Alice Dunning Flick

(Alice Josephine Dunning)

Fall 1964 Alumnae Quarterly:

In August Alice Dunning Flick had her daughter and family visiting her. One enjoyable day was spent visiting their old home in Bedford. Alice's younger daughter joined the reunion often, and the others visited her, in turns, at Ames. Alice and I have had a quite lively correspondence this summer. I wish she had time to be your correspondent as well as your efficient president.

Winter 1967 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick saw the cyclone cloud that wrought such havoc about 20 miles away. Their next experience was the first blizzard of the season, and that is enough newsworthy weather for Iowa for a while.

Spring 1967 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick, in her big house, always the hospitable hostess, with a special welcome for western-roving Goucher friends, finds time for usual church work and writing good letters to me.

Winter 1969 Alumnae Quarterly:

Our president has never in all these 65 years shirked a single task relating to the class; she is on the job; she remembers things. She is that rare character who is warm-hearted and efficient. I know my classmates will join me in a New Year's salute to our beloved Alice Dunning Flick.

Summer 1969 Alumnae Quarterly:

I was beginning to be uneasy about Alice Dunning Flick when a letter came from her. She is doing well, is busy.

Winter 1970 Alumnae Quarterly:

She and Alice Flick take daily walks, but I wouldn't take one with Alice, on a cold day following a 27 degree night. She did that. I received her card on my 90th birthday; her hobby, or one of them, is the class of 1903 and she knows a lot about us, just as Prof. Shefloe did.

Winter 1971 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick, still in her big house, seems never hurried nor flurried about a leaky roof, ink spilled on her best rug, or unexpected company. How does she manage? We do know that such things do happen, but they never get her down.

September 1971 Alumnae Quarterly:

Spring is everywhere. Alice Dunning Flick takes a moment to relax in her lilac-scented garden - a piece of Iowa's lovely spring.

Summer 1973 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice DUnning Flick, our class president, keeps in touch with many of us. She is a wonderufl president. Alice still lives in Des Mointes. One of her daughters who lived in Fla. passed away on Easter morning. Alice writes, "My daughter Frances has gone to Fla. for the service. In all the sorrow there is a happy note for me - my daughter's son and his wife plan to come out to Ia. to bring my great-granddaughter for me to see." Our deep sympathy to Alice.

Summer 1974 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick reports she feels fortunate to have her family with her in Des Moines, Iowa, but she finds it a little difficult to keep up the amount of correspondence she would like.

Summer 1975 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice DUnning Flick writes from Des Moines: "My son Robert, who lives with me, is retiring this year from teaching and is looking forward to retirement. I am still too busy. I have just become a Life Member of the American Association of University Women."

Winter 1976 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick wrote a happy letter. Her son, Rob, has retired. She says it seems strange not to get up early and have regular hours for eating and going to work. They had a busy summer with guests.

Summer 1976 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick had a nice visit of two weeks in March from her daughter who is a librarian at the University of Arizona, but she misses frequent visits from her grandchildren who are in New York and Florida. Regarding the "cover girl" on the Fund appeal she wrote: "I was so proud of you and of a member of 1903 who still cares for our college. The class has been loyal even if now there are only three members left."

Summer 1977 Alumnae Quarterly:

"Alice Dunning Flick was surprised when my daughter phoned her in March when she was visiting friends in Iowa. They had a nice visit and Be said Alice sounded well even though she was getting over the flu."

Summer 1979 Alumnae Quarterly:

"As far as I know just Alice Dunning Flick and I are about all that is left of 1903. My daughter, Be, had a nice telephone visit with Alice in April from the Des Moines airport, and reported she sounded fine at age 99. Their winter hadn't been as bad as in some of Iowa, and she and her son, Rob, were enjoying spring."- Millie Benson Bielaski

Summer 1981 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick will be "101" in August. To the question concerning her longevity, Alice just laughed and noted that all her family were long lived and that she's always been healthy. She walks an equivalent of four or five blocks each day and is viatlly interested in daily events. She also has a spectacular "green thumb" and keeps dozens of plants and flowers on her wide window sills. She lives in the family home with her son Robert. Last August her PEO chapter and her son gave a reception for her 100th birthday, at which time she received a beautiful memory book from her study club.
Alice was active in the women's suffrage movement, helped establish a Carnegie Library in Bedford, and belonged to the Women's Civic League, an early form of women's lib. In 1921, the family moved to Des Moines, where Alice joined the study group, Brevity Club, and was active in her church, is a member of PEO, was in the Des Moines Women's Club, and helped establish the Association of Attorneys' Wives. She was branch president of AAUW and has had an association fellowship established in her name. She is a true inspiration to all.

Summer 1986 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Dunning Flick '03
Goucher's oldest alumna died on February 1, 1986. She would have been 106 years old this year.
Ms. Dunning was born on August 25, 1880, in Bedford, Iowa. On June 5, 1907, she married Bruce Flick, a lawyer, and over the following nine years they had three children.
Ms. Dunning was active in the women's suffrage movement and helped establish a Carnegie Library in Bedford. In 1921 the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where Ms. Dunning continued to be an outstanding community leader.