"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
The viewers enter through a dark corridor into an entirely blackened space and find themselves surrounded by a watery void. Slowly a dark swimming figure becomes visible in the bottom corner of one wall. Two adjacent walls in the room have been...
“Incunabula:” Some interesting notes on gifts to the University, with a solution to the mystery of the missing bones of Black Hawk. -- “Old Capitol in Winter Dress:” A water color by Charles Sibley, '49MFA -- “What's in a Well?” The...
“Two Fellows from Hedrick” Dean Harwood and Roger Perkins headed Class C schools in freshman scholarship. -- “From Small Beginnings” The curator of rare books discusses Lincolniana collecting and Bollinger. -- “Your Income Tax Goes Up”...
Introducing the Newest Mr. "X" -- Iowa's Friendliest Thanksgiving -- The Giant That Can't Get Away -- Who Gave Us Old Gold and Black? -- Our Grandest Student -- The Scents of Roses -- 30,000,000 Spellings -- This Sophomorish Optimism -- The Citizen...
President Hancher Reports on The State of the University -- "I'm Tired" -- The Attitudes of Iowans -- International Spotlight on SUI Physicists -- Complete in this Issue: American Higher Education—1958 -- Reunions -- The Buried Story of Man --...
Parents are Requested Not To Accompany Child To the Chair -- Iowa Initiates New Medical Curriculum -- Kidney Transpalnts -- ROTC: Alive and Well at Iowa -- Your Mission, Mr. Morris -- When You See What You Want – Push a Button -- From Auditions...
64th General Assembly -- "A Whole New Ball Game" -- Challenge to Excellence -- Distinguished Service Nominations -- "Educational Improvements Are Expensive" – Biomechanic: A Promising Partnership -- Ancient Art is Her Pleasure and Profession --...
DOING GOOD: Whatever the challenge, volunteers work to make a difference. In these stories, we focus on people who reach beyond themselves to spread a little cheer, help their neighbors, heal the sick, and befriend children they otherwise wouldn't...
IN CLASS: Engineering students help equip humans for flight. -- The Flight of a Red-Tailed Angel: As one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, Iowa alumnus Luther Smith played a crucial part in World War II— and also helped wage the battle for racial...
The Men and the Game -- Football Anecdotes -- New Old Iowa Field -- The Story of Old Capitol -- The New Medical Campus -- Alumni Dinner -- Homecoming -- Seashore Honored -- Dean Stewart -- Russell in China -- Hunt to Pittsburgh -- Dean...
Iowa writer Mary Gottschalk reads from "Sailing down the Moonbeam." Gottschalk moved to New York City to build a career, but 15 years later -- with two houses, two cars and more frequent flier miles than she could ever use -- she and her husband,...
Includes notes of telephone conversations in Henry A. Wallace's office while he was Secretary of Commerce. Notes of occasional earlier telephone conversations while Wallace was in government service, 1933-1945, were not kept separate and may be...