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'88 Flora Frantz Conrad has visited Frances Shimer twice in recent years and has sent a few items of interest concerning her own "scattered family" She comments in a note that her years spent at Frances Shimer have been one of her greatest assets in life, and she has always been truly appreciative of the splendid training that she received here. The following is taken from her letter:

(A condensed historical sketch of my family)

I graduated from Frances Shimer in 1888 as Flora Frantz. I taught School for a number of years, married C.M Conrad, and moved to Burlington, Iwoa. I reared and educated five childeren:

Frantz Conrad graduate of Norman Oklahoma,and now a successful practicing attorney in Oklahoma City, Is a vetran of World War I.

I am the mother of Gleen V. Conrad, who was the air inspector of the aeronautics branch of the U.S Department of Commerce of Iowa. He was a first lieutenant in aviation in World War I and served during the entire war, having enlisted shortly after it started. He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Burlington and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity. He passed away July 10, 1932, at Mason City, Iowa at age of 32.

Max A Conrad like all my boys, was an expert debater,at Iowa University. He later moved to Burlington, where he is now practicing law, and for the last ten years has been mayor of the city. He recently resigned to accept the position of Secretary to the Leauge of Iowa Municipalities on a statewide basis. He also published the Leauge magazine.

My only daughter, Vivian, is married to Dr. Fortney of Viroqua, Wisconsin, and she is the editor of the Winsconsin Clubwoman, the official publication of the Winsconsin Federation of Women's Clubs.

My Youngest son, Robert is now practicing law in Burlington, and is helping Max with his editorial work and the magazine. He has just been mustered out of Service in World War II.

Thus you see I have had a rather full life and feel that Frances Shimer was the foundation for many of the principles I have at all times aimed to instill in my children.—

'94 Mary Bryant Barthell writes that she has very happy memories of her days at Frances Shimer and is still very much interested in the school although she does not recognize many of the names in the News. She Celebrated her golden wedding anniversary on June 10 and wished that some representative from Shimer might have been there to help with the celebration.

'95 The news of the birth of a grandson of Clara Ferrenburg Duagn recalls to the memory of some of the older graduates Clara's beautiful lyric soprano voice. In historical files of the college are many old musical programs which bear her name.

'02 The following is taken from a letter from Harriet Hersey Higginson: "You will be sorry to hear of Isabelle Cleveland Hersey's Death She was my roommate at Frances Shimer in 1901 and '02; was related, I believe to the Campbells or Miles in Mount Carroll. She has a stroke a year ago and apparently recovered. Her son, Paul and daughter, Virginia ,lived in Medford Oregon. She lived in Los Angeles, Was married to my brother, Dexter Hersey, the day before our wedding, I played the wedding march. She and Dexter had planned all winter to visit their children in Medford  and left Los Angeles May 15th, were there only a week when she had another stroke and died suddenly. She did not suffer and I am sure if she could have chosen a place to go it