Palmer School Faculty Members Have
Varied Plans for Summer Vacation
With 600 odd students freed
from the Palmer School routine
for the next three and one-half
months, 26 members of the school
faculty are released for a sum
mer of work, relaxation, travel,
or school at the opposite side of
the teacher’s desk. For the other
two members of the faculty,
Superintendent Zahradnicek and
Alice McCann, the school secre-1
tary, school work goes right on
through the summer.
Nine of the teachers hope to
go on with their schooling this
summer. Coach Bob Crites is tak
ing his whole family Outside
with him while he attends Ohio
State University at Columbus.
Gottfried Stevahn will be in New
York to attend NYU and plans to
stay around the metropolis all
summer. Lois Thompson is going
home first to her home in Wiscon
sin and later may get in a music
session at the University of Madi
son. A trip up the Yukon and the
summer session at the University
of Alaska are activities that Mrs.
Agnes Rich has first on her list,
although there is an Outside pos
sibility. Mrs. Alma Blunk is def
initely determined to spend her
third summer at the U. of Alaska.
Her daughter Betty is working in
nearby Fairbanks. Keith Stan
ton will be working toward nis
Masters’ degree at the University
of Colorado. Before going to his
home town of Athens where he
will probably attend the Ohio
University summer session, Nor
man Rousey will stop off in
Sacramento, California to visit
his sister. Nettie Smith will work
on her Master’s at Sarah Law
rence and possibly NYU, and
Betty Jo Riddle “is thinking
about” going to the University of
Chicago to work on her Master’s
in education.
For two of the teachers- Bar
bara Rumball and Betty Kreutz,
wedding bells will ring within
a few days of the last school bell
on Friday. After her wedding on
May 24. Miss Rumball will be
come Mrs. Jasper Skok. Mrs..
George Crowther will be Miss
•Kreutz’ name after June 1. Fol
lowing their weddings, they plan
a pleasant summer in the Val
ley “just keeping house” like Mrs.
Pearl Moyer, Mrs. Barbara Smart,
Mrs. Margaret Cope, and Mrs.
Nancy Dodge have elected to do.
To get out in the incomparable
Alaskan sunshine, most of them
will also do a little gardening.
Going Outside for visits this
summer are Mrs. Dorothy Wof
ford? Margaret Conway and John
Zawalnicki. Mrs. Wofford and
her husband will visit his parents
in Texas and hers in Wisconsin;
then they will spend the remain
der of their summer in Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Zawalnicki will go
first to Minneapolis to visit his
family and then to Oklahoma to
visit her relatives. Miss Conway
is going home to New Mexico, but
she may also cross the border into
“old” Mexico.
Earning a little extra money to
supplement the teacher’s notori
ously low salary will be the ob
ject of Fred Stassel, William El
liott, John DeVries, and Harry
Wimmer. Harry Wimmer already
has his job. He’ll be working un
der Ivan Branton on a research
project for the Alaska Experi
ment Station. The other men all
hope to get jobs in or near the
Valley.
On the undecided list are Mil
dred Schneider Evelyn Heinrich,
and Virginia Carle. Miss Carle
cancelled her reservation to
Europe, and after helping with
the Union Bible School she may
go Outside for a while to visit
her two sisters.
Mrs. Grace Heath is moving to
Spenard, where she and her hus
band are building a house that
will be not too far from his work
at the office of the District En
gineer, Elmendorf Ar r>.
Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Dodge, Miss
Heinrich, Miss Schneider, and
Mr. Zawalnicki are the only ones
who have indicated that they
will not return to Palmer to teach
next year. Mrs. Dodge will re
main in Palmer, but the domestic
science teacher has decided to
concentrate for a while on the
domestic life to the exclusion of
teaching. Next year may find the
Zawalnickis in Europe, although
the Palmer School band master
has not definitely decided on this
move. Certainly all five of these
teachers will be missed when
school opens again next fall.
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Maud Hosier
Mothers and Daughters;
Toasted at U. P.
Church Banquet
About 80 guests were served at
the Mother-Daughter Banquet
held in the United Protestant
Church last Saturday evening by
the Mary-Martha Circle.
Introduced by Mrs. Jack Zim
owske, toastmistress, Mrs. Mary
lou Rideout gave a toast to Moth
ers and pinned a corsage of white
carnations on the oldest mother
present—Mrs. M. D. bnodgrass.
Mrs. Neil Miller pinned a corsage
of red carnations on Mrs. Duane
Huntley, the youngest mother
present, after giving a toast to the
daughters.
The program included two
songs by the famous Mother
Daughter team. Dana and Robin
Neimann; an appropriate reading
by Mrs. Harold Thuma; a vocal
trio by the daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Schaefer; a Mothers’
Day poem by Mrs. Ann Plitt; and
another vocal trio by Mrs. Lew
Hanks. Mrs. Walter Huntley, and
Mrs. Jack Zimowske.
Table decorations arranged by
Mrs. Plitt featured a May pole
with dancers made of pipe clean
ers and crepe paper dresses,
lighted candles, and bouquets of
birch twigs all budded out after
being forced in the home of Mrs.
A. A. Rempel.
Wasilla Mother-Daughter
Banquet Well Attended
More than one hundred moth
ers and daughters attended the
Mother and Daughter banquet
sponsored by the Wasilla Church
of Christ May 9 at Wasilla.
The banquet is an annual af
fair and was held in Community
Hall. Following the dinner a
program for the mothers was pre
sented by the children.
EKLUTNA HEAD IN DENVER
FOR MAY 20 BID OPENING
Byron G. Felkner, construction
engineer in charge of the Bureau
of Reclamation Eklutna Project,
left Palmer Tuesday for the of
fice of the district engineer in,
Denver. He will be there two j
weeks, and will be present for i
the opening of the bids for the!
Eklutna power house construction
May 20.
Mrs. C. E. Quentin, now of Ore
gon but formerly a long-time An
chorage resident, was in the Val
ley Friday renewing old acquain
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