Iowa State College President to Give Graduation Address
Graduates of four senior high schools receive diplomas Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial building. Dr. Charles E. Finley, president of Iowa State College, will deliver the keynote address The Unbaptized Arm. Public schools close Friday for summer vacation. West side churches join in union baccalaureate services Sunday at 7 30 p.m. at First Evangelical church led by Rev I E Linkletter.
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West Side
First Evangelical Church
Memorial Building
Charles E. Finley
Iowa State College
Mendelssohn
Otto Ambroz
Finlandia
Sibelius
Franklin High School
P-Consette
Helen Keith
August Cramer
Dett
Nenia
Sgambati
Vernon Guttenfelder
America
Alice O. Inskeep
First Evangelical
I. E. Linkletter
First Christian Church
L. A. Talbot
E. J. Wykle
Olivet Presbyterian Church
H. A. Crumb
St. James Methodist Church
J.E. Waery
Bethany Congregational Church
Roosevelt Mixed
Grace Meloney
F. J. Carlson
Saron Lutheran Church
George A. Stauffacher
Bob Esser
Corrinne Fahrney
June Hardy
Elizabeth Kensinger
Vernon Ulch
Franklin Key
John Tellier
Bob Carver
Carl Ettinger
Marabelleer
Ellen Hendryx
Kindergarteners Take Off On Sky Journey
Buchanan pupils stage a classroom air travel project with an orange crate plane at a corner airport. David Popelka and Richard Salome pose for the flight as a line of peers waits to ride. Each child makes baggage and the moving airship is guided by four youngsters while pairs ride. Songs stories art and rhythm tie into the play journey.
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Carl Bickert
McKinley Seventh Graders Present Closing Program
Seventh grade classroom groups join the seventh grade orchestra for a closing concert. Performances include solos, duets, a three part round, skit and original play The Boyhood of Guiseppi Verdi. Orchestra contributions feature multiple soloists and ensemble pieces.
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McKinley
Michael Besek
Assembly
Ruth Jayne
Millicent Soboda
Jennie Huss
Georgia Ann Christian
Mabel Davis
Frank Powers
Richard Laufer
Lula Zervas
Darlene Vaughn
Doris Smith
George Pechar
Bill Kennedy
Margaret Reid
Marilyn Miller
Walter Thousand
Marvin Melsha
Doreen Moorman
Fred Abodeely
Darlene Johnson
Eleanor Miller
Jo Ann Berger
Wilbur Gregor
Merilyn Miller
Irene Gianedakis
Gamma Delta At Wilson Initiates New Members
The Gamma Delta dramatic society at Wilson High School initiated new members at a recent dinner in the school conference room. Names include Melba Brawner Marguerite Lahman Mary Jane Marousek Sylvia Egan Dick Hale Joe Nemec Hazel Westlake Florence Livingood Doris Batten Lucille Besta and Ruby Hartkemeyer.
Polk First Graders Construct Theater
Polk elementary pupils create a Little Theater project across 1A and 1B grades. They staged The Three Little Pigs with props and nine scenes, presented Little Black Sambo in eleven parts, and produced an operetta From the Way to School. A portable Victrola supplied interludes.
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Buchanan School
Wordsworth
Reading in Slickers at Harrison Fire Station
Harrison school hosts a reading study in the 1B room with a fire house truck and equipment on display. Firemen in slickers and red hats teach reading mechanics while Spot the dog rests on the truck. An easel shows Harrison school on fire and a fireman saving the structure. Twenty reading charts summarize the semester work.
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Harrison School
Cedar Rapids
Spot
Arthur 6A Class Day Exercises To Be Held Wednesday
The 6A class at Arthur school will perform a program 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 more. It includes solos duets a class history prophecy and gifts with Mary Clark Patricia Dorland Fern Kemp and others listed. Afterward the 6B class will host a party for the 6A students with Mary Clark Patricia Dorland Kathryn Kreutzer Leland Kreutzer and others.
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Arthur School
6A Orchestra
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
Robert Hradecky
Nellie Mae Stratton
Mary Clark
Patricia Chord
Audrey Pickerill
Bobby Thomas
Lillian Dinsdale
Lloyd Hopkins
Patricia Dorland
Fern Kemp
Kathryn Kreutzer
Jack Bell
John Jiruska
Frank Jun
Glenn Kemper
Leland Kreutzer
Jesse Martin
Buchanan Class Builds Dairy Store To House Their Children Of Milk
Students in 1A and 2B at Buchanan studied dairy cows breeds and milk care on farm and in the creamery. They wrote stories and created paintings and poems. The class then built a dairy store as a home for all the Children of Milk and practiced simple arithmetic through buying and selling these products.
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Buchanan
Roosevelt Student Wins Drama Scholarship on Talent
Kenneth White son of Mr and Mrs Vern White 623 Third Avenue SW and Roosevelt High School graduate earned a one year fine arts scholarship from the Minnie Maddern Fiske Foundation via Phi Mu Gamma. White starred in Robin Hood and Captain Applejack and will enter the University of Iowa this summer. He also served as glee club pianist and belongs to Aristotelian society.
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Kenneth White
Vern White
Third Avenue
Roosevelt High School
Minnie Maddern Fiske Foundation
Phi Mu Gamma
Honorary Dramatic Society
White
Captain Applejack
Roosevelt
Roberta D. Sheets
Glee Club
Aristotelian, Honorary Scholastic Society
University of Iowa
Study of Japan Inspires Kindergarten Airplane Project
Kindergarten students enjoyed their airplane called The Harrison Clipper this term. Each child contributed to building the craft and several plan to make a home airplane this summer.
Pupil Book Project Explores History Of Books At Harrison
Harrison 2A class studied early book history from stone carvings to papermaking. Students learned about authors illustrators and publishers and built scrap books bird books and a children's book shop to house and display their library. They created book characters and a Story Land Parade frieze featuring Little Black Sambo Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
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Sambo and
Tiger
Red Riding Hood
Billy Goats Gruff
Ellis Park Miniature Exhibit Showcases Park Units
A band concert climaxed the Ellis Park study in Harrison 1A room with popcorn from the refreshment stand. Children built a teeter totter playground unit while the Lions Club Easter Egg hunt was dramatized in the exhibit. Viola plants in tin cans spelled Ellis for the flower bed. A green picnic table and benches with a picnic basket were added after a trip to Ellis Park to enjoy the units.
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Ellis Park
Lions Club
Ellis
Buchanan Third Grade Builds Pueblo Village
Buchanan third graders studied the desert regions of the United States. They outlined learning goals and constructed a Pueblo Indian village on a sand table with cardboard houses, clay people, and painted animals.
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Buchanan
United States
Memorial Day program at Roosevelt Junior High School
An impressive Memorial Day program at Roosevelt junior high featured a flag salute honoring Memorial Day origins. Students performed "The Blue and the Gray" and "Sleep Noble Hearts" with solos by Wanda Clement and readings by Betty Jeanne Ensign and others. The event included poetry selections, civil war stories, tributes, and the poem "Sleep, Comrades, Sleep" read by Mary Ellen Reece.
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Roosevelt Junior High School
Dorothea Kibbie
Margaret Swope
Gladys Wilson
Martha Elliott
Dorothy Orr
Helen Been
Geraldine Bissell
Mary Esther McCune
Wanda Clement
Fred Blecher
Kenneth Curran
Donald Lehmkuhl
Bob Hallquist
Eddie Wharton
Raymond Jensen
Memorial Program Given By Wilson 8th Grade Pupils
The Wilson junior high eighth graders held a Memorial day program featuring a processional America the Beautiful flag salute Battle Hymn of The Republic a prayer by Dorothy Hronek chorus selections Iowa flag presentation Donna Jean Temple Song of Iowa and performances by 8B classes eighth grade girls and soloists George Clask Marilyn Tomash Danny Montague Russell Jonas Betty Lou Rogers Marjorie Robinson Earl Miller Arthur Maycraft Dorothy Chyba Helen Vavra Virginia Johnson Joseph Sturm Bettya Rollins and Wilmer Cimp ric.
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Wilson Junior High School
Dorothy Hronek
Iowa
Donna Jean Temple
Cornet
George Clask
Marilyn Tomash
Danny Montague
Russell Jonas
Betty Lou Rogers
Marjorie Robinson
Earl Miller
Arthur Maycraft
Dorothy Chyba
Helen Vavra
Virginia Johnson
Joseph Sturm
Bettyaya Rollins
Wilmer Cimpric
Hayes 6A Class Program Announcement
Hayes 6A presents a program including class history by Arlene Dvorak and Marjorie Kosina, poems by Vittengl, Kosina, and Dvorak, songs and solos by Hoyle, Kosina, Kloubec, and Topinka, a class prophecy read by Topinka, and penmanship certificates awarded by Principal Lois Cowan.
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Hayes School
Margaret Hoyle
Arlene Dvorak
Kenneth Vittengl
Marjorie Kosina
Winifred Spencer
Lady May
Hayes
Alphabet toys parade at Cleveland school inspires class rhymes
A Cleveland school showcases a students led parade of alphabet toys cut from wood and mounted on wheels. Each toy sparked a class verse with multiple authors including Ronald Lechelt Jimmie Brodie Duane Smith Barbara Steele Alan Martin and more.
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ABC
Cleveland
Ronald Lechelt
Ark
Robert Seevell
Jimmie Brodie
Cleveland School
Dee-Dee
Duane Smith
Barbara Steele
Alan Martin
East Side High School Senior Day Exercises Held
Senior day activities at East Side High Schools featured processions, class songs, and multiple departmental talks and demonstrations. John Davenport presided as MC, with Corrine Melichar representing the January 1937 graduates, as ivy planting followed by assemblies at Franklin and Washington area schools.
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East Side High
East Side
McKinley
Frank Bates
Betty Lehman
John Davenport
Corrine Melichar
Evelyn Prusek
Helen Pleshek
Lavern Privatsky
Truly Kloubee
Mary Ellen McLeod
Corrine Melichar Elected President of McKinley G A A
Corrine Melichar has been elected president of the McKinley high school girls' athletic association. Other officers named for next year include 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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Corrine Melichar
McKinley High School Girls’ Athletic Association
Ruth Allen
Nola Berger
Bettie Allender
LaVonne Weatherill
Jeanne Marshall
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Gamma Delta At
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POLK
Arthur
Japan
Harrison
Pueblo Village
Abc’s
IN Playthings
Cleveland Toy Alphabet
Blackie
Frederick Buchanan
Fox
Floyd Bergen
Joan Taylor
Donald Harman
Jimmy Miller
Wayne Wood
Mon
Pong
Michalec
Marjorie Baldwin
Anne
Jock
Norman Pauly
Mary Alice Randall
John Lee Brimer
Rabbit
Glenn Comrid
Russell Wiley
Richard Clark
Leota Faulkner
Alan Seabrooke
Janet Brown
Billy Webber
Barbera Birch
Norman Paulu
Bobby Webber
Marilyn Brown
Thompson
John Hutch
Lasswell
Forrest Ainsworth
Moniteur
Harlan Endsley
Franklin
John Sundberg
Lester Besser
Jack Heskett
Herbert Westrom
Jean Eckford
Dorothy Leefers
Jane Sigm
Paul Engie
Washington High School
Girls’ Council
Mary Penningroth
Betty Warren
Clara Slagle
Margaret Knapp
Jean Newberger
Virginia McLean
Betty Starman
Mary K. Carnes
Leila Derby
Rose Andrick
Naida Bradley
Naomi Houser
Vesta Martin
Franklin School
Tom Wright
Wilferene Konecny
Jane Ball
Don Reysa
Mardella Parrott
William McGuire
Hutch
Prepa Jeanne Hardy
Della Mae Nash
Lloyd Bishop
Marabelle
Phil
Adams
Mary Ellen Deak
Marabellos
Carl Ettinger, Jr
Maxine Kopel
John Bailey
Dale Barnhart
Richard Benesh
Marabelle Fuller
Agnes Knapp
Valerie Konecny
Louise Shafer
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Mardelle Parrott
Barnhart
Raymond Abel
Phillip Klass
Dick Marnette
Putnam
Donald
Corrine Melichar Head
McKinley G. A. A
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