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THÉ GRANTONIAN
May 26, 1967
In Retrospect. • • •
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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
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Vol. 70, No. 15 — May 26, 1967
Co-Editors .......................... Gayle Fleming
Elaine Wolfe