Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, August 28, 2008
Four new teachers join Diagonal faculty
Four new faces greeted students in the Diagonal Community school district when students started the new year recently.
Jackie ALLEN is the new middle school math and English teacher, Curtis LAMBSON is the new middle school and high school
English and journalism teacher. Patrick OSWALD is the new instrumental music instructor, and Katie Van ARKEL is the
new fourth grade teacher. ALLEN has degrees from the University of Texas in Dallas and the College of Saint Mary in
Omaha, NE. She last taught middle school at Saint Patrick's School in Missouri Valley. LAMBSON has a degree from
Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM. He taught school in Idaho before moving here for the job. OSWALD has a
degree from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. She has taught at Smouse Elementery at Des Moines, the
University of Iowa and South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. Van ARKEL is a new graduate from Central College
in Pella. Her hometown is Grinnell.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2012
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