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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1954
Page
1
Monticello parents acknowledge rising pupil numbers strain the public school. APTA members support census planning and a study committee to project future class sizes and guide school planning with the heads and board. The aim is to secure an education meeting future needs for Monticello children.
The piece argues children struggle to answer under anger and pressure. It uses Jack and other kindergartners to show time and calm help them think. Parents should ask gently not demand immediate answers and allow the child to explain in their own words.
Opinion excerpts from Abilene Kansas and others warn that human progress hinges on wisdom to avoid catastrophe. Views from Cabool Missouri Odessa Texas and Jeffersontown Kentucky stress education individual responsibility and adherence to founding ideals.
A weekly column looks back at a Sacred Heart game and shares local updates. The piece notes visitors from Jones County, a gas stove explosion near Monticello, and a column on household safety. It also covers school planning, Pi trivia, slide rules, and a light push toward spring fishing.
Miss Janet Holmes daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer J Holmes of Monticello earns a place on Mount Mercy College Cedar Rapids honor roll for the first semester as a freshman nursing student at Mount Mercy College Cedar Rapids.
The Richland Wildcats held a regular meeting at the Masonic Temple on February 4 and joined with the Lovell club. Lunch was served.
Janis Gottleaber known as Gootch, a senior at Monti High, stars in multiple groups from band to Glee Club, FHA, GAA and NHS. She serves as drum major, twirler in earlier years, and leads in speech, theater, and student government while planning Iowa State Teachers College study and home life goals.
John Hacke stood out at M H S as a senior class president and National Honor Society member. He led FFA as president, served on the student council as vice president, and contributed to church youth work as treasurer. He plans to farm after graduation with noted humor about future cattle and Swiss steak.
A fragment from a yearbook style page hints at social clubs and prompts questions about teen relationships. The dialogue mentions senior girls forming an anti man club and references to individuals like Harlan W Helgens and Doris B. and Fuddle H. in a casual, gossip tone.
By The Way column notes Janie Serbousek will be seventeen in May and Willene Hubner also turns seventeen later in May. Monti High sophomores aided a recent speech contest, with a lighthearted nod to school attire and style. The piece ends with a playful epigraph about an epitaph from a poem in a library book titled The Complete Nonsense Book by Edward Lear.
Linda Hargrave, a tall likeable senior, is active in band as a four year clarinetist and leader of the clarinet quartet. She also participates in clarinet quintet, mixed quartet, M club, Philo staff, and is in Rainbow and Horizon Club plus Methodist groups. Linda plans college with welfare or secretarial work.
Freshman students held a party in the Masonic Temple with a scavenger hunt and dancing. Seniors hosted their event in the homemaking rooms with charades and dancing. An assembly for nine lower grades followed featuring a marionette show titled Dick Whittington and His Cat.
Thirty two new members joined the M club last Tuesday February 9 in a scheduled initiation starting at 6 30 pm. The ceremony included a sidewalk parade in distinctive attire and each initiate carrying a raw egg. They passed through the Pit barefooted amid odd smells and items before performing stunts around town. Ice cream pop and cupcakes ended the event in home economics rooms. The new members anticipate a spring formal banquet and dance.
The Monticello Black Panthers finish the year with a strong record as five of six starters are seniors. They break Marion’s jinx by winning on Marion’s home floor in a thrilling game. The team looks to track and baseball for spring sports as football and basketball season ends.
A nostalgic account of a basketball game described with lively, humorous detail. The scene focuses on players in long underwear, zebra-coated referees, passing, pumping contests, and a quirky eight-number clock. The narrator notes the clock’s faulty pace, then exits with a march to Wisconsin for a Tiddly-Wink contest.
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