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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1952
Page
6
A school newsletter lists faculty names and student notes across grades with visitors, birthdays, perfect attendance and spelling scores. It notes second grade chickens, birthday celebrations, and upcoming events including a junior senior prom and the class play Granddad Steps Out for April 18.
Editorial argues respect flows both ways and that true respect comes from being genuine. It notes that those who lack respect act only under force, while respected people are obeyed willingly when asked. It urges openness about one's true self to gain lasting respect.
Gloria Sell, a senior at Tripoli school, enjoys musical movies ice skating dancing and bowling with basketball as her favorite sport. She has sung in chorus and glee club four years, sextet one year, band six years, saxophone quartet three years, and served as junior class play usher and editor of the annual. Her favored subjects are sociology and shorthand and she plans to study business at Gates College Waterloo after graduation. She dislikes backbiting and shares a preference for chicken meals, noting Sundays with chicken.
Last week agriculture students viewed two films on tractor maintenance after extended operation. Plans are set for the Tripoli FFA to attend the Iowa FFA convention in Cedar Rapids April 17 to 19 with local delegates Eugene Buenger Eldon Hoppenworth and Melvin Schwartz. Carl Beisner joins the Iowa FFA band of 130 members from 74 chapters. Eugene Drape will represent Tripoli in the FFA chorus among 130 members from 83 chapters.
The measle pug visited the first grade room exposing pupils Roger Bonarden Mary Block Robert Kuker Daniel Schumacher Eileen Young Yvonne Kalkbrenner Danny Brase Ronald Rieck Caroline Kehe Laura Ragsdale Gary Klenzman The room seems empty until return. Easter bunny faces made in art class and Easter egg hunt held on Thursday by kindergarten and first grade.
A high school algebra quiz last Wednesday yielded disappointing grades and a promise to improve. In science class a film titled Reproduction Among Mammals used a pig as an example to illustrate prenatal development.
Library notice reviews a Jim Kjelgaard tale set in Hilldale where Tom Rainse returns from California to find stricter game laws and poaching danger. A wild Pin to from Fred Larsen, Smoky the hound, and Buck Brunt the game warden drive a chase with mystery figures like Black Elk and Chalmers Garsoney, ending with country triumph and wildlife lessons.
The team held short workouts on the school yard Thursday and Friday with no batting or infield drills, moved to the baseball field Monday, and conducted first batting practice Tuesday. Eighteen boys are out, including five lettermen Schmidt Bock Kirchhoff Lohmann Poock. The squad comprises two seniors, three juniors, six sophomores and seven freshmen. Norval Wardle warns not to touch radios or electrical appliances in the bath. Pognology is a study of beards.
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