Highland School No. 5

Athens Township

Ringgold County Rural School Notes
From the Mount Ayr Record News, May 9, 1929

Louise BASSETT, teacher

Only three more week of school. My, how time does fly. We have two children who have been neither absent nor tardy during the year. They are Hazel ODELL and Dorothy VANDERFLUGHT. They have received poem books for six months perfect attendance, and are working hard now for the badges.

Our school ground does not have any trees, but we are planning to set out some Arbor Day. Each pupil is to bring one tree and plant it. We are hoping that next year we can say that there are eight trees on our play ground.

Our windows are very prettily decorated with tulips made by the small children. The older ones have been coloring birds and flowers.

Our teacher received a letter from Little George Porgie, the cowboy radio broadcaster, who broadcasts from station WOW at Omaha. He wanted all the boys and girls to join his cowboy club, so for language class we wrote letters asking to join. He sent us a membership card and his picture.

All classes are doing good work in their books now. We can see a great improvement in all of them, and we certainly feel that we have accomplished a great deal this year.

Ringgold County Rural School Notes
From the Mount Ayr Record News, October 10, 1929

The following schools won certificates of award in the National Tuberculosis Association Modern Health Crusade work for the school year 1928-29:

Pleasant Valley, Monroe No. 7, Gladys FOLTZ, teacher; South Creek, Athens No. 2, Nita MOSBARGER, teacher; Woodbine, Lincoln No. 7, Helen SKARDA, teacher; Highland, Athens No. 5, Louise BASSETT, teacher; Crown Point, Rice No. 3, Ruth SCHLAPIA, teacher; Shady Grove, Lotts Creek No. 7, Elizabeth GERMAN, teacher.

Edgewood, Washington No. 6, Velma WIMER, teacher; and Flowery Glen, Liberty No. 9, Elsie KELLEY, teacher, won blue seals to be attached to the Certificates of Award which indicate second year health crusade work.

Schools winning prizes in the School News contest for the last year are as follows:
First, Lee, Riley No. 4 - Lena D. SAVILLE, teacher, nine months’ subscription to the Record-News. Second, Pleasant Valley, Poe No. 8 - Edith C. HUNTSMAN, teacher, six months’ subscription to the Record News. Third, Eureka, Liberty No. 8 - Naomi PRICE, teacher, one subscription to Current Events.

 

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