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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1935
Page
22
Sixty two former Washington students enroll for graduate work at the senior high school this year working as teacher apprentices to earn their tuition. The program, begun last year as a temporary experiment, is continued as a permanent plan. Apprentices assist with papers, grades, mimeographs and clerical tasks while pursuing graduate study.
Franklin School honors a long list of eighth graders for perfect attendance this semester. Students include Donald Durland, Leo Kacena, William Kern, Dale Morningstar, David Perkins, Melvin Stone, Max Wells, Velma Rees, Olive Guy, Donna Lynott, Virginia Moneypenny, Dorothy Mueller, and many more.
A visit by Tyler 5B pupils to Miss Edith Sage's 3A class featured health themed rhymes. The audience enjoyed verses urging neatness at school and grooming to avoid looking like a grizzly bear.
The officers of the 12A class are Carl Volesky, president, Robert Hahn, vice president, Angeline Hunter, secretary, Miss Mildred Shelton, librarian, training assistants Rose Kosina, Bernice Basker, Ruth Subotnik, Irma Zitek, Libbie Holecek, Emma Pesina, June Womochil.
Buchanan 5A pupils present an original Safety First play titled Ned Learns A Lesson at a PTA meeting next Friday. The drama follows Ned’s push causing Janet’s injury and a dream visit to King Careful’s court, where Ned agrees to pay Janet’s doctor bill and pledges safety council loyalty. The cast lists many students with Louis Burgos and Bernard Swacka as stage managers and Barbara Burke narrating the safety history. New Buchanan junior safety council officers include Florence Matteson as president and Thom Pugsley as vice-president.
The Wilson 7A-4s and 7A-3s visited the 7A-5s for a home room program honoring Longfellow's birthday. Introductions were by Maxine Bruce and Katherine Anderson. Participants in the play included Billy Hunter, Rebecca Dermott, John Pesina, Clarence Strausser, Richard Schade, Edna Wachal, Betty Moore, Betty Anderson, Edwin Mappel, and Mildred Beuhler.
March activity plans include collecting old magazines for the U S Marine Corps in Shanghai and making Easter cards for the Veterans Hospital in Knoxville. A Warsaw Poland portfolio from Hayes School is featured, with students Lorrain SBlazeck and Mildred Mrkvicka presenting.
The new book list in the boys and girls reading room on the second floor features titles for all ages and interests. Descriptions include About a Bee by Helen Torey, Book of Zoography by Raymond Ditmars, A First Bible illustrated by Helen Sewell, Down Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle, and Sandra's Cellar by Fijeril Hess, with brief notes on target ages and story themes.
Miss Katherine Munkhoff 12B led four Wilson senior high home rooms in an Wednesday assembly presenting He Got The Job with cast including Oralg Thompson Raymond St Germain Lester Sykora Milton Steff Leonard White Louis Tichy Godfrey Suchan Robert Zenishek Mildred Pazdernik Dorothy Svec and stage manager Robert Merrifield Music contributed by June Hanson Robert Hahn Albarn Wear Victor Gill Leo Shikoski Milton Steff and Charles Anderson A recent senior Girl Reserves meeting featured Your Money's Worth a play written and directed by Rose Kosina with participants Betty Kibler Lucille Besta Dorothy Messa June Womochil Bernadine Ahrens Zula Cacek Evelyn Sigmund and Marguerite Lahman.
Cedar Rapids pupils will compete in the sub district music contest at Vinton next Friday and Saturday. Participants include Geneva Haldeman, Helen Masha, Margaret Victorine, Rose Ann Kubovec, Mary Tremaine, Edwin Timm, Robert Stastny, Verne Elam, Charles Dulin, Jack Heskett, Frederick Arduser, and Phillip Reames who was absent from the photo due to illness. Entries span piano, violin, photo, cello, bassoon, clarinet, French horn, and trombone with listed guardians and home addresses.
A reflection by Willie Willis on coping with grief as a dog goes missing for four days. The speaker notes futile efforts to find a white hair amid sorrow, using humor to frame consolation and resilience.
The Cedar Rapids Teachers' Association and the Principals' and Supervisors' Club will hold their semi annual dinner meeting on Tuesday March 26 with the latter group as host. Mrs. C T Hickok will describe her European trip of last summer. Committee chairs include Miss Annie Smithey social Edwin Bruns place cards and decorations Miss Estella Swein invitations Miss Mabel Rugh tickets Miss Nanna Nelson program.
Franklin school 9B3 pupils share hobbies during home room. Louis Nelson collects coins. Guy Hamilton has about 500 stamps gathered in two years. Margaret Massey collects playing cards, using jokers from decks for about 175 kinds in eight months. Gaylord Sacora studies nature with butterfly, sand, and stone collections. Richard Cayler makes miniature airplanes. Mary Jane Plate collects Christmas and post cards.
In HELSINGFORS Finland reindeer jockeys perform ski-joring a winter sport where skiers ride on reins held by harnessed reindeer. The deer pull over snow or ice on lakes and level ground. The sport grows in popularity rivaling skiing itself.
Byron McKeeley spoke to Franklin 9B1 and 9B2 social science classes about a recent Orient trip. He shared several articles brought back from the journey.
Washington High launches a voluntary Superior Pupil program to challenge fast workers. English students draft a history of Washington High marking its 300th anniversary and the senior unit’s closing. An advanced typing class will bind copies for the library. Mathematics pupils write biographies of leading mathematicians. Latin students enter a Horace anniversary national contest.
Wilson school notes describe Mary Janecek of 7A-4 presenting hand work to her sewing class. A sampler made by Mary’s mother in Czechoslovakia, showing mixed stitches, impressed the group along with a crochet stitch model. All pieces date from when Mary’s mother was about twelve.
Washington acquires two illuminated manuscripts from Little Gallery exhibits for Franklin and McKinley high schools. One is a 1440 French book of hours and the other a 1555 Spanish medical thesis. They are hand illuminated, mounted in waxed gumwood frames, with reversible mats for study, to hang in school libraries next year.
Richard Bush has been elected president of the Aristotelian Society at Wilson Senior High School. Gilbert Feiereison is vice president and June Hanson secretary. Members of the club have been giving talks on the organization in ninth and tenth grade home rooms.
Rufus Rose presents Century of Progress marionettes in Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and a Variety revue for McKinley and Washington pupils at the Mount theater Wednesday morning. More than thirty puppets, fully built sets, and an amplified, scaled stage create a vivid production. Patrons will be shown how it is done after the show. The company has drawn large crowds in Flint Kalamazoo and Sac City.
Roosevelt junior high prepares a three-play one act program directed by Miss Ina Hibbard. Cast lists include Dad and Mother Was Right with actors James Watson and Marian Blitch, plus A Case of Suspension and a Serenaders numbers. The program features the Roosevelt orchestra and multiple pupil crews under advisers including Chester May and Miss Ina Hibbard.
Ninth grade at Franklin submitted scrapbooks featuring maxims sayings rules poems and articles. Outstanding scrapbooks were those of Mabel Paustian Barbara Sgarlata and Mary Jane Plate.
The Streamline Boosters have been organized in Wilson 7A-4 home room. Officers named include President Maxine Surry, Vice President Harold Smith, Secretary Marjorie Robbins, Attendance Recorder Dorothy Borst, Assistant Attendance Recorder Robert Suchomel, with committees named for programs, scholarships, and inspectors. Committee members listed include Donald Meyers Fern Mrstik Dona Jean Temple Clifford Jensen Joseph Sturm Michael Kacere Virginia Merklin Betty Lou Rogers Libby Fikers Edward Lingo.
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