Beat Beat Chanute Ft. Scott .' Vol. xvm THE BOOSTER, PITTSBURG, KANSAS, FRU,AY, JANUARY 27, 1988 N,0.15 Change in Schedule Study of Grades Convention of Offered ·Students County Teachers Sixty Minute Classes Presented in in Essentials Place of Present Forty·Twenty Here Saturday Minute Periods Reveals Ability The saying of the A. B. C.'s back­ ~int wards was by no means absent when Statistics Show That One In Under Auspices of Both the change in the schedule of classes County and Pittsburg was announced in the home rooms, Eleven Makes an - Associations Tuesday of this week. Excellent Mark Many seniors would have told you, C Dr. Schwegler, Speaker had you asked, that it was alI a lass of 1932 Highest frame-up to keep them from gradu­ . Program WIlI Feature Vocal Num­ ating, and the sophomores would have 1930 and 1933 Groups Tie In Number ,1: g. bers, Theis Sister.s, Addresses, said in no uncertain terms that some­ of Outstanding and Two Plays one was just trying to malte them Students more mixed up, FinalIy, as the home The annual teachers' convention, room period went into a thirty-minute A study of the results of the Eng. under the joint auspices of Crawford overtime, schedules began to work lish Essentials tests since their incep. County Teacher's Association and out and the excited students began to tion in 1927 reveals that approxi. Pittsburg Teachers Association will lose a considerable bit of ther aston-_ mately only one student out of eleven be held here Saturday, Jan. 28. ishment and ~began knocking-going makes a grade' of 97 or above and The rural and primary teachers under the theory, "If you can't get that apparently the tests in some wilI meet at Horace Mann School at what y~u want by boosting, knockl" years were harder than in others. 11:00 a. m.; the junior high and inter­ But this too finalIy subsided and In the seven years that the English mediate grade teachers at Lakeside; p~ace and contentment once more Essentials have been known to P. H. and high school teachers lit the 'Sen­ reigned supreme. S. students there were 93 who made ior High School. The cause of alI this excitement this grade. Of this, 71 were girls and There will be a joint meeting of all was the change fr?m the present for- 22, boys. Seven students, six girls an~ teachers at Senior High School at ty twent.y:. mm?te schedule of and one boy have a perfect paper classes to. a sixty mmute schedule for with a grade of 100. 1:30 p. m. The programs to be featured the remamder of the year.. Highest in 1932 Of course many students met WIth The class of '32 boasts th t throughout the day nre to be as fol­ difficulty' h . th • t' e grea - In C angmg elr rou me est number of high r d th ttl lows: t~e~r RURAL AND PRIMARY SECTION from the two or three short periods being 31. The stu:e:tses'ande and two long ones or however they . 10:00 a. m. might have them arranged but the grades were Edna Blackett 98, Grace '1' ". Brand 98, Leona Bryson 97, Myrtle Horace Mann School Building p an promises to be more attractive to B kl 99 W'l B Frances Hoffman, Girard, Chairman the student body as a whole and more uc ey ,I rna urger 97, Bu. Reading-A Magic for Red Riding satisfactory in every way ford Butler 97, MaybelIe Cox 98, Dor- Hood Melicent McFal'8nd, Girard _______._ othy Ann Crews 98, Mary Daniaux Rhythm Band _._ _ __.. 98, Valorie Graham 97, Lois HalIacy ..__.Langdon School District No. 63 -o'rs 97, Rosie Hensley 97, Mildred Holt Teaching of Art in Primary Grades The Hi-Y and Girl Reserve presidents who are helping to make the Hi-Y and Girl Reserves successful organ- Several 97, Vertie Mae Hume 98, John Hutch- _.'_...."_ Mrs. Arverson, Pittsburg izations this year are pictured above. - Sent inson 97, Louise Morehouse 97, Na- Geography Demonstration _ They are as follows: upper ~eft, Ed Sisk, former president of Joe Dance cbapter of the Hi.,Y; upper cen- InJ-ured t-n Rush dine Morris 97, Elizabeth Ann Mur- ___--Miss Cross, K. S. T. C. ter, ,Gertrude Sellmansberger, preSident of the sophomore Girl Reserves; upper right, Otbal Pence, president of the phy 97, Norman Murphy 97, Marie Community Meetings and Coopera­ DaVId New chap,ter; lo~er, left,' Ol~rence Stephenson, president of Jimmy Welch chapter; lower center, Harriet • Silvia 97, Ester Simian 99, Corene tio1l-Gladya Co'osemans, Diat. Bumgar~er, preslden t0 f semor 'GIr1 Reserves;'d lower light, Walter Bradshaw, president of Bunny Carlson.chapter. Simms 98, .Jaunita Updegrove 97 Thepictures a f Albert Martm, new presl ent of B. D. Edworthy chapter and Clyde Skeen, new preSident of for Test Grades ., .' ,, No. 16 M~rlm .Demonstration in Primary Arith- Joe Dance chapter are not shown. Martin was elected to filI Tom Groundwater's place,when the latter resigned to WIlson 97, Mildred Wdson 97, • metic . ....__..Misses Graves, become editor of the Annual. When Ed Sisk moved toWichita recently, Skeen was chosen as his successor. 'EngI'ISh Essent·laIs Prove Muc h Mdton100. Zacharias 97, Virginia Nelson l~;~t~i~~Q~aRrn~e~gy~ and Williams, K. S. T. C. Too Da~gerous for Meek 21 Hi~h in 1927 " 'es fn the Social Studles._ Grammarians '. The class of '27 is next with 21 --r--.Jane Carroll, K. S'. T. C. Bombardment of Publishing School'Pape; Perplexing high grades. Those who rose above All Classes Held Up the mark were Ellsworth Briggs 98, AFTERNOON PROGRAM As Any Jig-Saw Puzzle, Says Adviser· Donna Burr 99, Harold Compton 98, 1:30 p. m. Finals Climaxes Tardy Bells Mean N thin to Th . Marjory Holmes 98, Alyce Hornbuck- Senior High School Building "A school newspaper has a dual nature: it is both a social science and a g ose Le 98, Jeanette Hughes 97, Signor J. L. Hutchinson, Pittsburg, Chairman First Semester English training project for the young people and an educational 'house conce:~u~~eti~e~:r:OSted Fink 98, Jay Kriegaman 97, Gilberta Music-hstrumental Quartet __ organ,'" says Miss ~leanor Baptist, jounralism adviser. "It takes a great Lambeth 97, Donald Lowe 100, Mabel - Tbeis Sisters deal of ingenuity to harmonize these dual aims. The adult reader expects ', 't t d 'f h d "How did you rate in 'the English Morrow 98, Hazel McClure 100, One Act Play-Pittsburg Senior American Government Classes and IS lrrl a e I e oes not get professional accuracy and finish, but the High ScbooL. Undergo Three-Day Siege average age of the producer is less than 16, and he is decidely an amatuer Essentials Test?" This question has Wayne Phelps 98, Irene Reineri 99, ___Frances E. Trimble, Director of Last Test The adviser has to be the mediator between the adult reader and the ie- been so popular with tbe senlors for Fern Ryczek 99, Ka.therine Simian Address _ .._ ..._ porter. She has at the same time to'S> the past ten days or two weeks, tbat 98, Mary Taylor 98, Florence Tuke .---.Dh, Raymond A;. Some Fail to Pass try to put out school publicity and and ignores the major one. The cart one not familar with. the circum- 98, Nina Thomas 100, Hazel Scrant­ preserve all the educational values gets before the horse and the tail stances would be led to believe that on 98. Schwegler, University of Kansas ~~alI J. L. HutchinsoIL.._. _ Second Half Year BegiM Quietly; of the project. It is worse than a wags the dog.. The .paper over- English Essentials are not only essen- Fourteen puplis, who reached this _Pres. Pittsburg Teachers' Assn. Seniors Begin Last Lap lOOO-piece jigsaw juzzle, but is just shadows the big trammg m the class- tial but in most cases vital. height in 1931 were Mary Adele Brinn D. N. Tira. ._.. .-Pres. of Journey as fascinating if one doesn't weary es. For two or three days after the 97, Ralph Brown 98, Clevea Bynum Crawford County Teachers' Assn. of putting the pieces together." "This occasionally leads to misun- lisb of grades was posted on tbe 99, Martha Close 99, Martb'- Cobb 99, O. L. Heryford _ A heavy bombardment of final ex- Every issue of the Pantograph is derstandings, especialy on the part of bulletin board near the office, there 4lma Ellicott 99, Ruth House 99, _._..__. ..County Superintendent aminations terminated the first se- the work of about 100 persons, and those adults who are offended at the was such a conjestlon in that part Harold Kidder 99, Angelina Masso_ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SECTION mester for the army of high school contains 60 to 65 articles. The 'game' .amateurishness of the school paper. of the corridor that Prin. J. L. vera 98, Jennie Ortaldo 98, James 10:00 a. m. students and' on tbe horizon of the is to affect a smooth organization to But the school writer must be grant- Hutchinson could scarcely get to his Stafford 98, John Steel 98, Frederica Senior High School Auditorium desolate ruins dawned a new sernes- bring these 'webs' together, to carry ed this amateur standing along with office and was forced to remind Hez Theis 99, Evalyn Wilcox 97. Pittsburg, Kansas ter. The dismissal of classes Friday out the infinite details of the work, to the athlete, the musician, the printer, A.