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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1960
Page
5
A school page notes seventh graders hungry after a lively dance. Lunch of doughnuts and pop served by Jane Witwer, Gloria Arends, and Steve Johnson. Sheryl Ott collects rocks and traps gophers. Bill is an A student with Latin I English I Algebra I Biology.
Bill Thompson, 14, a Greene Community School freshman, excels in football as offensive guard and defensive tackle. He also participates in track, Mixed Chorus, Octet, and Double Mixed groups, and is active in Luther League. A former class president in 6th and 7th grades, he says his favorite activity is music.
Sue Clapham a fifteen year old junior at Greene Community School is active in music and theater. She plays flute cymbals and sings in Sextet Mixed Chorus and Glee Club while serving on the Annual Staff feature committee pep club and Junior Class secretary. She leads her class play this year and has earned honor roll honors in freshman and sophomore years taking Latin I chemistry English III and more this year.
Sara Green notes a light moment from a history feature where a respondent lists hobbies as tennis swimming and ice skating and jokes about homework as her only pet peeve. The tone captures casual student life and insight into daily interests.
Rita Kepple backs Kennedy as a good guy, Sandi Bruns cites intuition, Leon Glaspie favors Nixon because everyone else does, Marlys Wagoner supports Nixon for experience plus being vice president, Mr. Gard agrees with Nixon foreign policy, Mr. Dyas leaning Kennedy, Judy Hildebrand reports.
Mrs Smith, a high school English and literature teacher, discusses love of travel and the coast. She has taught in Newhall Iowa Rock Rapids and Mitchell South Dakota and studied at Buena Vista College. Her husband Vernon works with Greene Limestone Company Ferrol Senne, reporter.
The new grade school is almost complete with roads rocked sidewalks finished and the playground cleaned. Seeding will occur this fall and equipment may wait until next spring. Two grades already occupy the left wing as fourth graders prepare to move.
J C Wright resigns after five years as Iowa state superintendent of public instruction to take a post as secretary of the Committee for the Advancement of School Administration in Washington. He faces opposition over district reorganizations but notes gains in standards and education levels. The search for a new superintendent begins while Wright’s move to Kellogg Foundation funded work is announced. A separate IDC study probes Western Iowa manufacturing potential and river channel impacts. Other items note nursing home opposition to public facilities and a Van Allen Chapter of Future Scientists of America formed at University High School Iowa City.
Senator John F. Kennedy appears in Davenport for a third time since securing the Democratic nomination. He speaks to about 10,000 at a packed intersection and taunts Vice President Richard Nixon to visit Davenport and tell farmers they have never had it so good.
Deans and superintendents of the Iowa Public Junior College Association unanimously support rising standards as fast as finances and enrollment allow. A report to the state board of regents noted some Iowa junior colleges lag behind senior colleges, saying graduates showed lower grades in comparison.
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