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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1961
Page
4
BCHS American problems class visited morning kindergarten to observe 23 youngsters under Mrs Agatha Beemer. Mrs Kathryn Kirketey led observations on children's behavior and responses away from home as part of studying leadership and global issues.
Forty three girls in Bedford Community junior high at Conway study home design under Mrs. Agnes Miller. Seventh graders completed dimensional room drawings using pastel chalk and color schemes. Formal designs with circles triangles and squares guided creation. Sketchbook assignments include outdoor animal drawings to deepen interest.
Bedford High School Hi Y Club holds an initiatory ceremony with 56 petitioned members pledging to Christian living and club uplift. Dennis Spencer presided in his absence, with Harl Holt visiting, and plans discussed for Christmas wreath sales and caroling.
Virginia Scherich tops the BCHS senior magazine sales drive with Nancy Timberlake Darlene King and Jean Cox also earning honors. Subscriptions over 20 qualified for prizes with Dick Dalton Ramona Moore and Margaret Whipple noted. Gifts for the final four days went to Dick Dalton and Virginia Scherich as BCHS thanks sponsors and patrons.
BCHS shorthand IT and office practice students wore inappropriate secretary outfits and gum chewing. Each student presented a two minute sketch depicting an office scenario for recording and study. Miss Nancy Main notes the portrayal intentionally violated good office behavior.
BC High School students in a grooming unit for secretaries dressed and acted as efficient secretaries for a day to analyze personal strengths and future job possibilities. Instructor Mrs. Mansfield notes the exercise helps break old habits and plan improvements as they adjust to new roles.
World Service projects by Bedford Y-Teens involved a penny drive in the BCHS noon hour and a puppet story hour for first to third graders in the BCHS auditorium. About 40 Y-Teen members participated, totaling 13 dollars 35 cents for the overseas Christian service fund.
Mills, a veteran journalist now in St. Joseph, Missouri, spoke to Ottumwa and Shenandoah classes about interviews with celebrities and criminals. He described carrying a camera, typewriter, and tape recorder, and recounted daring interviews atop a 170 foot high pole and other human interest stories.
Bedford Community Junior High staged a pre Thanksgiving assembly on November 22 featuring eight grade class chosen original plays. Scenes drew from library books during National Library Week with Mrs Lorena Clayton guiding the book week project. Cast included Kay Mullen Jeanne Robinson Floyd Henderson Jimmy Cummings Betty Jensen and others in dramatizations of Mystery at Deer Hill Where the Heart Is and Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars.
The Junior Gazette reports first graders enjoying reading and library visits. Miss Myrna Wilson's class makes ibook covers while Mrs Clara Cabbage's fifth graders craft a 10x12 foot floor plan of Town's first schoolhouse. Sixth graders study a small hand generator from the local phone company, with cartoons and puzzles in the issue and bequests noted by sixth graders.
Linda Smalley and Marilyn Swigart, BCHS students, served as co chairs of the puppet projects designed to enhance the entertainment for children.
Finished orders for BCHS senior photos were purchased and distributed to class members on November 21. Photos were taken and processed by Cochran Studios in Carlisle Iowa.
The inaugural Tall Corn Conference band clinic takes place Saturday January 13 at Villisca High with participating schools Villisca East Union Mt Ayree Lenox and Stanton. Selected Bedford musicians include Joyce Keith Claire Straight Pat Brown Jean Dunkin Pat Henderson Kathy Hixson Sharon Turner Janet Beemer Joyce Ernest Ellen Dunn Julia Stacy Ronnie Tribolet and others. A public concert is scheduled for 7 30 p m in the school auditorium following rehearsals from 9 00 to 11 30 and 1 00 to 1 45 and a 90 minute dance and reception.
Public presentation of an oratorio will take place with soloists including Robin Young and Ed Purcell and guest pianist Mrs. Sharon Byers. Performers listed include Betay Thompson and Alan Davidson as bass, with selections such as The People That Walked in Darkness and Comfort Ye.
Det Linstromberg urged greater concern for science and praised demonstrations in third grade. He visited ECHS students and discussed how Iowa colleges universities and industries support the program via research laboratories and community science efforts.
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