Start Plans for Declamatory Work by Miss McVickers
Miss McVickers convened a meeting of declamatory work enthusiasts early this week. A good turnout expressed enthusiasm for another successful year in the program.
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1937
Page
6
Miss McVickers convened a meeting of declamatory work enthusiasts early this week. A good turnout expressed enthusiasm for another successful year in the program.
Minds of the senior normal training girls are focused on decorations for January. They decide to use Japanese motifs to create a pleasing classroom atmosphere for day students. A review of language teaching materials for seventh and eighth grades has been the chief topic of discussion during the past week.
In the assembly a lively mix of chatter and study unfolds. Delbert Davis and Sidney Masselquist speak with Allmnahel Alberts while Bob McCormick dozes, exams loom, and Marian Tague Carolyn Washer Ruth Lockabill study hard. A desk dog endures, junior girls gain nicknames, Florence Swoboda’s room three Babe tag appears, a mirror at Margaret Ann’s desk catches a reflection, and James Hatfield smiles through pity as he sings.
Students express relief at returning to school and begin geography with Denmark. The class will start studying The Kings and the Feudal Lords in his- sections of the curriculum.
Freshman girls start home management unit studying money bridges time schedules kitchen layout and furniture arrangement for convenience. They explore radar saving devices laundering issues and various kinds of equipment. Sophomores tackle the dinner unit studying meat cuts and have made soup from beef cuts.
Sophomore students resume work with mixed enthusiasm after vacation. World history centers on the Middle Ages while home economics teachers soups, noodle and celery both turning out well. English class refines paragraphs as Semester exams approach. Next focus is sentence structure.
Freshman home economies class plans kitchens with modern equipment for an enjoyable project. Algebra studies cover general problems. General science students prepare exam questions for upcoming tests. English focuses on sentence structure and phrases.
In a seventh grade history class, students discuss the Stamp Act Congress and speeches by delegates to the English Parliament arguing against George III's tax. A John Dickinson letter urges colonial unity, representation in Parliament, and a new congress amid calls to resist taxation.
Twenty six students return to class after a two week break. Phyllis Summers is ill and absent all week. Edwin Edie joins the third grade from Emerson schools. The class combines Beeding the Winter Birds with nature study and art. A green border uses discarded Christmas trees with birds. Bird cages with canaries hang as curtains. Indian relics enrich the study table for a geography project on Indians of American history.
A business law class studied partnerships and corporations with a Friday test covering these topics. They reviewed promissory notes, practiced making them, and the typing class was assigned to copy a letter and add punctuation marks.
With Miss Thiede absent Roberta Ranne led the junior senior girls glee club in Tuesday music period. Chorus selections from Hulda of Holland were rehearsed for a high school operetta presentation soon. Imus glee club has also practiced the songs under Miss Thiede nan.
Fourth grade arithmetic covers fading the averages and introducing fractions and remainders as fractions. The week also includes bibliographies and writings of Benjamin Franklin Nathaneil Haw thorne John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry W Longfellow.
Reading class material and poems noted. Absent pupils listed for the week. Discussion in Des Moines advocates $12,000,000 direct state aid for public schools funded by liquor, cigarette taxes, and sales taxes with broad civic group backing and a focus on educational advancement. Leaders include Agnes Samuelson and multiple Iowa associations and organizations rallying for the measure.
Iowa's 47th General Assembly convened in Des Moines amid ongoing play of party lines and unsettled election contests. The session focuses on unemployment insurance reforms, with debate over coverage, commission structure, appeals, and a merit-based rating system under Governor Kraschel's upcoming inauguration.
East Deer Creek notes show Mr. and Mrs. Chas Ballin and son Myron visiting Shenandoah last Saturday. Mrs. Tan Norton died near Strahan after a family gathering, Minls home hosted meat. Orville Bell and daughter shopped in Shenandoah on Saturday, Bollwood and Raynvotnd in Malvern Wednesday, Gerabiny and Maes Shook in town. Mary Katherine McDunild visited Keystone Friday. Mrs. Glen Snodprass listed as sick.
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