Pella High to Offer Eight Week Summer School Program
Pella Community High School announces an eight week summer session from June 7 to July 30 for students entering 12th grade. Courses, open to residents with a ten dollar fee per course, include Field Biology Music Theory Psychology Remedial English and more with a minimum of ten students per course. Classes run 12:30 4:30 the first week and 8:00 to 12:00 noon thereafter with one semester credit per course.
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Pella
Pella Community
ISU Family Life Conference set for April 8 in Ames
The annual visitation of Marion County women to the Iowa State University Family Life Conference will be held Thursday April 8 in Ames. The program centers on Our Human Potentials with focus on the status of women in Iowa including job opportunities and wage earning. Speakers include Dr Marguerite Scruggs Margar et Yoder Betty Talk Cedar Rapids Eber Eldridge Mary Hilton and more. The event opens at 10:00 a.m. in Curtiss Auditorium with registration at 8:45 a.m. An evening banquet features Ray Bryan. For attendance or a substitute, contact Ruth Archibald.
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Marion County
Iowa State University Family Life Conference
Ruth Archibald
County Extension Home
Iowa
Archibald
Ing
Hughes
Marguerite Scruggs
Iowa State University
Margaret Yoder
Cooperative Extension Service
University
Betty Talk
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Federation of Labor
Eber Eldridge
Mary Hilton
Women’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Washington, D.C
Lloyd Williams
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Curtiss
Ray Bryan
Bryan
Jasper County Sealed Bids Sought for 6000 Bushels Corn
Roy A. Thompson announces 6000 bushels of CCC bin site stored corn at Mingo Bin Site No 435 are offered for sale by sealed competitive bids. Bids must be in to the Jasper County ASCS office by 3 00 p m April 14 1965. Prospective bidders may inspect the grain at the site with the county office.
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Roy A. Thompson
Jasper County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
CCC
Mingo bin
ASCS
Latin teachers gather for Iowa Classical Conference
At Iowa City on April 3 fifty college and high school Latin and Greek teachers attended the Iowa Classical Conference at the University of Iowa. Guest speaker Professor Austin M Lashbrook from the University of Kansas spoke on CAUSA and unifying Latin curricula. Other speakers included U of I Professor Margaret Alexander and visiting Australian classics professor Mervyn Austin. Professor Arnott directed Greek drama scenes by students in the Department of Dramatic Arts.
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Iowa City
Iowa
H. Mentink of
Pella
University of Iowa
Austin M. Lashbrook
University of Kansas
Classical Association of the United States of America
CAUSA
U of I
Margaret Alexander
Mervyn Austin
Australia
Peter Arnott
Department of Dramatic Arts
Washington rural school merger vote set for April 19
A petition to merge Washington Rural Independent School District with Knox ville Community School District was presented to the Knoxville Community Board and Marion County Board of Education. The petitions were accepted and approved. A special election is scheduled Monday April 19 from 1 to 7 PM at the school three miles northeast of Knoxville. Washington School currently serves twelve pupils from six families. Blanche Templeton is the teacher and Merle Kennedy serves as Board President.
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Wash
Washington Rural Independent
Knoxville Community School
Knoxville Community Board
Marion County Board of Education
Marion County Board
Washington
Knoxville
Blanche Templeton
Merle Kennedy
Board of Education
Moen to Speak at Pekin High School Visit
Professor Allen L. Moen of Central College will visit Pekin Community High School Iowa April 5 as part of the visiting scientist program funded by the National Science Foundation. His ultrahigh vacuum research and teaching roles will be discussed. he holds a B A from Pacific Lutheran University and an M S from Washington State University and holds memberships in two physics teacher and university professors associations.
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Central College
Pekin Community High School
Pekin
Moen
National Science Foundation
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma
Wash
Washington State University
Pullman
The
American Assn. of
Reading program observed at Pella Christian Grade School
Supervisors from seven communities and representatives from Penn College and the State Department of Education toured Pella Christian Grade School on April 2 to observe an experimental reading program from McGraw-Hill Webster Division. Initiated in Grade 1 in 1964, the linguistic and programmed system uses immediate student responses and 80 percent mastery, with testing and parallel use alongside traditional reading.
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Penn College
State Department of Education
Pella Christian Grade School
Webster Division
McGraw-Hill Publishers
Iowa
Pella Christian
Represenor
Nature Workshop Extended One Week By Weather
Adult Nature Workshop registrations remain open with calls to Recreation Commission. The six week course now runs Saturdays 7 30 to 9 30 am on April 10 17 24 May 1 15 22 under Dick Vander Laan with a $3 50 fee.
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Recreation Commission
Dick Vander Laan
Post office seeks substitute clerk and driver
Postmaster Edward J Wes selink announces applications are open to fill future vacancies in the Pella Iowa Post Office for substitute clerk and substitute letter carrier positions. Starting pay is 2.48 dollars per hour and the job is open to both men and women. Applications available at the Post Office during regular business hours.
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Edward J. Wesselink
Pella
Iowa
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