Motivation: Good Idea Vs. Farce
Citizen of the Six-weeks, Boy of the
Month and Girl of the Term have been
created to motivate students by honoring
outstanding achievement. The only award
selected by the faculty is Girl of the
Term. The recipient is honored by the
Business and Professional Women. De
spite all this, Girl of the Term is the least
effective of the three awards because it
destroys instead of creates incentive to
excel.
The six girls chosen as Girl of the
Term are all selected before the end of
the first six-weeks period. This year one
girl will be honored each six-weeks in
alphabetical order.
The reason offered for this method
of selection is that the girls can include
the honor on scholarship applications.
This excuse is not reasonable. If the
honor is highly regarded by students
planning scholarship applications, they
will work to attain it early in the year.
If scholarship applications were the
main reason for recognizing achieve
ment, Honor Society members would also
be named earlier. Of course, applications
should not be the prime objective of such
program.
Shortcomings of the method are ob
vious. It destroys incentive to excel. A
girl who performed well in her senior
year who was not previously outstand
ing could not be honored for her work.
The program fails entirely to motivate.
Thus, it fails in its primary objective.
The administration seems to feel the
method is poor, too. If it is essential to
name all the girls early, why aren't they
all announced early? By announcing one
girl each six-weeks, the administration
has implied to the students that one is
selected each time. They seem reluctant
to publicize their method of selection,
probably because they, too, realize its
shortcomings.
Such simple alterations in the method
of selection would eliminate the problems
that there is no excuse for not changing
the program. If one girl were chosen
each six-weeks, using the same criteria
on which judging is presently based, the
program would be greatly improved. If
the administration and faculty do not
wish to take the time to administer the
award in a meaningful manner, the honor
must be eliminated.
Seven Join Candystripers Every Litter Bit
Seven members of the Ash
land High School student body
make a point of spending a
minimum of two hours each
week at Rogue Valley Memorial
Hospital in Medford. These stu
dents are sophomore, junior
and senior girls and they spend
their time at the hospital work
ing as members of the Junior
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ODD JOBS such as making beds
are performed by Candystripers
Panola Witt (left) and Carol
Tarbox.
Auxiliary. The members of this
organization are better known
as Candystripers.
The duties of a Candystriper
are extremely varied. However,
most Candystripers would agree
that their chores generally in
clude running around hospital
morgues and doing all the dirty
jobs nobody else in the place
ROGUE NEWS
Published twelve timet yearly by the
journalism class of Ashland High School.
Editor-in-chiet &inny Lawrence
Assistant editor . Julie Co
Advertising managers .. Sally Rountree
Carolyn Andrews
Business manager Cynthia Ingle
Photographer .... Mel Clements
Sports editor John Lindow
Feature editor Renee Dreiszus
Reporters Ann Colwell, David Cox,
Alan Engstrom, Jon Gray. Lydea
Greene, Steve Hogert, Judy Hare,
Deon Kirsch, Tracy McDonald,
Noncy Stroup, Barboro Swink, and
Dave Work.
will do. Each member of the
Ashland chapter of Candies has
a different and interesting job
to perform.
AHS Hospital Auxiliary mem
bers are: Donna Brackman,
sophomore; Bev Brackman, Enid
Langer, Carol Tarbox, and Pan
Witt, juniors; Jan Gray and
Kathy O'Hara, seniors.
Candystripers generally do
very reasonable things in very
normal places. At the moment
Donna is the only member with
an unusual sounding job. Donna
is working in pathology where
she files papers. Pan and Carol
operate a veritable "Shop on
Wheels" as a service to patients
and a source of income for hos
pital projects such as Rogue
Valley's new cancer treatment
center. Enid works at the hos
pital information desk where
she answers questions about pa
tients' conditions and about the
hospital in general. Bev works
in the hospital gift shop which
offers gifts to visitors and, like
the "Shop on Wheels," supplies
an income for the hospital. Jan
works in the snack bar which
WITH ANNIE
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High schools around the state
celebrate homecoming in differ
ent ways.
At Newberg High School each
class constructs a throne. The
best throne is then used for the
Queen.
South Umpqua students com
bine the efforts of all the classes
to build the queen's float.
Lincoln High does not select
a Homecoming Queen. They do
instead choose a girl to reign
as queen over all of the foot
ball season.
At Coquille High a tug-of-war
is held between the Juniors and
Sophomores. The winner of this
competition goes on to meet the
Seniors.
CANDYSTRIPERS from AHS
all enjoy working with the chil
dren in the pediatrics depart
ment. Posing are (I. to r.) Bev
Brackman, Kathy O'Hara, and
Jan Gray with Rodney Nygren,
a young patient at the hospital.
operates on the same principle.
Kathy's job is a service known
as "Bedtime Snack" which offers
drinks and food to the patients
free of charge at bedtime.
The Candystripers work close
ly with the patients in the pedi
atrics department which is the
favorite service of all of the
girls. In this service the girls
help the nurses by feeding, en
tertaining, and quieting the
children.
The girls change jobs three
times each year, in January,
June and September. At the
present time there are only
seven members from Ashland as
compared to approximately 60
Medford members and a total of
15 Candystripers coming from
Phoenix, Central Point, and
Rogue River.
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ASHLAND
SANITARY
SERVICE
A short time ago Ashland High School students were pre
sented with the possibility of a closed campus unless the litter
situation was improved. The problem seems to be that a lot of
students prefer eating anywhere but in the cafeteria. And where
they do eat, they leave a mess.
The cafeteria is not a very pleasant spot to eat lunch. The
lunch line is crowded and slow moving. There is not a wide variety
of food offered. The lunchroom itself is cold and drafty. The
benches and chairs are uncomfortable and squeezed together. The
colder weather will send more people inside, where the prob
lems, if left unchanged, will multiply until a new school cafe
teria is constructed.
However, the problem of student littering still remains. If
everyone would just take a little more time and effort to make
sure is own garbage reached a container, the problem would be
solved. Unconscious litterers who throw and miss the cans, or
who empty the remains of their lunches in the parking lot or in
the halls would only need to be reminded by fellow students to
do their part in keeping our grounds clean. It never hurts to
show the community just how much pride students have in the
school.
The new cafeteria will solve many problems when it is con
structed. However, the administration and the students can im
prove the present cafeteria for its remaining use. The administra
tion and the student council of North Bend High School purchased
a juke box for their cafeteria. It provides continuous entertain
ment for the students' enjoyment. Similar cooperation could
make our cafeteria a much more enjoyable place in which to eat.
Bruins9 Doin's
GIRLS' LEAGUE
The Girls' League is continu
ing their annual candy sale
through December 9.
STUDENT COUNCIL
The student council is in the
middle of making plans for a
Christmas toy drive. This is be
ing held in connection with the
Ashland Fire Department's an
nual Christmas toy drive.
STUDENT BODY
Several members of A.H.S.
student body took an excursion
to Mt. Grizzly Saturday, October
29 to repair the A which had
earlier been changed to an H
by unknown persons.
FLAG GIRLS
The Flag Girls will be per
forming in the Veterans' Day
Parade in Medford, Nov. 11.
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