Boone Natives Make Statewide News

     A pair of Boone natives and BHS grads made statewide news this week.
     Jeff Courter, BHS-80, is one of 21 members of a Presidential Search and Screen committee charged with evaluating candidates to replace State University of Iowa President Sally Mason. Courter is the current President of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and is one of two representatives of that organization on the committee. Jeff lives in the Des Moines Metro area.
     Eric Woolson, 56, BHS-76, of West Des Moines has taken a job with Governor Scott Walker's political organization. Walker, the Wisconsin Governor, is a possible contender for the Republican Party's candidate for United States President in 2016.
     Woolson is no newcomer to this type of work. He has worked for Christian conservative candidates in the last two presidential election cycles as well as serving in a communications capacity for three other GOP campaigns, for Senator Charles Grassley in 2010; Doug Gross, candidate for Iowa Governor in 2002, and for George W. Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign. In addition, he was a senior adviser for former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty in Pawlenty's 2011 presidential campaign and served in Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign of 1988.
     Woolson started his career in communications with work at the Boone News Republican  in 1976. Later, he worked at the Madrid Register-News, the Guthrie Center Times, the Webster City Daily Freeman Journal, the Keokuk Daily Gate City and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. He became a spokesman for Governor Terry Branstad in 1996.
     Since 2011, Woolson has grown organic catnip on a 27-acre farm in southern Iowa and for the last two years, he has run the Des Moines operations of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charity.
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     The Korner brought Betty Koger of Boone and Jerry Manriquez of California together recently and the result is that Jerry has been able to add a 1918 BHS Scroll to his huge collection. Betty told the Korner she had a Scroll she would be willing to donate. We immediately contacted Jerry who, in turn, contacted Betty and the donation has been accepted and completed. Betty told Jerry, "this Scroll belonged to my first husband's (Jim Anderson) aunt, Esther Westberg, who married Mike Olson. They had a daughter, Mary Jo. My maiden name was Bruster and I graduated from Marshalltown High School in 1944."
     Meantime, Jerry wrote, "I received an email from Pamela Schwartz, the Executive Director of he Boone County Historical Society. She has been consolidating collections and has a number of duplicates. She has offered me the following yearbooks: 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1920 and 1921. That was very thoughtful of her and greatly appreciated." 
     Jerry is still looking for the following Scrolls, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915,  1916, 1920, 1921, 1931, 1971-79 and all of the ones from the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's.
     If you want to reminisce about your school days........
http://boonesacheart.manriquez.net/
     If nothing else (and there is a lot more), you can settle an argument about when an individual graduated.
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     Welcome to March (almost). Some big events are coming.
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     Boone Area Deaths: Ted Doggett, 80, Ogden. Longtime Des Moines area postal employee. Boone area survivor is his wife, Mary of Ogden..........William Rose Sr., 76, Marshalltown. Formerly of Boone. Boone area survivor is his wife, Chris..............Boysel Samuelson, 98, Boone. BHS-34. Was a bookkeeper for L.P. Gas service. Boone area survivors include his sister, Nadine Reeves of Boone, and a niece, Sandra Snedden, of Ogden..........Virginia Baker, 90, Boone............Arline Jensen, 95, Boone. The Jensen's moved to Boone in 1942. Boone area survivor is her husband, Alfred of Boone. A son, Tom, and a daughter, Patricia, live out of state.
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