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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1966)
1 I Grantonian w 1 Vol. 69, No. 2 U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Oregon Friday, Sept. 16, 1 966 College students return to observe classes Hein* Having had no previous ex iiwi|z« We're nv iw Iosinaf ivjiiiy. penence in painting garbage cans, student body prexy Rick Dinihanian, canned himself, is reluctant to try. Buy your SB cards now before the sale ends. Paint is expensive. Local lodges sponsor meets, open for all student speakers Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges, the Oregon Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and the State Soil and Water Conservation committee will again sponsor speech and es say contests for youths. The United Nations Pil grimage for Youth, to be sponsored by the lodges, re quires a 500-word essay on “The Success and Failures of the United Nations,” and a five-minute speech with the subject “Why I would like to make this trip to the United Nations.” One student will be selected from each high school. The dis trict contest will be held Feb ruary 1. The two students receiv ing first and second places will go on the pilgrimage. Leaving soon after July 4, the trip will take six weeks. Students from Oregon, Ida ho, Wyoming, and Utah will be on the chartered bus. They will visit Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadel phia, Mt. Vernon, and many other historical places. The OASWCD and the SSWCC will sponsor a speech contest for any boy or girl of high school age or younger residing in Ore gon. Subject for the five to seven- minute speech is “Soil Conserva tion in an Oregon Soil and Wa ter Conservation District.” Local contests will be held Oc tober 21, and state contests Oc tober 28, semi-finals November 4, and state finals will be an- anounced later. State winner receives a $50 savings bond and trophy. ’The second place winner will receive $25 and a trophy. Ten dollars and a trophy will be awarded to the third place winner, and fourth and fifth place winners will also ' receive trophies. Associate«justice to speak Yor PT A Ralph M. Holman, associate justice of the Oregon supreme court; will be the guest speaker of the P.T.A. at its first meeting, September 21, in the auditorium at 7:30. Justice Holman was a circuit court judge for 15 years in Clackamas county where he worked a great deal with juve niles. His main topic for the eve ning will be parent-child rela tionships. Other entertainment for the meeting will be supplied by Gen drills and by the Pep band di rected by Eugene Kaza. Faculty members, both new and old, will also be introduced at this time. Coffee will be served in the library after the meeting. JCampuA, JiafuiAA, Friday, September 16— Football, 8 p.m., Madison, there; dance, 9-11 p.m. Wednesday, September 21— PTA-Dads’ club meeting, 7:30 p.m., auditorium; cross country, here. Observing classes for the first two weeks of school were four future high school teachers from various Pacific Northwest col leges. Miss Jean Peterson ob served physical education teacher Miss Joan Egbers, Miss Diane Wall was with English teacher Miss Helen Cherry, and Miss Linda Jackson was under English teacher Miss Sara Smithson. Miss Margaret Ritz has been observing Mrs. Marjorie Prendergast’s home econom ics classes for the past week. The observer program is a necessary part of the curricu lum for future teachers. The program lasts from one to two weeks dur Miss Margaret Ritz ing which they observe and take notes for fu ture use in their college classes. Miss Jackson and Miss Peterson graduated from this school. Miss Jackson was the princess and Rose Festival Queen in 1963. Miss Wall graduated from Franklin high school and is now a student at Ore gon State uni versity. “Grant has a Miss Diane Wall fabulous facul- ty and I really enjoyed observ ing under Miss Cherry,” stated Miss Wall. Miss Peterson, who is a senior at Pacific Lutheran university, has been observing P.E. and health classes, She hopes to teach in Seattle. “School seems a lot dif ferent since I graduated, the kids sure seem smaller,’’ she c o m m e nted when asked Miss Jean Peterson how it seemed to be back at Grant. Miss Jackson, who is from the Uniyersity of Oregon, has been Students attend summer sessions with lessons on science, speech Virginia Bailey and Vance classes covered an overview of Hodnett, seniors, attended the science and the engineering in high school summer school at volved such things as experi Northwestern university in Ev mentation with computer cir anston, Illinois. cuits. Students from all over the “The professors were great, United States and foreign coun and the course made me more tries applied with only a few sure that I wanted engineering being chosen. Virginia was se as a career,” commented Vance. lected for her outstanding abil Field, trips were also a part of ity as a discussion speaker, and Vance’s course at the university. Vance was selected for excel He attended the Chicago Mu lence in science and engineering. seum of Science and Industry, a “I had two morning classes and planetarium, and also an outdoor one afternoon class Monday concert. through Friday,” commented Virginia and Vance were both Virginia. “The teachers were all given grades at the end of their under 30 and enjoyed working courses. Virginia had an average with teenagers.” of 3.6 while at Northwestern, but Virginia’s classes were on pub her grades were non-credit. lic speaking, group discussion and debate speech. During the course Virginia gave ten debate speeches, and also served as chairman of the committee who wrote this year’s debate hand book. Vance attended classes that were a combination of lectures and laboratories. Their science observing for two weeks under Miss Smithson. She hopes to teach senior English here in Portland. “It’s a lot different to be back at Grant as a teacher in stead of, a stu dent. Other wise it’s just the same,” Miss Miss Linda Jackson Jackson stated. Miss Ritz, an Oregon State university student, graduated from Lincoln high school. “I came to see how home economics is taught in high school,” she ex plained. When asked what she thought of the school, she said, “It’s big, and it has many students.” Executive talks on achievement Ralph Scolatti, executive di rector of Junior Achievement, will address interested sopho mores at a meeting tentatively set for Friday, September 23, from 10 to 10:30 a.m. in the au- ditorium. Miniature businesses are formed and operated by students in the nation-wide economic edu cation program known as Junior Achievement. Through applica- tión, sophomore, junior, and sen ior students learn about the free enterprise system and the busi ness cycle of a large business or ganization. For thirty weeks meetings are held once a week from 7-9 p.m. at. the Junior Achievement cen ter located at 1426 S.E. Haw thorne boulevard. Corporations are formed, prod ucts selected, stock sold, raw materials purchased, tools ac quired, and the product is pro duced. With the income made from selling the product, more raw materials are purchased. '' boy attends summer program James Jacobs “I enjoyed the course, but wish more people had turned out,” said senior James Jacobs when discussing the Communication Arts and Sciences Summer Insti tute program he attended this summer. CASSI is a national program where high school students can take summer classes at a local university. For a set fee of $115, James lived in an on-campus dorm and attended classes and seminars at Willamette univer sity in Salem. From June 19 through July 2, 76 students from Oregon, Cali fornia, Idaho, Montana and Ohio took regular liberal arts and hu manities college classes. “The professors didn’t talk down to us—it was as if we were regular college students.” Different classes included po litical science, history, econom ics, English, drama, journalism, music, psychology and sociology. Guest speakers at the seminars included local businessmen, each an expert in his particular field, from the Oregon-Washington area. “The classes were taught being open to questions any time. We could discuss any topic from any point of view, and could meet and talk with the professors after class,” said James. CASSI and the companion JESSI (Junior Engineers Science Summer Institute) programs were held from 8:15 until 3:45 with seminars held after classes in the evening. Tnr hr11ch mat*hnrl Hams-at-heart, construction I Qi, DrUbli mcrnou workers are shown gleefully brushing tar over the roof of the nearly-completed science wing, for the benefit of watching students and the Grantonian camera.
