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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1962
Page
6
The drama club play The Importance of Being Earnest is postponed due to rehearsal delays from bad weather and basketball schedules. The tentative performances are set for March 9 or March 23, depending on the basketball team’s success in the sectional tournament.
Malvern High School salutes Rosalie Turner as Senior of the Week. The five foot seven forward has starred for four years on the basketball team and serves as Malvern’s main softball shortstop since freshman year. She is active in Honor Society Drama club Student Council VHA and majorettes and plans to study Commercial business in Omaha or Des Moines while pursuing basketball. Her interests include greens browns and oranges and the Duke of Earl song.
Malvern Community School notes editorial staff and reporters for News News. Pat Newell leads coverage with Barbara Beasley Linda Gray Peggy Hunt John Lippincott Nancy Lisle Jolene Turner Jo Anne Wray among contributors.
District speech contest at Red Oak features MCHS entrants in multiple categories: Oratorical Carolyn Lefgren and Carol Wortman. Dramatic Nurene Summers. Humorous Ruthie Earith and John Hays. Interpretative Poetry Fat Now ell and Pat Breeding. Interpretative Prose Lara Beck with Pat Breeding and Donna Meyers. Declm coach Lois Alter cites three reasons for smaller turnout: athletics conflicts, flu illness, and lack of practice time.
A Wednesday tour for the Home Ec II class included visits to the Joslyn Art Museum Orchard Wilhelm and a kitchen display at Iowa Power and Light in Council Bluffs. The trip complemented a unit on interior decorating showing students decoration principles in action.
MCHS freshman home ec classes held two parties for preschoolers as a capstone to child care studies. First class celebrated Valentine’s Day, second class party followed Friday afternoon. Children played games, arranged picture puzzles, and listened to stories. Cookies and milk refreshments followed, with some children reluctant to leave.
Algebra II, a small class of thirteen, aims at science paths like medicine engineering and architecture. It requires Algebra I and geometry beforehand and covers advanced procedures. The course leads toward college prep and early calculus, with topics including quadratic equations logarithms and higher equations.
An open letter from the MCHS boys basketball squad thanks nine students and cheerleaders for signing fan bus lists on Feb 19 and urges greater turnout at games. The team notes hard work, compares to girls’ support, and asks students to boost attendance at district play.
Clayton Hert reviews American Youth, Time Magazine, Reader's Digest condensed books and Jean Kerr humor titles. He notes American Youth is mailed free to newly licensed drivers, Time offers broad weekly coverage, condensed books aid busy readers, and Kerr’s Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines provide light humor.
Sophomores at Malvern High weigh standard crest for class rings. Students advocate variety or uniform crests, with opinions ranging from unique designs to year to year changes and school identity.
MCHS photo club, thriving in a small darkroom, gathers 11 sophomores and freshmen weekly to learn photography basics. Members participate in printing cards, Kodak contest, annual photos, and color slides while using Graphlex cameras, Omega and Federal enlargers, and a student-supported budget.
Official Minutes of the Board of the Malvern Community School District dated February 16 1902 show the board present with no absences. The motion to employ Newell P Crink as superintendent for three years from July 1 1902 with a first year salary of 9500 and annual increases to be set by the board was carried. The board also approved direct burial of electric service from across Chantry School to the new addition. The meeting adjourned with Woodford R Byington as secretary.
Richard Wiegman a Simpson College freshman in Indianola has been initiated into Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He is a business administration major and the son of Mr and Mrs Leon Wiegman of Henderson.
Mrs. Edgar Paulsen thanks friends in Hastings for cards letters visits gifts food during hospital stay and after returning home. She also thanks Hastings WSCS for fruit and cards and expresses deep appreciation and God bless you all.
Dan Ragland of Pacific Junction received a two day jail sentence this past week for intoxication. He appeared before Justice Carl Remley.
Mr and Mrs John Omer and Ann were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs Annie Omer and Miss Alice Omer. Carol Chambers of Shenandoah spent the weekend in the Jack Tyner home with the Omer and Tyner households.
Mills County District Court records show a document purporting to the last will and testament of Adolph Schultz, deceased, filed February 15 and 26, 1962. The court sets February 1962 for proving the instrument at the Glenwood courthouse, with objections to be heard. Clerk I. L. Donner seals the notice.
A late-winter snowstorm began Tuesday afternoon and lingered into the night, bringing up to six inches of snow to Mills County. Main highways stayed open while secondary roads slowed. Malvern schools remained open, but Glenwood and Nishna Valley districts closed. No sheriff traffic reports of incidents. Forecast called for possible light snow this weekend.
Sale dates claimed February 22 for Charlie Schoening closing out a farm near Silver City, one mile north and two miles east. February 27 marks the Harold McCain estate farm sale south of Malvern.
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