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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1953
Page
5
A compilation from Mendota High School students includes bios, favorites, and activities for each grade level. It features Kathleen Halden and peers like Richard Hawk and Roberta Benz, with notes on birth, school history, preferences, and future plans. The piece reflects student life, clubs, and emerging career thoughts.
The column teases seniors and staff at M. H. S. with playful snippets about crushes, friendships, and mischief. It hints at Cari F. heading to South America, notes on basketball girls, a nicknamed Hot Rod, a Typing test mishap, and rumors of romances and engagements among students and faculty.
Girls from Moravia traveled to Des Moines on February 26 to attend part of the state tournament. The team saw close games including Garnville versus Seymour and Kinross versus Hubbard. Sanfira Fiette impressed with moves while Garnville displayed strong ball control and forward play.
Across the editor's desk the piece urges students at M. H. 8.7 to wake up from social life and study present day affairs. It emphasizes understanding history making events and their future significance, urging discussion and awareness.
A fragmented diary like account shows a student noting daily grievances in class. The speaker describes being blamed unjustly, hunger before noon, a craving for gum, and struggles with poetry and math amid routine school life.
A Senior class note reflects on the anticipation of a filing unit promising that a file clerk job was an accessible starting role for young women and girls. The passage emphasizes optimism about entering clerical work and practical training.
Students report the death in Mr. Fisk family and substitute Mrs Cody Luse. Emblems and four sample pins ordered weeks ago arrived for display. Grade basketball tournament set for next week with girls vs Numa and boys vs Udell. Unionville game postponed due to scheduling conflict.
Senior hopes spoken by students include ambitions to be a housewife a secretary a bookkeeper a teacher a lawyer and a nurse among others. Names listed reflect varied career plans from Des Moines to Stork Club comedy and college plans after graduation.
The grade school prepares two operettas for March 27. Uncle Billys Candy Shop by Virginia Obenchain features Pre Primary through Second Grade with assigned speaking parts. The Children of Buttercup Commons by Oliver Robinson will be staged by Third through Sixth grades with some roles offering acting opportunities.
Third grade praise for the Thursday assembly as best of the year, with bets on bouncing. Fifth graders study Texas and California history, featuring Alamo and Gold Rush displays, songs from the 49ers, and George Washington bulletin boards. Sixth graders report math tests on areas and perimeters, library duties, an Africa elephant movie, and trampoline act highlights at the gym. Ronnie Broshar and John Murdy write this week’s news.
The article notes Drenda Gage with a cold after an afternoon gathering with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee Tadlock. It also mentions visits by Mr and Mrs Gerald Irelan Mr and Mrs Dayne Taylor and Donald Dowd to Ray Tubaugh's home Friday evening.
We report local notes from the community page with church attendance, visits among residents, and school news. New member Nancy Jo Turner joins PrePrimary, Valentine party held, and science class studies living and nonliving things with several visitors listed.
Mr and Mrs Reo Bryant visited the Robert Strunk home on Tuesday afternoon Ernie Witt s father who had surgery at the Mayo clinic is responding to treatment and may be released soon Mr and Mrs W M Tolbert visited Charley Andrews home Thursday afternoon with their daughter Mrs Dean Andrews Lazell Strunk and family visited his mother Tuesday evening Mr and Mrs Duane Wood and his parents spent Friday evening at Lee Tadlocks Dixie Kay Tublugh has been suffering with a cold
Mrs Theo Miller and Mrs Richard Veach hosted visitors. Martha Coulson returned from Guinn nursing home. Families including Luses Argo Burns and Moffet gathered at various homes Sunday and Tuesday. Jimmy Burns joined Tabernacle youths to entertain residents at Appanoose County Farm. Stella Sears and others spent time at O Conner and Boblenz homes.
A lengthy local item lists numerous Sunday and weekend social calls and visits across Ottumwa Newton Queen City Moravia and nearby families including the Burns O Conner Miller Callen Mikels Foster Hamiefa Lark Brown Fenton Breese Carruthers and Rinehart households with multiple households hosting meals and gatherings.
Mrs Gerald Rinehart and family hosts and visitors are listed among Sunday calls at Bery Browns and the Wayne Allen home in Albia. Several couples and individuals travel to see friends, with visits also noted at the Chauncey Cole and A J Brown homes. weekend television highlights among local families.
Christine Jorgensen discusses how she became a woman in The Story of My Life series. Misa Jorgensen recounts hormone treatments surgery and psychiatric advice guiding her remarkable change in The American Weekly and Sunday Herald American.
Extension animal husbandman Bill Zmolek of Iowa State College advises winter feeder cattle should gain at least one pound daily, applying to both calves and yearlings to optimize grass use next summer.
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