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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1977
Page
4
The Iowa marching group aims to raise 17000 for transport and lodging and about 75 per student for food souvenirs and admissions to attend the Chetty Blossom Festival in Washington. A Jan radio telethon raised 14182.18 and further donations are expected.
Senior Jim Van Ekeren earned the PHS General Mills Family Leader of Tomorrow honor after a December written exam among seniors at PHS. He will receive a certificate and may compete for state and national honors. He has culinary achievements from 1973 to 1974 and works as a cook at Strawtown Inn.
PHS lists February activities including wrestling at Lynnville Sully Clarke Norwalk Fremont and Ottumwa, girls and boys basketball games at Knoxville Newton Osky Chariton Winterset Indianola Lincoln Clarke Ottumwa, sectionals and district events, vocal concert, FFA contest, and a teacher in service day.
Orvill, Marion county director of the Central Iowa Foundation for Alcohol, spoke to Norris Hale's Modern Problems class in Knoxville about his past as an alcoholic. He described two and a half years on Skid Row in Los Angeles and 103 jailings for drunkenness, and urged daily living as a reform approach while stressing self-acceptance.
Cultural notes from Mrs. Colleen Dankenbring reveal a shift in the Spanish I class toward more oral work this semester after last term emphasized basic phrases. Spanish II created a Thanksgiving skit for Carmen, while Spanish III moved into advanced grammar and speeches. French I, led by Mrs. Bonnie Vander Linden, studied basic phrases and counting to 100 and now reads Le Petit Prince.
Mr. Doorenbos explains geometry topics for second semester including right triangles polygons circles construction and coordinate geometry. College math will cover analytic geometry vectors statistics and probability. Mr. Hirrschoff will teach accounting and income tax form filling in the second semester.
A new group of students joined Mrs. Mary Dickinson and Mr. Paul Ostrander for second semester typing classes. Ostrander’s accounting class began with 1040 forms and will study payroll deductions. Dickinson’s office practice and typing I II classes reinforce prior work. The editor notes the Student Council election delay was caused by clubs, not classes. officer elections finished by week two.
Coach Ostrander recalls the 1962 move into the present Pella high school building. He notes echoing ceilings due to no tiles, no gym floor, crushed rock parking, no grass, wrong door locks, and a dress code for girls and boys. He taught accounting typing and business law then and now teaches accounting typing government.
Linda Stursma, a mid term graduate, will marry June 10 and focus on planning, work at the Day Care Center, and house renovations including painting, wallpapering, carpeting, and refinishing. She plans extra writing courses and hopes to write children’s and teen books while helping abuse victims.
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