Milford chronicle., 1957-05-03
Milford Elementary
School News
Annual Music Festival

The Milford Special School Dis
trict presents pupils of the Ele
mentary School in the Annual Mu-
sic Festival Friday evening, May
3, at 8 o'clock (DST) in the schOo.
auditorium. Mrs. Elizabeth c. Len
nett, music teacher, is director anu
coordinatOr. Assisting with the
program are Mrs. Helen Lucia, ar.
teacher; Miss Barbara Rissmiller
physical education teacher. and al
teachers of the fourth. fifth an1
six grades. Accompanies are Mrs
Helen Hickman, Mrs. Geraldine
Pettyjohn and Mrs. Bennett. Car
Dugan is stage manager, and work
ing with him are Wilbur Haighl
and the stage crew from the high
school.
The festival is divided in three
sections and opens with the six
fourth grades singing together
Flag Song" by Walter Evans. A
group Of selections follows IN which
many of the children play melody
flutes while others sing. William
1ull, Jr., is featured as student
conductor. The playing of auto
harps and the twirling of batons
add interest and variety TO the
performance. Teachers who have
worked with this section are Mrs
Mary Jones, Mrs. Ruth March, Mrs
Virginia Cosden, Mrs. Geraldine
Pettyjohn, Carl Dugan, and Rufus
Bausell, fourth grade teachers.
The second section is devoted to
Classroom Music Activities of the
fifth and sixth grades. The pupils
perform under the guidance of
their grade teachers. who are as
follows: Mrs. Ruth Blades, Mrs
Grace Bressler, Mrs. Helen Hick-
man, Mrs. Rita Annett, Mrs. Lillian
Milbury, fifth grade; Miss COrdel-
ia Carter, Mrs. Julia Derrickson
Mrs. Loretta Baynum, Mrs. Mel,
Bausell and Elmer Spence, sixth
grade The theme, "Glimpses OF
Our American Heritage" is devel-
oped under FIVE headings namely:
The First Thanksgiving.
Early Patriots political an0 So
cial activity.
Stephen Foster at Bardstown.
Kentucky.
Southern Mountaineers.
A Cowboys Dream "a Mexican
Fiesta).
The Minuet, the Virginia Reel,
square dance, and original inter-
pretations for American and Mex
ican folk songs add not only fun
and variety, but give the pupils
and the audience a better insight
into the customs and traditions of
our American forefathers.
The last section is devoted to
singing by special choral groups
from the fifth and sixth grades. The
program is as follows:
Somewhere a Child is Singing
Dykema.
Old King Cole-English Tune
Happy Summertime - MacCar-
thy.
Fifth Grade Chorus
Kookaburra-Australian Tune.
Orchestra Song-German Tune.
Combined Fifth and
Sixth Grade Chorus
Swiss Walking SOng-Luthi.
America Beautiful-Ward,
10 Thee o Country-Eichberg
Sixth Grade Chorus
Battle Hymn of Republic Static
Pledge of Allegiance-CaesaP.
Star Spangled Banner-Key.
-Jombined Chorus
Grade 3-Mrs. Marjorie
Jewel's Section 5
Our class has been studying
about grains. We have studied the
most about corn and wheat. We
decided to go to a gristmill We
wanted to see how grain is ground.
by Grace Giltenboth
AbbOtt's GrIstmlil
The mill we visited is Abbott's
Mill. This gristmill was built by
Nathaniel Willis in 1908. 1t was
built a year before Abraham Lin
coin was born. Mr.. Abbott hnught
the mill on May 5, 1919 Mr.. Alb
bott's gristmill is run by water
power.
BY Patty Sharp
Our Trip TO AbhOtt's GristmllI
Our whole class went to a grist-
mill on a school bus. On the way
we saw some fields of winter wheat.
Abbott's Mill is not run by cleo
tricity. 1t is run by water power
1t is the last mill in Milford to run
by water power. My father used
to run two mills, but they were
run by electricity.
In long ago times il took mo-
theirs several days to grind corn
into corn meal to make bread and
cakes.
In AbbOtt's Mil there are sever
al machines. There Is a gyrator
and there are elevators in the mill
We saw the elevators carrying Mr.
Abbott's Snowflake Flour and corn
meal to the bags The gyrator sifts
out the bran, middlings, and -four
The middlings are used for food
for hogs, norses, cows, aud chick
ems. Flour is used for cakes. cook
les, pies. dumplings, and bread
Anyone could live for days and
days on nothing but bread.
Mr. Abbott gave us some flour
bran, middlings and corn meal To
bring back to school.
We learned many things shout
corn meal and -four that we did not
know before. We all had good
time at AbbOtt's Gristmin.
BY Cecilia Craig
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