimed a large share of the men in the class of '53. Among those who have been inducted or anticipate calls in the near future are Alan Schuster, LaVon Covault, Don Bornschlegl Bob Davis, Marvin Gerdes, Har.old Grafe, Sharon Ocker' Harold Rasplicka and Bill Schulte. One woman also is serving Uncle Sam; Dorothy Erhart, formerly on reserve status, is now on active duty with the WAVES.

Public school classrooms attracted the majority of the group. Accepting teaching assignments for 1953-54 were the.;e four-year graduates: Margaret Genoa Hale, Western; Esther Kreifels, Dunbar; Betty McKay Munoz Wymore; Phyllis Parriott, Blencoe, Ia.; James Stoltz, Au..'. burn; Geraldine Schliefert, Lincoln; Jim Wilson, Farnam; Bill Mclninch, Lewiston; Bill Bednar, DeWitt; Darlene Genrich, Tom Hopkins and Robert Shrader, Omaha; Lorain Krueger, Elk Creek; Howard Nichelson, Humboldt; Harley Rector, Fullerton; Tom Wilkie, Riverton, Ia.; Monica Zeiner, Topeka, Kans. .

Lillian Christ is at home in Peru, after substituting in grade one at the campus school, and Francis Heim is now Mrs. Robert Whited of Dawson.

Of the two-year group, Eula Anderson and Mary Ann Fletcher Gregg have recurned to the campus for their junior year; others are teaching as follows: Rosalie BoeLlstorff, Donna Mae Hill and Patricia LaRue, Plattsmouth; Larry Chambers, Has.tings, Ia.; Nancy Darrah, Rockport, Mo.; Carolyn Hardy, Ruth Ann Johnson and Jacqueline Reed, Bellevue; Bill Maness, Emerson, Ia.; Mable Nedved, Table Rock; Shirley Ann Stutheit, Superior.

One-year diplomas were presented to Blossom Duncan, Norma Ford, Gertrude Fritz, Agnes Hakel, Lois Harms and Anna May Schreiner.

Th e new president of the Peru Alumni Association is Glen Sheely, '39, onetime Bobcat athlete who returned to his alma mater this fall as a member of the campus school faculty. Other new officers. named in balloting on Homecoming Day are Jackie Cole, '51, of Tecumseh, first vice-president; Bill '52, of Nebraska City, second vice-president; Car.ol Hawxby, '51, of Nemaha, secretary; and Den Johanns. '52. of Bellevue, treasurer.

Sheely succeeds Dee V. Jarvis, also of the Peru faculty, in the association presidency. He holds an M.A. in elementary education from the University of Nebraska, and has served as coach and high school principal at Brock, junior high principal at Nebraska City, and superintendent at Bratton Union. He is now supervisor of Grade Six in the campus school.

Mrs. Sheely is the former Evelyn Williams, who last attended Peru State in 1938. They have two boys.

Peru State President Neal S, Gomon (right) poses with Fine Arts department head, Victor Jindra (center) and R. T. Bcnfcrd at organ dedication.

GLEN SHEELY New Alumni Prexy

PERMIT NO. 4

Peru, Nebraska

FORM 3547 REQUESTED

Now manufacturer of pumping units "ar- well known in the oil fields as Ivory soap is among housewives," Elmer Jensen, Peru State '10, visited the campus in midWith him was Mrs. Jensen, the former Mary Claire Johnson, who attended a summer session here in 1911.

Th;e Jez:se:is vv:ere enroute from his firm's lodge on Lake Kronn1s 1n Minnesota to their home in 1115 Lantrip Kilgore, Tex. '

., ':fhe Peru alumnus holds a pharmacy degree from the old Normal College, but left the drug business at the close of World War II and, with two brothers established t_he Jensen Manufacturing Company of Kans. P10neer experience, study and research in the field have earned the company a nationwide reputation, and today it employs 140 workers and turns ol!t s<;>me 400 pur:iping units per month, primarily for:µSEi/:In 011 fieldr. and in pumping water for ranch stock.

·Although he travels widely on behalf of the company, Elmer has maintained a perfeCt attendance record in the Rotary Club for a full decade. Another of his top interests is fishing; in addition to spending time each summer at the Minnesota lodge, the entire Jenr.en family enjoys an annual fishing expedition in the Gulf near Corpus Christi each Christmas season.

l\(Ir. and Mrs. Jensen have one daughter, an accomolished vocalist and wife of Harry Wayne, concert baritone.

As other Peru graduates returned to Midwestern classrooms, Ruth Stoneman, '41, was beginning an excifing teaching assignment in faraway Arnheim, the Netherlands. Recipient of a Fulbright education grant, she ".; spend 11 months overseas, teaching social studies and English.

l\!Uss Stoneman is on leave of absence from the Teacne'rs College at Algona, Wis., where she has taught tl1e past four Jn addition to the Bachelor of Arts earned here, she holds degrees from. the University of Wisconsin, and in 1952 took a special course at the American Univer,::i.tv in Wqshington, D. C. She is a sister O'f Mrs. Mabel Parks, '52.

Peru State alumni reading the "Instructor" Magazine have noticed r.everal familiar names among its recent contributors.

The cover of the September issue pictures "Toys From Scraps," a prize-winning entry by Ethel Doyle Manley in the magazine's art contest. A description of her project appears in the r-ame issue. Mrs. Manley, who teaches the first grade at Odell, Nebr., has attended six sum1ner sessions at Peru, the mor-t recent. i.n 1952.

In the June "Instructor" are a children's story b-..• Mrs. He:en G. Fichter, '38, of 1933 Lima Avenue; Aurora, Colo.. and an article on "Every Child if'. Superior" by Gretchen Kreidler Wells of Madic;on, Nebr., who attended a Peru summer session in 1919.

T he July "Pedagogian." edited by sum.mer students took special note of "decided and imoroved changes" in'. convocation programs. "No longer does one see many individuals catching forty winks, completino- an overdue writing letters, or just visitin"g" an cditoriah.commented. '

Peru coed Margaret Chrhty (left rear) photographed at Homecoming with mother, grandfather and stepgrandmother - all Peruvians.

A family line of Peruvians that dates back threequarters of a century was renewed this year, when Margaret Christy of Brock followed the lead of at least 29 others of the Gilbert and Christy familief. in enrolling at P.S.T.C.

The pretty brown-eyed coed is the daughter of Evalyn Gilbert Christy, who attended P.S.T.C. in 1929-31 and earned the life certificate in 1934, and the granddaughter of Gus G. Gilbert ( 1901-'04) and the late Elsie French Gilbert (1907). Maude Teagarden Gilbert (1901'05) is her step

Uncles who preceded on the campus are Gordon French Gilbert (1935-'39), Winton Morriss Gilbert (1932-'35) and Floyd Christy (1918); an aunt is Gladys Christy Evans (1921).

Another generation back are a great-uncle, Albert H. Gilbert, who was a Peru student in 1904-'07 and received his degree in 1912; and four great-aunts: Eva Gilbert France (1904-'07, life cer;ificate 1909), Millie Gilbert Christy (1910-'13), Vina Gilbert Chard (1917-'19), and Ann Gilbert Christy ( 1918-'22). In the "great-great" classification are Uncle Will French ( 1905) and Aunts Jennie Gilbert Donze and Nerva Butterfield Gilbert, '78. In addition, 10 cousins and three aunts by marriage add to Margaret's Peru heritage.

Two Peru State alu1nni are among new faculty members appointed prior to the start of the 19!'>3-54 term at P.S.T.C. Joseph Littrell, '47, of Nebraska City, has been nruned to the industrial arts faculty, and Glen Sheely, '39, of Auburn is the new supervisor of Grade six in the campus school.

Miss lViarguerite Haugen of Missoula, Mont.. is the new dean of women, and Arthur Lindahl, Nebraska c;+.y accountant, became bursar of the college in July. Other appointments include those of Dr. Gordon Kenyon of Beloit, Wis., as associate professor of hif'-tory and social sciences; Dr. Ben L. Collins of New Mexico, who will. conduct classes in literature and journalism; and Dr. Peter Janetos of Dover, N. H., associate professor of school administration and secondary education.

Expansion of the mur-ic department has brought Robert V. Grindle to the campus from Rockford. Ia .. as assistant professor of instrumental music. Ervin R. Fitts of Coffeyville, Kans., is the new football line r"ach. __ Tn the caz;ri.pus school, Robert C. Grayson of Nashville, Tenn., is the new supervisor of English, and Mrs. Reb:i Jay of Lincoln is in charge of the kindergarten.

Others new to the campus are Miss Cleo B. Kellv of Bristow. Nebr., assistant librarian· Mrs He 1 en Jean Barrett .of :Nebra?ka City, secretary to' the president; and Mrs. Clara Boatman of Tecumseh, college nurse.

Peru State Prexy Gomon

Receives Ed. D. Degree

Peru State College's President Neal S. Gomon i; now Doctor Gomon. At the University of Nebraska summer school commencement, President Gomon was one of two recipients of the Doctor of Education degree.

Dr. Gomon and Dr. A. R.. McPherran of Lincoln were the first to received the advanced professional degree since it was autho::ized by the University Board of Regents last year.

COVER PICTURE

Adjusting the beanie of fellow freshman Gail Martin of Plattsmouth during freshman initiation this fall is Liz Neffziger of Ofoe. Looking on with approval are Shirley Williss of Holmesville (seated) Carolee Kerl of Pawnee City.

Faculty and Married Student Housing Approved By Board

Permanent housing for faculty and married students on the Peru State campus w-ill become a reality within the next year, according to President Neal S. Gomon. The proposed housing developmen' which cai:s for eight units for faculty members and from 14 io 16 units for mar:-ied students was approved by the Bol:lrd of Education of State Normal Schools at September meeting in Peru.

Site for the married student housi:1g units will b::! the college property east of Oak Bowl and southeast of Vetville. Temporary Vetville housirrg will be removed and the area used an extension of physical education facilities as was originally planned before Vetville was built in 1945.

Four faculty units will be con:;tructed on the corner north of the Music hall and four units will be built on the corner property north of the old tennis courts. The Peru Do::mitory Corp. will carry on construction of the housing development which will be financed by revenue bonds. Clark and Enerson, Lincoln architectural firm, has been employed to handle plans and specifications and Kirkpatrick-Pettis Co., Omaha, will be fiscal agents of the Dormitory Corp.

Plans for renovation or replacement of Mount Ve:·non hall were eliminated from present consideration. However, the door has been left open for replacement of the structure, constructed in 1897, within the next few years. Also defe::red for further study was a proposal to extend a heating tunnel from the gymnasium to Mount: Vernon hall.

The Peru president's dissertation was written in the area of school disfrict reorganization with special emphasis on the financial implications of types of school district reorganization.

Dr. Gomon received his A.B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1931 and his M.A. degree from the same institution in 1945. He has been Peru State College prexy since May, 1951.

THE PERU ST ATER

Volume 2 Number 2 October, 1954

Official publication of the Alumni Association of Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska. Published quarterly. funds permitting. Subscription by contribution to the Alumni Fund. Extra copies of the PERU STATER, w·hen available, may be secured for twenty-five cents each. Office-Administration Building, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska.

Kenneth Heywood ______________________________ Editor

President ________________ Glen Sheeley, '39, Peru, Nebr.

First Vice-Pres. ______ Jackie Cole, '51, Tecumseh, Nebr.

Second Vice-Pres. __ Bill Vacek, '52, Nebraska City, Nebr.

Secretary __________ carol Hawxby, '51, Nemaha, Nebr.

Treasurer __________ Don Johann:-, '52, Bellevue, Nebr.

Executive Sec. ____ Kenneth Heywood, Peru State College

Anonymous Peru Alums Give Two $100 Scholarships

Two $100 music scholarships have been given by anonymous donors, both Peru State alumni, to Peru State students, according to Dr. Lester N. Downing, dean of the college.

Latest to receive a scholarship was Don Gibson, a 1954 graduate of Aubu:n High School. It was presen: ed at the summer school convocation which honored summer school degree and diploma candidates. The other grant recipient was Miss Margaret Ulbrick of Julian, who vv·as presented the award at the spring commencement.

:':'election of the scholarship winners by the pe:·!:Cnr:el and scholarship committee was based on char2cter, scholarship, intention to major in music for four years at Peru State and to continue in music after graduation.

library Receives Gift Volumes

A collection of 20 books has been presented fo the Peru State College Library by former Peruvians, Dr. Glen H. and Anna Best Joder of Cheyehne, Wyo. They vv·ere given in memory of their son, Glen Howard Joder, Jr., who died in Peru, May 28, 1940, at 'the age of 10.

D:·. Joder w-as a pre-med student at Peru in 1927 and Mrs. Joder was an associate professor of English at that time. At the time of the death of their son, Dr. Jcder was practicing medicine in Peru.

Many of the books reflect the interest of the Joders in Arabfan horres and will be of interest to adults as ·well as chilrlrPn

DR. NEAL S. GOMON

Expect Record Crowd c 154 ror Homecoming

Nebraska Is Bobcat Wesleyan Foe for Homecoming

This is your official invitation fo return to The Campus of a Thousand on Saturday, November 6, to ttltve pleasant experience3, revisit bmhiar haunts and once again see familiar faces of your student

Traditionally, the major event of college homecoming is the after".ootball game - and what a thriJler this one should be! As this >'!.'Titten your Peru State Bobcats going after their third successive undefeated season. Their 25 game W4IDning streak is the longest posby any college in the nation. The '!}.Tesleyan game will be the seatlnale and we knovv you won't to miss it.

Exceptional dramatic talent enat Peru this year promises to ··outward Bound" the outstand-

homecoming renews old acquaintances.

ing Homecoming play produced in years, and to wind up the fun-filled day the Student Council secured the famed Little Beecher and his band. In addition to being a fine dance band this outfit will panic you with their

half-hour intermission show.

Let's make this the year when Peru State has the biggest HOMECOMING in her long history. We'll be looking for you. Remember the date, November 6.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

10:00 a, m. Registration and election of alumni officers. Judging of campus displays. Informal coffee hour.

11:00 a. m. "P" Club Alumni Luncheon. (Former letter winners invited to eat pre-game lunch with football squad.)

2:00 p. m NCC Football. Peru State College vs. Nebraska Wesleyan.

7:00 p. m. Annual Homecoming Play, "Outward Bound."

9:00 p. m. Homecoming Dance.

cheerleaders coming c::lebration a 9art of homepicture.

a scene from "Outward Bound homecoming play.

and Diploma Candidates of Peru Alumni Assn. Become in 1954

Peru State conferred a total of 51 degree3 and granted 38 two-year and 14 one-year diplomas at the close of the spring and summer school terms. This spring commencement saw degrees and diplomas g:-anted to 45 candidates and at the closing summer school convocation, 58 degree and diploma candidates were honored. Membership in the Peru Alumni Association has been conferred on these Peruvians.

Spring candidates included:

Bachelor of Arts-Stanley Ned Longfellow, Peru;.James Orlando Mille:-, .Julian.

Bachelor of Arts in Education-Thomas Charles Bosworth, Nebraska City; Ben L. Duerfeldt, Barnard, Mo.; Kenneth Allen Hoag, Blue Island, Ill.; Lee Arnold Hopp, .Johnson; Isabel Tynon Martell, Peru; Mervil Joseph :Miller, Louisville; Franklin Dale Moore, Nemaha; Cur·tis Duane Sederburg, Essex, Ia.; Howard L. Ulini. Falls City.

Bachelor of Science in Education-Loren Neil Argabright, Nemaha; Marilyn Lois Baucke, Nebraska City; Phyllis .Jean Heinke, Omaha; Mary Margaret Hoag, Blue Island, Ill.; Robert Lee Lade, Tecumseh; Eugene Lowell Larsen, Hampton; Curtis Dean Lindell, Essex, Ia.; Charlotte Maxine Merritt, Council Bluffs, Ia.; .Joan Kathleen Reimers, .Julian; Buefo:·d Henry Rickman, Nemaha; Geraldine .J. Straw, Peru.

Two-Year Diploma-Ruth Eleanor Bell, Underwood, Ia.; Norma Boyer, Stanton, Ia.; Mary Lee Campbell, Nebraska City; Rose Marie Cook, Talmage; Barbara Irene Davis, Brock; Donna .Jean De Roin, Falls City; Ge.:.-da D. Foged, Gretna; Marlene .Joy Happel, Sterling; Marlene Ann Hartzell, Cortland; Marjorie Ann Holmes, Sidney, Ia.; Florence Morris Kibler, Peru; Gladys Ann Koeppel, Peru; Victoria Belle Le Cu:-e, Nebraska City; Patricia Ann Lincoln, Pacific .Junction, Ia.; .Jeanne Ann Malek, Hampton; Mary Helen Mo9re, Nemaha; Marilyn .Joanne Stoehr, Plattsmouth; Sylvia Stutheit, Cook; and Mary E. Vanderholm, Stanton, Ia.

One-Year Diploma-Marlene Mary Bohling, Auburn; Doris Royer Bredbe:-g, Peru; Twila Mae Holmes, Nemaha; Beverly Belle Wagner, Vesta.

Summer school candidates:

Bachelor of Arts in Education-Cecil James Anderson, Lorton; Chester P. Berger, Decorrah, Ia.; Gene-. vieve C. Clark, Fairbury; Warren Hilland Darrah, Malvern, Ia.; Norman D. Doran., Peru; James Wendell Holmes, Fullerton; Leattrice .Jorn Smith, York.

Bachelor of Science ·in Education-Beatrice Ahern, Falls City; .Josephine Anne Allen, Auburn; Veda Rachel Anderson, Tecumseh; Donald Gale Balderson, Lanham; Gert:rude Beh1·ens, Elmwood; Ruth Leona Behrens, Elmwood; Lessie Faye Brehm, Syracuse; Adelaide R. Davis, Knoxville, Ia.; Nell Graf Brunsdon, Tecumseh; Ardis Marie Buroughs, Griswold, Ia.; Rosina .J. Gross, Syracuse.

Ellen .J. Harper, Table Rock; Elsie Louise .Jensen, Beatrice; Willis L. Johnson, Ong; Mildred Kenning, Fairbury; Ella Emalicne King, Superior; Wilma Klein, Humboldt; Dorotha McDougal, Tecumseh; William J. Maness, Emerson, Ia.; Winnifred Novotny, Valparaiso; Richard LeRoy Steiner, Bellevue; Wayne James West, Hamburg, Ia.

Two-Year Diploma-Ruth H. Bauer, Verdon; Freda L. Bliven, Humboldt; Mable Maxine Boggess, Salem; Blossom Duncan, Elk C:eek; .Jane Duning, Lexington; Ronald Leroy Fletcher, Honey Creek; JoAnne Gruber, Hamlin, Kans.; Agnes Hakel, Cere:co; Hele:J. Hope Holdorf, Peru.

- Leslie A. James, Grand Island; Mrs. Lillian Ma"'! K-nople, Peru; Nunzio Lazzaro, Nebraska City; Mary Margaret'Long,° Falls City; Ma ilyn Ann Meyer, Omaha; Naomi A. Meyer, Unadilla; Mary Alice McDonald, Shu-

bert; Thelma P. Smith, Auburn; LeAnna E. Sodmann, Humboldt; Bertha Chaplin Thompson, Red Cloud.

One-Year Diploma-Betty Lou Ast, Humboldt; Va!da Jean DeFreece, Burr; Evelyn Marie Freudenberg, Avoca; Marlene E. Goering, Johnson; Carolyn Ann Grundman, Stella; .James E. Porter, Talmage; Muriel Irene Rie!-i::e, Nemaha; Donna Lou K. Schneider, Dunbar; Dorothy Helen Straube, Burr; Gayleen Joan Wilson, Verdon.

Peru Stater Sets New Record

Early last January when a speedy jet plane set down at Omaha for refuelinJ the oilot told new.:>men. he first l3arned to fly while a student at Peru State College. A short time later Col. Willard W. Millikan, who left Peru in '41 to get into WW 11, was the pos"Oessor of a new trans - continental speed flight record cf four and minutes. Col Millikan has promised to visit the campus at the first opportunity. Homecoming would be a fine time!

Miss McCullum,, Dr. Brown ,Die

Death has claimed two veteran Peru State :faculty members since the first of the a.re Elizabeth McCollum, director of £0:;: the past 28 years, who died illl: lengthy illness, and Dr. Castle M. Brown,, Apvil 22 enroute to River Falls, Wis..,. via a»:J100liaace plane_ Dr. Brown joined the Peru faculty in.

Miss McCollum had been fering a broken hip in a fall fore coming to Peru, she Wesleyan University, schools in Penns a private Chi the National Kinde M.A. from Colorado Shli>e

Dr. Bro"'-n. w-as at the time of bis versity, State Millikin Uni Minne:>ota befo degree fron:i: later received his D0cto:- of .Jurisprudence Chicago. ·

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COL. WILLARD W. MILLIKAN

Death

Claims Faithful Peru

Stater 1 Mrs. Bert Swenson

The Peru Alumni Office was saddened at Christmas time when news came of the pas:;ing of Mrs. Bert Swensen at her horne in Stockton, Calif., on Decernber 9.

· · Two of Peru State's most prominent graduates, the Swenson's had just to enjoy a well-earned retirement from a fine career of service to theL- adopted community in oarks and recreation work.

- A postscript to the couple's annual Christmas letter, added by lVIr. Swen_on, said in part: "The Swenson annual Christmas letter to our many :elatives and friends of former years had already bee:i completed. Stella was recopying it for the printer at 2:15 p.m. on December 9. The Fuller Brush man came by at 3:15 with the usual quota of Christmas toothbrushes fo;:- the children. She chatted with him and told aboul her wonderful trip to New Orleans. A friend came by to call at 3:45 and found that she had laid down her pen permanently at the word New Orleans."

Faculty Changes Bring Ten New Faces to Peru Campus

Resignations, promotions and appointments to the Pe:-u State College staff were numerous during the summer months,· according to Dr. Neal S. Gomon, president. The new staff members include:

F. H. Larson became registrar to succeed Mrs. Norman D. Doran, who :resigned to accompany her husband, a 1954 summer school grad, to his teaching post at Bennington. Larson, forrner registrar and business manager at Dana College, Blair,. holds an A.B. degree from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., and an M.A. degree from the University of Nebraska, besides having done graduate work at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnsota. He also has served as superintendent of schools in several Nebraska cities

.Mrs. Dorothy Iversen was named fifth ·grade supervisor in the T .J. :Majors Campus School, succeeding Miss Clara McClatchey, who l'esigned to join the State Department of Education staff. A 1933 Peru graduate with an A.B. degree, Mrs. Iversen will complete work on her M.A. degree at Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, next summer. Besides rural school experience she taught for the past six years in the Nebraska City elementary school system. Her husband, Clarence Iversen, is the chief of police at Nebraska City.

Named associate professor of education to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dr. Peter .Janetos, who is now director of admissions and placement at the University of New Hampshire, Du:-ham, was Kent H. King. Holder of A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Iowa, King has done graduate work at Iowa State College and Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, where he will receive his Ed. D. at the close of the fall quarter. Formerly supe:·intendent of schools at Modale and Boxholln, Ia., and instructor and coach at Lake Park and Prairie City, Ia., King is a navy

veteran. His family includes his wife and three children.

Dr. Floyd L. Mullinix became head of the Division of Education and Director of the T .J. Majors Campus School, replacing Dr. Leo Eastman, who resigned to join the faculty of Illinois Normal University, Normal, Ill. The new division head received his A.B. from Northeast' Missouri State Teachers College at Kirksville, M. A. and Ed. D. from the University of Missouri. Mullinix, formerly principal of Lucerne, Mo., High School and superintendent of schools at Brashear and Browning, Mo., recently returned from two years active duty with the navy in .Japan as aide to the Flag Pilot officer of the Pacific fleet. He is married and the father of two children.

Miss Lela Lillian Lones was named prof.essor of home economics, a position which had been vacant for the past year. Miss Lones received her A.B. from the University of Iowa, her M.A. from Cornell university, and has· completed graduate work at the University of Colorado and the American Academy of Arts, Clricago. Besides several years secondary teaching experience, Miss Lones · has taught home economics at the University of South Dakota, Kansas State College, University of Connecticut and Arkansas University. .

.Jerome D. Stemper was elevated to associate profe3sor of physical education to succeed Irvin R. Pitts, who resigned to become head coach at Dakota Wesleyan, Mitchell, S. D. Stemper has been director of athletics at the T .J. Majors Campus 8chool for the past four years. Stemper received his A.B. f:·om Kearney State Te?chef;S,', College and his M.A. from the· University of Nebraska. He had coached·. at Table Rock High School for four years before coming to Peru. Stemper's duties will include head track coach, director of intramu:·ah-athletics, football line coach and ·aGsistant basketball coach.

Succeedlng Stemper as director of athletics and physical education in the T. J. Majors Campus School is Frank Masek, a 1951 Peru State graduate and holder of an M. A. degree from Colorado State College of Education. He had coached at the Randolph, Ia., High School for two years and was head of the physical education department at Tarkio, Mo., public schools last year. Masek is married and has four children. He also will be math instructor in the campus school.

Dr. Marshall K. Powers joined the Peru State faculty as associate professor of social science3 to fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Dr. Gordon Kenyon to acting head of the department following the death of Dr. Castle M. Brown. Powers received his A.B. from Marietta (0.) College, his M.A. degree from the University of Colorado; and his Ph. D. degree from the University of Florida. He has taught at Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico, San German, P.R., ·Teachers College, Fredonia, N. Y., University of Flo:·ida, Rollins College, Winter Park, Calif., and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La.

Dr .John R. Thompson was named college physician to succeed Dr. George E. Wiggins of Peru, who re.signed. As college physician Dr. Thompson will be in charge of the student health service, working in cooperation with the student health committee. Dr. Thompson has p:,acticed medicine in Auburn for about: a year.

Don Carlile joined the Peru State staff in the newly created position of assistant fo the director of special services. A 1953 graduate of Kansas State College with a B.S. degree in technical journalism, Carlile's duties include :::ervice in the news bu:-eau, editing campus publications and student contact work. His past experience includes work on severa 1 Kansas newspapers ·and·· an associate editorship of a banker publication of Financial Publications, Inc.," Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Swenson • photographed in January, 1952.

HELEN WILLIAMS CARESS was graduated from the State University of New York Teachers College at Brockport last spring. She received a two-year diploma at Peru State in 1926, and taught for eight years at Bladen and Overton. She and her husband, Arthur E., a University of Nebraska graduate, now live in Rochester, N. Y., where she teaches in the elementary school system and he is employed by Eastman Kodak Co. They have two children-a son, who is attending Dartmouth this fall, and a daughter, who is a high school sophomore.

A note from MR. AND MRS. KENNETH L. PACE, '35, states that he has been teaching music for the past seven years at Middle Tennessee State College, Murfesboro, and Mrs. Pace is teaching in the elementary public school. The Paces sent their regards to "'Vic' Jindra, Mr. Benfo:d and others who helped us in undergraduate days." Mrs. Pace is the former KATHERINE BERGMAN. They have two daughtersa high school freshman and a fifth grader.

Last year was ORA OSTRADER JEFFERY EGGERS' 25th year of feaching in Wyoming. She received her two year diploma from Peru State in the summe;- of '31, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wyoming in 1943. Mrs. Eggers noted that she handles the disciplinary problems with the primary children in the Evanston school system, while her husband, the chief of police, "has the teenage headache."

LOUIE F. MURPHY, '04, writes from Au:-ora saying how much she enjoyed her visit to her "old school" during the spring r.eunion at Peru State. "The hills and trees are· just as beautiful as they were years ago," she noted.

KATE SKEEDE, '15, writes from he:- home at 2829 Monroe, San Diego 16, Calif., that she regretted not being able to attend the gathering at La Habra, Calif., last winter honoring Prof. F. M. Gregg, a former Peru faculty member.

MRS. MAY BAMFORD PREST\VICK, '97, who became a Californian upon retiring after 35 yea::s in school work in Omaha, is now living at 551 Glenwood Rd., Glendale 2. She writes that "we own and operate an apartmc.nt in Glendale, so the school teacher is now a landlady."

MRS. EVA MARIE KNOPLE WATLAND, '53, is living on a farm near Kenan, Wis., with her husband, Frank. They met in Alaska while she was visiting with her parents following he:· graduation from Peru State. They have one daughter.

MRS. ETHEL GLOSSER GAY, '36, is living on Route 7, Box 645, St. Louis 14, Mo. She has been in the St. Louis County Library as Chief of and Order Department since 1947.

JACK R. ASHTON, '35, is associated with the Denver offices of the New York Life Insurance Co. He and Mrs. Ashton, the former KATHRYN ROSZELL, a former Peru State:·. live at 2500 South Cook, Denver. They have two children, Steven 8, and Kathy Sue 5.

MRS. KATHERINE KECKLEY CLARKE, '03, resides at 4284 Cedar, Riverside, Calif. She went to. California from Denver after retiring from the anfique business, which she had operated for 20 years.

DR. J. W. WEAR, '14, who is medical referee for the San Francisco office of the AEtna Life Insu.rance Co., tells of a recent visit with retired Prof. E. L. Rouse and Mrs. Rouse in Denver.

From Mrs. Harley C. Prideaux of Manhattan, Kans., comes word of the death of her mother, MRS. NELLIE E. SCHNEIDER, '90. Mrs. Schneide:died March 24th following a heart attack.

MORAS L: SHUBERT, '34, who lives at 2180 South Josephine, Denver 10, sent a "dollar per year" contribution fo the Alumni Association to "clear my conscience a bit." He expressed the hope that the other members of his class would do the same. Shubert inquired about the whereabout of some of his college buddies-Alfred Knapp, George Haskins, Donald Blount, Robert Sayer and Marcellus Shurtleff.

NELL KELLY, who last attended Peru State in the summer of 1938, is the third grade teacher at Falls City.

MR. AND MRS LEROY REDFERN live at 1522 West Third, Cedar Falls, Ia, where he is a lawyer. Mr. Redfern, '41, and Mrs. Redfern, the former NANCY ELLEN JONES, '42, are the parents of three childrenDonald 9, Dick 5, and Anne 2.

MRS. ANNIE LEEPER LONG, '08, retired from teaching in the Lincoln school system in the spring of 1949.

CHET BOWEN, '36, writes from Gillette, Wyo., that he is still superintendent of the Campbell County High School. Mrs. Bowen is the former HELEN EHMEN, '36.

LORENA TR AV IS CROWLEY v•ould like to hear from some of her classmates of '18. She lives at Dundee Towers, No. 402, 110 South 49th St., Omaha.

CHARLES E. LIVELY, '13, and his wife, the former ETHEL DELL JOHNSTON of Alliance, '13, reside in Columbia, Mo., where he is professor and c}lairman of the department of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri. Since 1951 Lively has been administrative director of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences.

ROSS I. RUSSELL, '40, has been with Du Pont as a chemical engineer since receiving his doctorate from Iowa State in 1950. He and Mrs. Russell, the former GRACE MUENCHAN, '42, are living at 12 Byron Rd., Orange, Tex.

W: iting from King City, Calif., where she has completed her ninth year as first grade teacher, MRS. GERTRUDE HILL, '49, reports that she is now in charge of the new primary school, South Lucia.

JOHN A. BATH, '32, has been on the staff of Iowa State College, Ames, since 1946. He and Mrs. Bath are the parents of a son, 8, and two daug-hters, 5 and 2:Y2.

AL VIN E. PIERCE, who attended Peru State under the Navy V-12 pro-

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gram in 1944 and 1945, is now assi:>tant engineer of the Public Utilities Commission in Hawaii. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and secretarytreasurer o'f that school's Alumni Association. Mr. Pierce is the father of two daughters.

A note from GUS GILBERT of Arkansas City, Kans., spa:kplug of the class of '04, tells us that LUELLA MASON HOYE, '04, of 4615 West Eighteenth St., Los Angeles, is deceased. Gilbert was unable to furnish any further information He also writes that Classmate FRED FISHER of Triplett, Mo., has had a very serious heart condition and an operation but that he is recovering slowly at the home of a son in Urband, Ill. ,

ATTENTION, Class of '98: We're glad to cooperate with the request of MRS. BELLE P. ELDER 1621 Kansas Ave., McPherson, Kans., who pleads for us "to ask in your next Peru Stater where the class letter of 1828 is resting. So many of our c:ass !>ave passed on, we should get the letter more often." Who, among the '98e:·s can answer this and help Mrs. Elder?

BESSIE J\.lf.AR!E HUSA, '45, write:> that she attended summer school in Greeley, Colo., last summer, doing graduate work. She is teaching at North Platte, but suggests that mail addressed to her home town (Gilead, Nebr.) will always reach her.

MILDRED FISHER NOYES, '21, of 4651 Monroe, San Diego 15, Calif., says she is "still teaching and loving it." She received an A.B. f::-om San Diego State Teachers College in 1926 and for the past 27 years has been teaching at Roosevelt Junior High, San Diego. Mrs. Noyes and her lrnsband, Reginald J. Noyes, who has a master's degree from South Dakota State, have one daughter and a twoyear-old granddaughter.

ESTHER LOUISE HOYT, '25, has completed her ninth year on the music faculty of Vocational School fo::- Girls, Tullahoma, TenrL In her note, she told of addressing the organizational meeting of the Southern chapter of Music Therapy.

MRS. ELIZABETH BARTLING KAHLER, '\VOO la>t attended Peru State in 1935, inquires in her brief note about the possibili.ty of a getto-gether for Peruvians in the Chicago area. She has :received a list of Peru in that area, so they "'·m be from. Mrs. Kahler, who lives at Linden Ave., Wilmette, DI.

Madeline Kernen of Chanute, Kans., ""'rites the Pent Stater telling of the death of BERTHA KERNEN '06. She had been health for three years and died. 28,,, 1953, following a hea.::t

From. Wyo., KENNETH F. TROEEY. who last attended. Peru St.ate in that he bas been with the there for the past nine years.

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CHARLOTTE PRYOR SAILORS, '50, has been principal of a Day Care Center, a project of the Honolulu Community Chest. Nearly 175 children under six years of age were in the cente:- daily while their parents are working. She and her husband, E. GENE SAILORS, a '51 Peru St'ater, returned to the States in August, when he received his discharge from the Air Force.

MRS. RUTH BLOMQUIST RUMLEY, '24, sent "regrets" from her home in Po:·t Orange, Fa., in response to her invitation to attend her class reunion in May. She wrote of being hospitalized for six weeks following a heart attack. Mrs. Blomquist, a widow the past 12 years, has three children: T /Sgt. Gary, 24, who was decorated for his Korean duty ·with the Marines; Priscilla, 22, who is in the employ of an insurance firm, and Carolyn Jean, 18.

ERNEST EDWIN BROD, '40, and a Peru State faculty member in is now Dr. Brod. He received his Doctor of Education degree from Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, at the fall quarter commencement in December, 1953. Dr. Brod is on the elementary education faculty at the University of Illinois branch at Carbondale.

DR. MURVEL E. ANNAN, '48, has been appointed assistant professor of biology at Wagner College, Staten Island, N. Y., effective September 1. Dr. Annan received his M.S. from the University of Nebraska in 1'"950 and his Ph. D. in June, 1954.

LOUISE W. MEARS, '09, write> from her home in Neb:·aska City that the Miller and Paine book department and the Prairie Book in Lincoln, now have copies of her book, "Hills of Peru, Nebraska Lore." The book reveals a live interest in the early history of Peru State and southeastern Nebraska.

F\rom Pickneyville, Ill., writes H. E. IVENS, '31, informing the Peru Stater that he is pastor of the Presbyterian church in that city and al:;o the Galum Presbyterian church, a country congregation which observed its llOth anniversary in June.

With the Student Christian Movement, sponsored by the Philippine Fede:·ation of Christian Churches ii> EULA REDENBAUGH, '40. She is a student missionary worker at the J\1ethodist Social Center in Manila ·within a mile of a dozen universifies and colleges being "literally surrounded by studen'"s," Miss Redenbaugh says. Her address is 431 P. Parades, Manila, P. I.

LOWELL A. DECKER, '32, management engineer in the Navy Department Washington, D. C., has received a commission as admiral in the Nebraska Navy, signed by Gov. Robert Crosby and Congres-;man Carl T. Curtis. Decker, who studied for his master's degree at Harvard University, taught at the University 01' South Dakota before taking his present post 10 years ago.

I. HOMER WATTS, '98, writes from Farmington, Del., that he is in excellent health at 76 and "working every day raising broilers. H's a big business here." He enjoys receiving the '98 class letter.

CLYDE B. MOORE, '09, who is with the School of Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., is coauthor of a new text, "Sociology in Educational Practice." Written. in collaboration with William E. Cole of the University of Tennesse, the text was used during the 1953-54 school year by more than 60 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada

Following her successful recovery from coronary thrombosis, MRS. C 0 R A CHITTENDEN DUFFENDACK, '09, wrote recently of her plans for a European trip. She lives ·at 17 Du Pont Ave., White Plains, N. Y., where she has completed a year's term as president of the White Plains Council of Community Se:·vices. She is chairman of the trustees of the Y.M.C.A. and adds that "seven grandchildren keep us all busy and happy."

Since resigning his teaching position in the Cozad High School, January 1, 1954, KEITH ALBERS, '47, has been the Bankers Life representative in Cozad.

MARTHA JOHNSON VAN ENGEN, '14, who lives at 1192 South Windsor Blvd., Los Angeles 19, writes that she has just retL ed after teachthe last 30 years in the Los Angeles City Schools.

A letter from ROBERT A. FRANK, '50, notes that he still is postmaster at Carleton, Nebr., is the father of a new daughter, born November 13, and is scoutmaster of the local troop.

MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH H. GILLISPIE, '51, are living at 3302 Washington, Lincoln, where he is the Carrol Dunham Smith Pharmacal Company's local representative. He and Mrs. Gillispie, the former MARCENE C. McCUNE, who received a two-year diploma in '51, are the parent.> of a new daughter, Teresa Ann.

MRS. IVA CATLIN JEWELL, '97, of Nemaha writes of receiving the "round robin" letter of the class of '02, of he;:- husband, SAMUEL E. JEWELL is a member. The letter was compiled by MRS. FLORENCE DYE PENNELL, 1927 North Nevada Ave., Colorado Spring, Colo.

From 3445 Polk St., Lake Charles, La., writes MARJORIE WEILER BYERS, who last attended Peru State in 1943, that her husband, Capt. 0. V. ("Buzz") BYERS, '46, is on temporary overseas duty at Sedi Slimone, French Morocco, as a pilot of a B-47 Strato-J et. The Bye s have two children, Steven, 7, and Jane, 2.

After receiving her A.B. at Peru State in '49, PHYLLIS STEEVER REDElV[ANN later received her Ma>ters in Education at Michigan State. She and her husband Carl, who has a Ph. D. in biochemistry from Michigan State and is now with Dow Chemical Co., live at 1106 Delawa:·e Ave., Huntington Beach, Calif. They have two children, Eric, just over t"\VO years, and Sally, 6 months.

LOUISE SHELDON, '31, wrifes from Sidney, Ia., that she is now working on her master's in vocational homemaking at the University of Nebraska.

A July note from ANNA HAZEN WOOD, '12, of 931 Highland Ave., Bremerton, Wash., tells of renewing cont'act with Dr. F. M. Gregg, "who was a favorite teacher of many of us old grads." Dr. Gregg observed his 87th birthday anniversary in March.

CHARLES C. HARRISON, '51, is now Pfc. with the army. His address is Hq. Det., MFSS, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.

S. KENNETH LILLY, '31, is now living at 3714 Gold St., Apt. 1, Los _/.\.lamas, N. M.

A July visitor to the Peru State campus was LOIS GRAHAM, who last attended Peru State in 1929. She teaches the sixth and seventh g:·ades at the Emmett, Ida., public schools. The former Brock resident taught at Champion, Nebr., for 10 years after leaving Peru. She has been at Emmett since 1939, where her address is Route 2, Box 460.

From the University of Southern California news bu.!'eau comes word that Fletcher E. Cline, '41, was awarded his Master of Science in Education degree at the June 12 commencement.

CHESTER P. BACHLE, '49, and Mrs. Bachle, the former EDNA MAE YATES, who attended Peru State in 1949, are living in Alliance, where l\1r. Bachle is teaching his sixth year in the junior high.

Heads Buena Vista

John A. Fisher, a Peru State .grad of 1932, is now president of Bu;ena Vista College at Storm Lake, la. · At the time of his selection to the P.ost, Fisher was registrar and chairman of the division of philosophy, psychology, education and religion· at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, la. Before going to Coe College in 1946, served on the faculty at Missouri Valley and at Boone.

PERMIT NO. 4

Peru, Nebraska

FORM 3547 REQUESTED

Reunion oF 1 04 Highlights

Captured in 90-Page Book

A 90-page book bound in a gold cover and en,.. tLled, "Our Golden Year," has been distributed to the members of the class of 1904. Compiled by Gus G. Gilbert of Arkansas City, Kans., now :etired, the booklet is a collection of "biographies, reminiscences, letters and piccures, collected and arranged for our anniversary eunion."

Scheduled originally for at the class : eunion during the commencement week this spring, a derny in receiving much of the information postponed d'.stribulicn until late summer. Copies of the book were presented to the College library and the Alumni Association by Gilbert, who has served as class historian.

Of the 45 graduafes in the Peru State class of 1904, 32 are still living, the book shows. Nebraska is still the home state of nine, while six are living in Califo: nia, thrE·e each in Colorado and Missouri, two in Washington, and one each in Idaho, Kansas, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, District of Columbia, Illinois, and Burma.

Gilbert's tabulafion reveals that "27 or more" of the class continued college work, and "16 or more" earned deg.ees-A.B. and B.S., 10; A.M., 4; Ph. D., 1; M.D., 1. All 45 of the graduates taught school for a time, and one-Ethel Hanks (Mrs. Richard) Van Buskirk-is on the adult education faculty at He:iry George School of Social Science in New York City.

"From recent information, we learn that all 45 of us have taught school, some as much as 40 to 50 years A few still going ·strong in other wo:·k, but mo3t of us have reached the rockingchair-hobbyft.ower-garden-advise-giving-reminiscence s;:age," Gilbert cb_erves in the book.

. The book includes "some class history," which contains some amuoing exerpts from Mrs. Gilbe: t's diary of 1903-04; programs of the senior class day and commencement; the senior song; a roster giving present add1 83SEs of the class; statistical summary; biographies of the class; in Memoriam; roster and biog. aphie3 of faculty membErs; recent le,ters from and about class memb€rs and other student;; a miscellaneous section including addresses of other Peruvians of 1904, class rolls of the classes of 1902 to '06, the debate team's song and yell, and pcefry; an account of the class reunion, including th'e congratulato. y telegram from Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., who.:e father was sponsor of the class.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Arthur Anderson visit Peru Campus

Welcome visitors to the Campus of a Thousand3 Oaks early in September were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Arthur Anderson of San Francisco. Mr. Anderson, a 1912 Peru grad, has just begun enjoying retLement after thirty years as principal of SF Polytechnic High School.

In visiting with him we found out that he was editor of the 1912 yearbook, sang in the college male quartet and college chorus and was a member of the debate team. ,

Following his graduation he was high school principal at Alliance for three years and served in similar capacities at Avon, N. Y., and Rawlins, Wyo., plus a milita:-y hitch in World War I before going to San Francisco. The Anderson's now live at 300 Arroyo Drive, South San Francisco.

Peru Enrollment to New High

Fall registration figures indicate that Pe:::-u State College enrollment i3 still on the upswing, according to F. H. Larson, registrar. At the end of the first week of school, 519 students had enrolled for instruct.ion at the college level, with 364 of that number taking full-time resident instruction.

Non residents enrolled for college work include 43 in the popular Wednesday night classes, 20 in off-campus classes conducted by Peru State faculty members., 86 registered in correspondence courses and six special students. Both night and off-campus enrollment are expecfed to increase in the next :few weeks.

The full-time student enrollment. represents about a 17 per cent increase ove:::- the 311 at the same fime last year. Late enrollees are expected to boost fulltime enrollment to 395, or about J l per cent over last year's peak full-time enrollment:..

The nine members of the class of 1904 attending the Golden Anniversary Reunion are pid.ured here (left to right}S: Dr. E. E. Lackey, Natick. Ma....; Margaret Sears Wood, Central City, Lula McCartney Bancroft, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Licena May York, Llincofn; Florence Martin., Clay Center; J. Forrest Rodabaugh, Kansas City, Mo.; Gus Gilbert, Arkansas City, Kans.; Catherine Hicks Boley, Kirkf.and. Wash.; and Louie Murphy, Aurora. Matt Murphy of Seat.tie, upper was a member o.f the cfaas of 1903.