The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-29
FIRST SEMESTER
COMES TO CLOSE
HALF YEARS WORK OF BROOK.
INGs SCHOOL COMPLETED
THIS WEEK
MANY PUPILS ON THE ROLL Of HONOR
Large Number Are Excused From the
Semester Commences Monday

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what to do, chapels had been churches
and poor mems cottages princes pal
aces"
This week closes one of the most
successful semester's work in the his
tory of the Bookings public schools.
Examinations are being held this week
in all the departments Of the schools.
The second semester will begin with
the opening of school Monday, Febru-
airy 2 and classes in the primary de-
partment will be organized for chill
dren who have attained the age of six
or will be of school age during the
semester. In the high school several
new classes will be organized. The
seniors will study civil government
and Mayor Johnson has given permits
sion for the class t visit the regular
sessions of the city council meetings
which will thus give the class an op-
portunity to see the actual workings
of this body. Miss Biersdorf will
have charge of this class and Supt.
Browning is now planning some inno-
practical value in their training for
citizenship. Mock elections will be
held, and the class will be organized
as a city council, state general assem-
bly, and the congress of the United
States. In cooperation with the Com.
mercial Club he hopes to secure for
the boys of the class the privilege of
attending all regular meetings of the
club.
Commercial geography is to be an
other new subject this semester. Miss
Bird will have charge Of public speak
ing and dramatic art which are to be
made separate courses for this SEM
ester. In the departmental school
which has proven so successful and
given the Brookings schools a wide
reputation the pupils are enthusiastic
in their work and are looking to the
high school as their goal for the com
ing semester where they will begin
the study of Latin or German. Stu
dents who are irregular in their
courses will make an effort to make
up the required back work. Parents
should cooperate in encouraging the
boys and girls to closer application to
school work by being at home every
school night during the week through.
out the semester.
The following pupils have a stand
ing Of 80 or above in all their studies,
not having been tardy and whose de-
pertinent is 80 or above for the sem.
ester are placed on the honor roll
and excused from all examinations:
Ray Bunday, Matte Culbertson, Mae
Hendricks, Harold Hoover, Leonard
Ladd, Laura Nelson, Laura Pultz, Cliff
ton Walters, Eugene Wix, Alvia An
derson, Frank Bergiem, Daisy Elston,
Nellie Erickson, Erma Hubbart, Mabel
Bitterness, Edith Poole, Pearl Randall,
Clara Shanbarker, Hazel Skiff, Esther
Somers, Cecile Swift, Albert Thomp-
son, Cecil Brown, Genevieve Chappell,
Great Johnson, Lawrence Knappen,
Philis Madden, Mary Perso, Rachel
Sheldon, Harry Solberg, Nina Tel.
kamp, Nora Thompson, Frances Alton,
Elmer Anderson, Helga Anderson,
Even Borst, Guy Davis, Dora Dybdahl,
Julian Dybdahl, Esther Irish, Leah Nc
Gill.
Departmental School: Marshall
Knappen, Rose Lynch, Dexter Cole,
Elizabeth Brown, Zeta Forsee. Evadue
Sheeck, Verna Sexauer.
Grades: Bessie Boles, Bernice Bar
telt, Helen Slightam, Willard Erb,
Ruby Olson, Percy Iverson. Zoa Math-
ews, Ralph Caldwell, Paul Errington,
Leon Pultz, Forrest Fem, Meriel
Spooner, Gladys Stevens, Gail Harold
son, Marguerite Hoy, Nora Hasle.
Beryl Crook, Leona Christensen,
Eleanor Ellis, Richard Kendall, Lucille
Marvin, Faye Minor, Parmela Powers,
Genevieve Stead, Kenneth Alton, Ed
gar Elverude, Louise Grove, Clark Hill,
Adlowe Larson, Helen Phillipson,
Ruth Won ARK. Pearl Leighty, Dorothy
Pelton, Harold Beatty, Burney Toliver,
Harriet Stoddart. Gladys Lanphier.
Eva Haugen. Winford Bartlett. Alice
Larson. Blanche LeFevre. Gladys FL
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