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Alma Marie Kouba Kress papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0405
Abstract

Buchanan County elementary school teacher and clubwoman.

Dates: 1925-2006

Alpha Evans papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0605
Abstract

Rural middle school teacher who chaired the Iowa committee to revise teacher standards in the 1970s.

Dates: 1977-2001

Arlene Jens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0499
Abstract

Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1962-2006

Bernice Leary papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0030
Abstract

Educator, author, collector of children's books.

Dates: 1878-1977

C. Pauline Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0627
Abstract

An outstanding athlete and the first woman to receive an athletic letter at the University of Iowa. She graduated in 1923.

Dates: 1920 -1985

Christine Dutson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Dates: 1954 - 2002

Clara Steen Skott papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract

Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.

Dates: 1899-1994

Dora Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0221
Abstract

Sculptor and art teacher who traveled and studied sculpture across Europe and North America.

Dates: 1915-2017

Dorothy Misbach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0468
Abstract

Educator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.

Dates: 1890-1999

E. Marie Hawkins papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0333
Abstract

Iowa City elementary school teacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF; one videocassette [V133] shelved in videocassette collection.

Dates: 1991-1997

Edith Sackett papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0676
Abstract

Schoolteacher and Iowa Mother of the Year, 1969.

Dates: 1959-1975

Emmylou Krohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0634
Abstract

Teacher, columnist, and textbook author from Council Bluffs area.

Dates: 1940-1998

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Germaine Mayer Blake papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0271
Abstract

Elementary school teacher who taught for thirty-three years at the Catholic Visitation Grade School in Stacyville, Iowa.

Dates: 1948-1997

Gladys Spayde papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0042
Abstract

Stage actress who spent her childhood in Saskatchewan and was a teacher in Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1932-1982

Gladys Talcott Rife papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0284
Abstract

Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.

Dates: 1920-2002

Grace Morris Allen Jones papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0277
Abstract

Burlington, Iowa born educator and wife of Dr. Laurence C. Jones, founder of Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1927-1975

Hazel Rogers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0214
Abstract

Teacher who attended the Iowa State Teachers College between 1939 and 1941.

Dates: 1932-1987

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0244
Abstract

Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.

Dates: 1983-2007

Henrietta Ruff papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0289
Abstract

Amana, Iowa, school teacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1985-1996

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American Association of University Women 1
American Mission Upper Nile 1
American Nurses Association 1
Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Baker, Carl (poet) 1
Benjamin Franklin High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Bethel Evangelical Secondary School 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Black Hills Playhouse (Theater group) 1
Blake, Germaine Mayer 1
Camp Shows, Inc. 1
Catholic Visitation School 1
Central College (Pella, Iowa) 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cheek, Eugene Lloyd, 1953-1990 1
Childress, Elizabeth 1
Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
City High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Club Les Dames (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Coe College 1
Corey, Elizabeth 1
Cruikshank, Rena 1
Curtis High School (Staten Island, New York, N.Y.) 1
Dancers in Company 1
Depot Museum (Fayette County, Iowa) 1
Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
Drake Parents of the Year 1
Dutson, Christine, 1954- 1
Eastern Iowa League for Nursing 1
Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett (Company) 1
Elliott, Jane, 1933- 1
Elson, Mary Johnston, 1914-2011 1
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 1
Erick Hawkins Dance Company 1
Evans, Alpha, 1918- 1
Fairfield Junior High School (Fairfield, Iowa) 1
Farquhar, Marian, 1917-2006 1
Geadelmann, Patricia L. 1
Gebers, Nellie M., 1901-1995 1
Gerber, Philip L. 1
Goodenow, Karen, 1938- 1
Grefe, Mary 1
Grow family 1
Grow, Esther Mae Christensen, 1891-1993 1
Hamilton, Carter 1
Hamilton, Ruth, 1898-2008 1
Happy Hour Club (Buchanan County, Iowa) 1
Harling, George 1
Harling, Icey Lenora Teel, 1878-1964 1
Harling, Maurice 1
Harper family 1
Harper-Bardach, Phyllis (1928-2015) 1
Hawkins, E. Marie, 1931- 1
Helen McGehee (Company) 1
Hoidahl, Florence 1
Illinois School for the Deaf 1
International Council for Adult Education 1
Iowa Citizens' League for Nursing 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Mother of the Year 1
Iowa Nurses' Association. Fifth District 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
Jens, Arlene (1926-2014) 1
Johnson, Martin 1
Johnson, Ruth Ashton, 1933- 1
Jones, Grace Morris Allen, 1876-1928 1
Jose Limon Dance Company 1
Keir family 1
Kress, Alma Marie Kouba, 1908-2006 1
Krohn, Emmylou, 1920- 1
Landhuis, Kim, 1943- 1
Lane, Ruth 1
Leary, Bernice E. (Bernice Elizabeth), 1890-1973 1
Lucas Hoving and Dance Co. 1
Malcolm Price Laboratory School 1
Mason, Dora, 1896-1999 1
Mason, Kären 1
Moore, Mary Ellen, 1919-1998 1
Morris, Arlene Roberts (1926-2016) 1
National Advisory Council on Adult Education (U.S.) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National League for Nursing 1
Newhall High School (Newhall, Iowa) 1
Nye, Miriam Baker, 1918- 1
Nye, Reverend John 1
Olson, Melba Gardemann, 1909-2000 1
Pasadena Independent School District (Tex.) 1
Perkins School for the Blind 1
Piney Woods School 1
Prairie City High School (Prairie City, Iowa) 1
Quasqueton Federated Garden Club (Buchanan County, Iowa) 1
Reed, Olabelle, 1935- 1
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