Le Mars Sentinel
June 4, 1912
p.1 col.5
RURAL SCHOOLS TO HOLD EXERCISES IN LE MARS
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TO HAVE PICNIC IN CLEVELAND PARK
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The Annual Teachers Institute Will Be Held in June this Year at Central School Building—the Summer School at College
The commencement exercises of the rural schools of Plymouth county will be held at the opera house in LeMars on Saturday morning, June 15th, at ten o’clock. This will be the first time in Plymouth county that the schools in the country have joined together in holding commencement exercises and a big attendance will greet with pleasure the innovation. Arrangements will be made for a picnic dinner in Cleveland Park at twelve o’clock for the graduates and their friends.
At the opera house in the afternoon, addresses will be made by Prof. W. H. Bender, of Cedar Falls, Prof. F.E. Palmer, superintendent of the LeMars city schools, and Miss Kate R. Logan, superintendent of the Cherokee county schools.
The annual Normal Institute for Plymouth county teachers will open on Sunday evening, June 16th, at the First Congregational church, when Prof. Walter Athearn, of Drake University, will deliver an address on the subject, “The Church, the School and the Home.” Dean Altheran is head of religious instruction at Drake University.
The sessions of the institute will open on Monday at the Central school building and continue for a week.
On Tuesday evening a lecture open to the public, entitled “the Humanity of Hamlet,” will be delivered by Prof. Brown, of Des Moines.
Summer school under the direction of County Superintendent Donahoe and Dr. C.A. Mock will begin at Western Union college on June 10th. During the week of institute the attendants at summer school will be afforded the opportunity to attend the institute.
[Submitted by Jean Nilles]
LeMars Globe-Post
August 10, 1925
WILL GRADUATE 8TH GRADES AT PICNIC
ANNUAL EVENT AT MERRILL THIS YEAR
The eighth grade graduating exercises for the graduates of the Plymouth county rural schools will be held in conjunction with the Plymouth county farm bureau picnic at Merrill, Ia., on August 18 at 1 o’clock. One hundred and twenty boys and girls will receive their diplomas and certificates which certificates admit them to any high school in the state. All members of the class are urged to be present. Those who will receive diplomas are:
Helen Alvord, Cecelia Anderson, Annie Bainbridge, Marie Belz, Bennie Bennett, Ruby Blades, Bernice Blum, Catherine Blum, Mary Blum, Hazel Bolton, Wilhelmina Box, Delbert Bowers, Agnes Brennan, Edward Bride, John Buys, Hazel Calkin, Ruth Casler, Georgia Clemensen, Lloyd Crouch, Faye Derochie, Kathryn Dommer, Clara Determan, Beatrice Eilts, Helen Elliott, Grace Erickson, Raymond Fiedler, Paul Faulk, Frieda Franzen, Emma Freriks, Opal Gabel, Glydell Gaden, Bernice Geary, Violet Goodrich, Avis Grubb, Lois Grubb, Walter Guntren, Ejnar Hansen, Wayne Hatton, Rose Herzberg, Maurice Hickey, Myrtle Hinde, Helen Hodapp, Dorothy Howes, Gertrude Hoffman, Carl Ioos, Clara Ioos, Harold Kaiser, John Kassing, Florence Kellar, Clifford Kellogg, Stanley King, Sylvia Klein, Ella Klemme, Gerhard Koch, Francis Kommes, Alice Knight, Caryl Kuehn, Martin Larson, Wlater Lentz, Loretta Lite, Marion Lindgren, Rose Long, Chester Long, Allen Lundgren, Oliva Luken, Rosalinda Majeres, Pearl Manz, Peter Marx, Irene Marx, Margaret Mansfield, Nelson Mathers, LeRoy McWilliams, Raymond Masuen, Ellen Meyer, Ervin Meyer, Helen Nanninga, Dick Nicholson, George Nussbaum, Dorothy Parkinson, Charles Pattison, Johnnie Peters, Emma Petersen, Willie Petersen, Mildred Phillips, Edward Pippett, Ruth Pippett, Phyllis Potter, Erma Pratt, Ellwood Radtke, Clara Raether, Adolph Rann, Marshall Rees, Mabel Reeves, Pauline Riter, Joanna Reynolds, Albert Robbins, Irene Rohlfs, Harold Rothlisberger, Maxine Sampson, Frieda Schmid, Marvel Schrooten, Herman Schuttpelz, Vincent Schroeder, Balentine Sitzmann, Hazel Stinton, Eva Steeg, Francis Timmins, Blanche Timmins, Kenneth Thunhorst, Thelma Titus, Florence Tindall, Alton Thompson, Cecelia Treinen, Thomas Vernon, Esther Winterfeld, Luella Winterfeld, Vivian Witt, Vera Woods, Rosalia Wurth, Tillie Wibens.
LeMars Sentinel, June 29, 1926
GIVES AWARDS EIGHTH GRADE
James Clark Has Highest Marks in the County Rural Schools
To Present Diplomas
Program Will Be Rendered in LeMars, July 8
Graduation exercises for the eighth grade pupils of Plymouth county rural
schools will be held in the LeMars high school auditorium Thursday
afternoon, July 8, 1926, at 2:30 p.m. One hundred and forty rural pupils
will be presented their diplomas and high school admission certificates by
County Superintendent Petersen at that time. All eighth grade graduates and
parents are urged to be present. Friend and relatives are cordially invited
to attend the exercises. The graduation program will be as follows:
Processional march, Minnie Peterson, invocation by Rev. J.A. Hills; vocal
solo by Dr. C.A. Delaney; address to pupils and parents by Rev. J.A. Hills;
presentation of diplomas Christine L. Petersen; America, by the audience.
HIGH HONORS
James Clark, of Seney, has the honor of ranking highest in the county with
an average of 93 percent, Louise Schoenrock, of Lincoln township, ranks
second with an average of 90.
NAMES OF PUPILS
The pupils who will receive diplomas are:
America Township-Vernon Farmer
Elgin Township-William Bos, Raymond Utech, Robert Detloff, Kathryn
Gysbertsen, Henry Ioos
Elkhorn Township-Donald Bowers, Bernard Ginsbach, Melvin Stevens, Heen
Sitzmann, Dorothy Sitzmann, Ethel Stevens, Clare Ginsbach, Juliette Harvey
Fredonia Township-Nelis Kloster, Rosie Porter, Harold Darville, Alfred
Kohler
Grant Township-Amanda Popken, Richard Nolan, Herman Renken, Arnold Westhoff,
Dorothy Westhoff, Jack Glasgow, Clifford Noble
Garfield Township-Sylvia Dragoe, Walter Meister, Lester Stevens, Anna Woods
Hungerford Township-Harvey Titus, Doris Powell, Earl McCoy
Henry Township-Opal Erickson, Clington Erickson, Walter Groepper, Emma
Letsche
Hancock Township-Fabienne Choquette, Owen Derochie, Lois Solomon, Chester
Kimball
Johnson Township-Earnest Lucken, Velma Burkett
Liberty Township-Gontran Beaulieu, Cecilia Beaulieu, George Husted, Ruby
Kellogg
Lincoln Township-Lucille Muecke, Esther Muecke, Ermina Petersen, Malcolm
Robinson, Walter Schoenrock, Viola Schoenrock, Louise Schoenrock, Ada
Wetrosky, Albert Weiner, Frances Mansfield, Earl Schoenrock, Grace Phalen
Marion township-Julia Luken, Peter Rol, Donald Mohning
Meadow Township-Harley Neir, Erwin Neuenschwander, Adeline Treinen, Myrtle
Juhl
Plymouth Township-Emma Kamradt, Martin Dorr, Joseph Erpedling, Roger Easton,
Ina Baauerly, Otto Blackmore, John Mulder, Elsie Mulder, Emma Johnson, Leona
Kamradt, Gertrude Macklem, Fred Schmidt, Vera Halweg, Verda Halweg, Harold
Johnson, Lucille Lehmann, Harry Lehmann, William Muir.
Perry Township-Ethel Belz, Pearl Bonnes, Arthur Miller, Christine
Schuttpelz, William Schuttpelz, Albert Swanson, Harry Von Drak, Lawrence Von
Drak, Hazel Watje, Ferne Yount, Clayton Henshaw, Roy Jebsen, Hurst Macklem
Preston Township-John DeVries, Cleo Collmann, Cecil Null, Alex Nanninga
Remsen Township-Robert Anderson, Kenneth Schorg, Leland Nielsen, Elsie
Johnson, Katherine Johnson, MarionMiller
Sioux Township-Marion Banks, Marguerite Stephens, Raymond Derocher, Evelyn
Lawrence, Theodore Stephens
Westfield Township-John Hilbink, John Pearson, Melvin Johnson, Charley
Mount, Alice Johnson
Portland Township-Frances Blum, Nora Osterthun, Herbert Lulgers
Stanton Township-Orval Brandstetter, Mary Ruhland, Edward Kehrberg, Wilson
Geary
Washington Township-Wilma Pecks, Bertha harms
Oyens-Mathilda Reistroffer, Ermin Olinger, Gertrude Fisch, Loretta Holton,
Isabel Kemp, Frances Bortscheller
Struble-Richard Osborne, Vivian Weis, Regina Garding, Lloyd Garding, Kenneth
Heeren
Seney-Fred Olson, Lila Rees, Franklin Clark, James Clark
Craig-Helen Schulz, Linda Schmidt
LeMars Sentinel, June 18, 1937
SENEY: (Special Correspondence)
Wesley Lancaster, Tina Mars, Virginia Green and Alberta Null attended the eighth grade graduating exercises held at the high school auditorium in LeMars on Tuesday and received their eighth grade diploma. Alberta Null achieved the honor of second place on the county honor roll.
Le Mars Globe-Post
May 13, 1954
26 EIGHTH
GRADE GRADS
IN EXAMS
Twenty-six eighth grade graduates wrote the state tests this year. Of these 21 were from rural schools, and 5 from St. Josph’s [misspelling in the original] parochial school at Akron. This compares with 255 who took these exams 30 years ago. The difference illustrates the decline of the rural schools.
Students who received honor letter I’s, those having the highest averages, were: Arlan Beeck of Struble Independent, 92.6; Elizabeth Ione of Washingon No. 3 90.8; Colleen June Means of Seney Independent, 89.5; and Marlowe Charles Ahrendt of Grant No. 6. 89.0.
The 26 eighth graders will go to the school where they intend to attend high school to receive their diplomas and high school admission certificate.
The following is a list of the Plymouth county rural eighth grade graduates:
Carole Jean Lahr, Elgin, No. 4
Ruth G. Schuette, Grant No. 1
Verda Jean Oltmanns, Evelyn R. Popken, and Carol Jean Renken, Grant No. 2
Ardis G. Renken, Grant No. 4
Marlowe Charales Ahrendt, Dorothy Ann Beitelspacher, and Ronald K. Utech, Grant No. 6
Annie M. Fraser and Dennis E. Smith, Liberty No. 4
Darlene Lois Senftleben, Plymouth No. 5
Elizabeth Ann Tone, Washington No. 3.
Patricia J. Donnell and Billie Ronald Renken, Brunsville Independent.
Arlan H. Beeck, John Gary Ohm, and Donnie N. Peterson, Struble Independent.
Patricia Ellen Burnight, Ronald Feauto, Patricia L. Heider, Paula Theresa Ralfes, and Richard Jerome Thomes, St. Joseph’s school Akron.
