The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-02-03

the Junior classes had spell-downs
in which q student sat down when
he had given two correct answers.
The fourth period class also had the
regular types Of spell-down. In this
contest Wilma Hansen, Peggy Holt
man, Kenneth Forsberg, Russell
Larson, and Mark Ingersoll were
the last to stand.
The chemistry classes are study
ing sulfur and sulfuric acid. This
is very interesting study and
much benefit is being derived from
it. Some students are also making a
study OF various colored sulfides.
The geometry class Is studying
circles and the parts and various
facts about them.
The pupils in Miss Wilson's third
period English class are giving
talks on introduction and also on
interviews. In order to make them
Of more benefit they act out the
parts.
MUSIC NEWS
The seventh grade have chosen
officers for their music period. The
ones appointed are as follows:
President, Margaret Wbitson; Sec
rotary, Ileen Cedoff; Librarian,
Marcilla Schley, assisted by Gloria
Rosenwald; Class Representatives,
Betty Scott and Shirley Paske.
The following people have been
appointed as officers for the eighth
grade Music Club: President, Ileen
Ethun; Vice president, Shirley
johnson; Secretary, Christine Ko-
terba; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mable
Steege and Mary Ann Hilaman;
Librarian, Yolanda Lentz.
A varied program was given on
Wednesday afternoon, January 18th
] I'M the Junior High School Assem-
/ bly,. Ruth MCGEE presided over the
interesting entertainment. The first
selection was a violin solo by Mar
garet Sprague. She was accompan-
led at the piano by Beverly O'Gara.
Beverly also accompanied Mable
Steege who did tap dance selec-
ton. Marian Hill played a clarinet
solo and Ruth LUX and Vivian Ras-
mussen read a story entitled. 1.-THE
Gift of the Magi"
These programs are very much
appreciated by both the faculty and
student body. Programs of the
same order have been given quite
frequently lately and they always
help to raise the spirits OF school
| activities.
! LIBRARY
The Songs America Sings.
Miners and cowboys, field hands
and boatmen-all of them sing at
their work, keeping the time with
the swing Of hammers and pickaxes
with the bending over and rising
from long rows Of cotton, with the
bellying-out Of sails held fast by
salt-licked lines. These are the real
songs of America, woven of the
very fabric Of mems daily lives
FIecked with the rich and lusty
humor of simple men at work
streaked with their wise philoso.
phies, tinted with the warmth cd
dialect, these poems give a re-
marketable picture of the inner life
the very heart, of America.
Ruth A. Barnes, in II Hear Am
erica Singing" has brought togeth.
er these poems which are really
the Integral part of our folklore
and, decorated with the powerful
Robert Lawson drawings of home
steaders and Canucks, Of mountain,
GERS and canallboaters, they are q
stirring contribution to Americans
which cannot help but thrill oul
older boys, to whom the book goes
this month. For these songs were
chosen by boys and for boys, and
boys everywhere will find them ex
: citing and unusual.
Jean and Company, Unlimited, b!
Helen Perry Curtis.
Imagine living abroad for whole
year! That's what happened to Jear
while her father was in Russia, en-
gineering. Who would have though
that Jeans first months in the con
: vent in southern France could hav'
brought her so many new friends
from all over Europe. Visiting then
in their homes-so different from
, her own-was thrilling. How sh'