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Title: Aerial View Of Downtown Grinnell 1940s
Description: Aerial view of downtown Grinnell in the 1940s. The photo looks to the east. The bottom left corner is approximately the intersection of 5th Avenue and Spring Street and extends south along West Street to approximately 3rd Avenue. The Old Stone Church, Central Park, the Glove Factory and many other buildings are visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Views of Grinnell, Aerial Images. Collection 17-5.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27169

Title: Anna Ramsey Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Anna Ramsey, the daughter of Frank and Alice Knight, was born on November 22, 1908. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1930. She married Fred Ramsey and had a son and a daughter. Before retiring, she worked as a secretary at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23315

Title: Dorothy Lannom Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Cedar Rapids on November 3, 1912, Dorothy Williams came to Grinnell in 1934 as a graduate of Coe College. She taught home economics until her marriage in 1936 to G. Sharp Lannom III. She was interested in politics, and went to the Far East with the Iowa Development Commission and Iowa Governor Harold Hughes. Three of her four sons carried on the family manufacturing business.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23308

Title: Dorothy Pinder Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Dorothy Watts Pinder, the daughter of a newspaper editor, grew up in Storm Lake, Iowa, during the depression. Her father later moved to Grinnell and bought the Grinnell-Herald Register where Dorothy worked for many 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:26714

Title: Everett Armstrong Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Chester Township on January 3, 1917, Everett moved into the city of Grinnell in 1930, where he graduated from Grinnell High School in 1935. After returning from a tour of duty in World War II, he founded Armstrong Electric from which he retired in 1980. He represented the Fourth Ward on the City Council from 1949 to 1951. He and his wife, Phyllis, were the parents of a daughter and a son.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23298

Title: Gene Breiting Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: A lifelong resident of Grinnell, Gene was born July 23, 1913. He graduated from Grinnell High School, and was drafted into service during World War II in 1943. He worked at various jobs in Grinnell, and in Amana for eleven years. He and his wife, Doris, had a son and two daughters.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23301

Title: Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Isadore Berman was born February 22, 1924. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1941, served in WW II, earned a BA from Grinnell College in 1949 and, later, an MBA from Columbia University. He is continuing in the family scrap metal business. He and his wife, Ida, have a son and a daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23300

Title: Jim George Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Jim George was born and raised in Iowa receiving a degree in journalism from Coe College. He spent four years in the United States Air Force in World War II. Returning to Iowa after the war he was the editor of newspapers in Eldora, Grinnell, and Montezuma, and then worked for four years as sports information director at Grinnell College. He then took a position at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company where he spent 25 years as public relations director. After retiring from GMRC he continued to work for them part time for another eight years. In 1985 he returned to Grinnell College and served as sports information director until 1999. He and his wife, Isabel, had three daughters. 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:26719

Title: Leo Flanagan Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Leo was born in Sully, Iowa, on January 19, 1908. He farmed, worked in service stations for 21 years, and in automobile sales and management for 20 years. He and his wife, Blanche, had three children.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23302

Title: Lorene Alyce Pearce Morrison
Description: Recollections of Lorene A. Pearce Morrison who was born in rural Grinnell, Iowa, in 1925. The locations of many businesses in Grinnell are discussed. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Biographies.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:13067