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JAN. 19, 1962
Ashland Students
Honored by BPW
Joy Farenhurst and Janet
Miller were special guests re
cently at the meeting of the
Ashland Business and Professional
Women's Club. Joy received the
honor of being chosen "Girl-of-the-Six-Weeks"
for the first six
weeks period, and Janet received
the award for the second six-weeks.
Mrs. Carl Peterson introduced
the two girls and they were given
the "Girl-of-the-Six-Weeks"' pin.
The girls were chosen on the basis
of scholarship, leadership, and
career advancement.
There will be six girls chosen
throughout the year for this
award. At the end of the year, a
special tea will be given in honor
of the six girls and a "Girl-of-the-
Year" will be chosen.
The president of the BPW is
Mrs. Jacqueline Lewis, Ashland
High School's office secretary.
Mrs. Carl Peterson is the chair
man of this project.
Manager of KMED
Talks to Students
Mr. Ray Johnson, General
Manager of KMED radio and
televison stations, talked to the
journalism class on December 21
about careers in radio and television.
Some of the advantages of
working in broadcasting, accord
ing to Mr. Johnson, is that it
is nice work, good pay, personal
satisfaction, work helps unfort
unate, and there is the glamour
of show business.
Radio has opportunities in
announcing, programming and
production, creative writing, ac
counting, sales, and traffic control.
Television has opportunity in
commercial artistry, directing,
producing, film directing, and for
cameramen.
Mr. Johnson ended his talk by
saying that a person who is in
terested in working in radio or
television will eventually do every-
think from sweeping floors to
broadcasting.
Yvonne Nicolsen's home in Pretoria, South Africa
Foreign Student Changes
Opinion of United States
Joy Farenhurst
Receives Award
On December 5, 1961, more
than 406.000 senior girls in high
schools across the nation took
an examination of Homemaking
Knowledge and Apptitudes spon
sored by General Mills.
Joy Farenhurst is the winner
in Ashland High School in the
1962 Betty Crocker Search for the
American Homemaker of Tomor
row. She achieved the highest
score in the examination taken by
the senior girls Decembcr5. Joy
receives a Homemaker of Tomor
row pin, a badge of honor sym
bolizing that "Home is Where the
Heart Is," and a copy of "Betty
Crocker's Guide to Homemaking.
She becomes eligible now along
with winners in other state high
schools, for the title of "State
Homemaker of Tomorrow."
The knowledge and attitute
test, prepared and scored by
Science Research Associates, Chic
ago, is the basis for selection of
local and state winners with per
sonal observation and interviews
serving as factors in national
judging.
The girl named State Home-
maker of Tomorrow is provided
with a $1,500 scholarship by Gen
eral Mills. The state runner-up
will receive a $500 scholarship,
In addition, she and her school
advisor. Miss McLarman, will join
with other state winners in an
expense-paid educational tour of
New York City, W ashington. D.C.,
and Colonial Williamsburg, Vir
ginia. At Williamsburg the 1962
AU-American Homemaker of To
morrow will be named.
First place winner on the
national level will have her
scholarship raised to $5,000 with
second, third and fourth place
winners being granted scholar
ships of $4,000,$3,000 and $2,000
respectively.
Last year the winner of the
contest in Ashland High School
was Betty McDonald who also
placed tenth in state competition.
An all-time high in enrollment
was reached in the 1962 Betty
Crocker Search with 406,132 girls
12,872 schools participating.
The program now is in its eighth
year. By the end of this year,
more than two and a half million
girls will have participated and
scholarship awards will have
totaled more than three quarters
of a million dollars.
"I expected Americans to be
a lot of gum-chewing, talking
people," states Yvonne Nicolson,
Ashland High School's first
foreign exchange student, who
comes to us from Pretoria, South
Africa. "I was wrong about the
gum-chewing, but right about the
talking."
In the four and one-half
months that Yvonne has lived
the United States she has
changed many of her precon
ceived opinions about America.
She reports that she was amazed
find that the West was so
civilized. This was not the im
pression she received from Amer
ican movies. "I expected that
there would be more Indians and
fewer white people," she says.
Yvonne has noted several dif
ferences between the United
States and South Africa that she
had not anticipated. The first
difference is in the homes of the
two countries. "American homes
are more well-equipped with
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Fries with whom Yvonne makes
her American homo. In Pretoria,
she also has a thirteen-year old
sister.
She has noticed no outstanding
differences in family life between
the two countries, but pointed out
that Christmas seemed quite dif
ferent to her here, because Pre
toria is experiencing her summer
season at Christmas and it is cool
in America.
Future Plans
After graduation in June.
Yvonne, Mr. and Mrs. Fries, and
daughters, Judy and Diane, plan
to make an extensive tour of the
United States. Upon completion of
this trip, she will fly back to
Europe, and then to South Africa.
Other plans remain undecided.
Students Attend
IRL Conference
Joy Farenhurst, winner of the
Future Homemaker'! Award
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kithchen conveniences than those
in South Africa," she has ob
served. There is little difference, how
ever, in the exterior of the homes.
She describes her home in South
Africa as "situated on a slope of
one of the many hills over which
the city has spread. The two-
acre garden is gently landscaped
with rolling lawns and rambling
rockeries. In spring and summer
it is especially beautiful when the
flowering shrubs, fruit trees, and
extensive rose gardens are in
bloom. In the front garden we
have a lovely little fishpond,
nestling in the nook of a rockery.
The house itself is a large, double
storied home, and has a thatched
roof that makes it cool in the
ummer." Yvonne's home is pictur
ed above.
Comparison of Family Life
Since she has a thirteen year
old "sister" both in the United
States and in South Africa,
Yvonne feels more at home in her
environment here. Her "sister" in
the United States is Diane Benson,
On Saturday, January 6, 1962,
the regional I.R.L. Conference
was held at Medford, Oregon. The
main topic of discussion was:
"Is effective and reliable dis
armament or arms control poss
ible and desirable in the interest
of the United States?"
About 140 members of 12
different school in the state
attended. Students attending the
conference from Ashland were:
Charles Hillestad, who served as
chairman; Galen Robcrson,
Margie Moore. Geri Kodgcrs,
Doree Woodcll, and Yvonne
Nicolson.
At the conference, the students
ate lunch, saw a film, heard a
guest speaker, Mr. Robert Curry,
and attended two roundtable dis
cussions. As a summary of the
conference, everyone assembled
to hear Mr. Curry give criticism
on the topic and the conference.
I.R.L. club members are now
preparing for the Slate Con
ference, which is to be held in
Eugene at the University of Ore
gon on February 23 and 24.
Semester Examinations Here Again
If students of Ashland Hign 1 were given yesterday, January 18,
School have been sharper than) 1962 and are being given today,
usual, it's because they have been .Friday, January 19, 1962.
eating razor blades for the last Students are required to have
few days. The students have 'knowledge that dates back to the
been sharpening up for the last j beginning of the school year,
few days, because semester tests j September 11, 1962.