Morningside Connect

Adeline Anderl ’34 celebrated with family and friends as she turned 102. She currently resides at Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City, Iowa, and has lived quite the life.

She was born in 1913 in White Lake, South Dakota, but when she turned two, her family moved to Sioux City. She has lived in the Morningside College neighborhood for 100 years. She graduated from East High School when she was around the age of 16 and went on to start her educational journey at Morningside College. During her time at Morningside, she was involved in the sorority ADPi. Anderl loved her English classes during her time as a student. After graduating with a degree in English, she went on to teach English, rhetoric, debate, and drama.

When she was teaching in Le Mars, Iowa, she became secretly engaged. At this time, a woman couldn’t be a teacher and married, so many couples would keep their engagement a secret for some time. They eventually eloped, and at the end of the school year, she left teaching.

Anderl was a mother to three boys, Richard, Jim, and William. She has lived a very social life. She was involved in her church, involved in PEO, played bridge very successfully, and picked up the game of golf around age 50. Jim says she had something going on at the house every week.

In her lifetime she has witnessed some important moments for Siouxland and surrounding places. Anderl’s first apartment was across the street on Morningside Avenue. In 1957, when the Grace Church burned down, they were able to see it and her three boys were able to get closer looks the next day.

Anderl was also working one summer as a secretary for Mr. Wells in an office in Sioux City. During that summer, the company held a contest in the Sioux City Journal for a company mascot. The mascot picked was the blue bunny and thus, Blue Bunny Ice Cream came to exist.