Odebolt Arthur Community School - Trojan Yearbook (Odebolt, IA)

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Last October, the people living in the area already being served by the Odebolt Independent School District, voted to form a new district to be known as the Odebolt Community School. That area comprises ap- proximately one hundred eighteen square miles, and includes the towns of Odebolt and Boyer. In January, a new school board was elected, rep- resenting both the town and the rural areas. The new organization be- comes effective on July 1, 1955. We of the Class of 1955 are happy to have had our school life marked by an event of such importance. We are proud to be in a position to dedicate our volume of the TROJAN to the ODEBOLT COMMUNITY SCHOOL, and, in so doing, to slaute the spirit of Progress which it rep- resents. Our school as accomplished much in the past; prospects are bright for its accomplishing even more in the future. 3

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 0 School isn't what it was when I was a boy, says Grandfather, when we mention having heard and seen Eisenhower speak on TV at school. Things weren't like that in my day, comments Aunt Abigail, when we bring home the reports of our I Q tests. Dad and mother join the chorus when we tell them that we go to All-State Band in Des Moines next week, and to a basketball clinic in Sioux City the week after that. In fact, we have heard so often that times have changed that we sat down and pondered the subject. And we arrived at the conclusion,that, indeed, times have changed. School isn't what it was fifty, forty, thirty years ago. But then, what is? We no longer travel by horse and buggy; we don't communicate by smoke signals; we don't read by candlelight, nor cook in open fireplaces. We live in an age whose keynote is progress, and our schools njust prog- ress to keep pace with the changing order. We need progressive schools to prepare us to live in the world of tomorrow. 2

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PAUL FOX, Clinton Township, fills a one-year term on the new community school board. He has served for eight years as a member of his township board. ROBERT DANNENBURG, Richland Township, has been elected to the new community school board for a two-year term. MARVON STOCK, Wheeler Township, will serve on the new community school board for a two-year term. He has been a member of his township board for nine years. MRS. THELMA DRESSELHUIS, President of the Odebolt board for 1954- 55, has been elected to the new community school board for a three-year term. She has previously served for three years on the Odebolt School board. EARLE F. REX, has served for ten years on the Odebolt School board and he's been elected to the new com- munity school board for a one-year term. DR. P. E. TREMAN re- tires this year after five years on the Odebolt School Board. FRANK W. MATTES retires this yearafter tenyears of service to the Ode- bolt Independent School District. W. G. HORSTMAN has given four years service to the Odebolt Independent School District. He has been elected president of the Odebolt School Board to serve from March to July 1, 1955. He retires this year. BARTLEY G. OGDEN, Superintendent, Akron, Iowa B.A. 1STC M.A. SU1 Business Arithmetic, Senior Class Sponsor. IRA C. MARTIN has been Treasurer of Odebolt Independent School District 19 years. He retires this year and is succeeded by Feme Kessler, treasurer- elect of the Community School District. MRS. JOSEPHINE CARL- SON, Secretary of Odebolt School Board 10 1 2 years. MRS. THELMA EARLE F. REX DR. P. E. TREMAN FRANK W. MATTES W. G. HORSTMAN DRESSELHUIS ADMINISTRATION MRS. JOSEPHINE CARLSON BARTLEY G. OGDEN