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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1967)
The ¡f'ï't yjrantonian % Vol. 70, No. 1 U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore. Friday, Jan. 27, 1967 Commercial art, stage arts classes plan backdrop scenes for Shakespeare play Art designs are now being considered for the back drops in the upcoming Camelot production. There are three back drops to be painted by the stage arts classes. Ma.hlon Read’s commercial arts class will sketch out the basic designs and then will hand them over to the stage arts Science faculty plan parent-teacher tours of new science wing An open house will be held in the new science wing Febrjiary 2, to commemo rate the opening of Grant’s newest learn ing facility. “The parents expressed interest in the new building at the fall open house. The science teachers felt that in some way they would like to show the parents and teachers the new building,” stated Mr. Clarence Beyer, science teacher. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. the faculty will be given a tour of the building with its various functions being explained. Visi tors will include special guests including former principal Harold Kleiner and members of the Reed college faculty. Then at 7:30 in the evening, all the par ents of chemistry or biology students will be invited and will also be given a tour. “We hope this will provide a chance to answer some of the parents’ questions about our new wing,” stated chemistry teacher Loren Studer. “The parents will enjoy it; something new is always interesting to everyone,” commented junior Ron Marrs. Refreshments will be served at both sessions. Five senior musicians to perform in Missoula at educator convention Five senior musicians have been se lected to perform in the All-Northwest orchestra. Competition for membership involved six states in the Pacific North west. Those chosen were Linda Small, trom bone player and recent winner of the Portland Junior Symphony’s solo con test; Pat Kroboth, viola, junior symphony member and winner of last year’s state viola competition in Oregon; Edie Ben nett, violin, junior symphony member and concert mistress of the Grant high school orchestra. Also chosen were Jean McMenemy, violin, junior symphony member and as sistant concert mistress, and Judy Wood ward, cello, member of the junior sym phony preparatory orchestra and princi pal cellist of the Grant high orchestra. These five were judged according to their individual tape recordings of scales, required selections from method books and a solo repertoire. Their first performance with the All Northwest orchestra will be at the con vention of the Northwest Division of Na tional Music Educators in Missoula, Mon tana, March 29-April 1, which is the des tination of the Grant high orchestra upon invitation. When the orchestra arrives, they will begin the three and one-half day practice session which will prepare them for the final night of the convention, when the group will perform. The members of the orchestra will stay in the homes of fellow musicians in Missoula. The five selected for All-Northwest orchestra will also play with the Grant orchestra. class, who will transfer the designs to the back drops. The main “themes” for the back drops are a castle scene, an enchanted forest, and a great hall. The back wall of the stage has been painted blue to be used as the basic sky drop for the scenes. The back drops which are left to do all average about 36 feet by 25 feet. Mrs. Betty Foster, stage arts instructor, has divided the class up so that there are 12 people working on a back drop at a time and each person will work on two of the drops. With each drop being at least 36 feet by 25 feet and three more drops to do, you can figure it out—it’s going to be a lot of painting in square yards, which means a lot of work for those kids,” com mented Mrs. Foster. New meetings planned to orient eighth graders in preparatory program As part of the Bridge-the-Gap pro gram, designed to better prepare and ori entate entering freshmen for next year, additional meetings are planned for the near future. Parents are invited to attend a ques tion-answer session on February 1 at 7:30 in the auditorium. Problems con cerning all phases of forecasting will be discussed. “To clarify any questions, on February 13 at 4 in the library, all eighth grade teachers, principals and administrators from grade schools draining into Grant will meet with counselors, department chairmen and the administration,” stated Gust Kanas, curriculum vice-principal. The ninth grade program will be dis cussed in detail. NEW TEACHERS for the second semester are left, Mrs. Barbara Moen and Mrs. Ellen Brown. Missing is Librarian Mrs. Sylvia Hastad. Teachers, librarian join faculty as new school semester begins by Cecile O’Rourke New additions to the faculty for the second semester are Teachers Mrs. Eller Brown, Mrs. Barbara Moon and Libra rian Mrs. Sylvia Hastad. Mrs. Brown is the replacement for Mrs. Jean Blakely Sherwood in the business education department. She is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran university and has taught in Wash ington and Oregon. Previous to her present position, she substituted for a year. When asked how she liked teaching here, she commented, “I have enjoyed my previous work (as a substitute) at Grant very much.” Mrs. Brown enjoys bowling, golfing, sewing, and singing in her churcch choir. Replacing Mrs. Sarah Smithson Teo in the English department is an Arizona State university graduate, Mrs. Moon. This is her first teaching post. She will be teaching here defi nitely until the end of the year and then possibly longer if her contract is renewed. After being here only a short time, Mrs. Moon stated, “I already love it here!” Training horses and writing are listed among Mrs. Moon’s favorite hobbies. Mrs. Hastad is a Concordia college graduate where she majored in English and minored in library practice. She was an English teacher, but because of her close contact with the library, she became interested in library work as a vocation. She did graduate work at the University of North Dakota, but has not yet com pleted her major as a librarian. “I love it here!” was Mrs. Hastad’s comment. She enjoys camping, sewing, reading, music, cooking and traveling. Journalism competition to be attended by staff Pacific university journalism depart ment and Pi Delta Epsilon, national col legiate journalism fraternity, will spon sor the twenty-second annual Northwest high school journalism competition in Forest Grove, April 1. Representing the five fields of compe tition will be Elaine Wolfe, news writing; Barbara Earnest, feature writing; Casey Coughlin, editorial writing; Mike Hoff man, sports reporting; and Gayle Flem ing, speech reporting. First place winners in each field will be awarded trophies. Certificates are giv en to second and third place winners and three honorable mention winners in each |field. Receiving first place in editorial writ ing last year was Nancy Waters. Second place in feature writing was awarded John Dudrey and honorable mention to Karen Lematta for speech reporting. Sponsoring the contest are the Ore gonian, Oregon Journal, Valley Times, Hillsboro Argüís and News-Times. From these papers professional news men will judge the entries and make selections — without knowledge of school or student. JfampjuA, JiapahA, MEMBERS OF THE orchestra, Jean McMenemy, left, and Pat Kroboth are urging students to buy “Moola for Missoula” buttons. Money received from the button sales, along with the stamps received in the green stamp drive, will be used to pay for the group’s traveling expenses. 'Grant goes by green stamps' joins 'Moola for Missoula' slogan in drive “Grant goes by green stamps!” is the slogan for the prospective drive to defray transportation expenses for the orchestra to the Northwest division convention of National Music Educators in Missoula, Montana March 29-April 1. This drive will follow the “Moola for Missoula” button sale and one thousand green stamp books will be needed. “We plan to have boxes at all exits for full and partial green stamp books, loose stamps and a lot of kids with wet tongues,” quipped Eugene Kaza, orches tra director. Friday— Basketball, Madison, 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Coliseum. Wrestling, Madison, there, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday— Basketball, Washington, there, 3:45 p.m. Wrestling, Washington, here, 4:00 pan. Wednesday— “Bridge the Gap” meeting, 7:30 pan. Thursday— Installation Assembly. Science wing open house 7:30- 9:00 pan.