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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1958
Page
15
The Student Council met in Miss Gosselink's room at 8 15 Thursday April 17. A Code of Conduct committee presented a sketchy draft but was asked to revise it. Representatives will be elected in spring rather than fall to enable earlier council and Fire Squad organization and to start projects early in the new school year.
The page names staff roles headed by Judy Groendyke Ray and Kuyper with Donald Dahm Tom Waechter as editors. Reporters include Sharlotte Burton Mary Dieleman Marilee Grandia Marge Gosselink Kay McDonald Janice Mol Vivian Van Steen Walraven Phyllis Walraven Linda Tysseling Mary Burton Mary Hollebrands Kathy McDonald Mary Van Zemeren Bonnie Verrips Mary Meul polder Bob Vander Waal.
One representative proposed a girls drill team and several members would survey interest. The group noted the band room was very dirty and a Student Council committee was appointed to examine conditions.
A school notes piece recalls the Latin Banquet with slaves’ food verses honored citizens, mentions Sandy Vander Linden outside the algebra room, questions about hall monitoring, and counts quirky moments. Lois Ward and Bill Wing stumble at the banquet, Carole Grootveld wears a straw hat and enjoys a playful laugh, David Vos shifts cars, Quentin Kuyper misses a dragon in a Lit quiz, Beverly Boatsma reacts to the opening gun.
The note playfully recalls seven girls eating pizza at a show. P T classes are golfing and Dutch Dances have started. Red Nettie enjoys the time while the 4th period P T class practices poise with forced smiles. Only two weeks left.
Jeanne Rouw, a 17 year old 5 foot 4 inch 101 pound senior at P H S, lists social science as her favorite subject and is active in Commercial Club GRA and Honor Society. She enjoys roller skating reading and records, aims to accomplish a dream, and signs off with a optimistic motto and best wishes.
The GRA held a scavenger hunt in the gym on Monday April 21 at 7 20 pm. Teams of six sought odd items with a 9 00 pm meetup at Central Park. Jean Roorda’s group completed all tasks and followed rules, others struggled.
On Monday April 21 small group tryouts for a Belle Plaine contest on April 26 were judged by Robert Rittenhouse from Central College. He offered criticisms on each group's performance and praised areas needing improvement. The note thanks him for his patience and encourages continued practice.
A Latin Week banquet on Monday April 21 in Webster Gym featured a Latin invoc ation the Peter Noster a three course dinner olives cucumbers carrots and celery pizza and cookies and ice cream Quentin Kuyper welcomed in Latin Tywiah Monster and Phyllis De Brain sang America in Latin Delores Van Roekel spoke on true Roman banqueting Slides of Rome were shown by Rev De Prenger Supervisors and Mrs C C Buerkens and Principal and Mrs Jean Wilkins attended The dinner committee was assisted by Mrs Henry Vandevoort and Mrs William Gosselink
Webster Junior High offers a popular art and craft course with 64 seventh and eighth graders this semester. It is voluntary and runs two sessions weekly, covering clay drawing wood carving papier mache leather work and more to foster creativity and self expression under Roy Reith and student teacher Patte Van Zante.
Twenty girls trained with Jean Nollen and Ronnie Verrips to learn cheers and auditioned April 21 before a committee. Members included Miss Gosselink Mr Epperly and several students. Nine girls were chosen for the squad with final voting pending for two regulars.
A narrator recalls his mother’s rigid system of order and impossible memory aid. He catalogs quirky placements from a sprinkler in the kitchen to razors in a cookie jar, all labeled with her insistence that things stay where they are. The piece exams memory and eccentric household logic.
A playful exchange about searching a cluttered hi-fi cabinet reveals the struggle to locate items. The speaker laments the chaos and wonders how to ever find anything without the other’s help, replying with uncertainty about the solution.
A chartered bus leaves Pelth High School at 8 30 with Misa Sayler and 26 Commercial Club girls bound for Des Moines. They tour Town National Bank vaults and the Bankers Life building, view Younkers, and end with ice cream at Reed's before returning with 27 girls aboard.
Devotions from Rev Prank reflect on Joshua and the power of choice. The message states success or failure hinges on decisions, urging readers to rise above circumstance and environment through steadfast faith and action.
A fragmented, exhortation filled with religious phrases urging Joshua and readers to choose between faithfulness and compromise. The text emphasizes will power, self-restraint before God, and the need to decide now whether to be successful.
After weeks of planning the town celebrated safety assets with a wreck car, speeches, a high school band, and a Safety Queen and King. The event crowned courtesy and driving safety then faded back to a town with underfunded police, untrained teen drivers, and poor accident records.
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