Mexico Board of Education Meets Regularly in Public
Mexico Public Schools directors convene on the third Wednesday each month at 7 30 p m in the Hardin Junior High Library to oversee district affairs. Six directors serve three year terms. officers include Dr Ben Jolly president and Kermit Head treasurer. Terms for Head and Hodges expire in April with the annual election set for April 6.
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Board OF Education
Mexico
Mexico Public
Hardin Junior High
Ben Jolly
Frances Baker
Thomas Hodges
Frank Sutton
Lawrence Barnes
James Worstell
Kermit Head
Joseph Hodgin
L. Buford Thomas
Head
The Superintendent Overview for Mexico Public Schools
The Mexico Public School system employs 191 teachers and administrators with an average age of 41. Of these, 81 work in elementary, 27 in junior high, and 81 in high school along with the superintendent and assistant. Forty five hold a Masters Degree, reflecting ongoing staff specialization and broader graduate training amid a period of teacher shortages and rising applications.
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Mexico
First Graders Share Imaginative Stories At School
Mrs. Mary Bailey teaches first graders at Eugene Field School who wrote varied pieces about Mrs. Blues with a blue hat, a wandering hat, and a missing golden key. Students describe daily routines, pets, and chores, expressing affection for reading and helping at home.
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Mary Bailey
Eugene Field School
Body Art Is Creative Experience in First Grade
Miss Janice Lance's McMillan School class explored creativity through a two stage mural project. Students made footprints and handprints then interpreted the dried art to identify rockets dragons waterfalls and flowers before composing a story using features seen in the painting.
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Janice Lance
McMillan School
Lance
Magazine
School News Roundup Highlights Student Achievements
The Hunting and Fishing Weekly Newspaper reprints Earth Patrol coverage from Mrs. Marilyn Preas Hawthorne School and notes several student accomplishments. Mildred Blue elected class president at McMillan with officers Kevin Tiller Myra Palmer and Mike Genthon. New students join Eugene Field, including Britt family members Admiral Leo Jesse Vera and Lovie. Several classes report top musical note scores and publish reports in other papers.
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Mildred Blue
Betty Danser
McMillan
Kevin Tiller
Myra Palmer
Mike Genthon
Earth Patrol
Marilyn Preas
Hawthorne School
Hunting and Fishing Weekly
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Dennis Brooks
Becky Gage
Pam Paschal
Dee Dee Duckworth
Carol Kallenbach
Eugene Field School
Britt
Admiral
Leo
Jesse
Vera
Lovie
Wellsville-Montgomery RI School
Madelyn Perry
Eugene Field
Mike Henderson
Pearl Belcher
Gailyn Guthrie
Birthday cake and donations brighten Cerebral Palsy School events
Mrs Zumalt celebrated her birthday with Mothers Club cake and ice cream at the Cerebral Palsy School. Visitors Mr and Mrs Skorupa donated cookies and cupcakes and funds for a humidifier. Nu Phi Mu Sorority provides cookies at snack time. A gas line rupture forced a school closure last Friday, but repairs and a fire safety inspection followed. Kay Lawson, a pupil, lives at Sherwood Arms and therapy discussions occurred there. Carolyn Wohlers from Audrain Medical Center and Judy Siebold visited. Valentine’s Day was observed with special refreshments and a large valentine box for each pupil.
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Chief Merritt
Merritt
Sherwood Arms
Centralia
Kay Lawson
Kay
Carolyn Wohlers
Audrain Medical Center
Judy Siebold
Missouri University
Today in History highlights 1792 Washington signs Post Office act
On February 20 1792 George Washington signed an act creating the U S Post Office system. Other events noted include the 1437 murder of King James I of Scotland in Perth and a 1809 Supreme Court ruling on federal power over states. A 1895 Cuban revolt and 1942 Bali invasion are also listed.
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George Washington
U.S
James I of
Scotland
Perth
U.S. Supreme Court
Spain
Cuba
Bali
Dutch East Indies
Visitor in the Rain Delivers Mysterious Envelope
At 4:35 am in a dark rainy scene a weary narrator answers a knock to admit a short, chubby old woman with white hair and red cheeks. She wears a purple plaid hat and scarf, a large coat, and black boots, then hands an envelope and leaves.
Visitors Named Salt and Pepper Stand Out
Readers recall two unusually dressed visitors described as Mr Salt and Mr Pepper. Mr Salt towers six feet five, skinny and pale with glasses, rusty hair in a green and white striped shirt. Mr Pepper is five feet two, short and stout with rosy cheeks and freckles, wearing a white shirt, brown pants and a red vest.
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Mr. Salt
Mr. Pepper
Heat Lesson At School Sparks Furnace Room Visit
Students at McMillan School describe a heat unit and a furnace tour led by Mr. Blair. They recall a hot room, a fire door, steam radiators, and pipes distributing heat to classrooms, with film strips and questions guiding the lesson.
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Jean Mollet
McMillan School
John Bolton
Blair
Susan Hodge
Valerié Stevens
Notable space and political milestones recalled
In 1962 John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth and in 1965 Rangers crashed on the Moon after relaying about 7,000 lunar pictures. Ten years ago JFK picked Clifton R. Wharton as ambassador to Norway. Five years ago India’s Indira Gandhi agreed to meet President Johnson in Washington.
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John H. Glenn Jr
Earth
U.S. Rangers
Moon
Lunar
John F. Kennedy
Clifton R. Wharton
Norway
India
Indira Gandhi
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
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the Blue Hat
Nancy Nielsen
Mrs. Blues
Golden
By Shari Mirts
Father
Newman Browning
By Janis Ostrom
By Melinda Murawski
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Lisa Holtkamp
Billy Wilson
Russell Bigham
Linda Nichols
Debra Selsor
Ronnie Johnson
Donna Brower
Jimmy McDermit
Glen Davison
Florence Aitrogge
Evelyn Tompson
Frances Barnes
Boston
Florence Altrogge
Hawthorne
Bonnie Farris
Susan Bishop
Mark Prater
Dolores Qualls
Darryl Cole
Jane Meine
Oliver Clark
Karen Terry
Teresa Goff
Rhonda Holcombe
Becky Sampson
Mike Armstrong
Doug Callison
Gary Vanlandingham
Marc Allen
Kevin Schade
Robert Morris
Alan Kimbell
Nancy Fetterhoff
Sally Johnston
Rick Arnold
Rodney Winter
Wilma Jones
Carol Duty
Valentine
Marie Clark
Jane Ekern
Lori DeLong
Melvin Hooke
Mitchell White
Franklyn Nesbit
Brian Smith
Kevin DeBondt
Tamara Peck
Karen Schremp
Sara Littrell
Sandra Blair
Mary Louie Allen
Tammy’ Harvey
Susan Bush
Melanie Meyer
Janice Ramer
Dianne Hart
Marsha Moore
Cerebral Palsy School
THE
Associated Press
Avisitor
Aiky
Angela’ Brokken
Susie Hodge
Krista Griffith
Valerie Stevens
Scott Hobbs
Darwin Smith
Lorrie Roberts
Mike Barbour
Standing
Lynn Wyss
Susan Cooper
Terry Gourley
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