Rolfe celebration draws all ages - Ft Dodge Messenger http://www.messengernews.net/stories_archive_full.asp?artID=2246&artTable=Top%20Stories [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Rolfe is offering a little bit of everything this weekend at Greater Rolfe Days.
Mayor Gary Cullen and librarian Karen Kerns opened the new community center/library with a balloon send-off. The balloons carried postcards telling about the library’s summer reading program and asking whoever found them to mail them back with details of where the cards landed.
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Iowa Geographic Map Server http://cairo.gis.iastate.edu/new_site/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Find aerial photos of Rolfe and more here. This site provides free access to Iowa geographic map data through an on-line map viewer, ArcIMS map services, or through GIS software extensions. Types of maps available include, Aerial Photos (B&W DOQs), Aerial Photos (2002 CIR DOQs), Topo Maps 1:24,000-scale, Topo Maps 1:100,000-scale, Shaded Relief Map
Gap Landcover 1992, Landcover USGS 1992 ...
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Pro Cooperative http://procooperative.com [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Pro Cooperative - PRO-viding a service-oriented, innovative, unified cooperative to enhance owner's profitability....
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Pocahontas County, Iowa A Brief History http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/regions/nwest/pocahont.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Soon after the county's formal organization in March, 1859, there was a petition for the location of a county seat. Three commissioners were appointed, but only two of them visited the newly-formed county. Those two commissioners selected 200 acres near the West Fork of the Des Moines River. The original name of the town was Highland, or Highland City. Over the years it underwent several name changes; from Highland to Milton to (Old) Rolfe and finally to Parvin.
The first courthouse was built in Rolfe, as it was then called. Swamp land funds paid for a two-story, 36-foot x 50-foot Classic Revival courthouse. It was constructed of bricks that were fired on the site and timber from nearby woods. Lumber was sawed at the sawmill in Rolfe. The second floor of the courthouse was used as a school; at this time the entire county was organized into one school district.
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Event Will Dedicate New UI Garden To Susan Hancher http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/september/092603hancher-garden.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The new Susan Hancher Garden, constructed by the UI Facilities Services Group with funds contributed by the Hancher family and friends, is located on a walkway from the Hancher parking lot to the lobby entrance of the auditorium.
Hancher Auditorium was named in honor of Susan's husband, Rolfe, Iowa native Virgil Hancher -- the UI president whose vision of a unified arts campus was the impetus for the auditorium project. After Virgil Hancher's retirement and death in the mid-1960s, Susan Hancher continued to be an active member of the UI community until her death in 1988.
"She was the first lady of the university for 24 years and was ever active and ever enthusiastic about the University of Iowa," Boyd says. "I could always turn to her during the years I was president or provost and she was always willing to undertake any project for the university. She was a very gracious and outgoing person in every respect."
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Humanities Iowa Traveling exhibits http://www.uiowa.edu/~humiowa/programinfo-e.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...House at the Homeplace
An exhibit of black-and-white as well as color photographs that chronicle the history and demolition of photographer Helen D. Gunderson's grandparents' farm home near Rolfe, Iowa. Matted and framed for wall hanging, the photographs are accompanied by text excerpts on foam board to hang with the photos. This exhibit must be picked up and returned to the HI office by private vehicle.
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Sources for the History of Agriculture & Rural Life http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/agri/ag01.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...This is one of several sources listed in this collection. STROMBERG POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY. Records, 1922, 1924-1941. 1.26 linear feet. MS-123. Ernst Sigfred Stromberg (1886-1969) was born in Greenview, Illinois. In 1893 his family moved to Otho, Iowa, and in 1913 Ernst Stromberg married Josephine Anderson. The couple made their home on a farm near Otho until 1925 when they moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and established the Stromberg Hatchery. Stromberg pioneered the chick hatchery concept in the United States; at one time the Stromberg Hatchery was the largest in the country, with branches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; and in Mason City, Marshalltown, Boone, Webster City, Manson, Rolfe, and Lakota, Iowa. Stromberg also ran the Purity Milling Company and developed its formulas for poultry feeds. Collection includes advertising, correspondence, feed tests, financial records, legal documents, and ledgers. It also contains a 1959 letter from Stromberg to his sister Bettie explaining how he went into the hatchery business....
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Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd (1924-1998) - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-117.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd was born on August 31, 1924 in Rolfe, Iowa. Dowd died in Los Altos, California on August 19, 1998. In 1941 Dowd earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Iowa State College. In 1943 Dowd enlisted in the United States Navy. She was sent to the University of California at Los Angles to attend Meteorological School and worked as a Naval Weather Forecaster until her discharge in 1947.
Dowd became employed by Sylvania Electrics Products as an electronics technician in 1958. When Sylvania Electrics Products changed to GTE Government Systems, Dowd became the Engineering Section Head. She was later appointed to the position of Engineering Department Manager. Dowd retired from GTE Government Systems in 1986. Dowd specialized in data processing, modeling, and simulation, and software development.
Dowd belonged to the Association of Old Crows (AOC) an organization related to the Electronic Warfare profession. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the art and science of using the electromagnetic spectrum (from direct current to light) for military advantage. Dowd received Certificates of Merit from the AOC in 1980 and 1983, and was awarded the AOC Special Medal in 1988....
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