JAKE T. RIEKENA
RIEKENA, JAKE T: P: Superintendent of Schools; b Wellsburg, Iowa Oct 19, 1906; s of Trieno Riekena-Alice Geerdes; ed Wellsburg HS 1923; Ellsworth Coll, BDi 1925; ISTC, BSc 1929; U of Iowa, MA 1938; Iowa St Coll; m Helen Osterholm May 23, 1929 Elkhorn; s Ronald Duane; d Alyce Elizabeth, Shirley Louise; 1926-27 sch tchr & coach, Elkhorn, baseball champion & basketball runnersup; 1927-29 sch tchr & coach, Irwin; 1929-30 coach & prin of schs, Lewis; 1930- supt of schs, Lewis, coaches baseball & girls basketball, estab comml dept & advanced vocational work, sch paper & annual; ISTA; Cass Co Town Sch Tchrs Assn, pres; Cass Co Schoolmasters Club, pres; Southwest Iowa Tchrs Assn, VP; councilman for BSA; OES; AF&AM; Meth Ch; hobby: baseball; wife born in Neola, mbr OES; res Lewis.
Key to Abbreviations
From "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 201.
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