Branstad serves on the boards of, among others, Conmed Health Management Inc, American Future Fund, Iowa Health System, Liberty Bank, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Living History Farms.

The film spawned the sequels, remakes and imitations Debbie Does Dallas 2, 3 and 4, Debbie Does Dallas 99, Debbie Does Dallas: The Next Generation, Debbie Does Iowa, Debbie Goes to College, Debbie Does ' Em All, Night of the Living Debbies, Debbie Duz Dishes 1, 2 and 3, Bang the Debbie Slowly and Debbie Does the Devil in Dallas.

* Iowa: Living in the Third World, published in The Des Moines Register on July 16, 1995.

* Iowa: Living in the Third World at Iowa State University, Department of Sociology, Rural Sociology, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice

* Education for Creative Living: Ideas and Proposals of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Iowa State University Press, 1989

During the First World War, he served in France as a captain of the Company C outpost signal company of the Iowa National Guard's Third Infantry, then resumed the practice of law in Ottumwa.

In 2009, there were at least 75 pedestrian malls in the U. S. Besides the Kalamazoo Mall, some notable examples are the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vermont ; the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia ; Ann Arbor, Michigan ; the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California ; the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada ; the Buffalo Place Main Street Pedestrian Mall in Buffalo, New York ; Ithaca Commons in Ithaca, New York ; the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado ; St. Charles, Missouri ; Salem, Massachusetts ; Ped Mall in Iowa City, Iowa ; Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida ; CityPlace in West Palm Beach, Florida ; the Fulton Mall in Fresno, California ; the 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado ; State Street in Madison, Wisconsin ; Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; The Grove in Los Angeles, California ; Fort Street Mall in Honolulu, Hawaii ; City Center in Oakland, California ; Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, Downtown Crossing and Faneuil Hall / Quincy Market in Boston ; Washington Street Mall in Cape May, New Jersey ; The Downtown Cumberland Mall in Cumberland, Maryland ; and many others.

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

*, an Iowa class battleship in service from 1944 to 1998 ; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II ; decommissioned in 1998 ; now a floating war memorial at Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Unique among US cities was Ottumwa, Iowa, which, on November 30, 1982, was declared the " Video Game Capital of the World " by Mayor Jerry Parker.

While pearl button production levels in Beulah would never have been competitive with the self-proclaimed " Pearl Button Capital of the World " at Muscatine, Iowa at the height of industry in that city in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Beulah shares in the rich heritage of this industry.

The flag was based on a concept by retired Army Special Forces First Sergeant Bill Kendall of Jefferson, Iowa, who designed a flag to honor Medal of Honor recipient Captain Darrell Lindsey, a B-26 pilot from Jefferson who was killed in World War II.

On Memorial Day 2008, two friends from Muscatine, Iowa, Kevin Whittaker and Cory Jens set the Guinness World Record for the world's longest handshake at 9 hours and 30 minutes in San Francisco, CA.

In 1983 the Maharishi invited government leaders to interact with his organization called " World Government " that same year he organized a two week " collective meditation " at Maharishi International University in Iowa with the goal of purifying world consciousness.

Born in Hallock, Minnesota, Dr. Pederson entered Iowa State College in the autumn of 1943, but then left for the military during World War II.

Believing that public discussion as civic education was the key to renewing democracy, he first ran a series of forums in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932 – 1934, then instituted the Federal Forum Project, 1936 – 1941 until just before the outbreak of World War II.

The Iowa class battleships were designed after the beginning of World War II, and they took full advantage of the escalator clause ( 16-inch guns, 45, 000 standard displacement ); other than the monstrous Yamato class, the Iowa class was the heaviest class of battleship ever put to sea ( The Vanguard was heavier than the Iowas at standard loading, but lighter at full load ).

At least six localities ( all in the Midwestern United States ) claim to be the " Popcorn Capital of the World ": Ridgway, Illinois ; Valparaiso, Indiana ; Van Buren, Indiana ; Schaller, Iowa ; Marion, Ohio ; and North Loup, Nebraska.

* The best university in the state of Iowa – U. S. News & World Report Best College Rankings, 2008 edition

* University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics ranked as one of “ America ’ s Best Hospitals ” for the 20th year in a row ( since rankings began in 1990 – U. S. News & World Report, 2009.

* The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History's Fine Arts program has been ranked # 22 in the country by U. S. News & World Report ( 2012 Edition ).

" Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood ", MA project in conjunction with the Museum for American Studies of the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia, 1998 ; includes list of paintings and gallery.

In 1966, the East Rochester Little League's Senior Division Baseball All-Star team became world champions, winning the World Series, which was held in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football, a top 10 college football team during World War II.

The movie itself collected top accolades from the Santa Monica, Stony Brook, Marco Island, Houston World fest and Iowa Hardacre Film Festivals.

In Iowa and Minnesota, " World Food Day ", October 16, is referred to as " Norman Borlaug World Food Prize Day ".

In 1991 Wolf moved to rural Iowa and began a writing workshop with neighboring farmers that ran for two winters.

During the time he worked with Iowa farmers, Wolf was also traveling to west Tennessee to conduct writing workshops there.

* Leonard G. Wolf, United States House of Representatives from Iowa

Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah, and southern Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow.

* Wolf Creek ( Iowa ), a tributary of the Cedar River ( Iowa River ) in Grundy and Black Hawk Counties, Iowa

* Wolf Creek ( Minnesota ), a tributary of the Cedar River ( Iowa River ) in Mower County, Minnesota

In 1854, Elizabeth Alexander, a pioneer living near what is now Fayette, Iowa, proposed the idea of a college to her husband, Robert, who donated $ 10, 000 toward the cause.

Iowa State University Press, 1980 * Berkhofer, Robert F. " The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present "

Garfield nominated William Windom of Minnesota as Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Hunt of Louisiana as Secretary of the Navy, Robert Todd Lincoln as Secretary of War, Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa as Secretary of the Interior.

On October 17, 1887 Robert F. Evans, also an Iowa native, purchased an additional.

Perhaps the best-known historic resident of Piketon was Robert Lucas, the governor of Ohio and territorial governor of Iowa.

It was founded in 1908 by the Immigration Land Company of Des Moines, Iowa, and received its name from Iowans G. I. Hoffmann and Robert Beard.

Shepherdstown was the birthplace of Robert Lucas ( 1781 ), the future governor of Ohio and territorial governor of Iowa.

* Robert B. Mitchell, " The Untamed Greenbacker ," Iowa Heritage Illustrated, vol.

Robert Harold Schuller ( born September 16, 1926, in Alton, Iowa ) is an American televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author.

Major Robert Wray of Iowa ( October 9, 1916 – April 27, 2012 ) was Commanding Officer of the 34th Pursuit Squadron, flying P40 ’ s.

There was also a small American Nazi Party that operated out of Davenport, Iowa led by a John Robert Bishop.

* Robert T. Anderson ( born 1945 ), Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

* Robert W. Pratt ( class of 1969 ), District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Johanns was born in Osage, Iowa, the son of Adeline Lucy ( née Royek ) and John Robert Johanns.

* A cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa owned by John Stuart, his son Robert Stuart, and their partner George Douglas ;

Hull was court-martialed, and at a trial presided over by General Henry Dearborn, with evidence against him given by Robert Lucas, a subordinate and the future governor of Ohio and territorial governor of Iowa.

In 1965, Des Moines, Iowa residents John F. Tinker ( 15 years old ), John's younger sister Mary Beth Tinker ( 13 years old ), and their friend Christopher Eckhardt ( 16 years old ) decided to wear black armbands to their schools ( high school for John and Christopher, junior high for Mary Beth ) in protest of the Vietnam War and supporting the Christmas Truce called for by Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

* Robert H. Sunday House, Marshalltown, Iowa

* Robert G. Cousins 1881 — U. S. Congressman from Iowa ( 1893 – 1909 )

* Robert Dana — Poet Laureate of Iowa

* Robert D. Ray, former Governor of Iowa.

The record is approached, but not matched, by the nearly-15-year tenure of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York ( January 1959-December 1973 ) as well as the 14-year tenures attained by Branstad's first gubernatorial predecessor, Robert D. Ray of Iowa ( 1969 – 83 ); Governor James R. Thompson of Illinois ( 1977 – 91 ); and Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin ( 1987 – 2001 ).

Robert Alan Dahl ( born 17 December 1915, Inwood, Iowa ), is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University, where he earned his Ph. D. in political science in 1940.

Robert Frank Knoop ( born October 18, 1938 in Sioux City, Iowa ) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and right-handed batter who played for the California Angels ( 1964 – 69 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1969 – 70 ) and Kansas City Royals ( 1971 – 72 ).