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Title: 4-H Installation of Officers
Description: Jackson Busy Bees 4-H installs officers in 1960. From left to right: Mary Ahrens, Poweshiek County 4-H president; Pat Breniman, Busy Bees president; Joyce Ketels, vice-president; Barbara Veverka, secretary; Linda Ferguson, treasurer; Mary Sanders, reporter; Kathleen Little, historian.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27242

Title: Alex Moffett Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Alex Moffett was born in 1905 in Suzhou, China, to missionary parents. He lived in China until 1923 when he attended Washington & Lee in Virginia for college and then went on to Vanderbilt for medical school. He and his wife, Virginia, returned to China in 1935 where they did medical missionary work until 1940, including during the Sino-Japanese war. After returning to the U.S., he had a private practice in Taylorsville, North Carolina, for twenty-nine years. 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:26717

Title: Bert Stemsrud Raking Hay
Description: Bert Stemsrud greasing his side delivery rake on his farm in Section 16, Pleasant Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, (north of Ewart). Photograph taken in the 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20650

Title: Bohstedt Lake Home
Description: Vacation home of the Ed and Ann Bohstedt family located at 306 E. Lake Drive, Ventura, Iowa, on Clear Lake.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21194

Title: Circus Comes to Hartwick
Description: In the early 1960s a small circus came to Hartwick, Iowa. The circus stopped in several small Poweshiek County, Iowa, towns for a night. The circus consisted of a tent and a clown and a small parade including an elephant. Pictures were taken from the Benda's front yard in Hartwick.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20643

Title: Dinner Celebrating 35th Anniversary of Hartwick State Bank
Description: At the time of the 35th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank (Hartwick, Iowa) there was a dinner for customers held in the basement of the Hartwick Congregational Church.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20631

Title: Fourth Grade Students at Grant #2 Fall 1961, 4th Grade Students at Grant #2 Fall 1961
Description: Fourth grade students at Grant #2 rural school, Poweshiek County, Iowa, in the fall of 1961. In January 1962, the students began attending Fairview School in Grinnell. Sitting: Glenace Wilbourne, Laura Grandstaff, Kathy Gwinn, Cheryl George, Ronnie Harter, Anita George (classmate's sister), Dave McCurry, Bill Ahrens, Pam Tuinstra, Martin Kuchera. Standing: Roger Souter, Richard Billman, Debbie Fisher, Ray Graham, Kathryn Haner, Craig Stimson, Bev Brown, Monica Storbeck, Frank Kelm, Emily Nixon, Margaret Hasselbrink, Jane Dobbins, Kerry Halverson, Jon Thornton, Barb Vogt, Jucy Schalinske, Edward Garlock, Mary Schulte.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:20695

Title: Frosty Mitchell Interviews Hartwick Banker
Description: Frosty Mitchell of KGRN radio station, Grinnell, Iowa, interviews Russell Gabriel upon the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank in 1962. Ken Benda, bank president, looks on.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20637

Title: Grant #9
Description: Probably Grant #9 schoolhouse located in Grant Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #24, Rural Schools.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:18839