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Ketchum comes from Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of Evanston Township High. He lives in Lowell House, concentrates in Biochemical Sciences, and is a Phillips Brooks House worker...
...days later, Police Chief C. Norbert Wade reported with a straight face to the Township Committee. Patrolman Pierman, said the chief, had strayed from duty. The woman he had in his car while parked in a quiet spot was one who "neither required information, nor was aged, infirm, blind, suddenly taken ill, injured, or otherwise temporarily unable to care for herself." Moreover, he had made a broadcast "not in the line of duty or relating to public, police or safety matters." Patrolman Pierman opened himself altogether to five official charges when he forgot to turn off the switch...
Miss Campbell stopped for breakfast at Reich's Cafe on Dubuque Street, where she works for her board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards...
Miss Campbell's constituents, who live in Johnson County's richest township, are farmers, mostly young, with large families. She urges all her boys to go to high school. One of her girl graduates is a beauty shop operator in Iowa City, another is doing housework in Evanston, Ill., saving up to study nursing...
Last Friday night Scott Township's farmers & wives dressed in their Sunday best, drove in to Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...