With the close of the school year, the public health work of the county nurses will be brought to a climax today at the field in Vilas park with the awarding of a health banner to each of the two rural schools, and each of the two graded schools in the county which have shown the most distinctive progress in health, and which have submitted the most perfect health records for the year.….
In western Dane the Helland school of Vermont township is the winner ol the banner this year. Last year the White school, of Verona, of which Elmer Gordon is the teacher, won the banner, while the year before the Hellaud school had the banner. Thus, an exciting rivalry exlsists between these two schools which has kept the banner flying back and forth between them.
Each teacher, according to the county health nurses, has been left to work out her own methods of interesting the children in health and wellness.....
Wisconsin State Journal - June 6, 1924
