RENEE DREISZUS LeffermenlE Renee Dreiszus, Stevie Rice, Lynda Rifle, Pam Tucker, and Sandy Westgaard were recently selected by the lettermen as princesses for homecoming 1966. One of the five will be chosen by the football team to reign as queen of "The Year of the Bear." She will be crowned by Joey Williamson, Letterman's club president, during a half time ceremony at the homecom ing game Friday, Nov. 4. She will also be honored guest at the annual dance held immedi ately after the game. Make Appearances All of the princesses will make appearances at the bonfire on Thursday night and again in the traditional parade on Friday afternoon. COMMITTEES CHOSEN TO PLAN HOMECOMING This year's homecoming chairmen have been selected by student council for the pa rade, noise assembly, and dress up day. The homecoming chairmen are: Ginny Lawrence, parade committee; Chris Wiley, noise assembly and bonfire rally; and Sam Heal, head of dress up day committee. The sophomore class will build the bonfire. Debaters Seventeen advanced debaters left today for North Bend and their first tournament of the year. The debate squad of eight juniors and nine seniors will represent Ashland High in eight individual events and in Oxford debate. Two and four-man teams will argue the debate topic Resolved: That the foreign aid program of the United States should be limited to non-military assistance. Debaters alternately defend and oppose this propo sition. Coach Herb Lewis has not made any final decisions about the teams as of this writing. Extemporaneous speakers Ginny Lawrence, Alan Eng strom, Curtis White, and Lisa Tumbleson will discuss United States current events. They have 45 minutes to prepare a five to seven minute talk about the topic. Impromptu Problems of the American economy is the impromptu topic. Speakers Alan Engstrom, Ginny Lawrence, Lisa Tumble son and Cathy Phelps have ap proximately 30 seconds to pre pare for their three to five minute talks. Oratory speakers must have their ten-minute talks memo rized. Mary Alley, Mike Lewis, Juck Davis, and Scott Weaver will represent AHS in this event. LV - .L.,.i L;,L.lrt,J I ii ..-.-J ; - STEVIE RICE The busy week will also in clude sessions when the five princesses will pose for pictures and have interviews witii the press. In addition to being chosen for their beauty, each member of the court has also been active in all other phases of school. Their varied accomplish ments range from cheerleading to being honor students. Many of the girls have been active in student council and class and club activities. Renee Dreiszus came to Ash land from Moscow, Idaho last year. In her first year at Ash land High School she became active in Spanish club and Ski club. Renee is also a member of the Rogue News staff. Also in her second year at AHS, Stevie Rice came to Ash land from Eugene. In one year here, Stevie has found time to take an active part in class and student body activities. Honor Student Lynda Riffe, an honor stu dent, is the third princess on the homecoming court who is in her second year at AHS. She was asked to join the National Honor Society last spring and also participates in Ski club and the American Field Service club. In addition, Lynda has At NB Tourney Dave Parsons, Bob Dorris, Chris Houghton, and Curtis White provide light-hearted humor in their after-dinner speeches. Interpretation Humorous interpretation speakers Mary Alley, Dave Par sons, Judy Phelps, and Bob Dor ris use voice changes and other methods in their presentations. Paula Hoffman, Judy Sessions, Debbie Slapnicka, and Enid Langer also use voice changes for serious interpretations. In terpretation talks are limited to selections from prose or plays. Radio speakers present their views to the judges by the use Plans For SSS Changes Released Plans for changes and revi sions in this year's S.S.S. pro gram have been made, accord ing to Jack Farmer, S.S.S. Com mittee chairman. The six-year-old program is based on class competition in the areas of spirit, scholarship, and service. Its aim is to im prove and increase activities in each of these areas. Last year the basis for judging each class was changed from evaluation of class activities to challenges among the classes. This year's committee has made additional changes to try to eliminate some of the problems created by the challenge system. LYNDA RIFFE led Gil! been active in student council. She is currently chairman of the Citizen of the Six-weeks com mittee. The only princess who is on the court for the second time is Pam Tucker. Last year she was the junior homecoming prin cess. Pain's activities are varied. As a sophomore she was a member of the junior varsity VOL. 14, No. 2 Fifteen Manied To For the second year, the City of Ashland is sponsoring a Juvenile Jury, on which stu dents from Ashland High School and Southern Oregon College participate. This year's Juvenile Jury con sists of 30 members. Half of them are from AHS and the of microphones. AHS has been noted for its fine radio speakers in the past. Mike Lewis, Scott Weaver, Chris Houghton, and Cathy Phelps are the radio speakers for the North Bend tournament. Four girls are entered in the poetry competition. Judy Ses sions, Enid Langer, Debbie Slapnicka, and Paula HoiTman read and interpret three poems along the same theme. The debaters have spent sev eral nights after school holding debates and polishing individual speeches under the instruction of Coach Lewis and Miss Glena Brewold. Last Year The advisor for the commit tee, Mr. John Gray, stated that last year there was no definite program for the committee to follow, and many times no one knew who was winning. This year, spirit challenges are being planned from now until February, and then serv ice challenges will continue for the remainder of the year. Scholarship challenges will be made throughout the year as they have in the past. Farmer stated that the main reason for the change was that spirit has dominated the S.S.S. PAM TUCKER omen rally squad. This year she is serving as Senior class secre tary and has been active in planning the schedule of senior activities. The other member of this year's homecoming court is Sandy Westgaard. Sandy has participated in such school ac tivities as cheerleading. She is also a member of the Future ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL, ASHLAND, other half from SOC. The mem bers from AHS are: Dave Work, Bruce Oden, Jack Davis, Steve Marion, Jerry Hamaker, Jim Williams, Kathy Felger, Kathy Hill, Sally Rountree, Kathy O'Harra, Janie Smith, Beverly Brackman, Teresa Bradshaw, Donna Hunton and Mike Knapp. Wrote Essays The members of the Juvenile Jury were picked by Ashland High School authorities after they had written an essay-type letter telling why they wanted to be on the jury. Letters in cluded such ideas as what the students felt they would gain from being a juror and what good they could do for other students. The purpose of the jury is twofold. First, it gives the par ticipating students a better un derstanding of laws and the way laws are enforced; Second, it gives the juvenile lawbreaker the chance to be tried by a jury of his peers, teenagers, so as to give him a chance to have a fair trial judgment. Operation There are six members on challenges in the past. He said he feels it is important to insti tute more service and scholar ship competition in the pro gram. Officers Two S.S.S. officers will be ap pointed from each class. The chairman will choose his com mittee. These officers will sub mit the challenges. After com mittee discussion the challenges will be either passed or re jected. The class winning the most challenges will be awarded the skip day in the spring. Each six-weeks the red and white grizzly bear will again be SANDY WESTG.4 gCour Business Leaders of America club. Although there has been one junior member on each home coming court for the past sev eral years, this year's princesses are all senoirs. The lettermen arc required to select girls who are not members of the rally squad to compete for homecom ing queen. ORE. FRI., OCT. 28, 1966 Jury the jury for each case; they are chosen at raadom from all the jurors present by the presiding judge, the Honorable Gerald J. Scannell, Jr. Each jury sits in on about three cases a night before it is changed. This gives each member of the Juvenile Jury a chance to serve at least once each night As in adult trials, the jury gives its recommendations to the court as to guilt or inno cence, and as to the type of penalty to be imposed. The judge can overrule any recom mendation the jury makes, however. HOMECOMING EVENTS RECENTLY SCHEDULED The scheduled activities for this year's Ashland High School homecoming include the traditional bonfire rally on Thursday night as soon as it is dark. On homecoming day, everyone will dress up. At about 2:30 in the afternoon is the noise assembly; then, after school, the parade, and finally the homecoming game between A. U.S. and Crater at 8:00 p.m. Friday night. awarded to the class that is ahead at that time. The service projects will be judged on a point basis. All scholarship and spirit challenges will have un opinionated decisions. Committee Chosen The senior officers for the committee are Dave Parsons and Curtis White. Juniors se lected to serve on the group are Janice Asher and Bob Dorris. Sophomore representatives have not yet been selected, but will be appointed at a later date. Both the advisor and com mittee chairman feel that the changes will improve S.S.S.