Honors Night at Pella High School Celebrates Senior Awards
The fifth annual Honors Night at Pella High School May 22 featured retiring Supt. C. C. Buerkens and Mrs. Buerkens. Tulip tree gift planted next fall honors the school. Students received citizenship medals, Senior Service Award, and multiple discipline awards across journalism, homemaking, track, golf, drama, and letter recognitions for 20 seniors.
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Pella High School
C. C. Buerkens
Jean Paul
Phil Schreiner
Mary Steenbock
Dave Toom
Faye van Wyk
Jim Johnson
Ruth van Roekel
Earl Horman
Ken Nollen
Desk Presented to Supt Buerkens by Teachers Club
The Pella Community Schools Teachers' Club hosted its Spring Picnic on May 20 at the new shelter house beside Swimming Pool Park. Retiring superintendent C. C. Buerkens was honored with an executive-type desk, presented after a pot-luck supper, with a poem read by Edgar Epperly and a card with the desk picture delivered to his home next morning.
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Pella
Buerkens
James Shiley
Voc Ag Boys Plant 15 Acre Test Plot
Pella High School Vocational Agriculture class completed planting a fifteen acre corn test plot. A four-way cross hybrid and a single-cross hybrid were seeded at 17 000 per acre with proper fertilizer and pre-emergence herbicide. Some sections will be side dressed with 60 pounds of nitrogen later. Next fall, yields of the treated plots will be compared by students.
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Pella
Janitors Do Varied Jobs At Prairie High School
Ed Vos and his son Harold work as janitors at PHS starting at 7 am, cleaning offices, cafeteria, music rooms, gym, and later classrooms until 5 pm. They handle repairs, assist students, mow about 30 acres of lawn, care for trees and flower beds, and wax and polish floors during summer vacation.
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PHS
Ed Vos
Harold
Ed Ves
Sandridge
Runnells
Prairie City
Runnells High School
Gambles
Harold Vos
FHS
Navy
Pella High Chooses Cheerleaders for Varsity and JV 1965
Pep Club sponsored tryouts on May 15 selecting four Junior Varsity and six Varsity cheerleaders. Freshmen aimed for JV while sophomores and juniors competed for Varsity. Judges included Ruth Hiemstra Miss Mary McCormick Mr Stan Schleuter and Becky Kettler. JV picks: Susan Bogaard Nancy Paris Sonja Shetterly Diana Trueblood. Varsity picks: Mary Farrer Linda Gezel Barbara Michmershuizen Lynn Van Tuyl Lola Monster Judy De Cook.
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Pep Club
Ruth Hiemstra
Mary McCormick
Edgar Epperly
Stan Schleuter
Pella High
Central College
Becky Kettler
Susan Bogaard
Nancy Paris
Sonja Shetterly
Diana Trueblood
Mary Farrer
Linda Gezel
Barbara Michmershuizen
Lynn van Tuyl
Lola Monster
Judy de Cook
Pella Golf Team Expands With Growing Interest
Pella High's golf team participates as golf rises among teenagers nationwide. The National Federation notes golf has jumped from tenth to higher in popularity, indicating strong growth and broader participation across schools.
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Pella High
National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations
Golf Gains Ground Among High School Athletics
The article notes 78,000 students play golf, more than many schools. Rex McMorris of the National Golf Foundation says teens favor lifelong sports and that golf ranks top for carryover into adulthood. He argues schools with golf courses could make golf the most popular sport.
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Bish Potentae
Rex McMorris
National Golf Foundation
Farewell to Shiley and Greendyke by Riot Squad cheerleader
The speaker bids farewell to Mr. Shiley known as Mr. Greenjeans and to Mr. Greendyke praised as the Riot Squad’s jolly cheerleader. He recalls Greendyke’s sly grin as he hands out tests and mentions the tease of a test tomorrow after the last bell.
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Mr. Shiley
Mr. Greenjeans
Mr. Greendyke
Bascars Presented Thespians Initiated at Pella High
A nostalgic year end piece from The Pella Chronicle recounts Bascars presented and Thespians initiated, with humor about faculty quirks and student antics at Honors Night. It notes a VW on the lawn, a hood pop moments, and senior Will readings, closing with a fond farewell to PHS.
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Miller
Berglund
Bender
Andy Ter Louw
PHS
Thespians honor students at spring meeting reveal awards
At the Thespian meeting on Wednesday May 13 new members include Jean Paul Judy Grandin Tom Ver Meer Martin Blecka Delores Van Vark Guy Jones Arlene De Gens and Marilyn Van Zee Delores Van Vark and Gary Koopmans received kissing dolls for Pride and Prejudice Mis Waechter earned Miss Trapdoor of the Year for The Wizard of Oz Judy Kregel got cat food for playing a cat Greg Van Vark was named Policeman of the Year for Sorry Wrong Number Guy Jones earned Boy Scout of the Year for Cleopatra Jean Paul won a Mrs Bennet fan Rose Ann Van Essen got a clod of dirt as Clod of Mary Bennet New Thespian officers named Arthur Knowles president Guy Jones vice president Arlene De Geus secretary treasurer Marilyn Van Zee and Judy Kregel student council
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Thespians
Jean Paul
Judy Grandin
Tom Ver Meer
Martin Blecka
Delores van Vark
Guy Jones
Arlene de Gens
Marilyn van Zee
Gary Koopmans
Mis Waechter
Judy Kregel
Greg van Vark
Cleopatra
Mrs. Bennet
Rose Ann van Essen
Mary Bennet
Arthur Knowles
Arlene de Geus
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