For many years, engineering students designed and built for Homecoming a "Corn Monument" that occupied a prominent place near the Pentacrest and downtown Iowa City.
For many years, engineering students designed and built for Homecoming a "Corn Monument" that occupied a prominent place near the Pentacrest and downtown Iowa City.
Mary Elizabeth Wood grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, with five sisters and three brothers. Her father worked as a miner, and her mother and grandmother worked as domestic servants.
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Mary graduated from East High School and attended…
![Program for University of Iowa Homecoming, 1990 [excerpt]](https://www.iowaheritage.org/files/thumbnails/6d8da03fab9d902e935e5345292e3808.jpg "Program for University of Iowa Homecoming, 1990 [excerpt]")
