Spring Show tabbed ^musical’
Commencement, Baccalaureate
dates set, speakers announced
Upcoming events for senior
graduation include Commence­
ment exercises, May 27 in the
Memorial Coliseum, and Bacca­
laureat, May 23 in the auditor­
ium.
Speakers for the Com­
mencement program will be
J.ohn Luik and Bob Held-
fond, talking on the theme
of “Lifetime Objectives,”
according to Mrs. Opal
Hamilton, speech teacher.
Eight junior girls will act a-c
Executive council
talks of smoking
ut grade schools
In order to tell students the
good and bad points about smok­
ing, nine members of the execu­
tive council are presenting as-
semblies at three near-by grade
schools.
In groups of three stu-
dents for each assembly, ex­
ecutive council members
Greg Walsh, Dan Persich,
Ron Marrs, Sylvia Sharp,
Dan Aiken, Sandy Gassner
and Sue Pendergrass are
participating. Ron Young
and Cathy Ortmayer are
also participating.
The assemblies were present­
ed at Kennedy grade school
Tuesday, at Fabian grade school
yesterday and at Alameda grade
school today.
Organized by the Metro­
politan Youth Commission,
which is providing a movie
and other materials, the
idea of talking to grade
school students was brought
up at the spring Region III
meeting, where it was sug­
gested that all area high
schools do this.
Kathy Fifield and Teri Jones,
representatives to the Metropol­
itan Youth Commission, are in
charge of the project here.
“usherettes” at the program,
ushering the seniors during the
processional and recessional
marches. They are: Gail Whit-
ted, Jill Bergman, Deanne Kap­
pler, Sue McKichen, Jan Van
Zeipel, Megan Williamson, Don­
na Fish and Janet Plummer.
Members of the usher
squad, under the direction
of Mrs. Eileen Donnell, will
usher the spectators;
Rehearsals for Commence­
ment are being held May 24 in
the new gym and the morning
of May 27 at the coliseum.
The Parent-Teacher Associa­
tion is holding a reception for
seniors and their parents in the
library after the service.
“Special seats will be held for
Commencement for parenté un­
til 7:50, at which time they Will
be opened to the general pub­
lic,” stated Vice-Principal Mrs.
Melva Anderson.
SINGING “Meet Me In St. Louis,” members of the Choralettes
and the Octet practice for the annual Dad’s Club Spring Show,
to be presented next Friday and Saturday evenings in the audi­
torium.
Grantonian
Vol. 72, No. 12
U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore.
May 3, 1968
Job Placement Service open to students
This summer, for the first
time, Grant counselors will op­
erate a Job Placement Service to
help students find summer em­
ployment, according to George
Kalman, vocational counselor.
The purpose of the Job
Placement center is to as­
sist employers in finding
needed help and to super­
vise students already placed
by the service. The second
purpose is to aid non-work­
ing students in finding em­
ployment.
The Job Placement Service
will operate on a halt day basis,
devoting the first part of the day
to placement of students and the
second half to actual observation
of students on jobs and talking
with prospective employers.
“Jobs are very scarce and
any student with a job
should take care to keep it,”
stated Mr. Kalman.
Portland’s large college pop­
ulation is the reason for job
shortage. Employers would rath­
er hire college students than
high school students.
More jobs are found in busi­
ness and industry particularly
for girls. But it is difficult to
legally place girls in manufac­
turing because of the Federal
regulation on age which states
that any factory carrying gov­
ernment business lan not employ
girls under 18.
“We invite any student inter­
ested in working but not intent
on starting at the top, to make
use of the service,” concluded
Mr. Kalman.
The Dad’s club annual fund
raising event, “Four Blocks Off
Broadway” will be held in the
school auditorium next Friday
and Saturday evening.
“The two hour spectacu­
lar promises to be an eve­
ning to remember. Scenes
from famous Broadway mu­
sicals, vaudeville acts, sing­
ing, dancing, comedy, music
and a large cast will com­
bine to make ‘Four Blocks
Off Broadway’ a musical
revue well worth the admis­
sion tab of $1.50 for adults
and 75 cents for students,”
Ray Feves, president of the
Dad’s Club, commented.
The Dad’s Club uses the
money to assist in school activi­
ties and to purchase equipment
and other school needs, not pro­
vided by the district.
April 23 and 24, a tele­
phone campaign was held in
the Hollywood branches of
the U.S. National and First
National Banks. The PTA
mothers manned twenty
telephones and called all of
the parents of Grant stu­
dents in an effort to sell
advance tickets.
Orders
were taken and Dad’s Club
members filled and mailed
the orders.
“The joint team effort was a
huge success from the point of
selling tickets and from adver-
tising the show. Families order­
ing tickets should mail their
checks in the self-addressed en­
velope as soon as possible,” Mr.
Feves continued.
The choruses are doing four
settings from Broadway musi­
cals, “hence the name ‘Four
Blocks Off Broadway’,” Mrs.
Howland explained.
“The kids are very, very en­
thusiastic,” Mrs. Howland said.
She added that there will be one
more scene, separate from “Four
Blocks Off Broadway.” “It will
be a ‘mod’ scene with pieces se­
lected from the music of the
20th century. One featured num­
ber will be ‘Curtain Time,’ a
medley of numbers composed of
contemporary tunes ”
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Saturday—
College Entrance Exami­
nation Board tests
Friday-Saturday—
Dad’s Club Spring Show,
8:00, auditorium
Pions announced by yearbook staff
for enlarged coverage of activities
A PORTION of the senior orchestra, led by
Eugene Kaza, was also part of the Cultural
Arts Festival, performing a variety of num­
bers to grade school students.
MAHLON READ demonstrates the art of
sketching as Leslie Fry demonstrates other
facets of artistry to students of Beaumont
grade school.
Artists participate in cultural festival
“I was very favorably im­
pressed with the whole pro­
gram. There was exceptional co­
ordination and cooperation on
the part of all the students,
teachers and PTA mothers who
organized it. I enjoyed my after­
noon,” commented Mahlon Read
about his experience at Beau­
mont grade school’s Cultural
Arts Festival.
The Festival, held last
week, included artists of
various natures from the
Portland, area. Mr. Read,
Leslie Fry and Claudia Car­
lile demonstrated various
art forms.
Eugene Kaza and a portion of
the senior orchestra also per­
formed at the cultural Festival.
“One little girl asked Mr. Kaza
if he could play his stomach,”
quipped Allen Maberry, who
played the viola.
Other members of the or­
chestra
who
performed
were: Chris Earl, Cheryl
Spencer, Kathy Carroll and
Laura Russell, violin; Allen
Maberry and Barbara Chat-
tin, viola; Olga Honchariw
and Jean Lobb, cello; and
Cheryl Doane, string bass.
Children in grades 1-8 par­
ticipated in this first festival;
each child visited four different
areas during this afternoon.
Everyone from a tole painted
to a koto player participated in
the program. There were also
storytellers for the younger stu­
dents, duo piano players, singers,
actors and instrumentalists.
The idea was originally de­
veloped through the study of a
similar program used at Hector
Campbell grade school in Mil-
walkee, and with the work of
Mrs. Frank McFarlane, PTA
president, and other members of
the PTA, the plan took, shape.
“Much credit should be given to
Beaumont’s principal, Robert
Goddard, for all of his coopera­
tion,” Mrs. McFarlane stressed.
The children will write an
evaluation of the program which
will aid in determining whether
it will be held again next year.
seven months of the school
Included in Memoirs plans for
year, from Frosh orienta­
the coming year are coverage of
tion through the first of
all spring sports, activities,
April, and the Rose Festi­
plays, as well as the proms and
val, a full school year’s ac­
commencement activities. Plans
are also being made for this
tivities can be included.
year’s Memoirs distribution.
Also, the rise in publication
The week of May 20, with cost could mean a 25 per cent
May 22 set as a tentative increase in the book price if
date, is cited for Memoirs publication is continued as it is
distribution. A limited num­ with spring delivery.
ber of books will be avail­
“There will be a saving in ex­
able after school that day, cess of five per cent on the
on a first-come-first-served book, so that pages can be add­
basis. Price for the book ed and additional color included
will be $5.50, with no books for the same selling price—$4.50
being sold before that date.
—as this year’s book,” explained
According to Joan Kline,1968- Joan and Mr. Mohn.
1969 editor, the editors, staff
It was pointed out that this
members, and the advisor, Wil­ late summer distribution of year
lard Mohn, voted to include all books is already a trend in Port­
year-end activities in the book land schools—Cleveland, Wash­
next year. This means year­ ington, Lincoln and Jackson will
books will be distributed on a have it this year.
designated day at the end of the
Contracts for the publication
summer.
of next year’s yearbook were
Among the reasons given signed last week with Bruce Lu-
for this decision is that zader studio, for photography,
while Memoirs publications and Taylor Publishing Com­
in the past covered only pany, for printing.