Core of Work 15 Parallel Programs in Public Schools
History geography based parallel program expands in intermediate departments under Miss Mary E. Icke. Each grade studies a globe portion linking geography history reading science and arithmetic. Student projects include Latin America US Cedar Rapids Iowa and clues from global agriculture and cultural lessons.
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Mary E. Icke
Latin America
West Indies
Mexico
Central America
Panama Canal
South America
Brazil
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Congo
Mediterranean
Switzerland
China
Japan
India
Europe
United States
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Bird Moving Picture Project For Dairy Dale Pupils
Pupils at Miss Jessie Hahn's Dairy Dale school create a bird moving picture project blending science art and language. Nineteen birds are displayed on wallpaper rolls for a story presentation as students read and describe each bird. The goal is fifty birds with ongoing plans for broader classroom use.
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Dairy Dale
Jessie Hahn
Ninth Graders Present McKinley Debate Assembly
A ninth grade debate assembly at McKinley featured chair Marvin Reynolds and timer Rudolph Peterson. The 9B teams debated abolishing billboards and installment buying with named students on affirmative and negative sides. Glee club and string quartet performances accompanied by sponsors Miss Dunn, Miss Pritchard, Mrs Beitzell and Miss Brownell.
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McKinley
Marvin Reynolds
Rudolph Peterson
Wallace Hollingsworth
Dolores Anderson
Merlon Tollefson
Estelle Bachelder
Jack Tewart
Geraldine Reams
Tom Pratt
Waldo Berger
Darwin Jack
Lucia Mae Smith
Wilma Coates
June Cejka
Girls’ Glee Club
Harriett Elliott
Edward Kopecky
Illa Patrick
Irene Gionedakis
Helen Dunn
Elsie Pritchard
Ora B. Beitzell
Maude Brownell
Roosevelt Girl Reserves Give Monday Program and Play Cast
The Roosevelt 9A Girl Reserves presented a Monday program featuring talks by Betty Curtis and Doris Seabrooke, musical numbers by Ruby Franks Ruth Mastin Alicin Frasinger and others, plus dances and readings. The play Lost and Found by Betty Curtis announced a cast including Elaine Sindler Anna Newkirk Vivian Gatter alle and Vera Gatteralle as the tough young man.
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Roosevelt
Roosevelt 9A
Betty Curtis
Doris Seabrooke
Ruby Franks
Ruth Mastin
Julia McFarlin
Louise Karban
Edith Bosworth
Iris Omelik
Alicin Frasinger
Juanita Sawyer
Julia Steggal
Lucille Kibler
Elaine Sindler
Anna Newkirk
Vivian Eee
Vera Gatteralle
Nobel prizes awarded since their inauguration
More than five million one hundred thirty five thousand dollars have been awarded since the Nobel prizes began. They honor leading men and women for services to literature science and international peace, recognizing achievements across multiple fields.
Amateur program at McKinley class party entertains 150
McKinley 8A class held a Wednesday party in the school gym with 150 pupils. Jack Smith led as master of ceremonies playing Lieutenant Edmund Boos. Entertainers included the Stoopnagle Sisters Hazel Cook and Mildred Broulck, Edward Kopecy violin, Marjorie Christie blues singing, Janice Ownes piano, hobo singers, and other acts. Lois Grissel accompanied.
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Bowes
Jack Smith
Edmund Boos
Hazel Cook
Mildred Broulck
Stoopnagle Sisters
Edward Kopecy
Marjorie Christie
Janice Ownes
Hubert Penningroth
John Krabbenhoff
Dean Lemon
Miriam Zambrakos
Jerry Staples
Joe Nassif
Bill Johnson
Lois Grissel
Garland Wetzel
Gerald Edleman
Luella Jones
Jean Brownlee
Kathleen Irwin
Jack Mel
Ethel Brooks
Doris Lasturka
Leland Laton
Alfred Slaymaker
John van Houton
Iola Jones
Maxine Eddy
Darlene Stalzer
Warren Johnson
Thomas Huston
Homer Dodge
Amy Moorhead
Game Committee
Chester Wessels
Herbert Hayes
Keith Daniels
Betty Buckner
Marcella Dano
Ruth Nix
Neil Richardson
Dean Tech
Richard Grover
Betty Davenport
Top Hatters Organized in Franklin Home Room
John Stark elected president of the Franklin 9A6 home room club the Top Hatters to sponsor a weekly program and a school service project. Other officers include Frances Baer as vice president Charles Klima as secretary and reporter.
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John Stark
Frances Baer
Charles Klima
Maxine Udet
Carolyn Cornish
Arlyce Smith
Keith Lyon
Bill Franey
Jack Onstott
Second Graders At Cleveland Work Out Post Office Project
Cleveland second grade pupils built a postal station as a classroom project around Valentine’s Day. They painted a toy shop, added a post office sign and flag, set up stamp cages and mail slots, invited mothers to a program, and staged plays and songs about the post office with guidance from Miss Amy Devitt.
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Cleveland
Federal
Amy Devitt
Junior Lindquist
Donnie Snork
Shirley Drew
Anita Heath
Peggy Welch
Helenka Bartunek
Dick Eighmy
David Bruns
Jeannine Layer
Paul Larimer
Shirley Met
Weekly Programs At Polk Highlight Upper Class Assemblies
Polk school held weekly 15 minute assemblies by intermediate grades focusing on proper conduct and audience etiquette. This week the GB program featured the American creed and prayer, readings by Catherine Safely and others, plus GB girls songs and poetry. Last week 6A led with flag allegiance, a school prayer, talks by Afflerbaugh and Gray, 6A boys songs, and student poems by Van de Walker and Dalsbo.
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Polk School
Catherine Safely
Charles Vondracek
Norman Dake
James Casey
Sterline McNelly
John Miller
George Hannan
William Wells
John Schloss
John Nicolls
Jean Norberg
Franklin juniors showcase diverse hobbies from pony training to watch repair
Franklin junior high displays a wide hobby range with Hubert Lyman training a Shetland pony, Leo Kacena pursuing watch repair, and George Norman cultivating art. Leo has repaired twenty watches and eight clocks, plans a specialized college, while George’s art draws praise from teachers and even appears in racing news.
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Franklin Junior High School
Hubert Lyman
L. P. Lyman
First Avenue NE
Leo Kacena
Leo
Mickey
George Norman
George
Franklin
Norman
Gus Schrader
Bergen Herald
National Auto Racing News
Franklin School
Orange Crate Train Built By Tyler School Kindergarteners
Tyler School kindergarteners built a long orange and black train from orange crates with engine, coal car, baggage car and pullmans. The project included train stories, songs, pictures, poems and new vocabulary, with 22 students and teacher Miss Isabelle Hoyman participating.
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Tyler School
Tyler
North Western
Billy Chiaros
Duane Franks
Willie Gibson
Robert Gregory
Raymond Fifield
Thomas Haddy
Leonard Jansa
Robert Lynch
Eugene Martinek
Theodore Nofal
Darrell Phillips
Antonio Smith
Charles Stewart
Hubert Strait
Irvin Wood
Gerald Batey
Dora Bartholomew
Lenora Blakey
Joyce Boone
LaVon Buehler
Carol Cramer
Barbara Crawford
Mary Louise Harford
Edith Harger
Irma Havlicek
Bernice Huggins
Helen Jackson
Helen Karronlakes
Laurine Klinger
Anna Mae Klinsky
Barbara Madlock
Earnestine Mason
Dolores Pence
Arlene Smrha
Wanda Mae Terry
Bernice Ulch
Phyllis Uptegrove
Ella Warner
Isabelle Hoyman
Tyler Kindergartners
Laurine Klingler
Franklin Pupils Stage One Act Comedy at 11B Assembly
Franklin 11B class presented the one act play One of Those Days about a housewife prepping to entertain the boss and wife. Director Miss Geraldine Green led a cast including Connie McRae and Sallys as Connie and maid friends, with a backstage team handling costumes makeup and props.
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Geraldine Green
Meriwyn Pollins
Connie McRae
Orrealice Schears
Vangie
Marie Dolson
Jane
Ethel
Natalie
Muriel
Sallie
Connie
Jane Goldberg
Dorothy Geiger
Ruth Jane Hubbard
Dorothy Jane Plock
Jane Downer
Archer
Ilsegret Weber
Ruth Rich
Jeanne Young
Dorothy Chapin
Dorothy Kemp
Harry R. Peterson
Eva Byerly
Ivan May Quigley
Spirit of Education painting hung at Wilson Junior High
A new picture titled The Spirit of Education, by N. C. Wyeth, decorates the main corridor at Wilson junior high. The canvas honors the fiftieth anniversary of Silver Burdett and was shown at the 1935 Century of Progress exposition, depicting recognizable educators from Mary Lyon to John Dewey with a log cabin frontier on one side and a modern city skyline on the other.
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Wilson Junior High
N. C. Wyeth
Silver Burdett Publishing Company
Junipero Serra
Booker T. Washington
Horace Mann
Mary Lyon
Henry Barnard
Lowell Mason
John Dewey
Charles Eliot
Francis W. Parker
One Man Exhibits Popular at Polk School
Polk school hosts a week long one man exhibit in the art room showing students hobbies. Ruth Schloss displays miniature dog models, Darlene Sorenson a star patterned quilt, Nadine Bowser dolls from foreign lands. Earlier displays included Kathryn Barnett dolls in foreign costumes, John Nash and Lloyd Speake stamps, Merle Bucy wood carving and guns, Billy McFann model airplanes, and a quilt by Darlene Sorenson.
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Polk School
Ruth Schloss
Darlene Sorenson
Nadine Bowser
Kathryn Barnett
John Nash
Lloyd Speake
Merle Bucy
Billy McFann
Northwest Schools Plan Friday Instrumental Concert
Public schools in the northwest district present an 8 p.m. Friday concert in Roosevelt auditorium led by William Vesely the district instrumental music supervisor. The Roosevelt orchestra leads, with junior and senior high from Roosevelt and elementary groups from Harrison Cleveland and Fillmore. Proceeds fund Roosevelt marching band uniforms.
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Northwest
Roosevelt Auditorium
Roosevelt Orchestra
Roosevelt
Harrison
Cleveland
Fillmore
William Vesely
Brahm
Calif
Bagdad
Melvin Allen
Lester Besser
Arvada Buresh
Bob Buresh
George Baldwin
Bob Cocayne
Dick Elliot
Warren Erbe
Carl Haddy
Beth Harmon
Doris Hegawald
Warren Lenning
Lucille Johnson
Dick Krause
Paul Lenk
Virginia Moore
Dick Nelson
Earl Kee
Jim Puryear
Ruby Koster
Helen Kucera
Nadine Fiala
Serene Bliss
Frank Martin
George Triebel
Irene, Mary
Norman Paula
Joy May
Elizabeth Witt
Rolland Dieh
Paul Keyes
Dorothy Wagner
Gloria Franks
Esther Risk
Wilson clubs appoint new officers for term
Wilson high School clubs announce new officers and welcomed members across groups. Names include Wanda Farmer as President of Girls Athletic, Dorothy Melisa as Vice President, and Frances Zitek as Secretary. Other clubs list officers and new members with multiple positions.
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Wilson High School
Girls’ Athletic Association
Zula Cacek
Martha Mary
Alice Kulhavy
Madeline Hunter
Mary Fiesler
Charlotte Burlingham
Melba Browner
Verna Holmes
Wanda Farmer
Dorothy Melisa
Frances Zitek
Marguerite Lahman
June Womochil
Evelyne Sigmund
Mary Jane Marousek
Charideen Lorenc
Helen Macek
Anna Lana
Thelma Parkes
Velma Shimek
Regina Drake
Kathleen Daley
Evelyn Matejka
Frances Christensen
Helen Stourne
Latin Club
Charleen Lorenc
Jennie Doupnik
Dorothy Oliphant
Wilda Martin
Marie Jane Kibler
Richard Hubacek
Nature Club
Sidney Temple
Marie Lazotte
Betty Smith
Mary Frances Batten
June Starman
Helen Berdecny
Eleanor Hurka
Bernard Russell
Anne Zumer
Zula Cook
Attu Island as Westernmost US possession
Attu in the Aleutian chain is the furthest west US possession. Although located in the eastern hemisphere, international law shifted the dateline west of the island to align its time with the rest of the chain.
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Attu
United States
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Doris Decious
Lasswell
Bobby Tracht
Edward Zrudsky
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