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Thefy {jrantoman Vol. 69, No. 8 Representatives to hear speakers at Region three DEMOCRATIC gubernatorial candidate Robert Straub is in terviewed by reporters Lorna Viken and Elaine Wolfe follow- in* the forum held in the auditorium last Friday. Gubernatorial candidate Straub interviewed after forum speech by Elaine Wolfe and Lorna Viken “These students seem to be more aware of and concerned with Portland’s social problems than any other high school with the possible exception of Frank lin,” stated Democratic guberna torial candidate Robert Straub after speaking here at the open political podium. . Mr. Straub presented his political philosophy and many of his main issues to a group of students, teach ers and parents during the first of a series of political speakers. Too many times a candidate will be judged on his “person ality, promise and profile” when the only thing that should count is his “performance,” commented Mr. Straub while speaking of voters and their ways. “I do think Oregonians are intelligent voters. They need to know the truth about the issues which face them, and it’s up to the state leaders to tell it to them. Once Oregonians are in pos session of the facts, I be lieve they consider and eval uate them, and vote intelli gently.” Explaining his political con cepts and definitions Mr. Straub stated, “Politics is the people’s business. The people get what they care about. Oregonians for a long time have cared about the education of their children; now we have one of the best educa tional systems in the country. The people’s concern makes for political actions.” This concern should begin at an early age in school. Student interest, believes Mr. Straub, can be traced back to one or two teachers who have transmitted their own active interests-to their students. “Through experiencing the ex citement of a campaign, teen agers often become enthralled With our political system,” stated Patty Straub. Jane Straub, who is in charge of “Students for Straub” through out the state, is taking a term off from her sophomore year at the University of Oregon to help her father. “Volunteering to work on campaigns is a great way for teenagers to become in terested in government and the JiafuuiA. Friday, October 28— Football at Marshall, 8 p.m. Cross country, city meet at WTlson, 4 p.m. people who participate in it,” she stated. “Just going out and putting bumper stickers on cars, and meeting people is a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon,” observed Jane from her years of campaigning for her dad. To take care of today’s prob lems and to look ahead to find tomorrow’s, is the goal set forth by Mr. Straub. He believes that a politician must have the po litical courage and commitment to f nd up for the people he repi„ .-sents. “A politician’s busi ness is the people’s welfare.” Other candidates for major state offices have also been scheduled to speak before No vember 8. Ingraham works in physics project Revising work materials for Harvard Project physics, Lloyd Ingraham spent four days last week in Boston, Massachusetts on the Harvard university cam pus. “Suggestions were made,” eval uating the first unit of the text and laboratory work, tests, teach er’s guides, and other teacher’s aids. These materials will be pub lished in the next two years in a final, definitive edition. Coordinators of the project are Dr. F. James Rutherford, Dr. Gerald Holton, and Dr. Fletcher G. Watson of Harvard univer sity. Many other people at Har vard are working on the project full time, according to Mr. Ingra ham. High school teachers from Canada and the United States, field consultants like Mr. Ingra ham, attended the meeting. The approximately 60 teachers spent the days at sessions discussing each section of course content, taking a break on Saturday for a luncheon. Harvard Project physics em phasizes the history and philoso phy of science, while keeping the ordinary physics course con tent fairly complete, according to Mr. Ingraham. It is designed to interest people who feel drawn toward the humanities, yet want to continue with sci ence. “There should be more than one solid course,” asserted Mr. Ingraham. He feels that a stu dent should have a choice. There “is hope that the book can be edited to a size that can be han dled in six months,” added Mr. Ingraham. This provides three months of the year where a student could specialize in some branch of physics that especially interests him. U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Oregon Friday, Oct. 28, 1966 'Musical Montage' to be theme of annual Senior choir concert plete the program with “The Water Is Wide,” “Charlottown,” and a choral selection from the “Sound of Music.” Also appearing in the program will be Jim Vannice who will play a piano solo. Gendrills will dance the hora for El Yivneh Hagilil. Soloists include Chris Collier, Brian McCune, Connee Mont gomery and Nora Mumford. Accompanying the groups will be Jan Kobielsky, Linda Smock, John Ewing and Mark Powell. John Salisbury from KXL ra dio station, and Dr. Donald Wood, Dean of the School of Education from Rice university in Texas, will be guest speakers for the semi-annual Regipn Three con ference October 29 to be attend ed by members of the executive council. Sponsored by the National As sociation of Student Councils, the conference is to be held at Centennial high school from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. “Oregon is divided into three regions,” stated John Stuckey, activities director. Grant belongs to Region Three which is com posed of high schools in Multno mah county and four or five surrounding counties.” Executive council members at tending the conference are Jen nie Walters, service representa tive; Linda Davis, Girls’ league secretary; and Ross Morman, sophomore class president. Others are Randy Boone, ath letic representative; Dave Dimit re, Boys’ league secretary; and Sue Good, assistant treasurer al- “A Musical Montage,” the an nual Senior Choir Fall concert, will be presented to the public on Tuesday evening, at 8:00 p.m. in the auditorium. The choir, under the di rection of Wilbur Funk, will be assisted by Lloyd Caroth ers and the stage crew, Mah- lon Read and the art staff and Eugene Kaza and the orchestra. Songs presented by the entire concert choir will include “Amer ica the Beautiful” arranged by Mr. Funk, “Contante Domino,” “O My Father,” “El Yivneh Ha- galil,” “Crossing the Han River” and “O Come Let Us Sing” which will be accompanied by a brass ensemble. “Now Let All the Heav ens Adore Thee,” “America Our Heritage,” “One World,” “Cornin’ Through the Rye” and “Orchestra Song” will be presented by the junior and freshman choirs. Choralettes members Lynn Geschwind, Mary Jane Hulett, Cindy Lowery, Connie Mont gomery, Nora Mumford, Joanne Obinger, Lynn Rossiter and Lin- ternate*. da Smock will present a variety English, language arts, science, Also attending the conference are foreign exchange students Kanta Merchandani, Luis Cou- channal and Nobuko Inoue. “The purpose of the meeting is for student leaders to meet and discuss mutual problems concerning student government,” stated Mr. Stuckey. Registration for the conference will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. of numbers. Included in the pre sentation are “Ave Maria,” “Si lent Strings,” “Stormy Weather” and “It’s a Good Day.” Octet members Bob Blackford, Tom Fenton, Rick Francis, Jan Horvat, Ralph McLaughlin, Rick Moss, Ray Smythe and Bruce Worth will sing “Three Sea Chanteys,” “Shenandoah,” and “De Animals A Cornin’.” The senior choir will com math, and for the freshmen, so cial studies. The test will be given by 95- 100 teachers working in teams of two. Class assignment sheets are now on display. The juniors can find their class list posted on the trophy case in center hall on the second floor. Freshmen list can be found in the attendance office window. Students to take achievement tests Test of Academic Progress (TAP) will be taken by the freshmen and juniors on Novem ber 1 and 2. It will be given the last two periods of school while the sophomores and seniors have the afternoon off. There will be no reversed schedules. The two day test is designed to show the general development of the high school student. Sub jects involved in the test are Exaggerated portraits drawn by art class CARICATURE drawing by senior Theresa White was done in art class of Miss Katherine Cameron. Students were told sim ply to exaggerate something which was hard for them to draw. by Cynthia Froom “Exaggerate something that is hard for you to draw,” was the assignment given to art students of Miss Katherine Cameron while they were drawing portraits last Thursday. “Every Thursday we have a break in our usual routine be cause assemblies make the pe riods too short,” commented Miss Cameron. “Figures are hard to draw and everyone was tired of drawing figure portraits that looked good, so we decided to make them very exaggerated.” Two advanced general classes, two fashion design classes, and one beginning general art class attempted this project with un usual results. The models were all “very normal” and “lovely.” “This project helped to free students while drawing port raits,” stated Miss Cameron. “It allowed them to look at figures in a new way, and have fun.” “I exaggerated the most char acteristic parts of the person I drew, which were his eyes and mouth,” states Theresa White, senior. This was the first time I attempted a caricature like this and I found it fun. Theresa adds, “It’s easier for me to draw figures since this project, but I think exaggerated portraits show more of a per son’s true physical characteris tics than a normal, serious port rait does.”
