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Riverdale Pointer

Location

Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Nov 19, 1937

Page

4

First Grade Class News And Thanksgiving Plans

Rita Stanczik joins first grade from Gomphers school as Billy and Herman Lundgreen move to TRoseland. Room two welcomes Dorothy Lucht back. Minette Nelson brings fall asters. Third and fourth grades prep Indian attire for a Thanksgiving play and aviation scrapbooks. The Ghosts and Bats parties, football and soccer ties, and a Thanksgiving program on November 24 are announced. The Lincoln Leader issue highlights room activities, maps, literature, and parent visits. The kindergarten enjoys a new gym set.

Rita Stanczik Gomphers School Billy Herman Lundgreen Troseland Room Two Dorothy Lucht Minette Nelson Minette Nelson Room Three Babe Gills Club Howard Golding Lillian Jay Room Four Wallace Tourtellotte Lora Byers Doreen Moll Berger Lincoln Leader England South America Greenland Miss Proper Show

Thanksgiving Sermon Echoes Through Time

The piece reflects on how old time ministers used Thanksgiving sermons to critique society and call for national righteousness. It contrasts past moral concerns with modern crime and dishonesty and urges generous deeds over words, noting America’s growth and blessings alongside new evils.

Hiiness America

Spread of Fascism and Democratic Resilience

A columnist assesses fascism's global spread, noting Brazil's constitutional shift toward presidential power. It contrasts fascist claim of efficiency with democratic vitality in the United States and other nations, urging citizen education and proactive governance to avoid debt and war.

Brazil Italy Germany Japan Spain South Central America Russia United States Canada England British Empire European

Thanksgiving themed activities fill St Paul primary classes

In St Paul primary rooms the Thanksgiving story inspires art and reading tasks. Second graders dramatize and express themselves while grades three to six study topics from US industrial rise to migration and Iceland. Safety pledges and traffic lessons accompany a PTA safety event and ticket sales for upcoming basketball and volleyball games. December 2 opens with a home game against Washington school.

United States New World Resong School of the Air Iceland Ben Mayor Kelly Washington School

Lincoln School Sevenths To Stage Thanksgiving Assembly

Lincoln School seventh grade plans a Thanksgiving program on Wednesday at 3 PM in the auditorium featuring two plays Red Shoes at Plymouth and The Night Before Thanksgiving. Eighth graders work on charity hospital scrapbook projects and a Kansas sister school correspondence with Thirty Kickapoo Indians. They also visited Dalton Bank with Mr Staat explaining banking procedures to clarify arithmetic studies.

Lincoln School Plymouth Kansas Dalton Bank Staat

Peace in a Poster Across Stone Ages

Students create a history poster featuring scenes from the New Stone Age and Old Stone Age. The display includes animals, tools, and people to illustrate early human life and progress.

Franklin School Prepares Students for Thanksgiving Projects

Grade eight studies Dank Uiscount in arithmetic and begins transportation and communication history unit. Grade seven geography panels spark lively discussions. Kindergarten and younger grades decorate for Thanksgiving with turkeys and pictures. Grade five reports perfect attendance while a Grade eight farm project features a windmill, house, pump, silo and other structures. Franklin in good form, set for first game with Bowen.

Mary Williams Albany New York Franklin Bowen Billy Menzelaar

Washington School Notes Show Student Activities

Fifth graders earned one dollar for PTA attendance and plan to subscribe to a child’s magazine with it. Fourth graders make Thanksgiving pictures and review history units. Twelve new girls join Scout work aiming for investiture about November 30. Second graders study alligators with a five foot stuffed Oscar. Third graders welcome Live Conner and plan a Thanksgiving assembly on Wednesday November 24 at three. Seventh and eighth grades enjoyed a field trip to Shedd Aquarium Field Museum and Adler Planetarium. Eighth graders study stars and planets and found the Planetarium lecture instructive. James Sheldon is absent sick with friends wishing speedy recovery. Sixth graders study Dutch colonies and Dutch art. Washington school team opened with a game vs Hazelcrest.

Oscar Conner Shedd Aquarium Field Museum Adler Planetarium Planetarium James Sheldon America Washington Washington School Hazelcrest

Berger School Report From Room Notes

School notes report students returning after illness in Berger School rooms one and two. It lists named pupils with no absences for ten in Room three and notes a zero zero football tie with Bowen in Room four. A future soccer game against Thornton is planned for Friday November 19.

Martin Gertrude Tichgelaar Gertrude Smith Richard Tichgelaar Miss Larson Eugene Brooks Ernest Diekman Donald Krueger Dorothy Pedric Donald Cowenhoven Billy Payne John Proper Mantha Wilkins Bowen Thornton Leora Milhahn Beatrice Laws

Roosevelt School Pupils Share Thanksgiving and Train Projects

The first and second graders show interest in Pugrims and Thanksgiving. Kindergartners work on a train project after a round house trip. Third and fourth graders authored the latest My Weekly Reader pieces. Armistice Day featured a program with Mr Brookfelt who spoke about war.

Brookfelt

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