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NOVELLA DOROTHY
BREDBENNER
1917 - 2007
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Born: September
8, 1917 - in H.
J. Klemme house on 2nd Street in Klemme, Iowa
- Daughter of: Clark
Bredbenner (1889-1928) and Martha Lau (1885-1962)
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married August 9, 1916 in Klemme, Iowa
Died: January 30,
2007
SCHOOL:
Klemme Public School:
Graduated from 8th grade:
May 1930
Activities:
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Declamatory - 4 years
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Student Council - 2 years
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Class Treasurer - Senior year
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Band - senior year
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Story Telling Club - 4 years
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Plays - Leading role of 'Erma Lowrie' in "Tiger
House" - senior year
Awards:
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Certificate of Superior Scholarship in Every Pupil
contest in American Literature eligible for State Contest -
junior year
Graduated: May 1934 with 21
classmates - Class
Valedictorian
OTHER CLASSES:
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Piano - 1925, 1931 - 1936
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Figurine Painting - 1949, 10 lessons
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Beginning Typing - 1951, 17 hours
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Photography - 1951, 10 weeks
CHURCH:
Klemme Methodist Church:
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Baptized: March 31, 1918
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Confirmed: July 8, 1928
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Church Vacation School: Junior 1929, Intermediate
1930, Senior 1931
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Epworth League: 1932, 1933, 1934
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Purple Arrow: 1935
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National Methodist Youth Conference: 1938 -
Boulder, Colorado
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her FIRST solo trip out of the
state of Iowa
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Women's Society of Christian Service of Klemme - Charter
member
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Camp Quest - associate Director
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Standard Bearers
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Bible School Director
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Sunday School Teacher
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Bible School Teacher
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Bible School Director
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Historian
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Administrative Council
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Iowa Annual Conference
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Lay Delegate
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World Methodist Conference
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Church Centennial Committee - 1993 - Chairman
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Klemme United Methodist Women - Vice President; 1983-1986: President; 1987-1990
Des Moines First United Methodist Church:
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Board Member 1973
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Des Moines Area Religious Council
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Des Moines Area Church Women United - Vice President;
1960-1961, 1965, 1978:
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Director; 1966-1967: President; 1972
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Des Moines Career Sunday School Class - President; 1966
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Wesleyan Service Guild, Christian School Relations -
Conference Chairman; 1958-1961:
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Vice President; 1965
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:
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Hancock County Genealogical Society
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Hancock County Historical Society
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Federated Women's Club
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Federated Garden Club
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Klemme Garden Club
COLLEGE:
Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar
Falls, Iowa:
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Started classes - 1934: 1 year
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Classes - 1939: 1 year, received Two year Elementary
Degree
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Classes - 1942: 1 year
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Classes - 1944: Junior year
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Classes - 1947: Senior year
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March 1948, received BA Degree in Elementary Education
with honors
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1953 - Awarded one of five National J. N.
(Ding) Darling $1000 Fellowship Awards
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Classes - 1954: 1 year; August completed her
thesis and received a Masters
Degree
COLLEGE ACTIVITIES:
Kappa Phi Club:
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1939: Became a member
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National Kappa Phi Conference in East Northfield, Massachusetts -
her FIRST
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Attended 27 National Councils
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1951-1955: National Alumni Secretary
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1965: Golden Anniversary Fund National Co-Chairman
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1988: Awarded Kappa Phi Sweetheart of the year
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Official national photographer for many years
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Held many local chapter offices
1935-1936: Riverside School, Avery Township #3, Hancock County,
Iowa - 3 years
1940: Allison, Butler County, Iowa - 1 year
1942-1944: Red Cross Certified Instructor
1944: Brooks School, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa - 2 years
1946: Greenwood School, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa - 1 year
1948: Maple Grove School, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa - 5 years
1954: Hubbell School, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa - 27 years
1981: Retired
Entomology; Butterfly collecting
World Traveling
Photography
Klemme Town History
Philately; Stamp Collecting
Geology
Klemme Methodist Church History
Genealogy
Car, Bus, Train, Boat, Prop Airplane, Dog Sled, Jet Airplane, Elephant,
Horse w/Carriage,
Helicopter
Novella never did learn to drive a car
Countries and Locations visited:
All 50 states, all Continents except Antarctica; much of Canada,
Mexico, Central America; Europe - 5 trips to Europe from 1971-1996:
(1971) England, Russia, Hungry, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands, France, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein - 11 countries in 10
weeks; (1990) Germany, Hungry, Czechoslovakia; (1996) Bavaria: Asia
- (1983) China; (1992) Thailand, Nepal: Pacific Islands - (1983)
Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji Islands: Africa - (1986) Kenya:
South America - (1994) Ecuador, Galapagos Islands; (1996) Brazil, Peru,
Argentina, Paraguay.
Oberammergau Germany Passion Play - 1970, 1980, 1990.
Worlds Fairs - 1939 New York, 1962 Seattle, 1964 & 1965 New York, 1967
Montreal,
1968 San Antonio, 1988 Brisbane.
Des Moines area Education Organization:
- Science Teachers Club - President 1949-1950, 1959
- Education Association - 1950
- Social Studies Club - 1949-1950
- Hubbell PTA
- Classroom Teachers Association
- Health Science Curriculum Committee
- Des Moines Audubon Society
- Iowa State Education Association
- Iowa Association of Science Teachers - President 1955
- Iowa Conservation Source Book - Editorial Committee Member
- Central Iowa Mineral Society
- Association for Childhood Education - Delegate 1961
- National Congress of Parents and Teachers
- National Education Association - Delegate
- National Science Teachers Association - Session Participant 1958, 1960;
Regional Representative 1962
- Ding Darling Chapter Izaak Walton League - Board Member 1959-1960,
1978-1979;
- Vice President 1961, 1975, 1976; President 1963; Historian
- Iowa Teachers Conservation Camp - Participant 1950, 1952
- Alpha Delta Kappa - Chaplin 1966-1967
- Beta Beta Beta
- Kappa Delta Pi
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