Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 18, DeMotte, Jasper County, 17 March 1944 — KEEN KEENER [ARTICLE]

KEEN KEENER

Published by the Kankakee Valley Post in the interest of the DeMotte High School

HIGH SCHOOL STAFF School Editor— —Lois Lageveen Business Manager Carolyn Bass Faculty Sponsor Mrs. Erny CLASS REPORTERS Mary Jane White Shirley Hart p Frieda Cheever Margaret Schoonveld EIGHTH GRADE Norman Chappell Beatrice Punter SEVENTH GRADE Donald Fieldhouse Ruth Carter Robert Moolenaar Evelyn DeYoung THIRD GRADE We wish to thank those who helped make our Operetta a success. We enjoyed giving. it very much. John DeYoung, Joyce and Jack Steams, and Thurlow Wright have moved to attend other schools. Three of us have not yet missed a day of school. Everyone is trying t\ard to get a reading certificate this year. FOURTH GRADE NEWS Mrs. Henry Walstra was a visitor in our room last Tuesday. We had a special reading lesson for her. Bobby Hunter brought a flower to school this week. It was a cactus. We are glad to have flowers for our room. We wish to thank every one who helped us with our play. We were very glad to get this help, as our play would not have been a success without it. - SIXTH GRADE NEWS Mrs. Melvin Kelly and son Jack were visiting in our room Monday morning. We were glad to have them. Last week Edna DeFries, who had gone to Thayer to school, entered our class. Our enrollment is now 26. We have 9 girls and 17 boys. Several in our room are wearing the patch on their arms that is the Tuberculin Patch Test. EIGHTH GRADE NEWS Edward Wilke is back in school after undergoing an appendectomy. ELEVENTH GRADE NEW Put the date of March 31 on your social calendar. The Junior Play, “For Pete’s Sake,” will be presented on that evening. We think you will enjoy yourself when you attend this play. You will be laughing every minute at this 3-act farce. It is about a young college boy Peter who simply loathes Latin. His Aunt Sarah, who has millions, goes on a vacation to the Holy Land and Pete and his friends really raise the roof. Look for reserved seat tickets that will be on sale at Lagaveen’s Store. LAST WEEK’S PREDICTIONS Out of the eight games last Saturday afternoon, I picked but 5 winners. Kokomo upset Burris, Washington upset Bedford, and Whiteland broke Waynetown’s victory streak at 26. Even with these defeats marring my record, I managed to pick the Hammond and Anderson semi-final winners—namely LaPorte and Anderson. Bosse of Evansville and Kokomo are the other two teams which will scrap it out this Saturday at the Coliseum in Indianapolis. OPERETTA AND PLAY The operetta and play presented by the lower six grades was a great success. A large crowd attended the program Friday night, and everyone agreed that is was well worth their while. The first three grades presented the operetta, “Peter Rabbit.” The theme was along the lines of the story of Peter Rabbit; but the lettuce, beans, peas and carrots were very much alive. So much alive, in fact, that they welcomed Peter to the garden. Between acts the rhythm band, composed of first and second grade students, played, and a chorus of third-grade students sang patriotic numbers. The fourth, fifth and sixth grades presented a play entitled,

“Welcome, Miss McGregor.” They welcomed a new school teacher despite many interferences. Betwen acts of the play, a chorus of nine boys sang a song about “Pickaninnies.” The boys wore patched clothing and old straw hats and their faces were painted black. All in all they looked and acted very, realistically. The program was also presented to students Friday morning. We wish to compliment the students and teachers who worked so hard and tirelessly to make the program the great success that it was. I magician * Friday afternoon, the students of D. H. S. were honored with the presence of “Two-Ten Daniel,” a magician. His program consisted of an hour of complete bafflement on the parts of most of the students. Besides pulling handkerchiefs out of empty boxes, making wooden balls appeal; out of nowhere, doing several card tricks and rope tricks, “Two-Ten Daniel” had a monkey that hopped around. “Uncle Dan” is also a ventriloquist; he had a little boy that flirted with the girls in the audience. Robert Anderson, one of our “Senior Sailors,” is stationed at Great Lakes. Alice M. Was seen with an exsenior boy Sunday night. We won’t mention any initials but his name is Bernard Vander Molen. FIRST GRADE NEWS Ronald Benoit entered the first grade this wek. He lives where Dickie Stearns used to live. All our children have recovered from the measles. We wish to thank the mothers and others who so kindly helped with bur Operetta and Rhythm Band, i SECOND GRADE We have a new boy in our room. His name is Norman Streveler. He came to school here last year in the first grade. Did you like us as Lettuce and Peas in the Operetta? We want to thank the mothers who helped make our costumes. We have had ten swallowtail butterflies hatch from our Carrot worm cocoons. There are seven children in our room whose birthdays we celebrate in March.

TROPHY CASE

You who attended the operetta and play, or some other program held in the gym recently probably noticed the new trophy case. It is on the north wall in the hall at the gym door. Blaine Childs made the case; Mr. Hannenburg stained it; and Mrs. Hannenburg furnished some red plush material to upholster the two shelves. There are eight trophies which were won in track, football, and basketball. The trophy won by the Independent team of a few years ago has also been placed in the new case. PTA The girls of the High School chorus sang at the PTA meeting Tuesday night. Their numbers were, “British Child’s Prayer,” “0 W r orshop the King,” and “Beneath the Cross of Jesus.” Mr. Stephens was absent from school Monday to attend the funeral of his father-in-law.