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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1965
Page
6
Editorial questions whether Christmas retains its meaning amid modern marketing and toy displays. It reflects on past simplicity and urges following Henry Van Dyke's poem about giving rather than getting to keep Christmas for a day.
A playful senior slant profiles Cheryl Ann Blasberg highlighting her activities in FTA National Honor Society Luther League Student Council and Girls Glee with light personal details and future plans. It also profiles Dick Magnall noting his pool and chess interests Gold Time Pool Club Tripoli Art Association secretary role and plans after graduation to minimize effort while making money.
Mr. Fish argues that the pieces described as articles of compassion are actually figures of comparison used in writing or speech. He notes his compassion for diligent students but says the items are not metaphors, just linguistic devices.
Ten FFA members received their chapter farmer pins on December 13. Recipients include Paul Z Zander Bri an Biermann Paul Engert Darrel Mixdorf Steve Kerr Donald Hinrichs Lee Selck Dean Peterson John Wolf and Steve Heidemann. The chapter plans a seed sale during Christmas vacation to fund the spring banquet and has adopted a new seed brand Vitality, praised for quality.
Larry, an FFA member in high school, raised a sow and litter in two years and grew two acres of soybeans last year and plans more this year. He painted farm buildings, built 80 rods of fencing, repaired a hoghouse, and added a yard fence. In the shop he helped paint a tractor and build a feed bank and a pump cover. He served as FFA treasurer and earned the chapter former degree and judged at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo. He sits on earnings and savings and supervised farm committees and plans to join the Army after graduation.
Tripoli reports two new educators at THS. John Edward Ferree, a first‑year industrial arts teacher, hails from Oskaloosa and holds degrees from Iowa State University. Gary Heinemann, teaching Wong and seventh grade science, previously taught in Moorehead Nebraska and Nebraska University education groups.
Roving report from Frederika outlines Mrs. Muench and Mrs. Campbell classes preparing for Christmas parties and programs. Students from multiple grades display art, dioramas, and puppets, welcome new members, and list holiday wishes and classroom activities across subjects.
In eighth grade history students discuss moving colonies and transport while math tackles metric to English tables. Quizzes become daily, a humorous tale The Sneaker Crisis is studied, and chemistry in the home features a fire extinguisher.
Panther's Tale staff members send holiday wishes to THS students. Quotes range from Confucius to Glückliches Neujahr and include light humor about Christmas joy and a hopeful New Year.
David Drape’s theme Democracy, What It Means to Me, entered in a nationwide VFW Auxiliary contest. Finalists were chosen from 50 senior English themes by Mr. Fish and then narrowed to four with help from Marilyn Willis and Leon Kirchhoff. Judges from the Tripoli VFW named David the winner from the four. The entry was judged as both theme and speech.
The calendar lists dress up day and 2:00 dismissal on December 22, a 7:30 p.m. Christmas program, a January reconvenes date, wrestling scrimmages and basketball games against New Hampton Dunkerton and Plainfield, an FFA meeting January 10, and student council meetings. It also notes Charles Wesley wrote the words to Hark The Herald Angels Sing in 1739 with an early version beginning Hark how all the welkin rings per World Book Encyclopedia.
Youngblood dreams of living the exciting life of a redhead for part of next year. Duane Waterman wishes happy holidays to every female in THS and hopes the new year ends soon.
Verla Zander, THS graduate of 1965, is admitted to Wartburg College English honors, a selective program for top freshmen. The course demands weekly long readings, themes, panel presentations, and biweekly progress reports. The item also notes THS main hall and Mr. Miller’s office distances and steps.
Lloyd Bergmann sports a black interior and exterior, calling his “slush box” a personality car with a 283 cubic inch four barrel engine yielding 220 horses. Top speed reaches 120, and the car has 79,000 miles. He reports about 11 mpg on good days and plans not to sell, admiring the optional brunette that occasionally rides with him.
Geometry students draw figures and prove drawings. Home Ec I knits Christmas slippers. PE girls tumble. algebra II studies athletics and meets. Industrial arts I builds small tin pans. English I students give entertaining speeches. Algebra I tests over equations with parentheses. Max to pass. Typing I works on post cards. A THS student with four years and four minute gaps spends about 9 000 minutes for free time.
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