Five Year Olds Begin Half Day School Readiness
Five year olds across fifteen buildings start a new phase in public schools last week. Kindergarten teachers supervise gatherings to ease the transition between home and classroom, with half day sessions ahead of full primary routines in the fall.
New Books Arrive for Young Readers at Public Library
The public library’s boys and girls room highlights new arrivals as school resumes. Eva Knox Evans presents Jerome Anthony, while Ethel Parton offers Penelope Ellen and Her Friends. Herbert Best introduces Flag of the Desert with adventures in western Africa.
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Jerome Anthony
Eva Knox Evans
Araminta
Atlanta
Penelope Ellen
Ethel Parton
Penelope
Herbert Best
Africa
Bill
Terry
Kornu
McKinley Class Uses Recipe Card Files In Home Economics
The McKinley junior high home economics program introduces recipe card file boxes for students to organize their recipes by classification. The 8B group focuses on breakfast fruits, 8A works on luncheon quick breads, and ninth graders prepare dinner rolls while collecting scrapbook materials for the cooking unit under instructor Lene Peet.
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McKinley Junior High
Lene Peet
Enrollment Gains Mark First Week in Public Schools
Enrollment rose by 51 students across 20 buildings from 9,784 in 1935 36 to 9,835 this term. Senior high led gains with 139, elementary up 52, juniors down 140, and individual schools showing varied changes such as Taylor 412 up 3 and Roosevelt senior high 636 up 17.
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Arthur
Big Springs
Buchanan
Cleveland
Fillmore
Garfield
Harrison
Hayes
Jackson
Johnson
Kenwood
Lincoln
Polk
Taylor
Tyler
van Buren
Franklin Junior High
McKinley Junior High
Roosevelt Junior High
Wilson Junior High
Franklin Senior High
McKinley Senior High
Roosevelt Senior High
Wilson Senior High
Taylor Boy Keeps Nine Kinds Of Pets In His Science Yard
Edward Buck, 10, at Taylor School, with his parents, builds a backyard science menagerie at 706 Ninth Street SW. The collection includes chickens, pigeons, white rats, cats, dogs, goldfish, guppies, turtles, and crocodiles led by Chinese person the crocodile. Edward dreams of adding a monkey to the group.
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Taylor Boy
Edward Buck
Taylor School
George E. Buck
Ninth Street
Fatty
Shrimp
Oscar
Toby
Dudley
Buck
Edward
Toots
Napoleon
Gray Fang
Palula
Chico
New McKinley principal extols small high schools
W. L. Paxson, new principal at McKinley high, praises small high school units like Cedar Rapids four six year schools. He contrasts them with large institutions, noting diminished personal contact and the risk of “forgotten pupils.” Paxson, Iowa native, moved from Sioux City where he led Central High.
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McKinley Senior High School
W. L. Paxson
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Central High School
Paxson
Spencer
Coe College Offers Piano Scholarships
Coe College announces a piano scholarship competition directed by Miss Mokrejs. Open to ages 5 to 18, no prior knowledge required. The winner receives one year of weekly lessons and study under Miss Mokrejs, who recently joined Coe’s music department after teaching in New York. applications due Sept 24.
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Helen Mokress
Coe College
Mokrejs
Coe College Department of Music
New York City
New York
John Mokress
Roosevelt Council Sells Booster Tickets At School
Roosevelt senior high begins booster ticket sales this week run by the student council. Ten cent stamps are attached to ticket books to track admission for athletic social and program activities. Council members include Monte Linkletter Mary Louise Scriven Maynard Kint Margaret Mineck and others with a long list of alternates.
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Roosevelt Senior High School
Monte Linkletter
Mary Louise Scriven
Maynard Kint
Margaret Mineck
Jane Nelson
Ted Welch
Russell Green
Geraldine Haddy
Roy Shelton
Dick Nelson
Bob Cochrane
Leonard Fuller
William Kelsey
Phyllis Snyder
George Carson
Don Richardson
Junior Valenta
Clarence Brockman
Doris Hegewald
Mary Ann Nielson
James Holton
Bill Diehl
Marguerite Raftery
Margaret Sewell
Edna Comley
Don Bruce
Lewis Millburn
James Puryear
Dorothy Laughlin
James King
Robert Elliott
Jean Horton
Fred Mineck
Kathryn Stewart
Frank Martin, Jr
Harlan Leichsenring
Carl Fjellman
Paul Janda
Phyllis Wiley
Bob Romesburg
Geraldine Daleske
Virgil Richardson
Irmalee Butka
Leo Sweeney
Bernard Hermsen
Margery Field
Lorraine Lake
Roosevelt High Students Outline Club Programs At Assembly
At Roosevelt senior high first assembly Friday morning student speakers from multiple clubs described aims and activities including the Aristotelian honor society debate Entre Nous French club Girls Athletic Association Gamma Delta dramatic society Hi Y and others. A new bi weekly club program schedule now has half hour meetings at 8 15 starting during home room shifting assemblies to a bi weekly format.
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Roosevelt Senior High
Jeane Kelley
Aristotelian Honor Society
Leo Sweeney
Entre Nous French Club
Jeanne Beauchamp
Girls’ Athletic Association
Mavis Nelson
Gamma Delta Dramatic Society
Bernard Hermsen
Hi-Y
George James Holton
Pebbles
Fred Dick
R. Club
Bill Diehl
Bob Scriven
Sigma Sigma
Robert Burlingame
Sigma Omnicon Nu Nature Society
Ray Carlson
Tri- Blue Girl
Ellen Lockwood
New Cheer Leaders Named At McKinley
McKinley senior high unveiled new cheerleaders Josephine Beadle Nola Berger and Milton Nemec at the first pep meeting Friday. They wore gold and black costumes and led a replayed program with activity ticket pitches and practiced yells and songs.
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McKinley Senior High
Josephine Beadle
Nola Berger
Milton Nemec
June graduates enter colleges this fall in large numbers
Close to 190 members of the June graduating classes of the senior high schools have entered college this fall. Read across four buildings, many will attend Coe college or the University of Iowa, with others bound for Cornell Grinnell Iowa State College and various state colleges.
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McKinley
Dorothy Awes
Mount Mercy
Frank Bates
Cornell
John Davenport
University of Chicago
Jean Eckford
Grinnell
James French
Goldena Greenblatt
Mary Ann Herschel
Milford Mills
Rosann Shomler
University of Iowa
Sam Hedges
University of Washington
Dorothy Leefers
Iowa State College
Coe College
Ann Crull
Mary Ellen McLeod
Franklin Pierce
Helen Pleshek
Jane Sigmund
Elizabeth Lehman
Caius Thomas
Leroy Victorine
Florence Arnold
Dorothy Carr
Lydia Ann Courtright
Harlan Dobry
Paul Fidler
Geanne Krebs
Robert Lee
Wilson
John Froelich
Lawrence Pestal
Eleanor Hurka
Alvin Hurt
Bernice Easke
Jean Savage
Kathryn Nelson
Louisiana State College
Franklin
Richard Casey
Agnes Knapp
Raymond Abel
Robert Adams
Richard Benesh
Georgann Buresh
Homer Carley
Robert Eby
Robert Esser
Carl Ettinger
Corrine Fahrney
Edward Fleming
Marabelle Fuller
Caroline Farrow
Daryl Ganson
Jeanne Hardy
Janne Hardy
Mary Ellen Hendryx
Jack Heskett
John Hutch
Eugene Ke
Welcome Assembly Held Tuesday At Wilson Building
An assembly at Wilson school Tuesday welcomed new pupils and faculty. James Leehman chaired and delivered greetings to Miss Jennie Post and Charlotte Burlingham. New teachers were introduced by Miss Post, and Miss Katherine Bryan presented seventh graders. Betty Rollins welcomed senior high pupils, and Florence Livingood led school songs. Frank Kanak gave a community greeting from the Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club. Charles Turechak offered parental greetings, with a response from Rudolph Hurka.
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Wilson School
James Leehman
Jennie Post
Charlotte Burlingham
Miss Post
Katherine Bryan
Betty Rollins
Florence Livingood
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
Frank Kanak
Charles Turechek
Rudolph Hurka
Organize Activity Program for Girl Reserve Triangles
Senior high school Girl Reserve activities begin after Sept. 28 with a cabinet gathering at the YWCA. Four high schools. plans focus on leadership. schedule includes games, discussions, and a picnic lunch. High school fun night set for Oct. 7 at 730 p.m. with a second planning meeting Oct. 8.
McKinley Junior High Enrolls 48 Out of Town Students
Forty eight pupils who moved to Cedar Rapids over the summer registered at McKinley junior high. The list includes students from Iowa City Des Moines Omaha and several other towns with entries such as Donna Jean Barnes Oxford Junction and Virginia Carlson Fargo North Dakota among others.
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Cedar Rapids
McKinley Junior High School
Donna Jean Barnes
Oxford Junction
Beverly Breese
Clear Lake
George Thayer
Davenport
LaVonne_ Shallenberger
Marshalltown
Mari«guerite Walters
Mt. Vernon
Edith Misar
Chicago, Ill
Rex DeLaHunt
Marion
Robert Farr
Riverside
Harry Kuhn
Des Moines
John Cimburek
Dubuque
Burlington
Robert Wooleyhan
Peoria
Ill
Velma Anderson
Helen Barger
Millersburg
Marjorie Clark
Bernice Cubbison
Madeline Moore
Mary Louise Stoneking
Mount Vernon
Virginia Atterback
Tipton
Betty White
Atkins
Louise Gilletta
Beverly Snell
Wau<ton
Tom Hawthorne
Iowa City
Bob Hayes
Waterloo
New Pupils Enter Fillmore School
Fillmore School welcomes a large incoming class with names across multiple homerooms. Advanced kindergarten students listed include Lloyd Oliver and Robert Roy. Other entries include Beverly Neer, 1B Bobbie Blackwell, Calvin Markham, Doris Jean Clifford, and many more across 1A to 6A sections.
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Fillmore School
Lloyd Oliver
Robert Roy
Beverly Neer
Bobbie Black
Well
Calvin Markham
Doris Jean Clifford
Jacqueline Poland
Rosswell McCauley
Sammy Randall
Betty Jacque
Billy Shukers
James Randall
Roger Peterson
Daniel Cohen
Lorel Blackwell
Billy Johnson
Donald Rattray
Janette Turner
Alvin Griffeth
Verle Norman
Dona Jean Fogleong
Donald Parsons
Jane Welsh
Bernie Cohen
Melvin McClain
Betty Ryerson
Yvonne Riggs
Bonnie Peterson
Charles Randall
Marguerite Randall
Maxine West
Otto Blackwell
Robert Edleman
Dick Emery
Vicola Worrell
Jack Fryrear
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