Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-04-30
THE CRUCIBLE
ASkOv Public Schools.
Editor, Meta Nielsen: Assemblies.
Russell Jensen; Sports. Leroy Erik
sen; Senior High, June Kilstofte;
Junior High. Howard Kilstofte;
Grades, sAlva Fogt.
AskOv Public Schools,
Essay Contest Will be Held.

An essay contest is to be conducted
in the high school. The topic select
ed is Citizenship and School Proper
ty" The students who work with
this topic will realize that quite often
we show little or no concern for the
school property. 1t is a common
practice to leave our initials on every
desk that we use. 1t must be admit
ted that no matter how artistic the
letters are, they do not improve the
appearance of the desks.
Then there are the school books.
Most students take care of them but
some are careless. They treat the
books as if books were easy to get.
AS a matter of fact, the books are a
great expense to the school.
These and other incidents are
brought to mind when dealing with
the subject of Citizenship and
School Property" Most of the dam
age is done through thoughtlessness.
That, however, is not a good excuse.
There is no excuse for poor citizen
ship in school or elsewhere.
High School.
The high school library recently
received several Career" booklets
issued by the Institute for Research
of Chicago. The institute is devoted
to vocational research and has sew
eral important educators on its edi-
torial board. Each booklet devotes
itself to explaining a career, the type
of person who should be interested
in that career, the training neces-
sary, advantages, disadvantages, OPP
portunities and the income of that
career. The booklets deal with ar
chitecture, nursing. medicine, optom-
etry, Guardianship, dentistry, for
estry, publishing, home economics
and music.
Under the supervision of Mr.. Hoi-
berg the junior high school has been
conducting a Current Events club.
The officers of the club are Gene
Buck, president; Marvin Jensen, vice
president; and Edward Petersen, Sec
rotary. The club meets every Thurs
day and the members discuss the
news of the week and give their own
opinions about the national and inter-
national problems. At every meeting
reports are given on national, inter
national and political news.
With the guidance of Mr.. Glen, the
junior high school has started Sci
ence club. The officers are Josephine
Petersen, president; Oda Jensen, sec
rotary; and Jens Lund, custodian. The
club meets every Wednesday and the
members discuss things dealing with
science. The club is divided into
groups with each group studying the
phase of science they find most in
teresting. The objects which are tC
be studied this spring are flowers
trees. birds and insects.
The junior high school girls Sew
ing and Literature club is now well
under way. They meet once week
for an hour to sew and listen to mod
ern literature being read aloud. The
book they are enjoying at present is
new publication by Bess Streetel
Miss Utoft is sponsor of this group.
On Friday the folk dancing class
met for the first time. The partici-
patton was good, and we hope this
form of activity may become perma-
nent feature in the Askov high school
Grades.
The first and second graders en-
joyed perfect attendance Monday.
The third and fourth graders will
spend this weeks art class period in
making May baskets.
The sixth graders are working on a
publication entitled, 'Springtime
News" The pupils edit the paper
themselves.
The fifth and sixth grade pupils
are conducting a courtesy week. 1t
works according to rows by the use of
tags. The row with the least tags
is conceded to be the most courteous
putting on the show, hence those that