Seniors receive scholarships,
honors, awards from colleges
Congratulations to the students who because of financial need
scholarship grades, talents, or a combination of all three, have re­
ceived recognition by way of scholarship or Honors at Entrance from
colleges and/or organizations.
Prized scholarships which the faculty award to the outstanding
senior boy and senior girl are not listed here, but will be announced
the night of Commencement. These are the Fletcher and McGaw
Memorial Scholarships.
The Fletcher Memorial Award is given in honor of William T.
Fletcher, first principal of Grant high school, and has been awarded
every year since 1932.
The McGaw Memorial Award is given by the Girls’ league in
honor of Miss Elizabeth McGaw, dean of women and vice-principal
from 1927-1947. It has been awarded every year since 1948. The
value of each of these scholarships is $150.
Only those awards received and accepted by the student at the
time the Grantonian went to press are printed here. Those received
and accepted after that deadline will be announced at Commence­
ment if students will notify Mrs. Elva Newcomer of them before that
date.
Group I. Dad’s Club Honorary Gifts to seniors having a 4,00
GPA for their entire four years—a $25 Savings Bond and a plaque
to each:
Jean Lobb, Brian McCune, Karen Richey, Martin Schnitzer,
Jane Stilwell, Karen Stone, Christopher Swan.
Group II. Awards made by the Oregon State Scholarship Com­
mission:
Maya Adamovics—Portland State College.
Pamela Anderson—University of Oregon.
Kathleen Balo—Portland State College.
Judith Bates—Four-year State Cash Award to Lewis and
i Clark College.
Gail Bucknum—Portland State College.
Candace Clayson—Portland State College.
Gregory Carlson — Four-year State, District and County
Award and Scholarship to University of Oregon.
Cameron Coble—University of Oregon.
Jordis Cornwell—Oregon State University.
Carol Donis—Portland State College,
Susan Fraser—Portland State College.
Leslie Frey—University of Oregon.
Nancy Frisbie—Portland State College.
Kathryn Gardner—Eastern Oregon College.
■ Roxanne Hj elm—Portland State College.
Mary Holman—University of Oregon.
Denise Hudson—Portland State College.
Tim Kehoe—Portland State College.
James Kline—University of Oregon.
Judy Lauritzon—Portland State College.
John Leaptrott—Oregon State University.
Jean Lobb—Oregon State University.
Lee Mahoney—Four-year State Cash Award and District and
County Award to University of Oregon.
Ronald Marrs—University of Oregon.
David. Mills—University of Oregon.
Karen Odell—University of Oregon.
Cecile O’Rourke—University of Oregon and School of Jour­
nalism Gift.
Kathleen Ortmayer—Oregon State University.
Tom Prassis—Portland State College.
Rod Reinhart—Oregon State University.
Alice Rooney—Oregon State University.
Linda Royer—University of Oregon.
Karen Stoner—Portland State College.
Christopher Swan—Four-year State Cash Award to Linfield
College.
Nikki Taylor—University of Oregon.
Pamela Wiik—University of Oregon.
Gwen Wong—Portland State College.
Ronald Young—University of Oregon.
The Oregon State Scholarship Commission is naming the seniors
in the top 10 per cent of their class as Oregon Scholars. The follow­
ing students are among those Scholars who have not been previously
named here:
Sterling Bennett, Mary Birkeland, Marilyn Block, Anne Bur­
son, Kathleen Demey, David Dimitre, Dan Doran, Raylene Erick­
son, Patricia Field, Ann Gardiner, Sandra Gassner, Linda Guess,
Susan Hatchard, Jill Hathaway, Robert Heldfond, David Hyto-
witz, Neil Jacobsen, Janet Jump, and Barbara Reese.
Also listed are John Luik, Nancy Marqueling, Kenton Meek­
er, Brian McCune, Kathy Jo Newman, Brenda Pumputis, Carolyn
Reese, Susan Richardson, Karen Richey, Martin Schnitzer, Judith
Shaw, John Skans, Martha Stayton, Jane Stilwell, Karen Stone,
David Titkin, Heidi Walter, Kelly Walters, Patricia Walton,
James Winkler, and Thomas Zell.
Group III. Independent College and Out-of-State College Honors
at Entrance and Scholarship Awards:
Neil Jacobsen—California Institute of Technology.
Barbara Leese—Concordia College.
Naomi Nitz—Concordia College.
Larry Leas—Eastern Washington College of Education.
Janet Jump—Goucher College.
Susan Richardson—Grinnell College.
Judy Bates—Lewis and Clark College.
Sterling Bennett—Lewis and Clark College.
Linda Guess—Lewis and Clark College.
Kathy Ingber—Lewis and Clark College.
Carolyn Jackson—Linfield College.
Carolyn Reese—Linfield College.
Joe Simpson—Linfield College.
Don Sorber—Linfield College.
Christopher Swan—Linfield College.
John Luik—Northwest Nazarene College.
Anita Austin—Occidental College.
Patricia Ann Field—Occidental College.
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{jrantonian
Vol. 72, No. 15
U.S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore.
May 23, 1968
Students care about schools
by Jan Kelley
Despite the litter in the halls
and on the campus, and the
somewhat jostled community re­
lations, students at Grant care
about what is going on. We care
about the school in general,
about our academic achieve­
ments and pur athletic standings.
We care about the coming
school levy, rejection of
which could ruin many of
the things we take a great
pride in, such as evening use
WORKING AS A PART of the student campaign for the levy,
Margaret Peterson is placing bumper stickers on cars; The
campaign also includes the sale of buttons.
Baccalaureate, commencement,
prom complete senior activities
Baccalaureate, to be held at
8:00 tonight in the auditorium,
the senior prom, to be held at
8:00 Saturday in the Masonic
Temple Sunken Ballroom, and
Commencement exercises, to be
held Monday at 8:00 in the Coli­
seum, will conclude the seniors’
year-end activities.
The program for Bacca­
laureate will include: an in­
vocation by Rabbi Joshua
Stampfer of the Congrega­
tion Neveh Shalom, a scrip­
ture by Reverend O. B. Wil­
liams of the Vancouver Ave­
nue First Baptist church, a
sermon by Reverend Mell
Stead of the Immaculate
Heart Catholic church, and
a benediction by Reverend
John C. Randlett of the First
Congregational church.
According to Miss Celia Fraz­
er, social studies teacher, Mah-
lon Read, art teacher, will be the
soloist and Gerald Merryman,
English and Shakespeare teach­
er, will be the organist. There
will be no choir.
May 23—
Baccalaureate, 7:30 p.m.,
auditorium.
May 25—
Senior Prom, 8:00, Mason­
ic Temple Sunken Ball­
room.
May 27—
Commencement, 8:00, Col­
iseum.
June 4—
Last day of school for un­
derclassmen.
The Parent-Teacher asso­
ciation is holding a recep­
tion for seniors and their
parents in the library after
the Baccalaureate service.
Preparations are being made
for the annual senior prom, with
a theme of “Moonlight and
Roses.” One highlight of the eve­
ning will be the presentation of
the Rose Festival court and their
escorts, who, according to Scott
Casey, senior class president,
will probably begin one dance.
Music for the senior prom will
be provided by Gene Rene and
his orchestra.
Commencement speakers will
be John Luik and Bob Heldfond,
who will talk on the topic of
“Lifetime Objectives,” according
to Mrs. Opal Hamilton, speech
teacher.
Newspaper staff prints
‘Grantonian’ levy issue
to better inform public
As a community service to bet­
ter inform the voters of the dras­
tic need to pass the levy, the
journalism department is pub­
lishing this special issue of The
Grantonian.
According to Advisor Willard
Mohn, 2,500 extra copies of the
paper have been printed and will
be circulated in the Grant High
School area by beginning jour­
nalism students tomorrow morn­
ing first-third periods. Addition­
al students, newly elected rally
and executive council members
have also volunteered their serv­
ices.
According to Mr. Mohn, pub­
lishing costs of the special eight -
page edition are being met by
advertising revenue income ob­
tained by staff members.
of the building for athletic
and civic events. Passage of
the levy would provide
funds for vocational educa­
tion programs at Grant,
Washington, Roosevelt, and
Jefferson, and restore a full
kindergarten program.
At present such things as a de­
pletion of teaching supplies, and
books and maintenance work on
the building do not show tre­
mendously. But give the books
an added year to wear out, leave
the teacher with a very limited
supply of teaching materials and
watch the paint on the walls and
tiles on the ceilings fall apart.
Read in the daily paper
about the injured child who
could not be treated by a
medical authority because
the budget cut out the use
of a school nurse. Or how
about the student with no
real family life who decides
to drop out? That child
could be saved with proper
help from a social worker.
If the levy fails, there will
be no social worker.
To get the reactions of the vot­
ing public, several Grant area
residents were questioned about
their feelings on the levy. Par­
ticularly questioned were those
families living within a few
blocks of the school building
where the “worst side” of Grant
is displayed by the small per­
centage of students who think it
something great to display their
ability in the areas of cigarette
smoking and obscene language.
Responses from these
neighborhood families dif­
fered greatly. Those not in
support of the levy stated
that too much money was
involved (actually, the net
cost of the tax base proposal
is estimated at $2.37 per
$1,000 on the true cash, val­
ue, or $23.70 on a $10,000
home, or approximately
$1.98 a month). Another re­
ply was, “A lot of the activi­
ties supported by the extra
funds will only affect a
small percentage of the stu­
dents.
First of all, the funds that are
needed are not for “extras,” they
affect very necessary items and
people that a school cannot do
without. Students involved in
outside activities number very
many. Over 300 students worked
to make our Spring Show a suc­
cess two weeks ago. This was in
the music and art departments
only.
Add to that the “extras” like
athletics (football, wrestling,
basketball, tennis, golf, track
and baseball), drama and Shake­
speare productions, the dance
teams of the Gendrills and Gen­
eralities, and journalism which
all take a lot of hard work, ef­
fort and time after school, and
it may be found that a majority
of students participate in some
kind of outside activity, not just
a few.
Those people answering yes,
they do support the levy gave
these reasons: “Schools are im­
portant,” “If the levy doesn’t
pass, my little girl won’t get to
attend kindergarten next fall,”
and “People must realize that
times are changing, and all costs
are rising.”