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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1939
Page
5
Editorial outlines a Bible Club for high school and junior college girls with three goals: confirm true Christian faith, teach living the Christian life through Bible study and prayer, and evangelize. Meetings are held each Wednesday at noon in Miss.
The Washington High scene shows a rising trend with sig net shirts. Students personalize garments by embroidering bright names and pennants. Boys and girls wear yarn and ribbon jitterbugs and decorative hair bows and crepe-soled shoes. The fad appears to endure.
A number of music students perform at the Sun day School Convention at the Methodist Church on April 26 and 27 starting at 7 39 each evening. Wednesday features vocal groups solos and mixed chorus with Lois Hum ble and Cecil Replogle. Thursday brings instrumental groups including a flute quartet string quintet and clarinet quartet with Carolyn Strong on flute and The Longefellows contributing numbers.
Mrs C E Strong directs a lunch program with Miss Stivers supervising. About fifteen to twenty people attend and all are welcome.
A stray OCR item lists students and casual questions about dances, dates, and a party at Burlington. It names Mildred A Boomy J Marge W Harold W Jeanne D Margaret H and others with playful titles and mythic nicknames. The text is fragmentary and lacks a coherent event.
In late March and April Miss Landau’s second graders at Lincoln explored Holland and Dutch life. They read Dutch tales and created displays with Dutch dolls, windmills, and wooden shoes while discussing canals, dykes, markets, and Saint Nicholas.
Opportunity is knocking as the bigger and better 1939 Hi-Life comes to Washington High School and Junior College. Wayne Wilson announces costs for students. Free with both semesters activity ticket. partial charges apply for those with tickets only.
Centennial School fourth graders spent weeks on a pretend Swiss tour learning songs dress and customs. They wrote to Switzerland Cheese Association and Hamburg American Line for info and created chalk and crayon art. The class plans a voyage to the Mediterranean next.
Student voices reveal regrets and hopes about sophomore subject choices. Jean Mathers notes none felt for her path while others like Jean Walker and Helen Stewart wish they had chemistry, Bible, or speech. Some aim to turn studies into work, while others wish for more language and science classes.
Wallace school fourth graders work on a spring frieze and a puppet show while studying Switzerland. Reading progress shown by Bob Steele 37 books Elmer Bruegge 23 George Doran 23. Third grade explores Holland with pictures and cutouts.
The notice outlines Hi-Life annual pricing for that year: seventy five cents per semester plus a late order price of one dollar and twenty five cents for those who had no activity. Delaying to order raises the price to one dollar fifty cents. Limited copies and a first come basis. Be early to catch the worm.
The Jaylee actors practice the challenging play Outward Bound set for next Thursday and Friday. Cast members discuss the emotional toll and concentration required, with several noting the chance to explore different personas and the fun yet taxing nature of rehearsal.
Next Wednesday the Junior College team may play Burling ton at Blattner Field if weather permits. Game starts at 3 50 with students admitted on activity tickets. Graduation will take many first string athletes. Charlie Snyder and Clinton Stewart depart next year.
In English classes Miss Wilson assigns short stories to read and present orally, with students ultimately writing a short story of their own. Mr Le Moine’s typing class focuses on letters and a test on arrangement and punctuation, while Homemaking with Miss Randell has girls sewing silk or wool dresses. General science with Mr Lussky covers earth population, plants and animals, cell and tissue study, protoplasm in cells, and plant structure.
Cape Cod remains the home and largest cranberry producing region with about three quarters of the national crop grown there. The area supports extensive bogs and seasonal harvests essential to the fruit industry.
Auditorium schedule lists 2 00 P M and 8 00 P M sessions with Maurice Kraemer presiding in personnel, Myron Walker in aviation, Fred Downing in civil service, Milo Sorden in music, C C Woodburn in engineering, Meda H Fisher in physical education, Ralph Shannon in journalism, Lawrence Harrison in physical education A and Miss flood directing outward bound in Room 144.
Hi Y boys gathered at the Y M C A for a dinner with Mrs Wilson Mrs Keister Mrs Birney and Mrs Atkinson serving a menu of meat loaf potatoes kravy string beans hot rolls jello salad and cherry pie Cecil Replogle and Wayne Knupp spoke on juvenile crimes delivering a palatable pleasing evening and a world of information.
A Friday night junior senior party at the high school gym drew about 70 ticket buyers. Sara Lemley led ticket sales while Henrietta Marble organized records for the electric record player. Iowa Jean Huber chaired the event with Betty Keifer coordinating refreshments, Maurita Daniel the reception and Richard Minick the cleanup. Miss Lillian Minick and Mr. Fred Maasdam sponsored the event.
The Washington Junior College hosts its third Guidance Conference for students and nearby high schools Friday April 28. Morning lectures include Trends in Occupations by Dean M D Helser and five sections on agriculture home economics radio social service and beauticians. Afternoon talks feature Who Should Go To College by Deanonzo Jones and sections on osteopathy commerce education aviation civil service music engineering physical education and coaching. Evening program showcases the Washington Symphony Orchestra and the junior college play Outward Round directed by Ruth Flood.
The W H S Letter Club hosted a party on Tuesday night April 18 in the school gym with dancing ping pong and refreshments of ham sandwiches cherry and apple pie and ice cream. Initiation letters were given to Frank Dea Howard Little and Bob Lowe for basketball. Most lettermen attended along with many female guests including Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kimberlin Mr. and Mrs. George Mohr and Mr. Fred Maasdam.
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