Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 29, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 February 1933 — KANKAKEE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

KANKAKEE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL

Tefft, Indiana Mary Kathryn and Tom Glazebrook, from Chicago, entered Tefft High School Monday. They are both members of the sophomore class. The Senior Class play “The Strange Bequest” will be presented Friday evening. Have you bought your tickets yet? Mr. Peregrine was absent Monday because of a throat infection The report cards for the first month of the second semester were given out last week. Those who made high grades have established good standards to live up to for the rest of the year. Those who made poor grades have three months to redeem themselves and show their teachers and classmates that they really can do better than they have been doing. The following high school pupils have perfect attendance for the first five months, Floyd Brown, Ross Myers, Eileen Ahlemeier, Lillian Anderson, Eva Jozenes, Adelaide Stalbaum, Calvin Brown, Clyde Krug, Harold Martin, Marjorie Swing, .Clarence Deardorff, Harriet Neier, Vernon Williams. The students making B plus or better for the fifth month in the high school are: Pearl Krug, Robert Anderson, Adelaide Stalbaum, Harold Martin, Marjorie Swing, Harriet Neier. Last Friday morning a very interesting discussion was given by Lucille White and Clyde Krug of the Conditions in Soviet Russia on the results of the Five Year Plan. Marjorie Swing reported on the condition of the Russian woman in Soviet Russia. These Friday morning discussions have become a regular feature of Tefft High School, and a great deal of interest is being taken by the students in the preparation of the topics assigned to them. The following topics have been discussed before the high school assembly “The Lame Duck Amendment to our Federal Constitution” Jan. 13. “Unemployment in the United States” Jan. 20. “Communism in the World outside of Russia.” Jan. 27. “Soviet Russia, the Five Year Plan, and the Position of Woman.” Jan. 27. Next Friday, Lillian Anderson and John Droden will lead the discussion on “Japan, the Lytton Report”. Some other topics to be discussed each Friday morning are “Europe's Impressions of America,” “St. Lawrence Ship Canal” “Chicago Century of Progress” and “The Machine Age” The public is welcome to attend these discussions and visit our school. Wibur Ahlemeier, Theodore Eckert, and Forrest Collins were absent on Monday. Theodore Eckert a former student from San Pierre entered our eighth grade some time ago. Report cards were handed out last week. The following pupils have perfect attendance to date. Dorothy Brown, Edward Stalbaum, Mildred Krug, Cecil Peregrine, Malcom Lawrence, Paul Davis, Ivan Robbins and Ward Stalbaum.