Boy Scouts: Rick Blake, Ryan Willison
Flags
A fundraiser for the scouts
Is really great for the town
Gives you such a good feeling
As you are driving around.
For twenty dollars a year
Get a flag for each holiday
Manning looks patriotic
When they are all on display.
They're unlike any others
The colors red, white and blue
Can stir up the emotions
In the folks like me and you.
We think of our ancestors
And of those who served this land
Hear the Star Spangled Banner
Being played by marching bands
Have praise of America
On Manning I like to brag
Pretty easy to do both
When the town is dressed in flags
By: Craig "Spitter" Moeller
07-06-2010
Click to see some memories about Kay
IKM-Manning rankings dropped over 20 from the morning to the afternoon.
Remember that you need to vote each day until the end of the month.
It's kind of a hassle but well worth it if we achieve 10th or under rank by September 30.
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Please VOTE! Register online at http://www.refresheverything.com Starting September
1st, log in each day to cast your vote for the entire month (Anyone 13 years of age and up can vote) Our Projects:
http://www.refresheverything.com/libraryautomation Pepsi is giving away millions of $$ by accepting 1,000 applications each month in 2010 and then allowing the public to vote for up to 10 projects each day for the entire month. IKM-Manning Schools has submitted 2 projects and needs your help and support during the month of SEPTEMBER. Please spread the word. You will need to register on the Pepsi project web page (you can do this now) so you will be ready to start voting on September 1. This is the Optoma LCD Projector, that you, the voters helped win for the IKM Elementary in 2009 (valued at $600.00).  Over the last 10 years well over $100,000 has been raised by various Manning community and school support organizations to assist with projects such as the recent football stadium and concession stand - money donated by citizens themselves. So the Manning citizens, alumni, and former citizens have been very supportive and generous with their own personal dollars and volunteer time. With projects like the Pepsi program above, we have an opportunity to bring in dollars from outside sources! Fund raising projects like this are nothing new - a look back in Manning's history with 2 examples of what they did to raise money for our school system. The first image shows a 1923 brochure from Alice (Lohmeier) Grau of a magazine subscription to help raise money for something we take completely for granted today - Radio Equipment.  Apparently Belle & Stanley sold the most magazines in a student contest. This next image shows a 1919 flier to promote the Manning School Athletic Association Carnival fundraiser. This flier came from Regilda (Hoffmann) Frazer.  Without the Manning School history book project these wonderful historical items would not have been submitted to me to scan and I would not have been able to show them to you now. |
For those of you who remember Channel II (or "Dave TV" as the kids called it) on Manning cable TV during the 1980s I think you will enjoy this MPEG
video from 1986.
Technical assistants: Lon Miller, Angie Irlbeck, Don Beck
OK - I know this next MPEG will be "corny" to some people - I had completely forgotten that we did this video but every Sunday during the mid 1980s to 1990 we had LIVE shows on Channel II from the studio in the basement of city hall. First there was the Sunday morning church service where each Manning pastor took turns giving a sermon Sunday morning - live. Then in the evening we had the Manning news, next the "Manning Feud" gameshow, and lastly Sunday Night live which was hosted by a different person each week (we even had a phone call-in feature where people could call in and talk live during the program). We had a Valentine's Day show in February 1986 and this next video clip "Little Arrows" was shown during the Sunday Night Live show..
The 4 MPEG clips I made work fine in Windows Media player but if you have problems please let me know the name of the program you are using and what the problem is - Thanks.
In 1978 I purchased my first RCA VCR for $1200 and in 1979 my first video camera for $1300; both from Don's TV in Manning. As I recall, according to Don, I had the first video camera in Western Iowa and maybe all of Iowa. I video taped the Manning Centennial events in 1980 and 1981 using several hundred feet of extension cords to power my camera and VCR. Now this was long before portable cam-corders! The camera took good video outdoors but indoors I had to use 2 quartz spotlights which generated a lot of heat and were very bright if you looked directly into them.
Back then a 2 hour video tape cost $38.00 so unfortunately I recorded most of the Manning events in SLP (super long play) which gave poor video quality.
Moving forward - the technology improved quickly and prices fell somewhat so I purchased a new VCR and camera about every 2 years. Eventually the portable battery powered VCRs and then cam-corders came about.
In 1984 I filmed the farm sale of Cliff and Helena Tank and below is a MPEG clip of Cliff & Helena reflecting on their life.
If you don't have high
speed Internet then don't bother - this MPEG file is around 30 MBs.
I just purchased some new video/audio capture software and hardware and have to learn all over again how to make these movies clips.
About 14 years ago I bought some hardware and software to make short video clips but because high speed Internet was not available to almost everyone
I could only make 20 second clips and it wasn't worth the time to do this.
Now the video quality of Cliff and Helena is not the best but remember this is long before the digital age, MTV and Youtube.
As I find time I hope to place clips of Manning events I taped over the years on my web page. My biggest goal is to get all of these tapes transferred
digitally because it is unknown how long these old video tapes, some of which are over 30 years old, will last.
May 27, 1921 - August 21, 2010
Visitation: Wednesday August 25, 2010, After - 4:00 PM Ohde Funeral Home, Manning MASONIC MEMORIAL SERVICE 7:00 PM
Funeral Service: Thursday August 26, 2010, 10:30 - AM
From the 2006 Manning Quasquicentennial History book
Back: Allen, James, Becky, John, Gwen
Front: Gretchen, Clifford, Helena, Dian.
Farming was in the heart of Clifford Tank. He farmed the family Century Farm 6 1/2 miles north of Manning.
Clifford was born May 27, 1921, in the family farm house to his parents, Anna (Schroeder) and Louie Tank. This is
where he grew up with his younger sister, Norma (Bourn) and brother, Robert.
Clifford attended the Washington Rural School until eighth grade and then became a full time farmer with his father.
On September 12, 1945, Clifford married Helena Gerdes from Wall Lake, Iowa. Together they continued to evolve
the family farm from a self-sufficient system to a technical modern cattle-feeding business by the late 1970s. In
1984 Clifford and Helena sold the farm to John and Ron Hausman from Halbur and retired to 830 Airport View Drive
in Manning.
Clifford and Helena are the parents of four daughters: Dian Schons from Mahwah, New Jersey; Gretchen (Mrs.
Allen Rowedder) of Jefferson, Iowa; Gwen (Mrs. John Detlefsen) of Manning; and Becky (Mrs. James Venner) of
Breda.
Clifford and Helena have nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren: Melissa (Schons) and Robert Bishop
of Williamstown, New Jersey have one son, Andrew; Tom Schons and his wife Pam of Mahwah, New Jersey; Tracy
and Jennifer (Knueven) Rowedder of Manning have two sons, Blake and Brody. Heather (Rowedder); Dean
Lansman of Jefferson have two children, Morgan and Logan; Dr. Phillip Detlefsen and Dr. Kimberly (Martin)
Detlefsen of St. Michael, Minnesota have one son Max; Matthew Detlefsen of Manning; Sarah (Detlefsen) and Tom Lloyd III of Dallas, Texas; Justin Venner of
Omaha have one son, Braedon Brilles; Jacqueline Venner of Bear, Delaware.
The Tanks have been long time members of the Manning First Presbyterian Church and have remained active in
the community. Clifford now resides at the Manning Plaza living with Alzheimer's disease and Helena continues
to live in their home at 830 Airport View Drive.
Click to read about preserving Manning's history.
For many years I have been collecting old Manning photos and history and also Manning family history.
Most of the old-time pioneer family names are gone. The great-grand & grandparents and parents are gone. The decendants
of these pioneer generations who probably lived here during their youth have moved away and along with them they took the old family and Manning photos and information.
Over the years this information has probably been divided up by even more younger generation descendants AND
worst of all some of it probably thrown away.
In order to preserve what is left of Manning's and your family's history connected to Manning we need to get these
old pictures and information sent back to Manning to scan and put into a database.
Some of the family members who are interested in their genealogy and history have been doing so but they really
aren't properly preserving it.
The only way to preserve it long-term is to get high resolution scans of pictures
and the stories and information placed into a community database. This way there will be a back-up of their information
and also a way to collectively compare information from this database.
Duane Monson's family history is featured at the link above and shows some of the community pictures he has in his family albums.
Quite often genealogists e-mail me to help them figure out how other people who lived in the community are connected
to their family. Many times I go to the database I have collected from other families and can help make those connections.
So if you don't share your pictures and information I won't be able to help others find you.
If you want your family history and old pictures to become part of Manning's historical database please e-mail me manningia@davidkusel.com and we'll see what we can work out.
Please remember that right now I'm working on a specific Manning Veteran's history book project.
So this would be the first place for you to start!!!
Christian Wulf with his wife, Amanda Frahm
These are the types of historical pictures we want to use in the future Manning Veterans' history book.
But unless you are willing to help out and come forward with these interesting things they'll never be documented
in our Manning book.
Please e-mail me about your Veteran things manningveterans@davidkusel.com
Christian Wulf was the son of Nicholas & Matilda (Kusel) Wulf. Christian was married twice and I'm fairly sure this is his second wife, Amanda Wilhelmina Frahm. I'm not familiar of the details of where Chris and Amanda were born and lived but Chris is buried in Deloit, Iowa. Chris' maternal great-grandparents were Christian & Dorothea Kusel who brought the Kusel family to eastern Iowa in 1854 from Prussia, and to the Manning area in 1873 or 74.
And you thought your coaches were tough - how'd you like to have a Carroll County Sheriff, Manning Chief of Police, and Manning police officer be part of your coaching staff???
Click to read about the very sucessful youth football program in Manning and the great volunteers that make it happen.
Click to see some of the practice drills
How it faced the Depression in 1933.
Click to read the Proclamation by Mayor Albert Wiese in 1933.
Also see some old pictures of the Mueller/Wiese families who lived through that difficult time in Manning's history.
Click to read all about it
Note: Without the Vollstedts and Kienasts sharing their pictures for the Manning School History book project and other historical projects I work on I wouldn't be able to share these things with you.
The same will hold true for the future Manning Veterans' history book.
If you don't come forward then I won't
be able to showcase as many Manning Veterans, both here and in the history book.
Click to read about Meryl's recent interview of his military career.
Funeral Services: Monday August 2, 10:30 AM at Sacred Heart Church
You can also read about several other members of the "Manning family" who recently passed away on my Memorial web page. Click here
Click to read about an idea
Buhmann/Vinke pictures from out-of-town residents and Dean Hoffmann.
Also: comparison of low resolution scanning mistakes many people make.
If you have old Manning family and Veteran photos to share please email David Kusel
Please remember that sharing should be a two-way street. You may not have ever lived in Manning but had relatives who lived here many generations ago. If you are reading this it probably means you are doing research.
If you visit my web pages looking for information (and maybe find something) but don't in turn share what you have then you may be hindering your own research.
If you share pictures and information you have with me then I can place some of that information on my web pages which may be found by someone else who in turn may be able to add even more information.
You aren't going to find very many websites that have been operating on the Internet since 1996 that freely offer as much detailed and widely ranged information as on my web pages.
I don't charge, have popup ads, or force you to log in, and I frequently add new information.
Another incentive for sharing is that all of the pictures and information I have stored on my computer hard drives will eventually be placed on a "DVD of Manning" and copies will be archived in the historical society building in Des Moines and several local libraries.
This will help prevent the continued loss of information that has been occuring over the generations.
Lynne Greene is looking for information on Henry and Laura (Vinke) Buhmann. You can read her post by clicking HERE
