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Kjrantonian
Vol. 69, No. 6
U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Oregon
Friday, Oct. 14, 1966
Japanese girl Yoko Hanano visits classes
OLD BOOKS to be sent to various local assistance agencies are
packed in a box by senior Debbie Prouty. The 400 editions are
McGraw-Hill English handbooks.
Worn school books find new uses;
organizations to receive donations
Books? What books? Do you
s'de a book? You do not see ap
proximately 400 old editions of
the McGraw-Hill English hand
book taking up valuable book
rooms pace. They have been do
nated to local assistance agencies.
Donald E. Long Juvenile
home, Shriners’ hospital,
Oregon Medical hospital,
White Shield home, and the
Child Services center are re
ceiving the books. “We had
saved them for many years,”
said Mrs. Ruth Leake, book
clerk, who wished to use the
handbooks but needed spa'ce
for storing CBA chemistry
texts.
Mrs. Leake and Charles Ran
dolph, English department chair-
Candidates speak
on current issues
in political forums
Political Forum series to be
held in the auditorium will start
October 21 with candidates for
major state offices presenting
platforms.
Robert Straub, state treasurer
and Democratic candidate for
governor, will be the first po
litical speaker in the series. He
is scheduled for October 21 at
7:30 p.m.
Speaking October 25 at 8:00
p.m., Lyle Dean, Republican
candidate for United States Con
gress representative will be sec
ond in the series.
Republican candidate for gov
ernor and secretary of state Tom
McCall will present his plat
form on October 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Last candidate to appear will
be Robert Duncan, who is the
present U.S. Congressman and
candidate for U.S. Senate. He is
scheduled for November 2 at
8:00 p.m.
“Executive council members
will be the masters of ceremony
for the series,” commented Rob
ert Gerber, faculty advisor.“They
will be in charge of the intro
duction of all candidates.”
JiafuuidL.
Friday, Oct. 14—
Varsity football at Lin
coln, 8 p.m.
UGN dance
Wednesday, October 19—
State college visitations,
Periods I and II
Cross Country at Fern Hill
park
Thursday, Oct. 20—
United Nations Day
man, decided to make inquiries.
“All I did was make a telephone
call,” asserted Mr. Randolph,
who called Miss Marian Zolling
er, district supervisor of lan
guage arts.
Miss Zollinger “waived
rules and regulations,” as
Mrs. Leake puts it, and
through her cooperation the
agencies desiring the books
were contacted.
When school books are no
longer used they are usually
burned. “People don’t like to
hear this,“ said Mrs. Leake. “I
was shocked when I first learned
it.”
Transportation and storing
costs ,are prohibitive, and the
school stamp inked twice on
each book would cause confusion
betweestolen ¿nd discarded
texts. Widespread use of the dis
carded textbooks is unfeasible.
In isolated cases like this one,
books are given to service or
ganizations, like the state prison
library, according to Mrs. Leake.
Usually the school board passes
such proposals.
“The best way to learn is to
come,” explains Yoko Hanano,
from Portland’s sister city, Sap
poro, Japan. Attending classes
for two weeks during her stay
in Portland, Yoko was the guest
of junior Manon Whicher.
“We know about America very
exactly from much business and
trade. I have had American stu
dents live with me, too.” Yoko
has read much about America
because she has an interest in
the country. Four American stu
dents have stayed with her fam
ily as part of the Lewis and Clark
overseas program.
Yoko arrived in early August
on the Sakura Maru (Cherry-
blossom), Japan’s largest pas
senger and freight ship. The
Sakura Maru also serves as a
show boat for trade fairs and
will be in Portland within two
years for an exposition.
She is staying with the A. J).
Venedor family. John Venedor,
who was graduated by Grant in
1961, stayed with Yoko’s family
in Japan as part of the Lewis
and Clark program.
“This overseas program is
comparable to the American
Field Service program. Lewis
and Clark is one of the only col
leges where the program is open
to freshmen, who can go over
near dnafng their first term,”
said John.
The Venedor family will take
Yoko on a tour of the country,
through the South, Midwest and
up in to Canada.
Yoko is an avid skier, Sapporo
being a winter resort compara
ble to Government camp. She
“Arherican people are expecting
Japanese girl like this.” She had
never worn one before.
Gradually becoming used to
American slang, Yoko uses the
familar terms ‘neat’ and ‘I blew
it’. At her high school, courses
were offered in English and
there was an English language
interest club. “We were first
taught grammar and translating.
We didn’t speak in conversations
until later,” she commented.
There are three girls in her
own family, one younger and
one older than Yoko. Two boys
are living with the Hananos
while attending Hokkaido Uni
versity, because “My father had
no sons.” Hokkaido is Lewis and
Clark’s sister college.
Yoko Hanano
enjoys most sports, but especial
ly skiing. The Winter Olympics
of 1972 will be held in Sapporo,
which averages three to four
feet of snow every winter.
When asked her reaction to
Grant, she replied, “It’s very
big.” The high school she at
tended in Sapporo had 1500 stu
dents, but no cafeteria. The stu
dents stay in one home room all
day while the teachers rotate
from class to class. The only
school clubs are interest clubs,
such as tennis.
Her reaction to American peo
ple was that they are cheerful
and kind. “The students here are
freer, with teachers and students
being friendlier to each other.
They have much more freedom
with parents, too.” She bought
two formal kimonos because
Metal art classes create sculptures
Non-objective shapes, abstract
birds and human figures will be
the subjects for three-dimension
al metal sculptures to be made
in the four beginning metal arts
classes taught by Omer Watson.
Basic techniques in soft
soldering, which are essen
tial to know before at
tempting sculpturing, were
learned first by the begin
ning classes. A combination
of metals such as brass,
brass rod, copper, and cop
per wire will be used.
“I left the project wide open
as to size,” commented Mr. Wat
son. “It can be a few inches or
as big as a door.”
Good practice in working
with dimensions will be pro
vided with the sculpturing
project. Use of the five ba
sic design elements — line,
shape, space, color and tex
ture will also be provided.
“In grading these projects,”
stated Mr. Watson, “I look for
the overall design, various use of
techniques, and variety of effect
the student achieves with the
metal.”
In the completion of their
projects, students will combine
some various texture and forg
ing techniques that can be
achieved while working with
metal.
“In the project I created,”
commented junior Greg Hillis,
“I let my imagination go wild.
This is the only way you can
create something with individu
ality.”
French classes
create interest
with silent films
Silent movies are being filmed
before and after school to pro
mote interest in recitations of
Audio-Lingual Material (ALM)
dialogues 12, 13 and 14 in Mrs.
Anna Tempest’s second year
French classes.
Film has been shot of volun
teer students saying the dialogues
at Union Station, at a student’s
home, in Grant Park, in front of
the school, and in one of the
business classes where the scene
consisted of a customer making
a difficult purchase in a clothing
shop.
Watching the scene unfold on
the classroom movie screen will
enable the student to imagine
that he is in the appropriate set
ting for reciting the dialogue, ac
cording to Mrs. Tempest.
As official cameramen for the
project, second year French stu
dents Mike Reinecker and Jeff
Golden have partly completed
two sets and are beginning the
third.
Mrs. Tempest and some stu
dents have volunteered to pur
chase the film but are uncertain
where the funds to pay for de
veloping the film will be ob
tained.
Language clubs
support UN day
SOFT SOLDERING metal for his sculpture project is junior
Greg Hillis of Omer Watson’s beginning metal arts class. Com
bined metals including brass, brass rod, copper and copper wire
are being used in the projects.
“My metal arts project is going
to be abstract, and using copper,
brass, and enameling for differ
ent effects,” stated Chris Thorn,
junior.
“We wish more girls would
take metal arts,” commented Mr.
Watson. “The girls that are tak
ing the class now are sometimes
doing better than the boys!”
United Nations day, next
Thursday, will be observed by
all the foreign language clubs
and students after school. The
purpose of the observance is for
students to recognize the United
Nations.
Each club is responsible for
part of the presentation with the
French club in charge. Sarah
Leong, president of the French
club, is in charge of the program.
The program will be open to
all foreign language students.
Entertainment will include
speeches by different students
about their summer abroad this
year. Pictures of their trips will
also be shown.
Songs and. dances representing
their respective countries will
be presented by the language
clubs. Refreshments will also be
served.