LeMars Globe-Post
September 13, 1954

ANNUAL FUN FESTIVAL FOR THE TEACHERS

The teachers of Plymouth County will hold their annual Fun Festival the evening of Wednesday, September 15, at the LeMars Country Club.  Following the 6:30 dinner thre will be a program and a social hour.  Dr. Mark W. Delzell of the University of South Dakota will be the guest speaker.  Special music numbers will be presented.  All teachers of rural, town, and consolidated schools are invited to the Fun Festival, and are requested to make their dinner reservations at once with their superintendents.

The annual get-together of Plymouth County teachers will be the first event of the 1954-55 school year sponsored by the Plymouth County Education Association.  The officers of the Plymouth County Education Council for this are as follows:  Dr. Carl Lang, Westmar College, LeMars, president; Supt. O. L. Scranton, Akron, first vice-president; Mrs. Herman VanderWell, LeMars, second vice-president; ______ Reuwsaat, LeMars, secretary; and Mrs. Cathleen Wessling, Kingsley, treasurer.

Fifty Plymouth County rural schools and three two-room schools opened Monday, August, 30.  This is five less schools than were open in the county last year.  The teaching staff in these fifty-six positions consists of the following:

Elgin No. 2, Mrs. Norman Costar (sic-Crotser?)
Elgin No. 5, Mrs. Clarence Albers
Elgin No. 9, Mrs. Luschen
Elkhorn No. 4, Mrs. Lester Montange
Elkhorn No. 5, Mrs. Russell Kehrberg
Elkhorn No. 8, Mrs. Luella McManigal
Fredonia No. 1, Charlotte DeBoer
Fredonia No. 4, Mrs. Charlene Kloster
Garfield No. 1, Pearl Hathaway
Garfield No. 4, Mrs. Barbara Hirschman
Grant No. 1, Marlys Renken
Grant No. 2, Mrs. Hazel Fear
Grant No. 4, Mrs. Paul Stoel
Lincoln No. 1, Wilma Ellis
Lincoln No. 2, Mrs. Lois Stansbury
Lincoln No. 3, Mrs. Louie Sager
Lincoln No. 4, Mrs. Ernest Haley
Lincoln No. 5, Fern Kinney
Lincoln No. 6, Mrs. Geo. E. Lau
Perry No. 4, Clara G. Holleman
Perry No. 5, Mrs. Viola Watje
Perry No. 6, Mrs. Zella Shriver
Perry No. 8, Mrs. Lola Parker
Plymouth No. 5, Mrs. Leslie Mattas
Preston No. 1, Alice Burke
Preston No. 4, Mary Ann Fara
Perston No. 6, Nan Walsh
Preston No. 7, Mrs. O. L. Scranton
Stanton No. 3, Marie Langel
Stanton No. 4, Mrs. Marian Baker
Stanton No. 5, Mrs. Don Kenaley
Stanton No. 7, Mrs. Mary Ann Bierbower
Stanton No. 8, Mrs. Lavon Meyer
Stanton No. 9, Mrs. Lucille Ruedy
Washington No. 3, Mrs. Merlin Luken
Washington No. 4, Mrs. Lula A. Treptow
Washington No. 5, Mrs. Edna Kehrberg
Westfield No. 4, Mrs. Ella Classen
Brunsville P-4, Shirley Utech
Brunsville, 5-8, Jennie Levins
Craig P-8, Mrs. Esther Oloff
Seney 5-8, Evelyn Hoyting
Seney P-4, Mrs. A. Bomgaars
Struble P-4, Jeanette Gysbertsen
Struble 5-8, Mrs. Nis Kloster
West LeMars, P-8, Mrs. L. A. Ludwig

Superintendents of town and consolidated schools, Plymouth County, Iowa, for the 1954-55 school year are:

Mrs. O. L. Scranton, Superintendent of schools, Akron, Iowa
Mr. M. V. Shafenberg, Superintendent of Schools, Hinton, Iowa
Mrs. Clifford A. Metcalf, Superintendent of Schools, Kingsley, Iowa
Mr. H. N. Kluckhohn, Superintendent of Schools, LeMars, Iowa
Mr. Joseph F. Kissinger, Superintendent of Schools, Merrill, Iowa
Mr. Frank B. Marcus, Superintendent of Schools, Remsen, Iowa
Supt. M. R. Horton, Liberty Consolidated Schools, Merrill, Iowa
Supt. Leonard L. Thompson, Union Consolidated Schools, LeMars, Iowa
Supt. Robert J. McLean, Westfield, Iowa.

 

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