CLUB KEEPS HALL
WASILLA—Community hall re
mains the property of the Wa
silla Community Club this year.
The club met late in August to
consider a Grange proposal to
lease the building. However, club
members voted down the lease,
and retained the building under
club management.
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STOP FOE BUSES
Valley drivers are reminded
that it’s still the law to stop
whenever a school bus is halted,
no matter on which side of the
road the bus is driving. Children
are apt to dart unexpectedly
from behind a halted bus, and
traffic moving in either direction
endangers the life of the child.
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SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
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Palmer school heads were
pleasantly surprised last week
when an anticipated increased
enrollment of 80 pupils failed to
materialize. According to best
figures available at press-time,
there are only 27 more students
in the Palmer school this year
than there were last term.
An actual count of noses in
the elementary school reveals
that there were 328 pupils en
Wasilla Has
Record Crowd
WASILLA—The largest enroll
ment of students ever to enter
Wasilla’s classroom doors greeted
teachers on the opening day of
school. Superintendent Harold
French reports 22 high school
pupils. He expects even more to
arrive during these early weeks
of September, and confidently
predicts that the final total will
reach 100.
Books and seats both are acute
ly scarce, and the shipping strike
and resulting transportation tie
up make it seem evident that
neither problem will be imme
diately solved. However school
heads are making every effort to
accommodate all students, and
classes are in regular session.
The enrollment has proved so
heavy that the superintendent is
seeking to add another grade
teacher to his staff to take care
of the overload.
Several new courses have been
added to the curriculum this
year. For the first time Wasilla
students were given the oppor
tunity to register for beginning
and advanced typing, shorthand
and Spanish.
It is the hope of Superinten
dent French to concentrate on
basketball as an extra-curricular
activity. Neighboring schools al
ready have been asked to count
Wasilla in on their winter sched
ule of competition.
This year’s staff at the school
includes:
Superintendent French; Ernest
Line, high school teacher and
coach; Mrs. Lillian French, jun
ior high school teacher and in
structor in high school commer
cial courses; Mrs. Gladiolus
Getzloff, grades four, five and
six; Mrs. Anna Borden, grades
one, two and three.
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expected to be increased by late
enrollees, but it appears unlikely
that the elementary enrollment
will reach 400 this year.
The greatest pupil concentra
tion is in the first three grades,
although seventh grade enroll
ment aiso is high. A second sec
tion classroom has been formed
. j . ui ommodate pupils of grades
one and two. At present the first
grade enrollment of 38 students,
under Mrs. Pearl Harder, is the
top figure of the school. Mrs.
Ethel Lyons’ third grade is close
behind with a registration of 37
pupils.
Other over-crowded classrooms
have been relieved by creating
an overflow room for fourth and
fifth grad# students under Mrs.
Minnie Clark. The seventh grade
was halved, with one section
working under Mrs. Harriet
Mealy and the other under
Charles Dillon.
Figures on the high school en
rollment are not yet complete.
Estimates place this year’s reg
istration at not more than 125
students. As in the elementary
school, the principal concentra
tion of students is most apparent
in the lower years of high school.
All students seeking admission
to the Palmer school have been
enrolled, according to Superin
tendent Francis Malcolm. Some
of the elementary school pupils
have been seated at tables, while
awaiting the arrival of new
desks. It now appears that these
desks have been delayed because
of the shipping strike and may
not be delivered until it ends.
There is no shortage of books
in the school. Texts for the one
or two new classes being offered
this year have been ordered
shipped by air, and are now
either in transit or have already
arrived.
New courses added to the cur
riculum of Palmer High School
this year include Latin and agri
culture. It is planned to extend
the commercial course by the
addition of a second year of
shorthand. This course will be
taught for the first time next
year. A course in trigonometry
and solid geometry is also sched
uled for Palmer upperclassmen
this year. The English require
ment has been increased to four
years of English, rather than
three.
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