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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1965
Page
4
A school pep rally boosted school spirit with a five hundred rapid chant. Earl Hor iman urged juniors to yell for the Spirit Jug while Wayne Mathes faced past conflicts with student teachers. Stories of mispronounced names and classroom jokes, including Mr Kirschman’s advertising lesson, filled the chatter with playful nostalgia.
The 1965 Pel la High Stage Band directed by Mr. Daryl Dober noecker started rehearsals Thursday at 7:30 AM. The ensemble expanded from 13 to 25 players with six trombones six trumpets seven saxophones. Trombone players include Snuttjer Whalley Vander Meulen Roush Vander Wall Sloan. Trumpets: Vander Linden Van Niewaal Patton Grandin Ruthven Gaass. Alto sax: Stewart Hedrick Hiemstra Heusinkveld. Tenor sax: Shetterly Roorda. Baritone sax: De Bruin. Bass: Van Hemert. String bass: De Bruin. Piano: Dahm. Drums: Vander Waal Emmert.
Dear Blabby offers practical tips from a student columnist. Concerned readers are urged to carry a first aid kit rather than a compact, with emphasis on safety and preparedness for accidents among underclassmen at PHS.
John Vruwink, a Cedar Grove Public High School and Central College alumnus with an MFA from Drake, joins Pella High as art teacher. He will teach three high school art classes and two Central College courses, after three years in Indianola Community Schools and three at Ellsworth Junior College. He calls Pella a pleasant place to work with cooperative faculty and students.
The article outlines librarian traits such as library interest, learning drive, good grades, and citizenship. It notes duties like keeping the library neat year round, dusting, and book arranging as new volumes arrive. It lists Pella High Library staff: seniors and juniors by name, with officers including president and secretary-treasurer.
The varsity cheerleaders bought new outfits worn for the first time on Friday, September 17, featuring green skirts with six pleats and matching green vests. White blouses with long sleeves are worn under the vests, which display white letters with a red tulip. sweaters with a wooden shoe background are ordered, and the junior varsity squad will receive the outfits previously worn by the varsity group.
During the summer custodians worked hard in the building. They scrubbed and polished all floors walls and posts. A water line was installed from the building to the practice field to simplify watering.
Rehearsals have begun for the junior class production The Glass Menagerie to be staged at the high school. Cast includes Joyce McReynolds as Amanda Wingfield, Leura Butler and Alvin Van Zante in supporting roles, with Wayne Frank as Tom and Jim OConnor played by Alvin Van Zante. The Tennessee Williams drama centers on a fading Southern mother supporting her two children.
Seniors respond with short views. Donna V D cites Everything. Darrel G says nothing yet. Greg V V calls it glorified. Lois V V notes last year of school. Jane H looks to college. Susie K plans to graduate soon. Doug V G and Ron B add freedom from brownie points with teachers.
The Pella High band plans a halftime show titled Popular Trends in Music for the October first home game. Selections span folk to jazz including Michael Row Your Boat Ashore and Moon River. Mystery guests will perform their own music, with names revealed at Friday night’s game.
Students took hearing screenings on Thursday September 9 in the music room at Pella High School.
Though the joints were not Concey lsu, Wacy provided vital information on the hear ing of the students. All fresh men were tested, and a por tion of the other students re tested. Teachers are given a list of students with slight hearing difficulties, so they may seat them in the front of the class rooms. The tests 'are 'valuable to the teachers as well as to the students.
After a lively pep assembly the Junior Class won the spirit jug. Earl Horman accepted the jug for the Junior Class and gave a short pep talk. The tradition began about ten years ago with the class of 1956, Sandy Sels and Kathy Redeker creating the original jug.
Sumner Mapes, the new vocal music teacher at Pella High, is also a professional beef cattle fitter. He began in 1958 by buying purebred Angus cattle and used fitting as cattle show advertising, tracing back to a 4-H project in Earlham, Iowa.
Article details Mr Mapes overseeing cattle at Bannockburn farm in Earlham with twenty cows. Prep includes clipping, hair updos, washing, drying, hair products, beer for shape, toe nails painted, hair trimmed, and final wash after the show. Includes unrelated school notes from Pella Chronicle.
Dario Donolo explains to Pel ladium staff the eight main differences between Argentine schools and Cordoba’s school. He contrasts curriculum, classroom methods, student life, teacher roles, and school structure to highlight cultural contrasts.
The South Central District of the Iowa Department of Classroom Teachers will hold a district conference in Knoxville on Saturday Oct. 2 at North Elementary School. Open to educators in a 13-county area. Agenda includes registration coffee Judge Edward Towers Centennial delivery etc.
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