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THE GRANTONIAN
May 23, 19Ó8
School district explains levy
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Nikki Taylor issues yearbooks to
Ken wolf and Dan Florence on
Tuesday. The Memoirs staff worked for many hours preparing
for final pick-up and delivery.
Teachers receive
grants to attend
summer institutes
Three teachers will attend
summer National Defense Edu
cation Act or National Science
Foundation seminars at univer
sities across the nation.
Leonard Studer, chemistry
teacher, will attend Temple Uni
versity in Philadelphia on a
grant from thè National Science
Foundation.
Mr. Studer will study for one
complete year in the field of
chemistry. He has received a
sabattical leave from the Port
land school district.
Mrs. Carol Rudy will attend
Portland State where she will
study for her Master’s Degree in
Social Studies from June through
August.
Gerald Merryman, Shake
speare and English teacher, will
attend the University of Ver
mont for five weeks. Mr. Merry
man will visit Washington, D.C.,
and New York before attending
the university, and afterward
will go to Ashland, where he
will view seven Shakespearean
plays.
The University of Vermont is
the only NDEA institute for the
study of the Elizabethan period
and will be conducted for sec
ondary school teachers with a
higher than average interest in
the Elizabethan period.
In order to understand the
levy, its purpose and require
ments, these facts have been ob
tained from the Portland Public
School District.
On May 19 and again on
June 30 of last year two tax
levies failed to pass the vot
ers. As a result of this, many
necessary things have been
cut from this year’s budget.
Next Tuesday the proposal,
one asking for $9.875 million
dollars, will once again be put
to the voting public. The future
of 79,000 students ranging from
kindergarten to 12th grade are
in the voters’ hands.
The
Portland
School
Board, short-changed by the
obsolete methods of distri
bution of state funds, must
turn to the community for
help.
District No. 1 receives annual
ly 12.4 per cent of funds in bas^c
Awards and scholarships given seniors
to various colleges throughout country
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Raylene Erickson—Pacific Lutheran University.
John Skans—Pacific Lutheran University.
Alan Clement—Pacific University.
Jane Nichols—Seattle Pacific University.
Brenda Pumpatis—Seattle Pacific University.
Patricia Walton—Seattle Pacific University.
Margaret Callahan—Seattle University.
Bruce McCormmach—Stanford University.
Karen Stone—Stanford University.
Jan Stanley—Transylvania College.
Dan C. Doran—University of Portland.
Anne Burson—University of Chicago.
Scott Casey—University of Puget Sound.
Olga Honchariw—Willamette University.
Jane Luthy—Willamette University.
Heather McDowell—Willamette University.
Jane E. Stilwell—Willamette University.
Sharlene Vessella—Willamette University.
Heidi Walter—Willamette University.
Group IV. Scholarships from other sources:
Karen Richey — Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers
Four-Year Scholarship Award to Oregon College of Edu
cation.
Martin Schnitzer—Michigan State University Merit Scholar
ship.
Brian McCune—Oregon State University Merit Scholarship.
John Luik—Knights of Pythias Speaking Contest Scholarship.
David Hytowitz — Western Golf Association Evans Scholars
Foundation Scholarship.
Dan Doran—Food and Drug Clerks Union Local 1092 Scholar
ship.
James Winkler—American Legion Oratorical Scholarship.
Marian Schiebal—Portland Dental Assistants Society Scholar
ship.
Ronald Marrs—American Legion Scholarship.
Mary Holman—Junior Achievement Scholarship.
Carol Johnson—Junior Achievement Scholarship.
Sharlene Vessella—Junior Achievement Scholarship.
Pamela Wiik—Junior Achievement Scholarship.
Nancy Walters—Rose Festival Association Scholarship.
Fite Ignorantz
Vote 4 Yes
school support, although they
are responsible for 17.5 per cent
of the students. This leaves an
undesirable 4.25 million dollar
net loss.
In a recent evaluation of
the Portland District by a
National Education Associa
tion study committee, it was
pointed out that the prop
erty tax for Portland
schools is not high.
If the increase in the schools’
tax base is approved, the school
tax rate will remain one of the
lowest in the state.
The effects of the budget
reduction have been great
ly felt. The supervisory
staff was reduced by seven.
This cut the number of per
sonnel in math, social stud
ies, science English, art, mu
sic and p.e.
The budget for audio-visual
materials was reduced from
$140,738 to $8,000.
Total school library per
sonnel were reduced by 40.
School department heads
noted shorter library hours,
less help given students and
teachers, and less instruc
tion in library use. The bud
get for books and periodi
cals was reduced from $3.14
per pupil to $.86 per pupil.
Great quantities of equipment
are in use to serve the almost
80,000 students in the Portland
school system. If this equipment
is not repaired and replaced, it
becomes torn and obsolete.
About 15,000 of the 90,000
classroom chairs in use are over
15 years old and in need of re
placement. This is also true of
5,500 desks and tables. If these
items are not replaced this year
an estimated 1,200 items will be
added to the backlog.
Cancelled maintenance work
this year included: the repairing
of field bleachers at eight high
schools and three grade schools,
repairing and replacement of
floor tile in four high schools
and checking of roof trusses at
three high schools and 32 grade
schools.
The list goes on and on, as do
many other figures that all add
up to the great need for the
passage of this levy.
EDGAR ARNOLD, long-time math teacher at Grant, displays
an algebra problem to his class. Mr. Arnold is retiring this year.
Edgar Arnold plans retirement;
'relaxing, unwinding' scheduled
After 35 years of teaching
school, 14 of which were spent
at Grant, Edgar Arnold, mathe
matics teacher, will be retiring
at the end of this term.
“I’m not going to do any-
thing special,” commented
Mr. Arnold, “I’m just going
to slow down, unwind and
relax!”
Mr. Arnold, who graduated
from Washington State Univer
sity at Pullman in 1933, began
his teaching career in Baker,
Oregon, with classes in shop and
general science. In 1937 he
moved to Portland and taught
industrial arts at Franklin and
later in 1945 transferred to Ben-
son where he taught radio and
electronics.
In 1954 Mr. Arnold-came
to Grant. “I noticed a defi
nite change in the morale of
the students at Grant,” Mr.
Arnold explained. “They
really had a lot of spirit and
projected a good image,” he
concluded.
Now that he is about to retire,
Mr. Arnold plans to catch up on
his hunting and long-neglected
fishing.
“This will be the first
time I can spend- a whole
week and not just a week
end hunting,” he comment
ed.
Mr. Arnold is also looking for
ward to travel. “Perhaps in a
year we will go back East to
visit our relatives,” he com
mented.
Mr. Arnold was bom in Indi
ana and is one of six children.
His father was also a teacher.
Before he began his college
training he worked for four
years as a professional photogra
pher in Idaho and Washington.
Later, after he began college, he
kept up with his photography as
the college photographer, which
eventually paid his way through
school.