Seniors are proud of new class rings. Physical examinations are under way.
Editorial: The Anvil Chorus. Opportunity knocks but once, but unfortunately opportunity isn’t all that knocks. Did you ever see any undertaking that took well with everybody? The thing that appeals to one person may not take with another at all. There is always a certain amount of knocking to contend with. What is more disgusting than a chorus of knocks that can’t see any good in the best? Let’s have every booster boosting, and we’ll soon have these knockers roosting.
DID YOU KNOW – That out of 1000 pupils in the fifth grade only 830 pass to the six grade, 634 enter the eighth grade, 342 go to high school but only 139 graduate, 72 enter college, and 23 finish?
Basketball practice started Oct. 26 for some twenty girls. The graduation last May took several of the players and only hard work will produce people to fill these vacancies. The boys held their first practice Nov. 2.
What it means to be a freshman Being a freshman means that you are beginning the four most important years in school, and possibly in your life. You will learn much during these years that will be of benefit to you later in life, as a high school education is necessary in most professions you might undertake. Get a good start during your Freshman year and you will succeed during the remaining years of high school. I think that every boy or girl should attend high school, as I feel that the time spent there will never be regretted. – Juanita Luing
November 19, 1931 High School Song Contest Winner Announced. Some time ago a contest, open to all students, was announced for a new High school song. The words were to be original and the tune to any song. The song decided upon was to the tune of the Notre Dame Victory song with the words written by Elzina Phares, a tenth grade student. She will be given a season ticket to the basketball games at Collins. The words are: Cheer for the (girls) (boys) of our Collins High, Sounds of her glory sending on high, Praise their colors White and Blue, Cheer up the (girls) (boys) with our voices, too.
The Sophomore class have been painting a breakfast set consisting of a table and six chairs. The color scheme is ivory and green which is to harmonize with the rest of the furnishings of the homemaking room.
All Collins teachers attended the State Teachers’ convention in Des Moines last Thursday and Friday. Seventy-five hundred teachers were in attendance and a crowd of 10,000 enjoyed the Galli Curci concert Friday night at the Coliseum.
Assembly was called Tuesday morning where the group were given the privilege of listening to the following program in honor of National Book Week presented by the 8th grade: Music by Junior High chorus; Talk, “What National Book Week is” – Alta Vasey; Play – “Believe it or not.” The main idea of the play is a little boy falling asleep while he is reading and then seeing the different characters of story books. The characters are as follows; Boy – Oscar Serbein; Black Dog – Robert Neale; Huck Finn – John Torry; Jane – Ellen Hanson; Jack and Jill – George Owen Sokol and Darlene Dodd; Alice in