To: All Faculty and Staff Members -- From: Personnel Services office-- Date: April 5, 1977
Mr. Clarence W. Pries, Coordinator for the Student Teaching program of UNI in the Mason City-Clear Lake Community School districts, died Wednesday, March 30, 1977, at the University Hospital in Iowa City. Mr. Pries was born March 30, 1917. He married June Stange, May 8, 1946, at Muscatine. He graduated from Waverly High School in 1926, and received his B.A. degree from Wartburg College in 1940. He attended the University of Iowa and received his M.A. degree in business education in 1952. Before attending the University of Iowa, he served as a business education teacher in Randalia and in Aplington. He also was a member of the American Guild of Organists and was an organist for St. John American Lutheran Church, of which he was a member. Survivors include his wife, June; his mother, Minnie Pries, of the Americana Nursing Home, Waterloo; four sons, Stephen, of Grand Prairie, Texas; Mark, of Tacoma, Washington; John, of Scranton, and Daniel, at home. Funeral services were held at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City and burial was in the Fairview Cemetery, Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls--Memorial services for Clarence W. Pries, 60, of Mason City, formerly of Cedar Falls, will be 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Cedar Falls. Mr. Pries died Wednesday at University Hospitals in Iowa City. Cause of death was pending an autopsy. He was born March 30, 1917, in Bremer County, son of Herbert and Minnie Sell Pries. He married June Stange May 8, 1946, in Muscatine. Survivors include his wife; his mother, Minnie Pries of Americana Nursing Home, Waterloo; four sons, Stephen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Mark of Tacoma, Washington, John of Scranton and Daniel at home; two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Hagenow of Readlyn and Jo Pries of 3716 Knoll Ridge Drive. A memorial fund has been established in his name. The family will meet with friends at the Dahl-VanHove-Schooff Funeral Home from 6:30 to 9 P.M. Friday. Mr. Pries served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He served as a coordinator of student teaching programs for the University of Northern Iowa in the Newton Community Schools from 1968 to 1975 and in the Mason City-Clear Lake Community school districts from 1975 to his death.
Memorial Statement Clarence W. Pries, Assistant Professor: 1969-1977
Mr. Clarence W. Pries, Assistant Professor of Teaching, University of Northern Iowa, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 1977, his sixtieth birthday. Born March 30, 1917, in Buck Creek, Iowa, he attended Readlyn elementary and Waverly high schools, and earned his B.A. in Business Administration at Wartburg College in 1940 and his M.A. in Business Education and Office Management from the State University of Iowa in 1952. He took additional work at the State University of Iowa. During World War II he served in the Army Air Force in Europe. A member of the National Education Association (Life), the Iowa State Education Association, Iowa Business Education Association, National Business Teachers, the Waterloo Office Executive Club, the Association for Teacher Educators, and Phi Delta Kappa, he also held membership in the American Guild of Organists. After serving as business teacher in Randalia, Aplington, and Cedar Falls schools, the last as Coordinator of Distributive Education, Mr. Pries joined the University faculty in 1969 as coordinator of the student teaching program in the Newton, Iowa, Community Schools. Transferred to Mason City in 1975, he served as Coordinator of Student Teaching in the Mason City and Clear Lake Community School districts until his death. He showed an avid, friendly interest in his students; this earned him their lasting affection. Many of his students can recall his and his wife's cheerful generosity in making their home available to students for social gatherings or for emergencies. In every community he served, his intense love for music and his church showed itself in the many little services he so enthusiastically and unselfishly performed for others in all parts of his life. For seventeen years he was the organist at St. John Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls. Outstanding in Clarence was his devotion to his wife, June, and to the well-rounded development of their four sons: Steve, a Lutheran pastor; John, a professional farm manager; Mark a chemical engineer; and Dan, a sophomore in the Mason City Community High School. His expertise in public relations enhanced his value to the University and to the professional organizations of which he was a member, and he always went the second mile in carrying out any responsibility he had accepted. His teaching of extension courses in the student teaching center and his work on executive boards of state organizations made him widely known and remembered. May this simple remembrance of the man we knew as a teacher, colleague, and warm friend, and the appreciation we feel for what he gave us all be made a part of the records of the College of Education Senate and a copy sent to his wife.
Douglas D. Doerzman James B. Roberson Caryl A. Middleton, Chairman May 5, 1977