School Calendar 1976 77 Term Highlights and Dates
A dense list of school events for 1976 77 including Board meetings football games milestones calendars and holidays. Major items include start of classes early September weekly meetings homecoming and end of first quarter with many football basketball music and wrestling events across several districts and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Wesleyan
Waco
Notre Dame
Mt. Pleasant
Oskaloosa
Ft. Madison
Cardinal
J.V
Lowa City West
S.E.I.B.M.A
Ottumwa
Mediapolis
Supplies List for Brighton Lincoln and Stewart Elementary
The article lists needed school supplies by grade for Brighton Lincoln and Stewart Elementary pupils and emphasizes labeling clothing for P E. It notes grade specific items such as glue crayons pencils paper tissue rulers and erasers and directs students to check with P E teachers Mr Roth Mr McKie and Mr Murphy for required shoes and clothing while ensuring all clothing has names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton, Lincoln and
Stewart
Roth
Lincoln School
McKie
Stewart School
Murphy
Brighton
Health Services Expand At Washington Community School
The Washington Community School expands health services with two nurses. Sandra Rich and Betty Farrier will cover Lincoln Stewart Junior High Brighton and Senior High Schools on assigned days and hours. In emergencies, both nurses are on call at local schools. Parents should notify the nurse if a child is absent with contagious disease. The school keeps on file parent home and work numbers and the family physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Community School
Sandra Rich
Betty Farrier
Rich
Lincoln School
Stewart School
Transportation of School Pupils Washington Community School
Washington Community School will run sixteen regular bus routes and four kindergarten routes this year. Trial runs for drivers to learn routes and stops are planned August 20 with full familiarity for opening day August 30. Director of Transportation Don Zwicki can be reached at 653 6543. bus staff include Steve Goodwin and Tom Kerr. About 800 students are transported daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Community
Don Zwicki
Steve Goodwin
Tom Kerr
Transportation Department
Leo Beauchamp
Stan Foster
Walter Sojka
Doris Sojka
Florence Sobaski
Phyllis Stout
Marge Tappan
Jane Whitaker
Gene Booth
Wesley Mullikin
Don Myers
Marion Dodson
Loren Robertson
Gary Wade
Jim Hotchkiss
Loretta Mellinger
Special Education Services At Grant Wood Agency Washington District
The Grant Wood Area Education Agency provides a comprehensive special education services program for the Washington Community School District. It includes a coordinator, two school psychologists, two speech clinicians, and programs for educable and trainable mentally retarded students, plus deaf education for deaf and hard of hearing youths. The department advises the county developmental center and serves as diagnosticians and consultants to students and teachers, with referrals, diagnoses, and follow up leading to placements or services. It also liaises between local districts and the agency and offers social work, vision and hearing consultants, early childhood programs, disability consultants, and the Child Evaluation Clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Washington Community
Washington County Developmental Center
Special Services Department
Special Education Department
Grant Wood Area
No School Announcements By Radio Plan
The notice explains school shutdowns will be announced on KCII Washington and WMT Cedar Rapids. If snow vacation or mechanical failure occurs, an announcement will air on the 10 pm news. late decisions will be on the 7 am news. Parents should not call administrators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KCII
Washington
WMT
Cedar Rapids
Attendance and punctuality guide for students and parents
The article emphasizes regular attendance for school success and restricts sending ill children to school. It advises parents to notify the school of absences, supports making up missed work, and urges children to learn to ask what to make up. It notes extra help after school and stresses timeliness and parent communication.
School Lunch Program details district centers and pricing
The district outlines a comprehensive lunch program with modern kitchens, qualified cooks, and Margery Voelker as General Food Service Director. Menus are decided with building Food Managers under the Department of Public Instruction, aiming for balanced, palatable meals starting August 30. Prices rise 50 cents for students, 60 cents for adults. tickets and a la carte options are offered, with free and reduced lunch policy based on family income. Applications for aid are confidential and reviewable by building principals, with appeal hearings available through designated officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margery Voelker
Department of Public Instruction
E. K. Schlapkohl
H. A. Soucek
Board of Education
Superintendent of Schools
School Cafeteria Managers and Staff List
A roster lists the names of cafeteria managers and staff across multiple schools including High School Mrs. Jean Hampsher and Ala Carte Junior High staff like Mrs. Sadie Coleman and Corinne Phelps. The Brighton and Lincoln schools show managers such as Miss Eula Mae Coon and Mrs. Edith Lowry, with others named throughout the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Hampsher
Fran Moyer
Ruth Reneger
Ala Carte
Sadie Coleman
Retha Hough
Thelma Wagner
Betty Bash Marguerite Maxwell
Helen Birney
Corinne Phelps
Ala
Carte
Senior High I D Card Delivers Reduced Event Prices
Senior High students may buy a student identification card for fifty cents to gain reduced admission to all school activities. Regular prices are one dollar, but with an I D card seniors pay seventy five cents at events. The Junior High sells activity tickets for four dollars granting free admission to Junior High athletic events and assemblies plus a subscription to the Junior High newspaper.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mid-Prairie
Rock Ridge
Keokuk
Soph
Grinnell
L&m
Lincoln
Muscatine
Thanksgiving
Williamsburg
Sember
Burlington
D” Letters School Board
Ft. Madison Science Club
Jr. High
Here Girls
Muscatine Inc
Sigourney
Here
Fairfield Trojan
School Board
Drake
Elmer's School
Food Service Personnel
Edith Lowry
Olive Emry
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