Eighth Grade Commencement this coming Wednesday afternoon. Members of the class and their teacher, Miss Clara Signs, cordially invite the public to these exercises.
High school sectional baseball tournament opens in Collins Saturday morning and continues Monday and Tuesday. Admission is 15 cents and 25 cents. The first round schedule is Altoona vs. Slater; Cambridge vs. Shipley; Huxley vs. Nevada; Collins vs. Prairie City. (Tournament results not found.)
May 13, 1943 Commencement Exercises are Thursday evening at the High School auditorium. Music - Marines Hymn - Boys' Quartet; Presentation of Speaker - Supt. W. E. Young; Address - Finding the Goal Post - Rev. Dwight Walker, Jefferson, Iowa; Awarding Honors - Supt. W. E. Young; Presentation of Class - Supt. W. E. Young; Presentation of Diplomas - L. D. Holland, Chair of Board. Following is the class roll; Lowell Atkinson, William Atwood, Ronald Ball, Barbara Buck, Dale Deal, Helen Deal, Gladys Dodd, Claretta Duncan, Hazel Harris, Eileen Hofer, Robert Keagle, John Kingman, Betty Lewis, LaVerne Lillard, Earl Milligan, Ruth Mullihan, Dorothy Neale, Marguerite Oswalt, Olin Pitcher, Helen Renfeldt, Lois Robinson, Dorrell Taylor.
June 10, 1943 The Collins School Faculty for 1943-44 school year has been completed. Faculty members are: W. E. Young - Supt. and Math; Leona Schilder - Principal and Commercial Subjects; A. E. Silletto - Voc. Ag. and Science; Ethel Shatwell - Social Studies and Junior High Math; Dorothy Aldrich - English and Dramatics; Darlene Love - Home Ec and Science; Bernice Buck - Music; Clara Signs - Junior High English and Social Studies; Myrtha Fenn - Grade Six; Mabel Osborn - Grade Five; Dorothy Faas - Grade Four; Kolleen Kottmeier - Grade Three; Gladys Bredall - Elementary Principal and Grade Two; Margaret Larson - Grade One; Ruth Lundvall - Primary. School begins on August 30.
July 8, 1943 School budget estimates; the general pattern of the budget proposals is much the same as during the past year except for the following deviations: (1) It has been necessary to allocate increases for the salaries of all school employees, roughly an increase of 20%. (2) Greatly reduced allotments have been made for the purchase of new equipment. (3) Reduced allotments have been made to the school house fund due to the decrease in interest since a large number of bonds were retired during the past year.
August 12, 1943 Collins School will open on August 30. For the first time in history, a full year of Primary work will be offered to beginning pupils. Certain elective subjects are being offered for the first time this year, provided sufficient pupils enroll to make a class. Among such subjects are: Junior business training, chemistry, problems of democracy, and first year Latin. Required and elective subjects follows: (required subject*) 9th grade - algebra I*, English I*, agriculture II, home ec. II,biology, world history, junior business training. 10th grade - plain geometry*, English II*, agriculture II, home ec. II, biology, world history, junior business training. 11th grade - American history*, English IV, problems of democracy, Latin I, chemistry, agriculture IV, home ec. IV, bookkeeping, shorthand, typing I. 12th grade - English IV, problems of democracy, Latin I, chemistry, agriculture IV, home ec. IV, bookkeeping, typing I, typing II, shorthand.