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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1948
Page
7
The school installs a ten by fourteen foot beaded movie screen hung from a stage drop enabling full theater size film viewing from balcony seats. The article also notes student activities, new officers for the Boys Glee Club, visitors, and ongoing school programs and staff activities.
Lincoln log reports a lively kindergarten to sixth grade week with finger painting, Mother Goose recitations, outdoor physical training, and new classroom renovations. Students added to the class, shared Indian themed items, planted an eggshell garden, and prepared a winter banquet, while teachers and hospitalizations are noted amid science, reading, and arithmetic work.
The article lists student officers elected by homerooms under several teachers. Dick Ver Ploeg heads the seniors as president with Louise Rysdam as VP and Marilyn Panis as secretary-treasurer. Juniors split into two groups with Ronnie Van Zemeren and Tomi Tkuta leading as presidents in their respective homerooms, plus a slate of VP and treasurer choices. Sophomores under three advisors name Wendel Veo Ploeg as president, Joe Brummel as treasurer, and Patty Rysdam as secretary-treasurer, while Mr Stewart’s group lists Harold Leydens as president and Jerry De Prenjer as co-president with Patty Rysdam again as secretary-treasurer. Freshmen groups, girls under Miss Nieburg and boys under Mr Ruthven, name Edwarda Grandin as president, Mary Van Vliet as VP, Elsie Van Wyk as secretary, and Wayne Van Gorp as president with Donald Blom and Virgel Dykstra as VP and secretary-treasurer respectively.
Five girls ran secret ballots in front of the student body to select cheerleaders. Sela Hoot and Ronnie Thomason were chosen to lead yells while Mary Ann Toll and Ardith Van Mouwelinse kept posts due to the constitution. The group looks forward to a great season and urges support from all students.
A junior class production titled Home Sweet Homicide, adapted from Craig Rice by Ann Reynolds, will be staged November 12. The cast includes fifteen, spanning ages from eight to a mysterious non existent figure, with football players in green sweaters. The script features sewing mishaps, a quirky apron, upside down cake mishaps, and lively backstage antics as students craft costumes and props.
Committees chosen for Pep Club events finance Ardith Van Houweling floats Norma Ver Dught queen Ione Sels parade Nola Boot decorating Nancy Van Maanen. Organizers urge students to make the Homecoming celebration the best ever.
The piece riffs on the newspaper battle between printing jokes and serious content. It satirizes editors who fear printing contributions or clipping material, debating truth about originality and the pressures of publishing.
Miss Tysseling has selected Mixed Chorus members from the music department. Singers include Patty Rysdam and Lorraine De Haan in altos and Arvin De Cook in tenors. First rehearsal was Friday October 1 with Leo Sels as president and Bonnie Vande Voort as secretary.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars post offers Friday night dances at VEW hall for Pella High students with chaperones and courtesy cards. The initiative aims to provide winter recreation after games, with the club functioning as a meeting place after football and basketball events.
Students read books and compile posters listing titles. Posters in health class show food elements. Geography unit covers The British Isles. Library table holds pamphlets on Hebrew possessions and reading is enjoyed. Spelling improved with several perfect weeks. Autumn poems read and oak leaves mounted. A two person committee keeps current events posted on the bulletin board.
Hearing rowdy sounds and smelling burnt pumpkin pie the visitors encounter a chaotic Homemaking room filled with hogs, sewage, and people cooking as the scene unfolds in a rambling, imaginative narrative from the old PAL era.
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