Postville Star (Newspaper) - December 20, 1935, Postville, Iowa I a Merry Christmas i - New Year THE STAR BRIGHTEST Published Bi-Weekly By Public Schools ] Merry Christmas j Happy New Year I Established 1926. DECEMBER 20, 1935. Volume 10.-Number 8. Senior High Holds Its Open Forums Many Timely Subjects Discussed By and Girls in Regular ' Monthly Session senior high and meetings carried out monthly for the purpose of in open topics suggested by the students themselves were last Tuesday 2:30 to 3:15. by Aldora the senior girls discussed Qualifications of a Good The girls were elected to take charge of coming Vice Ruby Marie Program Marjorie of manners was made by the girls v of the junior Roberta general chairman and leader of the appointed the following Committee to prepare the program for Cathryn Kathryn and Margaret The sophomore girls analyzed personality and suggested ways of improving one's The girls of the freshman class considered the topic The boys held a mass meeting during tune they discussed Superintendent Carroll talked concerning conduct in the school He was followed by Mr. C. D. a talk on table manners and conduct m public At representative of each class then expressed nis ideas upon the same The meeting ended with a short talk by Mr. T. R. Children Write Letters to Santa Claus Nothing is quite so intriguing as the letters to Santa Claus by the younger children telling him of the Christinas gifts they The letters printed below were written by boys and girls in the first and third * * * * I a streamlined four a streamline a and Gene a little dump a little train with a and and a picture 1 Mease bring a hand truck for my Shirley wants a rubber a two one for Keith arid one for me so we will not have to 1-teft Shirwood a curls and that can a little ring and wants an electric wants a wants a Santa Claus that Peggy Lou on Page I F HE COULD be with us today bodily as well as in spirit if He could see that His children still fan the torch of envy and intolerance surely He would raise His arms high above and as we kneel at His feet in again show us the the cannot be with us thus but let us make this anniversary of His birth memorable by giving Him the greatest gift of a pledge of and the joy of though He be not with us in fleshly His eternal Spirit will rest in new found tranquility and shall by making our world a haven for beauty for the brief respite during which we visit it. life a sanctified interlude until we pass into that realm where all is pure and in the name of as He visualized it. Grades Give Musical Program In Assembly Students of the junior high and lower grades presented a program of musical numbers for the senior high Thursday December 19. The under the direction of Miss Teresa was as A Letter to Santa Jessie Gaynor Merry Gaynor O Christmas Grade I 9 m m m Luther's Cradle Up on the Kris Kringle's Rennes Grades II and ni * * * Dear Little The First or Grades IV and V * * * Break O Heavenly Light Stille Heilige Adeste Bring a Isabella French Carol Junior Chorus * * * Birth of Scene Scene Men Scene Joseph and Christ Child Carols led by the Junior Chorus FUTURE FARMERS ENTERTAIN GIRLS AT CHRISTMAS PARTY Members of the Postville chapter of Future Farmers of America entertained their girl to a Christmas party on December 19. The committee in charge of the entertainment Willard Harlan and Robert The boys appointed to manage the refreshments Boyd Guy and Clinton WHO Representative Explains Radio Work Mr. Robert representative of the Central Broadcasting Company and its radio station addressed the assembled student body Friday December 13, on the subject in His opening theme concerned the history of radio and its development up to the present During this discussion he stated that Iowa leads in twelve divisions of Enumerating these divisions he told that a Dr. DeForest of Council Bluffs invented the first 500 watt transmitter as well as the first vacuum tubes used in and that two Iowa radio stations were of the first three to receive a license from the federal Mr. Baylock presented important statistics and examples showing how a radio station is devices and the cost of He also forecast the future of telling of the government's plans for improving the radio He also described television and several new models of Students Present Yuletide One-Act Play Featured in Senior Santa Claus to Visit Junior High to Distribute Gifts Student programs in observance of Christmas were presented in both the junior and senior high assemblies on Friday 20. The high school program consisted of the following CHRISTMAS DESTINY One-act play by Dorothy C. Allan Cast of Characters Prologue and Epilogue A Olson Death Peterson Life Miller Sleep German Christmas Club Main Scene Peg Klingbeil Raymond Cole A Olson Uncle Humphrey Christmas Sextette The Christmas program for junior high was presented by tohe eighth grade under the direction of Miss Ruth The order of the program was as Santa's Dorothy Virginia Livingood Christmas Sextette Christmas of Boys and Girls History of Schroeder Carols Assembly Guessing Assembly Fish Gifts High Teachers Faculty Member Receives Mexican Wireless Puppy Mr. of music in the Public recently received a. wrapped present from some unknown This gift is none other than a the rarest specimen of all times; in the letter telling of its pedigree is the only one of Its It ihas been shipped from Mexico and has an extraordinary accented doubt a Mexican After receiving numerous communications from the kennels from which the dog was Mr. Lowell finally received the rubber Junior High Declam Held Last Thursday A crowd attended annual junior high declam contest December 12, in the high school The twenty-two participating readers were judged by Mrs. J. W. Mrs. J. T. and Miss Margaret In the oratorical Alan who read was adjudged the while Robert reading Am an was Maxine Hills placed first in the dramatic giving the selection with Virginia Margaret and Marilyn Heins following her as These contestants read the Poor Little Because of. In the humorous Duane who read at the carried off the first place Marilyn Thomson giving speaking Perkin's Toboggan and Donald reading placed third and Instrumental music was by Shirley Mae Lloyd and Louis Hill during the Members of the German class original German Christmas The students did likewise in
