Princess Kay Moore
Princess Karen Wood Princess Sharon O'Keefe Princess Jodi Macollister Princess Sandy Hamilton
Prom Queen Announcement Due Saturday
By Charles Uiliestad
On Saturday, May 11, the An
nual Junior-Senior Prom will be
held in the Britt Ballroom at
Southern Oregon college. Each
year the formal prom is given
by the juniors in honor of the
graduating seniors. This year,
according to Connie Felger, the
prom's social director, "The aims
of the class will be to create some
thing original and different, a new
approach to an old theme." Prin
cesses have been chosen; the band
and the theme are selected. Every
thing is ready, but exactly what
is everything?
Who are the princesses? Pictur
ed above are the five finalists.
The girls in the picture were
chosen by a vote of the junior
class. Tomorrow the juniors will
vote asain to pick the Queen
Only Terry Skibby, junior class
president, will know the winner
until, of couiie, she is announced
during the prom.
Kay Moore in the picture on
the far left is very popular with
all her classmates, and active in
student government. Kay is Yell
Queen this year and has been on
the rally squad since her sopho
more year. Seniors voted Kay as
Miss Ashland High School. This
year she is on both Student Coun
cil and Inter-Club Council. The
picture doesn't show it but she
is 5T with dark blond haid ana
blue eyes.
Next to Kay Moore is Karen
Wood. Karen works with Kay on
the yell squad. One of the honors
she won in high school was Queen
of the 1962 Christmas Ball. Blond,
5'7" Karen describes her eyes
i as "changeable blue or green."
In the middle of the picture
; above is Sharon O'Keefe. Yell
: leading is her chief activity. Be-
sides being on the yell team this
year, Sharon served as a sopho
more, junior, freshmen, and even
junior high yell leader. She was
Yell Queen on the frosh squad.
Sharon's 5'6" is topped with brown
hair and grey eyes.
Jody McCollister is the second
from the right in the picture
. Jody.. was nominated for Home
. coming Queen twice, and won it
in the 1962 football season. She
has been a member of Flag Girls,
Pep Club, and Student Council.
Jody is another blond with blue
eyes and she is 5'5 tall.
Sandy Hamilton, the final cand
idate, described herself as being
exactly 5'5" tall with greenish
eyes and light brown hair.
"The 1963 Prom promises to
be one of the nicest and best
A.H.S. ever had," Connie Felger
divulged. The entire junior class
has been working on it for six
months in advance.
Although the Prom's theme
cannot be disclosed a few hints
can be dropped. There will be
four centers of decoration or in
terest in the ballroom surrounded
by "vivid, exciting, and sparkling
colors."
Members of the junior class
have paid $630 which amounts
to about four dollars for each
junior. About $160 went to pay
for the dance band, the New Jazz
Septet. This band will pay the
entire four hours from eight to
twelve.
Some of the honored guests at
the ball will be the parents of
the junior and senior class of
ficers, the school administration.
and the faculty. About 450 people
are expected altogether.
"With all the planning and work
that has gone into the prom,"
Connie stated, "everyone partici
pating should find that it is the
most exciting, glamourous social
event of the school year.
Juniors Gain Recognition
In Debate, Typing, English
Juniors Publish
"Cub" Edition
By A Senior
After eight months of hard
work in preparation for the event,
the five juniors on the Rogue
News' staff have put out this
edition of the school paper.
Lonna Baize reluctantly gave up
her post to Kathy Tilford who
will be editor next year. Kathy
was the advertising editor this
year and did a good job. She
proved that she was capable
of handling responsibility and
promises to be a great editor
next year.
Joe Raynes took over Bruce
Bamforth's position of sports
editor. Bruce was happy to see
the job go. There were too many
bats, balls, rackets, golf clubs,
and javelins being thrown at him.
Joe, former editor of his schools
paper in Menlo Park, California,
will be a big help to the Rogue
News next year. His fresh ideas
give the sports page a new light.
Penny Clements is the adver
tising manager for this edition.
She's taking over Kathy Tilford's
job.
Carol Hunter, assistant editor,
Jerri Donigan are the other jun
iors who contributed their time
and effort to this paper. Their
stories give the paper a new
quality.
Four members of the Ashland
High student body have gained
recognition both for themselves
and their school in the past
month. These students, all mem
bers of the junior class, are
Trudee Lewis, John Siebert, Tim
Thompson, and Jeff Trost.
Trudee W ins State Cup
If you're wondering why a
bright, eager-faced girl was wan
dering around the halls carrying
a huge trophy, it's because Trudee
Lewis won the coveted spot of
first place in humourous inter
pretive reading at the state speech
tournament held in Corvallis,
Saturday, April 20. In the past
two years Trudee has won ten
different honors in numerous
debate tournaments.
Ashland High's debate team
tied for third place sweepstakes
honors with South Salem High
school; both teams had four
finalists. The four finalists from
Ashland were Charles 1 lilies tad.
oration; Trudee Lewis, humourous
interpretation; Dave Lohman, af
ter-dinner speaking; and Dave
White, impromptu. A total of 218
students from 56 Oregon schools
participated.
Junior Takes Typing Honors
At the end of the election
assembly on Thursday, April 25,
Mike Cotton, student body pre
sident, announced that John Sie
bert, a junior at Ashland High
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school, had won first place in
the regional finals of he Fourth
National Facit Accuracy Contest
in typing. In this contest, which
was held at the Metropolitan Bus
iness College in Seattle on Satur
day, April 20, John typed 89
words a minute for five minutes
without an error.
In addition to winning a Facit
typewriter for his outstanding
typing ability, John will go to
New York City one month from
now to participate in the national
contest. If he wins this, John
and his typing teacher will be
awarded a free, all-expense-paid
trip to Sweden where he would
compete with the international
winners.
English Teachers Pick
Honor Students
Tim Thompson and Jeff Trost,
Ashland High juniors, have been
picked by the English department
of Ashland High to represent this
school in an English contest which
gives recognition to outstanding
high school English students.
In addition to writing an auto
biography, Jeff and Tim will
write an essay on a given topic
in a certain amount of time and
will also be given an impromptu
speaking test on their knowledge
of literature.
If they win, their names will
be submitted to leading colleges
in the nation.
Hectic Election Daze Over
By Chuck Hillestad
It's over, but the effects of the i
latest student body elections will
last for an entire year. For two
weeks 22 candidates sought offices
that only 11 could fill. It was an
exciting time for all the cand
idates, campaign managers, stu
dent body members, winners, and
even the losers.
On April 51, the election activ
ities began with the Monday
Student Council meeting. The
Student Council nominated cand
idates for each office to make
sure that some one would fill
each spot. These nominations
turned to be quite accurate since
all of those nominated won in
their races.
Phase two in the week was
poster-making time. Just before
the campaign officially started on
the 22, most of the posters were
put up. Many of the signs were
quite clever.
Assembly
Gum, suckers, and lapel pins
were the order of the day until
the campaign assembly on Thurs
day. Everyone . gathered as
"captive" audience to hear the
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