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Grade I
School opened August 28th with an enrollment of 25, since that time four members have transferred to other schools, one ill and unable to attend. Three new ones have been added to our list, so our enrollment now stands 23 in grade one.
The following activities have taken place during the school year:
September:
The afternoon of the first we were dismissed to attend the Tipton fair September the 5th. Get acquainted party, girls doll day, boys toy day. September 11th Eileen Dircks had a birthday party. September 21st Gladys Pruess had a birthday party. September 26th Donald Ruther had a birthday party. Vernon Goldsmith brought us four goldfish to keep in our room during the year.
October:
October 4th Elda Wulff gave a birthday party. October 6th grades 1,2,3, and 4 had their pictures taken. October 9th Gladys Pruess brought us a turtle bought at the Worlds Fair in Chicago, we still have the turtle, we call it Jackie. On October 11 Richard Swartzell and Margaret Britcher celebrated their birthdays. On October 23 grade one had a reading demonstration at the P.T.A. meeting in the high school. On October 30 we held our Halloween party, the children made their own napkins, nut cups, and favors. The second grate celebrated with us.
November:
On November 6th Vernon Steffins had a birthday party. November 8th was General visiting day. Grade one had 31 visitors. On November 20 we had a farewell party for Neil Frahm, who moved away. November 29 Reverend Faulth talked to us about Thanksgiving. In the afternoon we dramatized the “First Thanksgiving”. The children dressed as Pilgrims and Indians in costumes we made.
December:
On December 5th we drew names for our Christmas gifts and children started making gifts. December 7th Edward Bachman celebrated his birthday. We had our Christmas tree and party on December 22, and at this time we presented our mothers and fathers with decorated salt and pepper shakers.
January:
January 3rd Vernon Goldsmith gave a birthday party. The entire month was spent in studying Eskimos.
February:
Made a play post-office to be used during our valentine collecting. We visited the Clarence post-office and Miss Brink gave us much information as to the post-office work. We made valentines and mail men collected those and mailed them at the post-office. February 5th Verna Wulff and John Sheldon had their birthday parties. On February 12 we observed Lincoln’s birthday, through stories and talk. February 12th George Shriver and Miss Cruise had their birthday parties. February 14th our Valentine party was held with the second grade children. On February 16th Durwood Dircks birthday party was held. We observed Washington’s birthday, making badges and read stories about Washington. On February 23rd Max Long had a birthday party. In the morning of February 26 we had a fire talk and drill, in the afternoon we had a farewell party for Elda and Verna Wulff and Roland Tompson.
March:
We spent the month in the study of Dutch folks. March 6th we had collected our orange crates, from down town stores . . .
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and started making our furniture. On March 21st we observed bird day. We also took a walk to Don Claney’s to see the rabbits. On Mach 26th the boys started painting furniture. The girls started making curtains and pillows. On March 28th the boys and girls colored easter eggs and finished painting their furniture. On March 30th we had a easter egg hunt and party.
April:
On April 2nd the children put designs on furniture, used rit and colored our curtains and pillows. We ironed these and hung the curtains. On April 9th Roy Behrns brought us white rabbits for nature study, and on April 10th he brought us some white rats. Kenneth Meier had a birthday party on April 18th. We had a school exhibit on April 23rd. We entertained our next year children on April 25th. On April 26th we had a ginger bread party.
May:
On May 4th we observed Mother’s Day. On May 11th the grade pageant was given on school grounds, the morning parade and all the celebration at the school grounds.
Thus ends the school activities in Grade 1 for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-four.
Grade II
School opened the 28th of August with nineteen pupils, eleven boys and eight girls. Since that time four people have entered making our enrollment twenty three.
We had our Halloween party in first grade. Games of all kinds were played.
Most of our time in December was spent in preparing for Christmas. We had a short Christmas program. We presented gifts to our mothers and distributed our other presents.
In February we observed the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington. First and Second grades had their Valentines party together. We had heart shaped cakes for refreshments. Afterwards we distributed our Valentines.
During March we studied the people of Holland. We had a Dutch village in our sand table. All art work was in correlation with Holland.
At the April meeting of the P. T. A. we had our school exhibit. A great deal of our time was used in preparing for our pageant during the latter part of April.
May first we had our May baskets. The last day of school a pageant, “Mother Goose Celebrates,” was presented by grades, one, two, and three and four at the school building.
Grades III and IV
On the 28th of August 1933, twenty pupils enrolled in grade three, and thirteen pupils enrolled in grade four. During the year five pupils enrolled in these grades, increasing the enrollment to thirty-eight.
Our first party came at Halloween, October 30th. We enjoyed a delicious dinner together. This was followed by an original play, “Old Mother Witch.”
In November we studied about Pilgrims, and at Thanksgiving time we dramatized the play, “The First Thanksgiving.”
On December 22nd we had a Christmas program consisting of a play, “The Christmas Crazy Class”, recitations, and singing Christmas carols. The program was followed by a Christmas tree and party. At this time we presented our mothers with vases which we had painted.
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February proved to be a busy month. We observed the birthdays of Lincoln, Washington, and St. Valentine. We gave a classroom demonstration of a Geography class at the Parent-Teachers meeting.
In March we studied about the Dutch boys and girls and made posters symbolic of Holland.
We took part in the School Art Exhibit at the Parent-Teacher’s meeting, April 23rd.
We enjoyed our part in the pageant, “Mother Goose Celebrates”, May 10th, by grades one to four.
Grade V
School opened on Monday, August 28th with the following pupils enrolled: Evelyn Stock; Kathryn Crist; Avis Shriver; Dorothy Bradley; Keith Russell; Robert Joslin; La Vern Pruess; Gale Long; Allison Rix; Dale Sheldon; Leota Goldsmith; Roy Behrens; Eugene Loomis, George Sheldon; Joan Davis; Marietta Robinson; Eldon Modisett.
September:
On Friday, September 1, school was dismissed for the county fair.
October:
Our first party for the year was celebrated on Halloween. We had a picnic dinner at noon then played games during the last half of the afternoon.
November:
School was dismissed on Wednesday, November 29th for the thanksgiving vacation.
December:
We were kept very busy during this month for, in addition to our school work we worked on our operetta which we gave with grade 6. It was entitled, “A Wooden Shoe Christmas”. We presented the operetta on Thursday, December 21st.
January:
On Monday, January 22nd, the fifth grade presented a demonstration music class before the Parent-Teachers Organization.
February:
During February we followed the customary routine by observing Valentines’ Day, Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday.
March:
Our enrollment was increased to 20 members when, on March 5th, Geneva Eggert and Lily Winey joined our group. However we lost one member when Eugene Loomis left on March 12th. We celebrated the first day of spring by observing Bird Day on March 21st.
April:
We observed the coming of spring in our school work. Our reading class dealt with a study of nature for in addition to reading we could observe the awakening of grass, flowers and trees.
May:
As the school year drew to a close we were kept very busy finishing our work preparatory to final exams. Classes were dismissed on Wednesday, May 9th. We held the annual community day celebration on Thursday, May 10th. Report cards were sent out on Friday, May 11th and thus ended the event of the fifth grade of 1934.
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Grade VI
The school year opened with thirteen boys and nine girls in sixth grade. Bonnilee Freeman and Irene Feddersen making the total enrollment twenty four because they entered later in the year.
Sixth grade had two parties this year. A Halloween party and a Christmas party.
The fifth grade cooperated with the sixth grade in putting on an operetta, “A Wooden Shoe Christmas.”
A new subject, Iowa History was introduced in sixth grade this year. It is a study of both the past and the present of our state.
Our spring art projects have been manual training for the boys and sewing for the girls.
Grades VII and VIII
We had an enrollment of thirty at the beginning of this school year, fourteen pupils in seventh grade and sixteen in eighth.
On November 23rd, we presented as a public entertainment two one-act plays and a puppet play, “Pumpkin Pie Peter”, “A Thanksgiving Conspiracy”, and “Johnny Squash Starts Something”.
Several of our boys played on the Junior High basket ball team this year.
We had a Christmas program, tree, and treat in our own room and presented our mothers with candle-stick holders made of red pottery clay.
The high school invited us to several pep meetings; we also gave a stunt for one of those meetings.
In March Eugene Winey entered seventh grade, while Ruth Wigger, Mathilde Wigger, and Margarete Christiansen joined our eighth grade.
During February and the early part of March we practiced for our spelling contest. Lizabeth Ann Tacker proved to be the spelling champion of the grade school so she represented Clarence in a Cedar County Spelling Contest held March tenth. Lizabeth Ann won sixth place as an oral speller.
Melvin Clemmens dropped from our eighth grade in the middle of March.
April 23rd, we displayed some of our year’s work at a school exhibit held in connection with the Parent Teacher’s meeting.
Our eighth grade commencement exercises were held in the high school auditorium. Elaine Klatt was valedictorian, and Lizabeth Ann Tacker was salutatorian.
Exercises
| Salutatory | Lizabeth Tacker |
| Class Oration | Lois Workman |
| Class History | Keith Bixler |
| Tap Dance | Donna Kelly |
| Class Appetite | Mathilda Wigger |
| Class Poem | Elizabeth Bark |
| Class Doctor | James Sawyer |
| Song | Girls |
| Class Will | Harold Doermann |
| Class Prophecy | Ray Robinson |
| Piano Duet | Kathleen L. and Dorothy B. |
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(8th Commencement continued)
| Address | Rev. John Anderson |
| Valedictory | Elaine Klatt |
| Key Presentation | Ruth Wigger |
| Song | Class |
| Presentation of Class | Miss Martin |
| Presentation of diplomas | Supt. K. L. Benner |
| Class Motto – “Pick your peak and climb” |
| Class Colors-- Orange and black |
| Class Flower – Tulip |
Dont’s in School and Out
Don’t race for your home room; let the room come to you.
Don’t throw things at the waste basket; the floor is easier to hit.
Don’t drink your coffee from a saucer; it stretches your mouth.
Don’t fool in the corridor at recess; it’s pleasanter inside, out of the rain and cold, then outside.
Don’t bend over the table at mealtime; have the table raised to meet your chin.
Don’t attempt to meet your friends in their respective rooms; see them in assembly or during music period.
Don’t talk when the quiet bell rings; you’ll strain your voice trying to talk louder than the bell.
Don’t eat or munch candy or food in class; your class activities will interfere with your digestion.
Don’t be absent without a necessary cause; think of the anguish and loneliness your absence brings to the hearts of your instructors and class mates.
Don’t buy candy at the lunch counter in the open; you won’t get much of it for yourself anyway.
Don’t go by any charity boxes without contribution; the starving Americans are badly in need of toothpicks, again.
Don’t open desks which have not been assigned to your care; you never can tell what kind of an odor the lunches that some of the pupils bring (until you open the desk).
Don’t open or close windows of school without permission of teacher; it takes more than a permit to budge some of these ancient windows.
Don’t heed anything I may have said in this column; I really didn’t mean any of it.
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SPICY BITS
Student-“What’s the date, please?”
Teacher-“Never mind the date, the examination is more important.”
Student-“Well, sir, I wanted to have something right.
Mr. Hyde-“I told you to bring a note book to class.”
Student-“I don’t need one I can use my head.”
Mr. Hyde-“I didn’t say a blank note book.”
“Hey, waiter, there is a fly in my coffee.”
“It’s all right, let him burn to death.”
Fond mother- “Do you detect any musical ability in Mildred?”
Miss Kopplin (coldly)- “Madame, I am not a detective.”
Teacher-“What is the prominent women’s club in America?”
Wise boy- “The rolling pin.”
Bass-“Did you ever notice how Phillips closes his eyes when he sings?”
Soprano-“Yes, I guess he can’t stand it to see us suffer.”
Otto Hansen-“What’s the roast sirloin like?”
Sentimental waiter-“Tender as a woman’s heart, sir.”
Otto-“Give me sausages and mashed potatoes.”
“I think Kate is the most forgiving girl.”
“Why?”
“She overlooks everything.”
Don’t fall for this, but if you want to make a hit with your profs:
1. Come late.
2. Tell him you aren’t interested.
3. Never come, if you can help it.
4. Speak to all your friends when you come in late-be democratic.
5. Never raise your hand, or recite, he might think you’re trying to get by.
6. Never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow.
Miss Beadle (after bawling out the class)—“Now those are kind words, every one of them.
Grinny Rix-“What color do you think my mustache will be when it grows out?”
Lloyd Hasselbusch-“At the present rate, it will be gray.”
Miss Rich: “Can you give me an example of a collective noun?”
Freshie: “Garbage”.
“The biggest jokes are never printed. They are running around on two feet.”
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May. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, October, March, June, December, August, and February.—Twain
How quickly the little ones grow up! You no sooner get through sitting up with them then you’re sitting up for them.
About the only exercise some folks take is jumping at conclusions.
“Poets are born—that’s the trouble.” Walter Winchell
It seems as though this year the usual weather has been more unusual than usual.—Enquirer.
He who laughs last seldom gets the point anyway.
Have you heard the delightful story of the little girl in the very “progressive” school who one day asked the teacher, “Do we have to do just as we want to all day?”
A bore is the kind of man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.—Channing Pollock
If time keep getting better there may yet be a car for every filling station.
A lady is a woman who always remembers others, and never forgets herself.
Modern child, stroking her new kitten: “Mummy, it’s left its motor running.”
Golf: A game where the ball always lies poorly; and the player very well.
A modern murderer is supposed to be innocent until he is proved insane.
The chief difference between a gum-chewing flapper and a cud-chewing cow is the thoughtful expression on the face of the cow.
Gossips have a keen sense of humor.
In bridge, a good deal depends on a good deal.
If all the automobiles in the world were placed end to end it would be a Sunday afternoon.
There were just as many careless drivers 30 years ago, but the horses had more sense.
All work and no play makes Jack, and lots of it.
Woman, generally speaking, is generally speaking.
Flirtation is paying attention without intention.
A pedestrian is a man whose son is home from college.
Truck-drivers like their profession because they run into so many interesting people.
