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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1964
Page
5
A discussion of sportsmanship definitions and standards cites Webster and Fielding Yost, urging spectators to follow rules, cheer positively, and respect officials. Tripoli Community Schools seek spectator buses again while highlighting values like punctuality, discipline, diet, temper control, and teamwork in athletic contests.
Seniors of 65 profile Dan Ambrose as a outdoors and athletics oriented student planning a career as a game warden. It notes his hunting and trapping interests, four years of football, honors, and admiration for Mr. Olmstead, plus school interests in auto mechanics and bookkeeping and a wish for trade or outdoors life after graduation. It also mentions Jana Sievers, a fellow senior, her temperament, church youth group, summer softball, and a note about her missing 4 11.
A program of competitive athletics emphasizes playing to win fairly and responsibly. Education values success beyond wins and losses and stresses meaningful competition even when opponents do not give maximum effort.
A church newsletter urges music students to express emotion in performance. It cites all state choral director Charles Matheson stressing the importance of feeling to avoid empty renditions and to make Christmas programs memorable.
THS staff and pupils offer humorous and quirky holiday wishes. Highlights include requests for passing bookkeeping with an A, track shoes, school spirit, a Christmas dance date, a reprieve from PE, and even a joking wish for a gallows. The collection captures lighthearted year end wishes from teachers and students.
Strikette League results show Bergmann Hatchery 41 leading Phyllis Clippers 36 with Tripoli Leader 35 and Cafe 30034 Mueller Mill 26. High games by Nadine Mager 211 and Gary Stromer 213. high series by Darla Bremer 564 and Gary Stromer 591. Local items note baptisms at St John’s Lutheran and St Paul’s UCC, travel and military moves, and a 1736 note on Virginia’s first newspaper Virginia Gazette.
In Church League Erwin Blasberg rolled the high game with 204 and Willard Holm had the best series at 556. In Marsh League Colburn Mill led with 33 percent, Tripoli Plumbing 14 percent, and Tripoli Bowl-In 22 percent with American Law Bank totaling 1929 and Sumner Lounge 34 percent. Plumbers beat Grain 4 0 and Bowl-In 2 2 as Bank closed at 342 and Colburn 32. Donald Bremer posted the high game 236 and the high series 661.
Linda Lakin, a Roosevelt High School graduate from Des Moines, begins teaching at Tripoli High School in the home economics room. She earned a BA from SCI after studying at Iowa State and State College of Iowa and aims to deepen students’ understanding of managing a home beyond cooking and sewing while fostering an interest in working with children.
Tripoli Pantherettes sit three wins and six games overall while two and four in the conference. They prepare for a rematch with Fayette Falcons, aiming to avenge an earlier season opener loss as THS staff and Coach Don Larson laud the squad’s ball handling height and overall talent despite recent injuries.
Knittel and Molstead families gathered for a Christmas exchange at Ray Hoeg Sr. home in Waterloo. Nearby, Clarence Wehling’s home hosted Mrs. Arnold Platte. Nashua residents the Ganske and Rucker families with Lines hosted a Sunday gathering at Larry Ganske’s new house. Readlyn’s Frieda Funk spent a week with brother Wilfried Westendorf and visited the Platte home with Westendorf and Carol Lynn.
Thirty two relatives gathered Friday evening to celebrate the 15th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. August Wille. Attendees included Emil Redies Frederika Art Redies Gus Redies Herbert Biesterfelt Tripoli Harold Nolting Dunkerton Leo Wit tenburg Readlyn Lavern Goodenbour Jesup Dora Wille Dora Mike Wille Ernie Wille Denver Giles Henry Cedar Falls.
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