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Page Eight THE RIMROCK ECHO Hires Leaves Hospital After Injuries in Crash Allen Hires of Acton, who has been in the hospital for ten days recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident, returned to his rooming place last Tuesday and will be back in school soon. A party of seven boys were re- turning from Custer at 11 o'clock Saturday night, April 17, in a car driven by Ennis Allison. Allison, who was driving less than 50 miles an hour, failed to see the warning sign for the dangerous S-curve near Pompeys Pillar, and the car left the highway and overturned in the ditch. Glass from the windshield cut sev- eral deep gashes in Hires' head but the other boys were unhurt. They were Charles Holmes, Joe Jameson, Elmer Kloster, James Minnie and Bob Paterson. Some of the boys roused a nearby farmer who brought five of them into Billings, leaving Jo Jameson and Bob Paterson to have the car towed to Pompeys Pillar. Students Take Part in Play In \Growing Pains,\ the initial play of the Billings Civic Theatre, presented all this week at the Play- box on Fourth Avenue and Twenty- fourth St., Elizabeth Johnston plays the part of Sophie, the maid, and Vern Wagner is Omar, the stutterer. Both are members of the first year class. The play was directed by Lawrence Lesh, Jr. The Civic Theatre was organized last fall under the sponsorship of the Lion's Club, with Rev. C. A. Johnson as leader. Mrs. H. C. Hines is a member of the board of direc- tors and Miss Dewey is adviser for make-up. Limited to a membership of 60, the quota is now filled and the group carries on as a closed unit. Rimrock Annual Out (Continued from Page 1) Annual will be a valuable souvenir with its interesting pictures of the students and views of the building and of beautiful Montana scenes. Be sure you get your Annual! The price is $1.50. The Student Council contributes fifty cents per quarter from the activity fund for each stu- dent. Therefore if you have at- tended E. M. S. N. S. during the fall, winter, and spring quarters this year you will not have to pay for the Annual. Students who attended two quarters will be charged 50 cents, and those who attended only one quarter will be charged one dollar. It is necessary to know how many students desire to have an Annual, so if you have not already signed a slip bearing the informa- tion about your attendance, you are asked to see Dorothy Farris or some other staff member and make sure your name is recorded as wanting an Annual. Miss Stevenson went to Bozeman last Saturday to attend a meeting of the National Amateur Athletic Fed- eration, at which plans were com- pleted for the Women's Play Day to be held there late in May. PICNICS HOLD CHARM Jean Hickok and Edna Cooke en- tertained a party of friends with a picnic near the Duck Creek bridge south of Laurel Sunday evening, April 25. The guests were Janet Young, Helen Wallace, Helen Glad- oski, Catherine Denton, Miss Dewey, Miss Roberts, Bill Chase, Robert Wilson, and a number of Billings friends. Sunday, April 4, a no-host picnic weiner roast upon the rimrocks was enjoyed by a group of first and second year students. Hiking and playing games while daylight lasted and roasted wieners and stories around the camp fire after dark made the picnic a very enjoyable affair. Participants were Lola Rich- ard, Genevieve Brunckhorst, Hope Rockwell, Mary Faye Connor, Viola Bliler, Irene Hand, Helen Friedrich, Floyd Beeler, Vern Clark, Lowell Smith, Joe Jamison, Victor Thomp- son, Homer Loucks, and Delbert Sirrine. Helen Hughes and Luis Gonzales entertained a group of friends with a picnic at Joliet on Sunday, April 25. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bjorgum, Floyd Beeler, Vern Clark, Ralph Loomis, Clark McGarry, Ed- die Gremmer, Burton Caruso, Bus Elliott, Delbert Sirrine, Helen Balich, Genevieve Brunckhorst, Hope Rock- well, Mary Maxon, Betty Franzen, De Lyle Scott, Ruth Toothaker, and Helen McKee. In honor of Viola Bliler's birth- day April 11, a group of friends gave a no-host surprise breakfast on the rimrocks. Participants were Phyllis Lumley, Genevieve Brunck- horst, Helen Holtzman, Helen Mc- Kee, Helen Hughes, Helen Friedrick, Irene Hand, Edna Cooke, Lola Rich- ard, Mary Faye Connor and Hope Rockwell. Sunday, April 17, Bill Chase, Mar- garet Chase and Robert Wilson mo- tored to the home of Robert Wilson's parents near Melstone. A very en- joyable day was spent horseback riding and visiting. Miss Edna Newton of Edgar was the week-end guest of Esther Ep- person and Lois Fraser at their Bil- lings residence. A sunrise breakfast Sunday morning with some other Billings friends was the main fea- ture of the entertainment. Misses Marie Pederson and Mae Pratt spent last week-end as guests of Miss Meek at her cabin on the Cooke City road. Besides the snow- covered mountains and the spring flowers, the sight of a number of vivid blue jays and four deer fur- nished the girls with a real thrill. Bill Chase, Margaret Chase, and Robert Wilson motored to Big Tim- ber on Sunday, April 4, to spend a day with the Chase family on the occasion of the birthday of Mr. Frank Chase, Sr. Mr. Chase de- clined to tell how many happy birth- days he had been blessed with but maintained that since he had been 36 for several birthdays now he supposed he was about 37 now. The number of candles on the cake was of no assistance and Mr. Chase's secret is still safe. Alaska Holds Charm For Tess Dorsch Tess Dorsh, June '31, is teaching the intermediate grades in some northern settlement in Alaska. In a letter to a friend in the Normal School she tells of her experiences hunting caribou in the Alaskan wastes. When we worry about our short winter days we should think of her up there where they turn the lights off only for about one or two hours at noon; sometimes they burn them through the entire day. One thing to look forward to in the spring in that part of the coun- try is the annual betting on when the ice will break up. Each one who wishes to participate in this little gamble is obliged to pay one dollar per guess. In the end the one who comes the closest to the actual breaking up time wins the money. Last year the winner received close to $33,000. So it is worth trying. Upon ariving there, Tess was very homesick. The only satisfaction she had was knowing that her contract would be up in May. But when the time came she had become so at- tached to this white world that she decided to stay on another year. GRADS CONTINUE SCHOOLING Esther Crew, June '30, who has taught for the past six years, has been attending school at Greeley during the summer. She will re- ceive her degree from that institu- tion this summer. Helen Daniels, June '34, who has been teaching at Three Forks for the past three years, will receive her life certificate in June. She is planning to attend summer session at Greeley, Colorado this year. Mary Gibbs, June '34, who is teaching at Melstone, rvlans to attend the University of Washington at Se- attle this summer. Leonard Johnson, August '31, who has been teaching at Park City since he graduated, will attend the State University at Missoula next year. Mrs. Catherine Clark Roach, June '31, will attend E. M. S. N. S. this summer. She has been teaching north of Lavina for two years. Blanche McKinney writes from her school of 19 pupils near Frazer, Montana that she received a broken thumb from administering a certain amount of punishment to a very mischievous eighth grade boy. In spite of that fact, she is still happy and likes teaching a lot. Madelyn Flaherty, June '35, teach- er of the upper grades at Poison, will work in Yellowstone Park this summer. She remarked that one of the teachers said, \I have to work in the summer to be able to afford to teach in the winter.\ Ed. Wright, June '35, is teaching in a rural school near Musselshell. The school is held in an abandoned residence in which the floor is very rough and sloping. He has difficulty keeping the children tame enough to avoid the danger of collapse of the building. But the uncertainty only makes the job of teaching more thrilling. f Dorothy Lucas, August '35, who has been teaching out of White Sulphur Springs for two years, received a position at Martindale. TYLER MAKES BOYS BEHAVE Katherine Ault Tyler, ex-normal, wife of Bob Tyler, June '35, taught three days for Bob. She said it was fun for herself and for the children. The school is composed of eight boys. Before Bob taught there the school had quite a bad reputation, but the boys are well behaved since he started teaching. Another score for E. M. S. N. S. WANTS TO TEACH IN MONTANA Mrs. Lorraine Cates Dye, June '32, is attending the State Normal School at Oswego, New York. She writes that she is getting lonesome for Mon- tana and wants to return to teach here. f Helen Hurd, March '36, now teach- ing at Galva, N. Dakota, writes, \I surely hope to be in the ranks of the Montana teachers next year.\ Matrimonial Plungers Some of our alumnae who have taken the plunge into matrimony lately are Laurine Laurie, March '33, to Ed. Keefe of Klein, Mont.; Ethel Leach, June '29 to Joseph Par- ker of Custer; Gertrude Henke, March '34, to George Hillmer of Billings; May Birdsall, Aug. '34, to Clair Darrah of Absarokee. PUPILS CHECK ERRORS IN SCHOOLMATES' SPEECH Mr. Foote received a very inter- esting letter from Myra Mitchell, March '35, who is teaching at Rap- elje. She has a little scheme in her school to make the children con- scious of grammatical errors. She named many common errors that they should not use. If they used these words and any one heard them they wrote the word and the pupil's name on a slip of paper and dropped it into a slot in a covered box at the back of the room. Competition was created by seeing who could detect the other person's errors when he made them and \put him in the box\ as they call it. At the end of each month the box is opened and each pupil's errors are made public. The winner is the one with the few- est errors. The device has caused the pupils to be much more careful about their speech. Lucille Bird, June '35, who has been teaching at Coalwood, returned to her school March 9 after a three week's absence because of an oper- ation for appendicitis. The lost time will be made up by having school on Saturdays and continuing until June 4. Olga and Errett Moyer, who are teaching schools nine miles apart, near Decker, gave a joint program and dance recently, which was quite a success. They had a variety pro- gram, consisting of tap dancing, har- monica playing, square dancing, etc. All of the 18 children in the schools can play the Jews harp. Errett has been giving Olga harp lessons at home, and she teaches the children at school. Sunday, April 11, Dorothy Olson, Esther Epperson, John Olson, and a group of Billings friends visited the sister of Dorothy and John Olson at Byron, Wyoming.
