The
Grantonian
Vol. 73, No. 5
U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore.
October 10, 1968
’Otello’ presented in matinee
A special student matinee of
the opera “Otello,” presented by
the Portland Opera Compahy,
will be given on October 19 at
2 p.m. in the Civic Auditorium.
Herbert Weiskopf is general di
rector and conductor.
SINGING THE role of Otello
is Brian Sullivan, from the Met
ropolitan Opera Company; Des
demona is played by Donna
Shirley; Iago will be played by
Harold Lara; Cassio, Emilia, and
Roderigo complete the character
cast.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s
“Othello,” Guiseppe Verdi wrote
the opera “Otello,” which was
first produced in 18887. The
idea of the opera had been on
Verdi’s mind for a long time, but
it was not until he was almost
75 years of age, that he decided
to write it.
THE SETTING is the seaport
of Cypress, near the end of the
fifteenth century. Otello, a
Moorish general in the Venetian
army, is acclaimed by the Cypri
ots in the harbor of Famagusta
for the victory over the Sara
cens.
Iago, Otello’s aide, begins his
scheming and persuades the
young Cassio, a newly made cap
tain, with drink, to toast Desde
mona, Otello’s wife, and insult
Rodrigo, a Venetian gentleman.
Degrading Cassio to the ranks,
Otello makes “passionate love”
to his wife, beneath the stars.
AT IAGO’S suggestion, Cas
sio begs Desdemona to intercede
for him with her husband;
meanwhile Iago is rousing Otel
lo’s jealousy. In the garden,
Desdemona asks her husband’s
mercy for the offender, but Otel
lo flings her handkerchief to the
ground.
Iago tells Otello that Cassio
murmurs Desdemona’s name in
his dreams, and claims to have
the handkerchief she gave him,
and Iago produces the handker
chief.
QUESTIONED BY her hus
band, Desdemona claims she has
lost her handkerchief, and again
pleas for Cassio, but Otello
think his wife untrue.
When a Venetian embassy ar
rives, appointing Cassio in his
place, and Desdemona drops a
harmless word in Cassio’s favor
to Lodovico, an ambassador,
Otello ill-treats his wife in his
rage.
DESDEMONA DONS her bri
dal robe, claiming it will be her
shroud, commends her soul to
the virgin and falls asleep.
Otello stands watching her for
a long time, then wakes her with
kisses to tell her she must die.
His blind rage will not listen to
her plea for mercy—he strangles
“Back to School Night” is here
again. October 17 marks the
night when the parents return
to school and find out what their
students go through five days a
week.
The program, controlled by
the P.T.A., will begin at 7:10 in
the auditorium when entertain
ment will be provided by the
music department. At 7:30 the
P.T.A. will conduct a short busi
ness meeting. Dr. Malo will then
address the parents and intro
duce the members of the faculty.
Parents will then follow a
schedule resembling that of their
son or daughter. All class pe
riods will be shortened to in
clude a coffee break period or
lunch.
In the classrooms the teachers
and parents discuss the format
of each individual course. In
structors answer any questions
parents may have concerning the
class.
Refreshments for the parents
will be served all during the
evening, in the cafeteria.
According to Mrs. Doris Han
Seniors become acquainted with colleges
On October 16 during sixth
and seventh periods, seniors will
have a chance to become ac
quainted with the State System
schools. All state colleges and
Portland Community College
will have representatives here,
in addition to a representative
from the Youth Opportunity
Center, who will talk to non
college bound students.
EACH SENIOR will at
tend two of the college con
ferences, whether he plans
to attend college after high
school graduation or not.
“This is the one day that every
senior has an opportunity to
learn the differences among our
our State System colleges, and
to make a better decision as to
college choice,’ explained Mrs.
Elve Newcomer, college coordi
nate.
SENIORS WILL be given
slips in reg period October
16 showing where the two
conferences for which they
signed up will be held. All
seniors will be excused
from their sixth and seventh
period classes for these con
ferences.
Students with early dismissal
who wish to attend a conference
should contact their counselor.
SENIORS WILL be given the
opportunity to ask questions
about admissions, financial aid,
Workshop attended by speech team;
Oregon, Oxford style debates given
The speech team attended a
forensics workshop at Gresham
Saturday. Dr. Nobles from the
University of Oregon, and Prof-
feseur Malhuesh of Portland
were in charge of a debate work
shop. People used in demonstra
tions were a debate team from
Grant and Gresham.
JOE STILWELL and Dave
Taylor represented Grant, and
Randy Stone and Bill Veretti
represented Gresham. The morn
ing debates were given Oregon
styles; in the afternoon debates
were given Oxford style. Both
teams were criticized publicly.
Mrs. Opal Hamilton and Mr.
Schmitt from Portland Commu
nity College were in charge of
radio and oratory workshop. Liz
Klonoff demonstrated oratory;
and Terry Jones demonstrated
radio.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, the
Portland Forensic group met at
her, with her last words protest
ing her innocence.
OTELLO’S CRIES bring Iago,
Lodovico, and men at arms into
the chamber. Despite Iago’s
threats, his wife, Emilia, pro
ceeds to tell Otello how he
ruined his own wife, Desdemona.
Otello steps to the bed of his
innocent victim, and stabs him
self with his dagger.
Individual reserved seats are
$2.50, and groups of 50 or more
may purchase them for $2. For
information concerning tickets,
contact Eugene EZaza.
Parents follow student's day
at 'Back to School Night'
Wilson for demonstrations of ex
temp and debate. Every school
demonstrated something, but
Grant did two.
•At a Canby speech meet tro
phies were won by Dorice Gross
who came in first in senior ex
temp. Laurie Stucky won a tro
phy in junior oratory.
Liz Klonoff took third place
in oratory. Steve Reid came in
third for informative. Rick
Grimshaw also came in third in
oratory.
Excellent awards were pre
sented to the following: Ted
Ferrilli, demonstrations; Tim
Sweeney in demonstrations; Lo-
dice Walker in persuasive; Rob
in Suwol in senior oratory and
extemporaneous reading; Phil
Bruce, extemporeanous; Jim
Rean in extemporaneous; and
Larry Wheeler in senior oratory.
Dorice Gross also received an
excellent for senior oratory.
courses of study, room and
board, or other information.
Three representatives will
come from the University of
Oregon, Portland State College,
and Oregon State University,
two will come from Portland
Community College, and one
will come from Oregon College
of Education, Eastern Oregon
College, Southern Oregon Col
lege, Oregon Technical Institute,
and University of Oregon School
of Nursing.
Students who plan to attend
the conferences should dress up.
Student Body Card Coloring Con
test winners Mary Ann Hutton,
James Laird, and Jim Niegel pose with their prize suckers.
To the winners!
Oregon Symphony Orchestra again
gives youth concerts ut auditorium
The Oregon Symphony Or
chestra, under the direction of
Jacques Singer, will again ap
pear for high school and eighth
grade students in four youth con
certs scheduled at the Civic Au
ditorium.
Dates for the concerts are No
vember 13, January 29, Febru
ary 12, and March 5. On each
date, the concert will be per
formed twice, at 12:30 p.m. and
2 p.m. Cost per student for the
entire series is $2.00.
The music department of the
Portland School District will
prepare study materials to be
used in the participating schools
prior to each concert, so that the
attending students will have a
better understanding of the se
lections to which they will listen.
Ticket sales are to be for the
entire series only, and will be
conducted in the school between
October 14 and 28. Tickets will
be sold in the student body store.
High school students through
out the Portland metropolitan
area are invited to attend, with
special emphasis on those par
ticipating in music classes.
lon, the choral department will
present a 15-minute program at
the beginning of the evening.
Octet and Choraletts, and the
Royal Blues will perform. The
Royal Blues will sing “High
Hopes,” “Let Me Entertain
You,” “Oh Eyes of My Beloved,”
and an Italian number, “Fa-Una-
Can-Zone.” The Choraletts will
sing a combination of madrigals
and Broadway show tunes.
Involvement said
major problem of
general council
“The main theme of the Gen
eral Council is getting people in
volved through creating inter
est,” commented Ben Prows,
General Council president.
ACCORDING TO Ben, there
is a lack of communication be
tween General Council reps and
students, and between reps and
faculty members.
Not taking General Council
activities seriously enough is one
of the major problems Ben is
concerned about. “We plan to
look into various problems, but
stay within our constitutional
limits,” stated Ben. “We can
change within the framework of
the constitution,” he added.
BEN HAS already made
changes by sending agendas of
the coming meeting to each rep
resentative so he will be fully
prepared for all activities.
In electing officers, Ben has
allowed a week between nomin
ations and voting so that each
rep can report to his class those
nominated. The class is expected
to vote on each position and the
rep will vote not for who he
alone wants, but for whoever the
class he represents wants.
Getting more students in
volved, Ben has established Com
mittees in different areas of in
terest. The crime and drugs com
mittee was formed to find ways
of making students aware of
what is taking place within the
student body.
The committee to look into
the possibilities of having an ac
tivities period was formed to
find disadvantages as well as
advantages of the idea.
The idea now stands that once
every other week, a “B” sched
ule would be used on a certain
day and an activities period
would be used during second pe
riod.
Other committees are those on
dress code and litter.
“Any ideas from students and
reps are welcome,” Ben conclud
ed.
Functions, activities stressed
for National Newspaper Week
October 6-12 has been set
aside by the United States Con
gress as National Newspaper
week. Because the Grantonian
is growing in circulation and is
read by more people than many
other weekly newspapers, we
feel that National Newspaper
week should be observed by all
Grantonians.
According to Newspaper As
sociation Managers, Inc., who
help sponsor the week, its real
purpose is to recognize and re
emphasize the important func
tion of newspapers in the every
day lives of people.
“Radio and television cover
age of news happenings is only
in capsule form,” commented
Willard Mohn, Grantonian ad-
visor. “Newspapers, however,
give the reader a full and com
plete coverage of news events
throughout the world,” he add
ed.
National Newspaper week was
established in 1939 by the
Newspaper Managers Associa
tion for its observance the first
week of each October. According
to Frank Luther Mott’s book,
“American Journalism,” the
week was promoted chiefly by
the weekly and daily papers and
used as a public relations instru
ment as well as turning the at
tention of the newspapers’ edi
tors and publishers annually to
the consideration of their own
professional performance in'pub
lic service.