Muscatine Schools Announce Near-Complete Faculty for 19
The Muscatine public schools plan to open Sept 2 with only one vacancy an instrumental music instructor in elementary grades Gordon McLean moves to a higher post and four new staff added including first grade teachers for Garfield and Jefferson schools plus Park Place staff due to annexation Administrators list includes A A Johnson superintendent and a full board of education with named officers and department heads across administration college and junior high faculty
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Public
Gordon McLean
Harold Freese
A. A. Johnson
Garfield
Jefferson School
Park Place
Muscatine
Board of Education
Clifford E. Worst
L. D. Krueger
A. C. Altenbernd
Robert Hahn
van Snyder
Robert Asthalter
Kenneth Schreurs
Corrine Marx
George H. Jacobs
John McCaffrey
Helen Stange
Max A. Collins
W. Floyd Scott
Edith F. Stocker
Myra van Ysseldyk
Scott, Foresman Co
Supt. Johnson
Frank Ralston
Enrollment Likely Grows At Muscatine Catholic High
Enrollment at Muscatine Catholic high school is expected to rise this year after the 1950 merger of two schools. principal Rev M J Dingman notes 94 enrolled first year, 104 second, with 120 anticipated this year. Registration for freshmen and sophomores Aug 27 28 with juniors Aug 28. New courses include home making and crafts. sewing returns for sophomores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Catholic High School
M. J. Dingman
Pre School Workshop Opens Wednesday for City Teachers
Muscatine public schools announce the 1952 53 workshop starting Wednesday at 1 PM with State University of Iowa speaker Howe Roberts as the main presenter. Supt A A Johnson opens sessions and teachers’ programs run through Friday with sessions on primary and intermediate education, art music and reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Supt
A. A. Johnson
Howe Roberts
State University of Iowa
Supt. Johnson
Park Place and Jefferson School Custodial Staff List
The article lists school custodians by building and grade level. Park Place includes Mrs Irma Wright and Rebecca Middleton in primary and intermediate grades, with Fred W Lange as general custodian and assistants Aaron James and Walter Weggen. Additional high and junior high staff span multiple schools including Lincoln McKinley and Jefferson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Wellens
Barbara Whistler
Rosalyn Wickers
Cecil Wolfe
Grant
P. H. Willey
Bernice Drumm
Fthel May Northey
Jefferson School
Herbert Grebing
Verna Mael Wilson
Leo Trader
Glen Bloom
Edwin
Devene Partington
Mildred Pfeiffer
Mary Price
Mabel Reichert
Donna Reid
Evelyn Schauland
Tulip Ann van Atta
Lincoln School
E. V. Swanson
Helen Arey
Jacqueline Bailey
Cora Bennett
Irene Carl
Mary Jo Colvin
Donna Eichelberger
Ray Hagelberg
Helen Heidel
Helen Howe
Lola Michels
Marjorie Morrison
Donald Peterson
McKinley
Mery Mapes
Hazel Barker
Lorene Cochran
Celeste Cronin
Grace K. Harden
Hilda B. Michels
LaVaughn Owen
Opal Ralston
Washington
Robert F. Brose
Gertrude Angersbach
Norene Boley
Anita Douglass
Margaret Logan
Hilda B. Mich
Els
Myrtle Mills
Park Place
Irma Wright
Rebecca Middleton
Fred W. Lange
Aaron James
Walter Weggen
Robert Schmidt
Ralph Flake
Harold Marx
George McCaffrey
Gertrude Steele
Thomas Dywiak
Walter Waltman
Floyd Whitlow
Franklin
Edward Bierman
Garfield
Harry Houseman
Grant School
Floyd Mundt
William Heuer
Marie Stroh
Lyal Chamberlin
Irene Flood
Otto Boehl
McKinley School
Native origins of rats in America traced to Europe and China
The article notes that Cotton Florida and Rocky Mountain rats are native to America, while the common brown and black rats arrived with early colonists from Europe. It suggests both species may have origins in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton
Florida
Rocky Mountain
America
Europe
China
Zion Lutheran School Wilton to Open Monday
Zion Lutheran parochial school in Wilton will open Monday at 9 a m for the 1952 53 term. Dismissal after morning session and full classes begin Tuesday. Principal H L Waech assisted by Audrey Leicholdt from Chippewa Falls Wis to teach first through fourth grades. Waech to teach upper grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton
Zion Lutheran Parochial School
H. L. Waech
Audrey Leicholdt
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Waech
Officials Attend Campaign School in Des Moines
Mrs. Alberta Kelley of Nichols and Mrs. Charlene Meacham of Nichols attended an Iowa Democratic campaign school in Des Moines on Friday. Kelley is a first district Democratic committeewoman and Meacham is the Muscatine County Democratic Central committee vice chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta Kelley
Nichols
Charlene Meacham
Muscatine County
Democratic Central Committee
Iowa Democratic Campaign
Des Moines
Wilton Legion Installs Officers at New Hall
Wilton Junction Iowa Wilton Legion holds installation of officers Friday night at the new home with installing officer Jack Hemmingway of West Branch First district vice commander. New officers listed include Lloyd Owens commander Elmer Steffens adjutant Dean Birkhofer first vice commander Robert Maurer second vice commander Kenneth Coss sergeant at arms Ben Shea service officer Ralph Marshall historian and Robert Lange chaplain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton Junction
Iowa
Jack Hemmingway
West Branch
American Legion
Lloyd T. Owens
Elmer G. Steffens
Dean Birkhofer
Robert Maurer
Kenneth Coss
Ben Shea
Ralph Marshall
Robert Lange
Chaplin
Memorization plan for Muscatine pupils recalls famed verse
Muscatine public schools announce a memory work program for the coming year with a committee list of graded required and supplementary selections. The effort includes verses by Guest Riley Shakespeare Milton and others from first to twelfth grade with Bible passages and national anthems featured in several grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Supt. Johnson
Mear D. Wood
Grace Harden
Ida Mae Hetzler
Walter Martin
Lord
Edgar A. Guest
James Whitcomb Riley
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Christiana Rossetti
James S. Tippett
Brewer
Stevenson
George Cooper
Aldis
Cooper
Ward
Rose Fyle
Annette Wynne
de la Mare
Christopher Lees
Cecil Alexander
Clara Bates
Lindsay
Edward Lear
Frank D. Sherman
Rachel Field
America
S. F. Smith
H. H. Jackson
Eugene Field
Howard Arnold Walter
Joyce Kilmer
James Whitecomb Riley
Don Durk of
Dowdee
Henry van Dyke
Robert Frost
Abraham Lincoln
Rudyard Kipling
Longfellow
Riley
James Russell Loewell
William Erenest Henley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Shakespeare
John Gillespie Magee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Cullen Bryant
Bryant
Man With
Edwin Markham
Geoffrey Chaucer
A. E. Houseman
Milton
Kipling
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James F. Lopez
Ted Allen
Louise Gaekle
Martha W. Goad
Catherine R. Miller
Keith Larson
N. Walker Wright
Fred Messenger
L. A. Schnack
James Alum
Marie C. Ruthenberg
John J. Baird
Mary L. Bielefeld
Betty Bisdorf
John C. Bready
Thomas P. Bruner
Joye Ashton Davis
Eula M. Downer
Mildred Fogarty
Earl Gantenbein
Virgil D. Godfrey
John W. Goudy
John McAreavy
Genevieve McCandless
James McGarvey
Betty McGillivray
James Maas
Archie W. Martin
Catherin R. Miller
Leonard Roggeveen
Evelyn
Walter S. Martin
Phyllis Mead
S. G. Overholt
George M. Oveson
Olga Piersall
Lulu Radebaugh
Ruth Roberts
Ada Rolland
Frances Ryan
Mary C. Ryan
David K. Shelton
R. E. Tesch
Barbara Staves
Frances Willey
Lillie Friederchsen
Kenneth Bartelt
Marie Eitman
Gertrude Fuller
Helen Jensen
Heinice Leu
Frances Meyer
Esther Minder
Edith Roth
Reuben Tesch
Alice Topping
Kenneth Huber
Kathleen Asp
Delores Hoben
Margaret O’toole
Marguerite Roth
Gertrude Sywassink
James F. Loper
Catholic High
Owen L. Olson
Jefferson & Grant
Lincoln
Kennewi Huber
Gartfield
Lillie Friederichsen
Iowa State Education Assn
James Loper
Elmer Swanson
City
City Federation
World Book Co
Edith Stocker
Floyd Scott
Muscatine Chamber of Commerce
McDaniel Rug Store
East Second Street
Wilton Legion
Banks Po
America Fare Insurance Policy
E. E. Bloom Insurance Central Sa Sakes K
Pooray Ganstone
Schoo
Sanitone
Rrao
Tewece
Magnus
East Fourth Street
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