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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1950
Page
7
The al Club plans Stunt Night in the high school auditorium at 7 30 tonight. Three judges will select winners in two groups musical and comical with prizes of five and three dollars. Admission is 25 cents for children and 35 cents for adults.
The note marks April 2 through 8 as a vacation period with Good Friday and Easter, warning it will be the last free spell before Tulip Time and commencement. It reports on junior girls’ quiet classroom talk, pre district meet results at Oskaloosa, and various school happenings including a cast homebound student through intercom, Good Will Banquet attendance, twins born to the Emmerts, and seniors sizing caps and gowns as graduation nears.
Ardis Walford, a blue eyed brunette from town, stands about five feet three and a half inches. She drives a green Chevrolet and enjoys Dear Hearts and Gentle People with cherry pie a la mode. Armored for a secretary career, she studies shorthand and typing, sells tickets for Commercial Club, and dislikes gum chewing. she is known for giggling and outgoing personality, as listed in this senior girl's profile.
Staff Audrey Roorda and Helen Van Zante report on the community page with reporters Judi Allen Mary Alice Buwalda June De Cook Marilyn De Cook Joy Denburger Doris Dockendorff Sara Anne Gosselink Nancy Groendyke Anna Hagen Donald Van Hemert Greta Palmquist Arlene Ver Ploeg Beulah Roor da Gary Thomassen Donna Veenstra Delores Vander Wilt Bonnie Van Zomeren Pauline Atkins Jerry De Prenger Dor othy Vos Elsie Van Wyk Pauline Lautenbach Darlene Van Zomeren Eleanor Vander Beek credited in the byline of the segment.
The piece contrasts individual differences with common desires to succeed and create. It cautions against cleverness over substance, cites students and a seamstress as examples, and urges taking opportunities and doing small things well. Edward Rowland Sill’s poem Opportunity is cited to illustrate seizing chances.
A reflective piece questions equal rights and freedoms under the Declaration of Independence. It ponders whether everyone shares life liberty and the pursuit of happiness equally and whether personal morals influence opportunity and safety for all.
A playful portrait blends Pella High School male archetypes into one composite youth. It lists eyes from Marion Van Gorp to feet from Harry Pippie, hair from Spencer Grand, and skills from piano to field goal, finishing with a red convertible and a note on a misdelivered mail term Nixie.
Miss Sayler led devotions on Monday February 27 with a committee of Commercial Club girls planning. The girls trio opened with Make My Spirit Worthy. Bonnie Thomassen read Luke 23, Judi Allen read Thanatopsis by Bryant, and the session closed with I Would Be True sung by the trio.
In a lively reminiscence, a freshman blurts take off your head and scratch your hat as chairs tilt in study hall. The piece recalls Joe leaping over Colfax, apple cores in a tuba, mop demos, juniors short on food, and a mixed chorus with light bulbs at footlights. Washington's birthday erupts like July fourth. the Otley bus explodes with fireworks.
Best wishes to Donald Veross on March 13 and Donald Van Hemert on March 14, with Mary Alice Buwalda on March 15. The notes send warm greetings for their upcoming occasions.
Within days farm planters arrive and a Ras kerosene and fuel oil shipment just came. Two semi loads of feed received with two more expected. Beef by the quarter is moving fast and stored best. Beef from farm to locker in 3 4 days. Also fencing posts creosoted and rough boards en route. Annual Meeting set for Friday March 10.
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