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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1972
Page
7
Art students from The Arc 8 plan to repaint downtown store windows this season. They consult business owners on preferred religious or secular designs, scale drawings to window size, mix paints, and apply them directly to glass. After Christmas, windows come down but juried awards are offered for best painting. Kiwanis Club sponsored last year, hoped again this year.
Ganton High School brings together choirs from Sioux Falls Lincoln Dell Rapids and Rock Valley Community School for a Saturday evening festival in the Cannon High School Armory at 8 00. About 250 singers under Mr Joe Noble of the University of Iowa perform massed and individual selections directed by Noble Stange Vander Velde and others. Admission is 1.00 for adults and 0.50 for students.
Crowds packed the venue for the 1972 Swing Show on November 10 and 11. Music students delivered a strong performance with acts including New Generation and featured salists Henkis Rozeboom Keyla Van Beek Minda Harmetink Dee Mouw and Galet De Bey. The program noted groups such as Fife Jug and Bottle Band Charleston Dancer Swing Choir LAB Bing ete and more, with Mee Dwight Hansen as master of ceremonies amid lengthy rehearsals aimed at success.
Rock Valley Bee reports RVHS junior and senior girls enjoy bowling as a PE activity under Mrs. Foreman. They bowl every other day for six weeks, paying 40 cents daily, with a final day YEAT. The piece notes bowling's long history and various forms from ten pin to duckpin across Europe and early America.
The journalism class has exchanged correspondence with many schools this year learning ways to handle publish and attract readers. Exchanges with other schools have continued for years and this year include many more schools led by exchanges with the Philippines as the most interesting source.
Speech and play contest activities begin with tryouts in the next few days. Students should check bulletin boards for details and contact Mr Ardly in room 10H to participate. The top scorers advance to the State Contest based on a point system.
The article describes annual conferences for grades 1-12 held after the first nine weeks to improve student learning. It notes faculty welcome parent participation, with fifteen minute slots from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m on Tuesday and Friday, November 7 to 14, and suggests parents may arrange additional meetings with other teachers.
Students at RVHS held a mock presidential, state and county election November 7 in the auditorium for grades 9-12 and staff. Each class used a ballot box to compare age group results and gauge differences across demographics.
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