Decorah High School embraces new vocational education program
Decorah Thomas Roberts senior high school expands a popular distributive education course for vocational students. Sixteen students enroll to gain hands on experience in marketing, with placements in a novelty store greenhouse hotel and farm machinery store. The program connects students to local businesses and aims at immediate career paths.
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Decorah
Thomas Roberts
Richard Gaard
Gaard
Alter High School Vocasional
Mark Berge
Linda Bolson
Marvin Brandt
Pan
Joan Halweg
Steve Jirak
Vickie Phillips
Wanda Spilde
Doris Stee
Diane Sweet
Chery] Weld
Smithsonian Accepts 1927 Bull Durham Poster as Americana
A Washington memo notes a 1927 Bull Durham tobacco poster donated as a rare American artifact. The Smithsonian, described as bursting with such items, says it accepts donations, treating attic clutter as ought to be expected, while remaining philosophical about the influx.
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Washington
UPI
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Island's First Grad Returns To Teach School
Niihau island in Hawaii welcomed Jean K Keale the first graduate to return as teacher for its 70 pupils. She studied at the University of Hawaii and planned to continue university work in summers while teaching on Niihau 720 miles from Denmark.
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Island
Honolulu
Jean K. Keale
Becn Mether
Niihau
Hawaii
University
U.N
Denmark
United Nations
Smithsonian poster fiasco and fake sea urchin teeth tale
A Smithsonian poster event fails to attract donors while a London visit reveals a forged fossil sea urchin with artificial teeth planted to boost value. Dr Potter Keir notes the specimen dated 1913 and likely part of a rare Americana misattribution now obsolete to science.
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Smithsonian
British Museum
London
Potter Keir
Smithsonian’s
Department of Paleobiology
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Dubuque Man Given Boy's Clubs Plainsman Award
Dr Wayne Johnson of Dubuque will receive the Plainsman award from the Boy's Clubs of America in a ceremony Friday at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch Iowa. Boyd Hinds of New York national director will present. The program starts at 1 15 p m and includes wreath placing at Hoover gravesites. Johnson has long been active in Boy's clubs work and chaired the Town state committee while promoting the organization across Iowa.
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Wayne [Johnson
Dubuque
Boy's Clubs of America
Herbert Hoover
Boyd Hinds
New York
Hoover
Great Plains
Johnson
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