Elmer Schwieder Author

Elmer Schwieder (1925-2005) was emeritus professor of sociology at Iowa State University. Dorothy Schwieder is emerita professor of history at Iowa State University and the author or coauthor of, among others, Iowa: The Middle Land and Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (IOWA 2002). Thomas Morain is the author of, among others, Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century; he is director of community outreach at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.