Mount Ayr Record News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 28, 1931

During the eighth grade commencement exercises, R. E. WILSON, junior high principal, announced the honor roll of those who had received the highest average in all sumbjects for the last two years - Helen Betty BLISS, first; Ramona FOSTER, second; and Lucille SIPLE, third.

Diagonal - Raleigh STEPHENS was recently appointed assistant postmaster here. Mrs. Joseph DICKENS formerly served her husband as assistant.

Bernadine DOWNIE and Anne WHITE will service as student assistants in the department of physical education at Simpson College next year.

Benton School News - The third and fourth grades will present the operetta "Peter Rabbit" on the last day of school. The cast of characters includes Eugene CROSS, Donald DILLENBURG, Bernice Pauline JONES, Herbie DILLENBURG, Esther BEAL, C. H. DENHART, Iris SCHLAPIA, Ethel STILL, Joe DALTON, Merle BUTLER, Lowell SCHLAPIA, Harley Vance COMBS, Thelma SCHLAPIA, Burl MOBLEY, Robert MILLER, Lucenia STILL, LaVerne NOVAK, Francis SCHLAPIA, Richard CAMPBELL, Robert KIMBERLING, Bobby NOVAK, J. R. MILLER, Dorothy MILLER, Marshall BARKER, Clete BURCH, Helen THOMPSON, Hazel MOBLEY, Helen MILLER, Eldon DILLENBURG, Dortha LANE, Joe DENHART, Marjorie FISHER and Doris SCHLAPIA.

Diagonal School News - Members of the 1931 senior class are Mary CRAWFORD, valedictorian; Ruth WROUGHTON, salutatorian; Ruth DORFF, Vera GOODALE, Fern GRAHAM, Rosalie SLAVIK, Genevieve STEPHENS, Gladys TAYLOR, Lester IBBOTSON, Clifford KING, Robert DINKEL, Donovan McMANUS, Ivan PRICE, John VARNER and Millard STEPHENS.

Ellston School News - L. J. WILSON, superintendent of the Ellston school, reports that the school placed first in the Iowa Academic Contest, winning in classes B, C, and D, which included schools with an enrollment under 400. Edwin MORLAN also won the individual championship in English corrections from Grade 10.

Mount Ayr School News - Honored recently for having perfect attendance records for the past year are:

GRADE 2 - Robert and Burnett SHELDON
GRADE 3 - Doris SKINNER, Dorothy FULLER, Elma WILLEY and Helen COOK

GRADE 4 - George FINLEY, Earl GRACEY and Verna WILLEY

GRADE 5 - Curtis ROE, Glen SHELDON and Junella SMITH

GRADE 6 - Charles FOSTER, Anne PRENTIS, Elizabeth RUSK, Luella SMITH and Mary HARSH

GRADE 7 - Vera DOWLING, Loren HICKERSON and Pauline WILLEY

GRADE 8 - Marguerite KATER

GRADE 9 - Jack CALDWELL, Owen CAMPBELL, Florence HERBERT, Maxine MAIN and Lola WILLEY

GRADE 10 - Grace SMITH, Robert LAY, Frances STALCUP and Anna ROBINSON

GRADE 11 - Cloyd ZARR, Ila SUTHERLAND, Albert STACY, Arleta COOK, Alice GLENDENNING, Ilene HUTCHISON, Gertrude LINK, Russell OLNEY and Esther SAVILLE

GRADE 12 - Kenneth BECK, Leonta BECK, Leila BUELL and Merna JOHNSTON

Tingley - Born, Friday, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie ZARR.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2013

 

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