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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1938
Page
8
The issue lists Editor in Chief Scott Miller Assistant Editor Max Hall and sponsor Miss Weidaver. A publish note says writers if signed will have names attached as in this issue.
Obituary notes on O A McIntyre and William Allen White, plus review of The Hidden Lincoln by Emanuel Hentz. Student Notes cover ethics essays, English 12 topics on Donne and Herbert, rural sociology soil and economics, math formulas, and world history progress. A sophomore theatre party featured Wells Fargo with a postshow meal at Shorty’s Cafe.
Total high school enrollment opens at 81 but falls to 80 after four moveaways and three new enrollments. Grade totals drop from 51 to 47 with class sizes for Senior 25, Junior 26, Sophomore down to 8, and Freshmen at 21. Faculty to attend county teachers meeting February 21 in Stone City with supper and business session followed by a social gathering.
Reader letters urge clearer school zone signs to protect students and reduce driver responsibility. The note calls for clear reminders to drivers to stop at school crossings and cites recent disregard of stop signs.
The English class reads Romeo and Juliet and studies punctuation and spelling. American History compares early aviation and transport with modern planes trains and cars and debates government ownership. Physics notes light waves while experiments prove harder than last term. Biology covers how animals and humans obtain food and energy from nutrients, milk highlighted as best. Shop class builds wood items like lamps racks and racks for home use.
The English 10 class works on vivid descriptions and clear word choices. The Geometry class finishes circles angles and arcs and moves to measuring angles and arcs. Designs show improvement over prior efforts. The Business Arithmetic Class studies measures of length and surface and learns the tables of length and area.
Students review connectives including prepositions and conjunctions with pronoun cases. Civics notes discuss two weekly problems refusal to tell a fellow student and an undeserving valuation. Science records Bird and Food booklet voting with ties and honors for several students.
Diller won a hard fought game from Plymouth 15 to 18 after two overtimes. Close scored the decisive basket in the second overtime while Orth led Plymouth with 9 points.
The Diller second team won easily as the coach used all substitutes including some freshmen. Final score 29 to 9 reflecting a dominant performance and broad bench contribution.
The class met Friday afternoon with ten girls. They did circle ball led by Miss Weidauver and played basketball in the second period. A Valentine party occurred on February 14 with Betty and Dick making the decorated box.
Miss Grant assigns new numbers for school musical groups. The Boys Sextette works on The Banjo Song while the Senior Girls Glee Club rehearses Gypsy Song and Silent Night and ponders costumes for the music contest. The Mixed Sextette practices Nightfall and Kipling's processional. The Girls Sextette begins several new numbers for the music contest.
A classroom note outlines the final four minute speech and the previous discussion on Speaker's Personal Problems. It notes the class will hand over to Senior Normal Training Typing next. It offers a humorous recipe for making the honor roll with cups and cups of traits and a frosting of friendliness.
Eleanor Welger reports a Valentine box made by fourth through sixth graders. John Sailing, a new fourth grader, attends. The club met Friday and favored flowers during roll call. Entertainment included a play Lincoln’s Wish Comes True and poems and a story reading.
Notes note spelling winners for the week ending February 11 with names Leila Broadstone Esther Lamb Marilyn Miller Dwaine Clark Joyce Johnson and Weasel Beckman also mention Leila reading eight books. A war display idea is proposed with Dick Beck sharing his grandfather’s Civil War experiences and a ring from Andersonville prison.
Mrs Howard Peters and Mrs Frank Grabber visited last Friday afternoon. Dixie Jennings joined the first grade. Second grade honorees for perfect spelling were Mavis Holle Faye Garrels Donna Jean Folkers and Dean Moore. Norma Lee Allen and Dwaine Green led third grade. Friday afternoon Gloria Miller Irene Gidder Dorothy Anderson Darrell Dee Green and Lynn Thompson recited Lincoln by Nancy Turner. Fourth grade plus pre second and third grades merized To My Valentine.
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