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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1950
Page
14
Architects reviewed the fourth set of plans for the new Webster grade building in room 303 with the superintendent and Board members. Efforts aim to start the project before next fall, drawing more visitors and potential sellers to the building site.
A student recounts the last day of school before spring vacation with daydreams and song references. The scene moves from greeting Heine with a Rag Mop to imagining no tomorrow, and bursts of tunes like Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo and Daddy's Little Girl as they hope for a sweet report card. The narration blends humor and musical allusions to capture carefree anticipation.
A roster of staff reporters is printed, listing names including Judi Allen Mary Alice Buwalda June De Cook Marilyn De Cook Joy Denburger Doris Dockendorf Sara Anne Gosselink Nancy Groendyke Anna Hagen Donald Van Hemert Greta Palmquist Arlene Ver Ploeg Beulah Roor da Gary Thomassen Donna Veenstra Delores Vander Wilt Bonnie Van Zomeren Pauline Atkins Jerry De Prenger Dorothy Vos Elsie Van Wyk Pauline Lautenbach Darlene Van Zomeren Eleanor Vander Beek.
At the music assembly on Thursday March 23 Mr Whalley awarded points based honors to 32 band students. Mickey Ver Ploeg earned the top award gold citation card for 1000 points, the first to win it since Cora Thomassen five years earlier.
Spring signals appear with robins and thawing thoughts as seniors plan events. A trio, Norma Bricker, Donna Veenstra, Joy Den Burger, harmonizes on You Are My Sunshine. Bus riders speak Dutch, lunch talks drift to biology, and seniors eye a Sr Sr banquet with chosen committees and topics. Peggy Kuyper receives a music jewel box and hears One Enchanted Evening.
Several teachers from Pella High School attended the Marion County Council meeting in Knoxville on Monday evening March 27. About two hundred Marion County teachers joined the dinner and program. Miss Iva Green, Director of Rural Education in the Department of Public Instruction, spoke urging teachers to display certificates in their rooms and to raise teaching standards with four years of college for grade teachers and five for high school teachers.
A note wishing happy birthday to students whose birthdays fall next week. Patty Vriezelaar on April 7 Carl Root on April 8 Enid Tysseling on April 10 Joyce Petersma on April 10 George Ikuta on April 13.
The school announces that Pelladium will not be held next week due to spring vacation. Students and staff are reminded to observe the break and return on the scheduled date.
A high school junior, 16, tall and stylish, is profiled as he faces future choices. He played football this fall before an injured nose sidelined him, and his peer group offers varied plans from Central College to farming and rodeo adventures.
The subject, a versatile player from near Pella on the Sully road, is listed as a guard on the first string for the ball season and plans to try out for baseball. He lives with two older brothers and his parents, twelve miles north of Pella, and is often seen with Joe Drummel at noon in a gray Chevy.
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