Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 07, 1953

Various activities will mark the close of the high school careers for 109 seniors -- 55 girls and 54 boys -- in the nine high schools of Ringgold county. Those graduating and their schools are:

Beaconsfield: Willis CREES.

Benton: Doyle ADAMS, Duane CAMPELL, Tom GROVES, Lovena HALL.

Delphos: Dean ALLEN, Keith DEARDORFF, Maxine GARNER, Jim JARVIS, Gale WEBB.

Diagonal: Lois ALLEN, Willis ALLEN, James BROWN, Joan CLOUSE, Ronald CONLEY, Coleen DOLECHECK, Sharon GRAHAM, Freda JARMAN, Loena PETERSON, Ronald PINE, Barbara RICKER, Stanley SLAVIK, Carol SOBOTKA, Elbert SOBOTKA, Marilyn TAYLOR, Leonard WATTS.

Ellston: Marcia ADCOCK, Mary Kay FAY, Bertha FOUSE, Gloria GROSE, Sherry HUFF, Phyllis MUNYON, Mary TODD, Perry WOOLLUMS.

Kellerton: Monte BALLOU, Lyle CORLL, Beverly BEAR, Marilyn EPPS, Marion ETHINGTON, Dorothy HARVEY, Betty KASTER, Rena LAIRD, Max SCOTT, Louise WALKER, Betty WICKER.

Mount Ayr: Ramon BEAR, Warren T. BENNETT, Helen B. COMBS, Patricia L. CONLEY, Donella M. COOK, David L. CULVER, Mae M. CULVER, Lois DEEMER, Barbara J. DICKERSON, Leland D. DOLECHECK, Mary Jane EDDY, Robert D. EVANS, James A. FARIS, Jerry D. FETTY, Raymond W. GEPNER, Sherry J. GRINDSTAFF, Myrtle G. HOFFMAN, Mary M. HOOD, Myron A. INGRAM, Sally L. JACKSON, James F. KIMBLE, Ramona L. KNIGHT, Beverly L. LAIRD, Glen M. MICHELSON, Retha J. MIDDLETON, Gene R. MILLER, Vera I. MILLSAP, Carolyn J. MINNICK, Arnold E. MONDAY, Norman M. OLNEY, Earl F. PICKENS, Edwin R. POORE, Mary REES, Mildred REYNOLDS, Neola RICE, Darrell D. RILEY, Mary A. RUSK, Lynn W. SICKELS, Norma K. SNEDEKER, Darrell R. SNETHEN, Betty L. STRINGHAM, Rex E. STUCK, Douglas S. SWEARINGEN, Joan L. TERWILLIGER, Patty J. TIDRICK, James R. WELLS, Louis H. WILSON.

Redding: Elizabeth GALLOWAY, Lowell HOWIE, Cleo JONES, Dorothy MURPHY, Lyle QUICK, John STEPHENS, Clair WARNER.

Tingley: D. W. ARCHIBOLD, Jo Ellen ARCHIBOLD, Marvin GROUT, Joan HANNAH, Bob LUPHER, Gertrude PRIEST, Alan O'NEAL, Anne O'NEAL.

The madrigal group of the Mount Ayr high school won a I rating at the state music contest held at Perry. Members of the group, under the direction of Miss Bertha MIDGORDON, are: Gene MILLER and Bob CLARKE, tenors; Patty STUCK and Rita WARIN, sopranos; Mary Margaret HOOD and Mary Jane EDDY, second sopranos; Norma Kay SNEDEKER and Robert DERICKSON, altos; and Louis WILSON and Rex STUCK, basses.

In recognition of 50 years of affiliation with Faith Lodge No. 179, A.F. & A.M., J. B. CURRIE was honored April 30 at the Masonic Lodge in Mount Ayr.

The Bridge Academy schoolhouse, one mile west of Tingley, was sold Saturday at public auction to Vernon BOWEN of Jefferson township, for $315. The schoolhouse was owned by Kilroy Post No. 8881, V.F.W. Dennis OWENS served as auctioneer.

May 02, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Junior SHIELDS, Mount Ayr

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012

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