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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1949
Page
19
Homecoming night features crowning of the football queen during Sikeston High School's game with Perryville. Alumni and students urged to attend as the team seeks a fifth straight win. FHA plans a pregame chili supper to fund sending two girls to the National Convention.
The student council redecorates the lunch lounge with blue walls and fluorescent lighting. Ten card tables replace lockers for desks and parties may use them. An imitation fireplace and arch doorway are planned for a more homelike look. The room may host meetings for school organizations after completion.
Eighty-two members of a band attended a Jackson music festival on Tuesday with 1200 students present. The event included a parade of 16 bands, a noon picnic, 3.5 hours of rehearsal, a 5:15 dinner, and an 7:30 evening program featuring nine bands led by Keith Collins and other officers. A massed concert of 900 instruments opened the finale. Over 5,000 people attended.
In Cape Girardeau a dance at the Municipal Airport on October 28 marks the start of the Naval Air Reserve unit's organizational drive. Navy and Marine Corps veterans from Southern Missouri Illinois and northern Kentucky are urged to attend and wear uniforms. Public attendance is invited to meet reservists who helped in the last war, with municipal officials and local groups slated to attend.
On Thursday three hundred one children at Lincoln School received diphtheria shots. Pre school aged attendees numbered thirty. School nurse Mrs Pansy Faris public health nurse Isadora Chan and Dr Sample administered the inoculations.
Five Sikeston teachers were chosen for positions at the Southeast District Teachers Meeting held last Friday. Bremen Van Bibber remains on the Executive Committee. R J Genins was re elected president of the Association of Secondary Principals, also making him president of the departmental group. Dorothea Miller won the role of vice chairman of the Department of Elementary School Principals. Martha Howard Jones was elected vice chairman of the English Department, and W W Wilkison was elected vice chairman of the Department of Science.
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