Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 20, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1944 — KEEN KEENER [ARTICLE]

KEEN KEENER

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

ATTENDANCE RECORD The attendance record for the past six week grading period has been 91.94%. Before that the record was 91.90%. We hope the good attendance will continue in the high school as it has been in the past. GRADE SIX We have two new pictures on the walls of our room. They are a large colored picture of Robin Hood, and the other is a colored picture of Lincoln, the Rail Splitter. These pictures were purchased with money received from the sale of scrap paper. We are proud of them. Our boys and girls spent Monday afternoon collecting scrap paper. The grades are each taking turn at picking up waste paper from the homes around and in DeMotte and Monday it was the Sixth Grade's turn. In two weeks the seventh grade will collect scrap. REPORT FROM FORMER TEACHER Tuesday morning two of the Freshman girls, Mary Ellen Curtin and Katie Anderson, received a letter from a former teacher, Mrs. Murphy. Mrs. Murphy included her picture in the letter and stated she is teaching this year at Bringhurst, Indiana. GRADE ONE John Van Keppel, Robert Bunning, Barbara Schaefer, Frances VanderMolen, Jean Wright, Evelyn Ebers, Mary DeKock, Junior Van Keppel, Alice Unzicker, Eleanor Toppen, and Joyce Boender haye read enough books for a Reading Certificate. Ray Doud has moved to Fair Oaks. :

GRADE FOUR Ruth Terberg brought a cocoon to school this week. * We received our individual pictures. Most of them were very good. Almost every one of us bought all of ours. Henry Doud withdrew from our class. He has moved to Fair Oaks. Mrs. Erny added another fish to our bowl last Monday. We have a very nice aquarium. PICTURES Last Thursday the pictures came that were taken Feb. 14. Each student had his picture taken and when they came, one, was kept in school for , the permanent record and most of the others were kept by the individuals. (If someone didn’t swipe them). There was a lot of trading of pictures and not much studying during the rest of the day. GRADE TWO We have two new children in our room since our last news. They are Martina Nannenga and Norman Streveler. We have finished our “We Grow Up” reader in both sections and we are reading “Round About You," the state adopted text. We have new books for our reading table and will soon have more. Milton Peterson had Sue Kerney out last Friday night. God Is My Doctor. The real story of Sister Kenny’s battle against infantile paralysis, in which she tells of growing number of recoveries from the dread disease, is continued in The American Weekly the magazine distributed with next week’s Sunday Chicago Her-ald-American.