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Paul Emmanuel Nilson graduated from Beloit College in 1911, after which he upheld the long tradition of teaching in Tarsus, Turkey, that the college had established. Harriet Fischer Nilson graduated from Wheaton College in 1912, spent a year teaching in California, and then felt called to work in the mission field; in 1913, she was assigned to teach at the Adana girl's school. Paul and Harriet met through the education and missionary system; shortly before Paul returned to the United States to enter the seminary, he proposed to Harriet, who accepted. They were married after the end of World War I. Both continued to teach in Turkey in the cities of Tarsus, Talas, Diyarbakir, and Mardin. The Nilsons retired in 1957 and returned to the United States.

(Information from Stories from the Vineyard by Dorothy Nilson Fyfe)

Harry Waldo Norris was born in New Hampshire in 1862 and his family came to Grinnell in 1870. Norris attended both the Grinnell College Academy and Grinnell College, graduating in 1886. Although he studied and taught elsewhere, most of his career was spent teaching at Grinnell College, focusing on courses in botany, biology, zoology, and related subjects. He was elected Chairman of the Faculty many times, served as President of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, and continually engaged in scientific research.

She served as president of the ACLU of Iowa from 1964 to 1972. Noun also served as a co-founder and president of the state’s chapters of the League of Women Voters and the National Organization for Women, was a charter member of the Iowa Women’s Political Caucus, and was a vocal advocate of women’s issues within the Iowa Democratic Party. In 1989, she founded the Chrysalis Foundation, a Des Moines-based organization that works to empower, educate, and support Iowa’s girls and women. With Mary Louise Smith, the first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, Noun co-founded the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa.

In 1985, Noun’s brother, Joseph Rosenfield ’25, established an endowment in her name at Grinnell College. The Louise Noun Program in Women’s Studies and the Noun Professorship were instrumental in bringing women’s studies to Grinnell.

Ferner Nuhn was married to author Ruth Suckow.

Ochs was an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh until his retirement. He was very active in the national Democratic Party and was involved with a variety of charitable organizations. He received his undergraduate degree at Grinnell College in 1949, his M.A. from the University of Michigan (1951), and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois (1960).

William C. Oelke was born in 1906, graduated from Grinnell College in 1928, received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and was a member of the Chemistry faculty at Grinnelll College from 1931 until his retirement in 1977. He died in 1988.