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HO.\'DAY. MARCH 13, 1950.
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Athens High Gave
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Minstrel ,
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Tuesday Evening
By WARRIETT SNOW
Athens High students were en
tertained on Tuesday by a peppy
plack face minstrel, “The First
B}:[L'kout Since the War.”
rrank Eberhart, as Mr. Inter
focutor, cracked jokes with his
end-men and women: Potlicker
(Pat Bowden), Geranium (Pat Mc~
Manus), Hambone (Tommy Jack=-
son), Rastus (Red Fulcher), Per«
tunla (Harriett Snow), and Ink
ball (Brannon Sharp).
A novelty tap by Claudette Un
derwood and a soft-shoe tap by
geven “picaninnies” were the fea
tured dances, Olga Gray and Nita
sams gave a reading and a boys’
trio, Henry West, Sidney Tucker,
and Nelson Hitchcock, sang “Sleep
Kentucky Babe.”
A surprise act drew hearty ap
plause from the audience, This
act was the entire faculty singing
“When You Wore a Tulip” and
»oOh, You Beautiful Doll.” Favorite
| Dixieland songs by the chorus al
| go helped to make the minstrel
successful,
Tifteen seniors have been elected
| to membership in the Beta Club.
| The new members are Hugh Hale,
tßnChel Ingleright, Annie Jo Arn
old, Peggy Herring, Marie Hodg
{ son, Richard Holiday, Elizabeth
‘Jo‘nnson, Loretta Johnson, Joyce
| Patterson, Betty Carole Ridlehu-
I ber, Montie Joe Shelnutt, Mary
Spratlin, Tryg Tolnas, Sidney
Tucker, and Virginia Tully.
Virginia Warren and Harriett
Snow have been chosen to repre
sent Athens High at the F. T. A.
Convention in Atlanta March 17-
18, Several unofficial delegates
are also expected to attend.
Chase Students
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Give To
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Red Cross Drive
Kindergarten
All this week we have been
bringing pennies, nickels, and
dimes for the Junior Red Cross.
The new books that we have in
our library are so nice. They have
such colorful pictures. Seeing
those pictures makes us want our
drawings more colorful.
So many of us have chicken-pox
now. We will be glad when we
can have everybody back with us.
One day Janice Carson brought
an organ grinder with a monkey
sitting on' the top. When you
turned the handle it played “Pop
Goes the Weasel.” We enjoyed
hearing it play.
C. J. Mason brought his stereo
scope one day and we took turns
looking at the different films. We
especially liked the one about “Lit
tle Red Riding Hood.”
Miss Smith’s Class
We feel like big boys and girls
now, We wrote our first letter
without copying it from the board.
We wrote to Miss Rylander. She
has been helping Miss Smith this
quarter. We are sorry she is sick.
Susan Davig’ daddy sent her a
special delivery letter Thursday.
He told her to be sure to eat her
1 ;mch. Susan tried real hard to do
IL,
We have finished making our
spelling books and it has been tpn
finding out words that started with
each letter in the alphabet, -
Mrs. Thomas came to see us and
Showed us some pictures. She
told us who painted them and we
enjoyed seeing them.
Miss McGarity’s Class
Elizabeth Paris has b? very
sick for several days. e miss
her and want hep to hurry back.
This is the month for kite flying
and we are really having fun. We
are reading a story about kites and
Mmaking kites, We had an art les
-son by drawing pictures of trees
blowing and children flying Kkites.
Mrs. Laßoon’s Class
Glenda Watson has measles, We
hope she'jy be back soon,
In our Social Studies we are
Studying the Wap of 1812. We
have heen very interested in the
story of “The Star Spangled Ban
ner.” We have a pleture by Wyeth
of the writing of this famous song
during the War of 1812,
We have had some very inter
esting devotionalg €very morning.
Two pupils take charge each day.
They haye boems, songs, prayer
and Bihe readings,
Heidl Mayep celebrated her
birthday this weels. -She brought
her pony to school and we all had
& ride, She ig an excellent rider.
Most of g have enrolled in the
Juniop Red Cross,
Mrs. Ison’s Class
Our class helq a meeting this
sonc ek and elected officers o
serve for the next six weeks. ¢
Presldent, CQrolyn Ch.ndl“'
e Pl‘eddent' Elizabeth Free
land; Secretax-y’ Barba "'"f
Dav!d; Treamm, Dannie Porter,
a 4 Darleng Smith: Dmn‘swmbmmo
%aptaing, Anita Butler and Joyce
Carithers, Librarian, Gene Mec-
Cranie; Ay Chairman, Melba Phil
lis; Mugje Chairman, Sandra Win
frey,
We like to study and we work
hard. Our teacher thinks we are
a good class,
We have been interested in
studying about food, clothing and
houses and how we get these ne
cessities.
Each one of us has been making
out menus and discussing in class
what makes good balanced meals.
We want to learn how to sew
for we think every girl should
know how to make and plan her
own clothes.
Barbara Jean David
Miss Zuber’s Class
Four of our pictures were sent
to the art exhibit. The pictures
were drawn by Jackie Escoe, Lu
ther Nolan, Troy Carithers, and
Bubber Thompson. We thought
their pictures were very nice.
In Geography we are studying
about the Andes of South America.
The boys we are visiting there.is
Pedro. We enjoy our Geography
very much.
We are having a pet and hobby
show Friday. Some have dogs and
cats, Some have rabbits and cther
different pets. Bobby Hunt brought
pictures of his cat. James Cooley
brought pictures of his dog. Friday
they will bring their pets to school.
We have written stories about our
pets and hobbies. The best stories
have been chosen and placed on
the bulletin board.
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Junior Hi Boys
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Made Trip
To Savannah, Ga.
On Friday, March sth, the boys
of the Athens Y. M. C. A. Prep
class left for Savannah to meet
competition in the Semi-Finals
Tourney. They won the first game
by a large margin. They held the
opponents down during the entire
second game until the last few
minutes, when Augusta’s boys
crept up and won by four points.
The boys from Athens Junior
High School that went were as
follows: Jimbo Laßoon, Bobby
Yarbrough, Chester Leathers,
“Bee” Tillman, Tot Morton, Leon
Farmer, Tommy Carteaux, Squea
ky Simpson, Edward Hanson, Da
vid Thurmond, Rolyn Massey,
Billy Howell, Hugh Inglis, and
Tommy Blakely. All these boys
played a good, hard game and we
are proud of them even though
they did not win the tournament.
We are all enjoying the new
books tremendously which we be
gan checking out on Monday.
There are an unusual number of
sports books by popular demand
of the students.
The eighth grade pupils have
begun taking their nine weeks
examinations. The English test was
taken Friday and we all hope that
we show, on these tests, that we
have learned what our teachers
have been teaching us.
The eighth grade pupils were
deeply touched after hearing Mrs.
Yow's sympathetic story of the
displaced Latvian family who were
prisoners in a Russian Army Camp
for five years and the Lions’ Club
of Greensboro took into protective
custory. In one day the pupils do
nated over sixteen dollars to buy
them a radio to help them learn
English. Some pupils have also
donated clothes for the young
boys, who go to school in Greens
boro. We are hoping that, by our
donations, we will make these peo
ple realize that America is the
best place they could have come
for neighborly love and people
who are always willing to help
them.
Elsa Parrott.
Peggy Adams.
Room One
Friday we had our quarterly
test in English.
On the girls’ playground we
have six teams. The captains of
two teams are in our room. They
are Trixie Williams and Joyce
Dean. Jean Messer is a co-captain.
The teams rotate playing basket
ball soft ball, and volley ball.
The boys’ coaches are setting
up a spring program for the boys.
They also have divided into teams.
Michael Tulley, Tommy Ward, and
Bobby Lampkin are catptains from
Room One.
Befty Joyce Dudley brought us
several interesting current events
in science last week. We enjoyed
them very much.
Room One elected the March of
ficers for our civies club, “The Fu
ture Brains of Athens.” They are
Donald Brown, president; Charles
Hammond, vice-president; and
Barbara Ivester, secretary.
Rhonelda Bray.
Weyman Hanson.
: Room Two
. In civics we are studying Clarke
;County. Miss Paine mimographed
some maps for us to fill in with
towns, railroads, and highways.
OQur program chairman, Allen
Wages, gave us a nice program last
Friday during our cass meeting
Those taking part were Donald
Cofer, Julian Cox, Charles Porter
field, ,and Billy Barber. We en
joyed it very much.
We hope everybody will contri
bute to the Red Cross to help the
\weopleinneed.E\Aerybody’s coop
‘eration is needed.
" Room 2 wants to thank Kay
Kinne for the beautiful flowers
she brought for our room.
: Sherry Garrison.
Room Three '
Tuesday Mrs. Jackson gave us a
test in science about heat. Almost
everycg): made good on it.
In glish we have seen two
movies, one about Engligh schools
and the other about the life of
Charles Dickens. We hope the lat
ter one will inspire us to read more
of Dickens’ books.
Friday we had an English test
which will count as our quarterly
exam.
Civies has been very interesting
for us this week since we are mak
ing Clarke County maps. We put
highways, rivers, and railroads on
the maps, most of which were fa
miliar to us.
Our new officers for the month
of March are Frank Stamey, pres
ident; Mary Nash, vice-president;
Virginia Anderson, secretary; and
Ada Aaron, program chairman.
Last Friday Ada gave the first
program we’ve had in March. Her
bert, Abroms, Ida Myrle Messer,
and Virginia Anderson took part
in it. 2
Mrs. Yow Ilet us read “The
Bishop’s Candlestick” = Tuesday.
‘She has ordered the record of this
story for us to hear later.
Lila Holliday and Mellisa Hawk=-
ins are in charge of the Red Cross
Prive from Room Three and the
whole school.
On these rainy days the boys
have been out in the music hall
wrestling during physical educa
tion period. On other days they
play either basketball or softball.
Each wresling match is only a
minute and a half long. The boys
are evenly matched by Coach Ar
noul DeLaPerriere.
Aywayne Pendergrass.
Leon Williams.
Room Four
In civics we are studying Clarke
county and making maps of it. We
are putting railroads, rivers, incor
porated towns, and highways on
our maps.
We had our quarterly est in
English Friday. The test was made
up of verbs mostly, since we have
studied verbs most of the quarter.
We have started the Red Cross
Drive in our room and we hope to
be one hundred percent soon.
We had a test in math last Fri
day on the sixty-day method.
Those making A were Peggy Ad
ams, Eleanor Crane, Barbara Eid
am, Serene Hughes, Martha Joy
James Catherine Xing, Frances
Molder, Elsa Parrott, Jo Ann
Whitworth, Annelle Williams,
Chester Leathers, and Shelnutt
Manus.
Serena Hughes.
Chester Leathers.
: Room Five
In literature we have been lis
tening to records. Some recent
ones we have heard are “The
Bridge of Sighs,” and "Huckleber
ry Finn.”
Spelling has been interesting be
cause we are learning the spelling,
pronunciation, division, and the
diacritical markings of words.
In civies we have been drawing
maps. First we drew a map of the
state of Georgia. Carey O’Kelly
and Jimbo Laßoon had the best
maps in the class. Next we drew
a map of Clarke County. Just
about everyone has finished.
Leroy McDade, Weyman Wor
tham, Jimmy Williams, and Ken
neth Murray are doing a fine job
working the movie projector. So
far we have seen interesting and
educational films.
Room Five had a test in science
on “How We Control Heat.” We all
hope we made good.
Ann Holliday.
Bobby Bradberry.
Room Six
Tuesday we saw a wonderful
movie on English children and
how they spend a day. We found
that their schools are similar to
ours. We found that cricket is their
most popular game and it is play
ed very much like baseball is
played in our country.
The Red Cross drive started
Wednesday and we hope to have
~one hundred per cent by the end
‘of the drive. Juanita Moody was
'appointed chairman in our room.
) Everyone in Room Six is study
iing hard for the final tests that
| will be given soon.
Gail Word and Berthene Carey
‘gave good science reports on do
mestic plants and animals.
Last week in history we made
reports on John Adams. Warren
Lanier’s was outstanding. Wednes
‘day we gave reports on Thomas
Jefferson. We are enjoying study
ing our early American history
and learning of the marvels of
our forefathers.
Mrs. Reagan has suggested that
we keep a spelling notebook. By
this we hope to reduce our mis
spelled words not only in our
spelling'lesson but on other written
work as well.
Barbara Bentley.
Gail Word.
Room Seven
This week we had a science test.
The best papers were by Jean Al
exander, Tommy Blakely, Gene
Carter, Ronnie Spence, Nan Dan
ner, Jane Eberhart, Don Honder
son and Virginia Scogginz. We
have started a new chapter about
the weather.
In history we are studying about
the causes, results,and the Peace
Treaty of the War of 1812. We are
also studying about the Monroe
Doctrine. We saw a picture on the
Monroe Doctrine that helped us to
understand it better.
This week Athens Junior High
School is having a Red Cross
Drive. The chairmen from this
room are Norma Key and Donald
Faulkner. We hope to be one hun
dred per cent.
Jean Alexander.
Linda Lea Hodgkinson.
Room Eight
Hugh Inglis, Tommy Carteaux,
Alston Steiner, and David Thur
mond represented our room at the
State Tournament held in Savan
nah last week, it 3
Cissy Corker, David Thurmond,
Bobby Greene, Henry Marshall,
Emmet Bondurant, Alston Steiner,
Mary Montgomery, Bobby Will=
iams, and Susan Forbes are enter
ing their block-print designs in
the State Art Exhibit.
We are also looking forward to
spring holidays, which come on
the 23rd and 24th of the month.
We will have our quarterly tests
this quarter one week earlier than
usual because of spring holidays.
Thomas Rogers.
Roem Nine
Mrs. Brown has been reading
to us a story by Edgar Allan Poe,
“The Pit and the Pendulum.” It
was very mysterious. A lot of us
heard it on “Suspense” last Thurs
day night. We enjoyed it very
much, e«
We saw two pictures this week.
One was on Eiglish children. It
was to show us that we aren’t very
much different from our neigh
bors. The other was on how trans
portation has been modermized,
and how it has grown all over the
United tates.
The school has started taking
up funds for the Red Cross cam
paign. Jackie Burke is in charge
of the campaign in our room. We
have already collected $2.25.
Spring vacation comes this
month; so we will have to take
quarterly tests a week earlier.
That means we will have to do
more studying the rest of this
month. We hope to have more
straight A reports this quarter.
We only had one last quarter, Pat
Rigsbee.
Ann Shrum.
Room Ten
We are very glad that our sick
students have returned to school
this week.
Room 10 had a test in geography
Wednesday. We hope we made
good grades. .
Our class saw two pictures
Tuesday; one was “Development
of Transportation” and the other
was “A Day with English Chil
dren.”
We are glad that David Field
and Phillip Ivester, from our
room, are going to play in the
basketball game between College
Avenue and Junior High.
In math we have been studying
about problems for good thinkers.
We had a test in science Monday
and the best paper was by Donald
Gill,
Patsy Thompson.
Room Eleven
Week-end before last the State
Basketball Tournaments for the Y.
M. C. A., and other groups were
held in Savannah.
The Athens Cubs won by a score
of 44 to 26. The Preps won their
first game with the score 42 to 18.
The second game was lost by four
points,
Johnny Moss played in a game
of seventh grades against College
Avenue, College Avenue won 28
to 18.
Monday, our English Club, the
Double One, met. De Maris Fow
ler planned the program, which
consisted of songs, . poems, and
jokes. Our room enjoyed it very
much .
Myrna Robertson, Nancy Butts,
Leslie James, and Hiram Peeler
are to enter their metal pins in
the State Art Exhibit at the Fine
Arts Building, the week of the
seventeenth. Sue Mcßae, Virginia
Welch, Ramona Joyner, and Myr
ne Robertson will enter their block
prints in the exhibit.
Nancy Butts.
Leslie James.
College Avenue
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School Library
Gets New Books
Miss Shockley’s Ciass
We are happy to have Rita
Shields to join our class. She
came from Atlanta.
Those of us who- have been
working on the radio unit have en
joyed it very much. Miss Murphy,
our apprentice teacher from the
University, made a microphene for
us and we have fun playing we are
putting on radio programs.
We are glad that most of our
boys and girls who have been sick
are back. We are sorry Sandra
Baxter is still out.
Linda Lou Davis
: Shirley Bradley
Mrs. Anderson’s Class
We got some new books for our
library table this week. They
have very nice stories in them. We
are really enjoying them.
Miss Jackson took us outside to
play yesterday. It was cold but
we had fun. We learned two new
games — “Steal the Stick” and
“Slap Jack.” ;
Miss Anderson, our apprentice
teacher, has been teaching us
about foods and what we should
eat every day. We are going to
visit the bakery and the creamery
soon.
Mrs. Matthew’s Class
' We are very sorry that Miss Ann
Fulton, our apprentice teacher, was
sick and could not come to school
Monday. We missed her and were
‘glad that she was able to come
back Tuesday.
There were 19 of our mothers,
faathers, and grandparents at our
P. T. A. meeting. We were so hap
py to have so many come.
We are reading library books
and giving reports on them. We
tell the title of the hook, the au
thor, the characters in the story,
and someéthing about the story.
Wynette Dickerson has read more
than any other pupil. She has read
40 library books.
Andy Starr’s mother came and
spent the day with us Thursday.
We were glad to have her visit us
and hope that she will come again
Mrs. Harman’s Class
We are very sorry to have Vera
Mae Tittle out of school. She is
in the hospital. Thursday Mr. Eli
son and Mrs. Harman took all of
us to the General Hospital to see
Vera Mae. We took the get-well
cards we made for her and also
some apples. She was so happy
to see us. We hope she will be
well and back to school very soon.
In geography we have been
studying about China, Cuba, and
Malay. We are reading abo\%:!mi
and Kupi, a boy and girl who live
ATHENS, GEORGIA
in Malay. We have learned about
the great rubber trees in Malay.
Mn”roruon l:ndoltllu Jackg'(}n
hav ‘us lots of dances. We
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We are all trying to be “star pu
pils.” Each table has a big star
which it will keep as long as it
cooperates with College Avenue
School,
Melinda Davis
Barbara Shubert
.Mrs. Ruark’s Class
QOur class gave a radio program
on Friday morning. The little
play we gave was called “An Un
usual Visitor.” The viistor was
Mr. Spirit of Music. The girls and
boys told him all about Haydn,
Mozart and Beethoven, We sang
several melodies which were writ
ten by these three composers. We
like to give programs. Next week
we fill give our puppet show about
China. We wish that you could
see our puppets and the store we
have made. ' ;
On Wednesday we had a new
teacher for our reading. Dr. Dal
ton from the University brought‘
his class to hear us read. He taught
our lesson for that day. We had
fun singing the new songs he
taught us. We hope that he will
come back often.
We have beer trying to do good
work all the time. We worked on
Roman numerals this week. Next
week we will begin work on the:
eighth table. In English we have
been reviewing the words which
always need a helping word.
Mrs. Cooke’s Class
We are glad to have Cecil Col
well from Blairsville join our class.
Last Tuesday night our College
Avenue team won over a Junior
High team 28-19, in basketball.
Our class had sixty outside visi
tors during our shop exhibit. The
girls made and served candy.
The boys are making kites. The
girls tie dyed some scarves out of
chicken feed sacks.
Our different groups are im
proving in arithmetic and read
ing.
In Science we are studying the
ways water carries food to plants.
We are enjoying our new library
books.
William-Casper has chicken-pox.
We hope he will soon be well and
back with us.
Bobbie Jean Allen
Harold Fair
Ray White
Miss Beit's Class
We have been learning many
beautiful songs this past two or
three weeks.
The children under the direction
of Mrs. Kelly and Miss Jones in the
choir have been working very
hard on the songs that. will be
sung at the Fine Arts Auditorium,
March the seventeenth.
We are glad to have Hazel Mill
er from Princeton with us.
We will be sorry when next
Thursday comes because Miss
Potts, our apprentice teacher, will
leave.
Patricia Pittman, Martha Ran
dolph, and Betty Robertson made
excellent in the science test that
we had last Wednesday. There
were many other good papers be
side these three.
There are many new books in
our library. We enjoy them very
much. %
+ In social science we have been
studying about Feudalism. We
think that this study has been the
most interesting study that we
have had.
Our teacher, Miss Petts, put a
lot of interesting pictures of Feu
dalism on our bulletin board.
Our -school beat Junior High
twenty-eight to nineteen. The
captain of our basketbail team is
Roy White. We all like this spring
weather,
Patricia Pittman
Rebecca Seagraves
Betty Robertson
Oconee Pupil
Explains
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About “Study
Kindergarten
Everyday we add a few more
pennies, dimes and quarters to
the Red Cross fund,
Tuesday, Carolyn Gann brought
us one of her favorite story books.
It was “Guess Who Lives Here.”
James Arnold brought us “The
Runaway Airplane.” We enjoyed
them very much.
Wednesday we saw a picture
show, “The Three Wishes.” Mrs.
Keener had read us the story but
it was different .from the movie,
Danny Hansford’s mother sur
prised us with a party Thursday.
It was Danny’s birthday. We sang
happy birthday to Danny and he
blew out the six candles on his
birthday cake. We had cake, ice
cream and candy. Everyone told
Danny and his mother how much
they enjoyed the party.
John William Greeson told us
the story of “The Three Pigs” and
didn’t leave anything out. He tells
stories so well, we hope he will
tell us another one next week.
Miss Ellice Woods’ Class
Last week the children in our
room wrote some Sshort stories,
We began each sentence with a
capital lettier. The stories were
very nice and we read them to
the class.
We have finished another book
called “Hunting.” The stories in
this book were about birds, frogs,
bees, animals and flowers. We
learned somre things we did not
know about.
The moving picture of Holland
was very nice. The people of this
country are very neat and clean.
We have learned a little poem
called “Who Has Seen the Wind?”
Mrs. Marden’s Class
Johnny Jordon and Jerald Betts
have measles; they were absent
al! week. We hope they can soon
be back with us.
Gary Cash brought a book of
children’s stories to school for our
teacher to reda to us. She readsa
short story every day just after
we have eaten lunch, We look
forward to hearing the stories.
We are proud of our library
table in our room. Wfi keep books
on it from the school library. They
have funny stories and nice col
ored pictures in them. We like to
read our library books before the
last bell rings in the mornings
and during our spare time.
Miss Hancock’s Class
Our class has worked hard col=-
lecting money for the Red Cross.
We chose sides and are racing to
see which side can bring the most
money. Bo Morrow is captain of
one side and Melinda is captain
of the other. Melinda's side is
‘ahead, but you can never tell
which side will win. Nearly
every child in our class has
brought some money, We hope
all the others will contribute; too.
We have three members of our
class who are sick with the meas
les. Th% are Peggy Adams,
Shirley Welch and Joyce Sey
mour, They all had perfect at
tendance until they took measles.
We miss all of them and hope
they will be back soon,
We saw two interesting movies
this week. They were “Children
of Holland” and “The Three
Wishes,” We especially enjoyed
the movie about Holland because ‘
we have just finished our study
of Holland.
i PATRICIA HARDEMAN.,
PEGGY AARON,
Mrs. Hopper’s Class
Last week Mrs, Thomas and a
group of judges selected pictures
to go to the State Art Exhibit and
the city-wide exhibit. There were
three pictures chosen from our
class to go to the state exhibit.
These were drawn and painted by
Evelyn Carnes, Hubert Moore and
Fambro Knight. There were two
pictures chosen for the city ex
hibit, These were painted by Lo
rene Weathersbee and Delores
Dunaway., We enjoyed the color
ful pictures on display in our
room. Everyone painted a nice
picture,
Our study of “Georgla Today”
has been very interesting. We
have learned many things about
the farms and farming, We found
out that many of our farm ani
mals arve being replaced by mrod
ern machinery. The f{ollowing
poem was written by the class:
Good-bye, Mule!
Most of the mules have gone
away, :
And tractors have taken their
places today.
A little boy was very sad,
As he thought of the mule he had
had.
The father said, “Don’t cry,
For a tractor we will buy.
The mule, we will not need,
And we won’t pull another weed.”
“Good-bye” to the mule means
“Hello” to medern farming,
Great machines are really charm=-
ing.
Machines take care of the fields
today,
And we hope they are here to
stay.
THE CLASS.
Miss Wallace’s Class
When’ the judges came to our
school they selected Johnny Tol
bert’s, Douglas Owensby’s and
Pete Martin’s pictures to enter the
State Art Exhibit at Fine Arts
Auditorium, while Danny Poole’s,
Billy Guest’'s and Donald Mec~
Cune’s were chasen to be ex
changed with our local schools.
In our study of verbs we often
find it hard to remember where
and when not to wuse a helping
word, Miss Wallace read us a
story about the Word Families
and then we drew cartoons illus
trating the correct use of certain
verbs. In our drawings the weak-~
er word was escorted by two
helping words.
Lemma Prather and Bobby Ste
phens are the captains of two
teams in our room working on the
Red Cross drive. Every morning
we add to our collection, Will give
our report next time,
We are sorry that Johnny Tol
bert was absent part of last week
because of illness. Our class has
had good attendance up to now,.
Mrs. McCoy’s Class
We know you will be interested
to know who won the prizes of
fered last week for writing the
best paper on “How to Be Well
Groomed.” We are happy to an
nounce that the winners were
Linda McLeroy, Helen Escoe and
Carlton James. Since Linda and
Helen tied, Mrs. McCoy decided
to give a prize to each of them.
The boys and girls have been
writing other papers on different
subjects this week. Some were
written on “What Is Study.” We
thought this one we are putting
in the news this week was very
good. We hope you will read it.
So many students do not really
know what study is, 0s we are
following up our lesson on What
Is Study with the following paper:
What Is Study?
Study is the using of the mind
to gain knowledge or to find out
something, Successful study is a
reaching out for answers. Unless
one feels a need to learn, unless
he is curious about the world,
which becomes more perplexing
and grows, study is not a pleas
ure.
If the urge of questions is pres
ent, the methods by which learn
ing progresses rapidly and accu
rately are readily mastered. Since
teachers are present to direct a
pupil’s work in the classroom and
the laboratory, we are here inter
ested only in efficient habits of
independent study to master the
knowledge in books. Usually a
student is expected to under
stand a limited phase of a sub
ject at a time; hence he is given
a unit of work to do, or what is
generally called an assignment.
If left to his own unaided ef
fort he will probably read his
lesson and hope by formal repe
tition to learn its substance. This
method of attack is deadening to
intellectual curiosity and is like
ly to give rise to day-dreaming,
A method which expresses intel
ligent investigation must be sub
stituted.
First, of all, by reading the
whole assignment as rapidly as
possible, try to find out the na
ture of the field covered,
The next step is to study care
fully the first division of the as
signment, which may be indicat
ed by a topical heading or deter
miined by the first reading. Read
intensively with a view to discov
ering either the main thought or
the important facts and ideas ex
pressed but do mot proceed fare
ther than the first section until
questions dealing with its sub
stance have aseu raised and ans
wered Tey % make questions so
that the answers will require an
understanding of the section, but
do not ape the author’s phrases.
The ,outcome of good training
in these two dictions should be a
habit of seizing quickly on the
main ideas presented, and of
grasping the details bearing inti
mately upon them around the
central thoughts. Not only should
relative values thus always be
very prominent in study, but the
soundness, in final value, of ideas
in life should also be considered.
Many persons have a profound
respect for print, and willingly
hold as valuable whatever they
find in a text. But from childhood
on, good judgment in this direc
tion should be developed,
In most lines of endeavor peo
ple who show unusual skill be
gan training themselves early.
Persistent and intelligent effort
has produced from their first
awkward attempts the skilled ac
tivities which we admire. They
reap the rewards of carefully
planned study. -
LINDA McLEROY.
Co-Op Nursery
School Visited
R. R. Station
This week we had a wonderful
trip to the railroad station where
we visited the swiiching éngine.
The engineer was very generous
and nice. He explained that he
couldn’t let us get on the engine
because it was against the law. But
he rang the engine bell for us.
He blew the whistle too and
though he tried to blow it softly it
sounded loud and we put our
hands over our ears and felt a
little scared.
We had a ride on the baggage
wagon too. Mrs. Elliott pulled
and Davey Cullison’s mother
pushed and we rode up and down
the platform and then through a
big mud puddle. We were very
thrilled.
We went inside the station and
saw the window where you buy
tickets and the seats where you
wait for the train.
The rest of the week we ke;l)t
thinking about trains, so Mrs. El
liott let us build a train out of
our wooden blocks. We used bot
tle caps for wheels,. We painted
our train red and then Mrs. Elliott
shellacked it.
Another day Dan Cavett brought
some apple boxes and barrel staves
and we made a lovely fat locomo
tive and train cars big enough for
us to crawl into, Ruthie Glasner
was ticket agent and we had lots
of fun.
We must tell you about our new
outdoor equipment. We especially
like the horse swings, but the high
slide is exciting and so is the new
see saw. No one wants to go home
any more because everything is
such fun,
Pat Miketinac
Carol Montgomery
Barrow Pictures
State Exhibifs
You should see our baby ele
phant. He looks just like little
Dumbo the flying elephant.
Our tar baby has a new straw
hat that Billy brought him, he
looks so funny.
We also have a large blue rabbit
with pink ears and eyes living
with us. He has a sassy little cot
ton tail.
Jackie had a birthday Wednes
day. He chose Sandy Randolph for
his birthday queen.
Marsha had a birthday last Sat
urday. On Monday she wore her
crown and chose Mac for her king.
We are all getting so big now that
we are nearly ready for the first
grade,
There are still a good many of
our playmates out of school. We
miss them very much and hope
they will soon be back.
Drake came back to school to
day. He has' been to see his
grandfather. He told us about the
fun he had playing in the snow.
He said he went riding on a sled,
made snow balls and a snow man.
Some of us have never seen snow.
We think it would be great fun to
play in the snow with our friends.
, Mrs. Maggard’s Class
Is the March wind blowing at
your house?
March is for rain and wind and
snow,
Oh! how the March winds blow
and blow! 4
When March is over, the grass is
green,
"He goes out a lamb who a lion
comes in.
Blow, blow winter must go,
Blow the spring in March winds
blow.
We are biz emough now to #ew
to write little stories. We thought
vou might like to read a few of
them, ?
At School
I am in the first grade. I like to
go to school. We read about a lot
gs boys and girls. I like Baby Sally
est.
Rebecca Cooper
Fun At School
T go to school. I like to go to
school. We have fun at school. I
love Mrs. Haggard. She helps u:s !
have lots of fun.
Bobby Liddell
My Teacher
Mrs. Haggard is my teacher. I
love her very much. She is so
good to us. She helps us read and
write.
Rebecca Groover
Fish
My littie brother and I have
some little fish. A friend gave
them to us. Our little fish are gup
pies.
Jimmy Dantzman
My Dog
. Dick said, “See my dog. It can
run away fast. Spot is not its
name. Can you guess its name?”
Meredith Hobart
PAGE FIVE
Spotty :
Spotty plays with me. She is
my kitty. She likes to sam and.
jump. She likes to play with Joe.
She likes to sleep best of all,
Norma Scrutchin
The Monkey
See the funny, funny animal! It
runs and jumps. Tt talks and eats
peanuts. Sally said, “Do you
know what it is?” it is 2 monkey.
Jereline Southwell
My Kitty
I have a big cat. His name is
Tom. I love my kitty very much.
Shirley Patrick
Sewing
T sew little dresses for my doll. I
sew other things, foo.
Judy Chambers
The Rabbit
“Oh Dick,” said Jane, “See the
little rabbit” See him hop and
hop. He is funny. He is black and
white. He looks like Spot. Spot is
black and white.
Joan Main
At The Farm
Jane and Dick are at the farm.
They are at Grandmother’s and
Grandfather’s house. They like
the pets on the farm. There .are
cows, ducks, pigs and kittens. It is
fun to play with the pets.
Jacqueline Lord
Second Grade
Our room is proud of Myra
Mahler and Douglas Nunnally.
Myra had one of her pictures
chosen for the State Art Exhibit;
Douglas had one of his plctures
chosen for the Athens exhibit. We
have also enjoyed looking at the
pictures chosen from the other
rooms which have been displayed
in the lunch room for the past
week.
We have been missing Ann
Schoenborn and Queenie Mann,
they have been absent from school
all this week. ‘
Jack Anchors, one of the boys
in our room has gone to another
school. We hope he will be hap=-
py there,
We have just finished readins
“Uncle Wiggly’s Fortune,” an
have started on “Uncle Wiggly's
Happy Days.” Rebecca Johnson
brought these books for the class
to read.
Third Grade
Our room won the prize for hav
ing the largest percentage of mo=
thers and daddies present at the
P. T. A. meeting on Thursday,
March 2. We are glad that so
many of our parents could attend
the meeting, and we hope that even
more will go to the next meeting.
We have decided to buy a ball for
our room with the prize money.
Our room also has four new
library books, which we are all en=
joying very much.
We have several new boxes in
our room which we are going to
paint and use for book shelves.
We think they will look nice and
they will also be very useful.
Gall Griffeth is sick and has
been absent for several days. We
hope that she will scon be well and
able to come back to school.
Fourth Grade
Two of our boys and girls have
been absent with colds this week—
Nancy Sullivan and Eddie Sams.
We are glad they are back.
Friday we gave special reports
on people who have birthdays this
| month: Knute Rockne, by Linton
| Dunson; Luther Burband, by Clyde
, Maxwell; Alexander Graham' Bell,
by Dick Ferguson; Robert Frost,
by Ann Dillard; Oliver Wendell
Holmes, by Carolyn Johnson.
We are studying the different
ways we travel. Clyde Maxwell
brought 2 boats, Jean brought
some small cars, trucks, .and
busses, and Joyce Hartley brought
an airplane, All of us have looked
through magazines and collected
pictures from magazines.
Fifth Grade
This week, after we painted with
water colors, we put our pictures
up on the board. Mrs. Thomas, our
art teacher, said they were very
good. Some of the pictures were
chosen to be in the state exhibit.
The three boys whose pictures
were chosen are Curt Basgett, Mac
Cornelison and Billy Seabolt. .
Other members of the class had
pictures selected to be in the trav
eling exhibit.
Joan Zitzeiman
Sixth Grade
r At the P. T. A. meeting on
March 2, Girl Scouts presented the
program. Troop 7 did a square
dance, and Troop 34 fixed the
tables and carried the flag.
In science we have had a chavter.
ot germs, and have had a tést on
it.
In Social Studies we have been
studying about the Crusaders and
the feudal ages.
In arithmetic we have been
studying fractions, we have taken
up dividing a mixed number by
a fraction.
We have been working on the
puppet heads and putting paper on
thgm. We have been painting pic
tures in art.
Mrs. Mills came back from the
hospital. She had pneumonia and
was out almost three weeks. We
missed her very much and are glad
to have her back.
The boys from the Y. M. C. A.
went to Savannah over the week
end to play basketball.
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