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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1975
Page
5
Fine Arts Awards Night will be held Tuesday May 27 at 7 30 p m in the school cafeteria. The program recognizes accomplishments in vocal instrumental speech drama and publications fields. Arion awards honor outstanding seniors in vocal and instrumental areas with music and speech contest prizes also presented. Robert Wegter will be guest speaker.
The Girls Letter Club held its first annual dinner on Tuesday. Girls who played basketball tennis track and golf and their parents attended a potluck meal hosted by Letter Club members. Coaches presented letters numerals and awards after the meal. Senior team members spoke about participation and season highlights.
Class of 1975 members share summer work plans and 1975 76 goals. Rita Fuller may study medical assisting. Linda Goemaat to marry in July and work next year. Gordon Graber aims to work sleep eat and seek pre architecture training at Central College.
June Van Zante, PHS junior, works as a nurse's aide at Tower Park Nursing home in Oskaloosa. She trained at Pella Community hospital and plans to study in Des Moines. She baths and feeds patients, records temperatures, and works 7 am to 3 pm on weekends and holidays. She plans summer work at Area 11 College in Ankeny and continued studies at Lutheran hospital nurses school.
Seniors prepare for graduation as their blue robes and white caps with blue tassels arrive for pickup in the school office. The chorus plans to sing The Corner of the Sky and He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother during the ceremony.
Bergen Skaland, an AFS student from Norway, reflects on a memorable year in Pella highlighted by Homecoming and Junior-Senior prom. He enjoyed AFL weekends in Osceola and Des Moines, joined French Club and Thespians, acted in Family Portrait and Paint Your Wagon, and will miss Pella's school spirit upon his June departure.
Ten PHS students placed as they won the South Central Conference mathematics contest for the fifth consecutive year with a composite score of 112.5 Albia was second and Clarke third. PHS medalists include Goemaat, Van Maanen, Meyer, Van de Kamp, Ver Meer, Bosch, White, Thomas, De Penning, and Vande Voort. A travelling trophy goes to Pella High for all five years.
The piece notes two drafts for youths. one beverage draft, the other military registration. It explains a shift from registering within 30 days of eighteenth birthday to a single annual registration date during the year a man turns 18. John White, PHS counselor, has been registering youths and sees potential move to volunteer army ending registration.
Fourteen students were initiated into Thespians Troupe 123 on Monday of last week. Officers for 1975 76 were elected: Lee Vande Voort president, Craig Timmer vice president and Student Council, Peg Wesselink secretary treasurer.
Mr Norris Hale history and government teacher acts as deputy voter registrar signing up students who are eighteen or nearly eighteen. He previously registered all eligible voters before last fall elections and now registers seniors who reached voting age, sending registrations to the proper office for official voter cards.
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