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Title: Pioneers of Progress
Description: Theater program. Historical pageant of Grinnell performed October 17 and 18, 1929 upon the 75th anniversary of the founding of Grinnell, Iowa, college homecoming and airport dedication. Dialogue written by Robert Y. Kerr. The Pageant of Grinnell presents in dramatic form the history of Grinnell, Iowa. Partial cast: Rev. E.M. Vittum, A.J. Blakely, Richard Phillips, Ralph Longley, Russell Peterson, Dale Smith, Paul Kiesel, Seldon Norris, John Dunham, Ray George, Frank Knapp, Paul Wray, Irving Lemley, David Talbott, Elden Olds, John S. Nollen, Mrs. Grant Ramsey, David E. Peck. Dialogue of play is included in program. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1929
PID: grinnell:6115

Title: Places I've Been: Outsiders, Exiles, Tourists, First Year Tutorial, Fall 2001, Tutorial, Fall 2001
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores the role and significance of place in conceptualizations of self and others.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3452

Title: Poll Tax and Old Age Pension Fund Receipts
Description: Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Eldora Turner for the Old Age Pension Fund tax levied for 1936, and to Hilliard Turner for the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax, also in 1936.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3349

Title: Porter Middle School, Grinnell-in-China, Porter Middle School, Techow, Shantung, China
Description: This report covers the history, present plant, student body, course of study, finances, activities, religious life, aims, and needs of Porter Middle School in Techow (Dezhou), Shantung (Shandong), China.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:18746

Title: Poweshiek County Rural Schools Eighth Grade Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Friday, May 18, 1956, in the Grinnell HIgh School Auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Stanley G. Sanders was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:12460

Title: Preparedness for Higher Education Among Grinnell High School Graduates
Description: Anthropology field study of a local high school's system around the question of college readiness through a variety of contacts with recent graduates attending college and a school administrator.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3057

Title: Primitive Skills in the Modern World, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Whittaker
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Modern popular culture is seeing a revival of interest in primitive skills. Practical experience; reading and writing will be applied to the the exploration of primitive.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:225

Title: Professor Conard in Amsterdam
Description: Two newspaper articles about Henry S. Conard's visit to Amsterdam, one from July 9th, 1935 and one from September 3rd, 1935. On this visit, he presented his paper on the sociology of American plant life to the Sixth International Botanical Congress.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:201

Title: Proposal for Black Library
Description: A proposal for the Randal Morgan Collection in Burling Basement
PID: grinnell:4979