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-IB! & INTE CHOJLAST1 LEAG UE VOL. XXV AUSTIN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY, 1942 No. 6 Advises Culture Rural Pentathlon Group 1941 StateMeet Uniform Award Plus Specialization Youngest State LETTER. box and AN ASSOCIATED Colle- PERSONAL System Needed -^- giate Press release con Winner in 1940 ITEMS tains a statement from Robert War Makes Timely Sugges F. Moore, secretary of ap Rural .Girl Not Only Popular Holds The answers in this column are in M tion for Economizing on pointments at Columbia Uni In School But sense "official interpretations." Only th« City Buys Medals A Record State Executive Committee is competent League Awards versity which should be pon Straight under the rules to make official interpret** Meet tions, and the State Committee's interpre For District dered by high-school as well tations appear in the Official Notice column (By W. M. Kincaid, Principal, of THE LEAGUER. These are answers to T> ARELY getting under the inquiries which are made in the course of Burkburnett High School) as by college students. He The Board of City Development line as a senior declaimer routine correspondence with the State Office. "MF AY I SUGGEST that we says, in part: of Sweetwater recently voted From a period of historic un in 1940, Nell Ferrell won third Question: Is a high-school boy unanimously to purchase medals Vi have some state-wide rule employment, the situation changed place in the rural declamation eligible for Interscholastic League prizes to be given in and other on awards. We all under overnight to a seller's market division at the State Meet of activities if he is taking only three the District 5 Interscholastic stand the educational compli where there were more jobs than subjects and passing in all three? League meet to be held there in the League in 1940, and, so cations of giving prizes for men. Answer: Yes. April, according to an announce In the face of this active em far as League records go, was ment in the Sweetwater Reporter. participation in activities, Question: Is he eligible while ployment market, college women the youngest participant that taking only three and passing in S. and it is not the intention to Superintendent of Schools R. came into their own, for employ year. only two? ' Covey presented the request. deal with that here. Rather, ers suddenly remembered that Nell has, since her entry in the Answer: No. the financial difficulties might there are many positions that third grade, been interested in In Question: If ineligible, what is UNDERSTAND the terms of have more direct appeal. women can handle as well as men. terscholastic League contests, and the penalty to individual, team, and 1. James Bruce Haler, Violet School;1 I the test service of unfamiliar Left to right, Back Row: Schoolmen in the smaller Under other circumstances the has participated in one contest or school? : 2. Bennie Alley, Presbyterian Home, Itasca; 3. Grady Porter, harvest of opportunities would be pictures. I heartily appreciate Contest Open To Answer: Minimum penalty is Verbena School (Post); 4. not identified; 5. Otto Mattiza, Paige schools realize that they are an occasion for rejoicing, -and this service and think it well forfeiture of game in which he is School; 6. not identified; 7. Travi* McDonald, Northfield School; spending too much money for indeed we are proud of the rec worth the dollar fee. used. 8. Silvin Dluhos, Taiton School (El Campo). the You may send me the first pack Rural Boys Only awards, notoriously so in ord; but we cannot overlook Left to right, Front Row: 1. James Howard Bird, Carlsbad School; many positions that col Question: The rule on passing age of pictures as soon as pos football, but we keep on fact that 2. Dave McCain, Capitola School (Sweetwater); 3. Marshall Bilbo, year are I work says the pupil must be pass- sible. Mrs. Jewel Fleming, Ack- with the idea that lege graduates took this Bancroft School (Orange); 4. Coolidge Moreau, Leon Springs School Five Events Bring Stimulating spending as unsound as quicksand, based, I ing at the last promotion date. We «rly, Texas. (San Antonio); 5. J. B. Alexander, Adamsville School; 6. Raymond Competition to the Smallest we must "keep up with the as so many of them are, on the do not have mid-term promotion in Pupils who Schrank, Aleman School; 7. Lazaro Cadena, Palito Blanco School Schools in State Joneses." That difficulty may artificial economy of a war boom. the grammar grades. failed last year, but are passing at E PARTICIPATE in Six- (Alice); 8. not identified. easily be eliminated with a Our graduates were warned of W man Football and believe NE OF THE athletic con- this situation and cautioned to mid-term and up to county meet state-wide rule. I would sug are not eligible or are they? If that it is a great sport for the tests which always at take full advantage of their op smaller schools. We also partici "Met Up?" Here's Seven gest that any player be de portunities to build into themselves we had mid-term promotion, the pate in basketball and some of the Leave Graduate Rules for Keeping Cool tracts great interest at the clared ineligible who receives the kind of experience that will pupils would have been promoted other sports. We have had some University Interscholastic an award costing more than be useful in the period of post at the last promotion period. unusually strong tennis teams for CEVEN RULES for inain- League State Meet is the so- $1.00, from whatever source war reconstruction. the past few years. L. G. Cook, Rule Unamended Volumes could be written of the (See Ques. and Ans. P. 2) P taining wartime civilian called Rural Pentathlon. the award may come. In that —:——————o————————• Prin., High School. There is not anything quite lessons learned from the late un- morale have been outlined by way, a player might receive lamented depression, yet it is said Writer Says It Is Often Well Dr. Irving J. Lee of North like it in any of the League an award costing up to $1.00 Ambitious For Jaycees Sponsor For Pupil to Stay Over western University, an expert meets any where in the coun in any year he lettered, and in (See Culture Plus P. 2) Cherokee Co. Meet Another Year on the psychology of anxiety. try. It is strictly a Texas his senior year could be given athletic event. Nell Ferrell Newspaper Work Bingman, Supt. South For a number of years Dr. a jacket, sweater, or watch, (By C. W. The pentathlon consists of five JACKSONVILLE Junior Cham- Park Public Schools, Beaumont) Lee has applied the principles since he would not need his Naval Academy as a representative of her events: 1. 100-yard dash; 2. Run another members will many meet ever Now " ber of Commerce VTOU ASKED for comments back of these rules to ning high jump; 3. 12-pound eligibility any more. school in the county Journalism Contestant County In She won her way to the sponsor the Cherokee * in regard to a paragraph cases of stage fright with shot put; 4. Standing hop, step since. Pointing Towards it Scholarship Requirement Favors Classics representative of terscholastic League meet here, superintendent amazing success. and jump; 5. Running broad State Meet as a Specialization was definitely decided by the or written by a In addition, I would suggest a Staples Rural School in Guadalupe "The position of many Ameri jump. ^ ganization at the regular weekly inquiring as to whether or not rule requiring players to finish the County. ' cans today," he points out in a re In scoring j the first five places during which a playing Goethe, Balzac, Ibsen, JOURNALISM contestants meeting and dinner held recently some state-wide policy should semester She is now in Kingsbury High lease of the Associated Collegiate in each eveni count, respectively, ends with a passing grade Tolstoy, and Cervantes at the Liberty Hotel. up governing the eligi season School from which she will be go through the mill of fiv« be set Press, "is analogous to that experi five, four,, thr^e, two, and one point. in three half-unit courses before For several years the annual Popular With Cadets graduated in 1943. She is a popu events before qualifying for bility of boys who could make enced in stage fright. This situa Each contestant must participate they may receive awards. Under meet has been held in other towns lar pupil, was last year elected the State Meet enough credits to graduate but tion, if permitted to continue, in all five of ihe events. The con present rules, many players who any place in of the county. pROFESSOR Carroll Storrs "sweetheart" of the school, and was on account of their desire to might lead to a deterioration of testant who f scores the greatest journalism contest; andi Appropriate ribbons and medals civilian morale." number of points is declared the * Alden, who had devoted 37 attractively presented at the school Thelma Freidin, representing participate another year in (See Awards P. 2) carnival. Moreover, she makes an will be awarded winners in the Points to be remembered by all winner and the holder of the Pen years of teaching service to Laredo High School in 1940 various events by the Jaycees. athletics they intentionally civilians during the crisis are: tathlon Championship. the United States Naval "A" average in her scholastic work. The winner is awarded a per Editor Criticizes She does not finish high school State Meet scored as follows: Jacksonville Progress. drop or fail one subject dur 1.