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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1950
Page
9
Students recount Pella High's 1960 Homecoming with bonfire on October 12, queen Roberta Zeigler crowned, parade and colorful floats, and a 10 0 football win. Faculty and student organizers receive praise for a successful celebration.
Monday morning devotions on October 9 led by Mr. Wilkins centered on an article from Readers Digest titled A Workable Cue to Happiness and Personality. He argued happiness and personality grow with training and that remembering birthdays and anniversaries enhances personality, noting happier people typically have more friends.
The newspaper credits its editorial team and correspondents including Norma Bricker Pat Rietveld Logan Van Sitt tert Marilyn De Cook Patricia Van Engelhoven Richard An son Dolores Van Waardhuizen Mary Alice Buwalda Jo Ann Schagen Joyce Leu Don Van Hemer Gwen Vanden Berg Dorothy Vos Sara Van Maaren Shirley Rook Delores Zwank Joanne Ter Louw Sidney De Haan Phyllis Vande Haar Mary Ann Sels Joe Brummel Shirley Leydens Corinne Vera Ploeg Doris Dockendorff Nancy Groendyke Anna Mae Hagen.
Junior class play Seventeenth Summer guests enjoy a lively chili supper with mischief. Roland Eunema suffers a spicy prank as chili powder floods him, requiring a fire extinguisher. Dishes end with a nearly spotless kitchen and a wet towel spread over garbage for comic effect.
Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month the Pelladium staff brings dinner to school and holds a noon meeting. At the October 10 gathering Marilyn De Cook and Delores Van Waardhuizen performed a skit written by Patricia Van Englehoven about news stories.
The Pep Club decorated classrooms for Homecoming with green and white mottos. Each room featured a punny line aimed at Chariton, such as Beat English and Mercury slipping through lines in Science, plus a few playful digs across departments. Rah! Rah! Rah!
A devotional session ends with a prayer as participants reflect on happiness and the idea that joy cannot be shared fully without some personal spillover. The quoted line about happiness as a perfume frames the closing sentiment of the period.
The editorial blames carelessness for missing items as students hurry between classes. It urges lockers be kept clean and organized, with only needed items stored, to improve appearance and prevent losses. Cooperation from all students is urged to maintain neat lockers.
A list recalls past PILS homecoming queens including 1944 Lila Van Vliet 1945 Ruth Vogelaar 1946 Ada Dingeman 1947 Marcie Valster 1948 Beulah De Heer 1949 Marlene Sels and 1960 Roberta Zeigler. highlights qualities valued for a queen.
October 11 saw a Remington Rand Typewriter film It Must Be Somewhere teaching filing methods and long term storage with photographic filing and various current practice examples. The page also notes classroom humor prizes and student achievements including prizes at a Central Park drawing and wedding gifts for Nancy Kuiper suggesting a school community scene.
Kenneth A Wheeler hosts an entertaining educational program about radio and television careers. The event invites high school and junior high students to attend a talent review and see how a show is put on the air with telecast details in the hall on Monday October 23.
Pfc. Herbert Rumbaugh writes that at 4911th Air Police Squadron he studies part time and finished an automotive engines course. He is taking economics and earned two certificates from the American school. He expects a transfer soon and notes Korea has improved but chances to go are slim. He hopes to graduate next summer and roots for Pella High football.
The Pella Public School teachers held a chili supper and social evening on October 11 at Dockendorff's yard near the fireplace. Mrs Sommers, Mrs Dockendorff, Mrs Terlouw, and Mrs Zeigler organized the event with cards and a social hour. The gathering included most teachers and Webster School’s new principal, Mr Robinson.
On October 3 Freshman general science classes led by Mr Wilkins and student teacher Mr Earl Hiet brink visited the Peila Pumping Station known as Howell Station. Mr Schreiner explained station operations and city water system facts. Bus transport aided the trip with Heinie as chauffeur. Some boys, including Wild Bill DeHaan, navigated the tour with mixed ease amid many girls.
Students in a biology class, fatigued by heat, were urged by Mr Greendyke to study outdoors. Each pupil would collect twenty five leaf types from the neighborhood, label and measure them. The class then spent the afternoon comparing notes with those who stayed inside. They had also previously dissected carrots and examined moss brought in by students.
A collage of classroom vignettes follows with misread announcements and jokes. Students such as Corinne Helen Ver Ploeg and Corinne Ver Ploeg are mentioned amid garbled dialogue about names and English tests. The piece blends playful commentary with quotes about Macbeth and photography of the ocean floor.
A brown haired brown eyed sophomore girl from a farm eight miles north of town is seen daily traveling to school and back by pickup. She often visits a restaurant for chocolate jerseys, enjoys bookkeeping and blue is her favorite color. She plays trombone, roots for Pella at basketball games, and this profile refers to Sara Mac Van Maaren as the previous entry.
Pesacess) We alia Wy are MUSIC. This Saturday, October 21, Pel la High will send a few represent atives from the high school band to vie for a position in the All State Band. Each one of these people will compete against 26 to 66 other musicians in his class. Out of that number only three or four will be chosen to play in this selected hand of about 36 pieces. The contest is to be at Ames. Practices and the concert will take place during our Thanksgiving va cation. This is the same time that the State Chorus performs at the KANT Theater. We hope that a mass number of the chorus and hand will again be presented at that time as in former years, Greta Palmquest, cornet, Mary lice Buwalda and Roberta Zieg ler, clarinets, Wilma Keuning, xophone, and Peggy Kuyper, French horn are our candidates.
Four Stampton businessmen are back home after a Canada trip. Heavy storms isolated them on a lake island for two days before they could cross back to their camp.
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