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! Happy I I See Pages 5 & 6 I Vol. 20. No II Ashland High School, Ashland. Ore. Fri.. March Iti. I!I7: jtiian, Vol. 2. No II f w x Elks' 'Most Valuable Student1 contest winner are L to R, Laurie F. Jones. 3rd place girl's, Dave Jensen, 2nd place boy's. Rosario DeLaTorre, 1st. place boy's, 2nd. place district, Pam Hotlbuhr, 1st. place girl's and Jeanne Hoadley, 2nd. place girl's. Elks' Winners Named Five Ashland High students won money scholarship awards by winning in the Elks' Scholar ship contest held recently. Winners of the contest were: Pam Hoffbuhr and Rosario DeLa Torre first place; Jeanne Hoadley and Dave Jensen second place; Laurie Jones third place. Six awards were available, first, second and third place for Forensics Team Defends Sweepstakes Ashland High's debate team is presently in Portland defending its sweepstakes title at the Port land State University tourna ment. CLUBS MS: American Field Service is selling chances for five foot Easter bunny. The tickets are given to students who give a donation. The drawing will be held the first week of April HONOK SOCIF.TY Senior members of the Honor Society are tentatively plan ning a trip to Disneyland over Memorial Day weekend. Sev eral fund raising activities, including sales of soap con centrate are presently in pro gress. The group must raise from $500-700 to cover mini mum expenses depending on how much money the club is able to raise. Ashland Hosts Business Contests; Four AHS Students Win Honors Seventy-seven students Irom five schools took part in the FBLA district one skills contests held in Ashland on Saturday, March 10. All competition except first and second year typing was held in Taylor llall at SOC. The typing contests were held at Ashland High. Of ten Ashland FBLA members competing, four placed among the top five in their e wills. Winners were Annette Hartley. 5th in Jr. Clerk-Typist and 3rd in spelling; Shirley Stavros. 1st in Jr. Accounting and 2nd in Jr. Clerk-Typist; Ginny both girl and boy classifications. Scholarships were as follows: First $125; second $90; third $60. Winners were selected by their need, activities and recommen dations. Rosario DeLa Torre partici pated in the District competition at Grants Pass, Saturday March 3. He took second in the District competition and won $250. PSU, the last major tourna ment of the year follows one at the University of Oregon in which Ashland took second place out 49 schools from Arizona, California, Washington, and Oregon. Winners at U of ( included Susan .McCracken. .1st .place junior division expository; Dave Sours. 1st place senior division radio; Sally Eshoo. second place senior division expository. Jay Yancey. :ird place senior division impromptu. Linda Saunders and Kay Yancey took 2nd place in senior division debate, while Sally Eshoo and Dve Sours placed 3rd in that event. Other finalist were Sue Ivie in junior division oration, and New Attendance System Green Slips Green-slips have been abol ished two weeks ago. Under the revised system, when a student return to school he must report to the office, attendance officer Geo. Findlay Billings. 4th in Sr. Clerk-Typist; and Ann Curry. 1st in Public Speaking. These girls are now eligible to compete in contests at the state level. The state convention will be held April 13-14 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland. Also at Saturday's meeting candidates were nominated to represent district one for each state office. Sharon Wallace of Ashland was chosen as a candi date for the office of state reporter. Flections will he held at the state convention. Alpha Chapter Gets Eleven seniors and thirtv-one juniors nave oeen invited to become members of the Alpha chapter of the National Honor Society. Seniors include Donna Gates, Betsy Goff, Mary Beth Haines, Jay Holland, Tracy Lord. Julie Powell. Mary Ann Richardson, baker, and Nadine Spies, Karen Bertelsen The juniors are Annette Bartley, Virginia Billings, Star Brady, Patty Brown, Wendy Degroot, Shirley Delsman, Brenda Gertson, Pete Gray, Larry Hansen, Dan Harrison, Paula Hassel, Joseph Hawk, Kathy Hayes, Adrienne Herrick, Sharon Hill, Doreen Holmes, Sherie Henderson, Vickie Jar rell, Kathleen McClure, Rick Milwartf, Christy Morris, Rosemary Olson, Linda Peterson, Seanette Russell, Ginny Saul, Bob Silver, Charles Bishop in junior division radio. Debate coach John Tredway described the U of O tournament as "really well run . . . One of the good things was that there were two judges in most of the indivi dual events," he added. Tredway also commented on the then upcoming PSU tourna ment. "There will be a lot of Washington schools there, they are supposed to be pretty good in debate," he said. Ashed how he thought Ashland would do he said "I think we'll do pretty well." After spring vacation debaters will be taking on district and state tournaments to finish out the year. Eliminated said "Students should report to the office first thing so we can get the information to teachers first period." A master attendance sheet goes out to teachers first period with the names of students who were absent and reasons for their absence. An update sheet goes out seventh period with students who have returned during the day on it. Under this system, a student does not need to carry an excuse around all day and teachers do not need to sign them. All attendance information is on the master sheet. Findlay added, "It's coming along quite well except for some minor problems." According to Findlay, the biggest problem is that "students don't come in first thing in the morning." "It's also more work for the office staff," he concluded. Teresa Stark, Shirley Stavros, Kim Williams, DavidWolfe. and Kay Yancey. "We re doing it a little differ ently this year," said advisor Harry Wright. "We're asking students to come in only if they are interested in becoming active members. Right now we have a lot of people who never come to meetings, its just written on their transcript and that's all. This way maybe we'll get a more Students, Parents Swap; Symposium Scheduled Students and parents will have the opportunity to swap places during the third annual Parent Student Exchange week sched uled for April 9 through 13. The program, sponsored by the Innovations Committee will give parents an opportunity to ex change places with their children for one day during the week. Hopefully, employers will co operate where possible, and the student will be able to take the place of his parent at work for a day. According to Laurie F. Jones, who is working on the program, "The exchange will give parents an opportunity to see what their children do at school." "A discussion at the end of the week will give parents a chance to air their opinions about how the school is run," added Dave Sours, member of the committee. Innovations Committee is also active planning a "Future Shock Symposium" for this spring. Mayo. Sours Team Up Jenny Mayo and Dave Sours have been chosen as Teens of the Month for February. Miss Mayo was chosen for her work with the AHS Variety Show early last month; she also directed the play "Adaptation." Sours was chosen for his work with the Interclub Council and the forthcoming "Future Shock" symposium. Miss Mayo said she was "very interested in drama" and that she plans to continue activities in drama next year. Furthermore, she said. "I'm trying to get involved in television com Teens of the Month for February are Dave Sours and Jenny Mayo. They were selected tor their work on Interclub Council and drama presentations, respectively. Members active membership." Initiation is scheduled for March 27. Senior members Pam Hoffbuhr, Vicki Kirsher, Brent Jensen, and Mark Wilson will be sen. and Mark Wilson will be speaking at the ceremony on the areas of selection which include leadership, scholarship, charac ter and service. English department chairman Don V'ondracek will be guest speaker at the induction eeremonv. The symposium will deal with social topics and how thev will be handled in the future. Mr. Wm. Lawrence and Laurie F. Jones have compiled a list of possible topics to be discussed. They include the future of Ashland, Oregon, Social Customs and the New Morality, Arts and Athletics of the future. Plans are still tentative but a general outline has been drawn up by Committee members. A "prep" period will kick off the program. Students will be intro duced to the concept of "Future Shock" in class by looking at excerpts from books and dis cussing them. The symposium will follow, possibly starting on a Thursday evening and continuing all day Friday. During the symposium students will attend lectures, films, and participate in dis cussions on w here our society wi.l be in the future, and whether man can cope with his rapid progress For Teens Of Month mercials around the alley. She is now "working on a job at IKI doing commercials." According to Sours, he has been working with Rosemary Olsen and English department chair man Don Vondracek on the organization of the "Future Shock" symposium, scheduled to be held on the third and fourth of May. "I've been working pretty closely with Mr. V'ondracek," he said. "I'll provide mail-order correspondence to get speakers, films and exhibits for the symposium."