Askov American., 1934-03-22
FinlaySOn School Notes

BEST Worker" honors go to Iva
Kuitunen, and Alice Norlund in the
first grade room.
The fourth grade airplane is So
miles ahead of the third grade air.
plane in the arithmetic race.
Edwin and Selma Carlson, and Alvin
Petry are intermediate pupils, who
have not been absent this year.
Fifth and sixth graders, Marian
Hannu, Hazel Taylor, Marilyn DAN
ielson, and Earl Meidlinger took part
in the grade school declamatory con-
test which was won by seventh grad
er, Bonnie Danielson. The contest
was Thursday evening. Bonnie goes
to the county contest at Sandstone
this Thursday. We hope you win
some honors for your school.
The superintendent office has re-
ceived the results of the college aptl-
tude tests taken by the seniors. Tne
following four people scored the high
est of all of our seniors. Ardyce being
first; Ardyce, Mildred Koivunleml,
Wilma Norback, and Elmer Elsola.
| Spring athletics will start AFTER q
| week of rest from athletics.
| An air study club has been ORGANIZED
| among the upper class boys:
| The nursery school now has IL en-
rolled which means that there is pieney
to do for the workers. And the re.
| ports of the children bear out the 1act
that they like their new activity. Learn
| ing comes much easier II there Is q
| good wholesome interest. The nurse
keeps daily record of the health OF
the children. Sores. skin conditions
| and colds are especially watched. Oral
hygiene and personal cleanliness in ARE are
each day. Since about half of the chill.
dren will be entering first grade next
year. the group is split up at various
times during the day for instruction
in reading for the older pupils. A peas
| ing sight during the day is Is children
| all at play that is educational. inter-
of hands and face before eating. the
half hour sleeping period before din
| ner, a roomful of children eating with
attention to manners. and the evening
| goodbye" to the teachers.
| Mr.. Petola. who has complete charge
of the nursery school. is making their
first days in school as pleasant as pos
sible by fixing up a separate cloak
room, swings, teeter-totters, cut-out ma
| terial, word cards, music, etc. for them
| Finlayson boys took second place In
| the good fellowship tournament at vii.
low River last week. In the first OF
it's games Finlayson led Willow River
| throughout most of the game. In the
| fourth quarter Willow shooters pierced
the net for enough points to put them
| one point to the good. Were we goinR
| to lose in the first round of the tourna-
ment after being ahead most or the
| time? The boys showed that they had
| not given up. The ball was passed a
| few times, Fritz got into the clear for
| just a second. long enough however
| to get a pass and sink basket that
| put us ahead by one point just 80
| seconds before the gun. The game end d
| that way. In the final game the next
| evening Pine City with it's wealth of re-
| serve power was too good for us, win
| ming the game with a few points to
| spare. The FinlaySon Junior team took
| fourth place by losing to the Hinckley
| Juniors Saturday evening. So closes
basketball for another year. We won
several games and lost others by close
margins. At all times we were COM
peting with towns as big, most of the
time against bigger towns. and against
| towns with gyms while we had no
| place to practice. Nevertheless the
second best team in the tournament
eliminated us in the district and at
Willow 1t took the biggest town in
| Pine county to do the trick. The last
game for five seniors. Fritz. Elmer,
| Glen, Werner and Edwin. Captain Fritz
| always the steady player and depend
| able scorer, was the ideal captain. We
| hope all of you have in some way pro-
| fitted by experiences of the basketball
| court.