Glow Worm School News Opens With Pep and Clubs
The Glow Worm announces its editorial team and staff writers as it welcomes a new term. Principal Manning brings pep to football practice while new teachers join grades one through seven with diverse assignments. Handicraft clubs form with officers in both girls and boys groups, producing towels, blouses, models, and racks as students express gratitude to teachers and parents.
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Manning
Miss Everheart
W. G. Bedford
Enterprise
Mona Sullivan
Union Hill
Beth Cunningham
John Biggerstaff
Seventh Grade Adds New Club Officers At School
Kirk May and Lloyd Mitchell return to class after illness while Ina Marie Clark Hoyle Riddle G C Brown and Clyde Riddle also back. Bonnie Bell Hamilton moves to Weiland as her father becomes principal. The Handicraft Club for seventh grade is organized with Martha Louise Vestal as president Pattie Everheart as vice president Ann LaRoe secretary treasurer Dorothy Sue Douglas reporter and Miss Lucyle Sanders sponsor. The sixth grade organizes its.
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Margaret Lucyle Hanna
Joana Harrison
Mary Frances Stephens
Wallace Reeves
Melvin Fleming
James C. Stateville
Newton Manning
Kirk May
Ina Marie Clark
Hoyle Riddle
G. C. Brown
Clyde Riddle
Lloyd Mitchell
Beth Cunningham
John Biggerstaff
Lucyle Sanders
Klondike
Bonnie Bell Hamilton
Weiland
B. Wrenn Webb
Wallace
Ann
Dorothy Sue
Beth
John
Pattie
Mary Helen
Bonham
Virginia Jones
Oklahoma
Mary Frances Call
Bailey
Martha Louise Vestal
Pattie Everheart
Ann LaRoe
Dorothy Sue Douglas
First Grade Pupils Build Homes in Classroom Study
The first grade pupils begin their initial school year with a home study. They build a house together and make two pasteboard houses. Miss Everheart, their teacher, hopes the effort helps appreciation of homes. Each pupil has his name around the blackboard and knows his name.
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Everheart
E. H
Second grade carpenters build green chairs for reading table
In first grade, pupils craft chairs from apple crates to color match a reading table, bringing tools and boxes. Health displays feature pictures and stories on brushing hair and teeth, fruit, and milk. A farmyard scene forms in the sand bed with a house, barn, trees, and animals.
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W. G. Bedford
Classnotes on History and Roman Numerals Begs Study
The writer notes students are studying the discovery of America and Roman numerals to aid in history and English storytelling. The class has several new books that are very interesting and attractive, supporting their broader learning goals.
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C. S
Sixth grade studies include light meters and linoleum sizing
Practical problems in sixth grade focus on light meter reading kitchen measurements and linoleum layouts. Mr Roundtree supplied an electric meter for study. New pupils Alta Nell Hansard Bonnie Bell Hamilton Sammy Jack Taylor Jean Fern McClairy join, with Hamilton leaving soon.
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Mr. Roundtree
Alta Nell Hansard
Bonnie Bell Hamilton
Sammy Jack Taylor
Jean Fern McClairy
J. S
P. E
Seventh grade studies homes and architecture theme
The seventh grade focuses on homes with a unit on architecture. Students pick a state capital and write for literature, study a Whitewright home including cost and floor plan, and plan a furnished house. They compare magazine homes and work on furnishing details. In arithmetic they model a floor plan and estimated furnishing costs. In music they study notes and spaces. -B. J. H.
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State Capitol
Whitewright
School library opens with wide access and new books
The library welcomes students on all periods with about a thousand books and over a hundred reference works from top editors. Donations are praised and ongoing support praised as the year begins. Sports note mentions grades 5–7 in softball and other games with Mr. Manning coaching football.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrick
Clara Myrick
Mr. Manning
W. R
Portraits and poems of students and townsfolk
A collage of light verse and character sketches celebrates students such as Dorothy Sue Wallace and Charles Skaggs and playful personifications like Old Man Evening. The piece closes with a curious question about nose rubbing and a dated remark about King Philip of Spain’s February death warrant.
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Philip of Spain
Riddles and misfits in a curious list of trivia
A stream of quirky facts and questions spans capital punishments, beauty standards in enlistment, Harvard science stunts, naming quirks like Name Alaska, Daladier as strong man, Switzerland in danger, James Roosevelt at Mayo Clinic, Thursday named for Thor, Robert Taylor in Whitewright, Alexander the Great’s mass wedding in 324 B C, definitions of synonyms, school fights Mary Helen Maddox and James Stuteville, and Kirk May’s church trouble with Dorothy Sue Douglas.
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Beth Cunningham
John Biggerstaff
Wallace Reeves
Netherlands
United States
Harvard
Alaska
Edouard Daladier
France
Switzerland
James Roosevelt
Mayo Clinic
Thor
Thunder
Robert Taylor
Whitewright
B. C
Susa
Persia
Alexander the Great
Mary Helen Maddox
James Stuteville
Kirk May
Dorothy Sue Douglas
Fragmented Schoolroom Riddles and Jokes Share Laughs
A string of quips and classroom humor features students and teachers trading lines about combs, dresses, flags, and fasteners. Characters include Beth Cunningham Charles Skaggs Opal Bennett Billie Jo Phillips and Mrs Bedford with light back-and-forth banter and mild punchlines.
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Beth Cunningham
Charles Skaggs
Billie Jo Phillips
Opal Bennett
A. L
World Fair to display Leslie Salt model on Treasure Island
The largest ocean salt plant in the world, run by Leslie Salt Company on San Francisco Bay, will be showcased as a plant model at the World's Fair opening on February 18 at Treasure Island.
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San Francisco Bay
Leslie Salt Company
Treasure Island
Texas Motorists Pay in $61,471,000 1937 fuels taxes
The Bureau of Public Roads reported Texas motorists paid 61,471,000 in fuel taxes license fees and fines during 1937. All but 10,246,000 for educational purposes funded highway and local road systems. State highway use totaled 37,470,000 with 26,781,000 for construction and maintenance and 443,000 for the highway police. local projects received 11,671,000.
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Washington
Bureau of Public Roads
Texas
Elliott Roosevelt criticizes hare-brained political schemes
Dallas report says Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, rejected any hare-brained schemes that threaten Texas business stability. He declined to confirm references to W Lee O Daniel's old age pension plank but said he opposed any pension system not funded by state revenue. The line about the albatross head lingered in the write up.
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Dallas
Elliott Roosevelt
W. Lee O'Daniel
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