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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1936
Page
6
Wilson school celebrates National Book Week with 27 exhibits across rooms and corridors. Students showcase hero inspired projects from Lindbergh and Earhart to Will Rogers and Edison, plus local history of Cedar Rapids and Boone.
Public schools implement a new report card replacing A B C grades with marks of progress satisfactory check for improvement desirable and cross for progress shown. Junior high principals designed the form to mirror elementary school practice aiming for clearer feedback and reduced grading bias.
Richard Navratil a 6A pupil at Buchanan school and son of Dr and Mrs A E Navratil turns his woodcarving hobby into a business He makes toy guns airplanes boats and bird feeders from a home workshop A teacher suggested a plant shelf and his work became popular with orders for sixteen He has enrolled his younger sister Helen as assistant to sandpaper the items.
McKinley school hosted a seventh grade debate with 7B pupils arguing travel safety by air versus car. Teams included Bob Peiper LaVonne Shallenberger Dorothy Crowell Wayne Swan Jane Watson and Bill Thompson among others with a second topic on medieval contentment. A musical interlude featured a seventh grade ensemble. Mabel Davis chaired the event with John Bedient as timer and several ushers listed. Sponsors included Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Mrs Clara B Gray Miss Emma LaVell and Miss Helen Dunn.
Garfield sixth grade read ing classes present puppets based on world cultures. Students include Chinese Sammy Leacox Marvin Smith Charles Thillen Swiss Billy Savage Indian Jerry Parker and others. Donald Janssen built Dutch and Japanese scenery while Donald Holsapple acts as stage manager. The class plans a December Christmas abroad presentation.
Garfield school observed Book Week in intermediate reading classes. One pupil from each class was chosen to present information on Book Week origins. Students brought favorite books for display including fiction poetry Bible stories and fairy tales, then peers reviewed them to deepen appreciation of good literature.
Margaret Seysler, a 15 year old from Franklin, matches boys in hunting and fishing. She and her father train a beagle named Beagle, fish weekends, and hike five to six miles with guns. she owns a 4 10 shotgun and practices marksmanship with tin cans.
McKinley Hi Y Ettes lead Junior Red Cross effort in high schools and Girl Reserve clubs adopting it as their year long project. They stamp and fold 300 menu covers for naval bases and ship meals with a wood cut by Elaine Healy.
Wilson High twelfth graders honored the football team at an informal dinner dance held in the school cafeteria. Richard Hollister served as toastmaster while coach W. L. Barnard Jr and captain Earl St Germain received toasts from the students. Charlotte Burlingham, homecoming queen, also spoke to the team as games and dancing followed. Team members present included Norman Usher Wesley Izer Ray Heefner Earl St Germain Don Lahman Lee Hite Larry Higgins Willie Vizal Milo Macek James Leehman Donald Conway Bob Smith Norman Hanson.
East side high schools announce class officers with Franklin and McKinley listing for 12A to 10B. Names include Robert Files, Tom Wright, William Bloomhall, Frank Fulker son, Barbara Mar shall, and Barbara Shonka among many others.
The 9B1 home room team won the ninth grade boys touch football championship at Franklin in a double elimination fall activities event. Six teams competed led by captain Bob Magnusson and players Don Nelson David Northcutt Dean Terwiliger Dick Lynch Charles Knox Bob Johnson Dick Hovey Tom Hinkin Jack Hall Frank Frayman Robert Fauchier Marvin Doherty Charles Dake Melvin Buckner and Robert Beach.
The Wilson senior high girls form home room teams for a local tournament. Captains drew numbers to set matchups. First round pairs: N Nemec vs R Marek, M Brynes vs M Lahman, M Maly vs M Klumpar, M Hanson vs R O’Brien, H Bezulis vs D Farmer, with M Bohac to face the round one winner.
McKinley Woodwork showcases student projects from various classes. The 7A group built shelves and bird houses while 7B made wall shelves and magazine racks. 8A created wall book cases and 9B crafted a game table featuring cross lap and mortise and tenon joints.
The junior high interclub council of Girl Reserve representatives will hold a city wide recognition service tomorrow at 3 00 p m in the Y W C A auditorium. All junior high Girl Reserves in the city will take part. Parents and friends are invited. The program includes piano preludes songs congregational readings poems and candles lightings led by Miss Margaret Porter and other named participants.
Big Springs pupils plan a Thanksgiving assembly for Wednesday November 25. Primary grades perform The Friendly Indians with cast including Carol Jean Buckner Shirley Cumley Dorothy Ruth Johnson and others. Intermediate grades present The Gift of the Thanksgiving Fairies plus songs, readings, an orchestra, and a Thanksgiving story by Russell Moneypenny.
Robert Louis Stevenson themed Harrison 4A Book Week featured a display of Stevenson's poems and books. The exhibit included stories from his life illustrations of book characters and scenes.
The seventh grade presented a debate at the Wilson junior high assembly on Friday. The question was whether the new report cards are more satisfactory than the former ones. The affirmative featured Catherine Morgan Marjorie Stolba and Joseph Hronik while the negative included Jeanne Stepanek Bernard Greenwood and Charles Hronek.
McKinley School presents The Scoop a 100 foot film with drama health and art shorts and a color march band film from Iowa City. Junior high show Monday 3 pm senior high Tuesday 3 pm proceeds aid the band uniform fund. Mrs. Robert W. Greene runs the machine with a commentator.
McKinley junior high hosts a Fiction Parade for National Book Week. Marjorie Howard drew ink sketched characters from famous books lining the shelves. John Kacere contributed several cardboard figures showing detailed dress and expressions. The display features Tom Sawyer Ramona Ben Hur Hamlet Hoosier School Boy Lorna Doone David Copperfield Jeeves Three Musketeers Don Quixote and the Little Minister. A ship scene from Westward Ho! centers the exhibit and attracts pupils.
Roosevelt junior high pupils performed at the Home for Aged Women and a Memorial building dinner honoring Civil War veterans. A Pilgrim costume group sang with Melvin Baker as speaker for Prayer for Thanksgiving. Indian songs and dances by seventh graders followed by Wanda Clements solo. Boys and Cantorian glee clubs offered selections. at the old soldiers dinner the boys’ glee club and a special orchestra played.
Jaroslava Holubova spoke to 7A and 8A social science classes about her experiences as a student in Czechoslovakia, giving an engaging first person account of life behind the Iron Curtain.
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