Mother's Day Activities Highlight School Projects Lanterns and Silhouettes
Read about Mother's Day observances in Lincoln Hayes Polk and Cleveland schools with student projects. Kinder garten crafts include a Mother Goose hat shop, silhouettes drawn in a dark room, and booklets printed with the poem Only One Mother. Franklin pupils print and frame original verses. Girl Reserves programs at Roosevelt Franklin Wilson and Washington colleges offer teas and mother gatherings this week.
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Lincoln School
Hayes School
PTA
Polk
Cleveland
Ruth E. Martin
Franklin School
Roosevelt Junior High
Franklin
Wilson
Hi-Y-Ette
Washington
Ywoecoa
English Classes Show Wide Range Of Activity
Students at Wilson School engage in varied work beyond grammar and poetry. Seventh grade reads tracked by rainbow charts, while 7A4 built a Van Tassel homestead from Sleepy Hollow. Eighth grade projects include booklets, scrapbooks, and author posters.
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Willis Hall
Bessie Livingood
Georgia Merrifield
Charles Woods
Charles Baker
Douglas Mathews
Junior Janis
Phyllis Subotnik
Wayne Berry
Verne Reeder
van Tassel
Sleepy Hollow
Richard Taft
Arnold Field
James Hines
Captain Kidd
Polk Pupil Earns Money For Scout Dues With Chairs
Robert Cain a 6A pupil at Polk school and son of Myr and Mrs Arthur L Cain has made rustic willow chairs to raise funds for his Boy Scout dues. An exhibit at Polk school drew many customers to his chairs and boosted sales.
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Polk
Robert Cain
Polk School
Myr
Arthur L. Cain
C Avenue
Buchanan Sixth Grade Comedy Stage Show Shines
Buchanan Georgia sixth graders presented a three act comedy How Boots Befooled the King at an intermediate assembly Friday. The cast featured John Gent Nancy Moats Pauline Ecklund Edward Kopecky Daryl Downing James Reed Robert Fitzpatrick Jack Melichar Robert White John Krabbenhoff Marjorie Christie Mildred Brounk Ruth Nix Dorothy Luth Clarice Smith Maydean Swatosh Dorothy Yates Esther Compton Maxine Maize Bernice Svoboda Allen Hemmel and James Lloyd.
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Buchanan GA
Boots
John Gent
Nancy Moats
Pauline Ecklund
Edward Kopecky
Daryl Downing
James Reed
Robert Fitzpatrick
Jack Melichar
Robert White
John Krabbenhoff
Marjorie Christie
Mildred Brounk
Ruth Nix
Dorothy Luth
Clarice Smith
Maydean Swatosh
Dorothy Yates
Esther Compton
Maxine Maize
Bernice Svoboda
Allen Hemmel
James Lloyd
Polk School Notes Feature Baby Visitors
Baby visitors have been in vogue at Polk school this last week. Robert Veverka brought two baby rabbits and John Vondracek brought two baby squirrels to school.
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Polk School
Robert Veverka
John Vondracek
Polk 6A Class Assembly Features Music and Play
The Polk school 6A class presented an assembly Friday morning with piano solos by Jeanne Rogers and Helen Mulroy, clog dances by Viola Rowray with Betty Jean Stephenson, and a clarinet solo by Lucille Harris. The play The Loveliest Thing featured actors Elizabeth Atkinson, Eula Jean Wilcox, Charles Albright, Jene McIntosh, Jeanne Rodgers, and Lorraine Awes, with Mother Nature’s workers listed among many students.
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Polk School
Jeanne Rogers
Viola Rowray
Betty Jean Stephenson
Lucille Harris
Elizabeth Atkinson
Eula Jean Wilcox
Charles Albright
Jene McIntosh
Jeanne Rodgers
Lorraine Awes
Helen Mulroy
Billy Canarr
Leslie Hackney
Mother Nature
Marjorie Cline
Max McArthur
Melvin Buckner
Marvin Buckner
Waseile Kirkman
Betty Murdock
Phyllis Dailey
Frances Pierce
Marilyn Newman
Jean Swenson
Vivian Turner
Richard Kuima
Mary Jane Benton
Don Huff
Robert Beach
Dale McDaniel
Robert Cain
Eleanor Henderson
Florence Bachman
Jean Rush
Charlies Dalse
Herbert Hayes
Clarence Henderson
Neil Richardson
LaVerne Kreutzer
Robert Smith
Algebra House Constructed At Wilson Building
A Miss Anna Laura Palmer themed algebra house at Wilson School uses a math based design with foundation as arithmetic and walls as numbers. Students named as architects contractors and landscape gardeners constructed the model showcasing graphs equations and vocabulary learned in algebra.
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Anna Laura Palmer
Wilson School
France Rance
Norman Usher
Antoinette Vampola
Rose Vynanek
Earl St. Germain
Dale Perry
Raymond Whittemore
George Chmelicek
Earl Krumm
Richard Hollister
Audrey Schwab
John Thompson
Dorothy Mae Melsa
Leonard Biderman
Richard Klinger
Bob Faulkner
Arling Langhurst
Donald Conway
Victor Gill
Lewis Zaspal
Thomas Stast
History and Geography Blend In Public School Social Science
Public school social science merges history and geography in a broad course. Wilson class projects show transportation and communication progress, eighth graders study colonial and Indian history, while ninth grade covers ancient Egypt to the New Deal.
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Wilson
Greece
Russia
Mary Ann Machacek
Evelyn Matejka
Betty Bishop
Rose Ann Kubovec
Mildred Basker
Marie Mahring
Florence Livingood
Girl Reserve and Camp Rally Planned at Bever Park
Cedar Rapids Girl Reserves and Wapsie campers plan a May 19 rally at Bever Park starting 3 pm. Activities include competitive games like baseball and volleyball, color-team relays, storytelling, hiking, a picnic supper, campfire program and music.
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Bever
Cedar Rapids
Wapsie
Bever Park
Bever Council
Ruth Subotnik
Evelyn Keister
Mary Jane Marousek
Mary Ethel Falenson
Mary Lahr
Mary Jane Brown
Dorothy McLeod
Gladys Linge
Frances McLaughlin
Mary Ellen McLeod
Grace Tisher
Lucille Hamlin
Doris Batten
Anna Mae Chiamosto
Margaret Maloney
Patricia Rice
Marie Kovac
Betty Joy Thune
Betty Wagner
Catherine Aukerman
Virginia Watkins
Margaret Terrall
Edith Winn
Jeanne Morgan
Marguerite Lahman
Dorothy Warner
Dorothy Wagner
Doris Rasdal
Dolores Anderson
Camp Wapsie
Washington Students Report Delinquent Tax Sale Delayed
Wayne Rogers and John Ashby, government students in Mrs Harriett Greens class at Washington High School, presented a report at the courthouse on the delinquent tax sale. Their assignment noted the sale was postponed to July 2.
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Court House
Wayne Rogers
John Ashby
Harriett Green
Washington High School
Toad Visitors at Johnson School Delight 1B Class
The 1B class at Johnson School welcomed two toads Tuesday morning brought by Dorothy Victorine. Children observed the amphibians and discussed how they help the gardener, sparking curiosity about nature.
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Johnson School
Dorothy Victorine
Gardner
Many Activities Planned By Red Cross Juniors
Cedar Rapids Junior Red Cross council held its final meeting of the school year at the Y M C A with about fifty representatives. They planned May projects including a Mother's Day program for the Home for Aged Women, aid for the Poppy day sale, a cleanup campaign for yards and neighborhoods, and reports from leaders who attended the National Red Cross convention.
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Cedar Rapids
James Bromwell
National Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt Junior High
Red Cross
Poland
Hayes School
Martha Suchy
Mary Jane Melsa
Louny
Bohemia
Czechoslovakia
Matice
Red Cross News
Russell Ice Cream Company
Margaret Mineck
Roosevelt
Junior High Girls Fashion Cotton Frocks in Sewing Classes
Dame Fashion proclaims a cotton year as ninth grade girls in sewing classes create chic summer frocks. Plaids are matched in gored and pleated dresses, sport and fitted suits, with fashion shows highlighting the work. Photos feature Clarice Ross, Rose Marie Serbousek, Eileen Hartsock, and Laura Huston in their cotton dresses.
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Dame
Clarice Ross
C A. Ross
Center Point Road
Franklin School
Rose Marie Serbousek
Joel Serbousek
Third Street
Wilson School
Eileen Hartsock
C. R. Bird
Vinton Road
Roosevelt School
Laura Huston
Mia
Thomas Huston
Tenth Avenue
McKinley School
Ten American Idols Named at Franklin
The 7A social science class at Franklin school named ten Americans as the most admired. Frances Perkins Frank Buck Anne Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Will Rogers Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt John D Rockefeller Henry Ford and Alfalfa Bill Murray appear on the vote list.
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Franklin School
Frances Perkins
Frank Buck
Anne Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Will Rogers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Ford
Bill Murray
McKinley Eighth Graders Compose Group Of Poems
McKinley School eighth graders in 8B1 under Miss Esther Copp produce poems in class. Students Margaret Ann Foster Barbara Marshall Jean Newburger and Joan Newburger contribute pieces inspired by distant deserts moonlit nights and sea voyages.
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McKinley
Esther Copp
McKinley School
Desert
Tiny Roman House Made At Wilson
Ninth grade students at Wilson school build a miniature Roman house with real water in the atrium pool and stonelike exterior. The elaborate wall paintings, mosaic floor, and clay sculptures credit named students and Florence Livingood for additional crafts.
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Wilson School
Keith Memier
John Kacere
Rose Ann Kubovec
Mildred Basker
William Dochterman
Robert Martin
Charles Moel
Robert Stastny
Florence Livingood
Mary Ann Machacek
Marie Mahring
Helen Bizulis
Lester Stepanek
Music Week Shines At McKinley School Junior High
McKinley junior high observed national music week with student performances in piano violin and trumpet solos. Eight B class projects featured a Musical Mystery with tunes and composer cloaked in a narrative sung and read by students as English and sewing departments joined the celebration.
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McKinley Junior High School
Javata Taylor
Barbara Marshall
Betty Jane Starman
Rose Marie Blomquist
Celia Krachmer
Irma Kubik
Lucia Mae Smith
Jeanne Walters
Dorothy White
Darwin Jack
Joan Newburger
Grace Ackerman
Herbert Low
8Bl
Margaret Ann Foster
Margaret Ann Twogood
Betty Halloway
Betty
Margaret
Dixie
Miss Mary
Old King Cole
Black Joe
John Brown
Van Buren Pupils Write Themes About Ideal Persons
Sixth graders at Van Buren chose ideals such as mothers fathers teachers cowboys aunts uncles boxers football players and firemen for their language stories. They also wrote letters on happiness poems riddles and daydreams for a scrapbook selection.
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van Buren
Helen Vavra
Robert Hurych
Luella Jones
Johnson School selects multiple baseball teams
Johnson school organized baseball teams for the sixth grade. Two girls’ teams and two boys’ teams were named with captains listed for each squad. The school team includes Dick Lynch as captain and Harold Penningroth among the players.
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Johnson School
Jean Brownlee
Joan Kelly
Kathryn Greene
Betty Davenport
Janice Owens
Shirley Kelley
Lois Livingston
Virginia Hillock
Mary Vetter
Miriam Rosenbaum
Virginia Hendrickson
Marialyn Siebke
Jane Hall
Margaret Barngrover
Emma Louise Wolfe
Mary Lou Rice
Kathleen McPartland
Joan Posey
Rosemary Victorine
Diana Brokaw
Carol Selby
Cleveland School Notes Birthday Party Opened By Mary Munden
Mary Munden entertained her Cleveland classmates at a birthday party Tuesday for her ninth birthday with games riddles and refreshments including ice cream and wafers.
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Mary Munden
Cleveland
Mary
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