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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1967)
2 THÉ GRANTONIAN May 26, 1967 In Retrospect. • • • lyjearô Money drives seemed to be “in” this year as the traditionally success ful United Good Neighbors drive fell into the mould, followed by the drive to send our award winning orchestra to their command performance at the Music Educators’ conference in Mis soula, Montana. A Universal gym was partially paid for by a fantastic gym show. Of course, our Spring Carnival was terrific! Our football team was the city co champion, but the varsity basketball team didn’t make it this year. Girls’ golf gave us another city champion ship. The track team is traditionally great. Freshman and junior varsity teams had an outstandingly good year. In among the splendor and success there were incidents Grantonians aren’t proud of. In the fall, stealing from the gyms was running high. Ex tra restrictions were placed on stu dents who were in the gyms, because of the thievery. The so-called “race riots” were touched off by tense students who, feeling pressure, just waited for something to happen and it did. Irre sponsible student actions heaped in cident on rumor to continue a situa tion which could have ended the day it began. A good cause was hindered and not helped when students picketed for a raise in teachers’ salaries. Asked by teachers not to demonstrate, a group of students went ahead with their plans and crossed the lines of good taste set by the teachers. Grant will continue to grow and experience continued success and failure with each year’s passing. Chalk up one more year lost or gained, but definitely gone. The games and plays; drives for money and nerves;' the rumbles and bitter ness; the surges of excitement and the grind of disappointment mean another year, and class, have passed through our halls. The impressions, great and small, are left; perhaps for some the desk top etchings will be the only lasting marks, for others an idea put to work will make an impression worth four years. A school is alive and moving, a nine month year is fast and hurried, but things get accomplished, many of which are worth retelling. For many the successful weekend whirl of “Camelot” is still spinning in their minds. It was well worth the fears, anxieties and pressures to see Grant students at their best. “Best” is the correct word to describe two oth er main productions, “The Crucible” and “Taming of the Shrew.” Somehow, school spirit rose to meet its challenge this fall and Rick didn’t have to paint garbage cans for our rivals. Though, later this year, “rivals united” and friendships prevailed as our choir held a heroic dinner to raise money for the Jefferson choir’s trip to Japan. Frantic, peaceful . . . screaming, silent . . . angry, happy . . . laughing, crying. This is the picture of the Grantonian staff. Since few of you have the oppor tunity to see the life of our staff, we thought we would tell you a little about it. First, we have a staff of 16 surrounded by almost 3000 news sources. Each per son is assigned to a position, but we em phasize that everyone works at a little of everything. The editor is the general busybody. On Tuesday, when the paper 10 days in the future is supposed to be planned, he is the blackboard writer. Wednesday is paste-up day and the editor is the super visor. Thursday, affectionately termed as goof-off day, finds the editor watching the goof-offs. On Fridays he is a checker offer, trying to guarantee that every class will receive their papers. On Mondays, the copy deadline, the editor copy reads and counts headlines so that the large white spaces or non existent white spaces will not happen again this week. The business manager is the track star whose course runs between room 203 and the activities office where the tele phone is located. On other days the cross country star is setting new records to Lloyd Center and beyond. He is also the sometimes faulty mathe matician who protects the ad book, and checks each page to be certain all of the advertisements are included. Head goof-offs are the page editors. Tuesdays they are story assigners, Wednesday rubber cement wasters and paster-uppers, Mondays panic button pushers, and any day of the week they are party planners. General goof-offs are otherwise known as reporters. They groan over their stor ies on Tuesdays, goof-off watching the page editors on Wednesdays, and goof- off with the page editors on Thursdays. Delivering papers and goofing-off is the schedule for Fridays, but on Mondays the reporters flock to the typewriters. The girls in charge of circulation are known as folding machines, label stick ers, stapler wreckers, exchange paper stashers, and post office pests. Picture flubbers are the photogra phers. They are often mind readers for the forgetful people who do not schedule their pictures. Our printer is our guardian angel or understanding godfather, whichever you prefer. He always smiles, even when we bring him more copy at 11 p.m. that was due yesterday at 3 p.m. The final word is our illustrious ad visor. Other nicknames include the panic instiller, the threatener, and the coffee connisseur. Broken typewriters, scissors, and rul ers; switched pictures around; and been caught innumerous times without a hall pass should be included in the list. But this is not all we have accom plished. Our staff has published 32 issues of The Grantonian on a weekly basis, one of the few newspapers in the state to do so. We have received top national awards Foreign exchange students recall experiences, miss friends by Marilyn Leonard This year three young people have be come part of everyday life at school. They have taken part in all school ac tivities they could with their busy sched ules and still maintain good grades. These people are leaving when school finishes in June. They will be missed as much as they will miss this school and the teachers and the students of this school. Kanta Mirchandoani, Luis Couchonnal, and Nobuko Inoue have met more than a thou sand people since ar riving here last August. They have spoke at assemblies and club meetings throughout the year and still man aged to keep their Luis couchonnal grade points up so high that the National Honor Society gave them each an honorary membership in the society. Both girls have participated enthusi astically in Girls’ league and have many cherished memories of their good times in the organization. All of the exchange students spoke be fore the Lions’ club and the Kiwanis and. before assemblies in almost all of the high schools in the Portland area. The students all agreed that Americans were different! ?? “I’ve found that Americans are broad minded, aggressive, and always on the go,” com mented Kanta. “The people, of course, are different,” explained Luis, “but basically we are all trying to resolve prob lems in our own different ways and one day we will all unite into one solution.” Of course the students are anxious to get home but they all have their favorite people and experiences that they will miss. According to Luis, “I will miss my friends the very most.” “I love it here! I’ve become attached to ev ery brick in this build ing. I’ll miss all of the students and teachers so much,” summarized Kanta. Nobuko agreed with Kanta and Luis but Nobuko Inoue added that, “I regret that I could not meet all the students.” Kanta will be returning to Bombay, India, but is in hopes of returning to the United States some day. Luis is returning to Villarica, Paraguay, and will come back to the U.S. only on business (“I’ve had enough fun!”). by Barbara Earnest from all rating services, including Na tional Scholastic Press Association, Co lumbia Scholastic Press Association, Quill and Scroll, and National Newspa per Service. “Hardscrabble,” the general interest magazine, was published for the first time in March by the journalism depart ment in cooperation with the creative writing club, art department, and the contributing students. Operating at a loss which was covered by Grantonian funds, the magazine received national, state, and local recognition. Special editions of The Grantonian such as the traffic, Christmas, Camelot, and senior issues have been published with at least twice as much effort on the part of the staff. Summer vacation was cut short by staff members when they returned to sell ads. We have seen our work and effort trampled on Friday afternoons, made into airplanes, and the piles left over on Monday mornings in many rooms. Fac ulty and students’ dissatisfaction with us is nothing new. We are reporters of what we see and hear. The staff is aware of certain mis information that we printed but can we question the word of every news source, or people who change their minds be tween Wednesday’s deadline and Friday’s distribution? For some of us this is our third year of journalism, for others it is the second. We have worked together through over 100 deadlines this year, and have be come the best of friends. We have enjoyed publishing the Gran tonian for you and hope you have en joyed reading it. Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: It has been a sincere honor and pleas ure to have served as the President of the Grant Hi School Dads’ Club for this past year. As my term draws to a close and I reflect upon the events of the past year, I am most gratified by the assist ance that was given to me by the stu dents, the faculty and by the Parent Teacher Association regarding the recent production of “Camelot” at Grant Hi School. As a result, the Grant Hi School Dads’ Club has completed a most successful year. We are most pleased to be able to financially assist in the scholarship de partment, sending our orchestra to Mis soula, Montana, and assist with the pur chase of the Universal Gym. Again, my sincere thanks to Grant Hi School for a memory that I will long cherish. Sincerely yours, John A. Bojinoff, President, Grant Hi Dads’ Club May 20, 1967' Dear Friends: The President of the Music Educators National Conference, Mr. Louis G. Wer- sen, wrote to me recently in commenda tion of the high degree of excellence in music education in Oregon as displayed by the groups performing at the meeting in Msisuola. The Grant High School Orchestra was one of the groups selected as particularly outstanding and I want to congratulate you on this honor. We are proud to have been represented by an orchestra of your superiority. Again, hearty congratulations and all good wishes to each of you. Sincerely, Mark O. Hatfield United States Senator ^Jke Cjrantonian Published weekly by the advanced jour nalism class of Ulysses S. Grant high school, room 203, 2245 N.E. 36th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97212. Phone 288-5975. Printed by Modern Typesetting company with a circulation of 3000. Second-class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Sub scription cost $2.00 per year. Vol. 70, No. 15 — May 26, 1967 Co-Editors .......................... Gayle Fleming Elaine Wolfe
