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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1952
Page
6
The Tripoli high school staff list includes Editor Valerie Biermann Assistant Lowell Engle and long faculty names. Student quotes from freshmen and sophomores express interests in sports and study attitudes.
The piece urges student loyalty to bands clubs and games, argues football lacks spirit rather than talent, and predicts Tripoli will beat Calmar in Friday night football with strong crowd support. It emphasizes four quarters of effort and invites all to attend the game.
A five foot eleven inch brown eyed blond senior member of the student council and former junior class treasurer is identified as Lowell Ambrose. He enjoys dancing to Eddie Howard, football games, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae films, and keeps seven pet hamsters while favoring cocker spaniels. He works at Ambrose Filling Station with no definite post graduation plans.
Student quotes reflect enthusiasm for high school amid praise of class structure and locker use. Several students cite fun, subject choice, activities, privileges, and future job prospects as reasons for liking secondary education while a few note challenges in hard subjects and uncertainty about the future.
The girls favor home economics while the boys prefer vocational agriculture. Algebra ranks just behind, with English and science following in third and fourth place respectively.
The five foot eleven blue eyed boy with brown hair, a basketball player in freshman and sophomore years, has been in the band glee club and mixed chorus for two years. He was class president in sophomore year and again this year, lives in the country, rides bus No 2, and assists Velma Schultz in writing the senior personality. The answer is Eugene Oltrogge.
The Tripoli Panthers opened the season with a loss to Teachers High of Cedar Falls 35 to 14. A 28-point Cedar Falls lead by halftime stifled Tripoli before Schmidt’s off tackle smash in the third quarter and Pinch’s end sweep late pushed the Panthers to two scores.
Dick Klenzman is the freshman reporter among the boys on the staff, except for Eugene Oltrogge, all are out for football. Dick likely remains on the staff for a while while Eugene, a senior personality reporter, replaces Eugene Buenger and will stay until his own senior year ends.
The band began marching with music this week and made its first public appearance at the home football game Friday night. A pep band traveled to Cedar Falls for the first football game, and the performance was well received by the team cheerleaders and spectators.
The 1952 freshman class adjusts to high school after three weeks with tests in algebra, English, science, and vocational agriculture. Teachers guide students on verbs, nouns, and work formulas while a Clay County fair judging team placed 13th. About 45 freshmen auditioned for band, glee club, or sports as girls sew and groom themselves for better appearance.
New Boston topic notes John L. Lewis pressuring coal miners for higher wages while power shifts from coal to chemicals, textiles, and plastics. Discusses oil outlook, Willis ton field, solar heating, atomic power limits, and Gravity Research Foundation on free power for farms and transport.
Denver E. Kehe of Waterloo, a former local farmer, is a patient at Allen Memorial hospital after a badly broken leg suffered while working at the cattle show grounds. DuWayne Steege and family recently settled in a new home. two house warming parties were held last week with prizes and a potluck lunch. Six Bridge Club ladies held a slumber party at Brink’s cabin along the Cedar. John Stumme and wife visited Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Stumme in Muscatine.
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