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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1964
Page
4
The home economics department unveils new facilities and begins a clothing unit with shifts coats and wool dresses as seventh grade homemaking boys end nine weeks with a spaghetti and meatball supper. Freshman nutrition topics start after Christmas, while an adult education class covers interior decoration. News prepared by NVCHS students.
Students at Nishna Valley report a busy close to the first semester with tests and cramming amid many extracurriculars. Upcoming plans include Jr-Sr prom, Senior Skip Day, graduation, music contests, basketball tournaments, and Fun Night as the new term begins.
The junior high held a successful candy sale with both junior and senior highs participating. A raffle on Dec 20 awarded three boxes of candy to LeRoy Johnson, Mrs Corine Lees and Dave Doubleday. Over 800 tickets sold at 10 cents each net about 60 dollars.
A reader urges broader school spirit beyond athletics and music to support all groups and services. Citations compare National Honor Society induction attendance with basketball crowds, noting citizenship and leadership matter as much as scores and notes.
Marlene Morris, a 16 year old red headed senior from Emerson, is introduced as the first 1984 Senior. She stands 5 ft 4 in tall with green eyes, enjoys talking and reading, and lists shrimp as a favorite food. Active in cheerleading, band, glee club, choir, PTA, Rainbow, BYF, and church activities, she plans to attend college majoring in elementary education.
Nishna Valley chapter of FTA met Monday at 7 p m in the school cafetorium. With the exchange student absent the members presented two book reviews on discipline and self control. Teresa Selby and June Exceen led the talks and the group discussed carnival sponsorships and club visibility in the school. A completed club charter was proudly unveiled in the cafetorium.
By Vicky Wilder the NV school notes a busy period with events in early January. Activities included B team basketball games with Fremont Mills, a Hootennanny, and a match against Essex with later trips to Stanton. Corner Conference games begin tonight and a Jan. 21 basketball game against Prescott is scheduled.
Nishna Valley students enjoyed Dress Up Day organized by the student council. Young men wore suits or sweaters and the ladies wore party dresses and suits with high heels. Many noted how nice they looked as they entered classes, though the mood shifted when ties came off and shoes came untied later.
Von Trimble, field representative for our area, will speak to the American government class in New York on January 29 about the Social Security program. A film will be shown and Trimble will answer questions after. The event aims to inform students about a program that will affect many young people in the future.
Nishna Valley junior high basketball teams have posted solid records with both girls and boys at 3-1. Girls beat Malvern Stanton and Fremont-Mills, losing only to Farragut. Boys defeated Farragut Fremont-Mills and Malvern, with a loss to Stanton, led by Richard Fleming and Dennis Boileau. girls top players include Patty Johnson, Rae Rydberg, and Darlene Sandquist.
Hastings community items include church notices with Ralph Russell and Dorothy Largent, Sunday School at 8 and Morning Worship at 9. A 4-H meeting for Peppy Pixies is planned for Jan 26 at the Community building, plus Saddle Club gathering Jan 22. Local visits feature Roger Crawford, James Roundtree, Shenandoah and Red Oak trips. A Jan 3 birth at Edmundson Hospital Council Bluffs reports John Jr. at 8 pounds 11 ounces. mother and baby listed as fine.
Hastings Town Council meets December 8 1968 voting to allow Jesse Perkina Jr to build a 20 by 40 foot wooden gas station. Minutes note transfers from funds and bills paid including utilities and lumber purchases. New officers sworn in and roles assigned with skate purchase approved and fire chief selection left to firefighters.
Members of the WSCS8 and their families enjoyed a pot luck dinner last Thursday at the Jesse Perking home with 37 guests attending. After dinner Roxanna Vance led a program. Children roller-skated in the Community Building. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Scott and Lavonne visited the Joe Parker home on Saturday.
Mrs Nina Crouse reports SCD Club members entertained their husbands at a seven o'clock supper Wednesday evening at the Legion club west of Emerson. Attending were Ellis Grindle Charles Wilson Kermit Hillyer Jon Hathaway R R Kier Kenneth Davis Roy Davis Everett Joe Guy Grindle Jr Bob Blunt Dale Moyer Albert Anderson. Mrs Joe Hathaway hosted the SCD Club Thursday afternoon with eleven members present Robin Buhl of Omaha was a guest Quiz Traffic rules was part of the program Mrs Charles Wilson won the door prize Ellia Grindle and Charles Wright of Glenwood visited Nishna Cottage at Malvern
Strahan Garden Club met at the Hillyer home Wednesday afternoon with 18 members one guest Mrs Bob Blunt and four children present. Mrs Gerald Mather won the door prize as new president Mrs Hillyer led the meeting dues were paid and pumpkin pie whipped cream mitts nuts and coffee were served.
Rev John Lippincott leads Strahan Methodist Church services at 9 30 a m with a Children's Sermon Milkweed Missionaries and a sermon The Mission is Gods At 10 30 a m Sunday School. Local residents and friends are noted visiting relatives including Zeno Bass family and Walter Roberts of Mt Ayr Calif and others in Malvern Compton and Omaha. WSOS set to meet January 22 at 1 30 p m at Imogene.
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