High School Backs Student Council Across Class Lines
A survey of a dozen students shows strong support for establishing a student council. Respondents praise democracy and opportunity to shape rules, though one student fears possible tension. Most approve, few dissent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay Woodall
Kenneth Howie
Janet Howie
Betty Adams
Satis Ruth Reuter
Gertrude Ortgies
John Messerli
Johnny
Rozella Siebels
Ninth Grade English Class Themes Describe Deaf And Dumb Sights
The ninth grade English class last Monday wrote deaf and dumb descriptive themes using senses of touch taste smell and sensations of heat and cold and muscular sense. Each student read aloud in class as part of the assignment.
Shakespeare Students Adapt Merchant of Venice in Modern Scenes
Freshman Miss Miller English students updated scenes from The Merchant of Venice. The trial becomes a mountaineer suit with a hillbilly Portia. Jessica and Lorenzo elope as a college couple. Dialogues preserve Shakespearean lines with playful modern twists.
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Shakespeare
Miss Miller
Portia
Mary Lou Luett
Jessica
Lorenzo
Eloie Timmins
Bette Patterson
Junior High Players Champion of Tourney
The junior high team of seventh to ninth graders won the inter class tournament without a defeat defeating upper class opponents while the sophomore team was runner up. The seventh grade team emerged the overall winner with the eighth grade runner up and the senior players ineligible for varsity.
Speech Classes Present Their Own Plays
Students in speech classes performed original plays written by the class this week. The program showcased creativity and collaborative effort as students developed dialogue and staging for the stage.
Staff Editors Named for Wanda Podhaskin Reference
Co editors and a long list of reporters are named including Lucille Yossi Jr High News Wilma Grossheim and a team led by Gertrude Ortgies Yola Rodman Don Maire Gene Walker Margaret Bader and Arline Balster with Ruth Zubler and others.
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Wanda Podhask
Cccsu
Lucille Yossi Jr
March Student Events and Hallway Clutter Observed
Monte Calendar lists March 16 Go to School Night and March 26 30 Play Festival at Iowa City. The piece reflects on after school hallways crowded with books instruments coats and gear as students juggle small lockers and overflow.
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Iowa City
Sextet To Sing At Mount Vernon
A Monticello girls sextet will travel to Mt Vernon on Saturday March 11 to be heard and judged by Miss Ruth Pinkerton Cornell College music instructor and possibly by Mr Lloyd Oakland. The trip aims for criticism before a Cornell College chapel performance this spring. The six singers include Doris Beard Rosella Siebels Jo Rivklefs Lucile Huibregtse Yola Rodman and Burdena Stutt with Rosella temporarily replaced by Ruth Zubler due to illness.
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Mt. Vernon
Ruth Pinkerton
Cornell College
Lloyd Oakland
Mr. Oakland
Miss Pinkerton
Miss Peet
Doris Beard
Rosella Siebels
Rosella
Ruth Zubler
Jo Rivklefs
Lucile Huibregtse
Yola Rodman
Burdena Stutt
Monticello
Eastern Star
Junior Girls Claim Interclass Basketball Tourney
The interclass tournament concludes with the juniors defeating the sophomores 38 to 6 after earlier rounds saw freshmen and sophomores win and seniors bowing to juniors. The seniors showed little interest, while the 7th and 8th teams were eliminated by the sophomores.
Geometry Students Work on Notebooks for Extra Credit
Geometry students have been working on notebooks for extra credit this semester. The booklets may contain various geometry related content from drawings of people to house plans. They will be graded on a five point scale and added to the semester average. Due in early May.
Cheese and Hot Breads Demonstrated by Homemakers
The homemaking class experimented with cheese dishes and hot breads during the past week. Dishes included welch rarebit souffles and cheese biscuits while breads featured tea rings colaches and clover leaf biscuits. The girls were satisfied and wished the week longer.
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Welch
Monticello Defeats Olin Then Falls in Final
Monticello beat Olin 31 11 in the semifinal of the sectional basketball tournament but lost to Anamosa 33 12 in the finals. Monti finishes the season with 11 wins and 9 losses. Deacon Shem Drowne of Boston is noted as the first professional American artist with a recorded status.
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Monticello
Olin
Anamosa
Monti
Deacon Shem Drowne
Boston
Grimes Attends Cleveland Meeting Cites National Education Forum
Monticello Public School Superintendent Grimes returned from a Cleveland convention highlighting small community schools. The event drew professors and superintendents nationwide with speakers from Jan Masaryk to Harold Ickes and James A Johnston. Music included large school choruses and Cleveland Singers Club performances. The People's Platform and America's Town Meeting of the Air were noted as standout programs.
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Grimes
Monticello
Cleveland
National Education Association
United States
Jan Masaryk
England
Czechoslovakia
Harold Ickes
Interior
Edmund Day
Cornell University
Raymond Smith
Harvard University
James A. Johnston
United States Penitentiary At
Alcatraz
Austin MacCormick
People’s Platform
Columbia Network
America
International House Program Highlights Sixth Grade
Sixth grade students hosted International House featuring country talks songs and poems for twenty one guests. First grade students earned multiple perfect six week attendance and perfect spelling scores with names listed. The combination room and sixth grade held a simplified basketball game ending 14 to 16 with captains Frank Fitzsimmons and Donald Howland.
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International House
Europe
Shirley Bartels
Norma Boots
Lillian Byerly
Eugene Clark
Althea Fluckiger
Eugene Gesse
Shirley McCurdy
Betty Kammerman
Donna McCurdy
Merle Leytem
Donald Leytem
Lois Clark
Kathryn Boyson
Betty Eggers
Claire Shannon
Barbara Heeren
Vivian Kruise
Ruth Wenger
Junior Babb
Arthur Bohlken
Donald Hackbarth
Carroll Schneider
Richard Shelley
Leonard Strasburg
James
Osterkamp
Monticello
Frank Fitzsimmons
Donald Howland
Movie Week at Monte Ends with King Kong and Honolulu
The Monte theater's week features Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot in King Kong closing today. Also shows Let Us Live with Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Sullivan, and Honolulu with Eleanor Powell and Robert Young. A week of big musical fun follows with Say It In French and Burn Em Up O Connor among others.
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Fay Wra
Bruce Cabot
King Kong
Henry Fonda
Maureen O'Sullivan
Tommy Mally
Tom Sawyer
Peck’s
Circus
Edgar Kennedy
Billy Gilbert
Spanky MacFarland
Red River Range
Lulu
Waikiki
Beach of Dreams
Honolulu
Eleanor Powell
Robert Young
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Jolie
Joyeuse
Topal
Ray Milland
Olympe Bradna
Mary Carlisle
Dennis O'Keefe
O’connor
Cecelia Parker
Nat Pendleton
Harry Carey
Homicide Bureau
Rita Hayworth
Kentucky Technicolor Premiere at Princess Theatre
Princess Theatre presents Kentucky in technicolor starring Loretta Young Richard Greene Walter Brennan Douglas Dumbrille Karen Morley and Moroni Olsen. The romance and horse racing spectacle climaxes with the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Also features Dark Rapture The Storm and In Old Chicago along with Suez and Alexander's Ragtime Band as part of a varied program. Next week Bogart and Frances in King of the Underworld.
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Denis-Roosevelt
Chicago
America
Alexander
Kentucky
Fixins to Be Performed in Iowa City Soon
The one act play Fixins by Erma and Paul Green is set for Iowa City late this month. Three characters appear Stan Schrader as the young tenant farmer Rosella Behrends as the farmer's wife and Dale Adams as the landlord. The drama portrays a farmer's wife longing for “fixins” and the couple's struggle to brighten their monotone life.
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Erma
Paul Green
Iowa City
Stan Schrader
Rosella Behrends
Dale Adams
Hopkins nomination sparks debate in Iowa Democrat party
In Marshalltown Times-Republican readers see turmoil as the Democratic party in Iowa weighs Hopkins as a candidate. The piece notes a push toward a solid delegation for Wall and mentions New Deal influences amid internal party conflicts.
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Marshalltown
Hopkins
Towa
Democratic Party
Wall
Scotch Grove Club Notes Mild Weather and Fashion Tips
Mrs D O Sinclair and others attended a county meeting in Monticello. The Women’s Community club will meet March 16 with Mrs W B Henrichs for a final all day picnic dinner meeting. The evening program features The Ladies Home Companion with editor Mrs Royden and speakers on fiction fashions poems cookery and ads. The Scotch Grove Homemakers study club discussed Up to date Wardrobe 1939 with fashion tips. Patterns were given for renewing winter dresses with a jerkin and two material or color combinations. The bulletin from Miss Peterson Iowa State College Ames aided remaking clothing. Several members have attended all meetings. Preliminary plans
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Bernard Cass
Clifton Abbott
Monticello
Women’s Community Club
W. B. Henrichs
Ladies’ Home Companion
Royden
Otten
John Otten
Hughes
Abbott
Peterson
Iowa State College
Ames
William Henrichs
Oak Drive Community club set to meet at Mrs. Walter Eby’s home
The Oak Drive Community club holds its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Walter Eby. Several notes mention local residents visiting, traveling, and illness, while flu remains common in the area and a columnist questions a proposed gasoline alcohol blend bill.
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Sheldon
Twenty two Iowa legislators visit Anamosa reformatory
Twenty two Iowa lawmakers toured the Anamosa state reformatory on Saturday and all returned to Des Moines afterward.
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Iowa
Anamosa
Des Moines
Niagara Falls Not the Tallest Giant on List
Although famed for Niagara Falls, the feature ranks eleventh by height on the global list, surprising observers.
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Niagara Falls
Heat Inside Great Pyramid at Gizeh Surpasses Outside Air
Visitors find the interior of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh excessively hot despite cooler external air. Ventilation is notably lacking, causing high temperatures inside the ancient structure.
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Great Pyramid
Gizeh
Egypt
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