Pearl MirichPearl Rumble was born December 8th, 1910, in Mount Vernon, Iowa, the youngest of the eight children of Pearl Dodge Rumble and Clarence H. Rumble. The family moved to Cedar Rapids in 1917. Pearl graduated from Cornell College in 1933, Phi Beta Kappa, .A., and taught high school in Illinois from 1935 to 1940. Pearl married Mark Mirich on June 19, 1937, in Golden, Colorado, and they had two daughters. When her hus-band died in 1948 she returned to teaching language arts and social studies in Cedar Rapids. She attended summer sessions at the University of Iowa, earning an M.A. in English in 1955. After her retirement she taught English as a second language from 1980 to 1985. On November 26, 2009, fifty weeks into her 99th year, Pearl Mirich passed away at home in Iowa City, Iowa. Read More Read Less