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Princess Donna Warren
Princess Teresa Krug
Princess Linda Thomas
Princess DeAnn Meggers
Princess Sandy Babcock
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Coronation To Climax
Homecoming Week
Theme Selected By Student
Council
"Last Night I Dreamed..." was
selected by the Executive Council
of A. U.S. as the Homecoming j
theme for 1963. The floats, half-1
time show and the other de-1
corations for the Homecoming
festivities will be centered around I
this theme. Any organization de- j
corating a car or a float for the
parade on Friday afternoon is
required to complete the state
ment "Last Night I Dreamed
. . ." by telling what was dreamed
and incorporating this into the
float.
The theme is centered around
the Elizabethan period in order
to tie in with the band's half4ime
show which will commemorate
the four-humlreth birthday of
William Shakespeare. Clothes and
decorations used on the floats will
follow the type of clothing worn
during the reighn of Queen Eliza
beth during Shakespeare's life
time. The main purpose of Home
coming Week (October 14-18) is
to honor the alumni of Ashland
High school by declaring one
home football game each year
Homecoming. It is hoped that
this year the alumni themselves
will take a more active part in
the Homecoming festivities than
they have in the past.
Every year the three classes
construct a foat carrying out the
theme of the Homecoming. This
year the theme is "Last Night I
Dreamed . . ."
In the center of the senior class
float will be two Roman gladia
tors. The Grizzly gladiator will
be standing victorious over the
Caveman gladiator. Julius Caesar
is seated in his throne at the front
of the float He is surrounded
by four attendents. Two of them
hold banners reading "VictoTv"
and "Ashland." The bed of the j 1 ire
float has a cloudy effect "Last
Night I Dreamed Julius Ceasar"
is written around the bottom of
the float
The junior class float depicts
two medieval knights (one re-
presenting Ashland and the other
Grants Pass) having a sword fight.
Victory is represented by a "Fair
, Damsel" standing under a canopy
I at the front of the float The
i knights are dreaming of winning
"Victory." Written around the
bottnm of the float is "Dream of
I Victory."
Cartoon-type characters are de
pictcd on the sophomore float. A
1 Grizzly and a Caveman are shown
in the middle of the float with
a cloud behind them representing
a dream. A sign urging Ashland
to victory appears on the float.
Five Princesses Chosen
Five high school girls have
been chjsen to reign over the
home-coming festivities Friday
night. October 18. The senior prin-
cesses are Sandy Babcock with
John Rhodes as her escort; Linda
Thomas, escorted by Glenn Smith;
and Donna Warren with John
Yaple escorting. The junior prin
cesses are Teres i Krug escorted
by Clark George; and DeAnn Meg
gers with Dale Hi'.e as her escort.
One of these five girls will be
crowned as the 1963-64 Home
coming Queen by Ron Boyce, pre
sident of Lcttermen's Club.
Clubs Prepare Entries
Ashland High School's clubs
and organizations will enter the
homecoming parade. There will
be 10 club floats (or cars)
entering the parade. The clubs
are Journalism, Quill and Scroll,
G.R.A., Chess Club, F.T.A., Thes
pians, Girls League, National
Honor Society, and Lettermen's
Club. The International Relations
League will also enter a float
this coming Friday, October 18.
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VOL. 40, No. 2
ASHLAND, ORE.
THL'RS.. OCT. 17, 1963
Bonfire Held Thursday
Preparing and guarding the bon
this year has been an all
Continued on page 3
New Pep Club
Initiated Here
NEW? Yes, a brand new Pep
Club has been created this year
to help promote school spirit
Instead of a small group, the club
has expanded to include all the
girls' organizations that have
anything to do with "pep." These
member organizations are the
Varsity Yell Squad and the J.V.
Yell Leaders, Majorettes, Flag
Girls, and the Pom Pon Girls.
How will this new Pep Club
work? The officials will be the
presidents of each member organ
izations and a recorder and pre
sident of the Pep Club who will
preside over all of the meetings.
These officers will plan out a
program schedule for the coming
year so that all of the clubs will
have an equal number of perfor
mances. Also as part of their
duties each president is to make
sure that her club follows the new
constitution drawn up by the Pep
Club.
Veteran Racer
Gives Assembly
Thousands of people are need
lessly slaughtered on the nation's
highways each year. A large
majority of those who are in
jured or killed are America's
teen-agers. To help alleviate
this problem, a team of eight
Indianapolis race drivers has
been presenting the award-winning
Champion Highway Safety
Top Journalists Attend
Annual Press Conference
Six Ashland High student! I the opportunity to talk to Mr.
and two teachers attended the
37th annual Oregon High School
Press Conference which was held
at the University of Oregon in
Eugene last Friday and Saturday,
October 11 and 12. Penny Cle
ments. Kathy Tilford, and Dave
White were the students from
Journalism who attended the Con
ference; they were accompanied
by Joan Grimm, Edith Morrill,
and Jan Susee from the yearbook
staff. Mrs. Selma McAlaster, news
paper advisor, and Mrs. Estel
Sohler, yearbook advisor, also
attended the session.
Sponsored by the Oregon Scho
lastic Press and the School of
Journalism at the University, the
Press Conference was attended by
more than 900 high school jour
nalists from the state of Oregon.
More than fifty high school jour
nalists and educators spoke at
special meetings. Kathy Tilford,
from the Rogue News, spoke on
advertising and headed one of the
discussion groups on the same
.subject Six panels of adult spe
cialists discussed new trends in
newspaper, yearbook and special
publications. Tours of the Uni
versity of Oregon Press were con
ducted and each delegate had
Inter-Club Council Members Discuss
Homecoming, Petitions, Scholarship
Penalties, taxation,
arts scholarship, and petitions
for money-raising projects were
some of the topics discussed
at the first Inter-Club Council
meeting. Joe Raynes, club presi
dent. Pat Dyscrt, secretary, and
Mrs. Margaret Zwick, advisor, j
presided over the meeting held
in Mr. Leybold's room on Friday,
September 27.
Those who attended the meet
ing were Charles Moore, band
president; Diane Williams, Girls'
League president; Sandy Watts,
G.R.A. president; Linda Prescott,
head majorette; Edith Morrill,
annual editor; Kathy Tilford,
Rogue News editor; Tim Thomp
son. National Honor Society pre
sident; Kay Newton, rally squad
representative; Linda Leigh, FTA
president; Terry Skibby, Quill
and Scroll president; and Bob
Lawrence, debate representative.
Nothing definite was decided
about penalizing those cluhe
manual Homecoming parade. It was stated
that the clubs do not have to
have really elaborate floats; all
that is necessary would be a
decorated car which has the club's
name on it It was also suggested
that two or more clubs could
combine their efforts into one
float
To give the Inter-Club Council
some prestige and recognition it
was suggested that the organi
zation of club presidents sponsor
a manual arts scholarship which
would be given to a deserving
senior each year. In order to
raise the money for the scholar
ship it was recommended that
each club be taxed a certain per
centage on their money-making
Droiects. This proposal is still
being debated.
Nancy Hill announced that
those clubs who haven't paid for
is paid. Those clubs who didn't
pay at the time the meeting
was held were Majorettes, G.R.A.,
Flag Girls, - and ' the Grizzly
Knights. Nancy also reminded
the members that is will cost
the clubs $7.50 for a half-page
and $15.00 for .a whole page in
this year s annual
Before a club can hold a money-
making project, it must file
petition which has to be approved
by the club advisor, the club
president, the president of Inter
Club Council, the Student Council,
and Principal Gaylord Smith
It was announced that two dol
lars will be deducted from the
treasury of each club to pay for
art supplies which the clubs will
be using during the year
Future meetings of this Council
will be held on Friday mornings
Program to teenagers for the
past seven years.
On October 8 in the high school
gymnasium Mr. Johnny Boyd, a
veteran Indianapolis Motor Speed
way driver, presented the same
program to the students of Ash
land High school. The subject of
his talk was "Highway Safety Is
No Accident."
The Indianapolis race driver,
who compares driving on the
big speedway with everyday
operations on the highways, re
lated some of his experiences on
the race track and on the highways.
Caryl Wines, the superintendent
of the University Press.
Governor, Editors Speak
"Hold High The Light" was the
opening speech, given by the
managing editor of the Spokane
Daily Chronicle at the luncheon
on Friday. The governor of Ore
gon, Mark Hatfield, spoke at the
Friday night banquet; the topic
of his speech was "Government
and the Press." Following Gover
nor Hatfield's talk, a program
of ballade was presented.
In addition to the panels, round
tables, discussions, publication
and photo exhibits, the students
and their advisors were presented
with free tickets to the Oregon
Idaho footbal game as guests of
the University's athletic department.
We're Growing Up
Have you noticed? The Rogue
News has grown up. Starting with
this issue we are five columns
long instead of the old four.
With more space we are able
to give you more news and
feature stories. Extra space en
ables us to accept articles from
outiside the newspaper staff;
those interested may see Mrs.
Selma McAlaster.
We do hope you enjoy the extra
100 inches of your Rogue News
The Rogue News Staff
'VOICE OF DEMOCRACY'
CONTEST DEADLINE NEARS
How would you like to win
$5,000 by voicing your opinion on
patriotic themes and conveying
them via the Broadcasting
media to all of America? If so.
join the 17th annual "Voice of
Democracy" National Broadcast
Scriptwriting Contest, sponsored
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars
of the United States. All 10th.
11th and 12th grade students arc
eligible.
The veteran Indianapolis racer
travels some 35,000 to 50.000
miles each year and insists that
if every motorist would be as This is the theme: The Chal-
courteous and as alert as a race j lenge of Citizenship. It is wise
driver ana would keep fti car mto concentrate on orisinal think-
as good a condition as a race ; jng t develop the theme. If you
driver does, there would be
decrease in the heavy traffic
fatality toll which exists today.
The National Safety Council
has recognized the program by
twice presenting its public service
award to the Champion Spark
Plug Company for developing and
maintaining the presentation in
the public interest. It has also
been recognized editorially in the
Saturday Evening Post and more
before school whenever a meeting
is necessary. All club presidents than 5.000 educators, civic leaders.
last year's yearbook pictures will and representatives are urged to land law enforcement officers
not have their pictures attend these meetings of the nave attested to qie value or the
hrh d9 ivt pirtitipae in the i taken' this yr until the debt kouh'il- miy be diabmd4.
I presentation
use quotations, sources must be
provided. Then, transcribe your
script on singlctrack magnetic
tape. Both writing and delivery
should be in the style of a radio
or television commentary. Your
approach to the subject material
should be expressed in a normal
and conversational voice.
Point value in the judging will
be assigned as follows: Content
40, Delivery 20. Original
ity 40. Deadline is December
20, 1963. For further information
contact Mrs. Selma McAlaster or
Mrs Lury S'ia