Dubuque High School - Echo Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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KI 1-1 Cf Senlor I-hgh School sent four students and two members of the faculty as delegates to the annual convent1on of the Nat1onal Scholasttc Press Assoc1at1on 1n Cleveland, Ohro, 1n December A group of hlgh school Journahsts also attended the Iowa High School ournalrsm conference held at Iowa Clty m March In the literary Held, the school also won honors In the flrst of 1 serres of contests sponsored by the urll and Scroll, an lnternatlonal organlzatton for htgh school Jour nal1sts, members of the News staff placed m the news judglng, news mrltlng, and edltorlal d1v1s1ons In the second contest, the hrgh school gamed two places, one 1n feature wrmng and another tn headl1ne nrttmg Tl1C CEll'I'l1X?1l, g1VCI1 by l'l1C l1Oll'lC FOOXHS In Il1C Spflllg pfOYCCl El dCCldCd SUCCESS The comb1ned Muslc and Dancrng Departments of Dubuque Senlor I-hgh School and Washlngtoxx and efferson unlor I-Itgh Schools presented The Pageant of Natlons The money ra1sed from th1s musrcal prog am was u ed tovxards the purchase of um forms for the band so that the mustcal aggregatxon would make an nnpressxve appear ance at the state music contest The school paper the News was awarded the I-Ilghest DISIIIICIIOH ln Class A at th1s Iowa conference The News also recelved for the fourth tlme the highest ratlng that 15 g1VCll by the cr1t1cal servxcc conducted by the Natronal Scholastic Press Asocratron the All Amerlcan Honor Ratmg Ill fllC tlllfd g1'0Llp COIIICSI l'IlClT1l36I'S of Illl' JOUYIIZ-ll1SI11 classes I'CCClXl'd I'CCOgll1UOI1 111 CClltOI'lI-ll Vkflflllg, VOC3lDL1l3I'y test, 'llld 3ClXCI'I1SlI'lg XS flflhg Represented by sex en entrants, the MUSIC Department took fourth place tn the North eastern Iowa contest held at Oelwem 1n Aprxl The Nature Club has been especrally actxve durmg the school year It sponsored noon IDOVICS two days a week for several weeks As another result of the efforts of th1s organxzatton, Senlor I-Irgh was the flrst school 111 the c1ty to offer talklng pxctures The money ra1sed from these utalklesu 15 to be used towards the purchase of a vltaphone machxne for the school The year also saw several nnportant changes III the teachrng staff MISS Emma Trenk, formerly of Jefferson Jumor I-Ilgh School, was appomted to H11 the vacancy 111 the H15 tory Department created by the marriage last sum1ner of Miss Marne Rhomberg Mr Forsman of the Commerc1al Department left xn September to take a pos1t1on at Roose velt High, Des MOINES I-Irs former classes are non under the drrectlon of Mr WIFIC Mr Gardner reslgned as a teacher of mechamcal drawmg to become a member of the Austln I-Ixgh School staff ln Chlcago HIS successor IS Mr Austm from Jefferson Junior I-hgh Recelvlng the apo1ntment of crty recreatlon dxrector, Mr Syl McCauley also gave up h1s place on the hlgh school staff, Mr joseph F F1ala SL1CCCBdlI1g hmm Durlng the year the student enrollment passed the one thousand mark F ---. FF fy' E,1'1 YI f lla: 'M I ff filffifff r' Q' dill: ZQQT-l X 'sf' I QR-,Q QU of at Cla? J ' ' ' . - J J - ' ct KL ' .aa , 7 V . . . . . . PAGE 10

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