Why Chimes Rang Pageant Opens Franklin Junior High
Franklin Junior High presents the Christmas pageant Why The Chimes Rang to be staged next Thursday and Friday at 7 30 PM in the auditorium. Principal Miss Ruby Byers wrote the dialogue with choruses and colorful pageantry depicting Pedro and Little Brother aiding a sick woman and the royal court offering gifts to the cathedral chimes. The production features three stage sets and a chorus of hundreds of pupils with songs such as Good King Wenceslaus Under the Stars Gloria Patri and Sleep O Holy Child set to music by the school orchestra.
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Ranklin Junior High
Little Brother
Pedro
Ruby Byers
Franklin
Wenceslaus
Gail Niesz
Jack Cochran
Edwin Kaltenberg
Lawrence Mortensen
James Bramwell
James Ralston
Richard Ball
Robert Hersom
Frances McCormick
Billie Young
Albert Eddy
Bob Hayden
Barbara Blaise
Christine Mull
Geneva Haldemann
Patrician Salter
Mary Tighe
Betty Gage
Jane Downer
Mary K. Fichis
Ruth J. Hubbard
Patricia Tighe
Dorothy J. Plock
Ruth Rich
Dorothy Chapin
Dorothy Kemp
Jesus
Jean Engleman
Tiny Circus Built By 1B Class At Polk Building
A Polk school 1B class led by Miss Gladys DuBois builds a miniature winter circus. The display features a liftable tent, sawdust rings, bleachers, and outside animal figures crafted by Patricia Stebbins Norma Haegg Gerry McKeeby Leo Smith Richard Albright Ruby Buckheister Robbie Dean Neal Donald Clemmer Donald Yura Marilyn Rudin Janice Clark Bille Sacora and Dolores Gallagher.
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Gladys DuBois
Polk School
Patricia Stebbins
Norma Haegg
Gerry MccKeeby
Leo Smith
Richard Albright
Ruby Buckheister
Robbie Dean Neal
Donald Clemmer
Donald Yura
Marilyn Rudin
Janice Clark
Bille Sacora
Dolores Gallager
Van Buren School Notes Celebrate Birthday
George Naxera marked his sixth birthday with a party in the Van Buren kindergarten room celebrating the milestone with classmates and teachers.
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van Buren
George Naxera
Miniature World’s Fair Built by Polk School 1A Class
Polk school 1A under Mrs Evelyne Kust builds a table sized World’s Fair miniature. Highlights include water front sky ride transportation building midway and flags with toy trains buses and bridges made from everyday materials. Students Mildred Harris Mary Hubbard Darlene Kitts Arlene McDanel Margaret Nosek Betty Ross and others contributed.
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Polk School
Evelyne Kust
Fair Grounds
Enchanted Isle
Mildred Harris
Mary Hubbard
Darlene Kitts
Arlene McDanel
Margaret Nosek
Betty Ross
June Sacora
Ruth Schloss
Ruth Shean
Phyllis White
Verna Williams
Gene Barker
Alden Cady
Richard Carter
Donald Fitzsimmons
Charles Hines
Roger Hoff
Kenneth Holvenstet
John Hornstein
Ray Hunt
Everett King
Velman Luse
Richard Rosch
John Randall
Donald Siebenauer
Forrest Spencer
Paul Sword
Ralph Tufts
Lyle Wells
Dewey Willis
George Williams
Judith Anderson
Rose Brose
Student groups select nations and topics for news reports
Nine A social science class at McKinley School splits into five groups. Captains lead countries and subjects including Italy and France Jack Peddycourt and Russia and Japan Lee Zavoral. Germany and England are led by Mike Felereisen and United States government and NRA by Fred Young. Relief work is led by Jack Thompson.
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McKinley School
Italy
France
Jack Peddycourt
Russia
Japan
Lee Zavoral
Germany
England
Mike Felereisen
United States
NRA
Fred Young
Jack Thompson
Electrical Show Wednesday At Washington And McKinley
EB Jones presents the magic of electricity to Washington and McKinley school audiences next week at the Paramount theater at 8 30 a m. The Washington program includes high amperage high frequency and the electric eye demonstrations. The show promises scintillating experiments as a million volts pass through a body and nails burn before eyes. Sponsored by the Radio club Homer Sayer will introduce the speaker.
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EB. Jones
Washington and McKinley
Paramount Theater
Washington
McKinley
Radio Club
Homer Sayer
Washington High stages three year personality study program
Teachers at Washington High inaugurate a three year personality study beginning this year with European educators. Monthly sessions feature two teachers presenting papers on figures such as Pestalozzi, Rousseau, Froebel, Herbart, Comenius, and more. Leon Zeman’s art class creates plaques of the educators, with two finished monthly and inscribed plaques planned after ten entries.
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Washington High School
Pestalozzi
Rousseau
Froebel
Herbart
Comenius
Herbert Spencer
Locke
Francis Bacon
Sturm
Erasmus
Leon Zeman
Malcolm Metcalf
Ebien Lou Safranek
Girl Reserves Open Conference and Banquet Tonight
The Girl Reserves begin a two day conference with round table discussions at the W. W. Co. A. this morning and afternoon followed by an evening banquet on the theme Stretching Our Circle. Betty Whipple will toast master principal speaker Masha Fagelman on Russia My Former Home. The program includes Lilyan Shepherd’s Negro spiritual, Jean Remington tap dance, group singing, and a party afterward. Sunday service starts 8 45 with music by the church choir and readings led by Glenny McHardy and Veda Richards.
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W. Ww. Co. A
Betty Whipple
Masha Fagelman
Russia
Lilyan Shepherd
Jean Remington
Gertrude Shoemaker
Virginia Ohmann
Glennys McHardy
Katherine Raftis
Mildred Mikulecky
Evelyn Kazehier
Edith Winn
Veda
Richards
Marian Huff
Miriam Hungerford
Mary Ella Hale
Lucille Lawrence
Dorothy Blodgett
Mildred Pazdernik
Veda Richards
Angeline Hunter
Dorothy Svee
Rosamond Kearney
Betty Whippie
Lorraine Eckert
Marcelin Heal
Maxine Reams
Mary Nelson
Margaret Frye
Van Buren Holiday Program Features Students and Music
A Van Buren school holiday program showcased numerous students in poems stories songs plays and recitations. The program included violin and piano solos gypsy dance cornet duet and various readings by staff and students led by Donald Havlik and others.
Sewing Project Sponsored by Garfield P T A
The Garfield P T A hosts a weekly sewing project at Mrs E F Walters home 52 Circle Drive. Mothers learn sewing from donated materials while children play in a kid friendly space. Under Mrs Francis M Devitt the group makes shirts dresses slips and comforters and shares crafts like paper flower making and toy building.
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Garfield P.T.A
E. PF. Walters
Circle Drive
Red Cross
Francis M. Devitt
P.T.A
Walters
Pilgrim Days Set By Polk 3A Little Theater Cast
In Polk school's 3A class Miss Gladys Roland room a Pilgrim living room scene is staged with two characters the Pilgrim mother and father. A long list of helpers includes Nicholls Sacora Gallagher Miller Loomis Safely Mortensen Bachman Mally Mittan Hunt Kuchynka Hatten Wells Schloss Dake McCalley McDaniel Barkier Rose Haman Morehead Vondracek Carter Keith Ryan Smith Norberg Butters Koza Hines.
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Gladys Roland
Polk School
Pilgrim
John Nicholls
Gerald Sacora
Cletus Gallagher
John Miller
Kathryn Loomis
Katharine Safely
Ruth Mortensen
Catherine Bachman
Patricia Mally
Gloria Mittan
Helen Hunt
Helen Kuchynka
Gilbert Hatten
William Wells
John Schloss
Norman Dake
Norman McCalley
Louis McDaniel
Robert Barkier
Leslie Rose
George Haman
Byron Morehead
Charles
Johnson P T A Hears School Orchestra Play
Johnson P T A featured a school orchestra this week. Performers included Marion Rieff Donald Giltrap Ralph Gearhart John Kruger Dick Lynch Clark Mahannah Charles Knox Frank Stepanek Warren Hy ten Walter Wise Herbert Penning roth AlJlen Singer John Kadnavy Winifred Hargrave Marilyn Nilley Frances Siamis Virginia Hillock Lois Grissel Billy Holmes Donald Hunter Richard Solve George Lowe Jean Thompson Katherine Greene. Tea time featured piano by Joan Yessler Herbert Ralston and Ruth Buresh.
Grant Seniors Present Prison Play December 14 15
The Grant high school seniors stage a two part drama in Roosevelt auditorium with author Fredrick Brath weaving an inner prison play atop Ossining. The plot follows a wealthy patron aiding inexperienced actresses, a murder accusation, and a sister sleuth who helps prove the innocent man’s fate. The governor debates suppression but permits performance and justice prevails.
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Grant
Roosevelt Auditorium
Fredrick Brath
Ossining
Geography riddles reveal capitals and counties at Franklin
The 7B4 class at Franklin tests knowledge with original geography riddles during homeroom. Questions include capital clues from Salem to Austin and towns like DeWitt Clinton and Lyon, with answers such as Bismarck North Dakota and Little Rock Arkansas.
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Franklin
Salem
Oregon
Bixmarck
Bismarck
North Dakota
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Little Rock
Arkansas
Sherman
Atlanta
Georgia
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Jefferson City
Missouri
Springfield
Tlinots
Austin
Texas
Iowa
DeWitt
Clinton
Ames
Lyon
Franklin School Notes elects student officers
Billy Currell is elected president of the Franklin 8A6 in room to organize programs. Mary Kathryn Fiebig becomes vice president and Jane Downer serves as secretary-treasurer. Thanksgiving program participants include Fiebig Hollenbeck Bowker Hatfield and Downer.
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Billy Currell
Mary Kathryn Fiebig
Jane Downer
Earl Hollenbeck
Betty Bowker
Jean Hatfield
Taylor Boy Builds Racer For Book Review Dramatization
Donald Harper, 11, from Taylor school 5B class uses wagon wheels and cardboard boxes to create a racer for a dramatized book review of Susanna from Jean and Jerry's Vacation. He and his brother Robert built other projects including a ground airplane and a five-boy playhouse using scraps from his father’s auto shop.
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Donald Harper
Taylor School
Susanna
Jean and Jerry
Donald
Robert
James G. Harper
Sixth Avenue
Complete High School Work Book Series Issued
The 17 pamphlets on senior high school courses, directed by Agnes Samuelson, state superintendent, conclude with the seventeenth edition on Physical Education for Girls. A Cedar Rapids group led by M S Hallman and Harry M. Gage oversaw the project, with experts from Iowa, Des Moines, and Council Bluffs guiding unit objectives and mastery evidence. The books, designed brief and direct, include four-column layouts and bottom references, distributed free within town and sent abroad.
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Agnes Samuelson
Cedar Rapids
M.S. Hallman
Washington High School
Harry M. Gage
Coe College
Thomas J. Kirby
University of Iowa
A. J. Burton
East High School
Des Moines
O. R. Lathmam
Iowa State Teachers College
E. E. Menefree
Hawarden
Theodore Saam
Council Bluffs
F. H. Chandler
Sheldon
Christmas Health Seal Sale Opens in Cedar Rapids Schools
The annual Christmas health seal sale starts in public and parochial schools, led by Mrs. G C T Hickok and Mrs. J H Boremann. Pupils selling fifty seals earn a bangle pin, one hundred seals earns a health certificate signed by the governor, funds support clinics, nutrition, and public health nursing in Cedar Rapids.
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C. T. Hickok
Bormann
GC. T. Hickok
J. H. Boremann
Iowa
Public Health Nursing Association
Cedar Rapids
Nursing Association
Abstract Design Display At Franklin School
Franklin school students in 9A, under Miss Erma Oberg, crafted shapes from colored paper and scissors to form harmonious designs. Each piece received a title such as Factory District Ice City Suspension Bridge Owl Sun rise at Sea and New Day. notable modern looks include Factory District New Day Progress and Suspension Bridge by named students.
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Franklin School
Erma Oberg
New Day
Factory District
Jane Bachman
John Hollenbeck
Raymond Spray
Bruce Bucknell
McKinley School Notes on Holiday Decorations and Play Set
The ninth grade art class built the set for Community Players production Mrs Moonlight. The McKinley reading room gleams with Christmas decorations including a wreath, rope, red candies, small trees, and a tinsel trimmed tree. Santa peeks from a shelf as wreaths and pictures from Dickens Christmas Carol adorn the walls and bulletin board.
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McKinley School
Community Players
Mrs. Moonlight
McKinley
Pilgrim Scene Built On Table At Polk School
Second graders at Polk School under Miss Helen Shoemn er created a sand table Plymouth scene. The display added a Christmas tree log church house and cabin with cotton snow and evergreen sprouts. Plymouth rock shells and tiny Pilgrim dolls sit beside paper wigwama and Indian dolls. Local names listed for the 2B class include Jessie Birdsall Bernice Cox Janet Crabbe Lucilla Dennis Maxine Dutton and many others.
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Helen Shoemner
Polk School
Comemon
Plymouth Rock
Jessie Birdsall
Bernice Cox
Janet Crabbe
Lucilla Dennis
Maxine Dutton
Betty Garner
Josephine Goodwin
Barbara Hayden
Constance Klima
Hazell Lewis
Mary Lubben
Virginia Lanning
Mary Anne Mason
Marejorie McDermott
Patricia Miller
Bonnie Peterson
Iona Sebrecht
Leona Sebrecht
Helen Sliss
Ann& Thompson
Evelyn Thompson
Alberta Fritz
Eva Jane Bishop
Betty
Sue Heflin
Anna Mae Osterlund
Harriette Murdock
Earl Bennett
Burton Bracy
Arthur Brose
Bobby Condon
Gerald Clarke
Wallace Hansen
Russell McCalley
Glen Mendel
Ernest Montgomery
Robert Veverka
Original Plays by Franklin 7th Grade Presented at School
Franklin School showcased seven grade seven plays with cast lists. The 7B2 group presented Thanksgiving on a Southern Plantation by Arthur Bain featuring Elaine Helm Vernon Dick George Johnson Gloria Wax Rex Smith and Arthur Bain. TAT presented A Surprise by Tamar Meister with Evelyn Lorimer Margaret Massey Betty Griffin Harold Kindler and Tamar Meister. A Snowy Thanksgiving by Betty Griffin and Margaret Massey was presented by Catherine Luberger Betty Griffin Jack Walters and Jimmy Corwin. The event occurred on Friday December 9.
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Franklin
Arthur Bain
Elaine Helm
Vernon Dick
George Johnson
Gloria Wax
Rex Smith
Tamar Meister
Evelyn Lorimer
Margaret Massey
Betty Griffin
Harold Kindler
Catherine Luberger
Jack Walters
Jimmy Corwin
New Books from Helen F. Orton and Laura Armer
New titles include Daddy's Adventures With the Animals by Helen F. Orton about a father's fishing trip and guiding events toward a birthday supper. Dark Circle of Branches by Laura Armer follows Navaho life through Na Nal and kin during exile in a harsh land with myths woven through daily life.
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Daddy
Helen F. Orton
Laura Armer
Na Nal
Arizona
United States
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