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Voi. X X II
W ednesday, M arch 24’ 02fify-1956
TH E SE N IO R S HONORED
T he Class of '20 was taken b y su rp rise W ednesday
m o rn in g w hen they received a d ain ty little invitation
from the four dom estic science S enior girls, M arguerite
C ham berlin, Rose Goff, R uby W hite and A nnie M iller.
T h e in v itatio n read as follows:
F ro m th e D om estic Science b an q u et hall
W e S eniors send o u t an u rg e n t call,
F o r you to jo in o u r crow d so gay
In honor of St. P a tric k ’s Day.
T h e Dom estic Science w as beautifully decorated in
green crepe paper w ith large palm s and o th er
foliage p lan ts. Covers w ere laid for the Senior class
to g eth er w ith the S u p erin ten d e n t and M rs. H all, Mrs.
R isser, senior teacher, and M rs. B rickell. L ittle place
cards w ith sham rocks and h arp deco ratio n s m arked
th e place of each gu est and w ith green candles th e
tab le was very effective. T h e refresh m en ts carried
out the St. P a tric k ’s d ay schem e. A fter the d in n er
a few m in u tes were sp en t for v o lu n tary recitatio n s
and sin g in g of class songs, then followed th e good
n ig h t song.
SCHOOL NOTES
Both the six th and seventh grades have been w o rk
in g on in d u strial m aps of th e U nited S tates for e x h i
bition w ork.
T h e m issionaries who visited th e class room s re
cently found several pupils whom they knew . T hey
were also able to tell “ hom e n ew s” to m any pupils.
T h e th ird -y ear vocational class will m iss F lorence
G ensaw . F lo ren ce was a good stu d e n t, pleasant and
agreeable. Ju st th e kind to help m ake an excellent
school.
R obert Service visited in room nine one day last
w eek. R obert g rad u ated from this room a few years
ago. H e says th a t X Y Z ’s, C O and C O 2 ’s are
“ beyond my tim e .”
T h e school regrets very m uch to lose M rs. Iliff.
H e r fo u rth grade has already com pleted the y e a r’s
assig n m en t in arith m etic. A ch an g e of teachers is
alw ays detrim ental to a class and th e changes have
been m any and freq u en t.
T h e first year prevocational class exam ined buds
from the ch erry orchard east of the school on F riday.
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T h ey decided th a t all the fru it was dead. A more
th o ro u g h exam ination will be given later in order to
confirm this decision or revise it.
T h e field w est of th e laundry has nearly all been
plowed and th e dark, rich looking soil looks as th ough
it m ight give us a harvest the com ing fall that would
help bring dow n the high cost of existence.
T h e follow ing good New Y e a r’s resolution is posted
in th e p rim ary loom : W e, the first graders of the C.
I. S ., do most earnestly resolve to try to keep our
han d s and faces clean, and our hair combed d u rin g
th e year 1920. Signed by each first g rader and th eir
teach er.
'J u s t like exam ination every d ay ” was the sentence
pronounced on th e new arith m etic recently given to
th e first and second vocational classes. T hese are the
E v ery Day A rith m etics and contain no answ ers. Ali
pupils in all d ep artm en ts have been supplied w ith
these books.
O ne h u n d red an d forty-seven years old was the age
of the sam ple of w’ood brought into the th ird -y ear vo
cational botany class th e other day. It was O regon
fir and m easured tw enty-five inches in diam eter. T he
first year vocational class decided a five-inch diam eter
lim b from a fir w’as fo rty -th ree years old. “ T h is
o n e ,” they said, “ was old for its siz e .”
T h e “ M ake Believe” farm in th e prim ary room is
u p-to-date in every respect except one—ru n n in g across
th e farm from one side to th e o th er is an old-fashioned
rail fence such as is seldom ever seen any m ore.
H ow ever, you can see cattle, sheep and horses g ra z
ing in the fields wdiile th e orchard and barn lots are
full of chickens, ducks, geese and tu rk ey s. T he
first grade children m ade all of them last week.
H a ttie M artin and M arina N elson from the fourth
vocational class, K ath erin e L oftus, Mabel B lodgett
and C larence E dw ards from the th ird year vocational
class, Josephine C orbett from th e second year voca
tio n al, and H en rietta C ham berlin from th e first year
vocational have su b stitu tted in five divisions d u rin g
the last m onth. These divisions include the first
g rad e, the fo u rth and fifth. T hese girls and boy
rich ly deserve the treat prom ised th em —a chicken
d in n e r— but hardly deserve to lose their grade in th eir
vocational work on account of being absent teaching.