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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1936
Page
5
Six ensembles from three high schools Wilson McKinley and Franklin will compete in Water loo April 3 and 4 with 16 soloists also representing Cedar Rapids. Winners advance to state and possibly national contests in Iowa City and beyond.
Seven teams enter the girls basketball tournament at Wilson after two weeks of prep. Managers name captains and players including Zula Cacek Helen Macek Marie Kibler Antonette Vompola Marian Sowers Mary Bohac Ruth Stourac Virginia Rock and Charlotte Carlson.
Big Springs pupils report first bluebirds in early March sparked a school program on spring birds. Gertrude Schomberg led with bluebirds, joined by robins and other species. Mary Jeanne Palmer announced a program featuring piano solo, bird-themed readings and songs by 4A class and other students.
Franklin musicians with superior ratings at the Monticello sub district contest entertained the high school instrumental club on two occasions. The programs featured piano, violin, cello, bassoon, xylophone, and various solos and ensemble works by Weber, Beethoven, Haydn, Moussorgsky, Mozart, and Schubert with performers including Vernon Guttenfelder Edward Horak Charles Dulin Don Kensinger Rae Blodgett Bob Smythe and Freddie Arduser.
In public schools students express themselves through verse as shown by a sample poem The Wind by Adella Joyner of class 4B Tyler. The piece illustrates wind’s moan and tree bows and flowers cast from beds, with the speaker speculating the wind is their God.
A reflective verse pairing short poems about books as houses and a library as a village. Betty Subotnek and GB Taylor present lines on winter scenes, travel, and longing for summer, with seasonal images and simple rhymes. The verses mention geese, snow, wind, and coyote, creating a quiet, nostalgic mood.
A lyrical scene describes the sun setting behind sands and a moonlit shore. Palm trees sway as a lotus scent fills the breeze while boats glide on the water and stars shine like diamonds above. Poet Joseph Hronik, 6A Hayes.
The second floor reading room receives new titles for older youths. Boys gain adventure tales and hobby guides on radio electricity and stamps plus Western novels. girls gain etiquette manuals and fiction including radio era stories and mountain life adventures.
In a lighthearted aside the speaker jokes that being a cousin does not define James Marys kiss, noting no cousin kissers are seen who aren’t good looking. The quip underscores playful family banter in a social setting.
In McKinley class 9B Miss Elsie Pritchard assigns ballad style poems. John Fuhrmeister’s piece The End of the Little Engine describes a boastful young engine racing others, then failing as it crashes into the ocean. The poem ends with the moral that boasting brings no good and heed should be paid to parents.
Edwin Bruns public school art supervisor and Elmer Porter art teacher at McKinley high school traveled this weekend to Nashville Tennessee to attend the Western Arts association convention held with the Southeast Arts association meeting.
Franklin junior high students presented a program Thursday morning titled Trips I Would Like to Take. Orville Louvar spoke about fishing off the California coast and Bill Franey discussed Vacations in Switzerland. Laverne Sandberg spoke on Wisconsin and Ivan Hand talked about Niagara Falls.
Franklin 11A class assembly under Miss Geraldine Green featured the play One of Those Days with cast members Connie Mary Hardiman Jane Christine Mull Mrs Archer Dorothy Doolittle Vangie Dorothy Jones Ethel Margaret Terrell Natalie Ann Douglass Muriel Jean Engleman Sallie Anna Mae Dean and music numbers including a violin solo from Patricia Berry a vocal solo by Barbara Blaise a clarinet solo by Dick Marnette plus a class song Toast to Franklin directed by Miss Helen Keith. Class advisers included Miss Gertrude James Miss Grace Tathwell Miss Sadie Combs and Carr B Lavell.
Franklin junior high school reports champions in the 7A6 and 8A6 girls division supervised by Miss Ann Lindemann. 7A6 home room girls win pinball with Kathleen James leading a squad including Margaret Allan Mildred Matteson Ann Gengen Elaine Nunnally Muriel Lowe Jean Files Kathleen Blaul and substitutes Betty Hinds Kathryn Reith. Second place went to Patricia Eckert Leora Armstrong Doris Campbell Betty Lubbock Beth Jean Veverka Alice White Maxine Rick with Virginia Greer as captain and substitutes Betty Ahrendsen and Margaret Hesser. 8A6 home room girls win basketball title also taking second place. team includes Katheryn Greene Virginia Hendrickson Catherine Keeler Doris Dose Jeanne Cash Nora Cocker Alicia Franey with captain Marilyn Siebke. Second champions Bonnie Tripp Margaret Barng rover Jane Hall Barbara Rogers Carol Selby substitute Kathryn Wandel captain Frances Pierce.
The Roosevelt seniors have chosen Captain Applejack by Walter Hackett for their commencement play. The performance will be on May 22 with Miss Roberta D. Sheets directing. Cast selections have not yet been made.
At Berkeley UCS cooperative coffee shop customers choose cream strength via a color chart. Black coffee is Ethiopian, light cream is Joe Louis, moderate cream is Sun Tan, heavy cream is Golden Bear, and honeyed coffee is Boston.
Harry Peterson records a senior high school project at Franklin senior high where four groups named Government Merry-Go-Round News Review March of Time and News Flashes presented Monday and Friday oral news reports. Students used eight newspapers twenty magazines seven radio commentators totaling 691 items with no subscription required and emphasized analysis and discussion of current events.
Edgewood No. 1 launches bird study in fifth and sixth grades with observations notes charts and art linkage while seventh and eighth graders tour district court and county jail for civics. Glee club stage St Patrick's party. third and fourth grades rehearse Hansel and Gretel. first and second grades create a food project with a wheat booklet recipes and pictures.
The McKinley G A A met in the Martha Washington room for a picnic supper this week. They adopted the song Strong and Healthy Girls written by Mary Ellen McLeod set to the tune of Don't Give Up the Ship.
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