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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1961
Page
2
Menu lists beef stew with cole slaw and peanuts plus peach half and cookie and hot rolls and milk. Also beef and noodles with potatoes and lettuce salad and pumpkin pie and milk. Chile and crackers with carrot salad and cinnamon roll and fruit and milk. Spaghetti and meatballs with Harvard beets and applesauce and cookie and milk. Toasted cheese sandwich with deviled eggs and tomato and macaroni and apple salad and milk.
A short, garbled note from a junior class discusses a six week test this week and mentions studying wealth, national power, and historical events. Names are unclear, with several misspellings and incomplete phrases.
Jean Taylor leads a school program with a pantomime and song numbers. Students dressed as little folks recited and sang including All I sent for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth and On Holy Night under blue stage lighting. The Dazzling Dozen performed I Ain't Gettin Nuttin For Christ and the class joined in White Christmas.
Moravia High School seniors describe goals for the new Moravia yearbook. Gary Roberts aims to improve athletics coverage, Jerry Easter seeks the best yearbook, Nancy Lindley wants a complete departmental record, Dennis Argo hopes it becomes a future class landmark, Marion Sinclair and Donna Rae Tubaugh pledge top quality, Sharon Walter commits to pride and best effort, with all seniors contributing.
A new bulletin board in room 103 titled Which Star Are You Aiming For features a rocket heading toward success and failure stars with planets scattered about. The piece, by Janet Harrington, urges students to assess last semester and set goals for improved grades, starting now for the new semester.
Freshman Home Economics students under Miss Rinehart made candy before Christmas including divinity, taffy, peanut brittle, and caramel apples. After the New Year they will work on breakfast unit menus with Nancy Mosley and Connie Bebienz assisting.
The six week period sees freshmen studying diagramming adjectives adverbs linking verbs verb types and verb voices. Students read in the Reader's Digest and discuss current events while preparing for semester tests and doing extra studying.
A lab period note describes girls performing experiments with boxed wood plates and tipping tips apart. Students observed plant deaths and bacterial growth, while monitoring reactions to electricity and magnetic fields using voltmeters and other instruments.
In January the kindergarten class led by Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Coulson studied pre-primer reading in Skip Along and created chalk drawings on blue paper. They marked a number on the board for a counting ball bounce activity, learned winter birds, and decorated windows with snowmen and sledding girls. Diane Kincade
A Christmas decorating tea at Bo School featured a hall with large ceiling stars and doors adorned with mistletoe symbols. A grand front entrance tree glowed with lights and ornaments while the home making room displayed bright decor and a sugar coated mini tree.
This week freshmen boys study experiments in science. Magnets compasses weights and radios were used. Under Mr Olson guidance the class split into two groups one handling magnets and compasses the other dry cells meters and electric devices.
Public opinion forms the center of political action guiding government. It can mislead, as shown by 1919 Prohibition and the 1933 repeal through the Twenty-first Amendment, illustrating how collective view shifts with time and events.
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