My Isle of Golden Dreams on a Hawaiian Island
Christian High juniors hosted a tropical island dinner for visiting seniors and faculty on May 2. Attendants wore aloha attire as waiter teams served an island menu and the program featured a duet, a comedy film, and a toast by Melvin Vos.
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My Isle of Golden Dreams
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Senior Donna Vande Kamp Looks Back On Four Year Stay
No. 81 of four years at Christian High. she would repeat senior year for the best fun and says Graduation is the most united event. undecided about college. She gave the school one to enrollment and noted pencils three for a dime. She compares freshmen fun then and now, loves blue, strawberry short cake, and basketball.
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Donna Vande Kamp
Dorothy Van Englehoven seeks summer work and Calvin College
Future College Senior Dorothy Van Englehoven, a brown haired blue eyed student from a farm near Pella, attends First Christian Reformed Church. She lists chemistry as her top subject, studies Latin II English IV American Government and American History, participates in choir annual staff and intramurals, enjoyed last year’s SJr Sr banquet and choir tour to Hull, plans to work this summer and attend Calvin College this fall.
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Dordt College Impressions from Marilyn Jansen
Marilyn Jansen attends Dordt College and notes major changes from high school including self directed study. She lists choir, boys basketball, debate, speech contests, and the all school play as activities and recommends the college for future teachers after two years. Three courses are offered Pre Seminary General and Teacher Training. Marilyn lives in an apartment three blocks away.
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Marilyn Jansen
Dordt College
Marilyn
Senior With Vision Of Shrimp Boats
Joyce De Vries is a four year active senior at the school. She joined pep club choir Echo staff speech basketball and was a senior play stage assistant. She is 5 6 with brown hair and blue eyes and prefers blue. She enjoys shrimp and lists Christian Ethics as her favorite subject. Her major event is skip day and she plans to attend Dordt College after graduation.
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Echo
Joyce
Dordt College
Busy Gal Personalizes a Senior Student's Busy Life
A dark-haired five foot six senior from Hamilton Iowa spends weekdays with Bess Van Zante. After school she handles restaurant and house work while juggling four classes government bookkeeping chemistry and American history. She enjoys chemistry most and is a choir member with little time for pastimes.
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Tulip Festival Note From Coxs Captured In Omaha Letter
A telegram from Henry and Queene Cox highlights this year’s Pella tulips. Miss Zdenka Sedlacek, ex Omaha teacher, arrives with dogs, shoes and Dutch keepsakes. The writer recalls the parade, street scenes, hot dogs in the car, and meeting the new queen and attendants.
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Remarkable travels highlight Azalea Trail and Pella tulip fields
The writer recalls racing a storm to Des Moines then Omaha, visiting Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile in February, and witnessing Pella's tulips in May. They praise Pella tulip fields as colorful and comparable to the Azalea Trail, calling the visit a extraordinary experience and thanking the recipient.
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Pella High Finishes Fifth in District Track Meet
Pella High scored 37 percent of possible points at the Valley High District Meet in West Des Moines last Saturday and qualified two bays for the State Track meet in Ames on May 25. Jim Duffus won both hurdle events with a best 15.7 in the 120 highs. Bob Slykhuis earned third in the 880 and qualified due to a fast time. Duffus also won the 180 hurdles in 22.2, beating Jim Van Werden. Additional Pella scorers included Dwight Roorda, Tom Gaard, Gerald Kuiper, the Kuiper twins, Tom Mitchell, Marvin Hiemstra, Paul Toom, Larry Kuiper, Ron Van Ekeren, and the medley and 880 relays.
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Track meet results highlight Rinehart and Mitchell third
Rinehart and Tom Mitchell finished in third place. Jerry Ulrich tied for fifth in the high jump. The 440 yard relay team of Dwight Rorada, Larry Kuiper, Jerry Ulrich and Ken Kuiper placed fifth. The mile relay team of Don Gosselink, Gerald Kuiper, Ron Rinehart and Bob Slykhuis finished fourth.
Perron Accepts Executive Post In Minnesota
Rev. C. F. Perron, minister of the Second Baptist Church in Lincoln Nebraska, has accepted a call to become the Executive Sec in Minnesota. The change confirms a leadership shift affecting church administration and regional ministry coordination.
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Minister Appointed to Lead Minnesota Baptist Group
The secretary of the Minnesota Convention of American Baptist churches and the Twin City Baptist Union announces the appointment of Mr Perron to begin May 16. He succeeds Dr Joseph I Chapman who resigned April 1 to lead Bethany Baptist Church in Pontiac Michigan. Perron, a Davenport Iowa native, is a Northwestern Seminary graduate and holds degrees from Central College Drake University and Boston University PhD work. Mrs Perron is a graduate.
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Methodist minister Perron accepts Minnesota call
The Rev. Perron, educated at St. Olaf College in Northfield and ordained at Clinton Falls, has spent years as an air force chaplain and pastor in Pella and Lincoln. He served on American Baptist Convention boards and Sioux Falls College, and now accepts a Minnesota posting, underscoring his faith with Paul’s message that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation.
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