Notable Staff and Contributors At Local Journal
The journal lists editors and department heads including Evelyn Miller and Don Morrison with features by Marjorie Faulkner Marjorie Walker Mary Walker Roberta Wheelan and others. News staff names Gailen Brown EuEKilen Gidley Lester Hamil Mary Hesseltine Joe Pease Shirley Peterson Margaret Ragan Nyla Reinier Gayle Roberson Helen Raber Eloise Springer Edwin Wells Gerald Wells Mary Atchison heads Junior College and Florence Godwin is the typist.
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Evelyn Miller
Don Morrison
Marjorie Faulkner
Maxine Logan
Marjorie Walker
Mary Walker
Roberta Wheelan
Gailen Brown
Euekilen Gidley
Lester Hamil
Mary Hesseltine
Joe Pease
Shirley Peterson
Margaret Ragan
Nyla Reinier
Gayle Robertson
Helen Raber
Eloise Springer
Edwin Wells
Gerald Wells
Mary Atchison
Florence Godwin
Doodling Debate In School Notebooks And Desks
The piece weighs doodling as a time waster or potential talent. It notes students doodle during lectures with various styles from writing names to geometric shapes. It warns to keep doodles off books desks and library furniture, stressing order and proper place for all items.
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L Fustrator
Washington Demon football players featured in locker room notes
Des Moines Tribune highlights Washington football players including Bill Brown and Lewis in Sports. Lewis is pegged as a top back in the Little Six based on early performances. Mt Pleasant freshmen defeated the Demons 7 0 with a return game planned. Demons endured a tough workout and face Ft Madison next Friday at Ft Madison while the Cards play Eikader at Eikader.
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Des Moines Tribune
Washington
Bill Brown
Lewis
Demon
Little Six
Mt. Pleasant
Duca
Demons
Madison
Ft. Madison
Eikader
Whos Who Profiles a High School Senior and Nurse-to-Be
A senior with top grades in American literature history physics and speech is student council president and active in Theta Mu Girl Reserve GAA Forensic and Hi-Life. She plans a nursing career via Junior College Piney Woods Quartet, plus a radio hobby and a dry goods store greeting. Also notes a hospital nurse past and the Demons at Ft Madison marching band contest schedule.
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Ritz Brothers
Theta Mu
Hi-Life
Iowa Man Praises Yowa as Best Place to Live
Mr. Ralston told a Journalism class that Yowa is the best place to be, citing Iowa pride. He spoke of his San Francisco trip highlighting the Pacific exposition exhibits, free attractions, and a Cavalcade finale, and noted California’s weather as a drawback while praising Chinatown and the city’s beauty.
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Yowa
MR. Ralston
Ralston
San Francisco
Bell Electric
Navy
Artie Shaw
Benny Goodman
West
California
Chinatown
China
Alcatraz
Raling
Ston
Iowa
Senior Week Gossip Sparks Quiet Rumors and Social Ties
A jumble of names and questions fills the page as students gossip about dates, hayrides, fashionable sweaters, and social circles. The notes mention Betty S Joan B Marjorie T Eleanor K Dick A and other classmates with references to dances games and weekend plans.
Greek Classroom Creates Ancient Style Newspaper
Miss Anderson’s two hour history and English class organized as Greeks of old to publish a Greek newspaper. Front page covers weather, lawsuits, and war news, second page reviews Olympic games and theater, biographies, editorials, while the third presents Socrates obituary and ancient ads.
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Anderson
Greece
Socrates
Miss Flood Casts First School Play
Miss Flood announces the cast for Washington High School’s first show of the year A Tangled Yarn a light comedy with an unusual twist Tryouts were held all week and the cast features Camilla Page Caroleen Sartor Vivian Page Ereatore Keagy Cora Blake Georgeanne Judiger Stuart Brand Don Bishop Mrs Mor son June Garrett Michael Morgan Bob Kyser Sadie Stringer Alexander Lawton Don Shep herd Joshua Page Paul Boyd Mrs Page Esther Hayes Speed Martin John Gardner Mrs Brand Audrey Holle The production is set to be staged around the first of November.
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Washington High School
Miss Flood
Camilla Page
Caroleen Sartor
Vivian Page
Ereatore Keagy
Cora Blake
Georgeanne Judiger
Stuart Brand
Don Bishop
Mrs. Morson
June Garrett
Michael Morgan
Bob Kyser
Sadie Stringer
Marjorie Faulkner
Alexander Lawton
Don Shepherd
Joshua Page
Paul Boyd
Page
Esther Hayes
Speed Martin
John Gardner
Brand Audrey Holle
Junior High Observer Starts From Home Room 207
The Junior High Observer is issued this week by Home Room 207 at the elementary junior high. Editor Shirley Dunlap and staff list include George McBurney Betty Suakenberg Dick VDeterson Verlee Raymond Bob Freese Esther Lenninger Henrietta Stewart Eugene Davis. Girls attend first gym class taught by Miss Wilson at the high school gym and plan lunches in home economics. A recent assembly featured Soap Carving and a special program with Mayor Lytle and Jay Brown describing Bicycle aces.
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Junior High Observer
Shirley Dunlap
George McBurney
Betty Suakenberg
Spurs
Dick Vdeterson
Verlee Raymond
Bob Freese
Esther Lenninger
Henrietta Stewart
Eugene Davis
Miss Wilson
Lytle
Jay Brown
German Club Formed At Washington Junior College
A German club for Washington Junior College aims to provide social and cultural activities for German students. Officers are being elected and a Wiener roast is planned as the inaugural event. The program will echo last year with Germany music and an expanded German band. Meetings occur at set times and both German and German speaking students may join.
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Washington Junior College
Classroom Notes Highlight Local Civics and Arts Work
In Miss Shields civics class students draw maps of Washington townships locating towns highways railways and schools and plan interviews with county officers. Miss Randell homemaking class studies budgeting and creates a student budget and accounting system. After six weeks art class embraces work and studies color theory and symbolism.
Mr White Chooses Boy's Vocal Group Leader Picks Students
The Glee club for the boys shows a solid start under Mr White. First tenor includes Harry Anderson Max Bates Robert Custer Le Roy Luers Tommy Walker Harry Whittaker Ray Whisler Bob Brown and Jim Arnold. Second tenor features Carl Adams Merle Booth Lester Hamil Francis Hughes Harold Luers Everett Miller Norman Miller Bob Morgan John Perdock Roger Sheetz Elliss Stoops Wayne Warner. Baritone singers include Allen Atkinson Paul Benson Dean Cox Keith Daering Frank Dea Paul Dodder Douglas Dowell Richard Flynn John Gardner Eugene Grecian Lafe Hamil Carl Klein Dick Knupp Bul Maas Jack Mace David Masson Hassell Miller Francis Ralston Milo Steele Marion Turnipseed Dick Marshall and Daryl Hoyle. Bass singers listed are Vernon Beenblossom Donald Bishop Max Darnell Rob Flynn Henry Godwin Hubert Huber James Marsh Luther Ballew Charles Atkinson Leonard Witthoff and Dick Gardner.
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Mr. White
Harry Anderson
Max Bates
Robert Custer
le Roy Luers
Tommy Walker
Harry Whittaker
Ray Whisler
Bob Brown
Jim Arnold
Carl Adams
Merle Booth
Lester Hamil
Francis Hughes
Harold Luers
Everett Miller
Norman Miller
Bob Morgan
John Perdock
Roger Sheetz
Ellis
Vernon Beenblossom
Donald Bishop
Max Darnell
Rob Flynn
Henry Godwin
Hubert Huber
James Marsh
Luther Ballew
Charles Atkinson
Leonard Witthoft
Dick Gardner
Lincoln Students Take Fall Nature Walk
Lincoln first and second graders walked to observe autumn signs from green leaves turning colors to shedding bare branches. They created colored pictures of trees and leaves and learned about butterflies and wooly bear caterpillars. Paul Broch and Eugene Lyon shared live specimens, one butterfly and a cocooning caterpillar, drawing wide interest.
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Lincln
Paul Broch
Eugene Lyon
College Students Go On Field Trips
Bright blue October weather prompts college students to prefer outdoor study. Biology class led by Mr. Parsons treks outside to collect specimens, while others enjoy front lawn studying. Football players and archery enthusiasts gain exercise outdoors, and the dean urges taking October in large doses outside.
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Parsons
Children Choose Most Popular Pet
Second grade pupils at Stewart School discussed pets and determined dogs as the favorite. They gathered newspaper and magazine pictures for a bulletin board, made a scrapbook for the library table, and created clay dogs while studying dog care and breeds.
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Stewart School
Student Assembly Plans Pep Meeting
The assembly finished reading committee members and discussed methods to boost fan spirit. They aim to spark enthusiasm among rooters for the Demons and rally players at upcoming events.
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Demons
Women's League Hikes and Picnics South of Town
Under College Women's League sponsorship Miss Morris led a group of college women on a long hike last Thursday afternoon and evening. They started at the high school, carried lunches, and wore warm layers. They encountered a dead skunk and a cat tail, which Mildred Anderson tried to pick up. At a wooded stop they roasted wieners and returned, all calling it lots of fun and hoping for a repeat.
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College Women’s League
Miss Morris
Ruth Turner
Mildred Anderson
War avoidance views from local residents
Local residents discuss whether the United States can avoid entering war. Donald Morrison cites awareness of war horror as key. Betty Keifer and Janie Bicher doubt. Raymond Whisler and Marjorie Thompson advocate collective action and peaceful planning to keep the nation out.
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United States
Donald Morrison
Betty Keifer
Raymond Whisler
Janie Bicher
Marjorie Thompson
Safety lessons in home rooms promote caution
Home room programs this week focused on safety at school and home. Teachers emphasized slowing down and thinking, with warnings about careful driving and fire prevention. Miss Minick’s class echoed sayings urging stopping to think and watching children, aiming to prevent accidents.
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Miss Minick
Negro Singers from Piney Woods to Give School Concert
A Negro quartet from Piney Woods Mississippi will present a concert to the combined student bodies of Washington High School and Junior College on Wednesday October 18. The group comes from a school founded by Lawrence Jones for Negroes of all classes and ages and funded mainly by student work. This will be the second paid assembly of the school year and is highly anticipated.
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Piney Woods
Mississippi
Washington High School
Piney Woods School
Lawrence Jones
Jones
Marehallown High School
University of Iowa
Girl Reserve meeting outlines plans for October talk
Last Thursday Jane Steele presided at a Girl Reserve meeting. Mary Atchison spoke on the group's purpose for the October 26 event and new programs were given to members. Georgeanne Ruider accompanied patriotic songs on piano.
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Jane Steele
Mary Atchison
Georgeanne Ruidiver
Camera Club
Letter Club
Muscatine-Washington Gate
Camp fire suggestion before game sparks ritual plan
The note proposes building a camp fire before the game and dancing around it while burning Muscatine's symbol at a stake, with other methods to be discussed later.
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Muscatine
Washington High reveals parent jobs in survey
A school survey shows farming as the chief occupation for about 35 percent of Washington High students. Sales, garage work, and mechanics are also common. Other represented roles include contractors, railroad workers, merchants, clerks, attorneys, and several tradesmen. with dairymen and various laborers also listed.
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Washington High School
Thos of
Mnnristers
Washington Dairymen
Washington High
Wallace Students Read Bear Stories in Class
Wallace fourth grade students explored bears from Russia through stories and reports. Pupils presented on bear habitats, behaviors, and species including brown black grizzly and polar bears. Drama, music, art, and weekly reader tests accompanied the lessons.
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Wallace
Mishook
Russia
Lucie Sehneider
Patricia Longwell
John Haygreen
Sheila Ross
Ruth Jane Askea
John Collett
Leota Brown
Dicky Fields
Owen Gingerich
Mary Caldwell
Bears
Nadine Payne
Billy Askea
Jean Ellen Rudiger
Misa Christiansen
Shirley Dowell
Joan Boileau
Joan Fields
Billy Kelsey
Jack Martin
John Masson
Mason City Trip Highlights Campus Visit and Discussion
A group of football men traveling to Mason City stopped in Cedar Falls to tour the campus the new stadium and swimming pool They also met Don Griffith a Washington junior college graduate from last year The trip with Mr Ralston included a lively discussion.
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Mason City
Cedar Falls
Don Griffith
Washington Junior College
Mr. Ralston
Vacation Periods Outlined for the Year
Mr E A Ralston announced the school will dismiss for the State Teachers Meeting on November 29 and 30. Thanksgiving break runs November 30 to December 1. Christmas vacation from December 20 to January 2. Spring vacation March 20 to 26. Commencement May 29. Memorial Day May 30. May 31 may be used to close for summer.
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E. A. Ralston
Des Moines
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