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Ragland receives 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

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BATON ROUGE, LA — Jane Ragland, of Marshalltown, was recently awarded a Love of Learning Award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Ragland is one of 200 recipients to receive the award. Love of Learning Awards are designed to help fund post-baccalaureate professional development for active Phi Kappa Phi members including graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, travel related to teaching and research, career development and ...

Chapter NU initiates new member

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO P.E.O. Chapter NU met on Oct. 3 and Val Bellile was initiated into the chapter. She is pictured with her sponsors (L to R) Mary Douds, Donna Cerka, Val and Kay Lents. The meeting’s program was the election process by Marshall County Auditor/Recorder, Nan Benson, and the ...

Program on trees at Chapter BB

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Fourteen members of P.E.O. Chapter BB met Oct. 3 at the Binford House at 1 p.m. Marcia Plett served as hostess with Jan Young, Cynthia (Boo) Mansager and Sandy Short serving as co-hostesses. Before the meeting, Gary Fulton, president of Trees Forever, Marshalltown Chapter, presented a slide program about “Trees in Our Lives.” His program included informative topics about trees in general along with relevant poetry and humor. Trees Forever has been very active in Marshalltown as they aim to plant 150 trees each year. President, Carolyn Anderson, updated members about the ...

Tuesday Musical Summer Camp winners

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Tuesday Musical Club met on Sept. 27 at the Marshalltown Public Library. Six summer music camp scholarship winners, chosen at auditions last April, gave very positive and appreciative accounts of the camp experience. Teachers and students shown left to right: Jan Randall, ...

Chapter NU celebrates Founders Day

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO P.E.O. Chapter NU met on Sept. 19 at Hope United Methodist Church. The program on Founders Day and Chapter NU history was presented by Jeanne Christensen, Hollis Cassidy, Barb Schrum, Kay Lents, Cindy Mack and Jinita Boyd. To celebrate Chapter NU’s 40th Anniversary, an ...

Twentieth Club fall luncheon

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Twentieth Century Club met on Sept. 26 at Binford House for the annual fall luncheon. Jeff Schneider, city council member, presented the program “Update on Marshalltown.”