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"The Dog"...is the most popular dance in the lounge and dance floor on the main level of the building. Tables are formica-topped, chairs are durable plastic in multi-colors. The stone around portions of the exterior and interior is California…
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Bowman gave the audience a chance to hear the Gershwin medley she'll be performing in the pageant, during Thursday of pageant week. The talent competition provides 50 percent of the points on which the contestants are judged.
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Bowman told her parents they were most responsible for her success. Bob Bowman is employed with Metropolitan Life Insurance; Betty Bowman is a marketing representative with Council Bluffs Savings.
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Gegttng in some runway practice, Bowman models an outfit for he Midlands Mall crowd.
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Preparing for her final appearance in the trunk show, wearing the formal gown she'll wear Sept. 14, Bowman applies the finishing touches of make-up.
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Below, some of the 13 ensembles the mall gathering saw.
[Sherri Bowman wearing full skirt, belted shirt, and boots.]
[Sherri Bowman wearing full skirt, belted shirt, and boots.]
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Below, some of the 13 ensembles the mall gathering saw.
[Sherri Bowman wearing a plaid sweater jacket, calf-length flared skirt, heels, and a fedora hat.]
[Sherri Bowman wearing a plaid sweater jacket, calf-length flared skirt, heels, and a fedora hat.]
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Below, some of the 13 ensembles the mall gathering saw.
[Sherri Bowman wearing formal gown.]
[Sherri Bowman wearing formal gown.]
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss iowa
Below, some of the 13 ensembles the mall gathering saw.
[Sherri Bowman wearing stirrup pants, belted plaid shirt, and blazer.]
[Sherri Bowman wearing stirrup pants, belted plaid shirt, and blazer.]
Will to win is within Bluffs' Miss Iowa
Below, some of the 23 ensembles the mall gathering saw.
[Sherri Bowman wearing swimsuit.]
[Sherri Bowman wearing swimsuit.]
Miss Iowa calmed by thoughts of students
Sherri Bowman
[Wearing crown]
[Wearing crown]
Scout Camp Gets Ready; Near Griswold
Readying The Nature Office...for the influx of 1, 300 Boy Scouts expected at Camp Wakonda this summer are Camp director Dale Smith of Omaha and Program Director Harvey Marshall of Mount Ayr. Nature and ecology study, field reports, and aquatics will…
Scout Camps Are Completed; Fourteen At Little Sioux
Ranger Pete Jennings...surveys part of the 1,800 acre boy scout camp near Little Sioux under his care. The newly completed scout headquarters can be seen below the road. Jennings said the camp may eventually double in size and my include snow…
Money Flowing In As 'Black Angel' Work Continues
Above is an artist's rendering of the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial upon completion of restoration work.
Arts Council Begins Sprucing of 'Angel'
Mayda Goodberry . . . , a bronze expert, works at the base of the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial in Fairview Cemetery Wednesday. A restoration project is being sponsored by the Bluffs Arts Council.
Dodge Memorial, Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, Black Angel
The Black Angel . . . located near Lafayette Avenue and North Second Street, was dedicated to the late Mrs. Grenville M. Dodge in 1920. At that time the statue was bronze, but through the years the weather has changed her to black. Now the weather…
The Black Angel: Fountain, Bluffs Heritage Flow Anew
Participating in Wednesday's dedication of the fountain at the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial were, from left, Mayor Tom Hanafan, Council Bluffs Arts Council President Phyllis Otto, Hitchcock Foundation President Denman Kountze, Council member Jane Peters…
Dodge Memorial, Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, Black Angel
Waiting For The Touch . . . of repair crews is the Ruth Anne Dodge memorial, better known as the Black Angel. Downing said the city will spend about $3,000 to spruce up the memorial, fixing the lights and possibly reconnecting the fountain that once…
Dodge Memorial, Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, Black Angel
Angel Lights: Colored lights mounted in surrounding tree limbs illuminate the Black Angel, near Lafayette Avenue and North Second Street. The lights were installed by the City Park Board.
Fountain's Return To Be Commemorated
The "Black Angel" near Fairview Cemetery. The statue's fountain is now flowing again.