Alpine Schools Use Met Achievement Tests and New Report Cards
Know Your City Schools Achievement tests were given in Alpine grade schools this week as diagnostic markers for teachers. Metropolitan Achievement Tests Form A will be followed by another form about a month before term end. Report cards for Alpine students were prepared with new features including an overall quartile rating on page two for grades four to eight and a modified card for grades one to three, with pronounced achievement score areas.
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Eleanora Simmons
Central School
Treasury Department
Alpine
A A U W Society Opens Season With Dessert Event
The executive board welcomed members and prospective members at a dessert party in the Presbyterian church on Oct. 14. Guests included Mrs. Knox Reid and other officers, Miss Margaret Owen, Miss Helen Barron, Mrs. Moore of Marfa, and Sul Ross students. A.A.U.W. programs, scholarships, and a drive for library membership were discussed. The Sul Ross Fine Arts Trio debuted, and education speaker Mr. Lincoln Wong spoke on China. Volunteers funded World Festival boxes for needy children, with a conection to a Midland cone cone.
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Executive Board
The
Presbyterian Church
Knox Reid
Wedena We” Wa Specia
Mmes. B. T. Sanders
Frank Warnock
Thomas French
W. P. Kane
Lester Eubanks
Hugh Dallman
Margaret Owen
Helen Barron
D. C. Moore
Mar
Hal Wagner
County Tuberculosis Association
A.A.U.W
Anne Whittaker
Pearl Ponsford
Sul Ross Fine Arts Trio
Preston Stedman
Ray Allen
Mary Nell Higgins
Alma Littrell
Myrtle Whiteside
Alfred E. Creigh
R. M. Hawkins
George Mills
John R. Simpson
Alma Littrettl
Rubye Durst
Ralph Gray
J. T. Johnson
Lincoln Wong
China
Wong
Sul Ross College
U. S
Marathon
Recone
Midland
Delta Kappa Gamma Receives New Members in Alpine
Four new members joined the Beta Iota chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma in a Saturday ceremony at the First Christian church with Mrs. Arthur G. Plucher presiding. Initiates include Mrs. Reuben Smith of Alpine Central school and Mrs. Charles Bowman and Mrs. Rudolph Mellard of Marfa. Mrs. Henry Key of Alpine Centennial school becomes member. Mellard is honorary, Winter and Link plus Brite named state honorary members. Brite receives Doctor of Laws from Texas Christian University.
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Beta Iota
Delta Kappa Gamma
National Honorary Society For Teachers
First Christian Church
Arthur G. Plucher
Reuben Smith
Central School
Alpine
Charles Bowman
Rudolph Mellard
Marfa
Henry Key
Centennial School
Mellard
Vic Winter
Beta Lota Chapter
Virginia Lee Link
L. C. Brite
Brite
Texas Christian University
Honest Work and Self Respect in School Support
A concise statement argues that honest work builds self respect and that securing school support becomes easier when effort is genuine. The excerpt emphasizes personal integrity and reliable effort as foundational to community backing for education.
Garden Club Meets in Davis Home
Alpine Garden Club gathered at Mrs. Wally Davis home with co hostesses Mrs Davis and Mrs Truman Hatch. New member Mrs W A Morton joined and former member Mrs A R Stambaugh returned plus Mrs Henry LaBetff became active. President Mrs Ben Scott read an invitation from Marfa Garden Club.
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Alpine Garden Club
Wally Davis
Davis
Truman Hatch
W. A. Morton
A. R. Stambaugh
Henry LaBetff
Ben Scott
Marfa Garden Club
Marfa Garden Club Hosts Flower Show and Talk
The Marfa Garden Club holds a flower show in the civic building and invites members to attend. New stationery and calendars are available through the club, with bulbs planned for planting near the highway department building. Mrs. Vernon McIntyre spoke on her Bermuda trip with photos and souvenirs, noting Shaw's Gardens in St. Louis.
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Marfa
USO
Garden Club
Audubon Societies
Alderson
Highway Department
Alpine
Vernon
McIntyre
Bermuda
Shaw
St. Louis
Enroute
Bermifida
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Southern Assemblies
National Education Association
A.A.U.W. Executive Board
M. L. Hopson Trans-Pecos Abstract Co
Texas
Iltonchor
E. Holland
Cockrell
Uss. Hy
KAY Insurance Agency
Fuller
Alpine, Tex
J. C. Epperson
Hord Bldg
Fifth St
Livingston Funeral Home Funeral Directors
Crawford - Baines Insurance Agency
Alpine Lodge
A. F
A.M. B. B. West
W. M
Howell
Big Bend Feed Co
Alan R. Fraser Ead
Ellie Holland Hotel
G.I
Harry W. Carpenter
Big Bend Abst. Co
BIG Bend Abstract CO
Helen D. Cibb
Brewster County Abstracts Title Insurance
Big Bend
T. B. Davis
Alpine, Texas
T. A. Beard
Standard Oil Products
Harris Cabinet Shop
W. Holland Ave
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General
Trans-Pecos Abstract Company
Alpine, Brewster Co
General Insurance
ONDS
Hopson & Hopson
Trans-Pecos Abstract Co
W.G. Fielder
Mobilgas
Mobiloil
A. T. Owens
Old Garnett
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Marfa, Texas
J. W. Dollahite
Marta
Willard
Alpine Drug Store
City Drug
Society
Lange
N. Fifth St
Federal Land Bank Loans
Marfa National Farm Loan Association
J. Fred Lalanne
Electric Deep Freeze
Youngstown
Alpine Lumber Company
ITC
Saeed Sea
America
United States
Mississippi
Southern Pacific
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