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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1949
Page
18
Editorial notes Wisconsin lawmakers press education reform amid hearings and a strong nine member commission. It cites rural one room schools declining, rural to urban education gaps, and rising student numbers as key facts guiding legislative action.
In Readstown Wisconsin special notes announce baccalaureate services Sunday at 8 p m at the Methodist church with Rev Hubert Groves of Soldiers Grove delivering the message. Commencement follows Wednesday at 8 p m in the school hall with speaker May Roadh and a motto Forward ever backwards never.
Calendar entries list an alumni dinner and dance in Black River Falls, a Poppy sale by American Legion auxiliary in Canton, Trempealeau CES ham dinner at the Masonic temple starting 11:30 a.m., Holmen Lutheran Sunday school picnic at Holmen park with services at 10 a.m., and a Canton baccalaureate sermon at the school auditorium at 2 p.m. with Rev. A. C. Van Puffelen as speaker.
Viola Wisconsin special report lists 31 graduates: 17 girls and 14 boys to receive diplomas at the community building on May 23. Florence Bender will deliver the valedictory, Leone Wolden the salutatory, with Leland Ekelberry as president and Dwayne Kanable as vice president.
New Albin ia May 19 graduation ceremonies filled the school auditorium. Eighth graders received diplomas, Dr H A Riebe delivered the address, and Lorna Hurley gave the valedictory while Louis Weymiller gave the salutatory. The class, led by Gerald Donovan and others, adopted the motto The More Prepared The More Powerful and carried red carnation flowers with lavender and gold colors.
Nine rural districts including Valley View Riverside Pleasant View Carpenter Larkin Brookside Reynolds Chapultepec and Sunnyside hold graduation ceremonies Wednesday evening at Blair city hall at 8 p m. Program features processional invocation welcome by Errol Loy Johnstad duet by Lois Kolve and Solveig Urberg address by Rev Urberg and diploma presentations with pink carnation as class flower and green and white colors Onward and Upward is the motto.
Delegates from St. Pauls Lutheran church Wilton attended a district Women s Missionary Federation meeting in Oshkosh on Thursday. The group included Mrs Elmer Schindler Mrs Leonard Fick Mrs Rohde and Mrs L P tt.
Canton Minn special election totals 125 votes cast. Written in names include Mrs Anne Snyder 82 votes Richard Daniel 75 Vernon Abrahamson incumbent 47 and Ruel Olson incumbent 43.
Blair Wisconsin special report announces the installation of Rev. L. W. Halvorson as pastor of Zion and Beaver Creek Lutheran churches. Installing pastor Rev. Kenneth Torvik will lead the ceremony at Zion Lutheran on Sunday June 12, shifting from the earlier June 5 date. Halvorson plans to move with his family by June 1 and will lead services June 5.
Black River Falls Wisconsin special report notes baccalaureate for high school graduates set Sunday May 22 at 8 pm in the high school auditorium. Rev Winslow Wilson of the Methodist Church will deliver the sermon titled Dreamers and Builders. Rufus Dimmick will direct an original composition Affirmation of Faith. E H Greenlee will read with Norman Watson as soloist. The choir sings Breathe on Me Breath of God and Richard Holder closes with The Lord s Prayer.
Msgr. John K. Ryan, former Caledonian, is promoted to full professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D C. Born in Caledonia, he studied at St. Thomas Academy and Holy Cross College, earned theology at American College Rome, and received his master’s and doctorate in 1931. He taught at St. Teresa and St. Mary’s colleges in Winona before joining Catholic University in 1930 and was made domestic prelate by Pope Pius XII on May 11, 1947.
Dr Arnold Olson, former Houston pastor, will speak at Bethany Evangelical Free Church Houston from May 25 to May 30 with 8 pm services. He previously led the Staten Island Free Church and later the First Evangelical Free Church in Minneapolis. The event features the King’s Evangels quartet from Minneapolis for the young peoples conference.
Proceeds from a local cancer drive in Preston township totaled 148.50 dollars. Lieutenant Mrs. Henry Marquardt announced the figures, with volunteers listed from Riverside Trempealeau Valley Trump Coulee and nearby communities.
Taylor High School seniors plan a May 23 trip to Minneapolis with 18 graduates and chaperones. They will return the same day.
Shirley Ferguson and June Meyer, Hamline University students from Minneapolis, Minn., visited the Ferguson home in New Albin before returning to their classes.
Lloyd Dissmore recently traveled from Blair to Troy Center Wisconsin to help transfer household pods for his parents who moved to the town. He is discharged from the Army on April 29 after more than three years of service.
The Houston Commercial club will meet at the community kitchen Monday May 23 starting at 8 p.m. After the business meeting a program features the historical album I Can Hear it Now.
Trempealeau Wisconsin will host the Healy Memorial high school commencement Thursday May 26 at 8 pm in the school auditorium. The program includes processional national anthem high school band vocations salutatory and valedictory remarks, diploma presentation by J J Robinson, and a benediction by Rev George C Marshall. Graduates listed include Harry Bussie Margaret Cierz an Thomas Coyle Lorna Howell Raymond Hubley Robert Lakey Mary Lehman Donald Morris Lorraine Olson Claire Phillipson Catherine Prod zinski Mary Jean Raymond Phyllis Ryder and Harold Schuman.
Mrs. E. W. Craig chairs the American Legion poppy drive in Holmen for May 28. A corps of 28 workers will distribute poppies in Holmen and nearby areas to fund the auxiliary’s veterans aid and child welfare programs for the coming year.
Whitehall Wisconsin special report lists new officers for the Whitehall Mothers Club. Mrs Bennie Nelson is named president with Mrs Nels Hegge as vice president, Mrs Otis Larson as secretary and Mrs Milo Torud as treasurer.
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