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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1937
Page
3
School news notes St Paul and Bowen share the basketball season championship while heavy weights place last and the girls volleyball team finishes third. The fourth quarter is underway as students push to earn credits for promotion.
Bowen School notes show second grade finishing a Holland Frieze for the west wall, with Mabel Markley skipping rope and Lillian Cook reading fourteen library books this year. Room and club activities include rope jumping, basketball, new lockers, sugar beet unit aids, and an operetta by the Bowen Girls Club on April 1.
First and second graders show excitement for the spring play while Anita Court joins the first grade new to the neighborhood and makes friends. Third and fourth graders scored ninety or more on a fifty word spelling test drawn from the first twenty review lessons.
Second graders Jill Hoffman and classmates share a visit to Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Fourth graders list perfect spelling papers by named pupils. Fifth graders report John Scalione recovering from appendectomy and Lorraine Kaiser transferring to Berger in Dalton. Arbor Day program planned April 16 in Washington auditorium with songs, poems, and a play. Sixth and seventh grades note writing class excuse and prizes for PTA attendance. Leonard Diehl earns prize and Katharine Bradley returns after illness.
Local news notes the Riverdale Fire Department spring dance set for Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Riverdale Beer Garden with Anvil Street address. Also reported are residents returning from hospital after surgeries, a funeral in Hammond for John Bush, and various church and club activities in Riverdale and Dalton.
Grade by grade notes from Ruth McGowan’s return to first grade and perfect attendance in last month. Third grade highlights include top spelling scores, Edward Albrecht selling eleven circus tickets for a prize. Arbor Day plans emerge with eighth grade program and Tarmonica Band candy sale thanks.
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