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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1957
Page
3
Lent marks a 40 day penitential period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday. It began in the fourth century and is observed by Roman Catholics and Eastern churches with fasting and acts of penance. Christians are urged to support their churches during this season.
The Boone Valley Band presented its second winter concert Friday evening March 15 in the high school auditorium. Director W Keith Haessler thanked the audience for braving poor weather. The program included On The Esplanade Ballet Parisien Alleluia Home Sweet Home The World Over Prelude and Fugue and Themes from the Nutcracker Suite plus several Karl King marches.
In language class students discussed print manuscript and cursive writing. Miss Midland demonstrated cursive alphabet. children now read cursive. Paula Oppedsh and Jimmy Ellinger read The Story Of Wheat and The Baker Makes Bread.
Sixth graders explore magnets and iron filings in a social studies unit. March decor features windy hills with lambs and chicks while students abandon gym for outdoor play as they discuss fractions and decimals. Cary Hease and Carol Ann Johnson excel in weekly spelling.
In language class, third grade students write news stories for a small school newspaper. They learn to carry numbers in arithmetic, create germ posters, weave in art, and study spelling with twenty nine students earning perfect marks last week.
March 25 one act plays. March 28 Vernon operetta. April 2 line and ensemble concert. April 6 Selu and ensemble contest with Graettinger. April 0 Lower grade operetta. April 23 Vernon building operetta.
Boone Valley students enter the American Legion Auxiliary poster contest running through March 31. Divided into three classes by grades four six, seven nine, and ten twelve, participants must include the Auxiliary name, a ten word slogan, and a Flandres Poppy image on a 14 by 20 inch poster with no US flag. Judging awards 25 points for appeal artistic ability and originality, 10 for neatness, plus 30 and 15 points for overall effort.
Fourth grade pupils experimented with waterpainting last Friday. They created pictures on the second sheet and will finish a Maine and Norway unit by comparing customs, work, climate, and a test. Nineteen students had perfect spelling papers last week.
Kindergarten notes two students out with chicken pox David Trask and Doug Bram. Beverly Cathcart also out due to a ton sileetuniy Vicki Bosch absent after a fall on ice. Vicki may return soon. Class enjoys colored dominoes viewmaster slides BAMBI Mickey Mouse Club figures and new songs This Old Man Blue Bird Bluebird. WE READ MORE PICTURES group names Day ditchs in the urn and Bluebirds in the afternoon WE FORE WE READ group names Tigers and Liote! work centers on deft tri and talking about people and items on their desktop phonetic skill progress.
Merrill Neremm, six foot blue eyed and brown haired, stars in a student profile. He attends physics, shop, government and English, enjoys shop class most and plays football basketball band glee club mixed chorus and baseball. He plans for April 28 and belongs to Lake Lutheran Church teaching Sunday School and Luther League.
High school students viewed a newsfilm on Monday March 18 covering topics from the President's inauguration Ike's Dust Bowl visit a California brush fire and other items. Top quiz scorers include Sharon Hansen John Gi ra Mckenna Patricia Johnson Don Kraft with numerous juniors and a freshman listed.
Eighth grade pupils study the U S Constitution Preamble and voting qualifications. Students submit papers like Alaska More Than A Snow. Civics and history lessons include how the United States became a world power.
A historic newspaper staff roster lists the editor in chief Sharon Hansen and associates including Linda Huntley and Arthur Heggen. Also named are reporters Shirley Aimosson Marvin Cameron Mary Ann Cole Judy Gillespie and many others.
The County Superintendent's Office provides private instruction and other services for students with disabilities, speech and hearing challenges, vision issues, and health needs. The program includes eye and dental screenings, health films, library access, and guidance on testing results and college prepara tion.
Mr McLaughlin from the Fort Dodwe employment office spoke to high school students on Wednesday March 12. He distributed job survey cards for students to provide information employers could use to place them in possible summer work.
The week menus show daily meals from Monday to Friday. Items include Meat Sandwiches and fruit on Monday, Orange Juice and scalloped potatoes on Tuesday, Barbecued pork on bread on Wednesday, Orange Juice and vegetable sticks on Thursday, and macaroni and cheese with peanut butter sandwiches on Friday.
Bob Justice of State University of Town presents a trampoline demonstration at Renwick gym on March 14. Walter Graybeal describes learnings and benefits including coordination balance and muscle tone as Bob, a junior in physical education and history minor, tours with ten sessions weekly.
Fifth graders studied Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee using their social studies book. They learned about the boll weevil impact on cotton crops and crop rotation. Health lessons covered voluntary and involuntary muscles. They work on proveins with fractions and adding subtracting mixed numbers.
First grade students performed a puppet show titled The Three Bears during the week of March 2. David Gimer and Marcia Anderson were among the performers. Miss Nefzgar visited the class on March 14.
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