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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1956
Page
6
An editorial laments that the senior class has left, noting a mix of quiet, funny, loud, and showy students. The piece expresses missing them and wishes the graduates luck and success in their future endeavors.
The piece sketches several seniors including Elaine Pavelec and Judy Schlichting with details on height age hair eye color and favorite foods and sports. It notes future plans such as Elaine attending beauty culture school at Pizzie's in Waterloo and Judy entering electronics in Omaha. It also covers Lou Ann Everding and Donna Henn with personal traits likes and plans and closes with classroom activity notes about mothers day gifts and end of year projects.
Twelve adults and many preschoolers gathered Wednesday May 9 at 10 15 a m for a kindergarten spring program. Activities included rhythm band numbers group and solo songs dramatizations of The Three Bears and The Three Pigs readings from pre primers poems and folk dances. Highlighted by Yankee Doodle and Rock-a-Bye Baby performances led by boys and girls with homemade props. The program lasted over an hour before concluding.
Lowell Luloff 25 of Waverly and Roberta Gerstenberger 27 of Waterloo listed. Stephen A Maurer Jr 23 of Tripoli and Carol Ann Meyer 19 of Tripoli tied. Rudolph H Schaff Jr 20 of El Reno Oklahoma and Beverly Heins 16 of Waverly listed for licenses.
Local newspaper from Tripoli Iowa dated May 16 1956. Page features community notices and brief local items. Readers see standard town affairs and regional news highlights.
Local church notices list Sunday school and worship times, class changes, vacation Bible school start times, and planning meetings. Announcements include camp applications, demonstrations, pot lucks, and upcoming campaigns to fund Blake's Grove Camp Site with guest speakers and choir schedules.
The notice lists multiple Sunday worship services at St John’s Evangelical and Reformed with times 9 a m and 10 a m, Sunday school at 9 30 a m and 10 30 a m, and an offering for the ASC treasury. It notes a Fourth Quarterly Conference at 8 p m on May 22 and ongoing classes for all while worship and study occur on Sundays.
Evangelical Lutheran church in Waverly led by Pastor O H Moll announces Sunday school and Bible class at 9 15 a m with divine worship at 10 15 a m on the theme God Gives His Spirit to the Church An offering for the school fund and a school program and commencement Sunday at 1 30 p m are planned Tuesday Sunday school teachers meet in Bremer Wednesday Men s club meets at 8 15 p m and Thursday choir rehearsal continues.
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