Retirement marks twenty four years at Mexico Public Schools
Olivia Shivers Garfield School Cafeteria Manager will retire after twenty four years of service. She began in 1948 when the cafeteria was in a small area of the present gym. She lives at 1203 East Holt Street with six children and twelve grandchildren. She will continue church work at St Lukes United Methodist and crochet as a hobby. She will miss coworkers and students but may visit for lunch. Ruth Stotler commends her as an outstanding cooperative employee.
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Mars
Olivia Shivers
Garfield
Mexico
Shivers
East Holt Street
St. Lukes United Methodist Church
Friends
Ruth Stotler
Sixth Graders Tour A P Green Refractories May Field Trip
Hawthorne School reporters Alan Kimbel and Marty Ogden describe a May 3 1972 visit by sixth graders to A P Green Refractories Company. Students toured the lab furnace room pressed oricks bricks and observed 3100 degree furnaces and a 1200x microscope. They toured the laboratory and discussed bricks minerals chemicals and firing.
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A.P. Green Refractories Company
Alan Kimbel
Hawthorne School
A.P. Green Company
Marty Ogden
Summer Fun and Pool Time Echoes
A playful poem-style piece recalls summer freedom with lines about swimming pool plans, park visits, and the buzz of bees. The text shows multiple signatures Perry Test Sherry Jefferson Bill Smith, suggesting a collaborative or student-written column segment.
May 15 19 School Menus Elementary and High School
May 15 to May 19 menus list elementary meals Monday to Friday with items like pizza pattie buttered corn lettuce salad mixed fruit juicy burger buttered limas beet pickle apple crunch chicken and noodles buttered green beans slaw applesauce orange muffin country fried steak whipped potatoes gravy buttered peas fruit juice gelatin cubes slice of bread meat salad sandwich cheese potatoes carrot sticks plums cinnamon ball high school options include hamburger line submarine sandwich buttered peas mixed fruit iced cake meat loaf whipped potatoes gravy buttered limas fruit gelatin roll and butter Friday offers fish on bun tartar sauce hash browns bee pickle assorted dessert.
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Hardin
Mother of the Year tribute for a devoted mom
A reader ode celebrates mothers with love for a tireless mom who bakes treats and cares for four children from infancy to eleven and a half years old. The piece names Lisa Ward of Eugene Field and Tammy Oliver of Hawthorne as contributors.
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Lisa Ward
Eugene Field
Tammy Oliver
Hawthorne School
Ricky Dodson
Karla Massey
Roger Powell
Hawthorne
Randy Clark
Plans for cerebral palsy school trip and end-of-year events
The school schedules a May 19 trip to the capitol at Jefferson City and May 26 as the last day. A summer speech and physical therapy program is set. Volunteers and clubs contributed to the yard, donations, and care, while students honor mothers with poems and stories.
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Capitol Building
Jefferson City
Mothers Club
The
Cerebral Palsy Board
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Alice Tolson
McMillan
Michael Palmer
Sherry Lynn Jackson
Donna Leach
John Phillip Hamilton
Torlan Rummans
Coulette Campbell
Diana Cooper
Karl Taikalas
Rebecca Wilson
Andrew Viar
Lisa Lyons
Danna Kimbell
Dana Davenport
Steve Mosley
Keith Terry
Shari Moore
Karen Terry
Andy Baker
Kevin Oakes
Hita Kelsay
Dan Marley
Mark Cox
Presser Hall
Mexico High School
Hardin Junior High School
Jonathan Finck
Julie Sudbrook
Linda Galloway
Hardin Vocal Music Department
Tania Falconer
Dorothy Atkins
Doug Wells
Mary Friedberg
Kim LeBrell
Louesa Runge
Karen Caldwell
Dena Smithey
Mitzi Forest
Casey Page
Robert Burchett
Hardin Home Economics Department
Carolyn Williams
Garrison Roddy
David Brown
Connie Whalen
Sharon Robinson
Tina Williams
Green Co
Perry Test
Sherry Jefferson
Bill Smith
Kali Tsikalas
Hettie Bryant
Ann Bramon
Phillip Hamilton
David Simpson
Mom
Cerebral Palsy School
Sandra Stegeman
May Trams
Alan Erdel
Story
Fulton State Hospital
William Talley
Santa Fe Sociables Club
Club
Hisey Hoppers
4-H
Bill Baker
Garfield School
Scott Irvin
Cheryl Cloven
Mary Jane Long
Hawthrone
Jacks
Connie Gerler
Frances Belcher
Bobby Sparks
Cheri Bailey
Kathy Smith
Jackie Talken
Melissa Jesse
Tracy Davis
Barbara Hopkins
John
Jack
Carrie
Christine Cottey
Donna Gibbons
Marilyn Preas
Sharon Baclesse
Paul Day
James van Schyndel
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