Articles from September 2025

On September 13, 2025, Iowa Lions Eye Bank marked its 70th anniversary with the Strikes for Sight fundraiser at Colonial Lanes in Iowa City. The event honored decades of sight-saving work and featured a powerful simulation of Fuchs Dystrophy, allowing attendees to experience vision loss firsthand.

Dave McGlaughlin says he picked his wife, Jeanna, out of a catalog. “We both worked at West Music at the same time,” Dave says. “Every year, the music education department published a catalog of all the bongos, maracas and stuff they sold to universities and schools, and they always had pictures of the staff.” Dave worked at the West Music in Waterloo at the time, while Jeanna worked at the Coralville location. He says he thought Jeanna looked cute in her picture in the catalog. “I knew she was the one,” Dave says.