Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas
EIGHTH GRADE (Nov 18, 1954) Our individual pictures sold very well. We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving vacation which will begin at dismissal on the 24th. There will be no school on Friday following the 25th. The skating party the Mothers planned for the seventh and eighth grades was really enjoyed by everyone. Our visitors during American Education Week were Mrs. Viergever, Mrs. Coe, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Shannon. The assembly program by the sixth grade was very good. Mrs. Marvin Davis told us about the history of schools in Rossville. Helen Stadler leads in spelling this six weeks. Our spelling this six weeks. Our spelling grades have improved over the last six weeks. These members have recently joined our band from our room: Roger Zeller plays a sax, Raymond Rafferty the Tuba, and Jimmy Coe the clarinet. Our band is really making progress. The cup cakes Ginger Shannon made for our Halloween Party were very good. On to Jupiter and Horizons Unlimited were shown to the upper grades last Monday. They were films from General Motors. Ralph Marney and Raymond Rafferty are our movie operators this term. Raymond Rafferty was out of school one day with a cold. The four girls from our room who will be cheerleaders for the first team are Sue Viergever, Geraldine Masters, Ginger Shannon, and Helen Stadler. Patty Coffey, Sharon Rosencutter and Salley Porter will cheer for the second team. They invited Carol Rafferty to work with them. Geraldine Masters was recently fitted with a new pair of glasses. The Good Citizen vote was given to Raymond Rafferty last week. Douglas Martinek and Leroy Dick [article cut off].
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GRADE SCHOOL NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954 FIRST GRADE We were pleased to have so many visitors during American Education Week. The following parents and friends came to visit our room: Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. H.D. Richardson and David, Mr. Frank Dolezilek, Mr. and Mrs. John Simekca, Mrs. Leroy Parr, Mrs. Albert Coleman, Mrs. A.M. Sieck, Mrs. Donic Parr, Mrs. Hope Meade, Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. C.E. Gresser, Mrs. Oliver Tuller and Dennis, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gene Reding and Doris Jean. Myles Preble and Clyde Parr celebrated their birthdays recently by passing candy bars and balloons to the boys and girls. In art we made them birthday cakes. They also had their pictures taken for their mothers. Jane Parr, Bobby Dolezilek and Carl Farley visited their dentist in St. Marys and have returned their pink dental cards. We are becoming acquainted with spelling by having one easy spelling word a week. We have a Spelling Flight Chart on which our airplanes fly if we receive 100 on our words on Friday. We are happy to say all our airplanes are in the air. After Christmas we will have harder spelling lessons. All of us have finished our second pre-primer. Some of us will finish our third one this week. Larry Wehner told us of his first bus ride to Sabetha to visit his grandparents. His sisters, Helen and June, accompanied him. Steven Pardee, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Rudy Bailey and Bobby Dolezilek were absent because of illness this six weeks. The next three weeks will find us very busy getting ready for our Christmas program, for our mothers, making gifts, decorating our room for Christmas and writing our letters to Santa Claus. We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving vacation. Some of us stayed home and had family dinners. Others journeyed quite a distance to spend the day. Aex Sieck was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, visiting his Grandmother and Grandfather Sieck over the holidays. June Murray accompanied her parents and sister to Kearney, Nebraska, Thanksgiving Day, where she spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Deaver. She also visited her two great-grandmothers. John Simecka and Larry Wehner ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wehner in Delia. Robert Dolezilek visited in Topeka with his brother George and family. Tom Foresman and Clyde Parr ate dinner with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Max Lemon in Topeka. Rudy Bailey was a visitor in the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Zickenfoose Thanksgiving Day. Dale Stiles had as his guests over the holidays, his aunt and uncle and cousins from Akron, Colorado. Also his grandfather from Anton, Colorado, was a guest. Myles Preble and his parents ate Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Wood. Carl Farley was also in Manhattan for the day. Jane Parr spent the day with her aunts, uncles, and little cousins at her Grandmother and Grandfather Keller at Delia. The following ate Thanksgiving dinner at home with their parents and invited guests: Larry Reding, Allen Jackson, Bonnie Tuller, Susan Nadeau, Carolyn Gresser, Steven Pardee, and Mrs. Ramey. SECOND GRADE This is where we spent Thanksgiving – Carolyn Farley went to Manhattan. Vauncille Avers spent the day with her grandparents in Burlington. Bruce Shannon went to Auburn. Daryl Mitchell visited his grandparents at Paxico. Helen Wehner ate dinner with her grandparents at Delia. Rebecca Zeller went to Kansas City. Sandra Heiland went to Topeka to be with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. John DeGraff and family. Laura and Parker VanVleck left Wednesday noon for Fayettville, Arkansas. Freda McCollough ate dinner with her grandmother Burton in Wamego. Gary Dick went to Springfield, MO. Charles Meade spent the day with Mr. and Mr.s Max Lemon and family in Topeka. Diane Murray visited her grandparents and great-grandmother in Kearney, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Challis ate dinner with relatives at Garrison. Those of us who stayed at home and had company were: Virginia Stach, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones, Dwight Martinek, Barton Larson, Artie Campbell, Henry Wade, Marilyn Trubey, Connie Bahner and Diane Cowan. Diane said there were fourteen guests at her house. We are so sorry about Mr. Baker’s and Bruce’s accident. Artie Campbell has joined the Boy Scouts. Parker VanVleck is also a member. Vauncille Avers treated us to frozen chocolate turkeys on her birthday November 20th. Marilyn Trubey, Rebecca Zeller, Helen Wehner, Henry Wade and Dwight Martinek were absent because of illness the past week. Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Carolyn Farley and Connie Bahner have returned their pink dental cards since our last news. We hope to have our Christmas decorations up very soon as our room looks so bare with our turkeys and other Thanksgiving decorations gone. The First and Second Grades have started working on a Christmas program to be given before vacation. You will be hearing more about it, so plan to come. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back from vacation with many exciting stories to tell about their vacations. Many of them took trips or had company visiting them for Thanksgiving. The “Spelling Speedway” contest closed the last day before vacation with Linda Simecka’s race car coming in first. She hasn’t missed a spelling word since school started. Finishing close behind Linda were Douglas Kelsey and Myrna Perry. They both missed getting 100 only once. The race starts again with the start of the new six weeks period and everyone plans to move his car faster this time. We had two birthdays in the Third Grade this month; Marilyn Simpson and Pat Royal. They both treated the class with candy bars. Again it is time for grade cards and there are still 19 Third Graders who haven’t missed a day of school. The honor students for this six weeks are Jimmie Fauerbach, Da Gee, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Marilyn Simpson, Lillian Reser, Donna Tuller, and Connie Zeller. We are now starting to work on Christmas decorations and are all looking forward to the visit from Santa Claus. FOURTH GRADE In checking our clean plate chart we find that of those eating at school regularly Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner have had clean plates since we started keeping the record in September. Many of the children spent Thanksgiving away from home. Richard VanVleck in going to Arkansas traveled the farthest distance. All or most of the others had company come to their house. FIFTH GRADE [notated from here forward is from December 9, 1954] Christmas spirit is showing itself in all the rooms. The fifth grade have been assigned to their parts for the assembly program which will be coming in the future. Further information as to time and date will be announced later. In the fifth grade, we’ve been working long division and some division in fractions. Improper fractions are still giving trouble to some. In English, we are building sentences and learning the different kinds of sentences. We have about 90% of the class this six weeks with an A average in spelling. Phonics and lots of practice are helping our spelling. We had a birthday in our room last week. We wish Buddy Mogus many more Happy Birthdays. Our Safety Motto is – Stop! Look! And Live! Maxim: Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. SIXTH GRADE The boys and girls in our room were very sorry to hear that Mr. Baker had to be hospitalized. We are studying hard and trying to do just what he would want us to do during his absence. We are very glad Mrs. McClellan is helping us, but we will be happy to have Mr. Baker back again. Mr. Baker had our room decorations for Christmas planned and nearly prepared before the Thanksgiving Holidays. We put up his decorations and fixed the room just the way we thought he would want it. We hope he can see it soon. We wrote letters to Mr. Baker for our English assignment Monday, December 6. Our reading class has continued our study of phonetic sounds. We have been studying prefixes and suffixes. Each student is keeping a list of words in his note book. Wanda Harmon and her parents spent Saturday in Topeka. J.W. Adams visited his Oculist Saturday and was glad to find that he had no ill effect from an eye injury received last summer. J.W. Adams and his father have completed an outdoor Christmas scene for their home. Gene and Dean Davis had a busy weekend. They helped their father repair the pony pen. They assisted their mother with some house work, and last but not least, enjoyed a visit from their grandmother, Mrs. E.P. Bahner. Wayne Miller reports that his parents have moved into the Bailey home and they are now comfortably settled. Curtis Berkey helped his father build fences and feed-troughs this weekend. Sally Nadeau attended the 4-H Achievement party in Topeka last Saturday. Don Rogers and his mother did their Christmas decorating last weekend. In the Spelling Contest for our grade the scores for last week’s total ran as follows: “Yankees” 100%, “Termites” 95% and “Indians” 96%. Mr. Baker will be happy to know that our room again has the highest percent in church attendance. We are very pleased about it, too. All of us are counting the days until Christmas – Are they sure the days before Christmas are the shortest – They seem like the longest days to us.
Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas
January 13, 1955 "Progress of the Grades" Rossville Grade School FIRST GRADE We are happy to be back in school after our nice, long vacation. Most of us stayed home and had lots of fun playing with our toys Santa Claus left us. All of us would like to express our thanks to Mrs. Wehner, Mrs. Parr, Mrs. Foresman and Mrs. Simecka for the lovely refreshments they served after our Christmas Program. We also appreciated the nice attendance at our program. Visitors in our room since our last news are the following: Mrs. Lorraine Bailey, Mrs. Frank Dolezilek, Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. Nadeau and Mr. Simpson. Please come again! Alex Sieck and June Murray have returned their pink dental cards. We are working hard on our letters, sounds and spelling words. We made little Snowmen Books to write our spelling lessons in. Many of us are doing outside reading. Several of us received a set of Alice and Jerry pre-primers for Christmas. We can see much improvement in our reading. Mrs. Ramey showed us three films this week which we enjoyed a lot. We plan to have films every Thursday. Bobby Dolezilek came back to school proudly wearing a new pair of glasses. Alex Sieck spent part of his vacation at his grandparents in Iowa. Our room certainly looks nice. Mr. Dolezilek worked hard during vacation to have it nice and clean for us. We are trying to cooperate and keep it looking that way. Mrs. Shortall, our school nurse, paid us a visit recently. In Art, we have just completed our snowmen and Kansas sunflowers. Rudy Bailey is nicely settled in his new home. SECOND GRADE We were all glad to see each other after our Christmas vacation. Some of us took trips during vacation. Virginia Stach went to California with her family. She told us many interesting things about her trip and brought back olives and fresh dates to treat us on her birthday. Barton Larson went to Lyndon, Rebecca Zeller to Manhattan and Helen Wehner went to Sabetha. The rest of us stayed home and played with our Christmas gifts, which included bicycles, dolls, dogs, ponies, trucks and many other nice things. Dwight Martinek treated us to popcorn balls a few days before Christmas. He also made the frame for our fireplace. Freda McCollough gave us our Christmas tree. Gary Dick and Henry Wade treated us to candy on their birthdays. Daryl Mitchell had his tonsils removed during vacation. Artie Campbell ran a wire into his leg and had to have three stitches taken in it. Ronald Harmon stepped on a nail while playing at home. We appreciate so many coming to see the program given by the Primary Grades before Christmas. Glad you liked it. Parker and Laura VanVleck have moved to town. Parker isn't very happy about leaving the farm. In Science we are watching for our winter birds and are remembering to put food and water out for them. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back to school with wonderful New Year's resolutions to work harder, help mother more, and be good boys and girls. All of them are working hard to keep their resolutions and very few of them have been broken. In the present Spelling race Linda Simecka, Myrna Perry and Connie Zeller are in the lead with Douglas Kelsey, Joe Mitchell, Jimmy Fauerbach, Daniel Gee and Lillian Reser following very close. We have had one birthday this month; Myrna Perry treated us with ice cream bars. For Art the boys and girls in the Third Grade have decorated their room's windows with snowmen and snowflakes. Most of their pictures now will be about Kansas until after Kansas Day. All but two of the students in the Third Grade have read more than the eight required library books and many of them have read more than twenty books. Marilyn Simpson had her tonsils removed during Christmas vacation but she is feeling fine now although she must keep quite in her activities for awhile. Since we have been studying good posture habits in health, we are starting a posture contest between two teams in the room. Through this contest we hope to eliminate all slouching and carelessness in posture. FOURTH GRADE Our motto this week is, "No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little." The safety thought is Don't be a Jay, Play the safe way. Last Tuesday the children each brought a Christmas game or toy and enjoyed sharing it with others during the rainy play periods. Carla Rasch came out the checkers champion. We are learning the tables of sevens now in multiplication and division. Those who made perfect scores in all the new lessons in regular spelling class are Anna Ent, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Janice Vanderblomen and June Wehner. In the supplementary Spelling Class perfect grades were made by Dale Dannefer, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch and Jean Stiles. The Fourth Grade will have the assembly this month. We are planning it for Wednesday morning, January 26, at 9:15. We will welcome all of you parents who can come. ___________ Date: January 13, 1955 Copyright Information: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Credit Information: The Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School FIRST GRADE We are happy to have Alex Sieck with us again. He told us about the schools in Florida and other interesting little events of his trip. Alex brought Mrs. Ramey some pretty salt and pepper shakes from Jacksonville, Florida. Steven Pardee celebrated his seventh birthday, March 11, by having all the first graders and other little friends as his guests for a party and birthday supper at his home. Everyone reported a wonderful time. Steven received many nice gifts. Steven also treated us to candy bars at school. Carolyn Gresser is the proud owner of a new dog, which she has named Peppy. Since our last news the following visited our room and stayed for lunch: Mrs. Leroy Parr and Janice, Mrs. Raymond Royal and children, Mrs. Joe Reding, Mrs. John Simecka and Gary. Many of us are now checking out library books for our supplementary reading. We were really surprised and pleased to find that we could read so many of them. Junie Murray enjoyed eating Sunday dinner at the Senate Cafeteria in Topeka. We are working hard on our Assembly Play, which we will give in April. You will be hearing more about it. Carl Farley's cousin, Sonnie Kovar, visited our room. Sonnie is a first grader at Quincy School in Topeka. Jane Parr and Rudy Bailey were among the many Rossville fans at the Grade School Tournament. We were pleasantly surprised to have Junie Murray's mother and Rudy Bailey's mother come for a visit last week. Steven Pardee's mother was also our guest. Several of us have been enjoying roller skating at the St. Marys Skating Rink. Bobby Dolezilek, Johnnie Simecka and Larry Wehner were recent skaters there. SECOND GRADE Signs of Spring decorate our walls and bulletin boards. This is a month of many birthdays for us. Connie Bahner, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Charles Meade and Diane Cowan are all eight years old now. Sandra Heiland invited the girls in her class to a birthday party last Thursday after school. It is also new shoe month. The fortunate ones to have new shoes are: Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Barton Larson, Laura and Parker VanVleck, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Bruce Shannon and Connie Bahner. The Cub Scouts watched Peter Pan on TV at Artie Campbell's home on March 7. We appreciate very much the wonderful cooperation of the mothers making such pretty clown suits for our part in the Operetta. Virginia Stach's mother visited our room one day last week and stayed for lunch. Mrs. Raymond Royal and Mrs. Joe Reding also stopped in for a short while. Henry Wade was absent one day last week to have his eyes tested by Dr. H.W. Powers. His new glasses are a great help to him. We are watching for signs of spring. Over the week end several reported flying kites and raking yards. Vauncille Avers, Amy Jones and Bruce Shannon have perfect attendance for the year. Dwight Martinek's mother made cakes for the basketball team and one for us. Thank you, Mrs. Martinek, it was so good and such a nice surprise. Our assembly program will be next Tuesday afternoon, March 22, at 2:35. Everyone is invited. Our program will consist of special numbers, The Cowboys Serenade, and a one-act Operetta "Going to the Fair." THIRD GRADE The month of March so far has been a very busy one for the boys and girls in the Third Grade. The Third Grade presented their "February Assembly" March 2nd after having to postpone it because of illness and then last Friday sang several numbers before the Operetta. Linda Simecka went to the hospital last Thursday to have her tonsils removed. Everyone misses her and we're all hoping she'll be back by this Thursday. We have only one birthday during the month of March. Rose Marie Jacobson has a birthday March 16th. In art last Wednesday we tried drawing some models. One person would model as a person batting, running, boxing, etc., while the rest of the class drew this model. Everyone enjoyed this art lesson and have also enjoyed coloring pictures of St. Patrick and shamrocks for the month of March. FOURTH GRADE Since our last news writing, we have lost one of our class members. We miss Henry Martin since he has moved to McPherson, Kansas, with his parents. Our March birthdays all come next week. Sharon Irwin observes hers on the first day of spring, Dale Dannefer the day following and Janice Vanderblomen on the 26th. Judy McCollough and Dale Dannefer have made recent trips to the dentist. Kent Paine, Roger Hurley, David Parr and Michael Gresser passed programs at the Operetta Friday night. Illness has caused Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Kent Paine, David Parr, Richard VanVleck, and Virginia Rezac to miss a day or more of school this past three weeks. Our goal this week is to have everyone in the class make a hundred in the final lesson. Our motto is - Lost time is never found again. The safety thought is to avoid being hit by a softball, keep your eyes on the ball.
Thursday, March 24, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School FIFTH GRADE The fifth grade have been making product maps for the Middle Atlantic States and the Central States. We will finish our Reader Text tomorrow then we will take Supplementary Readers and History. Marie Stiles has nearly completed the Bobbs Merrill Reading Circle Library Books, a series of twenty-nine books, this term. Carol Tuller has read all the Bobbsey Twins Series in our Library and others to make a total of twenty-eight books. Linda Kelsey has read thirty-seven books from our School Library. Judy Fauerbach has read 12 books, Judy Huston has read 15 books, Buddy Mogus has read 17 books, Joan Dolezilek has read 25 books, and Sharon Viergever has read 16 books. The nice weather last week created the fever for Softball. Miss Duncan of Lyman School visited in our school last week. Several of our music pupils in chorus work are doing some very nice two part singing in their class. Our Spelling 100% Club is climbing. Carol Tuller was in Topeka last week to have her eyes tested. SIXTH GRADE The sixth grade has played sides in softball on the days they could go outside. Gene and Dean Davis were captains one week and James Stadler and J.W. Adams were captains this past week. Our class figured the Arithmetic involved in the building of a swimming pool made in a series of eleven problems. We have made picture graphs and bar graphs. We used water colors in our art period this last week. Our bulletin board is decorated with water colors and Easter eggs and bunnies. Curtis Berkey went to Kansas City on Sunday. Katherine and Kenneth Porter went back to Iowa over the week end. Those having 100% in spelling for this six weeks are: Dean Davis, Don Rogers, Katherine Porter, Gene Davis, Bills Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Sally Nadeau and Joleen Parr. Timothy Lynde had a birthday on Saturday. Charlotte Decker has her writing displayed on our good work board along with Jane Zickefoose. We have asked the students to rate themselves on this question. Are you a good listener? Because those who are good listeners do better, make and keep the most friends. Our Week's Maxim - Look for the good in people. Then you shall grow better yourself. Some of our boys are getting ready for the Boy Scout Circus. We are studying about coal and its uses in social studies. We wrote English Compositions on how to be good citizens last week. Some of the papers were very well done. We have been having a word pronouncing contest in connection with our reading lessons. We are going back and reviewing our words that were new to us this year. The sixth grade has had a good year so far and we hope that the rest of the year will be as good as the first part. SEVENTH GRADE The members of our class certainly enjoyed playing their various roles in the operetta, Treasure Island. We take pride in the fact that our class furnished not only supporting roles but also two accompanists, Diane Swenson and Janet Harth and two soloists, Wayne Rasch and Ralph Marney. Although the eighth grade defeated us in softball last week we are happy to congratulate them on the good game they played. We know they are happy to regain the trophy which our class won from them last fall. The spring season is an inspiration to the art class. Every one tried his hand with water colors. A number of good bird pictures was completed. Those who have birthdays this month are planning a little party Friday. They are Janet Harth, Jeanene Beal, and Ralph Marney. In language our attention is centered on letter writing and sentence diagraming. We find our early experiences in sentence diagraming encouraging, partially due to the time and effort already spent on parts of speech and sentence structure. The quotation for last week: "Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable." EIGHTH GRADE Now that spring is here and snow on the ground, we have been forced indoors to play volleyball. We won the ten-inning game of softball from the seventh graders with a bonus of one point per inning. Miss Scholtz and Mr. Frey from the State Department were in our school last week taking pictures of the way the milk program is handled. Ginger Shannon will represent our school in the Spelling Bee which will be held again this spring. Two months of school remain. Most of us agree it has been a speedy term. Douglas Martinek will be gone two Fridays when the band plays away from here. No school will be held on April 8 and 11. Fifteen of us were able to work four cube root problems last Friday in our contest. States and capitals will be used for the contest this week. Douglas Martinek and Clifford Van Vleck are kitchen helpers this week. Patty Coffey and Jimmy Coe are wash monitors. A film on Gossip was shown this week. Bennie Martinek sent us a film on Driving which we enjoyed. A clean hanky has been keeping [remainder missing]
Thursday, May 19, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School FIRST GRADE NEWS The last six weeks of school found many of us celebrating birthdays. Allen Jackson invited the first graders to a birthday party in the Rossville Park. Delicious refreshments of ice cream and cup cakes were served. Allen's mother was assisted by Mrs. Francis Pardee. Carl Farley treated us to ice cream sandwiches and passed out balloons to celebrate his birthday. Carolyn Gresser passed out candy bars in observance of her birthday which is this summer. Alex Sieck gave us a very nice surprise by passing out prettily decorated cup cakes and party hats Monday. Junie Murray celebrated her August birthday with the class Tuesday by passing out cup cakes. Jane Parr had the following girls as her overnight guests Friday evening: Carolyn Gresser, Bonnie Tuller, Junie Murray, Susan Nadeau, and Kathleen Becker. They all reported a wonderful time. During this last six weeks of school, we have had a reading class of library books along with our regular reading groups. Jane Parr, Carolyn Gresser and Steven Pardee tied for first place in reading the most books, 22 in all. The following boys and girls will receive awards for prompt and regular attendance: Rudy Bailey, Bobbie Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Allen Jackson, Junie Murray, Jane Parr, Myles Preble, Laird Reding, and Johnnie Simecka. Visitors in our room since our last news are Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. Royal, Marilyn and Linda, Mrs. Joe Gresser and Catherine, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. F.E. Pardee, Mrs. Albert Sieck, Mrs. John Simecka and Gary, Miss Katheryn Vandahl, Rosie Stadler, Ronnie Davis, Bennie Mogus, Evan Jones and David Richardson. Reading Awards will be presented to the following boys and girls: Rudy Bailey, Bobbie Dolezilek, Tom Foresman, Carl Farley, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jacobson, Susan Nadeau, Jane Parr, Myles Preble, Bonnie Tuller, Johnnie Simecka, and Steven Pardee. We have nine boys and girls in our room who have never missed a spelling word this year. They are Jane Parr, Steven Pardee, Tom Foresman, Bonnie Tuller, Johnnie Simecka, Myles Preble, Carolyn Gresser, Bobbie Dolezilek and Rudy Bailey. Myles Preble has moved back to his home in the country. He has been bringing very pretty bouquets for our room. Several others have brought beautiful roses and peonies to make our room attractive. We appreciate this a lot. Alex Sieck will move to Topeka as soon as school is out. SECOND GRADE This last week of school is a very busy one for us. We are looking forward to a trip to Rebecca Zeller's farm home Monday and to Field Day Tuesday. Our best written work has to be pasted in our Book of the month scrapbook and our room put in order for the summer. In art we drew some very interesting pictures about what we want to do this vacation. We especially liked Donald and Ronald Harmon's showing them fishing; also Diane Murray's going to Nebraska to see her grandmother. The mumps have invaded our room the last few weeks. The victims were: Dwight Martinek, Diana Cowan, Connie Bahner, and now May Jones who, this week, is getting them on the other side. We hope she gets back in time for our last day dinner. Bruce Shannon treated us to ice cream bars on his birthday, May 3rd. Those who have had perfect attendance so far this year are: Vauncille Avers, Diane Murray, Helen Wehner, Sandra Heiland, Barton Larson, Bruce Shannon, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones had not missed a day until she got the mumps last week. Awards for reading the most library books this year will be given to: Amy Jones, Marilyn Trubey, Diana Cowan, Virginia Stach, Connie Bahner, Barton Larson, Vauncille Avers, Bruce Shannon, Rebecca Zeller, Laura VanVleck and Daryl Mitchell. We plan to bring a sack lunch next Monday and eat out doors. If the weather is bad we will eat in our room. Don't forget the school dinner next Tuesday. The second grade boys played the third grade boys a good game of ball one day last week. Our score wasn't the highest but it was a fast game. We have some very good players. Mrs. Simpson was umpire. The last three weeks we have been learning to do cursive writing. The second grade must now say, "Good-bye" for another year. It has been such a happy, interesting year. We feel we have all done our best and are proud of our progress. It is a sad time too. W are going to miss being together, but are looking forward to a pleasant summer and will all be happy to come back as third graders this fall. I, Mrs. Challis, want to express my appreciation for the wonderful cooperation and loyalty from the Rossville patrons and friends the last two years. I am truly sorry I can not be with you next year. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade are rapidly finishing their books and other school work and are looking forward to a nice summer vacation with playing, trips and working at home. The students having perfect attendance for this year are: Ronald Avers, Jimmie Fauerbach, Jane McCollough, Marilyn Simpson, Connie Zeller, Lloyd Culp, and Stephen Becker. The boys and girls honored for reading more than eight library books are: Ronald Avers, Herman Bringle, Kennie Coleman, Lloyd Culp, Sharon Decker, Jimmie Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Gary Hill, Rose Mary Jacobson, Douglas Kelsey, Michael Martin, Jane McCollough, Joe Mitchell, Myrna Perry, Ronald Pressgrove, Lillian Reser, Pat Royal, Linda Simecka, Marilyn Simpson, Donna Tuller and Connie Zeller. Those students winning prizes for not leaving the room during any class all year are: Harry Adams, Sharon Decker, Jimmie Fauerbach, Rose Mary Jacobson, Jane McCollough, Lillian Reser and Linda Simecka. Every student in the Third Grade has had his picture up on the "Star Spellers" chart for getting 100 on a Spelling test sometime during the last semester. We had one birthday in the Third Grade during the month of May: Donna Tuller who treated the class with ice cream bars. The boys and girls in the Third Grade wish you a very pleasant summer and hope to see you at the school dinner next Tuesday. [pg. 2] Every student in the Third Grade has had his picture up on the "Star Spellers" chart for getting 100 on a Spelling test sometime during the last semester. We had one birthday in the Third Grade during the month of May: Donna Tuller who treated the class with ice cream bars. The boys and girls in the Third Grade wish you a very pleasant summer and hope to see you at the school dinner next Tuesday. FOURTH GRADE Pamela Berkey has been absent the past week with the mumps. Dental cards were brought in recently by Dale Dannefer and Michael Gresser. Our May birthdays are: Michael Gresser who treated on the sixth with candy bars; Anna Ent on the twelfth with fruit salad and cake; and Carla Rasch on the fourteenth who treated Friday with candy bars. Pamela Berkey's birthday is Friday, the 20th. We have seven who have had perfect attendance this year. The award certificates will go to Anna Ent, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner. We have had our classroom prettily decorated by flowers brought in by Richard Van Vleck, Sharon Irwin, Janice Vanderblomen and Virginia Rezac. We have done a great deal of spelling this school year. The best records for perfect spelling lessons were earned by Anna Ent, Janice Vanderblomen, Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, June Wehner, Carla Rasch, Jean Stiles and Virginia Rezac. A number of the children think the summer vacation will bring them trips to distant places. My hope is that many of you parents will give your children some summer education in travel. FIFTH GRADE The pupils this term with perfect attendance are: Mary Besta, Don Bush, Joan Dolezilek, Charles Harth, and Joyce Swenson. This is the second year of perfect attendance for Charles Harth, Mary Besta, and Joyce Swenson. We have had fifteen pupils in the 5th Grade that have read 9 or over library books this term. These have read over twenty library books this term: Carol Tuller, Linda Kelsey, Joan Dolezilek, Buddy Mogus, and Sharon Viergever. Freddy Elevier and James Turner brought some very pretty roses for our room last week. We've been having a contest on Finding Homonyms: first Linda Kelsey - 428 homonyms; second Joan Dolezilek - 217 homonyms; third Fred Davis - 141 homonyms; fourth place Sharon Viergever - 129 homonyms; 5th place Mary Besta - 121 homonyms; 6th place Carol Tuller - 118 homonyms; 7th place Judy Huston - 113 homonyms; 8th place Charles Harth - 105 homonyms. Many new words were learned as they looked for them at home, and watched in the books they studied or read. Judy Huston brought a shale rock to school for us to see that her father dug out near the Willard Bridge. At that time we were studying rocks in Science. Linda Kelsey brought a hatched egg shell of a robin's egg to school for Science lesson. We have been taking English Tests most of last week. We welcome Norma Klinginberg to our room this spring. SIXTH GRADE Jane Zickefoose, Sally Nadeau and Timothy Lynde have perfect attendance for this school year. As far as our students are concerned softball is most important. Our first team is amde up of Tom Lacock, catcher; James Wamego Jr., pitcher; James Stadler, first base; Gene Davis, second base; Dean Davis, shortstop; Wayne Miller, third. Several fellows shift around in the field. Don Rogers catches and fields. Curtis Berkey is an all around good player and has played several positions along with center field. Timothy Lynde is a good batter and has played right field. This team won from Rochester school in Topeka when we played their second team. We played Delia earlier in the year. We plan to play Willard Grade School this week over there. Willard won the county softball rural school championship. Our one hundred per cent spelling gang for this six weeks are as follows. Jane Zickefoose, Joleen Parr, Gene Davis, Dorothy Jacobson, Charlotte Decker, Katherine Porter, Curtis Berkey, and Bill Foresman. We have a full number of entries for field day this week. Boys and Girls events are Dashes, Softball throw, three legged race, sack race and bicycle race. First, second and third place ribbons will be given to the winners. Reading awards will be given to the following students for reading eight books or more during the school year. Sally Nadeau, Tom Lacock, Jesse Adams, Charlotte Decker, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Jane Zickefoose and Don Rogers. Curtis Berkey and Bill Foresman received honors. Our class did water colors with the help of Mrs. McClelland last week. Our social studies class made charts and grafts [sic] about South America, some of which are on display in our room. Our back bulletin board says, "Take me out to the ball game." As school closes many of our boys plan to play ball all through the summer. It has been a good year for all of us who have worked hard. SEVENTH GRADE We are pleased with our efforts in composition. Some of the topics the class wrote about recently were sportsmanship, friendliness, and writing our best. In addition to his regular writing Eugene Irwin wrote a poem which we all enjoyed: THE MOCKINGBIRD The mockingbird is a bird of brown, Almost the color of the ground. He loves to mock the other fowl, But to everyone he is a pal. Some wonderful notes from him can be heard, Even that of the parrot bird. Of all the birds that can be heard, There's none like that of the mockingbird. Kenneth Heiland and Eugene Irwin had birthdays this month. In math we are finishing the term with measurement including area of various geometric figures. The song title Keep the Home Fires Burning brings to mind this weeks safety topic "Home Fuses." We learn- [SEVENTH GRADE continued; pg. 3] [We learn-] ed the importance of using the right fuse: 15 amp. excellent; 20 amp. - fair; 30 amp. - dangerous. This week's maxim: "If you should have a fight with your conscience and get licked - YOU WIN." The following students are receiving awards for outside reading: Kyle Perry, Diane Swenson, Laura Stiles, Zora Wade, Janet Harth, Carol Rafferty, Eugene Irwin, and William Ent. Attendance awards are earned by: Kenneth Heiland, Ralph Marney, Kyle Perry, Carol Rafferty, Wayne Rasch, Diane Swenson, Zora Wade, Josephine Rosencutter, Bruce Baker, Jeanene Beal, Bennie Besta, William Ent, and Janet Harth. EIGHTH GRADE As we bring another term of school to a close, we wish to thank the Reporter staff for passing on to you the news we have written and other bits of information concerning the school. We feel in the eighth grade room that we have had a most successful term of school. Everyone was so cooperative and nice to work with. The compositions about what we have learned this term were very interesting and were filed away because of their evaluation of the school in general. Bobby Atchison, Patty Coffey, Douglas Martinek, Vince Martinek, Geraldine Masters, Helen Stadler and Sue Viergever had perfect attendance for the term. There are sixty in the school who were neither absent nor tardy for the nine months. Last term there were forty-six[.] Geraldine Masters and Helen Stadler had perfect attendance for the first time. Vince Martinek has seven years without absence. Reading awards were presented to Sharon Rosencutter, Sue Viergever, Ginger Shannon, Gerald Perry, Roger Zeller, Helen Stadler, Patty Coffey and Bobby Atchison. Those doing the best job in spelling and winning pins were Ginger Shannon, Helen Stadler, Sue Viergever, Bobby Atchison, Sharon Rosencutter, and Douglas Martinek. Band pins went to Douglas Martinek, Geraldine Masters, Raymond Rafferty, Ginger Shannon and Roger Zeller. Last Friday we bought some books from the pupils which will be furnished to the pupils next term. About half the needed texts will be supplied by the school. Several of the boys and girls have received graduation gifts especially from their parents. We are looking forward to our graduation exercises Monday night. All of us plan to enter high school next fall.
Thursday, October 6, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School Grade 5 The Fifth Grade has many interesting Science Specimens. Dale Dannefer brought a praying mantis for us to see. A sample of “Fool’s Gold” was brought by Carol Adams. Michael Gresser has a sac nest which he and Davi Jones cut open. It proved to hold many baby spiders. Richard VanVleck brought a large spider and petrified clam. The spider proved to be a “Bird Spider”. Collections of rocks, shells and petrified wood were brought by Carla Rasch, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles and Virginia Rezac. Pamela Berkey has returned from a vacation trip to New Orleans. She brought back samples of sugar cane, cotton and rice stalks with her. She told about her trip and showed pictures of many interesting places she saw. We are glad she is back. Jimmy Stadler of the 7th grade loaned us a large piece of mica he found in Colorado. Grade 6 The sixth grade elected Charles Harth as citizen of the month for September. We will choose a new citizen for every month. Our choice is made on leadership, conduct and scholarship. We had a Mexican Fair October 5. All of the plans for the event were made by the boys and girls. In the room, we arranged displays of many different things that were made in Mexico. Several of the children painted pictures of life in Mexico for the bulletin board. Others arranged a miniature Mexican farm scene. After the other grades visited the Fair, we played typical Mexican games and sang Mexican songs. Grade 7 New students in the seventh grade September 6th were Florence Felps and Arletta Sage. Florence came to Rossville from Jackson county; Arletta from Dover; a third new student was Carol Lumley from Iowa who enrolled September 20th. She is returning with her family to Iowa. Those who have full attendance for September are: Dean David, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Jimmy Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickenfoose, Don Rogers and Arletta Sage. Curtis Berkey made an attractive exhibit of sugar cane, rice heads, and postal cards which he collected while visiting the deep South as far away as New Orleans. Those who spelled the fourth weeks spelling perfectly are: Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobsan, Tom Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Jimmy Stadler, Jimmy Wamego, Gary Klingenberg, Jane Zickefoose, Florence Felps, Arletta Sage and J.W. Adams. (Note: This is a unanimous situation. The whole class spelled without an error.) Jimmy Stadler is making an exhibit of souvenirs he brought home from Colorado. A few of the items are: a wood cut calendar made in Japan; a beautiful golden colored key thermometer; a sea side scene in oil on a wood slab, and a silver plated horse. Each member of the class is enjoying the new books which were added to the library this fall. Timmy Lynde is reading Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle: Kenneth Porter has read The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Florence Felps just checked out Amigo, Circus Horse by Cooper, Gary Klingenberg enjoyed Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Henry; Katherine Porter recently completed The Haunted Bridge by Keene. About three weeks ago Billy Foresman and his Uncle Pete caught two good sized yellow catfish. One weighted twenty-four lbs., the other weighted eight lbs. Billy remarked, “There’s more where those came from.” When asked how he could be so sure he gave a true fisherman’s reply (you guess), “The biggest one got away.” So we said the biggest one is older, wiser, and still off the hook. Last week’s maxim, “Kindness is catching and if you go around with a thoroughly developed case of it, you neighbor will be sure to get it.” Grade 8 We have the largest room in school composed of eleven girls and fifteen boys. We are sorry that Josephine Rosencutter’s name was omitted from the enrollment list earlier published. Eight from our room are members of the band. They are Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Ralph Marney, Carol Rafferty, Sharon Reser, Charles VanVleck, Diane Swenson and Laura Rose Stiles. Nida Magus leads the class of flag salute and the Lord’s Prayer. Diane Swenson has charge of the Almanac, and Mary Smith leads discussion on life adjustment. Our discussion topic for October is cooperation. Winners of the contest in multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000 were Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Ralph Marney, and Kenneth Heiland. Mary Smith and Ralph Marney received the most votes for good citizens during the month of September. Diane Swenson and Wayne Rasch are kitchen helpers this week. Gene Irwin was first to return his dental card. Sharon Reser visited the dentist last Wednesday. Twenty-four of us got cards for passing health inspection. These pupils had September birthdays: Billy Fauerbach, Carol Rafferty, Danny Bahner, Charles VanVleck. Charles invited the class to his home for a party on his birthday. From the citizenship posters, we have studied the laws of health, self-control, and self reliance. Sixteen of us took sides with the Dodgers while five stuck with the old faithfuls. It is three apiece at this writing. East Indianola will bring two boys teams to Rossville this Friday to challenge us to softball. Next week the boys will play in a tournament at Gage Park. Some very good free-hand pencil drawings were turned in after our first art lesson last week. Many thanks to the Reporter Staff for a complimentary copy of the Rossville Reporter again this term.
Thursday, December 8, 1955 Progress of the grades The Rossville Grade school has started a Pep Club for boys and girls of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Mrs. Catt is our sponsor. We have elected officers, who are: Nida Mogus, President; Charlotte Decker, Vice-President; Jane Zickefoose, Secretary; Sharon Viergever, Treasurer, and a reporter from each room – Josephine Rosencutter from the eighth, Arleeta Sage from the seventh, and Judy Huston from the sixth grade. We have 32 members and four cheerleaders who are Janet Harth, Sharon Reser, Carol Rafferty, and Diane Swenson. The members are: Nida Mogus, Jane Zickefoose, Norma Klingenberg, Florence Felps, Arleeta Sage, Charlotte Decker, Judy Huston, Marie Stiles, Mary Besta, Sharon Viergever, Janet Hause, Wanda Harmon, Lynda Allen, Dorothy Jacobon, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Carol Tuller, Linda Kelsey, Judy Fauerbach, Charlene Perry, Mary Smith, Janet Kurtz, Josephine Rosencutter, Laura Stiles, Sharon Davis, Zora Wade, Joyce Swenson, Joan Dolezilek, Buddy Mogus, Larry Kurtz, John Vanderblomen, and James Wamego. We have ordered R’s and hats. The hats are going to be two colors. Our cheerleaders have blue corduroy farmerettes and gold cotton baby doll blouses with white collard. Their gold R’s, for Rossville, will go on the bib of the farmerette. Thank you, Mrs. Catt, for helping us. FIRST GRADE NEWS Those having perfect attendance for the second six weeks were Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Audery Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robinson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rosie Stadler, Ronald Starkey, Gary Myers, Jerryl Lauber, and Cynthia Ingram. Bonnie Fauerbach, Gary Myers, and Sharon Mayer have birthdays this month. We welcome Cynthia Ingram into the first grade class. Christine McBurney has returned from Idaho so our enrollment now is 25. Visitors in our room since our last reporting have been Mrs. Andy Mogus and A.J., Yvonne Craig, H.A.W. Kesler, county superintendent, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. We are getting in the Christmas spirit, although our tree is not yet lit. We have a make-believe fireplace, with stockings hanging by it. We are painting Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer, and we hope that we will all hear His merry bells on Santa’s sleigh coming from far and near. We have Santa Claus wearing a bright suit and each foot is warm in a big black boot. We really have a lot to do, but we wish a very Merry Christmas to you. SECOND GRADE NEWS Those who had perfect attendance for the second six weeks are: Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, and Larry Wehner. In music we are practicing our songs for the Christmas program. Recent visitors in our room have been Mrs. Stiles County Superintendent, H.A.W. Kesler, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, and Bonnie Tulller received perfect spelling lessons last Friday. We have enjoyed working on Christmas decorations and pictures for our room. Carolyn Gresser read the story of Cinderella to us last week. NEWS FROM THE 28 THIRDS Yes, we’ve added another to our class and we’re just real happy to have done so. He is Billy Streit from St. Marys. The children came back to school from the Thanksgiving vacation with many exciting events to share. We decided there were an abundance of things for which to be thankful. Now, we’re in the midst of planning the coming Christmas events. We are looking forward to a Christmas party and program and of course always the unexpected excitement. If you should come in to visit our class for awhile, you would see houses with snow-capped roofs and trees laden with snow. Using tempra paint and black crayon, the children very effectively made lovely winter pictures. It has been a pleasure to watch the children improve in the last six weeks. Most of them are finding cursive writing quite a pleasure and enjoy learning this “new” style. One of the biggest thrills, and there are many, of the school day is to hear the wonderful prayers of the children at the beginning of each day. It was a thrill to hear from the White House and the children wanted to share it with you- December 1, 1955. On October 2, we learned about the President’s birthday which was on October 14. Then Dwight brought some cards. We chose the one that we wanted to send to the President. It had a golf ball on it. And it said, “Hope this suits you to a tee.” Then we sent the card October 12. About two weeks later, we received a thank-you from the White House. It was a very nice note. The card from the White House read: The President and Mrs. Eisenhower are deeply grateful for your kind remembrance of them on his birthday. Your good wishes, coming at this time, have been very heartening to them. FOURTH GRADE We are busy decorating our room for Christmas. Plans have been made for each of us to make a book of “Christmas Ideas”. We plan to put choice poems, stories, pictures, and recipes in our books. Those of our class who celebrate birthdays in December are Jane McCollough, Daniel Gee, Kenneth Coleman, Ronald Avers, and Joe Mitchell. Jane and Daniel treated us with candy bars, which were enjoyed greatly. Those who made perfect grades in spelling all through the six-week’s period were James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Myrna Perry, and Linda Simecka. Those who received perfect scores on the six week’s test were Stephen Becker, Herman Bringle, James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Rose Mary Jacobson, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, and Marilyn Simpson. Winnders for the multiplication tables contests were as follows: those receiving blue ribbons for daily championship – James Fauerbach, John Giles, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Linda Simecka. Those receiving red ribbons for group winners – Myrna Perry, Connie Zeller, Herman Bringle, Ronald Avers, James Fauerbach, Stephen Becker, Gary Hill, Larry Felps, Rose Mary Jacobson, Daniel Gee, Marilyn Simpson, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Michael Martin, Donna Tuller, Linda Simecka. Dec 8, 1955.
Rossville Grade School, 1969, Rossville, Kansas
Two unidentified ladies stand outside the Rossville Grade School located on East Pottawatomie Street in Rossville, Kansas, on September 5, 1969.
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Rossville Grade School, Rossville, Kansas
Rossville Grade School is located on East Pottawatomie Street in Rossville, Kansas.