Editorial Staff and Contributors At Local Junior College
The junior college lists its editorial staff with editor Marge Walker and features editor among the names Maxine Logan Dorothea Snyder and Richard Wanerus. News staff includes Ellen Gidley Keith Gillespie Florence Godwin and Julia Harvey. Typist Florence Godwin and Mary Atchison are noted with headlines credited to the Journalism class.
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Marge Walker
Maxine Logan
Dorothea Snyder
Richard Wanerus
Marjorie Faulkner
Bill Brown
Helen Patterson
Ellen Gidley
Keith Gillespie
Florence Godwin
Julia Harvey
Mary Hesseltine
Evelyn Miller
Joe Pease
Shirley Peterson
Nylan Reiner
Roberta Wheelan
Florence Godwin Junior College
Mary Atchison
Etiquette and Gossip at School Parties Urge Courtesy
A school editorial urges proper party manners and discourages gossip. It stresses Emily Post style behavior, inclusion, and avoiding unkind remarks, while urging seniors to value dances, banquets, and commencements as they finish their high school careers.
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Emily Post
Prom escorts documented in Iowa City event notes
The report notes several junior students escorting dates to the prom and a later cinema outing in Iowa City. Individuals named include Margaret Kagan and Betty Keiler with accompanying escorts in the social roundups from the weekend.
Contest Concert By High School Musicians
The pre contest concert is set for Tuesday April 23 in the high school auditorium featuring the school band and orchestra, a saxophone quartet, and a state quartet with named players. The brass sextet, trombone solo, tuba solo, snare drum, and accompanist also perform. States contests at Fairfield occur April 25 26 27 with other numbers from clarinet quartet and flute solo, and the festival in Iowa City May 2 3 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hammer
Merle Turnipseed
Eugene DunNlap
Maxine Guenther
Carolyn Strong
Clara Ann Huber
Mildred Hughes
Genivieve Baker
Brass
Joan Michels
Bob McLaughlin
Charles Mayo
Charles Sutton
Norma Johnson
Dave Neiswanger
Who's Who born in 1923 at Columbus Junction
A fragmentary yearbook style bio lists a girl born October 13 1923 in Columbus Junction. It notes attendance at Baker School and Red Brick, current junior status, study of American history English III Bible and art, and active participation in Girl Reserves and GAA. It mentions physical traits favorite colors and foods and hobbies such as dancing biking hiking and diary keeping.
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Columbus Junction
Baker School
Washington
Red Brick
Richard Green
Deanna Durbin
Acreen
Una
Ana
Theta Mu Formal To Be Next Week
The first of two spring formals sponsored by Theta Mu will be Tuesday April 30. The girls glee club will run the event with selections by members of the boys glee club male quartet and mixed chorus. Committees and program to be announced. Hayde White is the Theta Mu adviser.
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Theta Mu
Girls Glee Club
Boys Glee Club
Hayde White
Junior High Boys To Play Softball Tournament
Junior high seventh and eighth grade boys begin a softball tournament this week. Four teams with about twelve players each have been chosen. Captains are eighth graders Everett Prebyl, Junior Palmer, David Turner, and Bob Botleau. Games are on Monday and Wednesday at 4 46.
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Everett Prebyl
Junior Palmer
David Turner
Bob Botleau
Attendance Names Verses and Cheer Cue in Local Note
A fragmented line lists attendees or speakers named Gidley Reid Wolf Hennon Steele and Wallace with a playful call to cheer up Snyder and note Frink will be home soon indicating a social or school event.
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Gidley
Reid
Wolf
Hennon
Steele
Wallace
Snyder
Frink
Francis Ralston On Spotlight Over Boil Issue
The notice claims Francis Ralston faced public scrutiny after a boil issue. It hints at a planned all day session by Jean Davis last Friday and mentions Norton of Cray for asyvirls being away for a conference, details uncertain.
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Francis
Hi Y Elect Officers For Coming Year
Last Wednesday April 17 Hi Y pays elected officers for the coming year. Officers include Burchard Holden president Bob Gray vice president Don Klein treasurer Dave Masson serg e at arms Herbert Huber secretary and Don Pauls social and membership secretary. The meeting also covered upcoming mother s night and pins awards for the current year. A committee of Mrs M L Brown Mrs Leslie Gates Mrs Michael Flynn and Mrs Floyd Hamil prepared a fine meal.
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Hi-Y
Burchard Holden
Bob Gray
Don Klein
Dave Masson
Herbert Huber
Don Pauls
M. L. Brown
Leslie Gates
Michael Flynn
Floyd Hamil
Students Compete In Reading Festival At Mt Pleasant
Miss Flood accompanied two students to an interpretative reading festival in Mt. Pleasant on Saturday April 20. Georgeanne Rudiger and Esther Stewart entered and results were not announced at this writing. Each read one thousand words of poetry and prose. Some students could not attend due to conflicting activities.
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Miss Flood
Mt. Pleasant
Georgeanne Rudiger
Esther Stewart
Chemistry Classes To Attend Meeting At Mt Vernon Iowa
The Iowa Junior Academy of Science will meet at Mt Vernon Iowa on April 19 and 20. Friday features a general program business greetings banquet demonstration of Crystal Formation sponsors meeting and social period. Saturday includes nature hikes at Kelper Palisades State Park final business meeting luncheon and awards. Students attending Friday are Richard Weeks Charles Sutton Beulah Stewart Mary Wells Robert McLaughlin Evan Fishburn Norma Johnson Verle Boshart and Miss Stahl. Saturday attendees are Clare Ann Huber Mildred Hughes and Evan Fishburn.
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Iowa Junior Academy of Science
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Kelper Palisades State Park
Richard Weeks
Charles Sutton
Beulah Stewart
Mary Wells
Robert McLaughlin
Evan Fishburn
Norma Johnson
Verle Boshart
Miss Stahl
Clare Ann Huber
Mildred Hughes
Junior College Notes Reflect Social Activities and Displays
At the guidance conference the Women's League raised funds by selling ice cream and candy for the social hour. Ronald Keiper showed his glass blowing hobby with tie clasps and glass bulbs on display at the Midance Conference. The regular assembly covered announcements, visiting troupes, and a film on the Making of Bread. Tea dance planning and refreshments were managed by student committees including Jean Walker and Mary Lyon Heilman.
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Women's League
Ronald Keiper
Ronald
Mead
Jean Walker
Mary Lyon Heilman
Wilma Richards
Hill McGinnis
Jack Hale
Lois Hrumble
Faye Holland
Ceetl Hkeplogte
Commercial Club Meeting and Party Planned Tonight
Commercial Club to hold a combined business meeting and party at 7:30. LeRoy Pratt will speak and present a centennial film. Gym facilities will be open for badminton, shuttle board, box hockey, ping pong, and hopscotch with refreshments for attendees.
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LeRoy Pratt
Nickel rich cathode ray tubes promise TV breakthroughs
Television may demand much more nickel for cathode-ray tubes than wireless tubes. The CRT could require up to eight times as much nickel, with 18 to 36 radio tubes in the receiving set versus 4 to 16 in conventional wireless sets, and nickel alloys used in transmitting gear as well.
High School Janitor Gov Liked Being With Students
Washington High School brings attention to Gov the janitor who has served thirteen years. He works long hours with three custodians and junior helpers, keeping plants, windows, and floors clean. Gov notes the daily joys of being around the kids and says the work keeps him feeling younger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Hamil
Washington High School
Goy
Gov
Lincoln
Stewart
Maxwell
Gobble
Goys
Goy's
Freshwaters
Classroom Activities Vary Considerably
Freshman general science classes study transportation types and engines while comparing frontier travel with modern methods. They attend a film on bakelite paints and lacquers. Language and social studies classes discuss questions and transfer of title. Chemistry explores a unit called Good Earth as county agents discuss soils of Iowa. Students work in groups on projects with oral and written reports and exhibits.
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Lisa
United States
Gingerich
Miss Wilson
Chandler
Clapp
Iowa State Teachers College of
Ames
Iowa
Washington County
London Drops to Third Place Rank Among Cities
London has fallen to third place as evacuation and war reduce its population from prewar levels of about 8.2 million to around 5 million. Suburban migrations and country-area families reduce city counts, with London losing roughly 3 million residents based on an average of two per household.
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London
New York
Tokyo
Berlin
Gas Light and Coke Company
David Milne Watson
Dutch Seaman Learns English in Hospital
In Seattle, Antone Steenbergen, a Dutch seaman aboard the Holland-American liner Drechtdyk, fell 35 feet into a wine room but after 15 weeks in hospital learned English from nurses. He said he learned quickly, stating he had to speak English or not at all.
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Seattle
Antone Steenbergen
Steenbergen
High School Students Selected for State Music Festival
On Saturday April 13 selections were announced for the State University of Iowa High School music festival. Festival chorus includes Ione Steele. festival orchestra features Carolyn Strong on flute. festival band lists Dorthy Turner on clarinet Eugene Dunlap on saxophone Charles Sutton on baritone Charles Mayo on trombone and Milo Steele on bass.
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State University of Iowa
Ione Steele
Carolyn Strong
Dorthy Turner
Eugene Dunlap
Charles Sutton
Charles Mayo
Milo Steele
Berkeley scientists cited as world center of physics
Berkeley officials say wartime Europe drew top scientists to the United States and may turn the country into a global physics hub. Five of the last six Physics Nobel winners work in the U S including Enrico Fermi and Ernest Lawrence at UC.
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Berkeley
Calif
Europe
United States
University of California
Nobel Foundation
Enrico Fermi
Columbia Auniversity
Ernest Lawrence
California
Fermi
Hitchcock
Lawrence
Raymond T. Bridge
Carl D. Anderson
W. G. Hess
California Institute of Technology
Clinton J. Davisson
Bell Telephone Laboratories
George P. Tompson
Albert Einstein
Institute For Advance Study
Princeton University
Robert A. Millikan
University of Chicago
James Franck
Johns Hopkins University
Gustav Hertz
Germany
Arthur H. Compton
Charles Rees Wilson
William Konrad Roentgen
Roentgen
Senior Homerooms Learn Class Song and Etiquette Bullets
Homerooms spent one period learning their senior class song and discussing graduation attire. A bulletin on caps and gowns aided choices. Homeroom 10 held a timely Wednesday news discussion as part of the weekly news period. Etiquette topics dominated most rooms with Friday programs postponed.
Stewart Students Learn About Insects From Class to Classroom
Fourth grade science under Miss Coffman studies bees and dissected bee parts aided by drawings and collected specimens. Sixth grade explores ants noting three thousand types and ant life stages. Language class reviews parts of speech. Several students miss school with measles and dental cards returned.
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Miss Coffman
Betty Morgan
Coline Williams
Dorthy Watson
Mrs. Kelly
Army to receive 150 portable photographic laboratories
Chicago reports the United States army air corps will add a fleet of more than 150 auto trailer dark rooms. These fully equipped mobile labs develop and print aerial photos in the field under wartime conditions. The units are built to travel fast, endure any weather, and operate with their own power plants for rapid photo processing.
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Chicago
United States Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Army
Aviation Photographic Corps
D. D. Arehart
Palace Travel Coach Corporation
Arehart
Lincoln pupils illustrate work from Civil War to medieval life
Lincoln School fifth and sixth graders created art reflecting Civil War regions, slave escapes to Canada, and Henry Clay. They studied U S geography including the Philippines and Panama Canal, medieval life with a cathedral facade and monastery model, and Gothic architecture. fourth graders painted a Swiss flag and heard a travel talk from Miss Edna Klein about Switzerland.
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Lincoln School
North
Canada
Henry Clay
Joan Boileau
Shirley Dowell
United States
Philippine Islands
Panama Canal
Bob Fisher
Maryin Morrison
Dick McCleery
Sam Batterson
Ralph Curl
Switzerland
Dick Brock
Edna Klein
Weekly Calendar of School Music Groups
The calendar lists daily meetings and performances for April 22 to 26 including mixed chorus girls sextet boys glee club saxophone quartet flute quartet and brass sextet with times from 9:00 to 7:30 and a Thursday 12:30 trio event.
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Yoo Boys Glee Club
Yoo Brass
Boys Glee Club
Girls Glee Club
Little Sister Banquet Draws 160 Girl Reserve Members
The annual Girl Reserve Little Sister Banquet was held Friday evening with about 160 in attendance. Decorations featured crepe paper dolls and a blue and white Girl Reserves theme. Music by Phil Nelson on accordion accompanied the reception, and Iane Steele gave the big sisters welcome. Three little sisters Phyllis Brown Dorothy Shockey and Lila Holden responded. The dinner offered tender loin patties or escalloped salmon.
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Florence Gouwin
Charlotte Longer
Deborah Longer
Joan Gerdes
Maxine Mangold
Neva Jean Robertson
Joan Keifer
Dorothy Bear
Eleanor Tucker
Jean Atchison
Phil Nelson
Property Manager Helen Rhodebeck Eases College Play Tasks
The college play backstage relies on a busy support team and Helen Rhodebeck, the property manager, who with quiet energy locates props and substitutes. Her two years on Iowa City productions include The Romantic Young Lady, with a program featuring Freshman activities, Girl Reserve talks, marimba solos, and a final group song Follow the Gleam.
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Ange
Helen Rhodebeck
Martha
Ernest
Mary Annabelle
Miss Flood
Helen
Iowa City
State Music Contest Schedule At Fairfield
Music students compete in the state contest at Fairfield with events across Thursday Friday and Saturday covering vocal solo ensembles and instrumental groups including saxophone quartet brass sextet flute quartet band and orchestra performances across morning and afternoon sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Girls Glee Club
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