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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
6
Marjorie Swoobda will be editor in chief with Betty Lou Barkus as assistant and Miss Bates as advisor. Next week the selected names for the School Paper will be published. Signs and pictures praising America appear nationwide as patriotism grows amid the war in Europe.
Band practice began with the school year and will perform at the first home football game on Sept. 27. The group invites support for the team and members, noting a busy 1940-41 schedule and regular practices after school on Mondays and Thursdays.
Gossip column notes romantic missteps among students with names like MH8 I J Pandas and Gene Collins playing tricks on freshmen and a new principal. Readers question military conscription for boys with training. A blonde junior girl and ex graduate car incident are hinted amid playful schoolhouse chatter.
The Malvern grade reports show enrollments across grades one through six. First grade has 25 students drawing and learning color matching, while second grade lists 20 with three new to Malvern pupils. Third grade with 19 readies reading aloud and enjoys new arithmetic books. Fourth grade starts anew with updated math texts and bookmarks for staying in place. Fifth grade, now in a larger room, decorates and plans an original Columbus Day play. Sixth grade has 38 enrolled but only 86 present due to illness, as Miss Williams leads a year of readings and recitations.
A lively pep meeting at M H S Thursday afternoon featured new cheerleaders Carolyn Hall Gold Cozad and Jack Haring leading the assembly in yells. Mr Dyke spoke on the game prospects that evening as thirty rahs were issued for the team and Coach Dyke. Yells were also given for Malcolm Stogdill and Gene Collina who were sidelined by injuries.
Four years ago on Monday 34 frightened freshmen entered M. H. 8 assembly. Last Monday those same 34 became sophisticate seniors and boldly took their places. Wednesday afternoon the seniors elected John Imber president Betty Haden vice president Paul Plumb secretary and treasurer Mr Davison and Miss Woods sponsors. Marjoria Swaboda was named Emailchess editor with Betty Lou Barkus assistant. The studios who will bid for the class picture were chosen.
The class of 42 held its first meeting last Thursday behind guarded doors. Robert Stroud was elected president with Viola Krop as vice president, Malcolm Campbell as secretary and treasurer, and Miss Bates and Milas Baumgartner as sponsors. The group approved inviting a representative from the Josten firm to present class jewelry options.
Fifteen students were fortunate with cool weather to begin a food preservation project. They explored various canning methods and produced excellent results. Freshman classes study cotton materials and select apron patterns while creating samples of different seams and bindings.
The Malvern schools begin another year with steady enrollment and a full slate of activities including football basketball baseball glee club band dramatics and speech. Students are urged to balance participation with time for core school work and to avoid half hearted involvement that could harm themselves and individual activities.
The following freshmen have increased the loss of '44 Vanda Knop Lorraine Collier Wands Miller Frances Swoboda Harvey Hasselquist John Collier Nadine Winters Ruth Leu Edna Maddocks Delores Langdale Roland Bird Ethel Nelson Richard Whitesides Elton Miller Cynthia Menschel Paul Davis and Otha Dickerebach. Most of the freshmen like high school better than the grades and really took forward with eager anticipation to the initiation party.
The normal training class has received a new unit on reading readiness and is preparing for observation. The spelling unit is completed with two demonstration lessons and bulletin board work. Observation in the second grade will begin next Wednesday.
M. H. 5 reports over half the student body auditioning for the glee club with 22 boys and 23 girls, noting rising interest due to past success in operettas and contests. The piece encourages further participation and hard work to build a strong musical group. Separately, the Mesquakie near Tama note long-awaited marriage license requests after tribal customs fade, as Rudolph Mitchell and Alyina Wahpecanah apply, marking first such filing in over three years.
Mrs. Cleva Brooks hosts the Rural Improvement Club with 21 members and five visitors. Mrs. John Kane of Malvern presents a talk on scrofula diseases. Next meeting set for Oct 2 at Mrs. George Howard's home. Washington guests and a large cooperative dinner honor Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Culver of Seattle. 67th birthdays noted for Duffington and Plumb families. Weekend hospital update reports Walter Hilton in critical condition after surgery.
Arthur Thieschafer and Virginia McGibbons wed at the Congregational parsonage in Glenwood with Dr. T W Long officiating. The bride wore bright blue corduroy and gardenia corsage. After the ceremony the couple visited relatives before departing for St. Louis. They plan to live in Glenwood where the groom works at the Gamble store.
Mr and Mrs W J Fitzpatrick and family visited Sunday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Gus Seeger in Connell Bluffs Less Pippitt and Mr and Mrs Paul Seeger left Monday for Spi cer Minn for a few days fishing. Mrs Roy Spelman was taken to Mercy hospital Sunday and Monday she had an appendicitis operation. Ruth Sears near Greenfield dreamed of being followed and jumped from a window injuring two bones above the left ankle. Coy Mattley near Corydon felt a tug and a rug pin pierced her eyelid and entered the eyeball with no serious effects expected.
H M Shevanan, a Chicago rupture shield expert, will be at the Chieftain Hotel in Council Bluffs on Thursday September 26 from dawn to 6 PM. He claims the Zoetic Shield greatly improves rupture treatment, promising immediate results without medicines or straps. Demonstrations offered free at Add 6441 N Richmond, Chicago, and solicits incisional hernias after surgery.
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