All School Essay Winners Named In Summer Vacation Contest
The Junior Gazette lists awards for an all school essay contest on What I Did During My Summer Vacation. Winners from Cedar Rapids area high schools and outlying districts receive first prizes of $2 and second prizes of $1 in junior intermediate and senior divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Elizabeth Penningroth
Tipton Consolidated School
Ronald Schafnit
Atalissa Public Schools
R. A. McBlain
David Crossman
Center Point School
Lloyd Meyer
Clarence Consolidated School
Sarah Cobb
Ruth Crutchley
Alburnett Consolidated School
Bernice Basker
Ervin Elgin
Center Point
Florence Crossman
Margaret Elaine Kuhn
Barton Smith
Walter Schafer
Cass No. 5
Anamosa
Clarence Milota
Wilson
Charles Dake
Franklin
Josephine Palumbo
St. Patrick's
Paul Viktor
LeRoy Simms
Julia Ann Marks
Leonard Tresnak
Lucile Me Harris
McKiney
Betty Hint
Veronon Snodgrass
Richard Groth
Donald Maurer
Trinity Lutheran School
All-State High School Summer Session Day in Iowa City
Junior Wallick, 17, Tipton Consolidated School, describes a busy day at the All-State High School Summer Session in Iowa City. He details classes, speeches, dramatics, meals, socializing, a movie, a river walk, and late-night routines, capturing student life in a Cedar Rapids area program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doug
High School
Phil
East Lawn
Capitol Hill
Union
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Girl Wins Backstage Chance With Heidt Band
Fourteen year old Jean Fahrney of Cedar Rapids met Horace Heidt backstage at the Paramount theater and was invited to join his band. After a brief trial, Heidt said she may tour with the group a year, with two weeks of learning and a guardian role by tenor Larry Cotton. Jean, a longtime singer, will perform on a national network debut with the Heidt band if she stays.
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Jean Fahrney
Cedar Rapids
Horace Heidt
Paramount Theater
Jean
Mr. Heidt
Heidt
New York City
Larry
Gazette
Red
Bradcasting
First Prize Junior Sailor Relives Narrow Chesapeake Bay Escape
HAL HALE describes the final day of a seven week Washington trip. He and cousin Roy sail from Galesville Maryland to Cedar Rapids by car then boat on Chesapeake Bay. They dodge jellyfish sea nettles and a broken shroud ending with a daring dash to repair the center board pin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Potomac
Galesville
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Roy
Hal Hale
Roosevelt Junior High
Cedar Rapids
First Prize Junior Vacation On A Farm
A Cedar Rapids area diary excerpt describes a summer on a dairy farm. The author and mother canned produce, sewed, and tended four hundred chickens, puppies, and kittens. They swam, played baseball and croquet, bicycled, and cared for siblings while the narrator served as nursemaid during illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
Help of Dad or Brother Builds Homemaking Skills
Student CARLINE STRUCHEN, 11, in seventh grade at Alburnett school, Iowa, says she plans and prepares meals when her mother is ill. She believes these pleasant duties will slowly mold her family into good home makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
Carline Struchen
Alburnett School
Alburnett
Airplane Ride Captures Cedar Rapids High Spots
Cedar Rapids student Charlene Hollingsworth describes an air tour over the city as the highlight of her Cedar Rapids vacation. In vivid reflections she notes the creek and river shrinking, downtown boxes, streets becoming paths, and a white gleaming stretch she calls a great white snake, seen from seven to eight minutes aloft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Ocean
Royal Gorge
Yellowstone National Park
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Charlene Hollingsworth
Woodrow Wilson
No title found in prompt
A playful remark notes a punning sentence using the words effervescent and fiddlestick. The speaker quips the sentence shows cheeky wit and humor, mentioning a bold phrase about covering a bed and a fiddlestick as a risqué punchline.
Snow in Movies Shapes and Substitutes in Film Sets
Snow used in film often relies on substitutes such as potato flakes, white plaster, marble dust, asbestos, pyrocell, and shaved ice. The choice depends on appearance, weight, and safety considerations, shaping how productions simulate winter scenes.
Pupils Write of Home Activities in Town or Country
NECAR Rapids pupils describe summer outings from farm visits to Chicago trips. Winners include essays about family gardening, a Des Moines state fair visit, and a memorable trip with notes on plants, animals, and scenes. Names and schools appear for senior and junior divisions with honors and prize details.
First Prize Intermediate Iowa Summer Vacation Tale
Delores Siemer, a 10 year old from Trinity Lutheran School, recalls a summer of visits to Iowa City with her aunt and uncle on a farm with many animals. She attended two shows, watched fireworks at Hawk Eye Downs, saw horse racing, earned a dollar and a half picking pens, and enjoyed a quick summer break before fifth grade began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
McGregor
Heights
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Towa
Des Moines
WHO
Fairgrounds
Iowa
Miss Dauchy
Maude Ethel McInerney
Union No
van Horne
Iowa City
Buddy
Jong
Hawkeye Downs
Delores Siemer
Trinity Lutheran School
Cedar Rapids
McKinley First President to Ride in Automobile
In November 1899, William McKinley became the first American president to ride in an automobile, marking a historic moment in presidential travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
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Tipton
Atalissa
Center Point High
Junior Gazette
United States
Club Praine
Wallick
Carline Strachen
Union School No. 2
Helen Buresh
Philip Penningroth
Maxine Smith
Esther Stripe
Jean Rabenberg
Hazleton High School
Dorothy Hatch
Edgewood
Alice McCarty
Tipton High School
Donna Struve
Mt. Auburn
Donald Pruess
Clarence School
Charles Draker
St. Joseph
Hills
Forest Calvin Witmer
Tipton Junior High
Keith Dawes
Donald Ruther
Bonnie Sonnemaker
Clarence Consolidated
Elaine Johnsrud
Hazleton
Amber McLeod
Kane No. 3
Elberon
George Tegeler
Strawberry Point
Max Werling
Fred Evans
Isabelle Mausser
Walker
Shirley Grimes
West Union
Eulabel Dvorak
Doris Mae Ingwersen
Bronson Public School
Wyoming
Shirley Hall
Hilton Consolidated School
Conroy
Jane Childs
Manchester
Leo C. Fall
Hale No. 1
Hale
Gladys Chalupsky
Mount Auburn
Marillyn Draker
Verna Jean Joslin
Clarence
Albert Martin, Jr
Norma Rideno
Barbara Boyd
Washington School
Lisbon
Billy Sitka
Rodney Manchett
Maynard
Reta Ribble
Robert Neville
Bill
The
Hollywood
Bonita Granville
Bonita
Roosevelt
Trinity Lutheran
Necar Rapids
Chicago
Planetarium
Aquarium
Brooks Field Zoo
Charlene Whollingsworth
Wilson High School
Roosevelt Junior High School
John A. Jaeger
Maxine Shipton
Franklin High School
Lulu E. Peterson
Maribel Pratt
McKinley High School
Dorothy Sobers
Frank A. Lana
St. Patrick’s School
Betty Burke
Roosevelt High School
Nevah Prior
Earl Schaller
Florence Matteson
Doris Jackson
Emilie Walters
Dorothy Kottmeir
Mary Lourice
Jean Horak
Louis Ford
Harold Quass
Rosalee Bunce
Helen Rathje
Eleanor Miner
MoeKinley
Arthur Abodeely
Mary Kathleen Byrne
St. Patrick’s
June Rock
A. J. Coburn
Martin Thorson
Lorraine Hinton
Jeanne Stepanek
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