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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1968
Page
5
First semester driver education students at Malvern Community School are finishing the course and will soon take road tests for licenses. Mr Forney will issue certificates. Charles Costello spoke on insurance types, costs, and coverage to the classes.
Malvern Jr and Sr High students participated in School Spirit Week with a poster contest. Almost all students created entries and a prize was awarded at the pep rally on Wednesday.
The MCHS Letterette group promotes a school spirit week with themed dress days including Best Spirit Wear and mourning black. Volunteers announce a dance featuring "The Wonders" on Saturday Feb 3 at the Malvern Community Building from 3 to 6 pm, with a $1.50 admission and inviting other area high schools.
Report cards and prom outcomes spark parental pressure as students aim for B averages and avoid finals. Spirit Week by MCHS cheerleaders elevates school spirit for season and tournaments. Senior letters bring joy with Drake Clarinda NWS Stewart's. beauty school. Speech district contest looms March 1 2. Illness hampers basketball vs Hamburg but teams perform creditably. hopes high for tournament recovery.
Fragment lists balances and disbursements with numbers such as 33 79 and 99 439.35, May 21 1967, mentions current taxes 1968, and various account codes like SABRE Lata On Hand. Details are incomplete but indicate a financial ledger entry with disbursements and on hand amounts.
Mr Beukelman seeks interested Mills county students aged 18 to 31 for a Europe study program this summer. Spend a month abroad and earn a trophy chance. See Mr B for details.
John Phelps, son of Charles and Marlene Phelps, joined Malvern schools as a fourth grader from Wearin country schol. At MCHS he played football for three years earning honorable mention as an all conference and all Southwest Iowa guard. He also starred in baseball two years, track two years, and joined M Club Science Club Drama Club and Pep Club. This year he added speech and worked five years at B E M Farms Red Oak weekends summers. He plans to enter Drake University liberal arts in September studying American government English Physics and French.
Dru Mort, daughter of Charlotte and George Mort of Malvern, plans to attend the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She has been active as a school leader and performer, serving as editor of the school annual, assistant editor of the news staff, treasurer of student council, cheerleader, andYouth Group secretary, and has held roles in choir, band, drama, and Rainbow Assembly.
The Panthers dominated the gym with strong fan support as Farragut and Malvern clashed. Cheerleaders decorated the locker room and students celebrated the boys basketball team's convincing win while the crowd kept spirit high through the event.
MCHS English classes since the second semester began study poetry and prose from seventeenth century to modern times. Seniors finish Macbeth and explore seventeenth century writers with historical context. Juniors read modern poetry by Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg, including The Man with the Broken Fingers.
The Dyas junior high school lists May second quarter and last semester honors. Illness delayed some exams, so the list may be incomplete and will be corrected later. To appear, students must have at least a 90.5 overall average or a B in all courses. Seniors and juniors named include Cindy Bass, Mixie Bird, Beverly Blackman, Danice Clay, Terry Jones, Dru Mort, Roger Powles, Larry Williams, Dennis Bartley, Ruth.
Students in the humanities section have read excerpts from Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe with emphasis on "The Birches" and other selections. A separate group recently finished Mutiny on the Bounty as part of an author study.
Ondan announces new MCHS FHA officers to be installed at a May ceremony. Officers include President Bat Privelys, Vice President Betty McClive, Secretary-Treasurer Chevy Blackburn, Recreation Links Schroeder Must Robersa Phaller, Public Relations Bins Rubenkiog, Historian Debbie Mc Ulive, Projects Dorothy Band. The new president currently serves as District President and may seek state office at the March convention.
The roster reads many student names such as Beuce Breeding and others like Ann Eustice Sandra Goldsberry Kotey unt Cindy Messenger Davids Nowell Linda Sehreedin Debbie Waymite Sophomores Bol Beattie Vane tte Roll Dorothy Jond Mary Bette Costello Kinds Pletcher Ripe Ka- Decking Maren Wolfe Freshmen Bill Baer Nancy Deedel Bruce Breeding Glen Diekvesbueh Pavil Evans Jack Sel and more. Critics note Beuce Breeding’s omission in the initial AAT and suggest corrections.
Congressman William Jo Seberle of Tthelowa has introduced a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to issue 30 percent advance payments to farmers participating in the 1968 feed grain program. The measure seeks to relieve pressure to sell corn prematurely and ensure cash for fertilizer, seed, and supplies for planting. Its timing matters as the administration has not committed to continuing the advance payments and may change decades old policy.
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