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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
16
Sikeston high school will hold commencement exercises for 1941 graduates with diplomas awarded after completing required coursework. Baccalaureate services are set for Sunday night June 1 with Rev J W Hoffert delivering the sermon.
The Sikeston High School spring schedule lists May 9 Fete May 14 Assembly May 15 Band Concert May 16 Red Pepper Banquet and Dance May 21 Assembly Dramatics class play May 27 Senior Play May 28 Senior Day with assembly and cane ceremony May 30-Junior-Senior Prom June 1 Baccalaureate services June 2 Commencement June 8 Senior trip. Guests of Misses Alma and Edith Elmore included Mrs Chester Frobase Mrs Myron Frobase Miss Leona Tirmenstein and Miss Almaretta Huber of Benton. Theodore Roosevelt 50 word inaugural address noted as the shortest on record.
The Sikeston high school track team closed its season with six points at the Missouri State meet in Columbia held last Saturday May 3. Rex Wyatt Art Swacker Clarence Rafferty and Clem Beal formed the SSU yard relay team which finished second after winning invitational meets in Cairo Ill Charleston and Cape Girardeau and Lilbourn. Wyatt pressed Wentworth of Senath finishing second in the 100 yard dash. The 880 relay led its heat but Wentworth posted a faster time in a separate heat, giving Wentworth the win.
Boys from Sikeston high school’s junior class host a girls only party in the home economics cottage. Music, dancing and games will entertain while refreshments of punch, ice cream and cookies are provided by the boys. Committees led by Clem Beal assign refreshment, music and entertainment duties to named students.
Mrs. Joe Sidwell spent the weekend in St. Louis conducting business for the Sidwell Flower Basket, returning with plans to expand operations and seek new suppliers.
Miss Helen Campbell directed a Tuesday night Junior High musical in the auditorium. The program featured choruses solos novelties and specialty numbers showcasing students such as June Mitchell Dickie Inman Billy Golloway Myrtle Lambert Willan Porter and Betty Sizemore. The audience praised the performances including songs Some One's in the Kitchen The Geography Song and The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise.
More than five hundred men attended thirty evening trade extension classes this term in Sikeston. Under M. L. Stewart’s direction, classes are held weekly with skilled trade teachers supervised by Sikeston High School and the Board of Education. Total year enrollment reached 993 in trades and 60 in speech and practical English, with summer continuation planned.
The Webster Society of State College held its fiftieth annual banquet at the Marquette Hotel in Cape Girardeau Saturday night. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Ward Denman Mr and Mrs Garland Parker and Mr and Mrs Bill Hopkins.
Indiana Day at the Methodist church featured cadets from the Missouri School of Aeronautics. John “Jack” Shriver, a Greenburg native and 1937 Greenburg High School graduate, addressed the Men's Bible Class and has been active in the Hig Club and Sunday school teaching. He joined the Aviation Corps last February.
Three Sikeston high school pupils will travel to Jackson Mississippi on Friday May 16 to compete in regional high school music contests. They earned entry by taking first place in the state contest at Columbia.
Hundreds of Sikeston high school children take part in the annual May Festival on the athletic field Friday night May 9 under Miss Marian Miller. Queen Betty Jane crowned. escorted by Eugene Wat Son. Court includes Coleen Rayburn Jim mie Turner Wanda Snyder and Clem Beal Jean Cummins Glen Gurley Betty Shiver Larry Shain. May Pole winding ends with The Star Spangled Banner.
Those making the trip will be Billy Grant tenor saxophone Billy Anderson clarinet and W J Bennett bassoon Betty Jane Taylor will be accompanist for the young musicians Keith Collins high school musical director will accompany the group to Jackson.
Dr and Mrs E A Belden will travel to St Louis on May 15 to attend the Missouri Public Health Association annual three day session at the Chase Hotel Dr Belden to preside as Health Officers section chairman Accompanying them are nursing assistants Lilian McDonald and Beatrice Boyd The Herald reader note closes the item
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