Total of 106 Students
Begin 1961-62 Term
At Sterling School
\ total uf 106 children are en
rolled in the eight grades that
attend Sterling school, it was
announced Tuesday by Joe Wid
B*an, principal.
Due to the shortage of class
roi m space until the new build
ing is completed, Grades 7 and 8
are having classes in a quOnset
hut, Grades 5 and 6 in a log
building and the remainder of
the grades in the main two-room
structure, all on the same school
yard.
Growth in enrollment jumped
from 80 students registered at
the beginning of school last fall.
An additional 13 students enter
ing school during the past year
' .' light closing day figures to
’ students at the end of the
term in May.
Breakdown as to grades of the
]■’ students currently registered
is is follows: 8th grade, 12 stu
dents; 7th, 11; 6th, 9; 5th, 12;
4th. 13; 3rd, 13; 2nd, 17; and
1st, 19.
Teachers are Joe Wkhnan, prin
etral and teacher of 7th and 8th
i ties; his wife, Joanne VVidman,
6th and 6th grades and music in
s! uctor for all grades; Dan Rem
pel. 3rd, 4th and part of the 2nd
grade, and Mrs, Bertha Roberts
(nee Schmeller, who taught at
Sterling previously and was mar
ried last summer), 1st and part
of 2nd grades. Rempel also was
on the teaching staff last term.
Mr. and Mrs. Widman are
teaching for the first time in
Alaska. They are from Tacoma,
Wash. His bachelor of science
and masters degrees are from
Washington State University at
Pullman. His past teaching ex
perience includes two years at
Pullman and six at Tacoma,
three of which were in high
school and three in junior high.
He was football and track coach
all six years,
Mrs. Widman has a bachelor
of arts degree from Pacific Luth
eran College at Tacoma and com
pleted much of her work toward
a masters degree. She taught
four years at Tacoma.
The Widmans are making their
home in a teacherage near the
school.
Ray McNutt is chairman of the
Sterling school advisory board.
Other members are Jesse Robin
son and Morris Coursen. All live
in the immediate Sterling area.
Funds Needed to Bring
Speech Therapist Here
Kenai chapter of Alaska Crip
pled Children’s Association has
started a fund raising drive to
pay for the services of Dr.
Ht sen Dittman of Anchorage,
•who will be working in this area
tor the next month.
Doctor Dittman is starting the
first of a series of speech ther
apy treatments for* the many
children needing this type of
therapy in the Kenai and Sol
dotna areas.
Coal of the fund raising cara
ipaign is $600, says Mrs. Lyman
Homemakers
Meet Monday
Soldatna Homemakers C i u b
members will meet for the first
t me this fall at 8 p.m. Monday,
Sept. 18, in the home of Mrs,
Stan McLane, Ridgeway. Regu
la meetings are scheduled for
the first and third Monday nights
each month.
Knitting will be the project of
the initial meeting with educ-a
ti its problems and solutions,
to be featured at the following
meeting on Oct. 2.
Mrs. Ed (Pauline) Back is
program chairman. Several
akers and demonstrators will
b-. guests of the club during win
t i sessions. Crafts and aits will
•■ taken up as projects.
McBride, president of the Kenai
chapter.
Mrs. McBride has named Mrs.
Thomas O’Malia, Jr., whose ad
dress is in the Federal Aviation
Agency quarters, to be chairman
of the drive.
Any contributions will be ac
cepted by Mrs. O’Malia and will
be greatly appreciated in behalf
of the children who will be visit
ed by Doctor Dittman, as well
as the Kenai chapter of ACCA.
I
Surprise Baby
Shower Honors
Two Wednesday
A surprise double shower, hon
oring two prospective mothers
each of whom thought the event
was to be a courtesy for the
other, was given Wednesday
night in the home of Mrs. Pat
Gordon at the Reading and Bates
camp, Sterling.
Honorees were Mrs. Walt Ko
hut and Mrs. Dayne Marshall.
Individual gifts were presented
to each.
Other guests included Mrs. Ken
McDonald, Mrs. J. W. Clanton.
Mrs. Vein Saarela, Mrs. Howard
Dirks, Mrs. Carl Heft, Mrs. An
gus Donkin, Mrs. Dave Brown
and Mrs. Robert Desaulniers.
Hostess, honorees and other
guests all live at the camp and
their husbands are Reading and
Bates employees. All are Canadi
ans with the exception of Mrs.
Marshall, who formerly lived in
Anchorage for 10 years, and Mrs
Clanton, who came from Chick
asha, Ok la.
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