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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1935
Page
11
Four new six year high school units at McKinley Roosevelt Franklin and Wilson stage public open houses Wednesday night for parents and patrons. Guides and committees will lead tours through classrooms and shops with demonstrations in science art music and home arts.
Roosevelt junior high school will present an Armistice Day program Monday at 11 am. The lineup includes Salute to the flag led by Dick Estes, America’s Creed by Paul Marchal, flag bearer Jack Parrish, Psalm 46 read by Mary Eben Reese, readings and songs from 8A and 7B classes, and performances by several students and choirs, concluding with Peace Be With All.
Wilson seventh grade students held a debate assembly on two questions: are dogs better pets than cats and should the quintuplets be named words of the king. John Havlik chaired with Marilyn Mathews Herman Bean Betty Subotnik and Robert McEndree. teams included Helen Vavra Charles Zeleny Marilyn Thomas Dorothy Hronek under Robert Nemec. A chorus of 7A pupils directed by Miss Christel Palmer provided music.
Halloween assembly at Tyler featured group songs and talks by Jennie Mae Huss Dorothy Rosen and Richard Ferereisen The Tyler 6B hygiene class visited the city water works as part of their water study.
The Junior Red Cross council discussed accident prevention from October scrapbooks and agreed to distribute home inspection blanks in schools for parental use with a signed certificate returned to the Linn County Chapter. They also plan to visit 15 crippled children November and cover 50 Braille books for the Iowa School for the Blind as a December service project.
The 1A and 2B pupils presented an assembly about farm life detailing animals corn buildings and farm work. They shared a corn story solved farm riddles and are now constructing a farm scene.
Roosevelt junior and senior high form a marching band under William Vesely practicing at 7 30. McKinley eighth grade band forms a comic orchestra directed by Miss Esther Kopp with 124 players. Polk Rhythm Band and Johnson students learn under Coe College instructors. The top picture shows the 260 piece welt marching band with named members listed and the McKinley and Polk groups displayed with several individual names.
Fillmore GA pupils collected a box of tussock moth egg masses from trees and study their damage to foliage. One pupa is kept in a jar to watch the moth emerge for classroom observation. In Glasgow Scotland unemployed deaf and dumb boys will learn mattress making.
In Fillmore sixth grade, students study corn from seed to by products. Field trips examine stalks roots and ears, with tests for germination and pollen spread. The exhibit covers corn varieties and hybrids, soil effects, and a display of corn by products from ammunition to cosmetics. Pupils include Ray Jean Dacon Donna Mae Faulkner Jean Jungjahann Betty Louise Johnson Marie Hansen Betty Lucas Jean Peet Dorothy Snyder Harlan Davis Donald Dreyhouse Harold Barnes Orville Gaster Wendell Freeman Alfred Lane David Mitchell Arthur Mortimer Bobby Bain George Blake Gene Balcom J D McVey Jimms Sibert Robert Stukas Donald White.
A bustling display of student work fills Polk School rooms as pupils create hands on social studies projects. From Indian wigwams and cave dwellings to a mock grocery and meat market, broadcasting studio, lake dwelling exhibit, and a three bears house, students explore transportation, trade, primitive life, and daily routines with art, menus, price tags, and miniature scenes.
Wilson Junior High plans an Armistice Day observance at 10 45 a m Monday in the school auditorium The program includes a processional flag salute scripture reading prayer and response flag presentation and a service featuring readings poems and music by students and staff with contributions from Veterans of Foreign Wars and other groups
A Cedar Rapids feature on Miss Alice Inskeep's thirty four year leadership shows how six years of school music transform primary monotones into capable three part singing. Pupils progress from rhythm games to reading notes, Alto and Soprano division, chromatic study, and early violin, all underscored by patient teaching and a passion for music.
Franklin junior high students supervised by Miss Mabel Woodson presented an original Believe It or Not show. Seventh and eighth graders traced lineages to world famous figures, naming ancestors of John Winthrop George Washington and Martin Luther among others.
Franklin senior high school Girls' Athletic Association holds a Wednesday meeting at Betty Ringsmuth's home to initiate new members and install officers Peggy Threlkeld as president Winifred Murray as vice president Georganne Buresh as secretary Betty Nissen as treasurer Dorothy Grver as reporter and Frances Hallgren as warden New members Marcia Kopecky Jane Downer Marie Shippen Lorna Morningstar Margaret Victorine join alongside members Jessie Benson Jane Rali Jeanne Russett Marjorie Young Mary E Zeithammel Wilferene Konecny and adviser Miss Leone Sutherland.
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