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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
3
Members of the MHS Press Club invite entries to rename the enlarged school paper Newsbasket. Open to all MHS students, faculty, and staff with voting by the Press Club and faculty. Contest ends Friday morning. entries must include entrant name and proposed title.
The Notes of Music band celebrates three Conn instruments a French horn a sousaphone and a baritone bought last spring and last weekend with funds from a rummage sale. They plan to buy more matching horns, feature new pieces from Bach Broadway and Boogie Woogie, and start fall festival selections. A dog house discipline and a point system rewarded performers with awards Verna Rousa Georgia Winslet Delma Veach and Mary Rose Main receiving recognitions.
A Moravia High meeting Aug 30 1945 elected FFA officers DeWayne Moore president Bob Rosencrants vice president Ben Rosencrants secretary Trenton McDanel treasurer Clair Easter Reporter The Thespian Club plans regular activities with uncertain schedules after the Fall Festival Future Teachers of America will form lead by Mrs Wheeler with uncertain plans Miss Jones in charge of Future Homemakers of America with eligibility for girls in homemaking Commercial Club plans under way with eligibility for commercial students
The weather in the first week of school was very warm and in the afternoon games were played to avoid the heat. Ten students are in second grade this year including Manuel Lockman from Ottumwa and Jerry Luse from Hedge College. Other names include Margaret Condra Jerry Main Jimmy Dicks Paul Turner Judy Martin Maxine Firkins and Billy Angel from first grade. In the morning when first grade is in the room there are nineteen students up. The pre primary children needed the long table so all sit at desks. Mr Laws brought four extra desks for us.
A school year opens with a call to choose between cooperating with schooling or opposing it. The piece argues that embracing education yields lasting benefits, while skipping classes leads to future regret and fewer opportunities after graduation.
Freshmen Virginia Carter Virginia Hiatt Wilma Overturf Norms Huff Annabella Walter June Taylor and Bruce Faber share views on Moravia High School. Teachers Miss Burge Mr Elson praise school, students say it feels welcoming and well kept.
The junior high reports perfect attendance on opening day. Seventh grade matches last year while eighth grade loses Lillian Rick and Jackie Coltrain but gains Billy Schaffner. Enrollment totals 24 with many in the band under Miss Anne Seeley. Visitor Carita Cory attended from Centerville.
Twenty three ready to study pupils arrived at the fifth and sixth grade room Monday morning, books were issued, birthdays recorded, and some lessons begun. Tuesday regular classes met. We review prior grade work and study new subjects. Art class involved drawing and coloring. An animal school day is planned for the bulletin board.
The piece notes Mo Ravias begins a softball team amid strong turnout and evident talent. It highlights high interest, good trials, and the prospect of a strong team this season.
A humorous roster lists Freshman to Senior classes with playful stats and mischief. It notes names, ages, heights, weights, colors, sports, ambitions, and class nicknames, ending with schoolyard aphorisms about each grade and how to spot them.
The class of '46 reports 86 members with Roberta Coltrain gone and Bonie Rumley Ruth Irelan and Mary Anderson joining from near Blakesburg. No home room meetings yet and officers not chosen. Few seniors in Homemaking II and six in a commercial course. Senior girls feel odd at being upperclassmen as vacations felt too short. The term will pass quickly as in years past.
Iowa born educator Hickman, raised near Fulton Missouri, joins Moravia High as superintendent. He trained at Kirksville State Teachers College earning BS in Education 1929 and MA in 1936 from the University of Missouri. Also holds an Iowa state superintendent certificate and has taught rural schools and high schools. Ruth E Jones, Moravia Home Economics teacher, born Columbus Junction Iowa, educated at Moberly Junior College and Kirksville State Teachers College, with multiple honors and a penchant for photography travels.
The Home Making unit notes freshmen rushing to class on waxed floors and canning skills as they store 12 quarts of peaches. Home Making II explores cereals while painted sewing room walls and student effort highlight improvements, with praise for Miss Jones and plans for a strong year ahead.
Eight students are in the third grade and 18 in the fourth. The classroom bulletin board is full of pictures and the library holds many books. Students sing a daily song after school and study Columbus in History. Paul Wilson and Gilbert Garrett visited a cattle show and shared details at school.
Moravia’s upperclassmen emphasize pride in school songs, printing the fight song and loyalty hymn for freshmen. The fight song urges Moravia to drive on, win, and defend honor, while Teammates urges unity and perseverance through hardship and weather, ending with a call to carry on and not quit the game.
The Junior class includes Dorothy Brown Jo Ellen Broshar Beverly Callen Rex Derby Bonnie Jean Frame Jean Hammond Grace Annum Shelia Hannum Ronald Huff Phyllis Laws Trenton Mc Danel Deana McDonough Velma Overturf Gerald Rinehart Verna Rouse James Sawyer Charles Wakefield Roy Closter Marlyn Beaty Jack Baldwin Dick Brown Paul Dicks Doris Ellison Dee Fenton Paul Fenton Kester Gladfield er Lois Hawk Ronald McDanel Beauneta Main James Main Janella Reid Charlotte Scott Harold Dean Pisue. They must take American History and American Literature with electives in Shorthands Typing I Psychology Geography Farm Management and Arithmetic. Librarians are Phyllis Laws Janella Reid Dorothy Brown and Dee Fenton.
The class of 1948 began high school this year with thirty seven students. Six from last year did not return: Ruby Criddlebaugh Norma Allison Barbara Martin Dean Paxton Delmar Goltrain and Tom my Judge. The sophomores include Eugene Boyer Jack Broshar Stanley Burd Dorothy Casebolt Barbara Cousins Lloyd Crawley Bob Espy Ruth Glor Richard Goughner Gerald Hannum Joe Hannum Walter Hannum Pegey Hopkins Howard Housley Margaret Johnson Clair Kaster Phyllis Kaster Benny Main Gene Main Lavern Mc Danel Richard McDanel Theresa McGee Marilyn Rhinehart Patty Sawyer Leta Stevens Basil Tad lock Olive May Tait Roberta Tarr Helen Taylor David Thompson Ruth Thompson Lillian Tomlin Hermeea VanDorin Joanne Walker Robbie Whicker Betty Wilson John Wilson. The Sophomores are sure the Freshmen last year were not as green as those green Freshmen this year.
A note on freshman life highlights the heavy strain of navigating four flights of stairs to classes. Names listed include Bonnie Lou Beaty, La Vera Benz, Virginia Carter, Norma Carmeny, Vernon Carmeny, Bruce Faber, Dick Foster, and others.
The Freshman class started the year 1945 46 with 38 members, including 22 boys and 16 girls. Names highlighted include Georgiana Winaler and Delma Veach among others in the roster.
The Miller community extends congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Strunk and wishes them a long happy wedded life. Several local residents and visiting relatives stop by homes and gatherings through the week in Centerville and nearby towns, including the Dowd and Boyer households, with multiple mentions of the Wilsons, Tadlocks, Wood family, and Gibbs family in social visits and Sunday calls.
Readers are urged to place guests' names in The Union. the paper invites anyone to bring or send no news at any time as a courtesy.
Wartime ration calendar details stamps for foods not rationed including meats butter cheese and oils. It lists red stamp series V2 W2 X2 Y2 72 Book 4 worth ten points each valid through Sept 30 1946 plus Al Bl Cl Di El valid through Oct 31 1945 Fi G1 H1 J1 K1 valid Aug 1 through Nov 80 1946 L to Q valid Sept 1 through Dec 31 2e8 coupons Nos 1 2 3 4 airplane stamps Book a and Book 3 required when buying shoes.
The thrashers finished threshing timothy in this vicinity Thursday. Social visits occurred with the Moffatt and Elliott households in Center ville. Neighbors assisted cook crews for threshers on Tuesday, and school resumed last Monday with Miss Ardyce Hagerman as teacher.
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