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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1939
Page
3
The piece urges self improvement over competing with others, insisting perfection is unattainable and urging readers to set their own standards. It emphasizes personal responsibility, a fresh semester, new schedules, instructors, books, and developing their own record rather than comparing to peers.
A reflective piece urges students to value education beyond immediate interests. It compares studies to an ugly stone in a wall, argues that every subject builds a sturdy structure for future success, and warns that choosing a noneducational path may lead to driftwood in life.
Last Tuesday morning at ten o clock a motion picture was shown for high school students on "Monel Metal." It demonstrated the processes the material undergoes and the many objects produced from a single substance.
Seventy members from the Junior High will perform their first yearly band concert February 2 at 7 45 PM in the high school auditorium. The program features marches overtures waltzes and small ensembles. Admission is free.
A pair of juniors, one male and one female, are profiled for their academics and activities. The boy, with light brown hair and grey eyes, excels in English, history, speech, and geometry, serves as secretary of homeroom 104, writes for the school paper, and acts in the play Sweet Sixteen. He enjoys woodwork and headlines and is active in Hi Y and Forensic clubs. The girl, with brown hair and brown eyes, studies English, history, typing, and speech, participates in orchestra, Girls Glee Club, mixed chorus, commercial club, Theta Mu, and 4 H, and admires Tyrone Power and Margaret Sullivan. Her hobbies include collecting movie ads and she hopes to teach, design clothes, and play the cello.
The Washington High School band sees growth with over four eighth graders eligible next fall and only ten seniors leaving. Orchestra schedule remains unchanged despite an attempted change while Miss Stewart drills the A girls glee club on ABCs. The band works on Von Sippe’s Jolly Robbers and eye a contest win. The piece questions who was off key in mixed chorus and ponders the value of kindergarten in high school.
Third grade pupils at Lincoln presented a health themed program for the Parent Teachers Association. Leota Brown announced the program which included songs and a play with roles such as King of Good Habit Land and Land of Health.
Homemaking students prepare a noon luncheon for four girls as their final menu projects. Homemaking II uses the Consumer's Guide to study buying and budgets for 1939. January expense keeping runs through the month as part of the money unit.
Senior home rooms discuss class rings as schedules are copied and pep remains high for the final lap of the year. The bulletin board displays rings pins and necklaces fueling conversations about Tinga and related selections.
The junior college biology class explores dangers of undercooked meat with a focus on parasitic worms. Pork is highlighted as a common source of tapeworms or trichinella, with beef and fresh fish also risk factors. Sausages and hamburgers are noted as commonly undercooked at picnics.
At the start of the second semester changes were made in the high school journalism class. Faye Holland editor, with Maxine Kaxter and Maurita Darnell as assistant editors, oversee headlines by Bill Brown, Carl Kleien, and Dick Knupp. Paul Boyd and Fred Reid handle sports, Florence Godwin is the typist, and Mary Atchison covers junior college news. Senior reporters include Maurita Daniel, Margaret Lesher and Jean Walker. junior reporters Phyllis Crayne, Jeanne Davie, Jane Eicher, Siar Jorie Faulkner, and Mary Hesseltine.
The article highlights the Freshman team on an eight game unbeaten streak and predicts future top status in Little Six basketball with players Bob Faulkner Lowe Knott Willis Booth Marshall Barham Mill Dick Moore leading. It notes Friday games start at seven o'clock and urges punctual student attendance. It also mentions Hoskins' surprise return and three new junior college players Walter McFarland Omar Herry Wayne Chamberlain. The Cards host Bloomfield tomorrow night and fans are asked to attend on time.
The week lists volleyball tourney in gym daily 4:00 PM entries and vocal ensembles including male quartet mixed quartet girl’s sextet and junior high band. Debates and forensic club meet in rooms 104 and at the city library with city team participation. A Berlin Germany speaker appears Friday along with a high school game versus Burlington.
Last Thursday afternoon at three o'clock the high school assembly heard Victor Seiverding, state commander of the American Legion, speak to students and staff. The address highlighted veterans' service and community involvement, underscoring Citizenship and civic duty.
The senior vote decides the class ring style for 1935. Options include white or yellow gold rings with black onyx or ruby settings, featuring the high school insignia and graduation year. A cameo ring was a close second. rings can also be made as pins or necklaces. Orders will be taken at Lemmon's Jewelry Store.
Washington high school reports two new students for the second semester. Ailleen Smuth joins the junior class with choices in Miole speech bookkeeping and home economics. Robert Houseal transfers from Ainsworth high, taking Latin I typing I bookkeeping and guidance, and joins the glee club and mixed chorus while planning to play basketball here.
The piece lists multiple personal names and opinions on topics from music and wine to youth organizations. It notes Carl Klein and Mary Walker as answerers and mentions Belverding as an attorney in Kundy Center. The subject of a talk is cited as Americanian in the context of wartime efforts and youth roles.
An assembly Friday afternoon featured Douglas Booth of London, a traveler, lecturer, and Royal Institute of International Affairs member. A World War II veteran and former major discussed Central European problems after spending years studying the region.
With the second semester starting, home rooms elected new officers. Not all rooms changed leadership. Notable selections include Room 108 with Don Shepard as president and Marjorie Thompson as vice president, and Room 105 naming David Masson as president.
A rambling classroom style forecast and humor column lists odd terms and jokes. It notes coffee shop style news about student life with names and playful inquiries about relationships and party events among students.
Morocco Egypt Rhodes Greece Maria Hungary Yugoslavia and France framed the talk on world trade as a gateway to peace. The speaker explored problems including What Makes Germany Dissatisfied? and answered student questions clearly.
First grade students at Wallace read January poems and drew snow scenes on blue paper. A list of dental honor roll inductees spans first through fourth grades with names such as Junior Deenblossom, Jean Wright, and Robby Lloyd. The fourth grade reports 26 on the dental honor roll and they study geography with a Norway trip, dictionary use, and mock business transactions in arithmetic.
Jill Stewart, class of 1924, a Washington Junior College alumnus, is noted as an outstanding singer. He performs as a member of The Kings Men on the Texaco program and directs the Chapman College choir while considering offers to direct choirs in Glendale and Hollywood.
Kindergarteners at the Y have taken up carpentry making ecradies chairs tables and cupboards from cigar boxes orange crates and odd lumber pieces. They saw and paint their own work finishing projects before starting new ones. Ten children have painted their first names on a large chart as some visit the clinic for smallpox vaccination.
The semester honor roll lists twelve students with GPA 3.00 or higher and includes Maxine Marshall Evelyn Eyestone Mary Atchison Carol McDowell Mary Westphal William Rawg Ruth Dupois Bertha Reinert Jobin Yousling Myra Van Nostrand Donna Ayers Doris Klepfer. Honorable mention goes to Martha Mace Carolyn Carbee Laura Kehoe Sam Wittmer Frances Fisher and Betty Hamil for being close to eligibility.
The Forensic Club resumes activity under Miss Flood with original oratory and interpretive reading groups. A business meeting will be held Thursday February 2 at 7 30 in the auditorium, and all members are urged to attend.
A school assembly viewed an Amotion picture on the earth and moon’s creation the rise of life and prehistoric creatures. It covered the great ice age, animal adaptation, protective coloration and the evolution to present day, plus a reel on Alaska’s life and resources.
A poetic reminiscence praises Wordsworth and the star in the sky. The speaker thanks and aspires to use talent to find peace and joy, invoking the Christ Child’s birth as a guide to work and mirth. The closing signature names Jean Walker.
In Miss Anderson's Freshman English class students begin reading Enoch Arden. An Algebra class for freshmen who wish to finish one year early starts under Miss Sidles. American History moves from the Civil War to Reconstruction. Shorthand classes under Mr. Bartow study brief forms. Senior English finishes Coleridge's Unfinished Stories with student conclusions after the author's death. Miss Patton's business training classes study thrift and bookkeeping by recording income and expenses.
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