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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1948
Page
7
A detailed account notes the April 3 music contest demands a large staff. The Commercial department copies programs, preps judges' pens, and assigns doorkeepers. Miss Ver Heul oversees ushers while Mr. Greendyke chairs the four contest centers and assigns roles.
The article lists platform manager and assistants for all posters and signs, judges’ decisions on a bulletin board at the high school entrance, a staff for finding dressing rooms and scheduling warm-up rooms, timekeepers trained to record lengths, and a four center plan for piano and strings at Douwstra Chapel instrumental solos at Jordan Hall vocal events at the high school. Judges come from Cedar Falls Waterloo and Knox College Galesburg Illinois.
Easter themed devotion Monday featured March scripture passages recounting the Easter story read by Elaine Vander Plee, Shirley Vander Wert, Helen Van Zee, Beulah Van Maaren, and Barbara Vander Werff. Jeanette Vander Werf offered a spoken meditation as Bertha Rozendaal and Mary Jane Menninga performed Easter duets with Bonnie Voort. Nola Root read two items and Betty D. concluded the program. participants were from Commercial club with Marcie Valster as narrator.
Peggy Leu writes a literature assignment poem with echoes of Edgar Lee Masters and Robert Frost. The piece muses how faces reflect thoughts, dreams, love, greed, and character, asserting face features do not create us but reveal inner truth and beauty.
The upcoming fall football season outlines eight or nine games. Four are slated against conference teams. The schedule lists September 10 Pleasantville There September 17 Sigourney There September 24 Albia Here or October 1 Melcher Here October 8 Chariton Here October 15 Knoxville There October 22 Indianola Here October 29 Montezuma There November 3 Open.
Spring activity fills Webster with learning as first graders watch buds form on an apple twig, while second graders study birds and writing. Ruth Van Rees shares a Pussy willow moment, and seventh and eighth graders vote for citizenship nominees. The science class explores animal adaptation with a bottled tarantula and a live horned toad.
Spring signs appear with Tulip Time grade contributions and traditional Dutch dances songs and games. Teachers confirm costumes and wooden shoes fit as flowers bloom and pruning skills return from the agricultural department marked by limited orders. Marion County Supervisors discuss 9 month school years and 180 day teaching rules while a college visit and summer shop classes surface at Pella High School graduates Betty Vander Heek and Gene Van Zee visiting Calvin College.
The Senior Class presents Seven Keys to Baldpate a melodrama and mystery thriller with a cast of distinctive characters. Set around an inn with corpses guns and hidden keys the plot follows novelist Wile Maycow and reporters as they chase a bet and a bargain gone wrong. The crooked mayor Cargan and his aide Brida Max plot to rob a safe while sheriff Jiggs Kennedy and assistants bungle through the affair with the inn owner resolving the mystery at the end.
A band party hosted at Janice and Bonnie Van Zomeren featured a prize winning yell “a-two, a-three, let’s go” with prizes of hairbrushes for each team member. The evening included piano songs led by Mr Whalley, a lunch of buns and cookies, and a return trip by bus for thirty eight happy kids driven by Mr Cornie Van Roekel.
This entertaining little Sass loves green and is a keen conversationalist with knowledge of PILS students and activities. She can summarize senior personalities in a few terms, collects pictures as a hobby, and spoofs organization life. By May she will be known for witty, informal notes.
Former graduating class presents an eagle and warning beware the Ides of March. Last day of school noted. Gertrude Steenhoeks referenced as involved. The scene is in the front of the auditorium to the right of the stage.
A jumble of overheard lines and classroom chatter shows students and teachers reacting to a new Tulip Time promotion. Mentions of P. IL S new girls, Art Mens oy, and a daily acrobat tease the town. Donna Veenstra claws at a window while Verle and Miss Slobe discuss romance and mood as bus singalongs echo.
Junior class plans the annual Junior Senior Banquet as students gather and prepare. The note urges juniors to assemble in Miss Nieburgs home economics room and get ready for the big social event, promising the most stylish affair of the year.
A damaged OCR fragment notes tombstones being carved amid traffic. The sentence lacks clear subjects or events, leaving unclear where or when the act occurred or who was involved. The readable portion emphasizes stone carving and vehicle danger without concrete identifiers.
The notice asks readers to answer sixteen questions from a PH 8 page. It inquires about a statue on the landing above the west stairs and a saying on the bulletin board in the literature room. It also asks which important event will occur on May 21 and who is the student editor.
The page teases the question of where the Good Citizenship Plaque hangs, hinting that the answer appears elsewhere on the page. The item invites readers to search for the plaque’s mounting spot within the same publication.
Correction: in the badminton singles consolation round Leland Van Ee defeated Verle Rinehart, not as previously announced in Pelladium. Verle had been credited with the win in the last issue.
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