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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
6
A school poll by the Girl Revelver mocks etiquette and dating norms with quotes on girls and boys behavior. The piece notes student jokes on manners, spending, makeup, and dress, criticizing energy and spirit while urging enthusiastic participation in assembly songs.
Fifth grade pupils at the school started collecting waste paper to aid the war effort. Monitors fill burlap sacks from waste baskets, aiming to sell the paper to buy books for the library. By week’s end, over 10 sacks were gathered and pupils appoint weekly monitors including Charles Nagle and Evelyn Knop.
Centerpieces crafted by home economics students were shown at a Garden Club meeting and became the girls' property. Fresher work featured a skating scene with pipe cleaner figures, a mirrored pond scene, an evergreen edge, and a blue candle center star with yellow candles. Other pieces depicted Christmas Eve activity, a candy log with gilded pine, and Santa Claus around the world with many country flags.
Girl Scouts decorated the high school windows with paper trees and greenery amid a holiday display. Students drew names for a gift exchange and a Christmas party is planned Friday afternoon with a program and gift distribution.
The December 15 dancing party at Hammer's cafe in Tabor was decided at a senior class meeting held December 18. It marks the first party the seniors have organized this year.
Pvt Jim Evans, former M. H. 8 student, recently graduated from Boeing Oakland training and returns home on an 82 day furlough. He was in intelligence work before transferring to March Field Cal where he inspects planes as air corps personnel. He values the opportunity for top training at no cost.
Fragmented local notes reveal names seen together again amid odd gossip and short sketches. Readable items include pairs like Jean W. with DeWayne Bennett and others such as Margy with Opple, plus a string of brief mini stories and a weekly question about fashion quirks.
Jerry Lea Evans born November 3 stands as a small freshman. Mentally giant, he joined the vigor in sixth grade and loves football and manual arts. He admires James Cagney and Dorothy Lamour and hopes to become an aviator. Wanda Delores Ley, blue eyed blonde, enjoys dancing and attended Malvern School in the country.
American soldiers will hold Christmas services in 200 Army chapels with familiar carols and hymns. The Chief of Chaplains notes increased religious participation and hospital and guardhouse outreach as 11.6 million soldiers attended services last year. Veterans of past wars are cited as inspiring the current faith observances.
The Malvern lawn team beat Glenwood Rams 96 to 17 on the home court while the B team won 15 to 14. Charlie Brewer starred for Glenwood with 10 points, and new fan shaped baskets were installed at the Malvern gym as the season progresses.
The algebra class completed a graph study and enjoyed toy banks during the past week. Students brought unusual banks including one shaped like an Indian head. another bank uniquely recorded the amount of money deposited.
Study notes cover health Latin II Roman history public speaking and organizing speeches. Algebra graphs fractional zero and negative exponents Algebra II and World history focus on the Crusades and present war. The entry records course topics and sequence across subjects in a concise outline.
The school endures intermittent heating failures from two cracked boiler sections. Front half fires to keep classrooms warm while leaks were managed with holler compound. Two new boiler stations costing about 400 dollars will be installed during Christmas vacation. insurance covers the loss.
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