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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1966
Page
5
A Scribbler column from Moravia Community School advocates sincere New Year resolutions for 1967. It discourages hollow promises and encourages promises to help others, follow traffic laws, and improve personal and communal well being through honesty, cooperation, and kindness.
The FTA regular meeting on December 19 initiated seven new members: James Van Dorin Carla Miller Marsha Stewart Linda Beal Beth Boyer Larry Irwin and Marie Schupmann. After the ceremony candles were lit and rolls signed. A skit on teaching profession followed, with brief business, committee appointments for January, and refreshments. Reporter Mary Kay.
The freshman-sophomore boys team held a practice with the varsity due to many sophomores on the varsity squad. They endured a hard full court press workout, corrected mistakes, and repeated plays until all understood responses under any scenario. Everyone played, and the next game is January 7 at Corydon with extra practice to cover Christmas vacation.
In this lesson we explore parallelograms of forces and velocity triangles. Diagonals split the shapes into two triangles to derive relationships and apply area concepts in vector form.
The text explains using triangle laws and parts to determine unknown forces or velocities. It notes the law of sines and cosines, Pythagorean theorem, and that logarithms help handle large numbers and angle functions. Logarithm tables in the book reduce lengthy calculations and aid problem solving.
On Tuesday December 20 Scribbler staff of nineteen met to assign forthcoming month reports. Editor Marsha Day praised the regular coverage as assignments were handed out. With no sophomores or freshmen, several members will take on freshman or sophomore subjects along with existing duties. The meeting adjourned after Teens of the Month were elected.
A list of students from Galin Shelquist to Pat Judge share personal vows for the new year. Aiming for better study, behavior, sports performance, and school involvement, they express hopes to improve, stay out of trouble, win games, and earn honors. Several notes show humor and self-critique.
The article explains that in economics a class studies the banking system in America and the five main uses of money including credit measure value medium of exchange and units of account. It notes the Federal Reserve System and its twelve banks control money in circulation to curb inflation or deflation.
The Government class begins examining each President's cabinet, starting with the Secretary of the Treasury appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. Created by the First Congress in 1789 to supervise national finances, the Treasury oversees bureaus such as the Narosties, Customs, Internal Revenue Service, and Mint Bureau, among others. The next focus will be the Defense Department.
In Mrs. Tuttles American Literature class students study Hayne Timrod and Ryan defenders of the South. They read poems including Aspects of the Pines Ethnogenesis and The Conquered Banner and discuss Southern wartime sentiment. They will write a short Christmas poem exploring religious or humorous aspects. The assignment aims for engaging results.
In six weeks of volleyball during P. E. class, teams form within each class and winners advance to noon hour matches. Rules include scoring only on serves, clockwise rotation, three minute rests between games, and a ball landing on the boundary line is fair. Written rules are handed to students by the coach.
A brief classroom note references Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address. It mentions memorizing lines about a great civil war testing whether a nation can endure and dedicating a battlefield area as a final resting place for those who gave their lives.
Freshmen girls sew aprons for mothers with pleats gathers and hand stitching. Bilge Shrader crafts a bright pink and white checked apron. Sophomores study child care and development and make a garment for a child. Joyce Thomas sews a pink and white jumper for a younger sister.
In the algebra 1 class students work on age and coin problems and level equations while the freshman relay group in general math focuses on percentage concepts. A number percent expresses the relation between two numbers and can be more interesting than the exact values. The general math class aims to deepen understanding of these ideas.
A devotional urges readers to pause and rest in God's presence. It invites dedicating thoughts to Him, aligning with His goodness, and sensing divine peace. The message links constructive thinking with blessings and spiritual activity in life and affairs.
The piece teaches students to set the typewriter for business letters and to correct errors without damaging keys. It covers moving the carriage, using the margin release, and erasing with up down strokes for single letters or horizontally for full scans, stressing careful erasing as essential as accurate typing.
Mrs Tuttle’s American Literature class analyzes Civil War writers and feelings of the era. Students focus on Walt Whitman along with Hamilton Hayne, Timrod, Ryan, Lee, and Lincoln as they prepare a paper on Whitman’s works and the era’s events.
The sort of period history ties together literature and government as Judi Stufflebeam notes Congress holds power to tax, directly on income and indirectly on purchases. It explains the Articles of Confederation’s weakness for lacking tax authority and limits on taxing government functions of states and locals. Honest taxpayers exist but penalties for dishonesty are stiff.
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