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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1963
Page
5
Moravia High School hosts homecoming Friday November 15 with Mohawkettes and Mohawks challenging Twin Cedars. A homecoming dance follows in the old gym, royalty crowned around 10 30 pm, with alumni, students, faculty and parents invited to celebrate a 1963 homecoming.
Donna Tomlin was named Moravia chapter FFA Queen at the Queen's Ball on Friday night November 1 in the old high school gym at 7:30. Peggy Rogers and Madelyn Sinclair were runners up. Richard Dowd entertained with guitar and song as about 100 attendees enjoyed cider and doughnuts. Moravia's big homecoming game is set for Friday November 15.
On enrollment day the typing crew found typing more enjoyable than expected as some students contrasted their clickety-clack and click-click rhythms with others. The scene captured a moment of youthful activity and classroom energy amid the day’s routine.
Students practice typing with least study and high speed while keeping errors around two per minute. Miss Barrows uses a color coded chart for timed writings. The room rings with click sounds like a train as bells signal track clear.
Names include David Phillips Penny Prough Ted McDonough Maxine Johnson with details on hair color eye color height and school subjects English I Algebra I General Science and Home Economics Interests cover sports sewing reading music skating farming riding horses and listening to music
Education Strengthens The Nation is the National Education Week theme. Inaugurated in 1921 by the National Education Association and the American Legion, the week highlights democracy and personal responsibility for schooling. Sponsors include the U.S. Office of Education and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
The fragment lists several individuals including Linda Whitehead Diane Judge Betty Blumer Elaine Harrington and references locations such as a locker room and band. The context implies casual or social remarks rather than a clear news event or outcome.
The menu lists daily offerings from November 14 to November 20 featuring fried chicken with parsleyed potatoes coldslaw bread and butter sandwiches cherry pie soup beans cheese wedge corn bread and apple salad. November 18 includes pigs in a blanket potatoes and gravy peach cottage cheese milk. November 19 serves beef stew hot rolls and graham cracker pudding with peach. November 20 closes with chile soup.
Janice and Betty are listed with items including cabbage salad bread aid butter and a pint of milk in a concise notes entry.
High school seniors can win all expense paid scholarships totaling eight thousand dollars for fall 1964. Ten in engineering and science, five in other fields at major colleges nationwide. Fields cover aerospace electronics and related sciences plus business and management. Apply via principal, deadlines vary by college.
Auction listing for miscellaneous office items including adding machine rolls car bon papers typewriter ribbons rubber stamps ink pads and roll-on stamp pad ink duplicate money receipt books and related supplies from Union Office.
Moravia High School geometry students volunteer for the Five-State Mathematics Project this fall, a national program aimed at improving math teaching. The School Mathematics Study Group collaborates with AMS, NCTM, and MMA, influencing college entrance requirements as more freshmen participate in experimental classes. The class currently explores Congruence and the Third Postulate Group, grounding work in Euclid's geometry. Bussey involved in Homecoming event on November 15.
The Moravia chapter of the Future Farmers of America held a regular meeting on November 4 with 40 members present. G E Luse opened at 10 55. Seventeen greenhands were raised to the degree of chapter farmer. New degree recipients include Russell Bettis Danny Bimbi Alan Clark Richard Cloyed Larry Coltrain Jodie Gillaspie Chester Gillen Phil Harrington Richard Landgrebe James Murdy Larry Proctor Donni Robinson Donnie Self Milan Sinclair Dean Stocker Kenneth Van de Pol and Robert Kehrberg. Moravia Homecoming is planned for Friday November 15.
Three student entries Sharon Wilson Wesley Smith and Connie Mullins have been selected by the class to deliver four and a half minute radio speeches for the Town Tuberculosis Association. Antia and Carol assisted with the selection process.
Mixed up questions about study hall singing waking teachers needing Hollywood talent, science lab hazards, allergies to school, crying over books, cold symptoms, and a child being told they are stupid. The letter-writer seeks guidance in a humorous advice column style.
A dialogue exchanges opinions on the term maunderer with quotes from Linda Jones Madelyn Sinclair Judy Gillen Sonny Hawk Pam Morrison Sandy Kay Mary Jo Wilson Sharon Judge Linda Hopkins Pat Blumer Danny Leslie and Charles Thomas. The casual question prompts varied guesses about meaning and personal habit.
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