Pella School District Hires New Staff Across Grades
The Webster and Central College area announces a broad slate of new teachers and transfers. Miss Cleo McGhee moves from Ottumwa to Pella to teach fifth grade at Webster, living with Gertrude Laurens at 926 Main Street, while Sara Gosselink joins from Central College to teach at Gilman and later Webster. New junior high staff include Jerry Stout at English, Miss Luella Beving in seventh grade, and Mrs. Raymond Breed leading fifth grade. Sixth grade at Webster will be led by Mrs. Donald Black, a Maryville State alum, with Don as coach. The art role goes to Mrs. Louis Lundy part time, and mathematics/business at the high school to Mr. and Mrs. Door enbos’ family. Arlene Killion joins high school English after Parsons College training.
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Ottumwa
Ottumwa College
University of Colorado At
Gilman
Central
Fella School
Werf
Lincoln
Colorado State Kers College
Greeley
Sara Kane
Webster
Keith van Zee
Gerard Gosselink
West Second Street
Maryville State Teachers College
Missouri
Betty
Don
Glenwood
Pella
Wellsburg
Iews
Central College
Miss Beving
College
Jerry Stout
New Sharon
Colleen Renaud
Webster Junior High
Miss Renaud
Oakland Iowa
Kerry
Marion Street
Louis Lundy
Ripon High School
California
Modesto Junior College
Lundy
1000
Peace Street
Children's Health Forums at 1956 Iowa State Fair
Six forums on children's health will be a feature of the 1956 Iowa State Fair, announced by Dr. M M Donnelly director of Maternal and Child Health Division. The forums will be held in the amphitheater of the Women's and Children's building.
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Iedeline M. Donnelly
Iowa State Department of Health
Homemaking Department Chooses Mrs Dale Seebach as Leader
Mrs Dale Seebach will head the High School Homemaking Department following her marriage to Dal Seebach this summer. She previously was Carol Pieper of Dysart. Dal Seebach is the Marion County Assistant. She earned a BA in Vocational Homemaking from Town State College in 1955 and has served as Extension Home Economist for Poweshiek County with offices in Montezuma.
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Dale Seebach
Carol Pieper
Dysart
Dal Seebach
Marion County
Dates Set for First Sessions Of Kindergarten
Kindergarten beginners will meet at Lincoln Building in the forenoon and at Webster in the afternoon for the first semester. Helene Dockendorff is in charge of both groups. Webster sessions begin Wednesday afternoon September 5 at 1 00 p.m. Lincoln group assembles in the morning before school starts. Contacts began August 20. Parents missing should call MA 8 3233.
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Lincoln
Webster
Helene Dockendorff
Health forums planned on child health topics in Iowa
A series of forums hosted at a children's building addresses health topics for Iowa children. Sessions run daily from 10:30 to 1:00 with films, demonstrations, and audience questions. Topics include cardiac surgery in children, dentistry, care of premature infants, and services to crippled children presented by state health divisions and related societies.
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Dren
Iowa
Division of Maternal and Child Health
Iowa State Department of Health
Raymond Blank Guild
Iowa Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Iowa Society of Dentistry For Children
Public School Pupils Offered Low Cost Insurance Plan
The Public School will again sponsor pupil insurance through the State Teacher's Organization at low cost. Coverage includes two schedules: Schedule A for school activities and Schedule D for travel to school. Total cost is 76c per pupil annually through grade 6, with Fr and 8th grades paying 1.00 per pupil. Optional claims include X rays, collar bone fracture, and chipped tooth with set amounts. The plan is optional and aims to ease medical bills, with last year nine claims totaling 124.50 and most paid. High school athletes have separate coverage via the Iowa High School Athletic Association at higher cost.
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Webster
Iowa High School Athletic Association
Former Teachers Where Are They
Colleen Renaud relocates to Sterling Colorado as English and remedial reading teacher for Sterling High School freshmen this fall. Don Breish to lead Chester Iowa schools next year after serving as Mingo High Principal.
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Colleen Renaud
Sterling
Colorado
Charles Lautenbach
Sterling High School
Don Breish
Chester
Iowa
Howard County
Mingo
Amy Vander Schaaf
Lincoln
Artie van Zee
Keith
Pella
Dorothy
Jack) Cook
Webster
Arden Johnson
Colo
Theo Klimstra
Iowa City
Raymond Strachbein
Cedar Falls
Norman Annis
Drake
Judy
Ames
Teachers Move Across Oceans To German School
Phyllis Visser, last year's home making teacher, plans to teach near Ames next year Henry. Reysack, Pella High's English teacher for two years, now resides in Germany after resigning from New Hampton Iowa. He accepted a competitive post at a high school for army children and teaches English History and Government at Der Alten Landes Schule Korbach Heosen Germany.
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Phyllis Visser
Ames
Henry
Reysack
Pella
Germany
New Hampton
Iowa
der Alten Landes Schule
Korbach Heosen
Century At Letts Church Marks 100th Year
The Methodist church in Letts celebrates a century of service as the congregation notes its 100th anniversary with historic milestones and community events planned around the milestone observance.
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Letts
Kay Butler Wins Regional Furrow Queen Contest
Miss Kay Butler of Oskaloosa won the regional Queen of the Furrow title at the Southern Iowa Fair in Okaloosa Iowa. She earns a 21 jewel wrist watch and a chance to compete in Newton on September 15 for a national final.
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Okaloosa
Iowa
Kay Butler
Oskaloosa
Newton
Child attacked by hogs in Granger area hospitalized
Terry Joseph Watson, a two year old from Illinois, was attacked at his parents’ Granger Missouri home and remained hospitalized in Bloomfield as he recovers from injuries.
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Ilinois
Bloomfield
Granger
Terry Joseph Watson
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