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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1958
Page
10
A long reader-drafted holiday letter from Titanica Iowa children requests gifts for many classmates and lists personal wishes from Tiny Tears dolls to a gas station playset. The text also includes student notes on class activities from second to tenth grade, a Christmas program wrap up, and holiday well wishes.
The annual staff reports over $100 from sales and ads with Sandy Watson and LaVaughn Akkerman handling most advertising and Sharon Rippentrop collecting sale funds. They are cutting down grade pictures to fit planned pages as a Woltz photographer arrives mid January. Judy Buffington, Frances Bahling, Ellen Nelson, and Mary Louw Diamond lead social and title page work while junior staff assist with planning pages for kindergarten through fourth grade.
Shirley Adams of South Dakota State College traces the long history of Christmas carols from Puritan bans to modern tunes. She notes early hymns such as Angels We Have Heard on High and O Little Town of Bethlehem, with origins dating to ancient and medieval times.
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