McKinley students favor movies over church in leisure survey
A survey of 589 McKinley junior high pupils by Miss Frances Prescott shows 64 percent regular moviegoers and 98 percent theater attendance versus 64 percent churchgoers. Among boys and girls, 285 boys and 295 girls attend the theater, while 159 boys and 250 girls are regular churchgoers. Evening meetings draw 131 boys and 56 girls, mostly in public buildings, with Girls active in day groups and boys at night under male supervision.
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OYS
Moving Picture Houses
McKinley Junior High School
Frances Prescott
Cedar Rapids
McKinley
Boy Scouts
Pioneers
Camp Fire
King’s Daughters
Buchanan Primary Pupils Complete Semester Projects
Buchanan Primary Pupils complete semester projects built a miniature city street in 1B with a theater hospital fire station and stores. Projects spurred art music reading health and math studies and aided learning new vocabulary while fostering writing and measurement skills across grades.
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Buchanan School
Third graders study pioneer Iowa history with travel mode art
Third grade social science unit explores pioneer travel in Iowa Cedar Rapids. Easel paintings cover land water and air travel culminating in a streamlined train. Students clip Gazette pictures build pioneer room items and create booklets with maps words and stories.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Polly
Fight Tribes Of Indians Studied By Arthur Group
The 2A class at Arthur school studied eight Indian tribes focusing on homes clothing food occupation tools travel schools games and religion. They made an enlarged map with reservations marked and created booklets language pieces easel paintings and a tepee inspired by Blackfeet and Crow traditions.
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Arthur School
United States
Montana
Cleveland first grade farm dismantled for semester project
The Cleveland first grade builds a miniature farm with a wall mural and a wide display of farm life. Students assembled fruits vegetables grains and western southern products including sugar cane rice magnolia leaves and mistletoe with help from Dick Eighmy. The exhibit features a white two story farm house a barn hayfield pasture cornfield and a roadside highway scene with vehicles and a gas station.
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Cleveland
Supreme Court
AAA
Dick Eighmy
House That Jack Built Constructed At Van Buren
Eight feet high miniature "House That Jack Built" stands in Van Buren School 1A room. Built by first graders with wood corrugated paper red chimney windows cellophane panes and green voile curtains. Nursery rhyme pictures flank the house and Mother Goose verses will decorate the furnishings and curtains.
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Jack
van Buren School
Johnson 5A Will Conduct Sightseeing Tour Through Japan
Johnson 5A presents a sightseeing tour through Japan for parents and friends in the Congregational church basement. The program celebrates a semester of study with a handmade film, "Sightseeing in Japan," and talks by students on topics from Japanese geography and culture to daily life and crafts. Tommy Larson operates the film as a Japanese doll dance closes the program.
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Japan
Johnson
Dean Barnhizer
Semoure Oshman
Jimmy Tisdale
Jack Geiger
Jack Wolf
Betty Sandness
Carolyn Kopel
Margaret Bitzer
Nadine Sinaiko
Kathleen Hanson
Elaine Smulekoff
Roberta Stewart
Carol Curran
Betty Myers
Betty Becker
Nadine Henry
Jinrikisha
George Bartholmey
Dale Davis
Diana Waples
Nancy Saul
Roberta Owens
Jeanne Ferguson
Harriet Dauchy
Mary Ellen Jones
Barbara Rapaport
Frank Kinney
Katherine Katz
Shirley Nichols
Janice Baily
Arlene Sinaiko
Jimmy Walters
Bobby Chadima
Paul Tiffany
Douglas Henry
Joan Arnold
Dick Foss
Herman Ginsberg
New Seniors Welcomed by Girl Reserves Event Highlights
High school Girl Reserves extend hospitality to incoming 10B girls with events at McKinley and Wilson. Helen Pleshek greets new pupils in Martha Washington room, while Kathleen Daley and June Womochil introduce activities. Performances include vocal and violin solos, a comedy tap dance, readings, and games.
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McKinley
Wilson Tri Hi Club
Franklin
Roosevelt
Helen Pleshek
Hi-Y-Ette
Martha Washington
Mary Ann Snouffer
Betty Allender
Virginia Harmon
Emma Allen
Alice Rogers
Wilson
Kathleen Daley
Tri Hi
Wanda Farmer
June Womochil
Verna Chalupnik
Lucille Steyne
Charlotte Burlingham
Mary Louise Fieseler
Evelyn Keister
European Fair At Van Buren School Showcases Europe
Van Buren school hosts a Tuesday European fair by the 5B class uniting Czechoslovakia Germany Spain and other lands. Students present a colorful stage map costumes crafts talks songs and dances reflecting their study of geography history and culture with two guest speakers on Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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Czechoslovakia
Germany
Spain
Switzerland
England
Scotland
Ireland
France
Belgium
Holland
Scandinavia
van Buren
Europe
Sokol
Alma Turechek
Louis Straka
Amelia Fullr
Grant Lemasters
Darlene Trout
Arthur Koehler
Betty Konigsmark
Henrietta Izer
Erick Sheronick
Jean Andersen
Dorothy Andersen
Charles Ehas
Robert Ennis
Vera Peterka
Betty Jean Harrison
Jaroslav Hruby
Mary Frances Berger
Betty Hansen
Mildred Mahring
Henrietta Kubik
Lorena Musgrave to Lead McKinley Girls Athletic Association
Lorena Musgrave will be installed as president of the McKinley Girls' Athletic Association at the next meeting. Officiers to take office include Mary Gent as vice president Corrine Melichar secretary Nola Berger treasurer Helen Pleshek press reporter and Mary Ellen McLeod warden.
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Lorena Musgrave
McKinley Girls’ Athletic Association
Mary Gent
Corrine Melichar
Nola Berger
Helen Pleshek
Mary Ellen McLeod
Bertha Schneider
Emma Cuhel
LaVerne Privatsky
Irene Navratil
McKinley Ball Tourney Winners Crowned at McKinley High
McKinley senior high fielded basketball and volleyball tournaments won by Lorena Musgrave and Bertha Schneider’s teams. Basketball winners included Emma Cuhel Mary Gent Nola Berger Ann Schneider and others under Miss Musgrave. Volleyball champions were captained by Miss Schneider with Evelyn Prusek Helen Pleshek Ruth Allen and more.
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McKinley Senior High School
Lorena Musgrave
Bertha Schneider
Miss Musgrave
Emma Cuhel
Mary Gent
Nola Berger
Ann Schneider
Mary Ellen McLeod
Helen Pleshek
Geanie Trumbull
Corrine Melichar
Maxine Milke
Evelyn Prusek
Margot Johansen
Marcella Brown
Ethel Randall
Loretta Fl
Polk Pupils Win Attendance Citizenship Merit Awards
Polk school honors students for perfect semester attendance and citizenship. Recipients include Robert Dickson and Jane Alexander among many others. awards cover attendance, citizenship, scholarship, and penmanship with lists of honorees across grades and activities.
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Polk School
Robert Dickson
Jack Hamiston
Frank Ross
Albert Thompson
Miriam Armstrong
Jane Alexander
Mabel Davis
Verbean Fahl
Margaret Miller
Nadine Morse
Helen Prochaska
Laura Ann Safely
Doris Smith
Darlene Vaughn
Joseph Afflerbaugh
Jack Duffy
Donald McGinty
Vernon Petranek
Roland Roupe
Lloyd Speake
Jack Wienands
Robert Stukas
Raymond Winters
Marilyn van de Walker
Russell Ream
Enid Dickson
Richard Bouldin
Robert Barkier
John Miller
John Nichols
Gerald Sacora
William Wells
Catherine Bachman
Edna Mae Burwinkle
Gladys Carter
Helen Kuchynka
Kathryn Loomis
Jean Norberg
Robert Cram
Robert Edleman
Dale Ferguson
Douglas Millikan
Arthur Stone
Delbert Rickless
Charles Hines
Judith Anderson
David Warren
Phyllis White
Richard Carter
Ruby Buchheister
Sue Cline
Janice Clark
Donna Millikan
Helen Nicholls
Roger Hoff
Gordon Ramsey
Donald Yuva
John Mesknes
Wava
Joyce Gearhart
Joy Hoff
Dolores Olson
Barbara Risk
Betty Ross
Claire de von Hardin
Florella King
Doris McCann
Richard Hunter
William Mackey
Billy Stanley
Jimmie Vernon
Dickie Blessing
David Jacobs
Richard Northrup
Ruth Clark
Mary Jane Ferguson
Darlene Jameson
Nancy Shean
Freda Thompson
Eunice Young
Mary Loggie
Dickie Bennett
Bobby Gene Giovanazzi
James Mackey
Denny Sacora
Lavoun Buckheister
Lyla Buckwheat
de Lores Carter
Virginia Hagerman
Donald Wilson
Dorothy Lubben
Leona Miller
Ruth
Henry Haegg
Marjorie Harris
Nancy Houser
Marie McLain
Dorothy Jean Michelsen
Glennys Powers
Eleanor Rodgers
Alen Singer
State wide testing program changes name and aims
The state wide testing program overseen by Iowa State University changes from an academic contest to Every Pupil Testing Program. It removes district and statewide rankings, keeps comparative scores confidential against a general norm, and expands testing from middle grades to elementary and secondary levels. Earlier concerns about drill focused teaching are noted, with reports of prior success and calls for noncompetitive assessments.
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Iowa
State University College of Education and Extension Division
Iowa City
Neme
E. F. Lindquist
Journal of Educational Research
Cedar Rapids
Harl Douglas
University of Minnesota
School Review
Footeball
State University
Clare Nichols
Fillmore School Notes Party for Mary Alice Mellen
Mary Alice Mellen of the third grade celebrated her eighth birthday with a classroom party attended by her schoolmates. The event highlighted classroom camaraderie and student friendship within Fillmore School.
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Fillmore
Mary Alice Mellen
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