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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1936
Page
2
Buchanan kindergarteners build an orange crate plane and miniature airport in the corner of the classroom. David Popelka and Richard Salome pose for photos while passengers line up including Carol Jean McLeod and Jacqueline Poland. Each child crafts baggage as songs stories and rhythm work accompany the air journey.
Graduation exercises for four senior high schools are set for Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial building with Dr. Charles E. Finley, president of Iowa State College, delivering the address titled The Unbaptized Arm. Public schools close Friday for summer vacation. Public program details include processions, choral presentations, and diplomas. West side baccalaureate services Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at First Evangelical with Rev. I. E. Linkletter delivering the sermon.
McKinley seventh graders joined the seventh grade orchestra for a closing program Friday morning. The program featured self expression pieces and a variety of selections including songs, solos, dances, a three part round, and an original play The Boyhood of Guiseppi Verdi. The orchestra contributed multiple performances and instrumental solos led by Darlene Johnson and Merilyn Miller among others.
Polk elementary pupils in 1A and 1B at Buchanan School staged a Little Theater project in class. They dramatized stories from Wordsworth to Mother Goose, built three panel screens, and presented a triple feature with The Three Little Pigs, Little Black Sambo, and an operetta On the Way to School. A portable Victrola provided interludes between scenes and pupils wore masks and created props.
Gamma Delta dramatic society initiated new members at a high school dinner. The list includes Melba Brawner Marguerite Lahman Mary Jane Marousek Sylvia Egan Dick Hale Joe Nemec Hazel Westlake Florence Livingood Doris Batten Lucille Besta Ruby Hartkemeyer.
A Harrison school room displays a fire house truck and equipment with Chief’s desk complete with phones alarms map and dog Spot. Firemen in slickers and red hats study reading while a large easel shows the school on fire and students learn through charts during a semester assembly.
The Arthur 6A class plans a Wednesday service featuring Martha Schrader Peggy Smythe Aileen Walton Murray Barnett Billy Burger John Geesaman Donald Johnson Dick Layman John Reitz James Teale Mary Baker Alice Mary Thompson Maxine Darey and others in orchestra history piano solos violin and clarinet performances, a class mascot presentation and penmanship awards. Afterward the 6B class hosts a party for 6A with Mary Clark Patricia Dorland Fern Kemp Kathryn Kreutzer Jack Bell John Jiruska Frank Jun Glenn Kemper Leland Kreutzer Jesse Martin.
Students in 1A and 2B studied dairy cows breeds milk care and creamery then wrote stories and painted pictures and wrote poems. They built a dairy store as a home for the Children of Milk and practiced arithmetic through buying and selling milk products.
Kenneth White, son of Vern and Mrs. White of 623 Third Avenue SW and Roosevelt high school graduate, earned a yearlong fine arts scholarship from the Minnie Maddern Fiske foundation. The award cited his lead roles in Robin Hood and Captain Applejack, with director Roberta Sheets supporting the application. White, a pianist for the glee club and member of Aristotelian, will enter the University of Iowa this summer.
The kindergarten class enjoyed their airplane project titled The Harrison Clipper this term. Each child contributed to building the aircraft and several plan to craft a model airplane at home during the summer.
Buchanan third graders study the desert regions of the United States by building a Pueblo Indian village on a sand table with cardboard houses coated in flour and salt paste, clay figures, a Navajo hogan, a lantern enlarged map, desert masks, and student booklets with drawings maps tests and language stories.
The Harrison 2A class studied the history and handling of books this term. Students learned about ancient book making, paper from rushes, and living libraries, then built scrap and bird books and a children's book shop to house the library items. A Story Land Parade frieze featured characters from classic tales.
A band concert closed the Ellis Park study in Harrison 1A room with popcorn from the refreshment stand. Children built a teeter totter to symbolize the playground unit. The Lions Club Easter Egg hunt was dramatized in the exhibit. Viola plants in tin cans spelled Ellis in the flower bed. A green picnic table and benches with a picnic basket reflect a trip to Ellis Park to enjoy the park units studied.
An impressive Memorial day program was given at Roosevelt junior high school this week featuring a flag salute the origin of Memorial day poems and songs. Performers included Dorothea Kibbie Margaret Swope Gladys Wilson Martha Elliott Dorothy Orr and others. The event included solos by Wanda Clement and readings of The Blue and the Gray Our Country's Flag and The Rune with a Civil War story. Read by Mary Ellen Reece the Memorial day messages were delivered by Richard Carey Betty Jean Ensign and others. A double quartet closed with Sleep Comrades Sleep and taps by the combined performers.
The Wilson junior high eighth graders held a Memorial day program with a processional and songs including America the Beautiful Battle Hymn of The Republic and Song of Iowa. Dorothy Hronek and Donna Jean Temple appeared among performers with selections by chorus and instrumental solos by George Dilask and others.
The Hayes 6A class day program lists participants and performances. Margaret Hoyle Arlene Dvorak Kenneth Vittengl Winifred Spencer Marjorie Kosina Edward Kloubec Richard Topinka Charles Casek and Miss Lois Cowan preside. The program includes poems songs duets solos and a class prophecy with readings and a penmanship certificate presentation.
At Cleveland School every child makes wooden alphabet toys painted and mounted on wheels. A class project yields rhymes by the creators with B Blackie the bear and other letters. Students include Robert Seevell Duane Smith Barbara Steele Alan Martin Frederick Buchanan Floyd Bergen among the contributors.
Reader friendly collection of student verses each highlighting a letter from A to Z. Authors include Joan Taylor Norman Pauly Glenn Comrid Russell Wiley and others, featuring playful lines about animals, toys, and simple actions with a nostalgic schoolroom tone.
Senior day programs at East One High Schools featured multiple departments and student acts. McKinley seniors led with a class song, spoken pieces, solos, and a ivy planting ceremony, followed by Franklin school with a similar program and a large student procession and poetry readings.
Corrine Melichar has been elected president of the McKinley high school girls' athletic association. Other officers named to serve next year are Ruth Allen as vice president, Nola Berger as secretary, Bettie Allender as treasurer, LaVonne Weatherill as warden, and Jeanne Marshall as reporter.
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