Sul Ross to Host Music Clinic in August
Sul Ross will host a music workshop in August from the 24th to the 30th. Participants include Dr. Walter Beeler from Ithaca College along with Mrs. Sue Dickerson Pierce, twirling instructor from Farmington, Mr. George Murphy Sul Ross Band Director, Mr. George Davis head of the Sul Ross Mu Dept, and Dr. Wm. A. Thomson professor of music at Sul Ross. Several nearby schools will send their bands to the workshop and fuller plans will be announced later.
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Sul Ross
Linieians
Walter Beeler
Ithaca College
Ithaca
N. Y
Sue Dickerson Pierce
Farmington
N. M
George Murphy
Sul Oss
George Davis
Wm. A. Thomson
Sul
Furver
Sul Ross State College to Observe Friday Holiday
The college announces Friday July 3 will be an official holiday. Classes will resume Monday morning July 6.
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Sul Ross State College
Educational numbers surface in 1958 59 Dent’s Report
The article notes Texas Education Agency seeks 1958 59 attendance figures with 925 331 children attend ing daily. It lists district tax evaluation 6 813 535 dollars at 1 75 per hundred with 45 for debt and 1 30 for maintenance. Cafeteria data shows 38 690 meals for children and 979 for adults over a 17 day year. Enrollment totals 524 boys and 564 girls, with 18 aged 18, 10 aged 19, and 4 aged 20, including 3 girls. Age totals include 132 6 year olds. Data were drawn from principals reports and teachers registers.
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Texas Education Agency
Alpine Schools Attendance and Band Plans Revealed
Alpine School figures show last year 970 members with 95 average daily attendance and 53 daily absences. The district logged 1,028 enrolled, 161,708 days present while 1,692 days were absent and 173,102 days reattended. The board approved band instruments including a bass trombone and trumpet set. Bandmaster Schultz and students installed an evaporative cooler in the bandhall to ease heat, with plans for continued use and potential broader adoption. A Rotary program featured artist Rodolfo Guzzardi, noted for Fort Davis historic paintings.
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Alpine
Gilmer-Aiken
Leland Schultz
Fritz Weyerts
Charlie Chambers
Alpine Rotary Club
Rodolfo Guzzardi
Fort Davis
United States
Rotary
Art talk on Communism and civilization values discussed
The speaker argued that Communist aims include overturning government and custom, predicting chaotic paintings reflecting those goals. The rest of the piece notes Alpine Schools bidding for 20 pound hectograph paper amid rising costs, with best bid under 90 cents per 500 sheets and annual usage around 1000 reams for 175 days.
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Ion
Guzzardi
Southern Baptist Missionaries Teach In Big Bend Bible Schools
Two Southern Baptist summer missionaries Peggy Comer and Linda Warren teach vacation Bible schools in the Big Bend Association serving Brewster Presidio Jeff Davis Culberson and parts of Reeves and Pecos counties. Comer 21 a Mercer University graduate and Warren 20 a junior at Shepherd College Va. have worked in youth programs and will conduct religious seminars and revival meetings after a two day Dallas clinic to orient them in Spanish language and customs. The program, sponsored by the Southern Baptist home mission board, serves as a testing ground for prospective full time missionaries with two thirds of home missionaries and many foreign workers having begun as summer missionaries.
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Southern Baptist
Big Bend Baptist Association
Peggy Comer
Americus
Gaant Linda Warren
Triangle
Texas
Big Bend Association
Brewster
Presidio
Jeff Davis
Culberson
Reeves and
Pecos
Miss Comer
Mercer University
Macon
Fuston
Miss Warren
Bhefield College
Southern Baptise Home Mission Board
Dallas
L. D. Wood
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Baptist Home
Boxer Rebellion Aims According to Participants
Reported aims of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion per participants were to drive all foreigners from China, underscoring anti foreigner sentiment and anti colonial grievances shaping the uprising.
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China
Alpine High School graduates college attendance rate
Alpine School officials report on 214 Alpine High School graduates since 1948 finds 149 attended or are attending college and 65 did not. The percentage is just under 70 percent for the past decade.
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Alpine School
Alpine High School
Alpine High
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