August 13, 1979. Collins students may register for the new school year on Tuesday or Wednesday, August 21 or 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All students, grades kindergarten through 12, should come to the superintendent's office to pay book fees, purchase lunch tickets, pick up student insurance pamphlets and pick up free and reduced price lunch applications. Students in grades 7 through 12 may also pick up their class schedule and sign up for their hall locker. Bus route assignments will also be available.
Book rental fees are $7.50 for grades kindergarten through sixth, which include all workbooks and $7.50 for seven through twelve which does not include workbooks.
Student hot lunch tickets are $10.00 for a twenty-day ticket, $5.00 for a ten-day ticket, $2.50 for a five-day ticket, and .55 for a single day. Extra milk tickets are $1.00.
Adult hot lunch tickets are $12.00 for a twenty-day ticket, $6.00 for a ten-day ticket, and $3.00 for a five-day ticket, and .65 for a single meal. Extra milk tickets are $2.00. All lunch tickets are sold in the office and a receipt issued.
All students are expected to eat in the lunch room at the designated time. Those choosing not to eat the school lunch may bring a sack lunch from home. Students must remain on school property throughout the lunch break.
Monday, August 27, is the first day of school. Classes will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m., the regular starting and ending times for each school day. Elementary pupils should report to their proper classrooms by 8:30. Junior and senior high students should report to the gym by 8:30 for their orientation session. Kindergarten students will be dismissed at 11:15 a.m. daily.
August 25, 1979. Hearings held, 5-girl, 6-girl basketball. The president of the State Department of Public Instruction blew the whistle on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission's efforts to change high school girls basketball from six players to five. Jolly Ann Davidson, board president, told the Iowa Civil Rights Commission it has no jurisdiction in determining the number of players on a girls high school basketball team. She said, "The jurisdiction rests with the Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union" and the issue "does not belong in the discrimination rules."
Ms. Davidson spoke at one of six public hearings scheduled by the commission concerning proposed discrimination rules for the state school system.
September 4, 1979. Collins ballots and questions. Shall the Following Public Measure be Adopted? The board of directors of the Collins Community School District of counties of Story, Marshall, and Jasper is authorized pursuant to Section 278 Code of Iowa, 1979 to transfer all funds now remaining in the school house fund bond and interest account plus accumulating interest to the general fund. YES___ NO ___.