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Cliff Evans was the first superintendent of the Zearing Community School. Cliff will be the superintendent at Gladbrook, Iowa, during the 1956-57 school year. Clarence M. Swanson will succeed him as superintendent of the Zearing Community School.
I am not completing a history of school activities. It would be impossible to give adequate coverage to school activities in a history of this type. I am listing a few unusual items.
On the Wednesday afternoon preceding Thanksgiving, in 1895, the children of the primary department of the Zearing school gave an exhibition. Many of the parents were present and the little tots acquitted themselves creditably. Miss Nettie Patton, their teacher, did an excellent job drilling them for the program.
| Thanksgiving | Laura Norton |
| Sue's Thanksgiving | Mary Blackburn |
| Recitation | Jerry Chance |
| Resolutions | Hosea Jondall |
| Our Baby | Myrtle Gogerty |
| Jack's Pumpkins | Frank Norton |
| Recitation | Mabel Armstrong |
| The Way to Slumberland | Nettie Dool |
| My Choice | Mary Dool |
| Politeness | Clara McCall |
| Little Boy's Troubles | Howard Dakins |
| Recitation | Ida Gogerty |
| Mother Goose | Blanche Burkhart |
| Street Lamp | Lester Belden |
I can not say that the following list of basketball players constituted the Zearing school's first basketball team. Because the Mullen family left Zearing in the spring of 1910, I would think the evidence points to 1909-10 as the date for the team.
Lewis Roseburrough—CenterRalph Mullen—ForwardChester Mullen—ForwardDwight Armstrong—GuardFoster Holcomb—Guard
Harry LeFevre, Lloyd Kohl, Claude Eley, Freely Golly, and John Faris were among the first basketball players to play for the Zearing school.
The Zearing school had a girls basketball team in 1912 that was highly rated. The Tri County News—March 15, 1922:
“The Zearing high school basketball team left for Iowa City on the morning train. They will enter the Iowa City tournament as one of the best sixty teams in the state.