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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1961
Page
6
Editorial urges students to plan summer work for college money or home help. Encourages exploring local openings, assessing fit and qualifications, and giving best effort. Also reflects on understanding parents and valuing their advice for future choices.
Doug, 17, plans to enter the Navy after graduation. Wayne Lageschulte, 18, is FFA vice president, 6 feet 1 inch with brown eyes and hair, enjoys economics and sports, and recalls the junior senior banquet. Larry Lohmann, 17, 5 feet 10 inches, loves hamburgers, French fries, hunting, boating, and aims to join the U S Army Reserves.
The article outlines spring music events with a focus on small group contests on April 29 in Tripoli. It notes many small groups competing and a vocal concert on May 2. The marching band prepares for the Waterloo band jubilee on May 6.
Marilyn Buchholz aged 17 tall 5 4 with blue eyes and blond hair is active in annual staff debate pep girls chorus Youth Fellowship and Sunday school teaching. Her favorite singer is Johnny Mathis and she anticipates graduation as a highlight of high school. Doug Kuker participates in track football debate club and the junior class play, with that play noted as his outstanding event.
Seniors claim only weeks remain in the school year and finish with an earlier dismissal. Bulletin-board paper cars and rockets mark time. Typing class students race to win by words per minute in timed writings. Junior English classes study short story writing and will draft personal pieces.
Feature notes the 1960 61 school year ending in 17 days. Sophomore Sadie Hawkins dance on April 14 and freshman square dance on April 19 are described with decorations including quotes from Lil Abner. Seniors graduate May 19 and feel atop the social scene.
Tripoli Panthers baseball struggles persist as unseasonable weather limits outdoor practice. In Denver Lahmann pitched a no hitter with 14 strikeouts, Dunkerton outscored 11 8, and Lawler beat them 7 3. Defense shown solid, pitching decent, but hitting lagging.
Students collect living specimens to observe behavior and anatomy. Mary Bull brings a Venus flytrap. leaves trap a fly. Dale Matthias shows a three week old brown and white guinea pig. Anthony Kingery handles a mud hen, later identified as an American coot with non webbed feet and chalky bill.
A lively classroom roundup highlights Up side down rabbits on a bulletin board and a race to shoot rabbits by turning them over for A grades. Pink team leads with fourteen dental cards returned. students read about Buffalo Bill and Kate Shelly, study weather instruments, and plan a Roller-Dome skating party on April 21 amid science demos and poems.
The Waterloo Courier notes Library Week activities with math and percents lessons, honor roll mentions eight on the B list and one on A, Connie Hennings ill in hospital, PE hockey, social studies topics on China USSR Australia New Zealand, quizzes by Mr. Hollidy, band prep for Waverly, science lessons on oil and eye care, nutrients, grammar notes, Greek-origin spelling words, farm and tall tales in reading, Soviet Union origin, Friday quizzes, gym bat and ball, music test on notes and time, two A honor roll and three B honor roll students in Section C.
A fragmented historical note describes efforts to catalog tuberculosis sanatoria and hospitals in the United States around 1904. It references the number of facilities and a programmatic push to expand care, indicating early public health responses to tuberculosis nationwide.
The Fun with Science club formed in our room elected Kent president Dickie vice president and Susan secretary. At roll call members shared future career goals and noted a meeting scheduled for the next Friday morning.
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