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City Press-Citizen RECORDS REGION Sunday, November 24, 2002 Obituaries Richard Grenko, 68 Richard L. "Dick" Grenko, 68, of 30 Bedford Court, died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at Mercy Hospital. Services are pending at Gay Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. Margaret Lillis, 81 Margaret Edna Lillis, 81, of Williamsburg, died Friday, Nov.

22, 2002, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City afer a sudden illness. Services are set for 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Williamsburg with the Rev. Joseph Roost officiating.

Burial is in the St. Mary Cemetery. Visitation is from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Uhlmann-Powell Funeral Home in Williamsburg with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. to be conducted by Chuck Lillis.

A memorial fund has been established for the Williamsburg Public Library. Miss Lillis was born June 3, 1921, in Williamsburg to Thomas M. and Ellen A. Morrin Lillis. She graduated from Williamsburg High School and lived and worked in Williamsburg all of her life.

Survivors include a sister-inlaw Alta Lillis of Williamsburg. Her parents; a brother, Thomas Lillis; and a sister, Mary Cash, died earlier. James Murphy, 76 James Walter Murphy, 76, of Apache Junction, AZ, and Iowa City, IA, died on Saturday, November 16, 2002, in Mesa of congestive heart failure after a 29 year history of heart disease. He was born in Davenport, IA on November 25, 1925, to Walter Gifford and Lillian DeWolf Murphy and attended school in Rock Island, IL, where he participated in band, Glee Club, track and basketball, graduating in 1943. As a member of the U.S.

Marines from 1943 to 1946, he served aboard the USS Europa, a German prize of war, transporting troops home to the United States. He attended Western Michigan University in 1943 and in 1949 he graduated from St. Ambrose in Davenport and married Joan Paulsen. They were the parents of four children and later divorced. Jim loved music and over the years directed church choirs and was a vocal soloist with a beautiful baritone voice.

For 39 years, his life work was spent in education as a music teacher and media specialist. From 1950 to 1966, he taught elementary and junior high vocal music and band in Rock Island, IL. He received his Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of Iowa in 1969 and served as Media Specialist in South East Junior High in Iowa City from 1969 to 1982. He then returned to his first love, elementary band, until 1989 and ended his career as Media Specialist at Iowa City High. A dedicated family man, Jim was never idle.

He found a variety of temporary and part-time jobs to provide more for his family, and he also officiated in basketball, wresting and baseball and softball. For twelve summers worked in construction and he tuned pianos for thirty-five years. Always a competitive sports enthusiast, he played basketball, handball and golf, enjoyed bowling and jogging and biking. In 1973, he married Jo Ellis in Iowa City. They retired in 1991, and became full-time RVers and spent nine wonderful years wintering in warm places, traveling from coast to coast, visiting family and friends and sightseeing in their travel trailer.

Frances Bennett, 83 Frances Marie Bennett, 83, of Columbus Junction died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at the McCreedy Nursing Home in Washington. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home in Columbus Junction with the Rev. Betsey Neipert officiating.

Burial will be in the Conesville Cemetery. Following services at the cemetery a luncheon will be held at the Conesville United Methodist Church. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home in Columbus Junction. Memorials may be directed to the Conesville United Methodist Church or the Washington County Hospice.

Mrs. Bennett was born Sept. 22, 1919, to Chester and Ruth (DeLap) Ramer. She married Harrison Eugene Bennett on Sept. 3, 1938, in Muscatine.

She worked at and Grocery in Bettendorf for many years. Survivors include one son, James Bennett of Davenport; one daughter, Norma Jean McCormac of Columbus Junction; five grandchildren; eight -grandchildren; four brothers, Don Ramer of Conesville, Ramer of Iowa City, Max Ramer of Conesville and Jack Ramer of Cedar Falls; and two sisters, Alice Hazen of Muscatine and Jean Yedlik of Muscatine. Her parents, husband and one brother, Pete, died earlier. During retirement, music continued to be a big part of Jim's life, and he continued to direct choirs and choruses and entertaining with vocal solos whenever the opportunity presented itself. He enjoyed square dancing, but in 1993, he discovered clogging while wintering in Texas and he and Jo clogged all over the country.

He loved the Superstition Mountains east of Mesa, AZ, and in 2000, he and Jo made Apache Junction, AZ, their home base with a view of those mountains. Part of every summer was spent in the Iowa City. This past August they pulled their travel trailer from Iowa City to the west coast and made their way to northern Washington camping on beaches and enjoying ocean views before returning, to Apache Junction on September 30. Over the years, Jim pursued many hobbies, including calligraphy and stained glass and, in the last seventeen years, had completed more than seventy meticulously cross-stitched pieces, most of them presented as gifts to family and friends. Jim is survived by his wife, Jo, seven children; his sons, Dan of Gloucester, MA, and Steve and wife, Diane, of Iowa City; daughters, Connie Pemberton of Tulsa and Marcia Murphy of Iowa City, and stepsons, Brad Ellis and Dean Ellis of Colorado and his stepdaughter DeAnn Ellis of Chicago.

Three beloved grandchildren, Jesse Boyd of Tulsa, Megan Murphy of Hamilton, MA, and Seth Murphy of Iowa City; his sister Mary Martha McClenahan and husband, Dave, of St. Petersberg, FL; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He is also survived by two families very close to his heart; Molly Abraham and Dave Walz and daughters, Katie, Elise and Tessa, of Iowa City; and Don and Cecilia Smullin and children, Matteo, AnnaLisa, Carolyn, Angelica and Katrina, of Blaine, WA. Jim was preceded in death by his parents, his only brother, Laurence Murphy, and a nephew and niece. At his request, his body was donated for medical research and cremation, and there was no public service.

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Kathy Teigland, 55 Kathy Teigland, 55, of rural Iowa City, died Friday, Nov. 22, 2002, at Mercy Hospital of a sudden illness. Services are pending at Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service, Iowa City. Eligibility From 3A ensure that we are doing everything we can to work with kids to ensure that they are doing the best they can in the classrooms. You read in the paper about all these decisions, but you don't read in the paper about the efforts that people are doing inside the building to ensure that students are producing their best work.

Some of the board members who voted for maintaining the requirements say that the decision should be made on a local level rather than a state level. Is this a matter best left to the local schools? Well, they have taken a stance, and I'm sure that we are going to respond to it. I think this is a local issue regarding whether we would increase the standard. I am much more comfortable having it being an option rather than a requirement. I very much appreciated what the board did last week in making a recommendation for a policy rather than mandating for all districts to adopt a new! policy.

If the board had implemented a or D-plus as the minimum grade, or if they had implemented a 1.5 or 2.0 graduate average as the standard, what would the result have been for your program? Again, we think passing a class is reasonable position to take regarding participation. When you start talking about grade point averages, you open the discussion to include many variable interests about what the grades mean and how the teachers are making those decisions. It's not an exact science. None of us wants to say that 'D is a Instead, we want our kids to be doing their best work. It's really a Catch-22.

All of us want to argue for higher standards for our kids, but in the culture of our high school, we don't want to work against those students who have the most difficulty getting through high school. We don't want to set a standard that's unreasonable for those kids. We want to provide these services for all our kids. Moffett From 1A feminist ever since growing up in Ottawa and attending a church that did not allow women to have any leadership roles. It was then that she started seeking out reading material that portrayed woman more accurately.

What spurred her feminist mentality was the slaying of an acquaintance near a beach party in Vancouver. While Moffett's memory is fuzzy on details, she recalls how outraged she was about how sexual violence was handled by authorities and the media. Authorities, she recalled, seemed to shrug off the death. Fueled by her desire to educate others about sexual violence and while wishing to hold people accountable for their actions, Moffett began participating in different kinds of activism. She also graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and women's studies from Concordia University in Montreal and then used her dual citizenship to explore the U.S.

Moffett worked as a freelance writer in San Francisco and Seattle, where she taught preschool for two years before moving to Iowa. Moffett is quick to note that she is just one of several women who are making sure sexual violence isn't brushed under the rug. Law students, sorority sisters, fellow women's studies majors and married men joined the rally that she helped organize. The group was met with some verbal threats and misogynistic violent com- Fans look for roses Ohio State win gives it share of championship By Mike McWilliams went Iowa City Press-Citizen their Iowa Though Buckeye fans are undoubtedly ecstatic about a Fiesta Bowl appearance for their team, Hawkeye fans are equally excited about a Rose Bowl appearance by the co-Big Ten conference champs. No.

2 Ohio State defeated No. 9 Michigan 14-9 Saturday in a game that went down to the last second. The Buckeyes now share the Big Ten title with the Hawkeyes, who clinched a share of the championship Nov. 16 after they trounced the Golden Gophers of Minnesota. Ohio State's victory shattered any hopes of lowa playing in the national championship Fiesta Bowl.

Despite a minute chance indicating otherwise, a Rose Bowl appearance by Iowa 1 is all but a reality. Eliezer Ortiz, a University of Iowa junior, said he did not follow college football until he attended UI. This season, the Hawkeyes Sept. 14 a marked difference from when Ortiz came to UI three years ago. "We've proven ourselves so many times this year, despite all the pessimism," he said.

"It's pretty sweet what (Kirk) Ferentz has done with the team." Sean Bucheit, a senior at the University of Northern Iowa, donned a white 11-1, with only loss to State on Ortiz Bucheit Michigan jersey complete with a headband at Buffalo Wild Wings Grill Bar, 201 S. Clinton St. He said he hoped for a Michigan victory to ensure an Iowa appearance in the Rose Bowl. "We want to lock it and take it to Pasadena so we can get our Group photo C. argrave plane tickets ready," he said.

"We'll probably work on getting tickets on Monday." At the Sports Column, 12 S. Dubuque fans were whiteknuckled as they clutched the edge of the bar. A collective sigh of disappointment followed by a string of expletives rang out as Michigan quarterback John Navarre threw an interception just short of the end zone with no time left on the clock. UI seniors Mandy Harris and Erin Burke, who watched the game at the Summit Restaurant Bar, 10 S. Clinton headed down to the Sports Column after the game.

The two made hotel reservations for their group of seven in Pasadena after last week's game versus Minnesota. Though Harris said Saturday's Ohio State-Michigan game was exciting, the end was disappointing. "It would've been nice to have the Big Ten championship to ourselves," she said. CHI CADI JAI Press-Citizen Deb Barber The staff of Hargrave-McEleney poses for a group photo. Each Sunday the Press-Citizen runs a group photo in this space.

If you have a suggestion, call 337-3181, ext. 354. Fire The Iowa City Fire Depart- ment responded to a medical assist at 9:51 a.m. Tuesday at 225 N. Clinton an alarm malfunction at 11:42 a.m.

at 1930 Lakeside Drive; a medical assist at 1:08 p.m. N. First a smoke detector activation at 2:49 p.m. at 500 E. Market and an emer- Newsmaker I Name: Jill Moffett Age: 29 Hometown: Ontario, Canada.

Family: Parents Duncan and Nancy, and brothers James, 27, Paul, 20, and sister Cathryn, 23. Education: Bachelor of arts in English and Women's Studies from Concordia University in Montreal. Hobbies: Activism, reading and sporadic work on FACT, a self-published magazine. Future plans: Moffett is interested in specializing in the study of how breast cancer is addressed in the modern age. She also wants to be a writer, teacher and to continue being an activist.

ments, she said. As a volunteer with the Women's Resource and Action Center, she looks for people in the university community who have tolerated sexual violence and have helped foster such acts. "This is not about one basketball player," Moffett said. "I really hope the university will handle this will send a message to men and women that this is not appropriate and isn't something that will just blow over. In my opinion, every student is upset about the way this was handled by the university and by the courts." Hot OFF THe PresS! 4 call 339-SELL to place an ad What's CLASSIFIED STORE deadline: daily for next day's issue Press- Citizen pre Advertiser gency medical services call at 3:14 p.m.

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