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Nollen, John S.

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  • 1869-1952

Loren Foster Berry

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  • -1900

Reverend Loren Foster Berry of Ottumwa, IA was a trustee of Grinnell College from 1894 until his death in 1900. He moved from Ottumwa, IA to Chicago, IL in the last year of his life. After his death, his wife taught Mathematics at the Grinnell Academy and was the Dean of Ladies until 1906.

Pfitsch, John Alfred

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  • 1919-2012

Beginning in 1948, John and Pioneer athletics were synonymous. He coached in virtually every sport during a 50-year career and even in retirement directed the men's soccer program and his beloved Pfitsch's Pfishes. In addition to many seasons, records, and championships in basketball and soccer John also was justifiably proud of his role in instituting women's sports during his long tenure as athletic director.

After graduating from the University of Texas Pfitsch earned his M.A. in physical education and assisted famous Coach Phog Allen at the University of Kansas before and after service in World War II. At Grinnell he helped obtain a $2.2 million federal loan and headed the planning committee for construction of the former Physical Education Complex, where the fieldhouse was named in his honor.

Florence Stewart Kerr (Class of 1912)

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  • 1890-1975

Born in Tennessee in 1890, Florence Stewart Kerr and family moved to Iowa when she was an infant.  She grew up in Marshalltown and attended Grinnell College from 1908-1912 where she formed a lifelong friendship with Harry Hopkins.  Florence married Robert Y. Kerr in 1915; she taught English at the College from 1921-26 and 1931-32.

In 1930 she was named a member of the Iowa Unemployment Relief Council; in 1935 Hopkins recommended her as one of five regional directors of the Division of Women's and Professional Projects within the Works Progress Administration (alternately called the Work Projects Administration).  She was promoted to Assistant Administrator of the WPA and Director of the Women's and Professional Projects in 1938 and worked in Washington, D.C. until the WPA ended in 1943.

She became director of the war public services of the Federal Works Agency and later served as an executive with Northwest Airlines.  She retired in the mid 1950s and lived in D.C. until her death in 1975.

Robert Y. Kerr, a native of Newton, Iowa, served on the editorial staff of The American Lumberman and as Executive Secretary of Grinnell College.

Kerr, Robert

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Robert Y. Kerr, a native of Newton, Iowa, served on the editorial staff of The American Lumberman and as Executive Secretary of Grinnell College.

Noun, Louise R. (Class of 1929)

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  • 1908-2002

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.

Cech, Thomas R.

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  • 1947-

Born in 1947, Tom Cech is 1970 Grinnell alumni and chemist. Along with Sidney Altman, he won the 1989 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.

Thomas Cech was born on December 8, 1947. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa and later attended Grinnell College, graduating in 1970. He is a chemist and, with Sideny Altman, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech has spent the majority of his career at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2000-2008 he served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

McJimsey, George T.

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George T. McJimsey graduated from Grinnell College in 1958 with honors in History and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to receive a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at Columbia University and received his doctorate in American history from the University of Wisconsin. He taught history at Iowa State University between 1965 and 2002, occasionally returning to Grinnell to lecture.

He has written four books including a biography of Grinnell alumnus Harry Hopkins ’12. That book, Harry Hopkins: Defender of the Poor and Champion of Democracy, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. This collection contains the collected materials from which McJimsey drew to write his book.

Biographical Note on Harry Hopkins: Harry Lloyd Hopkins’ political career, which spanned from 1913 to 1946, began a long ways from either New York City or Washington D.C. Hopkins was born in Sioux City, Iowa on August 17, 1890 to David Aldona and Anna Pickett Hopkins, the fourth of five children. The family settled in Grinnell, Iowa in 1901 for the education opportunities that the college town would afford the Hopkins’ children. While at Grinnell College from 1908-1912, Hopkins would excel in basketball, baseball and tennis, work for the YMCA, be involved in student government and graduate cum laude in 1912, among other achievements. Studying history and political science, Hopkins was deeply affected by the Social Gospel movement and followed Professor Jesse Macy as the intellectual heir of George A. Gates and George D. Herron.

After graduating from Grinnell College, Hopkins began a career in social work that lasted until 1933. Beginning in New York City and working with the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor Hopkins was soon appointed as executive secretary of the Bureau of Child Welfare in 1915. Over the next eighteen years, Hopkins would work with the American Red Cross and the New York Tuberculosis Association, draft a charter for the American Association of Social Workers (1923), and eventually find himself as administrator for Roosevelt’s’ Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) in 1933 as the Great Depression took hold.

Following Roosevelt’s election to the Presidency, he called Hopkins to Washington to work as the Federal Relief Administrator. In this capacity, Hopkins undertook the relief of poverty with a commitment to employment created by the government. He also embedded New Deal policy with his Social Gospel values and dedication to social justice. Among his significant contributions are the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civil Works Administration (CWA). He also served as Secretary of Commerce for one year starting in 1938.

World War II saw a fundamental shift in Hopkins’ role within the Roosevelt government. From 1940 to 1945 Hopkins served as Roosevelt’s’ Personal Representative and Advisor. Hopkins traveled to both England and Russia during WWII to ascertain their material needs and played a crucial role in the passage of the Lend-ease Bill in the spring of 1941. He also accompanied the President to the Teheran Conference in 1943 and the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Hopkins had maintained U.S. - British and U.S. - Soviet relations throughout the war.

When Roosevelt died two months later, Hopkins retired from government service exhausted and ill. He received the Distinguished Service Medal from President Harry S. Truman in September 1945 for his selfless service. The severe strain the war effort put on Hopkins’ chronically poor health was too much for Harry to recover from, as he had many times before. Hopkins died on January 29, 1946.

Macy, Jesse

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  • 1842 – 1919

Born to a Quaker family in Indiana, Macy was raised on a farm near Lynnville, Iowa. At age 17 he walked fifteen miles across the prairie to enter Grinnell College. He remained associated with the college for the remainder of his life as a tutor, principal of the Academy, then as a respected professor. From 1885 to his retirement in 1912, he devoted himself to teaching political science and writing many books on political, social, religious, and international subjects. After retiring from Grinnell he travelled abroad more extensively and formed close associations with such people as James Bryce and George Bernard Shaw.

Cather, Willa

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  • 1873-1947
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