PHS Homecoming Queen Coronation And Skit Night
Pella High School hosts Homecoming events with a Queen coronation from five seniors and a skit night. Ten girls will be escorted to the stage, with awards of 15, 10, and 5 dollars for top skits, judged on originality and performance. Proceeds benefit the Pep Club funding.
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Royal Court
Pella
Everett G. Ward
M.C
Edward Adams
Maurice Birdsall
William H. Thompson
Ray de Haan
F.H.A
F.F.A
Pep Club
Football Crowd To See Halftime Presentation Of Queen And Court
The Pella High homecoming halftime show features the queen and court with the marching band performing the Peter Gunn Theme and Maneuver drill by the Turpenettes to Pass Me By. Marian Harbaugh directs the Turpenettes while Darrel Dobernecker leads the band.
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Darrel Dobernecker
Peter Gunn
Lowr
Turpenettes
Marian Harbaugh
Herb Alpert
Pella High
Mr. C. Sumner Hopes
Miss Pella High
Pella High Band Attends Drake Band Days
Seventy two members of the Pella High Band traveled to Drake University in Des Moines on Saturday for Drake Band Days. They joined about three thousand students in marching in two marches and performed their average school song across the field.
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Pella High
Drake Universty
Des Moines
Drake
Pep Club Breaks Pella High Taboo
A total of 56 students, 8 boys, have joined the P.H.S. Pep Club, marking the first year the organization admits the opposite sex. It formed homecoming committees and dress and attendance rules. Offiers include Adienne Burney president, Denis De Penning vice president, Charles Farrer secretary treasurer, Andrea Ver Meer student council rep.
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P.H.S
Pella High
Adienne Burney
Denis de Penning
Charles Farrer
Andrea Ver Meer
Student Teachers Invade Pella High
Eleven seniors from Central College participate in a teaching program at Pella High School. They observe classes now and will later take turns teaching, with Leia Adams Barbara Drezgal Nancy Roudenbush Lynne Slate James Stone Marjorie TeSelle John Tooke James Van Zetten Linda Waterman Jack Wiersma and Robert Zylstra among the group.
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PHS
Central College
Leia Adams
Barbara Drezgal
Nancy Roudenbush
Lynne Slate
James Stone
Marjorie TeSelle
John Tooke
James van Zetten
Linda Waterman
Jack Wiersma
Robert Zylstra
Baseball Team Adds To Plaque
Pella High adds a new small plate to its trophy case for sectional baseball, earned as the team secured the conference title while posting an 11 win 12 loss record. They defeated Monroe Pleasantville Knoxville and Albia to capture the prize, part of eight sectional wins in fifteen years.
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Pella
Monroe
Pleasantville
Knoxville
Albia
Pella High School journal ramble about classroom antics
A lively Pelladium style record notes PHS journalism class visits, safe burglary rumor, Glenda De Heus found in the office, and quirky student anecdotes. It mentions coach Ellwell, Judy Wierenga, Troll dolls, miniskirt chatter, and Sophomore English play seating by Larry De Bruin and Bruce De Penning.
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PHS
Pelladium
Stu Ver Meer
Pella Chronicle
Glenda
Glenda de Heus
Te Phs
Bryce Crawford
Twyla van Haaften
Twyla
Ellwell
Chargers
Judy Wierenga
Judy
Elwell
Richard Criss
Vince Klein
Steve Vander Waal
Pella
Rich Vander Leest
Larry de Bruin
Bruce de Penning
Pella honors 1959 win and lists 1960 letter winners
The last time Pella won the honor was in 1959. This year's letter winners were as follows: seniors Jack Duffus, Roger Hoekstra, Carl Van Dusseldorp, K. C. Val ster, juniors Robi Van Dyke, Tom Van Sittert, and Kent Van Vark, and sophomore Kevin Klein, Stu Ver Meer.
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Pella
Jack Duffus
Roger Hoekstra
Carl van Dusseldorp
K. C. Valster
Robi van Dyke
Tom van Sittert
Kent van Vark
Kevin Klein
Stu Ver Meer
Burglars Crack Safe at Pella High School
Burglars struck Pella High School late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money. The safe was damaged with the door off its hinges and insulation pieces scattered as officers gathered fingerprints. State agents local police county sheriff and highway patrolmen searched for clues while students watched and speculated.
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Pella High School
PE Staff Adds To Its Ranks
A weekend field hockey player and bicycling enthusiast is the new girls physical education teacher at PHS. Miss Marian Harbaugh from Muscatine Iowa graduated from State College of Iowa last year and this is her first year of teaching. Her hobbies include oil painting singing and horseback riding. She will sponsor Turpentes Girl's Recreation Association Pep Club and cheerleaders.
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PHS
Marian Harbaugh
Muscatine
Iowa
State College of Iowa
Turpenettes
Girl's Recreation Association
Hearing Tests Collected at PHS for Freshmen
Marion county brings equipment and an operator to Pella High School to administer quick hearing tests to freshmen. Students are pulled from first and second periods, each test taking one to two minutes. All freshmen must participate, with some upperclassmen required if prior hearing difficulties are noted.
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Marion County
Pella
French Club Fun Fest Entices Guests With Odd Theme
French Club hosted a provocative Fun Fest titled Le Tour de Fances avec le cercle Francais last Tuesday for prospective members. The event opened with a suicide leap from a prop Eiffel Tower, a barefoot grape walk, and a beheading reenactment followed by walking over ashes, concluding with a grape punch and cheese cubes before a brief business meeting.
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Cercle Francais
Eiffel Tower
Jean of Arc
Lunch menus for Pellaw Chronicle week of October 10
School meals list each weekday from Monday to Friday with items such as chili and crackers, corn bread, carrots, apricots, milk, hamburgers, parsleyed potatoes, buttered beans, cherry cobbler, hamburger gravy, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, baked apple, frosted brownie, pizza, buttered corn, fruit cup, schoolmade cookie or bar, and notes parent teacher conferences on Friday.
Commercial Club at Pella High Seeks New Members
Commercial Club at Pella High School gathers typing I and II girls under Miss Lois Saylor to earn membership through a fifty word typing pin, shorthand dictation, or shorthand theory certificates. Four meetings yearly include a November dinner for a Glenwood State School box and an April mothers’ entertainment. Officers are Doretha Blaw president, Gloria Roorda VP, Helen De Koning secretary, Janice Steenhoek treasurer, Marilyn Van Englehoven student council rep. sponsor is Miss Saylor.
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Pella High School
Lois Saylor
Glenwood State School
Commercial Club
Doretha Blaw
Gloria Roorda
Helen de Koning
Janice Steenhoek
Marilyn van Englehoven
Miss Saylor
Journalism Class Visits Chronicle at Pella office
PHS journalism class toured the Pella Chronicle on a Wednesday visit. Publisher Marion De Zwarte and news editor Jim Hueser greeted the group as they toured the newsroom. Advertising manager Merle Pratt explained ads as the lifeblood of a paper, then students viewed Jinotype machines, page form filling, press threading, and an old printing press to compare old and new methods.
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PHS
Pella Chronicle
Marion de Zwarte
Jim Hueser
Guide
Merle Pratt
Pep bus planned for fresh sophomore football trips
PHS fans push for pep bus to away Freshman Sophomore games. JV cheerleaders and supporters urged transport. Principal Mr Wilkins will sell tickets and, if sales meet a threshold, arrange a bus for the trip.
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PHS
Jean Wilkins
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