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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1932
Page
5
Herbert Hoover quotes frame Cedar Rapids junior high plans to stress intramural and interscholastic contests for all students. Nels J. Lee spearheads programs including indoor relay meets and outdoor track, with emphasis on health, leadership, scholarship, and sportsmanship as paths to citizenship.
Iowa science teacher Steven Patee lists local butterfly species with vivid personalities. He notes the Hackberry butterfly drinks decayed fruit juice and then water, while other varieties like the Cloaks display shy, lifelike stillness upon capture. The piece blends humor with entomology about winged Iowa residents.
An overview of Iowa butterflies lists tribes and examples including swallowtails, tortoiseshells, fritillaries, crescents, hair streaks, skippers, monarchs, and the viceroy. It notes camouflage behavior of Mourning Cloak, Painted Lady’s roaming habits, and the mimicry between Monarch and Viceroy, plus quirky markings like Arab ciphers and dog heads. The piece frames butterfly study as a school hobby with references to Pattee’s list and library resources.
New titles for the boys and girls reading room highlight adventures and history. Emma L Skipping-in-the-Morning tells of a Taos Indian boy's afternoon adventures climbing at a pueblo and meeting animals. Other books explore printing history, world stamps, and modern boy heroes.
The Roosevelt school ninth grade printing classes are preparing P T A programs for the year and expect to have them ready soon.
Grant High School resumes both old and new study halls as enrollment grows. The west side assembly room is rebuilt with desks replacing seats, freeing space for extra study areas. The Self Reliant room operates without supervision, drawing 15 to 25 students daily.
Sixth grade students at Hayes school observe two large cotton plants raised from seed sent from Memphis Tennessee. Marion Chyba brought the plants to school and the garden raised by Mrs Charles Chyba features four lemon colored blossoms and about a dozen bolls per plant. Students study the plants from books and hope to pick cotton soon.
Miss Minnie Ziesing leads a Grant high school home economics class in a Afghan coverlet project. Each student crochets a square to join into a larger coverlet to be kept as part of the school equipment. The effort is both attractive and useful, highlighting the students as capable and popular with handwork.
In Johnson GB room students practice practical art study linking design to nature. They list design sources such as flowers leaves birds and mountains and later convert these into conventional drawings. The project includes examining Cedar Rapids architectural designs and glass windows.
Garfield kindergarteners under Miss Alice Seeley built a ship in two weeks using orange crates wrapped in paper with painted portholes, smoke stacks, an anchor, a cardboard pilot wheel, and the name The American. Eighteen children helped, many eager to sail to school early while some stayed on shore to wave farewell.
The 8B English classes at Franklin have been studying how to conduct a meeting. They aim to gain practical experience by organizing and running a meeting themselves.
Tyler school enrollment has surged from about 300 last fall to 460 at year end and 551 when classes resumed two weeks ago. Overflow from Adams school has been moved into 2 Washington rooms in the basement.
A committee of Grant high school teachers plans a system to standardize class elections. No fixed day form or specifications exist yet as classes proceed under loose rules. Proposal suggests one common day and hour when all six classes would nominate ballot and elect class advisory committee chairmen.
IRS Reserve activities start in six high schools with parties and programs for new students and to introduce them to the reorganized standards. Readings and songs led by Miss Gladys Thorne and Miss Alice Papes highlighted kickoff events at Grand High and Washington. Trained advisers will lead triangles, with senior cabinets and local officers guiding groups in service and welfare work this year. The first all group gathering is planned for Monday at 4 p.m. in the school auditorium, with many girls indicating interest in joining.
Adams school closes its elementary chapter and becomes Washington high school annex. Sixth graders under Miss Elizabeth Reupke painted water colors of the neighborhood last spring, observing from windows with no guidance on subjects. Paul Thomas Elaine Thomas Patricia Satler Anthoula Miller Warren lead a strong group of artworks highlighting color, home, streets, alleys, and stores.
McKinley pupils stay active with art, manual training, music and sewing. Miss Frederikson’s art class drafts decorative landscapes and nature studies for winter applied design while Homer White’s shop class builds miniature totem poles and 18 inch models. Ninth graders sew skirts blouses and sports pajamas as soccer practice continues. A list of 7B inter class entrants includes Patricia Psalter Ruth Allen Floyd Clement Don Hersch Roy Olson Berle Miller Joseph Jerkerle Donald Lowe Martha Stoddard. Two classes achieve 100 percent equipment usage this week despite tight budgets.
Fall displays feature small pottery pieces arranged throughout the school’s interior. Attractive vases dress the teachers’ lounge library and the principal’s office, adding to the building’s beauty and ambiance.
Washington and McKinley high school pupils will hear James C. Wilson at the Paramount theater at 8 Wednesday morning. He will present an illustrated story of his motorcycle trip through Africa, aiming to foster compassion and understanding for the Dark Continent, not mere curiosity.
Moc Kinley school is producing a Family Scrape book as a companion to the Family Album. English classes gather school and graduate items, to be mounted by Elmer Porter’s art department. The collection teams include Florence Jameson Clara Gray Elizabeth Foilen and Esther Copp.
Georgia Merrifield of 1224 Eighteenth Avenue SW recalled a summer in 1932 visiting Oil City Pennsylvania with her aunt. She described a trip to Niagara Falls and a glass factory including a Mexican milk bottle souvenir and notes about the Longfellow trail in Cook's forest for classmates.
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