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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1972
Page
5
On Tuesday the 17th adult education home ec classes are scheduled. Thursday the 19th school dismisses at 2 30 for ISEA convention. Friday the 20th a football game with Melcher Dallas there. No school ISEA convention. Saturday the 21st junior high football game with Mormon Trail there at 9 00 a m.
New FHA chapter members at Ames held an unusual initiation on a Wednesday. Dressed in long dresses and mismatched shoes, girls wore kitchen utensils and a cardboard house, and sought signatures from 15 FHA members to complete their welcome ceremony.
Students at M.H.S. wore clothes inside out and read and wrote backwards while seated with their backs to teachers. The event, declared Backwards Day by the Student Council, aimed to spark school spirit during Homecoming and may become a tradition.
Mohawkettes coach Keith Markow leads 24 M.H.S. girls into drills focusing on fundamentals offense and defense. Co-captains Fonda Dicks and Sally Martin guide preparations for the season opener November 11 at Corydon against Adel as they aim for a winning year.
The week’s hot lunch menu runs Monday through Friday. Monday features a hot pork sandwich with whipped potatoes spinach pie and milk. Tuesday offers pizza burgers fried potatoes stewed tomatoes cookies. Wednesday serves boiled beans and ham tossed salad corn bread fruit. Thursday presents meat loaf buttered potatoes bread and butter pudding. Friday includes beef stew coleslaw hot rolls jello milk.
Local notes from Salem summarize weekend visits and social calls. Families and friends including Parsons, Hellyer, Overturf, Brown, Whitehead, Derby, and Huff are mentioned with travel, open houses, meals, and gatherings in Albia Ottumwa Des Moines and St. Charles Missouri. Eckert Argo from Phoenix visited relatives.
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