Open House Tour Showcases Cedar Rapids School Projects
Observation week in public grade schools features open house displays from Garfield and Arthur buildings. Students present projects across grades, including an orange crate library, a miniature farm, flower shop exhibits, dog studies, transportation art, costume plates, and a health cafeteria with fake food and price posters.
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Garfield
Arthur
Garfield School
Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Mexico
Japan
Wide Awake Health Cafeteria
Fillmore Playhouse Built Under NYA Supervision
A Fillmore third grade project created a nine room miniature modern home three feet by twenty seven inches tall under NYA supervision. Built with cardboard and clay furnishings the tiny house showcases removable roof and sides with distinct color rooms and doll inhabitants. Students include Donald Parsons Darlene Riggs Everette Sterner Deloris Beck Eleanor Kelly Janice Swab Keith Lupton Margaret Reese Richard Nilsson Margaret Lake Kieth Johnson Marilyn Kofron Bobby Vail Phyllis Edaburn Alden Bascom Phyllis Smith Deloris Sheehan Clyde Hensley Faye Fray Jean Brown Virginia Van De Vorde Fred Spratt Billy Pfeffer Regina Blake Donald Jo hanns Mary Louise Bridge Robert Muir Morton Ballard Mary Lou Schwandt Velma Haberle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colleen Moore
William J. Takach
NYA
Donald Parsons
Darlene Riggs
Everette Sterner
Deloris Beck
Eleanor Kelly
Janice Swab
Keith Lupton
Margaret Reese
Richard Nilsson
Margaret Lake
Kieth Johnson
Marilyn Kofron
Bobby Vail
Phyllis Edaburn
Aldein Bascom
Phyllis Smith
Del
History of Boats at Taylor School Highlights Sail and Steam Evolution
students compile a boat history by Betty Goodenough and others noting how craft evolved from rafts and dugouts to canoes, rowboats, sailing ships, and finally steamboats. The piece traces wind power replacing oars and engines replacing sails, with early wood ships giving way to steel.
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Taylor School
Betty Goodenough
Vernon Kelchner
Teddy Roger
James Myers
Jack Anderson
Raymond Petrzelka
Donald Christenson
Roosevelt Teachers Fall To Pupil Ball Teams In Dual Meet
At Roosevelt High School a big event saw faculty play both basketball and volleyball against senior boys and G A A teams. The boys won 25 to 23 in overtime while the girls beat their instructors 48 to 12. Mary Bowne sprained an ankle during warmups, contributing to the lopsided volleyball score.
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Roosevelt High School
Mary Bowne
Robert Ebel
Stewart Cooper
Lawrence Olson
Leslie Grigg
Frank J. Martin
Joseph Stolar
Steven Pattee
Harriet Sargent
Jeanne Hrbek
Marian Krinitznik
Bernice Fjellman
Opal Porter
Inez Nasinec
Katherine Munkhoff
Lida Tallman
Maurine Hamblin
Ruth Zieke
James Endsley
Jack Weir
John Reilly
James Stewart
James Hermsen
Elmer Nelson
Ellen Lockwood
Betty Snyder
Bernice Havlik
Frances Truhlicek
Mary Gilchrist
Janette Kuns
Helen Murrin
Elinor Lockwood
Mary Forrest
Martha Hubbard
Marguerite Petrasek
McKinley Honors Lena Inskeep for 22 Years of Service
McKinley teachers held an informal reception at the Roosevelt hotel in Cedar Rapids to honor Miss Lena Inskeep who has resigned after twenty two years in the Cedar Rapids school system. She came from Mason City and began at Jackson school under Miss Frances Prescott before joining McKinley junior high as an arithmetic teacher.
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McKinley
Roosevelt Hotel
Lena Inskeep
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Jackson School
Frances Prescott
McKinley Junior High School
Wilson Girl Reserves Hold Annual Mother-Daughter Tea
Wilson Girl Reserves hosted their annual mother-daughter tea on Wednesday afternoon. Charles Burlingham led the program with participants Wanda Farmer Zula Cacek Mary Louise Fiesler Dorothy Oliphant Melba Broner Helen Berdecny Maxine Hanson Viasta Tomes Chloris Gatrelle Regina Drake Mildred Viasek. Kath leen Daley, president, welcomed the mothers. Hen rietta Frank and Elsie Propst chaired the tea table.
Choose Delegates To Red Cross Convention
The Junior Red Cross council names its president Mildred Burke of Roosevelt and secretary Jamesou Haney of Franklin as delegates to the national convention in Chicago May 11 to 14. Dorothy Dvorak the advisor will accompany the group.
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Red Cross Council
Mildred Burke
Roosevelt
Jamesou Haney
Franklin
Chicago
Mildred
B. Burke
Favenue
Jamesou
E. E. Haney
Grande Avenue
Dorothy Dvorak
Red Cross
Plays At McKinley Wilson Postponed Dates Change
Two senior high plays have been postponed. McKinley senior class play "Peg O' My Heart" moves from next Saturday to Friday May 22. Wilson high school dramatic guild changes "Strangers at Home" from May 22 to May 29.
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McKinley
Wilson High School Dramatic Guild
Polk 3A Students Build Marionette Theater Of Light History
The Polk 3A class explores lighting history from sun to electricity, crafts candles, and makes marionettes and a painted stage. Students Gordon Ramsey Norma Lou Haegg Donald Steggall Ruby Buchheister Eugene Thenhaus LaVonne Bachman Helen Nichols Norman Rice Dorothy Bradley and others participate in a school assembly.
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Polk
Gordon Ramsey
Norma Lou Haegg
Donald Steggall
Ruby Buchheister
Eugene Thenhaus
LaVonne Bachman
Helen Nichols
Norman Rice
Dorothy Bradley
Richard Albright
Mary Ellen Rogers
Don Hastings
Donald Yura
Janice Clark
Richard Threlkeld
Jane Ann Gray
Shirley Long
James Gillam
Robert Safely
Richard Drake
Eugene Slaman
Betty Lou Segrin
Geraldine McKeely
Patricia Stebbins
Richard Krohn
Billie Sacora
Donald Clemmer
Roberta Stout
Joyce Snyder
Forest Spencer
Sue Cline
Foster White
Donna Millikan
Roger Hoff
Gene Burrier
Roosevelt Presents Music Week Concert
Roosevelt junior high held a music week assembly featuring bass viol solos by John Klimo of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra introduced by William Vesely. Accompanist Verne Jeffrey joined junior girls glee, Jubilee Singers, and Cantorian glee clubs directed by Misses Underhill Hamblin and Hamblin.
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Roosevelt Junior High
John Klimo
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
William Vesely
Verne Jeffrey
Alphabetical fashion parade shows Franklin sewing class work
Franklin junior high staged an alphabetical fashion revue with sewing students modelling outfits from afternoon frocks to beach pajamas. Seventh and ninth grade models wore cotton gowns and pastels, with ensembles ranging from sporty to formal, while toddlers and numerous named girls served as live models.
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EN Franklin
Abc
Little Theater
Carolyn Cornish
Mary Louise Giovanazzi
Projects Show How Correlation Program Works In Elementary Schools
Observation week features Johnson Taylor Hayes schools with hands on displays. Johnson pupils showcase a furnished play house puppet theater and fire station while Taylor classrooms present stamp collections art posters and Eskimo igloo crafts. Hayes highlights a bird museum milk health posters and cross stitch sewing in art.
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Johnson
Taylor
Bird Museum
Hayes
Johnson School
Hayes School
Franklin Seniors Stage Class Play The Youngest
Franklin senior class to present The Youngest in the school auditorium next Saturday at 8 p.m. Dale Barnhart plays the title role with Nancy Blake portrayed by Kathryn Diers. Director is Miss Geraldine Green.
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Dale Barnhart
Franklin
Nancy Blake
Kathryn Diers
Winslow
Richard
Mary Frances Lee
Homer Carley
Phillip Klass
Valerie Kenecny
Phillip Reames
Maxine Kopel
Elizabeth Swomley
Miss Geraldine Green
Coffee on Grand Comoro Island Linked to No Caffeine
A claim from a report states that coffee grown on Grand Comoro island off the coast of Africa contains no caffeine. The assertion highlights unusual production notes and potential market implications for island crops.
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Grand Comoro Island
South Africa
Stage Amateur Program At Edgewood 1 School
Geraldine Motley and Jean Gerber won first in the Edgewood No. 1 School amateur program with a comedy tap dance. Lenora Jelinek took second for singing Red Sails in The Sunset, while Marion and Dennis Erger duo placed third. Others performed songs dances poems and piano pieces as part of the program.
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Geraldine Motley
Jean Gerber
Edgewood No. 1
Lenora Jelinek
Marion
Dennis Erger
Betty Poole
LaVonne Hansen
Fern Mason
Norma Goodenough
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Fillmore Playhouse
Keith Johnson
Billy Pfeffer
The
Fillmore
Montteur
Johnson Kindergarten
Donald Burleson
Jack O’donnell
Ross Ingram
Herbert Summers
Barnes O’donnell
Charles Vavra
Tommy Crabbe
John Hickman
Bob Merriam
Wilson
McKinley and
Lois Barnhart
Vera Bucy
Betty Ann Ericksen
Maxine Gaines
Violet Hanshaw
Lois Heiss
Elaine Holsapple
Doris Jefferis
Georgia Morena
Betty Ness
Ellen Pollitz
Marvel Russell
Joan Wheeler
Margaret Allen
Kathleen Blaul
Elaine Kemper
Ann Lenzen
Mildred Mattison
Elaine Nunneley
Muriel Lowe
Derelys Roberdee
Donna Sherlock
Dorothy Soul
Betty Ahrensen
Leota Armstrong
Doris Mae Campbell
Patricia Echart
Virginia Greer
Margaret Hesser
Betty Lubbock
Catherine Miller
Rita Marie
Maxine Rick
Betty Jean Waverka
Alice White
LaVonne Allen
Hilda Allender
Frances Baer
Mary Jaine Barnett
Madeline Behrends
Frances Blaul
Donna Jeane Bolenbaugh
Virginia Bowker
Jean Burrowes
Gladys Coats
Lorraine Debe
Jeanne DeMoss
Inez Mae Donegan
Helen Drake
Mary Elaine Ferris
Nita Fields
Lillian Goddard
Lucile Goyer
Gwendolyn Guy
Jane Hahn
Maurine Halsey
Alice Hartley
Elaine Helm
Mary Louise Hewitt
Alma Hladek
Mary Anne Kubicek
Betty Mae Lembaugh
Shirley Linn
Delores Mackula
Ethel Martin
Virginia Miner
Helyn Mitchell
Marjorie Nicholls
Betty Noblett
Jean Owen
Beulah Pierce
Betty Pollock
Roberta Randolph
Gladys
Thompson
Josephine Cornish
Center Point Road
Colleen Smith
F. L. Smith
Hubbard Avenue
Hansel and
Gretel
Holland
Iceland
Montieur
Lasswell
Edgewood
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