Hot Lunch Plan Heads Ottawa High School Opens Cafeteria
Ottawa High School principal W P Shepard outlines a new hot lunch program starting August 31 with three staggered 25 minute lunch periods in the cafeteria. No money will be handled in the cafeteria. teachers will collect weekly meal payments. College students will help with meals, and sack lunches are eaten in the cafe area.
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Ottawa High School
Shepard
Bowener Springs High School
Ottawa
Health Records Required for Kansas School Entry
Students must have tuberculosis testing during the second week of school at no charge for all kindergartners and new students. Each first time entrant must present physician certification of tests and immunizations for polio smallpox diphtheria measles pertussis and tetanus or an approved exemption. Blank exam and immunization forms are available at the main office. Contact Beth Beller for health history forms.
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Kansas
Beth Beller
Ottawa area school calendar notes full year events
The calendar lists school year activities with dates from August through May including staff meetings on August 24 25 and 26 and events such as a Chamber of Commerce breakfast for new staff August 26 a teachers association coffee August 29 and a general superintendent meeting. It notes a half day August 30 and the first full day August 31 plus holidays including Labor Day Thanksgiving Christmas and Easter vacations and the close of school May 26.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ottawa
School Leaders Fighting Giant Moving Battle
Ottawa Junior High and Ottawa High School principals express happiness over a summer expansion that doubled space. Crowded conditions eased by using the old high school building for junior high classes, with concerns about full readiness of the new high school and moving administrative materials, lockers, and water hookups.
Ottawa High School Dress Rules Set for New Year
A parent newsletter from Ottawa High School outlines rules for the new facility including smoking and alcohol bans with suspensions, car use and parking procedures, and a dress code. It calls for shirts buttoned, skirts or dresses for girls, restricted classroom wear, and neat, non distracting hair.
New Year Brings Staffing Struggles to Forker Schools
Superintendent Marvin Forker outlined math teaching shortages with two retired teachers set to return briefly. A vacancy from Carl Robb's contract request remains until a replacement is found. Temporary hires and transfers aim to cover junior high needs while enrollment at Eugene Field School tests capacity, including kindergarten and third grade projections.
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Marvin P. Forker
Harriet Seymour
Nora Evans
Colorado State University
Robb
Forker
Glenda Hayward
Ronald Myer
Ruth Ann Bundy
Lincoln
Ottawa Junior High Orientation Set for August 22
All students entering Ottawa Junior High School for the first time or advancing to seventh grade attend an orientation at 9 a.m. August 22 in the old high school's auditorium. Parents are invited. After a building tour, students will pay fees and receive schedules.
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OHS
W. P. Shepard
Ottawa Junior High School
Rain Delays Ash Street Paving Near Ottawa High
Rain slowed paving on the final 1100 feet of Ash Street past Ottawa High, delaying completion of the Ash and Eleventh Street projects planned for today. Eleventh Street is finished, with both streets expected open by Aug 29. backfilling and grading will follow, weather permitting, to prepare for grass seeding by owners.
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Ash Street
Ottawa High School
Ash
Eleventh Street
Don Capper
Capper
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Kansas State Teachers’ Association
Rosie Lister
Dean Rouse
Stuents
Shepsard
Royse
Rouse
Shepard-Forker
Ottawa Senior High
Stuent Council
Alice E. Wier
Hugoton
Bundy
Town
Lincoln Elementary
Eugene Field School
Field
Eugene Field
Baptist Church
New High School
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