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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1971
Page
7
Fifth graders share views on pollution and dangerous driving as humanity's gravest threats. Cheri Bailey cites pollution harming water and air, June Talken argues driving endangers lives, and Kathy Smith envisions solutions from cleaner fuels to waste removal.
McMillan second graders read The Three Billy Goats Gruff and wrote short troll tales. Students introduce figures named Mr Troll Mr Grump and Mr Dum Dum with simple plots about barns snow cats and kids in a playful rural setting.
A compilation of student verses and prose from multiple grade levels. Entries include poems about snowflakes and a cat, a sun melted snowman, a family’s travel vignette by a Grade 3 writer, a Tom Thumb race scene, and brief observations on rain and snow. Notable contributors include Lori Johnson, Dianne Hart, Kathy Jennings, Tina Woodruff, Steven Smith, Missy Riley, Lisa Goslin, and Clarissa Bruner.
May Trams benefited from a special hearing aid funded by Callaway County groups including Aux Vasse Jaycees Lions Club and American Legion. Cub Scouts from St. Brendan's toured the building delivering rents. Gamma Lambda Sorority and Orscheln Store donated toys and puzzles. Rush Hill church ladies provided annual gifts. Mrs Kirgan was hired as substitute speech therapist to give pupils more individual attention.
Spellers in Mrs Stella Mae Smiths fifth grade at Hawthorne include James Fulton Gene Morrow James Eliott Lance Davis Lynn Gardner Randy Young Kenny Smith Donnie Johnson Tony Hodgson Sharon Baclesse Cheri McGaughey Audry Rosenthal Sandra Sudbrook Karen Hultcamp Alice Brower Debbie Austin Kathy Pearson Kathy Jennings Laura Napier Susan Bush Jeff Hotep Paul Janke Eugene Field sixth graders appeared on See Ty as a panel on Water Pollution.
Mrs Pasley, secretary at Garfield School since August 1958, celebrates twelve and a half years in the Mexico Public Schools. Known as DeReath to colleagues, she values her office duties and the student and teacher associations, and is a Garfield High School graduate. She and husband reside at 824 Holt Street with children Vickie, a Mexico High sophomore, and Robert, a McMillan fourth grader. She enjoys bowling and sewing in spare moments.
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