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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
5
With Christmas past, people consider New Year resolutions to improve personally and for the world. The piece urges putting others first, showing respect and consideration, and striving to prevent crime, wars, and civil strife through collective effort.
A fragmentary note from an editor wishing readers a happy new year and continued enjoyment, signed by Editor MLC.
A collection of yearbook style lines from students and staff. Carole Ellison wishes for something mistletoe related. Pat Caster misses the Christmas Spirit. Roxan Underwood praises a good-looking boy. Drenda Tubaugh aims to pass Driver Ed. Jean Allen hopes to graduate. Janis Gifford wants a grapevine. Dennis Gardner seeks a polaroid camera. Vick Van Doria longs for two front teeth.
The Algebra I class studied three kinds of percentage problems and using negative and positive numbers in division and multiplication. They learned to add and subtract polynomials, multiply and divide by monomials, and how to check results. Rules for removing parentheses with minus and plus signs were covered, with future focus on handling parentheses in equations.
December selects Georgia Hayden as Teacher of the Month. Hayden, 26, a six year veteran born in Unionville Missouri, hails from Northeast Missouri State College with a Bachelor of Science in education. She previously taught at ACL before Moravia.
The English class is learning to build simple, compound, and complex sentences. A simple sentence expresses a complete idea with one idea and one verb.
The passage explains how complex sentences combine independent clauses with adjective adverb and noun clauses. It describes how each clause functions and how to simplify by converting noun clauses, with guidance from Roxan Underwood.
Survey respondents share light hearted and practical aims for the new year. Dale McFarland plans to bug teachers more while Deborah Hopkins vows to practice see no evil hear no evil. Carolyn Faber wants to study less. Linda Moffatt aims for better grades with minimal extra study. Others include better hygiene, new locker partner, vocabulary boosts, and a summer course. Some entries are playful or incomplete.
In Pfannebecker's Am Government class seniors learn about Congress terms, House size, and representative qualifications. A member must be at least 25 and a US citizen for seven years. The Senate size and qualifications are reviewed, followed by Congress in action.
Charles Tarbell, born June 3, 1954 in Centerville Iowa, son of Truman and Margaret Tarbell, tall blue eyed student with black hair. The profile lists favorites and notes vocational agriculture teacher Mr Dayton, car Ford, food tenderloin, song Let It All Hang Out, movie Thunder Alley, and a petty pet peeve about a teacher’s opinion of high school.
Randy McDanel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clell E. McDanel, born May 18, 1954, is listed as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 115 pounds with brown hair and eyes. The note gives no sports or activities and lists no favorites or pet peeves, simply stating an average opinion of high school: not bad.
The document lists Daryl Tisue with birth date December 4 1953, height 5 10, weight 130, hair light brown, and notes of Gar Dodge Chas ro] e 'ger. It includes parent names Mr and Mrs Ron Tisue and mentions food fried chicken. It also records a pet peeve about people who don’t know when to shut their mouth and a casual opinion of high school being adequate until something better arrives.
Birth record for Kim Thomas and James E. Thomas dated March 5 1954 in Monroe County. Includes basic physical notes such as height 914 inches and weight 98 pounds with green eyes. No additional pets or notable opinions recorded.
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