Social Notes From Mt Pleasant Area Gatherings
Friday visitors include Mrs Summers at Mt Pleasant Hospital for observation and treatment. Local households host and visit relatives across Clare Midland Bay City Gladwin and Saginaw with dinners shoppers and weekend trips noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Smith
Eo Summers
Mt. Pleasant Hospital
Robert Ball
Kathy
Whittemore
Leo Skinner
Herel
Ethel Laren
Norman Shimmell
Henry
Bay City
West Branch
C. O. Don Hammar
Mason
Stanton
Marie Skinner
Jacob Vollminy
Walter Vollmer
Midland
Edgar Brady
Harold Yost
Norman Myers
Arthur Township
M. Myers
Bud Mead
James Mead
Kenneth Coulter
Raymond Haton
Ted Haton
Alma
Gerald Brady
Dan Czyzewski
Leo Summers
Smith Lome
Hilda Brief
Anne Arbor
Mir
Walter Lang
Ewart
Paul Lang
Chas. Amble
Gladwin
Wm. Mitchell
Ed Bruce
Rena Roth
Russell
Thomas Ritter
Mynard Maybee
Mt. Pleasant
Gordon Smith
Arthur Sheffield
Murphy Home
Albert Whitmer
Alice Mead
Barryton
Mary Malecomson
Junior Class Updates and Carnival Queen News
The junior play Aunt Cary's Gat is set and Mary Austin is chosen as Carnival Queen candidate. Maxine Mathews returns to school after illness, Mildred Gordon is back, and the class donated ten dollars to the March of Dimes after a meeting. A girls basketball game was postponed to Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxine Mathews
Mary Austin
Mary
March of Dimes
Mildred Gordon
Idaho
New Student Joins Harrison High Amid Illness Absences
Joan Davis joins Harrison High as new class member while Irene Brandon and Lee Stanley miss school due to illness. Sponsor Mr Morrison returns after illness. Mr Amble teaches geometry. English keeps students busy. they read The Tale of Two Cities and write letters as they enjoy an unexpected vacation. Carnival queens have been nominated. May the best girl win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Davis
Harrison High
Irene Brandon
Lee Stanley
Mr. Morrison
Amble
Two Cities
Class notes cover tests, party plans and new student
The class details Friday events include algebra and history tests, a civics taxes test, a class meeting about a Valentine party, and writing essays in English. A new student Don Caswell joins the class while basketball expectations look to Friday’s performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Don Caswell
Band Seeks New Uniforms and Festival Bid
The Band members vote to buy new uniforms with hopes to have them by May. Mr. Collins will visit Big Rapids this week to pursue band festival inclusion. New pieces include Morning Glory Waltz and an overture as Karolyn Amble Wayne Bucholz Dan Rames Charlotte Summers and Wesley Webber join the Senior Band for a concert in May inviting all patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Collins
Big Rapids
Karolyn Amble
Wayne Bucholz
Dan Rames
Charlotte Summers
Wesley Webber
May
Eighth Grade Notes On Tests and Activities
Eighth graders finished achievement tests in reading vocabulary arithmetic English literature history civics and spelling. Parents may review their children's reports. Donna Faye Trowbridge is improving after illness. Absent: Mabel Burmeister and Dick Penny. Civics notes review covered district township village city and county organization. Book reports due next Friday. The eighth grade boys enjoyed basketball practice. Township maps and art from Southey and Cary were displayed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna Faye Trowbridge
Mabel Burmeister
Dick Penny
Towship
Seventh Grade Notes on February Activities
The class reports finishing achievement tests and writing essays on Washington Lincoln and Hoison. They study percentage in arithmetic and note February birthdays. The girls prepare a Valentine box for Friday February 14 and plan to pass out valentines since there will be no party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lincoln
Hoison
Fifth and Sixth Grade Band Officers and new members
Fifth and sixth grades report achievement tests finished after weather delays. Karolyn Amble and Mary Fanning join the band. Sixth graders elect Joan Tiartar president Bobby O Shaughnessy vice president Karolyn Amble secretary. Fifth graders select Kay Pardue president Shirley Howell vice president Marjorie Fietcher secretary. Ernest Collard enters the fifth grade as a contest to create the most original valentine is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Man
Karolyn Amble
Mary Fanning
Colisé Joan Tiartar
Bobby O'Shaughnessy
Kay Pardue
Shirley Howell
Marjorie Fietcher
Ernest ‘Collard
Valentine
Fourth Graders Share Eskimo Life Booklets
Fourth and third graders finished health and achievement work and created booklets on Eskimo life. The class expresses a wish to see the Northern Lights and Eskimo outfits, notes Shirley Mose’s return, and features silhouettes of Lincoln in the room on Honest Abe studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Mose
Abe
Lincoln
Children Learn and Create in Class Activities
In a classroom setting students practice adding and subtracting figures up to hundreds while crafting Eskimo pictures and a story about Eskimos for scrapbooks. The piece notes January birthdays for Lester Beavers and Eugene Yoder, and mentions snow melting to reveal impure water. The group enjoys songs Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah and Lamplighter's Serenade as they engage in arts and handwriting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Beavers
Eugene Yoder
Cold Week Keeps Some From activities in class
A number are absent this week due to cold weather. Students stay busy making valentines for a box and party. They enjoyed Eskimo children and their homes and are matching words and pictures to create a child’s dictionary.
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Fred Schaaf
Hayrold Watson
Paul Gibson
Saginaw
Raicel VanBuskirk
Abel VanBuskirk
Clare
James Krehmar
Victor Erchmar
Ross Woodward
Helen Underhill
Bellaire
Nellis Braden
Othel Lyons
Harry Merrill
Lyle ‘Neeley
Holly and Fenton
Barbara’ Vertner
Ernie Roth
Wayne Tennant
Betty
Lynn D. Francis
Midland County
Greyhound
City Hall
Pete Jones
Pete
Greyhound Terminal
Fourth St
Farwell Agency
Davison’s Garage
Cary
Robert Southey
New York
FOX DE Luxe
Fox de Luxe Brewing Co
Grand Rapids, Mich
Clare Sentinel
Isabella
Ray Hart
Lynn. O
Francis
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