Volume 12, Number 1 (1939) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
The Good Student
Norma Bollhoefer
Fiction
Not Choosers
Florence Hansen
Gee Willigans
Ruth C. Holt
Harvest Time
Mary Graham Jones
Run-A-Ways
Llewelyn Long
Fishing Fun
Marjorie Bannister
Never Again
Gordon Turnbull
October Afternoon
Don Charles
The Card Game
Betty Schuchert
Merry Christmas
Doris Coffman
Of Scarabs and Blisters
Eileen Rutherford
Engineer Ed
Thurlow Karr
Even to Her Party
Eleanor Rae Kreussel
Poetry
Memories - Erinnerung
Kathleen Riebe and Josef Schaefer (Translator)
Front Page News
Dorothy Jean Tostlebe
I Gave My Heart
Mary Ballou
Fulfillment
E. Winson Wallace
Prayer of a Young Man
Leon Strain
Cry of a Nebraska Farmer
Lee Parman
Eternal Tragedy
W. Wendell Phillips
I Am Glad We Climbed Together
Ruby F. Willoughby
Art
Prose
A Tranquil Ending
Jack J. Graber
Corn Grading
Evelyn Black
Putting Away the Hay
Pauline Rankin
Reminiscence
Elmer Falk
The Greatness of Nature
Jesse Bayevsky
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Lois Moessner
- Business Manager
- Audrey Peet
- Faculty Adviser
- Selina M. Terry
