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ROGUE NEWS
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Ellis
Review
by Itandy Dew
To lie "Smashingly Exciting"
is quite an honor: at least thafs
what Jazz I.ab Advisor Dave
Wight said about the Don Ellis
band which performed here Fri
day. November 10.
The hand opened with the
popular number "Superstar"
which stimulated a lot of enthusi
asm in the audience. The enthu
siasm was sustained throughout
the whole concert and even more
so when the band played the
selection "Stick It Where You
Want It" in which Ellis featured a
reverb synthisizer plugged into
his llolton quarter -tone electro
fonie trumpet.
At different intervals Ellis
would record his own playing,
then play it back. The outcome of
this was a conglomeration of
echoing trumpets.
After a rousing finale, in which
each section of the band had a
chance to feature their fabulous
part, the band was recalled by
loud clapping, whistling and
pleading .for more from the
audience. An encore was played
in which the whole band except
for Kllis and two drummers
encircled the audience and began
their last and final number.
At the close of the concert, Ellis
Chessmen Slip,
Hold Onto Third
Tables, chess sets, people and
score sheets composed the last
Southern Oregon Chess tourna
ment. The tournament was held
at Medford Senior High School
October 28th.
Ashland's chess team retained
its third place standing as it
plodded through the second
tournament of the school year.
New chess club advisor Steve
Newman said, "The team didn't
play as aggressive as they should
have." The general consensus of
the team is that they were
plagued with lack of aggres
siveness and small costly mis
takes. Chess club president Mike
Ligon said, "we can beat any
team in the league if we can keep
our mistakes to a minimal level."
In the overall team standings
Ashland rates third behind
Grants Pass and Crater with
Eagle Point and five other
schools following. If the team can
retain its third place position
through all the tournaments then
it will merit a berth at the state
championship tournament.
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Dazzles Audience
received a standing ovation and
replied. "You've really been a
beautiful audience. Thank You."
Medford Senior Sue Pitts com
mented on the concert saying "I
enjoyed it very much. Don and
Featuring an electric trumpet, Don
Ellis and his band proved an over
whelming success in their Nov. 17
concert. Ellis had the crowd on its
feet and screaming for more at the
end of his performance.
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New Student Newspaper
Begins In French Classes
"Part of learning French
means to put it to use," says Ida
Simon French instructor.
Mrs. Simon started an edition
of French newspapers put out
monthly by the French students
to fulf II this purpose.
Part of the newspaper tells of
happenings and events in the
French classes including the
French dinner prepared by
French III and French IV stu
dents. In the editions put out there is a
continued story, a cross-word
puzzle, a French recipe, and a
poem by a well-known French
poet.
Editor and French IV student,
Amy McNair does the majority of
the writing and translating for
the paper. Kathleen McClure
donates her time and talent to
include cartoons in the paper. To
help in the reporting and writing,
Jay Yancey fills in.
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the rest of the band really seemed
to enjoy playing for everyone. I
think more concerts like this
should be brought to the valley.
They were a lot better than w hat I
expected them to be, but to me,
their songs were a little too long."
The Ellis concert brought in
over $39(10. $2500 of which goes to
Ellis and the band, $550 to
advertising and the remaining
amount goes to the Jazz Lab to
help finance a trip to the Reno
Jazz Festival.
This has been and probably will
be the largest money raising
project ever to hit Ashland Senior
High School, although Jazz Lab
Advisor Dave Wight speculates
we will probably do something of
this kind again.
Even though some complained
of loud noise from the huge
amplifiers, the overall aspect
from the Don Ellis concert was
excellent. It gave the community
a chance to see very talented and
exciting musicians without
traveling a long way. More
however, it gave parents and
students a chance to realize that
with combined efforts, both
groups can come out satisfied.
For without these combined ef
forts, the concert surely would
have failed.
The issues are printed up and
distributed to the various French
classes for instructional use and
also for fun.
Mrs. Simon hopes that as the
year goes by, more French
students will get interested
enough to help out.
SKMOHS:
College bound students
should remember to pick up
their financial aid application
forms from Mr. Mearns.
The remaining college rep
resentatives include Wil
lamette University, who will
be here November 28 at 1
p.m., and the University of
Santa Clara who will be here
December 14 at 8:30 a.m.
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A student is seen enioying music
from the jukebox located in the
cafeteria. The jukebox gets a good
work out from music-hungry stu
dents at noon and study halls.
Jukebox Blares
In Cafeteria
A musical instrument has been
rediscovered at Ashland High.
The instrument, a new jukebox,
recently purchased by the stu
dent council.
The jukebox is located on the
cafeteria floor for reasons of
"accessibility." This is not the
first jukebox to be installed at
Ashland High, last year another
jukebox was removed because of
the misuse by students.
The reasons for installing a
new one were "to provide some
thing both entertaining and
profitable for the students."
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Andi Newcomb and Dave Kuch
rehearse their lines tor "The
Man Who Came To Dinner." The
production will be staged Dec. 7
at ( p.m. in the theater.
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Provides Clean Fun
Where do you go to see exuber
antly happy people "frying" their
cohorts on an electric chair? At
Campus Life of course.
Campus Life is a religiously
oriented club for high school
students to participate in.
The club presents the balanced
life concept of good clean fun with
a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. Director Bob Wil
liams said, "The purpose of
Campus Life is to introduce
people to the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, who lives today. Also to
acquaint, them with the power
Jesus gives to help them live
above their circumstances."
Campus Life is financed by
Businessmen from all over the
Rogue Valley. The club is not
affiliated with one church
denomination but is for high
school students of all denomina
tions and beliefs.
Where can you go to have good
clean fun at no cost? At Campus
Lite of course.
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