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The first semester ends January 19 with semester tests on January 17 18 and 19. Test schedules are posted on every teacher's bulletin board.
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1974
Page
5
Open Campus for Seniors Starts Next Semester
Pella High School will allow seniors open campus at the start of the second semester with a rule requiring parents to give written permission for participation. Principal Mr. Jean Wilkins announced the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Wilkins
Pelladium Interview With Governor Ray Explores 4th Term Hope
Pelladium reporters Kirk Caldwell and Stu Vos sat down with Governor Robert Ray for an exclusive interview. Ray hinted at possibly seeking a fourth term as governor but said he would not run for the U.S. Senate at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ray
Pelladium
Kirk
Caldwell
Stutos
Kirk Caldwell
Governor’s Office
Stu Vos
Ray
the Palladium
U.S. Senate
Harold Joshes
Poe
Deine
Senate
Environmental projects replace semester test in class
Laura Vander Linden reports in Mr Gene DeBoers Environmental Problems class students work on year long projects. Many are written reports. some are experiments or films. One group uses a light meter to measure classroom light and reduce electricity. Another makes a film about Pella area pollution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Vander Linden
Gene DeBoer
Pella
Shortages and energy crisis loom in 1974 policy notes
Governor Ray discusses energy saving, school transport changes, and potential business and school closures amid shortages. He cites ditto fluid, toilet paper, meat, wheat, and fuel limits, urges individual conservation, and mentions tax surpluses and inflation. He recounts his political rise from Polk County Attorney to governor and endorses a proposed law change for transporting adults to out of town events during the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott K. van den Berg
John Wayne
Ray
Des Moines
Pella
Orville Dunkin
Dunkin
Polk County
State Central Committee
Mum crafts a ceramic Nativity Scene centerpiece
A mother made a detailed one inch to a foot ceramic Nativity set. It includes the Holy family three wise men three camels three shepherds a shepherd boy donkey cow sheep and the angel. She selected each piece painted with ceramic paints, detailed with a fine brush, fired in a kiln, then antiqued with two glaze coats and fired again.
Dutch Tradition Carried On By Melody Judge
The piece describes a Dutch Christmas custom where children place shoes out for Santa. Santa’s horse is fed straw in the shoes, with candy and fruit hoped for in the morning. The narrator notes grandmother and mother continuing the tradition in their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Editorial Vacations and a High School Team Comeback
High school athletes return after a seven day break amid mixed predictions about performance. Coaches must quickly rebuild conditioning and focus as some teams expect gains while others fear lingering fatigue. Mike Schuring, a PHS sophomore, gains fame in Iowa horse show circuits riding Dotty and Sugar, earning hundreds of trophies. His family, on Highway 163 near Otley, shares a strong horse-raising legacy with 978 trophies and countless ribbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Schuring
PHS
Iowa
Mike
Trigger
Dotty
Sugar
Wes Klein
Eldon
Ak-Sar-Ben
Omaha
Highway 163
Otley
Carl
Ronnie
Girls Draft Imaginary House Plans for Practice
Girls in a planning class draft a house plan on paper then furnish each room. They transfer a chosen plan to graph paper draw furniture add pictures and samples of carpet paint and curtains glue them on white paper with each room on a separate sheet.
Genesis Selling England By The Pound Album Review
ECORD REVIEW praising Genesis as innovative and hard to classify with imaginative melodies and futuristic past tones. Notes tracks Dancing with the Moonlight Knight and Fifth Of Fifth as imagery rich, while mentioning the album Selling England By The Pound as among their best to date. Also includes stray phrases about housing prices and a school project due January 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesis
England
Joyce Harter
Slide Rule Use Taught By Dave Meyer
Algebra II classes taught by Mr. Ray Doorenbos learn to use the slide rule for multiplication and division, then cube and square roots, reciprocals, and logarithms. Computers are taking over these tasks, said Doorenbos. Band Plays On Jan. 10 concert by Concert Band and Jazz Bands 1 and 2 under Mr. Guy Blair previews South Central Iowa Band Masters Honor Band at Drake Fine Arts Center Jan. 26 with seven PHS students performing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Doorenbos
Doorenbos
Cindy Arkema
Guy Blair
South Central Iowa Band Masters’ Association
Drake Fine Arts Center
PHS
Malcolm Felsing
Mary Overman
Kent Joosten
Jane Walvoord
Barb Bosch
Steve van Dusseldorp
Stephanie Harvey
Semester End for Local Business Classes at Central High
In Paul Ostrander’s Personal Typing class 22 students average 40 words a minute, practicing speed and accuracy on letters memos and tables. Mary Dicken’s Typing I class completes a term paper with bibliography contents and cover page. Typing II handles office production jobs using duplicating machines and calculators. Shorthand theory is complete with speeds up to 70 wpm as girls build transcriptions and Office Practice groups work at their own pace on various machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Ostrander
Mary Dickenson
Making Christmas Artful at Home with Simple Crafts
In an era of mass produced goods the article suggests crafting gifts to curb the holiday frenzy. Suggestions include handmade wrapping paper using lightweight paper, lemon or potato stamps, and spirograph patterns. It also notes easy homemade bobbles and candles, with linoleum block printing as a method for creating many Christmas cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melody
Skates Shortage Hits Midwest Colleges Amid Rise in Skating
A year of shortages extends to ice skates with Midwest distributors reporting fast-dissolved sizes 10 to 12. College students drive demand as recreation and sport grow, with hockey and casual skating seen during study breaks and free time. A Iowa State student calls skating cheap and fun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest College
Iowa
Janitors Scrub, Wax PHS During Vacation
Janitors Harold Vos and Herman Bokhoven at PHS led a vacation maintenance drive. They scrubbed the cafeteria with a machine, waxed halls, fixed gym bleachers, and cleaned walls and ceiling. Vos said the work could not occur with students and staff present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PHS
Harold Vos
Herman Bokhoven
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Chris Arkema
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Scott Be. Bruin
Gordon Graber
Melody Judge
Dave Meyer
Denise Postma
Tom Thies
Joel van Berkum
Tania van Dyk
Mark van Rees
Dawn Visser
Emma Lou Heusinkveld
Pella High School
Randy van Andel
Rod Wiersema
Joe Brummel
Ecord Review
By John Smalley
Japan
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