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ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. ASHLAND. OREGON
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1952
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Eight Assemblies
To Entertain
Sophs Use
'GriZZly Growl'
The Wheelers, with their two
giant marimbas in beautiful or
gan effects, presented our first
' National Assembly which was
held Wednesday, October 8.
Miss Emma Kasch assisted
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, and the
lively threesome were dressed
In beautiful Spanish costumes.
Several Spanish rhumbas, as
well as popular tunes were
played.
Six other assemblies are
scheduled for throughout the
year. On Thursday, October
23, the Christians, on their fifth
annual tour, will entertain us
with their travelogue series of
Italy and their talk, "From
Sicily to the Alps."
The Trampoline Stars will
be here Thursday, November
20. It is a physical education
feature, with stunts such as
flips, somersaults, and some
aerial maneuvers.
Piero, formerly a baritone
of the Vienna State Opera in
Berlin, and Rio de Janiero,
will be featured Monday, Jan
uary 12.
Thursday, February 12,
Snow Allen, who spent fifteen
years in the Illinois State Pris
on, will give his epic story en
titled "Two Mistakes."
Edward Dudley, a tenor from
New York, with his popular,
ballad, and familiar melodies
will be here Friday, May 15.
Popular, classical, and semi
classical music will be the or
ganist Franklyn L. Beiry's
specialties. As yet, it isn't
known when he will be here.
Beauty Operator
Gives Talk
The Ashland High Letter-
man's Club has created an idea
to get more sophomores to at
tend home games. On game
days all sophomores will carry
a little book called "Grizzly
Growls."
This book will be finished
and in use for the next home
game. In it are? our school
songs, yells, and a few rules of
good sportsmanship. There
will also be a blank page that
to be stamped each time
they attend a game. r
A big party will be held for
the Sophomores who have
enough stamps.
Mrs. lone Taylor invited
beauty operator Mrs. Jean Car
ter to give a talk and demon
stration on hair styles for the
homemaking classes Septem
ber 25. Mrs. Carter is from the
Ashland Hotel Beauty Shop.
Mrs. Carter performed the
demonstration on Catherine
Clark. While she shampooed
Cathy's hair, Mrs. Carter told
the homemaking girls the
types of shampoo to use for
oily or dry hair and the proper
hair rinse to use. Then she
trimmed Cathy's hair and set
it, showing how. pincucls
should be made.
Mrs. Taylor said the home-
making girls were most atten
tive and enjoyed the demon
stration very much.
Recreation Center
Again in Session
GIRLS, BOYS LEAGUE MEET
Thursday, September 25,
the Girls League held their
first meeting of the year in the
study hall. The meeting was
presided over by Barbara Bug-
bee, president, who introduced
officers for the coming year.
They are Carole Culp, first
vice-president; Lois Downing,
second vice-president; Lee Ann
Leach, third vice-president;
and Wanda Oden, secretary
treasurer, i
Shirlene Folks, president of
Tri-Hi-Y, explained this club's
purposes and introduced the
officers. Then Richard Ltmb
played several numbers on the
piano.
The Girls League, of which
each girl in school is a mem
ber, annually sponsors a Moth
ers' Tea and a Levi Leap.
Mel Johnson, Boys' League
advisor, told of the importance
of god discipline at the
league's first meeting.
Officers elected were presi
dent, Bob Delsman; vice- presi
dent, Wayne South; secretary-
treasurer, Ben Heitz; and Jim
my Smith and Bob Platko,
sergeants-at-arms.
Boys' League will sponsor
the annual Thanksgiving pro
gram.
LxL;,.!
PRESIDENT
CLYDE JAMES
Ashland Grad Crowned
City Centennial Queen
The celebration of Ashland's
hundredth birthday began Sat
urday, September 20, with a
parade, colorful with floats de
picting scenes from Civil War
days till the present time.
The coronation of Centen
nial Queen, Lovette Swift,
sponsored by the Beilview
Grange, was held at Butler
Memorial Bandshell in Lithia
Park on Sunday, September
21. Her court included Nancy
James Heads
Student Body
GREEN PREPARES BOOKLET
TEACHERS RETIREMENT
Mr. Giles Green who is one
of ten members working on
the "Retirement Committee of
the Oregon Education Associa
tion," boarded the plane leav
ing for Portland at 6 p.m.
September 12.
The committee met that Fri
day and Saturday to discuss
a proposed booklet explaining
the retirement law. Mr.
"Improve the school spirit.'
That is the slogan of Clyde
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Student Body President for the rreen8 assignment was to pre-
1952-53 year.
Clyde wants all of the stu
dents in"Ashland High School
to participate in more of the
student activities, such as go
ing to the football games and
letting the boys know we are
back of them. Join more clubs.
Take more interest in the stu
dent body as a whole.
This year the student body!
is also going to participate in
more community , activities.
Entering the float in the Cen
tennial parade was a start in
this direction.
Helping Clyde in these ac
tivities will be the executive
officers of the student body
who are Harvey Woods, first
vice president; Ted Tenney,
second vice' president; Lee Ann
Leach, third vice president;
Nancy Dunkeson, secretary;
Barbara Rensfield, treasurer,
and Ben Heitz, athletic treas
urer.
pare the booklet for the com
mittee. He was complimented
by the committee very highly
on his work. The booklet was
made attractive with cartoon
drawings by Mr. Phil Lindley.
Five Instructors
New to Ashland
New Students Come
From Many States
Y.M.C.A. Swing Center re
opened Saturday, September
20. at 8:00.
This recreation center for
young people of high school
age is open every Saturday
night throughout the school
year. In the game room there
are ping-pong tables, amateur
billiard tables and shuffle
board. There is dancing upstairs.
Swing Center was begun
about 7 months ago and has
.been a well-organized recrea
tion hall ever since.
Admission is 25 cents per
person the first night and 10
cents every night thereafter.
There are more new students
this year than ever before in
the history of Ashland High
School. They come from ten
different states and Hawaii.
The largest group moved to
Ashland from other parts of
our own state. Those from Ore
gon include: Karl Burt, Med
ford; Garrie Byington, Lake-
view; Frank Baumeister, Un
ity; Betty Cheek, Eagle Point;
Betty Crites, Medford; El Roy
Clark, Klamath Falls; Virgin
ia Eskridge, Eagle Point; Do
lores Smead, Talent; Betty Lou
Tripp, Klamath Falls; Aleta
Tysver, Medford and Bill
Workman, Milwaukee.
California also lost a large
number when eight students
"came north." These include:
James Ayres, Shafter; Barbara
Brewer, Oakland; I r m a Her
ring, Dunsmuir; Tommy Lau
ghlin, San Pedro; Shirlee Maur-
er, Ukiah; Billy Owen, El Ca
jon; Donald Stoddard, Antioch
and Chris Temple, Alhambra
Coming in smaller numbers
from neighboring western
states are: Lester Lowman, of
Woodland, Washington and
Carol Reich, Vernal, Utah. Two
are from Idaho: Charlene Noe,
Boise and Noel Turner, Merid
ian, while from Nevada come
Corwin Tobiasson, Overton
and Clifford Wallace, Love
lock.
Nancylee Olson attended
school in San Antnio, Ttxas,
last year; Janet Saltus in In
dianapolis, Indiana; Darlene
Pruitt, Cardwell, Missouri and
Yvonne Ochs i n Jamestown,
Colorado.
Jimmie Bridges, Jackson,
Mississippi and Harrell Castle
COMING EVENTS . . .
Oct. 13-14, Teachers Institute
Oct. 17. Eagls Point game,
here.
Oct. 20-21, Student Council
Conference, Klamath.
Oct. 23. National Assembly,
"The Christians"
Oct. 24 Crater game, here.
Oct. 31, Kerby game. here.
Nov. 11, Armistice Day.
Nov. 27-28, Thanksgiving vacation.
There are five new teachers
at AHS this year. One of these
new instructors is Mrs. lone
Taylor who is teaching home
living and sophomore English.
She is advisor of the Pep Club
also.
Mrs. Taylor came here from
Nebraska although she has
lived in California and Mon
tana. She taught in elementary
schools in Los Angeles and
Lincoln, Nebraska. She also
taught at Wayne State Teach
ers College at York, Nebraska,
but this is her first experience
in teaching high school stu
dents.
Mrs. Taylor's husband
now teaching at Southern Ore
gon College. There is another
member of the family, a little
girl, Patty, who is nine months
old:
Miss Naomi George, girls'
physical education teacher.
was born in Snohomish, Wash
ington. She received a Bache
lor of Science degree from
Washington State College and
attended Stanford University
where she became a physical
therapist.
For two years. Miss George
worked for the California
State Public Health Depart
ment in a cerebral palsy
school. Last year she taught
physical education in a high
school in San Jose, California.
John Rossi will be coaching
the Varsity basketball team
this year. He also is teaching
boys' phyiscal education
classes and J.V. football.
Mr. Rossi came from Lake-
view where he coached Var
sity basketball for the past
four years. He graduated from
Graber, sponsored by the Ju
nior Chamber of Commerce;
Barbara Bugbee, Lions Club;
Mary Jo Barrows, Rotary
Club, and Pat Abbott, Kiwams
Club.
At the dedication of Ash
land's new Civic Service
Building on Friday, September
26, Secretary of State, Earl T.
Newbry, presented Queen
Lovette with a floral crown.
Then he gave the dedicatory
address.
The final evening was busy
with the Jaycee's "Whisk
eroo," the pageant and a dance
in the Elks Lounge. The
pageant, under the direction of
Paul Kliss and Phil Hansen,
depicted Ashland from the
very beginning, when just a
few families tried to fight off
the Indians, until now.
Some of the other events
taking place during the Cen
tennial week were a big square
dance, an open air "jitney
dance," special hardtop races
and a smoker.
VOICE OF DEMOCRACY
CONTEST TO BE HELD
English and speech classes
will soon start work on the
"Voice of Democracy" speech
contest, which is sponsored
yearly by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce all over America.
Speeches will be five min
utes long and must be written
by the student. The prize for
national winners is a $500
scholarship check and a radio-
phonograph combination.
Students wishing to partici-
ptte in this contest should see
Miss Grubbs, room 28, to get
necessary information toward
composing the speech or for
needed help.
from Leaksville, Mississippi are
from the "deep south.
Mary Jo Barrows is the only
student who attended school
last year outside the continent
al Unitpd States. She came
trom Honolulu, iiawau.
high school in Minnesota and
later received his Masters De
gree at Colorado State Col
lege. Basketball is his favorite
sport, though he lettered in
football and baseball while in
school.
Mr. Rossi is married and
has two children: a girl in the
first grade and a boy two
years old.
Miss Laura Hershey, the new
advisor of the Rogue News, is
also teaching bookkeeping and
typing.
She received her Bachelor
of Science Degree from North
ern State Teachers College,
Aberdeen, South Dakota. She
also attended the Gregg Col-.
lege, Chicago and the Univer
sity of Washington, Seattle.
This is not her first year of
teaching commercial courses
and she also has been advisor
for school papers before com
ing to Ashland. Miss Hershey
was doing office work in San
Francisco before moving here.
The new band teacher, Gor
don Mallory, was born in our
own state of Oregon at Klam
ath Falls. He attended Klam
ath Union High School before
coming to Southern Oregon
College for 2 years.
Mr. Mallory received his
Bachelor of Music Degree at
Willamette University in
Salem. He. then attended
Northwestern University in
Chicago where he received his
Masters Degree.
This is his first year of
teaching.