War correspondent Bill Cook speaks at banquet
William Cook, war correspondent for News
week, feels that reporters should be where the
Activities held,
dinner planned
as drive opens
Powder puff football in the
bowl after school will be the first
money-making project planned
to benefit the United Good
Neighbors. Other projects include
a spaghetti dinner, registration
room drives, class competition
and General U. S. Grant’s birth
day party.
The spaghetti dinner being
served from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the
cafeteria, will be $1 for adults
and students and 50 cents for
children under 12.
According to Vice-president
Jacque Hodges, “Grant’s goal
this year is to include the entire
community in our activities to
support the UGN. We hope that
Grant students and their families,
neighbors, relatives, and every
one will support our spaghetti
dinner.”
Community merchants donat
ing to the dinner are Kraft Foods,
Porter-Scarpelli Macaroni Co.,
Yaw’s Top Notch, Ross Hol
lywood Chapel, Fred Meyer’s,
White Satin Sugar and Carna
tion Company.
The sword of Ulysses S. Grant
must be relinquished by Mrs.
Opal Hamilton for her class of
’65 in assembly October 27. The
sword will be presented to the
reg. room that donates the most
money per student in the drive
on Monday and Tuesday.
A Tarzan scene will be the
theme of class competition. Dis
played in the lighted showcase,
Tarzan and the Ape will climb
higher as more money is con
tributed to the class jar beneath.
Class candids are Tarzans, Ross
Moorman and Tim Prahl; Apes,
Dave Dimitre and Doug Har-
rower.
Counselors, PT A to
sponsor discussion
on scholarship, aid
“Colleges and Financial Aids
(Scholarships)” is the topic for
junior-senior parent night Octo
ber 12 at 7:30 p.m. in room 232.
Sponsored by the PTA, the
topic will be presented by a pan
el composed of Miss Catherine
Calouri, Vern Lowery, Mrs. Elva
Newcomer, Wayne Robinson, and
Harvey Borchers.
Moderator for the panel is Mrs.
Newcomer, who is the college
and scholarship coordinator for
the school.
action is taking place. He arrived with first res
cue units at this special forces camp at Plei Me.
by Gayle Fleming
Willlfiffi Cook, Newsweek cor
respondent who spent 10 months
in Viet Nam covering the war,
will be the featured speaker at
the all-city journalism confer
ence banquet Thursday at Wood
row Wilson high school.
The conference, which
will be held at Andrew
Jackson high school prior to
the banquet, will be attend
ed by 15 members of the
Grantonian staff.
According to an article in the
Salem Capital Journal he feels
“there still is too much reporting
being done from the safety of
Saigon and too little in the field.”
While in Viet Nam Mr.
Cook went on missions with
all branches of the service
but came through unharmed
because, he states, “I am a
careful coward.” However,
he did suffer from a case of
amoebic dysentery.
Mr. Cook was in Viet Nam
from September 1965 to July
1966 and during this time his by
lined stories appeared in News
week. He hopes to return there
The
vjrantonian
Vol. 69, No. 5
U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Oregon
Friday, Oct. 7, 1966
Cast set for The Crucible’
by Casey Coughlin
The austerity of a small New
England village is shattered by
accusations, hysteria, and trag
edy. Emotional scenes take place
as neighbor turns against neigh
bor, husband against wife. Wom
en are hanged) branded witches
. . . and the actions and accusa
tions of a group of young girls is
the cause.
Such is the plot of The
Crucible, written by Arthur
Miller, to be presented from
November 14-19 by the ad
vanced drama class under
the direction of Mrs. Betty
Foster.
Cast in the play are: Terry
Cunningham as John Proctor
with Chris Curry and Marilyn
Best as Elizabeth Proctor, Joan
Steinfeld and Polly Tower as
Abigail Williams, Jeff Perel as
the Reverend Hale and Mike
Stefik as the Reverend Parris.
Dave Barnett is cast as
Francis Nurse with Marlene
Brooks, Angie Reinecker
and Sharon Rosenthal as Re
becca Nurse; Terry Smith,
Carol Barbur and Lei Huber
as Tituba; Jeff Coulter as
Giles Corey and Linda Neil
son, Becky Bent and Judy
Policar as Betty Parris.
Also cast are: Alex Newton as
John Willard, Donna Wall, Kathy
Hanson and Patsy McGrew as
Ann Putnam with Bob Fast as1
Thomas Putnam, Rita Rusen and
Kanta Mirchandani as Mary
Warren, with Kellie Harmon,
Chris Cole and Judi Ransom as
Susanna Walcott.
Joy Lowenthal, Linda Staub
and Casey Coughlin are cast as
Mercy Lewis, Marsha Thom, San-
JûunfuiÂ^ Jiaps/iiL.
Friday, October 7—
Football at Roosevelt, 8
p.m.; dance, 9:15, new
gym.
Wednesday, October 12—
Cross country meet, 4
p.m., here
dra Yoder and Signe Hanson as
Sarah Good. Mark Smith as
Cheever, Dan O’Donnell as the
Reverend Hathorne and Pete
Borho as the Reverend Danforth.
The stage arts class is handling
the construction of the set (the
play being presented in L-l), and
making the costumes for the New
England-based characters.
The Crucible will be presented
at 7:30 p.m. in L-l from Novem
ber 16-19, and tickets will be
sold for 25 cents for the dress re
hearsals beginning at 4 p.m. No
vember 14 and 15.
rlnccne Shown scrambling eggs are novice
VrfOOKIriy CiaSSeS cooks Barbara Bell, left, and Vicki
Isreal, right. This is part of the new home economics course in
food preparation taught by Mrs. Kay Willardson. The assign
ment was to plan a breakfast, make shopping lists and work
plans and carry out the preparation of the meal.
some day on permanent assign
ment because he feels “That’s the
most vital, critical part of the
world today.”
Now 30, he graduated
from North Salem high
school and attended the
University of Oregon where
he majored in journalism.
There he served as editorial
editor of the Emerald and in
1958 was one of 12 distin
guished journalism gradu
ates.
A member of Sigma Delta Chi
national journalism fraternity,
he was one of Oregon’s two
Rhodes Scholar candidates.
He was in Reserve Officer
Training program and upon
graduation was commissioned as
second lieutenant. After 3 years
in the service he was discharged
as a captain into the Air Force
reserve.
Going to work as a reporter
for the Capitol Journal in Salem,
he then started graduate work at
Stanford with a political science
major.
His first assignment for News
week was in Atlanta, Georgia
where he covered civil rights in
cidents such as the Selma march.
For his efforts there he received
a national reporting award.
Working for the San Francisco
division of Newsweek, Mr.
Cook’s most recent assignment is
the Duncan-Hatfield campaign.
Willard Mohn, Grantonian ad
viser states, “The journalism ad
visers feel very enthusiastic to
be able to obtain as a speaker a
person of his reputation and
proven ability.”
Friday Mr. Mohn will repre
sent the Portland journalism
teachers at the business sessions
of the Oregon Scholastic Press
association in Eugene.
Cash, certificates
offered by Lions
in 'Peace' tontest
Offering $50,000 in prizes, the
International
Association
of
Lions Clubs is holding an essay
contest on the topic, “Peace Is
Attainable.” Essays must be sub
mitted to a local Lions club by
December 10 and may not ex
ceed 5,000 words.
Anyone who is 14 but less than
22 as of January 15, 1966 is eli
gible. Other rules and informa
tion, including the official entry
form, are available through Lions
club members.
According to Edward M. Lind
sey, president of Lions Interna
tional, “This essay should deal
with peace; its meaning, its ob
jective, how to obtain it and how
it should be applied.”
Each of the eight winners at
the World Geographical division
levels will receive $1,000, a trip
to the Lions International con
vention to be held in Chicago,
a gold medal and a personalized
Division Award plaque.
Held as part of the Lions
club’s 50th anniversary celebra
tion, the essay contest is to focus
the attention of people on the
desirability of searching for
ideas and developing a plan
toward making world peace a
reality.
Art Staff to teach calligraphy at Hollyrood
High school seniors in a fourth grade class?
Members of the art staff have been spending
Tuesday afternoons from 2:30 to 3 teaching 17
third and fourth graders calligraphy at Hollyrood
school.
Each member of the .art staff will have the
opportunity to teach the fourth graders.
“This experience will be good for anyone on
the art staff thinking of a teaching career,”
stated Mahlon Reed, art staff adviser.
The 1965-66 art staff started this program last
year as a part of the co-operative program be
tween the grade schools and the high schools.
“Calligraphy is simply italic handwriting,”
stated senior Nancy Kerron. “We’ll start
them on pencils and work up to the pens. It
will be just like a regular art class.”
Teaching the class is left entirely up to the art
staff as the fourth grade teacher has had no pre
vious training in calligraphy.
“The children love art work and they seem
pretty enthusiastic about learning calligraphy,”
stated senior Georgina Smith.
“It was really fun. I enjoyed teaching the kids
and I’m looking forward to going back. Some of
the kids are definitely more artistic than others.
It’s really interesting,” said senior Sarah Fry
burger.