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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1967)
The vjrrantonian Vol. 71, No. 2 U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore. Friday, Sept. 15, 1967 Franklin foe in card contest Franklin high school’s student body has challenged our student Dads dub invites fathers, mothers to sports kickoff On Wednesday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the new gym, the Dad’s club will be holding a kickoff meeting for fall sports. All parents are invited, with a special invitation go ing to the parents, both mothers and fathers, of incoming freshmen who are interested in sports. “Parents of freshman and sophomore boys and' girls will have the opportunity of meeting with the physical education in structors, as well as the coaches of their children,” stated Güst Kanas, vice-principal of curricu lum. The parents will also be given the opportunity to see the Uni versal gym and to see the heated swimming pool by night. To add some spirit to the progrom the pep band and rally squad together with the Gendrills will perform till about 8 p.m. when the actual program begins. Mr. Kanas said this about the program, “I feel that this is an excellent opportunity for the parents to show their traditional interest and spirit in necessary school activities, which are all the more important this year in light of the defeat of the school levy. The school administration, faculty and student body will be leaning heavily on the parental participation and spirit through out the year in many areas of the school program. body to a student body card contest, and according to Bob Heldfond, student body presi dent, the challenge has been ac cepted. “After we beat Jefferson five years in a row, the Jeff student body didn’t wish to compete this year. We chal lenged Madison, but they backed out,” commented Bob. As in previous years, the los ing school’s student body presi dent must paint the winning school’s garbage can. “Now there is even a bet ter reason for everyone to buy a student body card. I’d hate to be humiliated by haying to paint Franklin’s garbage can,” Bob added. According to John Stuckey, math teacher and student ad viser, “The Franklin student body, desperate to beat Grant at something, has challenged us in a student body card contest. I feel certain that the students of Grant will continue their tradi tion of victory. “During pre-registration 89% of the students registered bought student body cards. As of this date approximately 600 students have not purchased their cards. These individuals need to buy cards not only to beat Franklin, but to support Grant activities and to save themselves money in the long run,” he added. The contest will last through September and cards will be available in the student body store until the contest deadline. “Our goal is 100% and I real ly think we can make it,” Bob said. A new twist has been added to the taking of the underclass pictures, scheduled for October. An optional packet of 24 wal let size pictures and a 4% x 6” picture may be obtained by those students who wish to pay $2. All students not wishing extra pictures will form a separate line and have their picture tak en for Memoirs only. Jack Yeager will take the pic tures during students’ English classes as Memoirs staff super vises. There will be on exhibit of sample photo kits in the main hall display case before the pic tures are to be taken. Make-up day for students who are absent will be scheduled for Wednesday, December 6. The city-wide fall teachers’ conference is scheduled for Sep tember 28 and 29. Grant will have 1,000 teachers on the first day of the conference. The city will be divided in half for the conference. While one half of the city teachers are in conference, the other half will be teaching regu lar classes. The next day the whole thing is reversed. Since Grant hosts the teach ers on Thursday, and due to the fact that all the classrooms will be used, school will be dismissed for the dgy. The program for the day is planned to start in the auditori um. There will be a guest speak er from out of state to talk to the teachers on “How Children Learn.” Portland teachers Underclass photos to exchange ideas taken in October in city conference FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS are, left, Inger Burger from Germany and Vicki Sparks from Australia. Both students expressed their liking of the school system here. Exchange students come from Australia, Germany by Jan Kelley Airplanes and buses were the transportation used in getting our two foreign exchonge stu Burger from dents, Inger Braunschweig, Germany and Vicki Sparks from Brisbane, Australia, to Portland in August. Inger left Frankfurt August 4th and flew to New York where she spent 2 % days. She then boarded a bus along with 40 other Ameri can Field Service students headed for San Francisco. From there Inger flew to Portland where she was greeted by the Ellis Jump family with whom she will be living until next July. Vicki left Brisbane on August 27th and flew to Sidney where all the Australian American Field Service students gathered. She then flew to Auck land, New Zealand and then Hawaii. “We had to be checked through customs there,” Vicki commented. Vicki spent two days on the University of California at Los Angeles campus and then trav eled to Portland by bus. She was met by the Charles Frisbie family with whom she is now New equipment, books, filmstrip center added to library by Cecile O’Rourke Adding new equipment and books improves any library, and this year our library has many new improvements and additions. Most noticeable of the new additions is the Library Film strip Center. The center was a gift from the McGraw-Hill Book Company to the school district. The center includes categorized drawers to store up to 1200 film strips, three small hand viewers and one large projector. Two drawers at the top of the center will be used to file titles of film strips, much like the card catalog. According to Librarian Miss Dorothy Johnson, the center was given to us, because we have many filmstrips, students have easy access to it and will make good use of it there. The filmstrips owned by the library cover a wide variety of topics. Home economics, industrial arts, science, English art and drama are just a few of the large categories. Various short stories, how to write a research paper and how to use reference books are just a few of the other subjects. Other new equipment includes what is called the “counsul- tation table” next to the card catalog. The table is to be used in copying information from the card catalog. Microfilm is being used more and more this year. There are magazines for several years on just one role of microfilm. “Maga zins on microfilm will really save space,” commented Miss Johnson. The only drawback to the microfilm is that at present the library has only one microfilm reader, so only one person may make use of the magazines at a time. “The levy did nt affect us this year, because all the new equip ment we’re receiving came off of last year’s budget,” Miss Johnson stated. An estimated five hundred new books have been received, and others are still on order. The library’s record collection has also been enlarged. About our library collection Miss Johnson said, “It’s quite com plete.” living. Inger’s father does work in airplane research. Inger has two brothers, ages 18 and 14, and one married sister. Born in Austria, Inger says “I always think of myself as being Austrian instead of German. She often returns to Austria to visit. Like Inger, Vicki also has two brothers, twins, age 14. Difference in school regula tions and student-teacher rela tionships were brought up by both girls. Inger attended a school of 500 in Braunschweig. “I like the re lationship between teachers and students here. It’s so informal,” she stated. “Kids stay in one room while the teachers move around in my school,” commented Vicki. She added, “We have more respect for our teachers but if we don’t think a teacher is doing something right we’ll tell him so—in a polite way of course.” About dating, Vicki said, “It seems that here a boy needs a car to go on a date. In Brisbane we take a bus into town.” Before school started Inger and 15 other youths including Janet Jump, her American sis ter, and 2 adults, took an eight- day hike around the South Sis ter mountain in Central Oregon. Inger also visited Crater Lake. “It’s just so blue,” she ex claimed. Vicki said this about Port land, “It looks enormous in area. From a hill in Portland the city’s lights all look white, while in Brisbane the lights seem more colorful.” JfampuA, JiafuLfiA. MAKING USE OF the new filmstrip center are, standing, seniors Neil Jacobson and Sandi Gassner and sitting viewing a filmstrip is freshman Greg Lowes. Book areas have also been changed this year. The reference sec tion has been moved to the center of the room and the foreign lan guage books have been moved to the corner by the north door. In conclusion Miss Johnson said, “We hope that students will remember to check things out, because this year there won’t be as much money to replace lost books.” Friday— PIL Jamboree 7:30 p.m., Multnomah Stadium. Saturday— Football, Lincoln, there, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20— General Council meeting, 8:00, Auditorium. Friday, Sept. 22— Junior Achievement As sembly, 10:00 a.m. Sopho mores only. Friday, Sept. 22— Football, Wilson, Multno mah Stadium, 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28— Teachers’ Conference — No school. Friday, Sept. 29— Football, Benson at Lin coln, 8:00 p.m.
