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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
3
The Akron Public Schools staff page highlights Marilyn Huebner as co editor and lists junior high reporters. A dramatic senior class note recalls Jane’s farewell with Van Johnson writing best of luck. Mary Ann plans to attend Morningside College to major in Religion.
Editorial by Jo Ann McInnis argues students misjudge schooling as dates and activities. She urges prioritizing grades and coursework to meet college entrance standards and grow understanding of the world. Education is a foundation for future jobs and informed citizenship.
A dramatic piece features a man at a ledge taunting onlookers as he contemplates jumping with a clock counting down and a governor mentioned as a possible pardon. The scene shifts to school news about band trips and a student profile, then to a Brooklyn teen named Jane Brooks with a secret yearning.
Stanley Koch of the senior class of 1952 is a well liked student with Agriculture as his favorite subject and future field. He enjoys baseball and swimming, loves popular music, and his favorite song is Lonely Little Robin. He has a fondness for strawberries and shows interest in old cars to boost auto knowledge. He is seen as a promising young man ready to prove his accomplishments.
All day and into the night I toiled to finish a very important chore I had to do. I could not stop until the work was through and by midnight the poem was due for the next noon. The piece and other stories appear in the Student Prints section of the Register-Tribune.
Norma Onnen writes as a sixth grade student praising united American aid during the Missouri flood. She highlights National Guard and Red Cross workers evacuating and assisting victims across all races and creeds, praising national resilience and freedom.
Mary Ann Hoffman, eighteen, five feet four, with blonde hair and blue eyes, enjoys piano, reads, listens to radio, and goes to the movies. She likes all classes, favors basketball as spectator sport and roller skating as active sport, and participated in Mixed Chorus, Glee Club, Declam, one-act play, newspaper reporter, and Annual this year.
A readthrough of school notes shows eighth graders studying the 1929 mood with three special reports by Carol Hillricks Donna Halverson and Nadine Dirks. Kindergarteners toured a hatchery and viewed robin eggs while first graders colored spring flowers and prepared for a class party. Ninth graders celebrate 32 Freshmen letters at an activity banquet and a student interview covers favorite subjects desserts sports and hobbies.
Week of May 5 to 9 features hot lunch menus with noodle soup roast pork macaroni and cheese meat loaf and potato salad plus calendar items including senior class play baseball games baccalaureate commencement and music contests at area towns with several dates in May and April listed.
Honor roll lists for April 21 25 1952 across grades two through twelve. Names include Patty Orvis Todd Tucker Jim Blankenburg Dennis Buys Emily Davis Ruth Ann Dowling Judy Frerichs Darrel Gerciotts Doug Gossard Elvira Kiemme Dianne Larsen Dale Stinton Pal m Wilcox Sharon Wilken Carol Brown Karen Henke Diana Heyl Marvin Neunaber Dennis Silkebakken Patty Borchers Nancy Earnest Margaret Ann Harris James Pannhuk Larry Parker David Shoulberg Lenton Stinton Patty Henrich Richard Hillvichs Darrell Lehmann Norma McLane Donna Muth Mervetta Octken Don Sikebakken Bonnie Frerichl Lorraine Skinner Harlan Bultman Carol Jean Hillrichs Pat McLane Arthur Friedrich Marion Johnson Donald Kapfer Janice Robbing Mary Ellen Wetzel Marion Davis Janet Heyl Mary Ann Hoffmen Mabel Long Janet McCarthy Anderson.
Pvt. Richard L. Witt of Akron Iowa completes basic training at Fort Meade Maryland and sails into the 16 week Medical Field Service School at Fort Sam Houston Texas. The first eight weeks covered basic military training and weapons skills. The remaining weeks focused on emergency medical treatment evacuation military sanitation and disease prevention.
Pfister seed corn arrival announced by Bob Smith Your Pfister dealer invites patrons who ordered corn to dall for pickup at Plymouth Co-Op at earliest convenience Extra corn in most numbers available and ready for sale Mentions genuine Pfister seed corn and dealer contact for pickup validations.
We thank relatives and friends for floral offerings and memorial gifts during illness and after the death of beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Andrew L. Jurgansen, and Children.
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