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Vol. 69, No. 2
U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Oregon
Friday, Sept. 16, 1 966
College students return to observe classes
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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.
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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.
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Hams-at-heart, construction
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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.