Seniority reads the Rogue News, Why Don't You? FIGHT LITTER . . . after reading Rogue News don't throw it away on the school grounds. Use garbage cans. Vol. 18. No. 6 AshUnd High School. Ashland. Ore. FRI.. FEB. 12. 1971 lb JLaUU 4i X- 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 S i ' X ilV kU 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. if re Ml - 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 T V. ( A , (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.