28 Feb 1946
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1946
Page
1
A film titled Young America Paints was shown to high school and grade school pupils on Tuesday February 19. It displayed various art forms and brush techniques including finger painting textile painting stencil painting tempola craft and dustless crayon used in murals. The technicolor movie showcased true expression by young American artists.
Mr. Rysdam led Monday morning devotions on February 18 focusing on improving the body through physical care and training. A feature film, Can You Take It, illustrated exercise methods and body building practices used by boys preparing to enter military service.
Pella High embraces cinema as a modern teaching tool with noon screenings of Sight Seeing at Home and Young America Paints. The school features a sound and silent projector, a 35 mm film unit, a 2x2 slide projector, and an opaque projector to display pages or pictures for devotional and assembly time.
An ALM. Van Houweling editorial argues that Brotherhood Week highlighted tolerance and Christian equality, noting pervasive high school prejudice among students. It urges students to be more tolerant, praise genuine good in others, and avoid silent sneers that hurt peers and betray claimed moral values.
The page lists student activities and memories from a high school era. Mentions working at a factory last summer, a state typing contest speed second place, a teacher's trophy, Miss Anderson's favorite food, Mr. Andrews' sport, Dorothy Hoeksema’s favorite as a student, childhood mischief, honors like editor, national honor society, class officer, and valedictorian, plus a fan of Gildersleeve and Sunday musical programs.
Pelladium staff reporters, with sponsor Miss Slohe, participate in a two day journalism clinic in Des Moines led by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. High school and college students learn news reporting, features, columns, sports, and editorials with tours of the Register and Tribune building.
In a lively PHS column, seniors mock time crunches and travel woes as they tease peers by name. The column highlights intramural games, Stunt Night success, and a lounge fund tally while poking fun at staff and bottlenecks.
The article surveys classroom topics across subjects. Geometry covers edge of plane geometry with figures like prisms and cylinders. Commercial law students study six contract points and principal agent relations. Economics analyzes consumption production distribution and exchange with tests after each unit. An aeronautics class led by Virgil Vander Linden explores basic flying and navigation principles.
A compact classroom quiz lists items and names including Mr Grendyke and Miss Sellers in a playful guess who game. It mentions Miss Sellers and Miss Gosselink with hints about a chocolate cake and football heal ten.
Time Out Reel notes early spring signs with Gordy putting away longies and cheer from alumni about past talent. Ex-service players form a team to challenge the high school squad, which wins by six points, then faces a setback next week. World Day of Prayer Friday at Baptist Church with Dr. Gerrit Vander Lugt speaking at 2 p.m.
Multiple visits by Mr and Mrs De Jong and others marked the week at the Home for the Aged. Relatives from Sully Otley Lebanon Lynnville and Wright visited residents including Mrs Den Hartog and Miss Mary Brand as well as bootie making Miss Mary Van Veen and Harriet Den Hartog. Illness and hospital notes update readers on Mrs Bosma and Mrs Nollen with care from P Keunin and Mercy Hospital Oskaloosa.
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