Moravia FFA Meeting Highlights Holiday Activities
The Moravia Chapter of Future Farmers of America met in the Ag room on December 21 with Donald Dicks presiding. Prizes for selling Christmas cards were awarded to Charles Jennings 36 boxes and Ronald Underwood 12 boxes. Members discussed a sow contract, intercommunication funds, and gifts from FFA and FHA. Personal notes mentioned Wanda Cochran’s upcoming marriage and a festive party with skits, songs, and jokes, plus seniors taking aptitude tests.
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Moravia
Future Farmers of America
Donald Dicks
Charles Jennings
Ronald Underwood
John Proctor
Phillip Miller
Wayne Clark
Edwin Clark
Jerry Brown
Mr. Bacon
FFA
Mrs. Tassell
FHA
Mr. Helton
Campbell
Mr. Card
Johnny Laws
Bacon
Horn
Commercial Club
Helton
Basketiball
Tasgell
Card
MHS
Christmas Program Sparks Pre-Primary Classroom Moment
A fragment notes a Christmas program with pre-primary students in the front row and a brief scene from a Wednesday event. The incomplete text hints at a holiday performance and classroom participation without further details.
Christmas Party At MHS Brightens School
Students at MHS held Christmas festivities with a gym show of about fifty minutes. Classes gathered in rooms for gift exchanges and treats from teachers. Teachers and Classen sponsors received gifts from students as part of the celebration.
Christmas Festivities at Teen Age Dress Shop
The Homemaking classes staged a late year style revue for mothers and friends with skits by Mitzi Sawyer and displays of sewing achievements. Mothers received handmade gifts, tea followed with fruit punch, cookies, and mint tea, ending a pleasant afternoon observed by the author.
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Mitzi Sawyer
F H A Party Draws Warm Cheers In Cold Night
Despite snow and chill the F H A party drew about thirty attendees. Games, baking, music, gift exchanges, and a cleanup finale filled the evening. Voices from Jerry Brown Ed Clark Betty Vance Ann Pettibone praise the event as a big success and fun for the kids.
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Jerry Brown
Ed Clark
Smokey
Betty Vance
Deloris Eakins
O. K. Ann Pettibone
Local Party Revelry Sparks Mixed Praise and Sleep Troubles
George Stott and Geraldine Vance praised the lively gym party hosted by Comte Paris with Marlin Redgan noting it was a night of great fun. Attendees recalled soft candy and many reported trouble sleeping after returning home Tuesday night, blaming Jerry and Ed's candy for the restlessness.
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George’ Stott
Geraldine Vance
Comte Paris
Senior News Lights Up MHS Holiday Show
Amateur entertainers filled the lower halls as the government class hosted a Christmas program. Jack Kaster steered a lively sequence of songs and acts featuring Carolyn H and others, with solos, duets, and a trombone toy finale performed by the senior class.
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MHS
Jack Kaster
Tryson
Santa Claus
Towha
Carolyn H
Jerry-K
Shirley S
Jim L
Robert H
Irvin Faber
Mills Brothers
Don
Dean
Lyle
L, E
George
Wayne
Silient
Lutu
Belle
Fragmentary Holiday Skit and Song Notes
Fragmented OCR lists holiday items including Betty Margie Wanratas and a Dean Martin Jerry Lewig act. Mentions duet Jingle Bells Nadine Kelly Geneva Bell and a poem The Visit of the Three mee Men Connte P. A finale lists the entire group singing Silent Night.
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Betty
Margie
Wanratas
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewig
Jerry B
George
Nadine’ Kelley
Geneva Bell
Moravia Thespians present Christmas program at high school
The Moravia Union reports a December 1951 program by the Thespians at the high school and grade school. The sequence includes Christmas carols led by the audience, a Betty Vance reading The Night Before Christmas, Jane Ellen Braun singing Santa Clara is Coming to Town, a play titled A Christmas Awakening, and cast members such as Marjorie Sidir, Geo rge Scott, George Woodward, Jim Moonward, Annette Hartwell, Jane Ellen Brain, and Jerry Brown listed among roles.
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Thespians
Frosty the Snowman
Randolph the Red-Nose Reinler
Betty Vance
Jane Ellen Braun
Santa Clara
Tor
Mr. Hartwell
Marjorie Sidifer
Busta
George Scott
Mrs. Hartendla
George Woodward
Jack Hartwell
Jim Moonward
Dean
Hartwell
Afeelt “Turner
Annette
Jane Ellen
Brain
Ueele
Tom
Jerry Brown
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Scribbler
Weol Sessesersnsees
Wanda Cochran
Viola Hammond
Charles Turner
Joyce Hiatt
Carole Broshar
Marianne Scott
Vance
Nadine Kelly
Wauneta Perry
Aileen Turner
F. F. A. News
Old Smoky
Jerry Lewis
Mr. Horn
Betty V
Mmerick
Clarence Sheldon
Forrest
Maxine
Lois
H. A. Party
Senior News
Arthur Andrews
Andy
The
Moravia Union
Albia, IA
Tarry
Miller Farm Service
Dick Miller
Albia
Iowa
Rolands
Moravie
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