Phillips County herald., 1921-12-02
Great Improvement in
Work at High School

Last period list of students who
made an average over 80 was pub
lished together with list of those
who had no demerits and were Meth.
er absent nor tardy. A good many
students have been working hard to
get on this list and even though the
| list is not much larger, the general
average in grades is 10 or 15 per cent
higher this second period. Below is
a list of the students who have an av-
erage over 80 for the second period:
Florence Fsilscher and Anna Renck,
81; Margaret Walrod, SO, Eleanor
Bemis, %: Virginia Crawley, Minerva
Flaker and Volney Mowry, 9i Ruth
Barkey, Glenn Rouze and Grace
Struckmeyer, 80. The borrowing have
90: Geneva Behnfeldt. Erwin Flaker.
Gladys Peter Gladys Sederberg, Eva
Sederberg, Valera Wright. The fol
lowing have 81: Robert Edgar Mary
Helen Justice Helen Mailander John
Painter, Robert Ralston. The follow
ing have 80: Wilma hammers, Marie
Miell. Nina Porter, Opal Ralston.
Two girls have tied this time for the
highest place, Anna Renck and Flor
ence Fulscher having an average of
81, and Margaret Walrod close sec
ond with an average of 96. The tone
of the work this year is very much
higher than it has ever been in the
history of the school. The number
of students on the ineligible list has
dwindled to number smaller than
we ever had since the school grew
to its present proportions.
The following have been neither alb
sent nor tardy and have received no
demerits during the second period:
Ina Huffman. Bernice Hendrickson.
Ruth Cadwalader, Alice Coyne, Ruth
Emarine. Leona Ingalsbe, Ellen Lantz.
Nina Porter, Eva Sederberg, Ethel
Stephenson, Mary Ann Walls. Flor
ence Bevard. Andrew Evans. Frank
Emarine, Geneva Behnfeldt. Eleanor
Bemis. Pauline Conklin, Elizabeth
Coe, Esther Coyne, Florence Fulsch-
er, Anna Renck. Gladys Sederberg.
Margaret Walrod
A call will be sent out very soon to
the parents to meet in the high school
building. for the purpose of forming
high school Parents-Teachers asso-
citation. This method has been adopt
cd because of the favorable response
to letter which l recently sent to
all the parents. I believe that an as
sociation where parents and teachers
could meet and talk over the real
problems of school would be a great
benefit to the community.
We are giving the Terman group
mental tests to all the high school
students in the county again this
year. Some very interesting results
have been obtained We notice that
students who made n score OF $50
last year are scoring up around 175
and $50 this year. The main use of
the tests is to verify conclusions nj.
ready arrived at in regard to certain
work. The test oftentimes shows up
n student with a bright mind. Teach
ers may have come to the conclusion
that the student was dull and In many
cases the mental test proves that he
1 Is normal child but has not been
approached from the right angle In
many schools they use the tests to
class the students into superior. nor
NAL and sub.normal.
We have been taking a great deal
OF spelling this year It is given twice
week In the assembly and all stu
dents are compelled to take It. A
grade OF ~ is required or the stu.
dent has to remain after school. The
spelling has become SO much better
that II Is the tall, of the teachers and
In recent test given by the county
snperintondent several high school
students made grades OF 9S aud % on
r. 100 words that they had not seen
before. whereas; last year the high
ests mark was 90 with only few
reaching the 30 mark.
The basketball season viii open Mt
home December o with game with
Madrid, Nebraska Both boys and
Flrls will play.