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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1946
Page
7
The council debated the present system of activity tickets among issues at hand. Mortimer Goodwin urged high schoolers to buy at least one of 2400 tulip bulbs to help fund them. Melvin Hagen proposed noon movies during winter. A committee discussed high school visitation and petty theft. the meeting adjourned for lack of time.
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Leland Van Ke argues Pella crowd apathy cost the football program and school spirit. He notes slim attendances, financial losses, and opponents drawing as many fans as locals. He urges a strong basketball turnout to back the team and restore support.
Mabel Snedaker of the State University of Iowa spoke to about thirty student teachers after school, urging enjoy ment of literature and sharing methods to teach poetry. She emphasized books and poems as influences on honor and lifelong delight, noting that enjoyment in class predicts later appreciation. The session began with a film on penmanship.
Plans are underway for a meeting of the Band Parents Musical club to be held Monday at 0 p m with an annual meeting and officer election for the coming year. Demonstrations on instruments and talks on loss, importance, and need in the band will be presented by four members. All parents with children in the band or considering joining are urged to attend. Remember Monday December 7:30 p m.
The Junior Class audience named Dave Prins outstanding male actor for Take It Easy with Thelma Grandin and Donna Schakel drawing top female votes. Ray De Jong Bonnie Van Oostrum and Leland Vance among others received praise for strong comic and supporting roles in the well attended production.
The South Central conference gathered at Des Moines during the State Education Association meeting. Pella belongs to this athletic conference and a track meet is planned for Indignola on May 3. Marion County teachers met in Knoxville on November 18 with delegates to discuss standards and legislation.
The library adds six new titles including four non fiction works. Skyblazer by Howard M Bur follows a daring experimental pilot who takes risks. Mr Wilmer by Robert Lawson features a shy clerk who claims to read horses minds. Sixteen by Bethy Cavanna centers on a 14 year old girl living with her father near Philadelphia. The Scrapp tten by Leland Silliman tells of a boy who plans to run away from Camp Blazing Rock but stays and learns a life lesson. The American Story by Ruth Ward and Hamm W Garris and Health and Fitness by Florence Meredith are the two non fiction selections.
Mr Whalley lists Pep Band roles including clarinets Phyllis Van IHemert Marjorie Van Zee Ruth De Jong Elizabeth Kempkes Bonnie Tho maxsen Jatilyn Ver Ploeg cornets Dean Sadler Stanley Boertje Lloyd Vander Streek french horn Bob Evers baritone Harold Van Maanen sax alto Beverlee Nihart Norma Van Dyke baritone Marvin Vanden Berg bass horn Gene Van Zee drums Beverly Thomsen Harry Weyers Herbert Rumbaugh
Fragmented OCR from a school page shows a list of names and a distressed note about boys attempting kissing, with a violent threat. The sequence includes dates Nov 10 to Nov 12 and a claim of saving over a thousand lives, indicating fear and alleged coercion in a school setting.
The Commercial Club of Pella high school begins its campaign for new members. Eligible students must be enrolled in a commercial course and have won an award such as typing or a certificate. Betty Vander Beek is eligible to join. The club met once, with plans for speaker events and social gatherings including a Christmas party and spring wiener roast. A trip to Des Moines to visit business colleges is hoped.
A Thanksgiving themed assembly last Thursday featured the Girls Glee Club performing several holiday pieces. Betty Van Henkelem rendered two numbers The First Primrose by Edvard Grieg and The Dance Sons, a Czechoslovakian folk song arranged by Frank La Forge Ray Den Adel a talented freshman performed two piano solos The Carat! Moon by Miles and The Russian Dance by Engleman. The program mostly consisted of Thanksgiving numbers.
Visitors' Day at the high school on Tuesday November 12 drew many parents though it was not a total success. A miscommunication left some thinking the event was in the evening and the plan was revised. Next year the visitation may be moved to the evening.
A fragmentary reminiscence piece recalling a South visit with colorful attire and people like Marvin Tysseling Donna Sehakel Elaine Van der Ploeg. The speaker notes astonishment at fashion, manners, and accents observed in a historical class setting.
The Pella basketball squad drills hard for the season opener against Montezuma. Coach quips about snow shoes as Bud Lautenbach jokes about his feet while players drill zone defense fast breaks and rebounds. A bus is planned for trips and tryouts for a ping pong team are announced with Mr Andrew handling gear. Don Van Wyk is named as a forward with a humorous disposition.
A colloquial narrator jokes about the word mandate while laughing at a classroom moment. The speaker expresses fatigue and mentions keyboard fatigue as well as a favorable view of an adopted state course of study with maps and vocabulary suited to grades.
An item notes Miss Grace Keene could not present Monday due to a car breakdown near Tama while returning from Cedar Rapids and later hoped to attend Monday November 26 in Newton. Tulip planting occupied the day with 2400 bulbs by three buildings and Webster’s Mr Kel planted over a thousand along Broadway and Main Street. The November 11 school board meeting lacked a quorum and was rescheduled after last Thursday’s plaq ue. Intermediate teachers welcome a new geography textbook long in consideration but delayed by war.
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