OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
April 23, 1957
To Members of the Faculty:
On Friday evening, April 19, 1957, Miss Ida C. Rohlf, Assistant Professor of English from 1923 to 1944, died at Schoitz hospital in Waterloo. She had been hospitalized for several weeks.
Miss Rohlf received the B. A. degree in 1915 from Iowa State Teachers College and the M. A. degree from the State University of Iowa in 1923. She served faithfully and efficiently for many years as a teacher of English. She always exhibited a kindly interest in the students who came under her guidance and supervision and she will long be remembered for her patience, graciousness, and her remarkable attitude of optimism. Before and particularly since her retirement, she had written much poetry. She had in fact had three volumes of poems published.
Funeral services for Miss Rohlf were conducted at 10:00 a.m. Monday, April 22, and burial was in the Lone Tree cemetery at Everly, Iowa. We are sorry we did not get this notice out earlier but, because of the Easter weekend vacation, this information was not received until Monday.
IDA CATHERINE ROHLF
Miss Ida Catherine Rohlf, whom our community has lost recently through death, was first a loyal and appreciative student and later a faithful and efficient teacher in Iowa State Teachers College. She valued highly the privilege of attending this college and felt that her studies and personal contacts with faculty and students had greatly enriched her life. The names Seerley, Lynch, and Colegrove were often upon her lips in grateful praise for their inspiration and help.
She esteemed it an honor to be asked later to return to the college as a member of the Department of English and Speech. She gladly accepted the opportunity thus offered to repay the benefits she had enjoyed. It was her ambition to carry on worthily the high tradition of service she had recognized in the college. Her work was marked by deep concern for the welfare of her students, who were constantly helped by her sympathetic patience and kindness. She taught carefully and thoroughly and set up high standards of personal conduct and class performance for her students and for herself. Appreciation for this help was shown by the numerous visits and letters she received from grateful students after she had given up her work.
In this later period of her life when she was no longer teaching, she retained her interest in former students and in the college. Years of service on the board of the Seerley Foundation were another indication of her continuing concern for the welfare of the college. Although her activities have ended, her influence will live on in the college and in the lives of her students.
Committee: Mary B. Hunter, W. Brock Fagan, and Edna O. Miller, Chairman
Miss Miller moved that this memorial be adopted, spread on the Faculty records, and copies sent to the family. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
Minutes of the Faculty Senate, May 6, 1957