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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1951
Page
2
Pelladium reporters recall a May tenth banquet with yearly awards and Quill and Scroll honors. A college speaker is expected, plus dinner music. committees include Food Pat Rietveld Decoration Nancy Bricker Dinner Music Shirley Leydens Publicity Beulah Roorda.
A national committee of high school principals urged schools to offer activities that expose youth to conflicting ideologies, reduce pessimism, align academics with community needs, foster dialogue, and improve human relations. They recommended guidance services to provide draft eligibility facts, wartime adjustments, and job opportunities in war industries, especially teaching and nursing, while warning against accelerating schooling as a defense tactic.
On April 18 1951 Pella High held hearing and speech screenings for grades three six nine and others from several districts. Pella Rural Lake Prairie Summit Rural Polk Rural and Pel la Christian schools participated while testing rooms 200 and 303 and the auditorium were used. Senior girls aided testers and Sylvia F Plots county superintendent supervised. The Student Council met April 23 to discuss activity tickets church parking lot parking plans and a handbook for ninth graders and newcomers.
The final student assembly program was reshuffled last week. Betty Beyer will present a Drama Hit Parade instead of the Diana Dixon Program. The event is scheduled for Wednesday at 84.
A roster lists editors and junior reporters including Norma Bricker Patricia Rietveld Marilyn De Cook Patricia Van Englehoven Richard Anson Delores Van Waard huizen Jo Ann Schagen Joyce Leu Gwendolyn Vanden Berg Dorothy Vos Sara Mae Van Maaren Shirley Rook Donna Zwank Joanne Ter Louw Sidney De Haan Corinne Ver Ploeg Doris Dockendorff Nancy Groendyke Anna Hagen Maxine Heimstra Marilyn Loverink Marilyn Andeweg Dar lene Vander Pol Wilma Roorda Phyllis Vandehaar Mary Ann Sels Joe Brummell Shirley Leydens Junior Reporters.
Editorial humorously compares softball and baseball through Jean. The writer notes field size glove differences and reveals that softball has seven innings and underhand pitching. It traces softball’s origin as indoor baseball and its evolution into a global sport, ending with a playful question about who’s laughing now.
An inquisitive reporter polls P H S students about Tulip Time pleasures. Answers mention parades crowds tulips dancing Dutch events bands and late nights. Respondents include Norman H Ralph Ver Ploeg Pat Van Englehoven Dorothy De Cook and Sandra Cummings among others.
Students across the school rushed to distribute annuals and gather signatures. Teachers and seniors faced the brunt as every class pressed them to sign with phrases like best wishes and good luck. Ink pens ran dry amid the flurry of messages as people chatted and laughed through the busy process.
Mr Crawford led Monday morning devotions on April 23 using Exodus 20:15. He spoke on thefts and crimes since the world began, urging self improvement before helping others. He read the poem Bees in Amber by Robert Oxenham and closed with prayer.
Newsy Suzy Last reports two men in space costumes arriving at Pella High on a Wednesday afternoon in April to invite students to visit the moon of the Holland Theater. The prank sparked chatter about lipstick bets, banquet pictures, table shyness, and a muddy hallway mystery noted by students and staff.
On Wednesday evening April 25 the Pella High School Band held a party at Sully Roller Skating Rink. Arriving after a 7:30 p.m. meet at the band room, they traveled by car to Sully. The group skated, with some members showing strong skating while others struggled, and returned home afterward.
The weekly May 3 to May 9 calendar marks Zelda De Jong's birthday on May 7. The note cheers Zelda with warm wishes for a joyful celebration.
Sixty word certificates for Jun iors list Betsy Hoksbergen Patricia Rietveld Shirley Van Rockel Pauline Lautenbach Beulah Van der treek Roberta Waits Edith Sytsma Barbara Buyert Mary Van Vliet. One hundred word certificates and pin for Seniors list Marlene Sels Norma Bricker Viola Hasselman Maxine Hiemstra. Certificates for good shorthand notes list Elsie Van Wyk Patricia Rietveld Rosa Lee Schakel. Complete Theory Certificates list Betsy Hoksbergen Elsie Van Wyk Edith Sytsma Beulah Van der Streek. Typing Artistic typing fect paper JoAnn Schagen. Thirty word pins list Brandt Van Maanen Betsy Hoksbergen Don ald Verros JoAnn Schagen Peg gy Kuyper Virgil Dykstra. Thirty five word pins list Kenneth Van Den Berg Edith Sytsma Els ie Van Wyk Roberta Zeigler. Forty word pin list Shirley Van Roekel Rewlah Vander Streek. Forty five word pins list Vernon Wielard Maxine Hiemstra. Fifty word pin Joyce Leyden. Fifty five word list Marlene Dyk stra Viola Hasselman. Sixty word pin Sara Anne Gos selink. Seventy word pin Norma Bricker. ficate Per-
Eleven boys and adviser attended the 23rd annual FFA convention in Sioux City Iowa at the municipal auditorium. Five boys competed in parliamentary procedure and one in public speaking. The parliamentary contestants were Don Blom Chuck Bentema Ralph Ver Ploeg Verlan Ustermarkt and Willy Van Houwelingen. Leroy Nuyteren spoke publicly. The group stayed three days and attended four convention sessions.
At the last meeting the Pella Chapter of the F F A elected new officers. The new officers are President William Van Houwelingen Vice President Harold Heimstra Secretary Arnold DyKhuis Treasurer Leroy Nuyteren and Reporter Ralph Ver Ploeg.
The 45 member band left Saturday at eight by bus for Des Moines to perform at Drake Relays. They marched from the capitol grounds to Locust Street and Twelfth Street, practiced at Drake Stadium, and played six pieces plus the Star Spangled Banner. Twenty six other bands entered the competition.
The 1910 Pella High graduates include Leona Berg At Carroll Cornelia Bouma minister's wife in New Jersey Cornie Du Moines in Iowa Ine Grundman Mrs D Renaud in Pella Ralph Grundman board member at Pella High Franklin Keables in California Ancel Reuvers in Atlanta Georgia Joe Rhynsburger deceased Will Rhynsburger social security officer in Baltimore Maryland Ira in Des Magdalene Sheehy in Los Angeles California Veda Tice Mrs Veda Mensch has a gift shop in Pella Simon Vander Zyl coal operator at Pella George Ver Steeg Pella Chronicle editor Alfred Wormhoudt supervisory employee of steel company in Los Angeles California Kamp Wormhoudt dentist at Pella Helen Rietveld Mrs Mary Avery at Knoxville Clarke employee of light company at Fairfield Ia.
The National Poetry Anthology accepts poems from three Pella High seniors. Sara Anne Gosselink’s piece is printed this week with Jud Allen and Enid Tysseling slated for subsequent weeks. The poem ponders whether earth could be square and things could be reversed, ending with musings on silly thoughts and self comparison.
News from Headquarters reports on April 24 1951 when Mr Buerkens interviewed prospective teachers. He met former Pella High students Patty Vriezelaar and Jack Fisk. Miss Thomassen and Miss Saylor are busy cleaning the library and discarding old books. Each teacher must check the books in their room.
A lively freshman girl described with light brown hair and dark brown eyes, about five feet three inches tall, known for pep. She walks halls, loves ham burgers, the color green, Pontiac cars, Latin, and piano and singing as hobbies. She lives in Pella but admires another Town city and rides to school on Broadway.
School children have been tot ing so much tonnage of old news paper to market during the past twelve months that paper mills are overstocked with scrap. Prices for old news are dropping sharply.
Only three Iowa governors have ever won a third term Samuel J Kirkwood Albert B Cummins and John Hamill.
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