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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1935
Page
7
The readable fragments describe a local notice with names and dates but lack a coherent event or action to summarize. No definitive outcome or organization is clearly identified.
Professional entertainers Marl Brown and Glen Menoley performed at the high school on Wednesday November 20. Pupils attended the ten cent show during the first period, after which several classes were shortened. The program featured piano organ chimes, a college song with Brown on saxophone and Meneley on piano, humorous pieces, and novelty numbers that drew much applause. The encore included popular pieces on the same instruments.
Mian Price entertained nine guests from Pittsburgh over the weekend including Donna Morhes Lucile Morhes Daya Sorenson Marian Pitt Virginia Reed and Miss Shater and Miss Smith who attended the hockey game at Tinboro College then a tea. Library staff attended in heat hand tucker and visited Healey’s for a meal. Absentees included Blandon due to illness. Orchestra rehearsals continue Wednesday with the Milk Fund play in mind. Senior composition classes wrote verse as a group project. Junior play cast changes include Mrs. Wellemilier Jeanne Titu Marcella Burbeck Mary Elizabeth Gillette and Lucile Norton Marjorie Mullroy. Rod and Gun Club hosts a contest to shoot game. Norman Mowilroy leads with 198 points. Yearbook photos are happening. Frank Kuss won Chief Hi To Pi’s coyote. December 1st marks marking day ending the second six weeks. Royal Order of the Greuland Crossbones met at the mausoleum. plans for a cand party on November 28 and a two-ton lunch followed. Erie trip for Hessay Wight to attend a bi-monthly meeting. Basketball team supplied with leather shoes after many years. Westminster Guild dinner attended by Louise Themes, Dorothy Mee Rikers, Louie Witteley and Abel Beckwith. Marie Wettenburg spent Sunday in Jamestown. Ruth and Frieda Vogl returned to school after a siege. Jeannette Sorenson hosted a surprise birthday party for Rigberta Retherford with guests Mary Alice Retherford Anne McCuan Phyllis Retherford Harriet Lloyd Roberta Retherford Pat Patterson and Bob Nygiodle. Russ Sorenson also entertained Shirty.
A long-defaced school page notes opinions of former Corry High students about the ideal college woman. Respondents praise intelligence, appearance, humor, practicality, mood, and sociability, with varied, sometimes dated, criteria and examples.
A student staff led by Elaine Foster and Norma Bennett publishes THMES at Corry High. The issue includes editorials on citizenship, the school citizen relationship, and duties of students and teachers. Virginia Williams signs the piece on citizenship education and student involvement.
A fragment from a school page features humorous lines about a Chevrolet and a traveling man’s doll, plus a Thanksgiving poem titled The Pilgrims’ Thanks. The piece notes original tone despite echoing Longfellow and reflects student writing from a senior composition class.
A 1929 school snapshot lists Sophomore Edgar Allan Taylor from Spring Creek in Mr Myers room, with interests in Plane Geometry and coin collecting. It notes Junior Leon Johnson in Room 1B, English love, bird study, and study club. Senior Pauline Swanson in College Prep, Trench, piano, and Public Speaking Club. Also mentions Helen Jones, Georgia Curtis, Coach McCall honors, a masquerade dance, football banquet, and notes on various clubs and queries from the files.
On Tuesday November 12 the Dramatic Club held officer elections with Edward Becker as president Malcolm Haines as vice president William Gumbleton secretary and treasurer and Jo Ann Roach chairing committees The faculty advisor is Misa Bennett A discussion on American Muquetts was the week\\'s main topic The Library Club notes ready books for use and members plan a Thanksgiving party Public Speaking Club continues with student chaired meetings each speaker presents a brief with critique by Miss Price and the class The next speeches focus on focal points national and international topics
Students at Sinior Higa are set to resume activities including a health club and senior period sessions. They note past breaks aided success and praise the recent theater operetta at Tutor Higa School, calling the events worthwhile and beneficial.
Erie County coaches Myers and Byler met at the MC A venue Wednesday night for a banquet and discussion. Corry shifted from the Southern to the Northern division of the Erie County Basketball League. A Foothill team was chosen by vote, with Carl Sullivan and Albert Pitcoyage earning second team berths. Plans for a December 4 rules meeting and referee selection were set. Students show school loyalty by wearing new HS pins, priced 25 cents, with four pin varieties available.
Members of the 35 football squad enjoyed a dinner hosted by Andrew Paulson at his house on Tuesday the nineteenth. The meal featured fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and gravy, vegetables, coffee, and mince pie. Players and staff expressed gratitude, as the team faces a dense schedule with several open dates and key league games ahead in the Erie County League.
The S. O. . wun, once the Stencil Chip, is described as an active club. Members listed include Ethel Beck president Alvina Dingfelder vice president Corrine Cullen secretary Vena Gibbons treasurer and Donna Keppel Alice Wetinora Virginia Welden Lena Williams Elizabeth Dahl Victoria Staskiewicz Lucile Porbes Della Sorenson Roberta Long Marie Wettenburg Marnie Mary Ary Mallick. Last Tuesday a tureen dinner hosted by sponsor Mrs McCormick featured Miss Price as guest with a capacity record set and a social period followed by a theatre party.
A brief record of a school program held by Room 18 on Friday November 22. Georgia Munn announced the event with a dance by Fetty Tame Gtuart and Marserite Newion. Margaret Kovach and Elizabeth Perry sang and played songs. Students Wealth Hix, Betty Stroup, Mary Alice Reth itford, Mary Loveland, Alice Tupper, Shirley Hinman, Victoria Wyehe, and Fred Antaire performed. Betty J Jane Stuart joined a tan dance, followed by Lillie Buco in Town sung by Elizabeth Perry and Margaret Kovitch. Mr Sheen quips afterward about the one coin coinci.
Last week the WW A Mt club named several new members including Tonny Mtv Sheen as honorary. New elected were Coach McCans Johnny Wilcox George Wolstencroft with Ralerhyaal and Weiner feed approved. Supper at 7 30 followed by ping pong then members cleaned the kitchen. They later went deer spotting with a tally of thirty five foxes one coon twenty eight rabbits and more.
The student councils held a joint meeting last week with Cassius Paulson presiding as president of the boys council. Traffic bulletins were distributed to members and will be posted in each homeroom. A seniors girls complaint about sophomore girls occupying front of assembly was noted but no action taken. Helen Hovey was appointed to obtain permission for the council dance.
A chaotic student council meeting on November 2 sets new dismissal rules. Senior boys from rooms 3 and 6 will be escorted to boats after the last class and dismissed after the first bell. Senior girls from rooms 7 and 5 will be taken to the cowls after the last class and dismissed on the second bell. All other rooms dismissed on the second bell receive coats upon dismissal.
Excerpted notes discuss Sok reports from the Sophomore class. The text mentions wealth, Charles E. Lind as a father figure imported from Germany, and Lindberg’s journey to America. It questions the quelling of the generation and notes misspellings like Cenchery and Willa Cathers la 2 men.
A family event notes five guests at a shower on Friday in honor of the sister. The piece mentions local Football team members wearing modest attire reflecting Corry merchants' generosity and hints at the Thanksgiving vacation timing. It also reports on a long car journey from Adelaide to Melbourne covering six hundred miles in three days.
The Board of School Directors of Corry Pa invites sealed bids for general contracting, heating and ventilating, plumbing and electrical work on the vocational school building. Bids due November 29, 1935 at 7 pm, opened publicly. Specifications available from architect Raymond A Freeburg Jamestown NY for 40 dollars per set. refundable if returned in good condition. The district may waive informalities or reject bids. Bid security of 5 percent required. Project funded by the Public Works Administration with all related wage and employment rules.
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