St. Clair County
Schools
Rural School Rally Day, April 1942
The Weekly News
Lowry City, Mo.
2 April 1942
Results of Rural School Rally Day
Rural School Rally Day for rural boys and
girls of St. Clair county held last Saturday showed marked
improvement over that of previous years.
There were 226 entries in the 19
different events held during the day with approximately 400
pupils participating.
Mr. Lynn Chambers, Fine Arts Supervisor
of Henry county schools, rated all musical numbers and
commented especially on the progress made in the selection of
musical numbers, presentation, performance and fine quality of
work done by teachers and Fine Arts Supervisors of this
county.
The Art Exhibit arranged by Margaret
Leavenworth, Fine Arts Supervisor, was an outstanding display
of art work accomplished by pupils this year.
In the championship spelling contest
Lewis school won the cup for keeps, having won it two years in
succession. The St. Clair County Democrat has sponsored this
trophy for the past four years to the champion speller. Under
the rules a school had to win the cup two years in succession
to have the right to keep it. Last year Joyce Dummit of Lewis
school won the cup and this year Roy Cole of the same school
won the cup for the second time to retain it.
All schools participating in the rally
Day events with ratings given are listed below. Explanation of
ratings are as follows: Rating I, excellent; II superior; III
good; IV average; V below average.
Solos, Grade 1-2:
Rating I: Tower Grove, Willis Saunders;
Ohio, Larry McConnell, Pleasant View, Junior Stewart; Dillon,
Charles Dean Barnes.
Rating II – Little Jewel, Myrtle
Strickland, Ararat, Floyd Fugate; Center, Matt Alexander;
Prairie Home, Shirley Masten; Oak Grove, Donald Cutler.
Rating III – Shady Nook, Joan Burrow;
Denny, Helen Ruth Bunch; Gerster, Alberta Taylor; McNutt,
Betty Woolery; Grandview, Jackie Gibbens.
Rating IV – Vine Hill, Wayne Truitt;
Kelly, Patsy Bray; Pleasant Hill, Teddy Mace.
Solos, Grades 3-4:
Rating I – Valley Center, Joan Francis
Mitchell; Chalk Level, Arthur Gillett; Arkansas, Gloria Jean
Shryer; Little Jewel, Leland Shaffner; Ararat, Donald Fugate;
Vine Hill, Donald Martin; Locust Grove, Mildred Hensley;
Dillon, Julia Lee Barnes.
Rating II – Pleasant View, Norma Stewart;
Center, Darlene Davis; Lewis, Juanita Haeberle; Washington,
Mary Frasure; Gerster, Phyllis Taylor; Witt, Harold Meredith.
Rating III – Tower Grove, Roy Miller; Hillsdale, Earl Lee
Chiles; Oak Grove, Sally Ann Cutler; McNutt, Marilyn
Christian.
Solos, Grades 5-6:
Rating I – Valley Center, Joyce Truitt;
Tower Grove, Barbara Verle; Arkansas, Rose Mary King; Little
Jewell, Vera Reasoner; Rainey, Peggy Powell.
Rating II – Gerster, Dicky Bingham;
Bradford, Helen Glover; Pleasant Hill, Fern Ozbun; McNutt,
Joan Mainard.
Rating III – Vine Hill, Margorie Martin;
Prairie Home, Mary Lu Dains; Grand View, Levina Ruth Martin.
Solos, Grades 7-8:
Rating I – White Hall, Robert Fenwick;
Ohio, Lucille Johnson; Jackson, Doris Jean Southwick; Witt,
Frank Deshazo; Little Jewell, Mildred Miller.
Rating II – Denney, Doris Snyder; Center,
Eunice Lewellen.
Rating III – Vine Hill, Joyce Truitt;
Locust Grove, Helen Wulmatt; Lewis, Evelyn Bourland; Kelley,
Blanche Davidson.
Rating IV – Hillsdale, Richard Chiles;
McNutt, Mary Sue Perkins; Dillon, Nancy Manning.
Duets, Grades 1-8:
Rating I – Pleasant View, Locust Grove, Center, Osage
Rating II – Shady Nook, White Hall, Vine
Hill, Denney, Lewis
Rating III – Valley Center, Chalk Level,
Little Jewell, Gerster, Witt, McNutt, Dillon, Grand View
Rating IV – Little Jewell, Ohio, Denney,
Gerster
Chorus, Grades 1-8:
Rating I – Valley Center, White Hall,
Denney, Lucust Grove, Center, Lewis, Dillon, Pleasant View
Rating II – Little Jewell, Gerster, Witt
Rating III – Shady Nook, Ohio, Vine Hill,
Johnson City, Oak Grove
Choral Readings, Grade 1-8:
Rating I – Chalk Level, Center, Gerster, Dillon, Hillsdale
Rating II – Ararat
Rating III – White Hall
Rhythm Bands:
Rating I – Hillsdale, Little Jewel
Rating II – Valley Center, Ohio, Locust
Grove, Center, Osage, Dunkard, Dillon
Tonette Bands:
Rating I – Valley Center, Vine Hill,
Lewis, Pleasant Hill, Dillon, Pleasant View
Rating II – Little Jewell, Denney,
Johnson City
Readings, Grade 3-4:
Rating II – Hillsdale, Edna Mae Chiles;
Center, Jo Ann Alexander.
Rating III – White Hall, Bobby Ed
McConnell.
Rating IV – Square Prairie, Wanda Evans;
Gerster, Frances Boyster.
Readings, Grade 5-6:
Rating II – Center, Bettie Lee Alexander
Rating III – Hillsdale, Retha Dunning;
Johnson City, William Henry Calvird; Valley Center, Norma
Dirks.
Readings, Grade 7-8:
Rating I – Ararat, Arleen Burris.
Rating II – Hillsdale, Bobby Bartlett;
Washington, Curtis Mistler; Center, Wandalee Wright.
Rating III – Witt, Marilyn Meredith;
Osage, Marcelle Bauer.
Rating IV – Chalk Level, Bobby Moffett.
Spelling, Grade 2:
Gerster, Ruby Boyster, 1st;
Chalk Level, Eugene Warner, 2nd; Dillon, Charles
Dean Barnes, 3rd:
Spelling, Grade 3:
Hillsdale, Linda Bartlett, 1st;
Square Prairie, Howard Roberts, 2nd; Gerster,
Donnie Boys, 3rd.
Spelling, Grade 4:
Ararat, Lorene Heiber, 1st:
Oak Grove, Beatrice Wisner, 2nd; Denney, Galena
Snyder, 3rd.
Spelling, B-Class:
Osage, Clifford Smith, 1st; Oak Grove, Shirley
Geivett, 2nd; Gerster, Betty June Wheeler, tied
with Center, Bettie Lee Alexander for 3rd.
Spelling, A-Class:
Lewis, Roy Cole, 1st; Osage,
Bryon Smith, 2nd; McNutt, Jean Eva Breon, 3rd.
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