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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1923

Page

5

Junior High PEP Brightens With Lessons And Readings

Merritt McDaniels Virginia Macon and Wayne Brown lead seventh and sixth graders in a school pageant featuring exams, grades, and praise for good study habits. Raymond Crone and staff present home room poetry readings and a proclamation by George Washington read by Wilma Walker.

Merritt McDaniels Virginia Macon Wayne Brown Raymond Crone Golda van Dorn Twyla Reid George Washington Wilma Walker Donald Powers Dorothy Clark Hazel Kiser Josephine Hull Velma McKenzie Earl Epting Harvey Coulter Irene Mason

Honor Roll and Attendance Highlights Across Grades

Honor Roll eighth grade 202 leads grades with 41 A's and 76 B's. Home Room 103 tops attendance with 14 absences and perfect punctuality. seventh grade 106 leads in attendance and punctuality with 14 absences and 3 tardies. Sixth grade girls lead in grades with 80 A's and 51 B's and show 13 absences with no tardies. The assembly opened with two songs, a Thanksgiving hymn and America the Beautiful, featuring Rev Kern of the Baptist church and a focus on gratitude for the school system.

Home Room America the Beautiful Rev. Kern The Baptist Church Kern

Orange ice praised by Faculty in cheerful notice

The poem recalls a group of people enjoying orange ice. A courteous request to come downstairs is followed by obedience and gratitude. The Faculty votes that the event was one of the best, expressing appreciation and thanks.

Weight survey shows underweight students in junior high

Nurse conducted individual inspections in junior high weighing and measuring pupils and comparing to age matched norms from the Child Health Organization. About 40 percent of seventh and eighth graders are at least ten percent underweight, while sixth grade shows a smaller but notable underweight rate.

Child Health Organization

Health Focus Warns On Malnutrition In Junior High

The article reports sixth to eighth graders showing underweight issues with eight graders most affected. It cites diet and sleep as key factors and urges wholesome meals with fruit vegetables and milk, plus 9 to 10 hours sleep for growing children. It stresses correlation between health and academics and calls for community cooperation.

Lewis

Evening Junior High Basketball Skirmish Ends With 103 Victory

Tuesday game between Room 107 and 103 started late due to tardy players. Badham’s long pass to Lewis opened scoring, Cyrus broke Lewis’ guarding for a second basket, and 107 rallied early in the second half. Badham fouled late, but 103 won 5 to 0 with referee Guy Carlton and timekeeper L. R. Austin.

Badham Tucker Hada Hazen Conner Cyrus Bush L. R. Austin Wellman Guy Carlton Cedar Falls Athletics Lewis Cyrus Crone Chester

To Measure Gases in Simple Medical Lab Apparatus

A bathing cap grease gun and soda lime cap parts of a basic apparatus teach medical students how to measure gases breathed.

Otte Receives Hawkeye Scholarship At University

Lowell Otte, University of Iowa football star and All Conference end, has been awarded the Hawkeye scholarship of 100 dollars as the campus' most representative junior man. He earned freshman numerals in football and track, varsity track numerals, and two letters in football, while maintaining high scholastic averages in the College of Liberal Arts.

Iowa City Lowell Otte University of Iown Walter Eckersall Hawkeye Otte College of Liberal Arts

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