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Title: Lucille "Sid" Potts Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Lucille McDowell was born in Grinnell on October 19, 1910. A1928 graduate of Grinnell High School, she attended business college in Quincy, Illinois. In 1937 she married Dick Potts. She began her banking career in 1929 as a bookkeeper at Citizen's National Bank (later Poweshiek County National Bank and then Wells Fargo). She retired in 1975 at which time she was an officer and board member.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23314

Title: Margaret Arnold Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: The daughter of Dr. O.F. and Laura Parish, Margaret was born in Grinnell on June 14, 1906. She graduated from Grinnell College and taught fourth grade in Flint, Michigan, for a short time. She owned and operated Arnold's Shoe Store in Grinnell for 53 years and retired in 1989.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23299

Title: Max Smith Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Max Smith was born in 1918 and raised on the family farm in Marshall County. He graduated from Chillicothe Business College in Missouri before working as a hog buyer for the Rath Packing Company in Waterloo. In 1941 he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he served in the European and North African theatres and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he completed his bachelors degree at Iowa State University in 1949 and moved to Grinnell in 1950 where he served as President of the Poweshiek County National Bank from 1966 through 1983. He and his wife, Delores, had two children. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26715

Title: Velma Hiser Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Velma Bissell Hiser, born July 10, 1904, graduated from Dexter (Iowa) High School, attended Grinnell College and graduated from Northwestern University. She received her M.S. degree from the University of Iowa. She taught at Grinnell College from 1937 until her retirement. For a time, she and her husband managed the Monroe Hotel. Breeding and showing of Boxer dogs was a major interest of hers.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23316