From Our Files

• May 23, 1946

Graduation exercises marked the end of high school for 44 seniors. Arthur M. Pardee, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Dakota, was the commencement speaker.

The pupils of Hartley No. 2 and their teacher, Pauline Houston, planned a creative program on Iowa’s centennial birthday. The scene of the program was that of a special meeting of the Junior American Citizen’s Club. Reports on Iowa’s history, early life, involvement in the Civil War, religion and capitals were planned by the students. The climax of the program was a presentation of the old-t...