Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-09-14
OVER 400 ATTEND.
PINE CITY SCHOOL
This Years School Provides Some
Junior High School Ad.
vantageS.

zine lily Opcucu lIS PuoiS SShSoAS
last week with heavy attendance and
prospects for successful school year.
A total of 233 pupils, including IT
post graduates are enrolled In the
high school while the grades have
239 pupils. Many high school pupils,
as in past years, come from outside
the village which helps considerably
to swell the enrolment. The enroll
ment by grades is as follows: First
grade, 81 pupils, with Miss julia
Dosey teacher; second grade, ~
pupils with Miss Helen Larkin teach
err; third grade, 26 pupils with Mrs.
Louise Larson teacher; fourth grade,
35 pupils with Miss Grace Bemis
teacher; fifth grade, 25 pupils with
Miss Ann Goergen, teacher; sixth
grade, 80 pupils with Miss Pearl Doc
ley teacher; seventh grade, SO pupils
with Miss Catherine Hurley teacher;
eighth grade, "a pupils with Will
liam Stotts, teacher.
The high school enrolment is 73
freshmen, 81 sophomores, A juniors,
80 seniors, II post-graduates and IL
teacher training students. Compos-
ing the high school faculty is Miss
Marie Bruce, principal, Miss jose
phine Flowers. Miss Evelyn Babcock,
Miss Gertrude Nordley, Miss Rather
inc Larson, Miss Agnes Void, Carl
Pearson, John Harvey, and Donald
Bannister. Mrs. r. L. Wiseman Is
librarian and Miss florence Lyford
has charge of the teacher training
department. Victor Ziebarth is super
intendent of the school.
A Good School.
| A feature of this years Organiza.
ton of the Pine City school is a
transition program in the seventh
eighth and ninth grades tending to-
ward a junior high school. These
three grades are organized as group
with hour periods consisting of 81
minute recitation and a 25 minute
study period following the recitation
Subjects are varied from day to day
with a maximum of five subjects pei
pupil per day. There will also be
two periods of eighty minutes eacl
week for physical education. Thu
junior high school system has the ad
vantage of giving to pupils an intro
duction to high school methods while
also giving them the benefits of NOR
teachers. This is a distinct advan
tage to country children who COM
into the eighth grade or first yea
high school as it enables them t
make adjustment to the requirement
of high school and make up an
shortage in grade subjects. JUNO
high schools are recommended b.
leading educators.
: Good Football Outlook.
With the opening of the school
Coach John Harvey issued call 70
football players and 3S candidates TO
) the team have thus far showed III
Eight of them are veterans from las
: years squad. Two full teams ar
seen each evening in practice with
) few subs for each. Next Friday AFT
ernoon Mora comes to Pine City fo
. the opening football battle and fror
[ then on a game will be played eac
: week. The high schools to be me
are as follows: September Is, Nor;
f. at Pine City; September %, Grant:
burg, there; September 20, Barnur
at Pine City; October 6, Cambridg'
there; October Is, Forest Lake, g
Pine City; October 20, Mora, there
) October 81, Columbia Heights, at Pin
r City. In past years the football teal
!. has drawn good crowds for thei
1 games and with this years stron
schedule the fans are assured of som
5 real entertainment.