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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1934
Page
20
Kindergarten data show 158 boys and 142 girls across public schools with East side buildings enrolling more boys. West side totals include 77 boys and 65 girls, while 77 girls and 70 boys begin on the west side.
Big Springs school presents a patriotic program Monday afternoon commemorating Lincoln's birth day. Featured are songs "America" and two school choir numbers, a Lincoln story by fourth grade, a Lincoln poem by fifth grade, and Gettysburg Address recited by intermediate grades.
McKinley 7B art students under Elmer Porter design hooked rug patterns featuring landscapes trees flowers and animals. They first draw small designs then enlarge them on heavy paper and paint choosing harmonizing brilliant shades to mimic stitched brushwork. Finished patterns are mounted on a large panel for display in the room.
The McKinley 8B2 art class under Miss Margaret Frederikson explored landscape blueprinting. Students sketched imaginary Iowa scenes on manila paper, traced them onto blueprint paper, exposed under sun for 15 to 20 minutes, then washed to produce blue prints of varying shades mounted on white and blue backgrounds for an exhibit.
February observances celebrate Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's birthdays with Polk school events. Miss Lucile Beman's third graders present songs poems and a play including an announced cast and dance numbers by students such as Barrett Blaine John Nash Betty Hoff and Eugene Speraw.
Dorothy Campbell of Fillmore wins the dairy essay contest after her descriptive piece on visiting a local dairy. Her essay notes pasteurization by heating to 143 degrees for thirty minutes, cooling in a sanitary glass case, and bottles sterilized in a liquid bath.
Franklin P T A council funds a bird's eye maple plaque for the Jane Boyd Boys Room in the Community House. Rob ert House, a Franklin 9B student, and Oscar Stabenfeldt directed forty hours of work, with $5 from the milk fund covering labor charges.
Gazette photos capture seven early students beginning kindergarten in west side schools. From Lincoln to Cleveland, each child is named with parents and street address, highlighting Webster city’s 421 Sixteenth Avenue SW and other addresses as part of the school roll call.
A Franklin school home room program features prose and poetry from 9B1 pupils. Ilsegret Weber organized the program and wrote verses for a skit showcasing studies and daily routines with student names and several short pieces.
In Van Buren, the advanced kindergarten group transformed part of their room into a miniature city street. They created buildings on both sides, added paper trees and tissue-glass windows, lined the road with toy vehicles, and plan a large central mailbox for delivering valentines.
Taylor intermediate students listed appliances like lights door bell washing machine toaster clock waffle iron iron sandwich pan radio lamp percolator pad vacuum curling iron heater fan telephone flashlight. 1A class added six more items including grinder refrigerator mangle magnicord thermostat and razor.
A PTA attendance contest at Franklin school last semester crowned Miss Margaret Danielson's 7B3 pupils as winners for bringing the most mothers to meetings. Parent chair Mrs. S. V. Shonka led the class. Second place went to Miss Ella Hardine's 7A6 class with Mrs. C. E. Irwin as chair.
Grant Gamma Delta at Grant High School will present three one-act plays March 8 and 9 in the Roosevelt auditorium. The program includes Burrill’s Rich Man Poor Man Wayne Gregory’s The Open Road and Ruth Comfort Mitchell’s Chinese Sweetmeat Gapre. Casts announced by Miss Roberta Dinwiddie Sheets include Glennys McHardy Catherine Timm Emma Jean Remington Joe Hadish Vera Machov sky Mary Lockwood Evelyn Domschot Ruth Henningsen Edna May Forsythe Martha Ferguson Joe Dutrt Clarence Rather Margaret Frye Wayn e Wood ford Dorothy Tiffany Rosalie Stanley Emil Klumpar John Lockwood Lucile Lawrence Dorothy Tiffany Dick Moore.
Garfield school lists show separate girls and boys glee clubs with many named members. The girls roster includes Dorothy Helmendahl Catherine Keeler Doris Dose and others while the boys roster lists Ted Clark Donald Bell Ray Whit ing Pat Vetter and more.
The GA bird club at Taylor school this week outlined how studying birds, their habits, and care fosters interest and love for birds. It promotes identification by color and eggs, teaches migratory history, fledgling education, nesting choices, and materials used.
Polk kindergarten class builds a modern two chair miniature barber shop with a shoe shining booth clothes rack weight scale barber pole and clock as a group project for display.
Roland Ashhtenbrewer celebrated his fifth birthday in Van Buren kindergarten with a Friday party. The event followed Valentine's Day themes and kept to classroom traditions.
Franklin junior high organizes current event clubs across 8B1 8B2 and 8B3 social science classes with captains elected to lead each group for the semester. Miss Edith L. Howe teaches. clubs include numerous students listed by class and captain.
Junior Red Cross council adopts a February Threefold program at the Y M C A meeting. Projects include international school correspondence, making flag favors for the Iowa Soldiers Orphan Home, and feeding winter birds. Fifty attendees heard reports and demonstrations on Betsy Ross, Washington, and geography projects.
Polks 1B class at Polk school crafts simple poems about the aquarium goldfish. Students include Jimmy Hamiston Roberta Hill Vernon Harriman and others.
Grant high school auditorium hosts preliminary rounds for district and state extemporaneous speaking on Monday February 26 with participants Ralph Preckel Orin Olver John Everhart John Wykle Gerald Hiland Maren Sue Palmer Jean Clemens and Farold Heath Each contestant receives periodical readings and is told their speaking subject one hour before start.
The 6A science class at Polk School completed an experiment on rubber. Students used latex and a sheet of rubber to vulcanize, mixing latex with vinegar to coagulate it, stirring, then adding water to reduce sponginess. The vulcanizing step involved boiling raw rubber with sulfur for twenty minutes.
The 7A Girl Reserves at Franklin junior high entertained their mothers Thursday with two basketball teams and a game as part of the afternoon. Dainty refreshments were served in the cafeteria. Guests included Mrs. Allison, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Paustian, Mrs. Mally, Mrs. Dahms, and Mrs. Beltz.
The Franklin P T A held a noon hour candy sale last week to meet state and other dues for the annual budget. Households responded generously and the children supported the effort with their participation.
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