17 Feb 1955
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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1955
Page
1
The senior class play That's My Roommate will be staged April 26 and 27 at the BHS auditorium. Written and directed by Monty Pitner, the production was moved from an earlier date.
Superintendent R F Van Dyke announces February 18 to 25 school activities including a speech activities class play on Feb 18 a school chapel service on Feb 23 the Creston Music Festival on Feb 23 and the fourth six week ends on Feb 25.
Eugene Hannon, Bedford Junior High science and mathematics instructor, says the science class is studying electricity and the science of light and sound. In mathematics, students are learning decimals and their uses.
Fourth graders start a special project gathering pictures and information from magazines encyclopedias and books about animal care and habits. Students study domestic pets and animals to learn how they live and what they need.
Mrs. Hidstrom's third grade students held a valentines party Monday afternoon February 14. They played games enjoyed a valentine exchange and had refreshments. Bedford's third graders are starting to learn small fractions in arithmetic and study the home in social studies.
Bedford High FFA and FHA members with guests attended a skating party at Lenox on Friday evening February 11. A Bedford school bus transported students to and from the event. Chaperons included Mrs. Vessey Spry home making instructor and sponsor and Mr. Annan vocational agriculture instructor and advisor.
Central and South America and the West Indies were studied in seventh grade social studies. Miss Alexander supervised seventh graders who produced booklets about notable figures from selected countries. The projects were finished within a week.
A January issue of American Farm Youth highlights Bedford High School FFA with publicity for its 1954 spring banquet. The feature notes team work and Idaho Chapter success, alongside an article on the Salk polio vaccine, reflecting the magazine’s broad national reach and 250000 subscribers.
During the week before Valentine’s Day the second graders under Mrs. William Coulter made surprise valentines for their mothers. They crafted boxes and decorated napkins, visited Hy-Vee to select ingredients for valentines cookies, and finished reading "Today We Go."
Bill Tucker, head custodian for the local schools since 1934, was absent for the first time in 20 years due to influenza and a sinus infection. He returned February 7 saying he still felt weak, marking the end of a two‑decade attendance streak.
Bedford High School's Y-Teens contribute 10.00 to the World Brotherhood Organization as part of service work. The local YWCA chapter notes the national YWCA’s 100th anniversary this year. Members watched two films, Would You Like to be Popular and The Shy Guy, at a recent meeting.
Supt. R F Van Dyke spoke on school legislation at the Taylor County Education Association meeting in Sharpsburg on February 16. Kathryn Kirketey reported on the Iowa State Education Association legislative dinner held in Des Moines February 10. Sharpsburg high school students provided entertainment at the gathering.
Fifth graders study a unit titled A Study of Iowa in social science taught by Mr Vilas Mor rig jy. They complete work books on Iowa natural resources while arithmetic covers addition and subtraction of like fractions. Adverbs and adjectives are studied in English and health looks at different ways of growing up. Science centers on heating and cooling.
Current class activities for the 68 BHS girls in Homemaking I II and III have been announced by Mrs Spry instructor. Homemaking I started a dinner unit February 10 and will continue meal planning until February 26. The unit covers child development personal grooming sewing and crafts and foods and meat planning. Homemaking III will spend the remainder of the second semester on sewing food and crafts projects.
Sixth graders study power and atoms and electricity with machines and film. Instructor Joe Sickels notes decimals in arithmetic. A future unit on multiplication of adjectives and adverbs begins Jan 31. Fifth grade studies France and Switzerland with a movie The Castle Cows Continent. Next unit covers Germany and medieval days with Iowa State University films.
Principal Roy Reith reports supplementary teaching aids secured for Bedford grades. A new strip film cabinet with about 100 films and a strip film projector are in the Junior High library. The library holds roughly 1200 books, four complete encyclopedia sets, and several worn volumes replaced. The Des Moines Register is delivered daily to the library.
Six junior high librarians are listed: Morris Caskey, Jesse Mverhart, Cinda Fuller, Julia Henry, Ann Livingston, and Martha Perkins. Their roles relate to a local school program tied to Life and American Girl materials.
Mrs Roy Reich's first graders held a reading and valentine party on February 14 with a pretend postal system and individual mailboxes. New workbooks for the second semester include Before We Spell Seeing Numbers Building Reading Skills and a new First Reader. Of twenty five pupils in Mrs Reiths class eight are rural students with fourteen boys and eleven girls.
Four Bedford Future Farmers of America members have applied for the Town Farmer Degree award for outstanding student agriculture records. Applicants named include Allen Akers and Nell Rowe.
Vaten Shelter and Lyndell's preside over awards with one winner per twenty members. Winners of town Farmer degrees qualify for state fair entries and the state convention is set for April 21 23. Norman Annan of Bedford’s FFA chapter won the Town Farmer degree in 1946 and became state vice president in 1947.
Bedford high school hosted a statewide speech contest with 42 students from Clarinda Braddyville and New Market in a two session event February 16 at the BHS auditorium. Morning contests featured oratorical declamations and humorous speeches while afternoon included interpretive and dramatic readings. An evening one act play division followed.
Blanton Iowa hosted an evening one act play division with judges including John Lens a speech instructor. Verna Zimmerman from New Market served as third judge and the public was invited to attend with a small charge for the program.
The BHS Juniors and Seniors shared refreshment duties during the sectional tournaments held July 7 through 12 Jeb. 7. The juniors ran concessions Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Workers listed include Jerry Baker Sandy Busby John Guenther Gordon Goudie Harlan Larison Carol Livingston Bob Sawyer Don Spencer and Kay Wintermute.
Murphy Céto ton and David Wood led the junior group with Wednesday staff including Gordon Goudie Gary McKee Don Leigh ton Roger Reith and Bob Sawyer. The seniors served Thursday and Friday evenings with Thursday workers Dale Beaver Paul Jones Dale King Jim Kysar Loren Sheffer Marvin Stephens. Friday workers were Phil Bartlett Randall Bowen Bob Dougherty Bill Hullinger Howard Putnam Ed Stock and Dave Thompson.
Bedford schools served 214 meals at the noon lunch period, tying a February 10 record. A similar total occurred in early January, while the term saw a day with bus service disrupted by bad weather.
The report records 156 hot lunches served and 69 rural plus 11 town high school students absent on a day. Of 141 remaining, 44 stayed for lunch, with January and February totals far below previous months, says cook Helen Spencer.
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