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Title: Campus, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Ia.
Description: Postcard view of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6324

Title: Descendant of Slave Girl and French Master Gets Degree
Description: Article written at the time of Edith Renfrow's graduation from Grinnell College in 1937 detailing her family history.
Date Created: 1937
PID: grinnell:12201

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Grant Gale Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born December 29, 1903 in Prentice, Wisconsin, Grant was educated in Wisconsin and Michigan. He came to Grinnell in 1928, and in 1929, was joined by his bride, Harriet. He was a professor of physics at Grinnell College. An observatory on the campus is named in his honor.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23306

Title: John Pfitsch Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: John Pfitsch was born in Miraj, India, and raised in San Antonio, Fort Davis, and Pflugerville, Texas. During his youth he lived for nine years in the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Fort Davis where his father, Alfred Pfitsch, Jr., was a medical doctor. During the summers from age 8 to 21, John attended a YMCA Boys Camp in Kerrville, Texas, where he progressed from camper to assistant director of the camp. 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:26712

Title: Letter from Estel Pilgrim to his Mother
Description: Letter to Lillie Carter Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, from her son, Estel Pilgrim dated November 7, 1934, in Ames, Iowa. Estel, a student at Iowa State, talks about homecoming, work, his budget, his grades, and his classes.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30044

Title: Letter from Grinnell College Department of Public Relations to Raymond Pilgrim
Description: Letter from Zaneta Eager of the Grinnell College Department of Public Relations to Raymond Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, asking his help in recruiting students to enroll at the college part time. The letter proposes cutting costs for students by allowing them to live at home and promotes a cost of $10 per credit hour. The letter is dated January 11, 1934.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30027

Title: Madison Township School Board Meeting Minutes, 1916-1952
Description: Minutes of the Madison Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, school board from July 1, 1916, through March 17, 1952. Meetings were held at the White Cloud School. The board paid bills, issued bonds, set salaries, contracted for construction and maintenance of school buildings. Names of school board members present at each meeting are listed.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:18024

Title: Perfect Attendance Certificate
Description: Certificate presented to Pearl Steppe [sic] for perfect attendance at school district #9 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, for the first six weeks of the school year 1938/39. Presented on October 14, 1938.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:12470

Title: Rural School Experiences
Description: Reminiscences of teachers and students in the rural schools of Iowa, primarily Poweshiek County, during the first half of the twentieth century.
Date Created: 1989
PID: grinnell:6083