Ideal: A graded course in music appreciation is offered. Kidder: Bookkeeping is new. Additional com- mercial equipment has been purchased. A new bus route has been established to replace dorm- itories. Lennox: Buildings have been completely re- novated. Leola: Work has commenced on a $2500 WPA school project. Pupil personnel studies are car- ried on in the grades. Marion: A high school band has been started. McIntosh: Increased enrollment has neces- sitated employment of an additional high school teacher. McLaughlin: Agriculture is a new subject. Menno: The faculty presented a 3-act play re- cently. Milbank: An additional high school teacher has been employed. Miller: An additional elementary school teach- er has been employed. The faculty presented a program for the opening meeting of the local commercial club—an annual practice. Mission Hill: With funds realized from a “fun fest” the high school will finance an educational tour of Sioux Falls. Murdo: Instead of a dormitory, students are housed in homes and a dean checks upon discip- line, etc. New subjects include chemistry, ad- vanced typing, Latin II, and business English. Parkston: Band is a curriculum subject this year. Daily instruction in music is given in the grades. Philip: A complete elementary and secondary school music course has been instituted. Plano Cons.: International relations is a new elective. Orchestra, interschool debate and a school paper are new. Two activity periods are provided. Regular music periods are provided for the grades. Ramona: Biology is a new subject. Rapid City: Religious instruction for children in grades 3 to 8 is given one hour a week. Ravinia: A new library and reading room has been equipped. Redfield: 1000 visitors attended the open house day when the new $100,000 grade addition was dedicated. Rockham: A science course has been introduced in the grades. Roslyn: New courses are: journalism, business English, commercial geography and _ sociology. The school received 25 library books as an award 112 for winning second place in the midwestern zone contest of Scholastic Magazine. Selby: The commercial department has been ex- panded to include two new courses. Sioux Falls: The primary teachers of All Saints and the public schools held a tea meeting at All Saints recently. A six-period day is new in Wash- ington high school. Masonry work on the new high school unit is completed. East Side park, athletic field of Washington high, is equipped with flood lights for night football. St. Charles: A 25-piece band has been organ- ized. Viborg: A 30-piece band is being organized. Virgil: A band has been started. Volga: An additional high school teacher has been engaged because of large enrollment. Volin: The school building was completely renovated this summer. W akonda: Baseball is a fall sport. Wasta: Journalism, bookkeeping and biology are new offerings. A band is being organized. Waubay: An additional teacher has been em- ployed. White Lake: The 8-day trip made by the class of 1935 to Chicago last May was successful. Plans are being formulated to make this an annual af- fair. An additional teacher has been employed to teach music in grades and high school. Chem- istry is new. Winner: Students with high grades are excused from attendance in study halls. Wolsey: A school paper is a new enterprise. A full-time music teacher is employed. A kittenball tournament in which 10 schools participated was held here on Oct. 11. Woonsocket: An $18,000 WPA dormitory pro- ject is planned. The 17 pupils of the primary grade are all boys. Worthing: A band is being organized. Yankton: Miss Harriett A. Jenney, former English teacher, is now full-time librarian. Two extra teachers have been added to the high school. Kindergarten has been reinstated and two new teachers employed. Twenty-six of Yankton’s 50 teachers attended school during the summer. —SDEA GoaLt—100% State MemsBersHitp— Schoolmasters: A meeting of the Black Hills club was held at Rapid City on Sept. 27 with Capt. O. A. Anderson, pilot of the stratosphere expedition, and Sec’y N. E. Steele, Sioux Falls, as guests speakers. Supt. H. S. Berger, Dead- wood, is president, and Supt. J. E. Crouch, Hill City, is secretary. November, 1935 e SDEA JOURNAL