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Title: Grinnell Colonial Station 1946
Description: 1946 photo of the Colonial Petroleum service station at 1030 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The station has a sign that says "Happy Birthday Iowa" and "Grinnell College 1846-1946" and is decorated with American flags, possibly to celebrate the Fourth of July. There are two men standing in front of the pumps, an older man in a hat and a young man. A sign at right shows the prices for Regular and Ethyl gas.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:29979

Title: Grinnell Fire Department Engine in Parade
Description: Grinnell Fire Department Engine No. 1 in a parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The photo was taken in the 900 block of Main Street downtown. McGregor's store is in the background with a restaurant visible to the left of it.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11908

Title: Grinnell High School Band 1944
Description: Grinnell High School Concert Band in the high school auditorium, 1944. The band director was Paul Behm. The 1944 Grinnellian (Grinnell High School yearbook) lists the following band members. Flutes: Bill George, Alyce Powers, Dorothy Cox, Vera Hansell, Betty Kaisand, Cynthia Nichols, Marjorie Mitchell, Donna Walker, Donna Maron. Oboes: Bob Noyce, Olive Van Riper, Margaret Lowrey. Bassoons: Gaylord Noyce, Margaret Hoyt, Margaret Ann Jones. 1st Bb Clarinets: Paul Bucksbaum, Joan Padgham, Kathryn Keeney, Robert Hall, Helen Halstead, Robert Couper, Mary Lou Goff, Ruth Swindal. 2nd Bb Clarinets: Charles Kaufman, Gerald Peters, Nancy Scurr, Joan Mintle, Marie Osborn, Norman Dille, Donna Rae Gove, Jeannine Lee. 3rd Bb Clarinets: Janice Dempster, Dorothy Van Donselaar, Max Todd, Orville Hanson, Patsy Jo Ohl, Stanley Korfmacher, Jimmie Jorris, Gordon Scott. Alto Clarinets: Helen Staffanou, Patricia Nolan. Bass Clarinets: Marilyn Lincoln, Rosemary Morrison. Alto Saxophones: Dean Scandrett, Russell Sawin, Jack Riles, Martha Ann Farley. Tenor Saxophones: Willard Mattingly, Tommie Sangster. Baritone Saxophones: Willis Rayl. 1st Cornets: Wanda Mackin, Dale Stark, Willis Shaner, Max McDowell. 2nd Cornets: Ray Swart, John Scott, Beatrice Mattingly, Mildred Phipps. 3rd Cornets: Serge Phelps, Glen Taylor, Evelyn Pederson, Susan Muckler, Robert Staffanou, Richard Watkins. French Horns: Grace Lang, Joan Laros, Jean Tinnes, Marilyn Parmley, Imogene Newcomer, Mary Ann Nelson, Charlotte Matthews, Elaine Lincoln. Trombones: Bob Smith, Edmund Kaisand, Maynard Raffety, Eugene Smith, Shirley Smith, John Padgham, Jackie Swaney, Maynard Kenyon. Baritones: Dowal Dickerson, Richard Knowles, Jerry Laros, Lela Mae Strovers, Marjorie Edwards. Basses: Richard Dawkins, Buddy Hatcher, Robert Gault, Chuck Christison, Kenneth Cessna. Snare Drums: Donna Dow, Joan Anderson, Sally Van Riper, Phyllis Ruble, Thomas Playle, Rosemary Talbott, Gladys Ann Smith. Bass Drum: Jean Bouma. Tympani: Roger Nichols. Twirlers: Dorothy Bell, Donna Rae Dimit, Patricia Ditzler, Irene Main, Marilyn Simpson, Rosellen Terpstra, Esther Tiedemann, Velma Wray. Secretaries: Mary Fitzpatrick, Kathlen McCarty. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:29806

Title: Grinnell High School Band Concert, January 17, 1940
Description: Program for the January 17, 1940, Grinnell High School Band concert, Paul Behm, conductor. Includes program notes and list of band personnel. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:29807

Title: Grinnell High School Band Concert, March 6, 1940
Description: Program for the March 6, 1940, Grinnell High School Band spring concert, Paul Behm, conductor. Includes program notes and list of band personnel. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:29808

Title: Grinnell High School Band and Girls Glee Club Concert, February 14, 1946
Description: Program for the February 14, 1946, concert of the Grinnell High School Band, Paul Behm, conductor and the Grinnell High School Girls Glee Club, Clara B. Philips, director. Includes program notes and list of band personnel. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:29809

Title: Group Photo of Grinnellians
Description: Group photo of prominent Grinnellians, probably around 1940. Front row, from left to right: Dale Smith, Leila York, Miriam Molison. Middle row: Ada Peterson, Tommy Tomasek, Sylvia McCleary, Wilbur Molison, Larry Keeney, Ethel Tomasek. Back row: Ray George, Eddie Peterson, Florence Smith, Everett York, Doris George, Peggy Keeney, Hugh McCleary.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11753

Title: Hartwick School Operetta
Description: All classes participated in the Hartwick school operetta in 1949. Patty Breniman is the litte bear in the front row standing behind a chair holding a porridge bowl (next to the girl in a plaid dress).
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27229

Title: Hartwick School Students 1949
Description: Hartwick school first or second graders, possibly both, in 1949. Teacher, Emily Hemstra Block. Students in second row from front identified as: Larry Simpson, Clyde Leimberer, Steve Ostrom, Patty Breniman, unidentified, Georgian Bloome. Third row from front, left to right: Marvin Lynn, unidentified, Karen Henry, unidentified, unidentified, Irene Scott.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27228

Title: Hartwick Students 1947-1948
Description: Hartwick, Iowa, elementary school students in school year 1947-78. Front row, left to right: Viola Kuhn, Jim Kies, Joan Doty, Barbara DeVilder, Marvin Wauters, Max Breniman, Marvin Doty, Edna DeVilder, Elsie Christian, Janet Sue O'Halloran, Janice Smith, Phyllis Ryan, Steve Ryan. Back row, left to right: ? DeHoedt, Gayle Thistlethwaite, Ruth Kuhn, Duane Papesh, Butch Baetsle, Clarence DeHoedt, Mike Meyocks, Barbara Meeks, Barbara Benda, Merlyn McIlrath, Kenneth (Dee) Roth, Gerald Ketterling. Standing, left to right: R.L. Thistlethwaite, Mildred Bees, Hazel Williams, Emily Heimstra.
Date Created: 1947
PID: grinnell:27223