Editorial on the school bill in Des Moines
Linda Kuntley argues the Senate bill to require four semesters each of mathematics and science, four of English, two of foreign languages and two of European or ancient history may push students to drop out. She notes public officials oppose it, while some professors support stronger standards, and the bill stalls with no action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda Kuntley
Des Moines Register
Senate
Iowa
Register
Lews
Harold L. Clapp
Grinnell
Iowa Association of Secondary School Principals
Iowa Senate
Uates
High Schouls
Harold Trask in hospital for observation fifth grade chronicle
Harold Trask entered the hospital Monday for observation. His class hopes for a quick return. The class now has 29 students with 17 girls and 12 boys. Ruth Larson summarizes lessons on the South Central States noting lowlands dominance, Gulf rainfall, cotton history and crop rotation, Carver’s peanut uses, and Tennessee manufacturing centers including Nashville Knoxville and Chattanooga with Oak Ridge cited as energy history.
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Harold Trask
Sandra Thompson
South Central States
Ruth Larson
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Gulf
George Washington Carver
Nashville
Knoxville
Chatanooga
Tennessee
Oak Ridge
Aterie Energy Plant
Calendar and Third Grade Switzerland Study Items
Calendar entries list events in April including lower grade operetta county council Hunboldt operetta at Vernon senior class play and spring concert by Bobcats Third Grade notes Switzerland study with Michael Engstrom birthday celebration and a return of Judge Dennis Hefty after measles absence. Children viewed the film Children of Switzerland and prepared reports on it.
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Bobcats
Switzerland
Michael Engstrom
Dennis Hefty Iz
Fourth Grade Learning About Cotton
A fourth grade class studied cotton with a filmstrip for social studies and answered questions on India and North Carolina at the unit’s start and end. Twenty five students wrote perfect work last week while Pepper’s class watched two pioneer reading films, Singing Wheels Part 1 and 1 PD Open.
Physics Class Tours Corn Belt Plant at Humboldt
A Humboldt field trip featured a physics class touring the Corn Belt Power Plant valued at 17 million dollars. The tour covered the plant’s 200 tons of coal per day, its three fur naces using stoker coal and one using pulverized coal, water screening to remove impurities, and a visit to the dispatching office.
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Corn Belt
Humboldt
Sophomore Act Presents Three One-Act Plays in Boone Valley
Three sophomore one act plays were shown to 260 audience members March 25 in the Boone Valley auditorium. The program included The Great Joanne One Happy Family and The Great Smokies. A fourth piece French Toast was postponed to an April 3 assembly. Directed by Dean Jamies.
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Boone Valley Auditorium
Joanne
Smokies
Dean Jamies
First Grade Out With Chicken Pox Absences Rise
Four first graders David Gimner Dennis Amerson Pat ty Matteson and Mike Hooton have been out with chicken pox. Mary Stevenson has returned from quinsy. Sharon Erdman turns seven on April 6. In music, first graders learned The Little Hunter and The Huntsman songs. They drew Number 9 The Fire Engine and planted seeds in egg shells, each child with their own plant.
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David Gimner
Dennis Amerson
Patty Matteson
Mike Hooton
Mary Stevenon
Quinsy
Sharon Erdman
Huntsman
Peter Pan Visits The Kindergarten Room and Drawings
The kindergarten class discussed circus animals from Boz at the Circus and drew animals while decorating a bulletin board titled Peter Plan Wel comes You To Never Land. Key characters drawn were Wendy Tinker Bell Captain Hook and Peter Pan. Absentees ill with chickenpox flu and cards. Visitors included Mrs John Bosch Mrs Hernan Bleich Jr and Mrs Virgil Tate. The class read humorous stories and worked on verbs and pronouns using and are while practicing phonetic skills and visual discrimination.
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Boz
Peter Pan
Peter Plan
Never Land
Wendy
Tinker Bell
Captain Hook
Jer Erdman
Sandy Arne
Jimmy Lerdal
Kinergarten
John Bosch
Hernan Bleich Jr
Virgil Tate
Chasiti
Sally
Senior Kenny Pedersen Leads Week in Spotlight
Senior Kenny Pedersen known as Pete stands six feet tall and 154 pounds. Born January 31, 1929, to Mr and Mrs Viggo Pedersen, he enjoys physics typing shop government and plans to join a construction gang after graduation. He took his favorite girl Karen to the movie Friendly Persuasion and praised it, naming Dorothy McGuire and Gary Cooper as good. Pete dislikes school work and loves chicken dinners, with no pet peeves.
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Kenny Pedersen
Pete
Viggo Pedersen
Karen
Dorothy McGuire
Gary Cooper
Second Grade Class Watches Hyacinth Bloom
A cheerful school note describes Miriam Neilson bringing a hyacinth plant and Dianne Vanner supplying blossoms and one dollar in wheat to the classroom. Students Alan Johnson Pam Peterson Vicki Garman Jinenny Evimyer return after measles March 23 24. Stevie Lane brings cupcakes Raves Bottin and Carlotta DeLane candy. The class writes a story Turtinquake and studies bread making in social studies.
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Miriam Neilson
Dianne Vanner
Alan Johnson
Pam Peterson
Vicki Garman
Jineny Evimyer
Stevie Lane
Bottin
Carlotta DeLane
Junior High Dental Record Boosted To 61 Per Cent
Judy Heepen boosted seventh graders’ dental record to sixty one percent as students study health class. The report touches on reading, arithmetic, verbs, and government topics across eighth grade English, with emphasis on safe highway practices and daily routines.
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Judy Heepen
Menu For The Week Of April 8 Through 12
The week’s meals list Monday to Friday with daily options including spaghetti and pea salad on Monday, tamatu juice and hot meat sandwiches on Tuesday, orange juice and lima beans with ham on Wednesday, creamed chicken and mashed potatoes on Thursday, and salmon loaf with creamed peas on Friday. The menu mentions side dishes and desserts such as rice Krispy cookies, fruit salad, celery sticks, fruit sauce, and chocolate cake.
Chips Of Chatter at School Mixes Music and Play
In a lively school scene, a flute quartet practices in the hall while other groups prepare for a play. Students joke about driving like baseball, awaiting the fifth six weeks and a budding performance. Life is framed as a taxi meter always running.
Sixth Grade Students Entertain Visitor at School
Mrs Lewis Johnson visited the sixth grade on Tuesday morning to observe arithmetic, social studies, science and related activities. Students made Peppy posters, studied heat and water, and conducted seed experiments. In social studies they compared Russia with the United States and Britain using encyclopedia references.
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Lewis Johnson
Lews
Russa
United States
Russia
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George W Weber
Hospital For Observation
County Council
Hunboldt
Vernon
Kenny
Carpente
Kenneth Friday
Judy Gillespie
Marilyn Lerdal
Janet Martin
Douglas Roseberry
Jeannespe
Ronald Hetty
Judy Henriksen
Charlene Hooker
James McGowan
Elaine Smith
Virginia Wig
Mary Gilligan, Richard Gimner
David Biesemeyer
Robert Cameron
John Guy
David Rasmigssen
Roger _diemens
Ats
Eniors
Bobeuts
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