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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: Chester Royal "Modies"
Description: Six men dressed as women. A follies group. Pictured are: Glenn Harris, Harry Ryan, Paran Pederson, Ross Mintle, Floyd Lacina, and Leonard Pederson
PID: grinnell:3355

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: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: Drama in the Church
Description: Pamphlet produced by the Drama League of America describing ways dramatic work can involve young people in the church. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6121

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: Hartwick Bankers
Description: Hartwick State Bank founder, Ben Roudabush (center), poses with former Hartwick bankers, Lucille and W.N. Shellenbarger. The photo was taken at the time of the bank's 35th anniversary celebration in 1962.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20635

Title: Hartwick Community Theater Melodrama
Description: Melodrama put on by the Hartwick Community theater group in the Hartwick School gymnasium in the 1950s. From left to right: Francis Creps, Emily Hemstra, Ken Benda, Vertner Gabriel, Anna Soens, Ralph Smith, Louise Korns.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11584

Title: Hartwick School Gymnasium Audience
Description: A crowd is gathered at the Hartwick School Gymnasium in Hartwick, Iowa, to hear Tait Cummins, WMT (Cedar Rapids) radio sports announcer, speak. A few people along the aisle are identified (left to right) as: Cecil Creps, Oscar Hakeman, Julian and Margaret DeGeeter, Lloyd and Ruth E. Lambert, Everett Korns, Ben Roudabush, Melvin and Blanche Gray.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6522

Title: Hartwick State Bank Board of Directors
Description: The Hartwick State Bank Board of Directors taken in 1962 during the bank's 35th anniversary celebration. From left to right: Ken Benda, Ben Roudabush, Clarence Possehl, Godfrey Veight, Wayne Ryan, and Howard Olson.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20636