December 16, 1967 Basketball - An overflow crowd at Maxwell gym saw Collins girls and boys play two high-scoring games. Collins girls trailed 29-19 at 1st quarter and 54-41 at halftime. Both teams continued their high scoring in the 3rd and 4th quarter with Collins losing 97 - 81. Lineup: Donna Rumbaugh - 44; Pam Snyder - 22; Linda Carroll - 15; Guards - Cathy Clemons, Janice Hunt; Cathy Graves; ________ Long; Karmen Kimberley.
The Collins boys took 11-10 1st quarter lead and the defense was unable to slow Maxwell in the 2nd quarter as they scored 30 points to Collins 14, which proved the margin victory, Collins losing 81-64. Lineup: Roger Holland - 26; Mike Mullihan - 10; Tom Morrison - 7; Chuck Page - 6; Steve Holland - 10; Joe Fitzgerald - 1; Marv Huntrods - 4.
January 4, 1968 The 1967 graduates held a class reunion at Vicki Mullihan's home.
January 6, 1968 Basketball - Collins girls played a strong 3 quarters trailing Story City only 45-40, but got only 4 shots in the final quarter, scoring 6 points, losing 63-46. Collins Scoring: Donna Rumbaugh - 23; Pam Snyder - 16; Cathy Carroll - 5. Guards - C. Graves, D. Long, N. Long.
Collins boys played a very competitive game with Story City, losing 58-49. The Clippers' 4th quarter rally came up short. (Insert 2007: Lineup not found.)
January 8, 1968 Collins Community School made the most economical use of their lunchroom program during the 66-67 school year, with an average cost of 37 cents per meal. A cutback last year in Federal commodities caused trouble in local lunch programs. Six of the ten schools in Story County spent more money for lunches than they took in, including Collins. School lunches served and cost per lunch: Ballard 67,380 lunches at .40 each. Collins 44,208 lunches at .37 each. Colo 53,935 lunches at .44 each. Maxell 49,400 lunches at .41 each. NESCO 81,109 lunches at .39 each. Nevada 175,792 lunches at .39 each. Roland 43,641 lunches at .42 each. Story City 85,557 lunches at .39 each.
January 13, 1968 Basketball - Collins girls played a strong 1st quarter, trailing only 13-12. But the basket became smaller the remainder of the game; Collins trailed 38-19 at halftime and losing to SEMCO 76-37. Collins scoring: Donna Rumbaugh - 14; Pam Snyder - 12; Linda Carroll - 9; Cathy Carroll - 2.
Collins boys played a balanced scoring game, leading at the end of each quarter for 65-60 win over SEMCO on Collins' homecoming evening. Lineup: Roger Holland - 15; Mike Mullihan - 13; Tom Morrison - 12; Steve Holland - 11; Joe Fitzgerald - 7; Gordon Carver - 4; Chuck Page - 3.
January 17, 1968 Four States Join to Study Schools. At the turn of the century Iowa had 17,522 school districts. (Average 177 per county) Most of these were one-room rural independent school districts. In 1954 there were 4,417 school districts in Iowa. Another significant reduction of districts occurred between 1955 and 1960 when 3,564 districts were eliminated. On this date Iowa has 455 high school districts.
The State Departments of Education of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota decided to undertake a project on school district organization. The overall purpose of this project, known as the "Great Planes School District Organization Project," is to strengthen state leadership for school district organization. The project is financed by federal funds. All four states have many common problems such as (1) states do not have proper legislation to facilitate needed school district organization changes, (2) lack of knowledge on relationship that exists between tax structure, tax rates and school district organization.