Regents Examinations and School Debrief
Regent Examinations next Monday and Tuesday will test all seniors with university classifica tion exams from the University of Nebraska. Some seniors will take extra tests in pursuit of a Regents Scholarship. Mixed Chorus and Girls Glee Club earned strong results at the Geneva district contest. Six Weeks Examinations proceed this week as the seniors select a play and announce purchases, with parents praised for support and travel to Geneva.
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University of Nebraska
Geneva
Nebraska
Alrector
Senior Notes overview of classes and literary reads
The piece lists senior activities and studies including English 12 on Tennyson and Poe poems, Rural Sociology on Transportation and Living standards, American Literature outlines, World History on western Europe minor states, Physics on electricity and telegraph, and Biology on glands. It notes a Beatrice trip, a performance, and student poems including Robins in a tree top and porch swing verses.
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Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson
Europe
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
Class Officers and Sponsors List
Senior President Keith Hudson and Vice-president Robert Glathar lead the class officers. Secretaries and treasurers include Fern Nippert Gerald Garrels Maxine Nider and Arlene Roseman in various grades with sponsors Miss Grant.
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Keith Hudson
Robert Glathar
Fern Nippert Treseurer
Gerald Garrels
Slomooe i
Dei
Tae
Sinkey
Lawrence Clark
Mildred Krebs
Treas
Maxine Nider Moomaot
Ben Kees
McCreight
Osc
Carolyn Clark
Harvey Cunningham
Arlene Roseman Sighinor
Ludington
Girls Glee Club Officers Named
The list shows the girls’ glee club officers with senior and junior classes. Lucille Nider is president and Delpha Wiemera is secretary treasurer. Clara Achtemeier leads the junior group with Fern Nippert as secretary treasurer and Gladys Garten as librarian. Arlene Schouelle is also listed in the junior officer line.
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Lucille Nider
Treas
Delpha Wiemera
Clara Achtemeier
So Fern Nippert
Gladys Garten
Arlene Schouelle
Faculty list for High School under Superintendent Sinkey
The document lists school staff: L. F. Sinkey superintendent. Carl Ludington principal. Rugeell McCreight normal training and mathematics. Dorothy Weidauer social science and biology. Margaret Grant English and music. H. C. Kelley grades 7 8 6 part time. LaVerne Heyne grades 4 5 part time. Flossie Raymond grades 1 2 3.
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L. F. Sinkey
Commercial
Carl Ludington
Rugeell McCreight
Dorothy Weidauer
Margaret Grant
H.C. Kelley
LaVerne Heyne
Flossie Raymond
Editor names and staff credited in local page note
A fragmented local notice lists staff roles including Editor-in-Chief Scott Miller and assistant editor Max Hall, with stray names such as Miss Weidauer and sponsor line items. The readable text provides no event or date details.
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Scott “Miller
Max Hall
Weidauer
Pony Express Remembered On Its 78th Diamond Anniversary
The piece recalls the 1860 inaugural Pony Express from St Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California covering 1932 miles. It notes riders Johnny Frey and Harry Hoff and a record nine days and 23 hours for the first trip, the service costs and later reduction, and its 1861 discontinuation with telegraph replacing mail. It mentions revived interest by groups including the Nebraska State Historical Society the D A R and Boy Scouts with memorial observances and grave discoveries.
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Pony Express
St. Joseph
Missouri
Sacramento
Carlifornia
Johnny Frey
Harry Hoff
St. Louis
San Francisco
Central America
Omaha
Nebraska State Historical Society
State
Boy Scouts
Nebraska
Scouta
Pony Secon
Heroes for Appropriate Ceremonies and Grave Decorations
The observance closes October 24 with a school and children led commemoration marking pioneer telegraph and Pony Express days.
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Pioneer Telegraph
Pony Express
Sophomore Notes in English Geometry and Business Math
English 10 studies Sorah and Rustum by Arnold and judging of oral themes with a six minute six weeks exam. Geometry 10 covers proportional line segments commensurable quantities and division proportionality with constructions. Business Arithmetic explores depreciation commissions principal and gross cost.
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Rustum
Matthew Arnold
Freshmen Notes: Shakespeare and Civics Reflections
A student notebook summarizes The Merchant of Venice with Shylock and Portia, notes on Bassanio, and a bond threat. Civics discusses farming trends and urban migration. General Science covers home electricity, transformers, and EMF concepts.
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Venice
Shylock
Antonio
Bossanio
Bassanio
Portia
Girls Physical Training at Lorene Achtemeier session
Friday afternoon April 1 spring call went out for girls to join track and kittenball. Twenty girls responded. if enough join, two captains and two teams will be formed. Events include running races broad jump high jump shot put and baseball throw. Diller Girls Play Day proposed by Coach Ludington with plans to invite surrounding schools for kittenball basketball tennis and more.
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Diller
Ludington
Music Groups Earn Ratings in Geneva Competition
Carolynn Clark reports two music groups from the day in Geneva rated locally. The mixed chorus earned a good rating and the girls glee club rated excellent in class C.
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Geneva
School Band Prepares For Fairbury Music Festival
The group advances in the contest with ratings noted as advanced superior. The school band rehearses pieces for the Music Festival to be held in Fairbury in the latter part of August.
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Fairbury
Specialties and superstitions cross paths in odd notes
An article notes primitive beliefs about the soul leaving the body during sleep and punishment for covering a sleeper’s face. It also reports Otto Vogel of Farmingdale New York inventing an awning that lowers in rain and winds up when dry. A California law bans wrestlers from making faces during their art.
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Otto Vogel
Farmingdale
California
7th and 8th Grade Notes at Eleanor Richardson
Perfect spelling awardees for the week include Avis Johnson Leila Broadstone Dwaine Clark Esther Lamb Betty Grabber Roe Patton Mary Drexler Denice Anderson Marilyn Miller Donald Roelfs Mary Lou Thompson. Grades prepare posters books for exhibit and spring decorations as state exams loom April 18 19. 7th grade subjects Geography Physiology Bookkeeping English Composition. 8th graders have passed all exams to date and will take remaining subjects.
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Avis Johnson
Leila Broadstone
Dwaine Clark
Esther Lamb
Betty Grabber
Roe Patton
Mary Drexler
Denice Anderson
Marilyn Miller
Donald Roelfs
Mary Lou Thompson
Fourth to Sixth Grade News and Club Elections
Eleanor Weigel reports on a new fourth grader Doloris Fisher from Chillicothe Missouri. The club elected Rosetta as president Joyce as vice president and Donald Roelfs as secretary. A fruit shower was held for Miss Heyne. In fifth arithmetic they began fractions division and the art class works on exhibits. Spelling stars include Dorothy Anderson Terril Fasnacht Darrell Green Irene Greider Carolyn Moore Lyon Thompson Shirley Garrels and Ina Nicholson.
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Rosetta
Joyce
Donald Roelfs
Miss Heyne
Dorothy Anderson
Terril Fasnacht
Darrell Green
Irene Greider
Carolyn Moore
Lyon Thompson
Shirley Garrels
Ina Nicholson
First Grade Classes Complete Reading Project
Juanita Anderson leads 1st 2nd and 3rd grades with Elson primer reading in Book I. Pupils recite Jippy and Jimmy and finish alphabet booklets. Grades 1 and 2 craft freeceat alphabet cards for Educational day. Visitors Mrs Willis Clark and teachers Mary Wenz and Bertha Behr ends helped briefly.
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Elson
Jippy and
Jimmy
Willis Clark
Mary Wenz
Bertha Behrends
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THE
Diller School News
Regent Examinations
Della Roelfs
Beatrice
Max Thomson
Poe
Whittier
Whitman
Freneau
U. S
U.S .O
Eleanor Stahl
Glee Club Officers
Scott A Miller
Arlene Roseman
Julia Diller
McRo
Lorene Achtemeier
Carolynn Clark
Jean Bond
Eleanor Richardson
Eleanor Weigel
Doloris Fisher
Chillecothe
Doloris
Juanita Anderson
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