1950s

Robert B. Hilliard (1957)
Harry F. Bangsberg (1957)
John E. Visser (1957)

Thomas E. Auge earned his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1957. He went on to teach history at John Carrol University in University Heights, Ohio and Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Auge wrote extensively about the city of Dubuque and the surrounding area as well as about modern European history. His published works include the biography Frederick Ozanam and his World, and contributions to The Life and Times of Julien Dubuque. He retired from teaching in 1995, but stayed active in community organizations including the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Dubuque County Historical Society, and Dubuque County Democrats.

Lewis F. Wheelock (1956)
Alton F.R. Lawrence (1955)
John Clifford (1954)
Gilbert A. Cahil (1954)

George Poage received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1954. That same year, he joined the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa, where he taught courses in German history, served as faculty chairman from 1971-1973, served as chairman of the All-College Conference on International Affairs from 1957 to 1962, served on the Educational Policies Commission, and served as an extension consultant on the United Nations. Poage founded the Iowa Consortium of the Social Studies in 1960 and founded the Model U.N. Program for Iowa high school students in 1964, which he directed for 17 years. Poage retired from UNI in 1981 and went on to found a Montessori school in Cedar Falls with his wife, Pat.

Ernest F. Sixta earned his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1953. He had taught courses in Western Civilization at Iowa from 1947 to 1950 and earned a Fulbright Fellowship to study Seventeenth Century English Literature at the University of London from 1950-1952. Sixta went on to become a professor of history at the College of New Jersey.

Robert Shibley Moth (1953)
John R. Bengtson (1953)
Donald Graham (1953)
Earl S. Beard (1953)
Harry Marshall Hutson (1952)
Paul L. Hughes (1951)
Robert W. Iverson (1951)
George C. Colman (1951)
Paul M. Davis (1950)
Morris R. Boucher (1950)
Lee C. Johnson (1950)