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Vol. 18. No. 6
AshUnd High School. Ashland. Ore.
FRI.. FEB. 12. 1971
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Accordions, Sing
Assemblies Entertain Students
The music ranged from sing
along to stereophonic accordian
music in two assemblies on
February 2 and 3. The Ashland
High School students were
entertained by two different
performers.
On February 2, the first
assembly featured Mr. Charles E.
King, a singer who sang several
spirituals. Then he had the entire
audience join him in a sing
along. Midway through his
performance Mr. King chose
several students from the
audience and had them sing. The
students included Sue Doerter,
Diane Jensen, Bill Lewis, Dell
Shaw, and Gary WUkerson. Mr.
King concluded his program
with "Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot."
The audience gave Mr. King a
standing ovation.
On Feb. 3, 'Ashland High
School hosted another program.
Mr. Fred Kir by of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars presented the
Voice of Democracy speech
contest awards to the first three
Silver, Merriman Chosen
Citizens of Nine Weeks
Sharon Silver and Kob
Merriman, both seniors, were
selected as citizens of the nine
weeks. These two students were
chosen by the Student Council
because of their many activities
at Ashland High School.
Miss Silver has been active in
many of the organizations
around our school along with
Ashland Students Receive
Credit as Language Aids
A group of 3rd and 4th Year
Language Students have been
involved in a new program this
semester to help the teachers as
Spanish assistants.
The program was designed by
teachers. Miss Selby, Mrs. Carter,
and Mrs. Simon to help them
out with their classes, as well as
to benefit the assistants and
students.
In the program the 3rd and
4th year students are enrolled in
a first oi second year Spanish
and French class for credit as a
teacher assistant and aid the
regular teachers in various ways.
Among the duties are, helping
Along
place winners, Cathi Galati,
Jacque Leigh, and Christopher
Rich.
Then Mr. Don Comfort
presented his show. Mr.
Comfort's show consisted of an
accordian concert. He
demonstrated the capabilities of
the accordian and played several
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Mr. Charles E. King stands with his singing quintet of from left to
right. Bill Lewis, Del Shaw, Diane Jensen, Sue Doerter, and Gary
Wilkersson.
receiving many honorable
awards. These include editor of
this year's annual, BPW girl of
the term, first place in the Elks
Leadership contest, area winner
of the Soroptimist club contest
and nominee for the National
Council of Teachers of English
award. Her club activities
include secretary of the
innovations committee,
secretary of chess club and is
active in the National Honor
Society and American Field
Service. She was also recently
selected to compete this spring
in the All-Northwest Choir at
Boise, Idaho.
Merriman is also a very active
member of our student body. He
is the chairman of the SSS
Committee, chairman of the
innovation committee, a
member of the constitutional
revisions committee and is an
groups of students individually
with certain problems,
correcting papers, and doing
other jobs around the classes.
Miss Selby noted that the
program is very beneficial
because it allows the beginning
students to get special attention
and it helps the advanced
students review some of their
basic grammer which they may
have forgotten.
Those Spanish students
participating in the program are:
Terry Benham, Bev Brown,
Connie Bulklcy, and Jovita
Chacon and Sue Coffey. French
students include: Mike llagen,
Sue Lawrence and Mike Smith.
numbers, including "Windy"
"Close to You", "We've Only
Just Begun", and the "William
Tell Overture," (the Lone
Ranger theme song).
Mr. Comfort also
demonstrated a special stereo
accordian of which there are
only 1 8 in existence.
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active member of the student
council. He is also very active in
our High School band as this
year's drum major and sectional
leader. He was also selected to
represent our school as a
member of the All-Northwest
Band. Merriman also received
third place in the Elk's
Leadership Contest.
Chess Players
Finish Season
In Third Place
In its final meet of the season
the Ashland High Chess team
placed third out of four teams
winning a total of six matches.
The match was held
Saturday, Jan. 21 in the.
cafeteria with Klamath Falls
placing first for the third year in
a row, Grants Pass second, and
Medford fourth.
The Grizzly team lost 2-3 to
Grants Pass. 0-5 to Klamath
Falls, and beat Medford 4-1.
Individual winners for the
Chess team were Arden Stryker
2-1, Bill EUis 1-2. Kelly Cox 1-2,
Berk Palmer 1-2, and Steve
Parsons 1-2. Both Palmer and
Parsons received forfeits against
Medford.
Chess competition for the
year consisted of three
tournaments with three rounds
in each tournament. After the
three tournaments the team
which has won the most matches
goes to state. In the final
tournament Klamath Falls again
won so they are eligible to
compete in the state
tournament.
Galati Takes Second in State
in VFW-Sponsored contest
In the state competiton for
the Voice of Democracy contest,
Catiii Galati took second and,
consequently, received $200.
The three finalists were
announced at a dinner held in
honor of the IS district winners
in Portland January 23. The
evening came to a close after the
three finalists gave their
speeches. Miss Galati received a
standing ovation for her
presentation.
In her presentation. Miss
Galati portrayed John F.
Kennedy rising from his grave
and seeing the reflections of
people today through the
Eternal Flame. Out of all the
world's people, only youth
Valentino Princesses
Selected Dy Classmates
Five Ashland High School
girls will be princesses
representing their various classes
at the Valentine Ball.
The court will consist of
seniors Diane Jensen, Barb
Krause, and Deb Revel; junior
Pam Krumdieck; and sophomore
Georgia James.
One of these five girls will be
voted as queen at the
semi-formal Valentine's Ball to
be held Saturday, Feb. 13, right
after the Medford basketball
game.
The girls were selected
princesses by a vote of their
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(Left to right) Pam Krumdieck, Barb Krause, Diane Jensen, Deb
Revel, and Georgia James.
Top Ashland Fore nsica tors
Win Several SOC Trophies
The Ashland High School
debate squad brought home
several trophies from the
Southern Oregon College Speech
Tournament, held in Ashland
January 22 and 23.
In the Senior Division, Bill
Ellis and Pat Overand captured
first place in Oxford debate.
Julie Davies placed second in
Oratory. Ellis also took third in
extemporaneous speaking.
There were three finalists in
the Senior Division. They were
Connie Bulkley in
extemporaneous. Dee Christlieb
understood the new freedoms of
today. "Youth did not ask what
he could do for his country
because he knew what he could
do for his country."
The contest was sponsored by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
There was a five-minute limit on
the speeches and they had to be
pro-America. Speeches were
judged by VFW representatives
and top Oregon disc jockeys.
In the local contest the other
winners besides Miss Galati were
Jacque Leigh, second; and Chris
Rich, third. Miss Galati received
in addition to the S200 a $25
bond for being the local winner.
The other place winners received
certificates and medals.
classmates in the Modern
Problems, U. S. History and
Biology classes.
The Valentine's Ball is a
reoccurence of the Winter Ball
which was held annually until
two years ago when it was
discontinued.
The dance caps off a week of
other events including
entertainment by the various
classes. .
The student council is
sponsoring the dance and
weekend activities with senior
Jan Davies being in charge of the
affair.
in expository, and Pat Overand
in Oratory.
On the Junior Division level,
Paul Tumbleson took second
place in Serious Interpretation
of Literature. Ray Bartlcy
placed third in expository.
There were also two finalists
in the Junior Division. They
were Kim Laird in expository
and Linda Saunders in
extemporaneous.
Coach Herb Lewis' team will
attend its next tournament at
Linficld College in McMinnville,
February 18-20.