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Music heralds Christmas Finalists selected to participate in 1969 'High-Q' tournament by Jean Taylor Hoyt Walker, Larry Wheeler, Margaret Frazer, Steve Reinisch, Dan Ellis and Evan Whipple have been selected as the six fi nalists vying for spots on the 1969 High-Q team. “First competition for this year is tentatively set for sometime in February or March,” reports Mr. Gerald Merryman, coach of the team. The name of the school they will be compet ing against and the exact date will be announced lat er. Last year’s High-Q team, which consisted of Sterling Ben nett, Jim Winkler, Larry Wheel er, Larry Wheeler and Brian McCune, won all three meets against Marshall, Franklin and Jackson. Six finalists are selected, then four are chosen for the team. This year there will be two alternates instead of one. Those chosen must be quick thinking and able to respond quickly before an audience. High-Q is modeled after the College Bowl and is produced by KGW-TV. .Each member of the winning team receives a World Book Yearbook and the team is invit ed to reappear the following week against another school. A school’s team can only compete on the show three times. Areas included in the ques tioning are literature, history, art, music, science, geography, mathematics and current events. Juniors, seniors Me to compete in writing contest by Jean Taylor “What Every Employer Should Know About Handicapped Work ers,” is the theme of the 21st annual “Ability Counts” writing contest. Open to high school jun iors and seniors, the essay con test is sponsored by the Gover nor’s Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped. First prize is an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., and a $330 scholarship to the Oregon college or university of your choice. There are also sec ond, third, fourth and fifth place prizes, ranging from a $220 scholarship to a $25 U.S. Savings Bond. If your essay wins it is then submitted to the national con test. Prizes in the national con test range from a $1,000 scholar ship to the first place winner, to a $200 scholarship for fifth place. Preferably typed on 8%” by 11” paper, and double spaced, the essay cannot exceed 750 words. Deadline is February 15, 1969. Entries should be mailed to: Report Writing Chairman Governor’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped 213 Labor and Industry Building Salem, Oregon 97310 Handicap specialist, Mrs. Fran ces Corcoran, of the Oregon State Employment Service, ex plained, “The object of the con test is to promote employment of the handicapped, such as the blind, crippled, and mentally ill, and to show that they are capa ble of being good workers if only given the chance.” Since this is a community sur vey, rather than an essay contest, judges will be guided primarily by evidence of research and sig nificance of content. Any four of these six quali- fied finalists would make a fine team, and are expected to do as well as last year’s High-Q. The Vol. 73, No. 13 Annual event greets season by Laurie Tuttle The annual Christmas Pro- gram, by the music department, will be presented December 18 Cub Edition rantonian U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore. December 13, 1968 Drab halls may be livened by artistic ideas by Donna Lewis Mahlon Read, art department chairman, feels that, “The ath letic pictures displayed through out the halls are not attractively arranged. There are so many in teresting arrangements that can be made, it is a shame that we leave them so drab.” ONE SUGGESTION was to paint sections of the walls above the lockers bright colors and mount the pictures within these sections. “This would give the school a more up-to-date appear ance,” commented Mr. Read. Carol Dutchuk, art staff mem ber, thinks it would be interest ing to place each athletic symbol of the sport represented above the pictures, similar to the sym bols that will soon be installed in the boys’ gym. “IT WOULD be smart to con sult an interior designer with the DRAB, COLORLESS halls greet students every day. Pictures idea that we want the pictures hanging above lockers differ in size and add to the general arranged as attractively as pos ‘blah” feeling. How about livening it up a bit? sible and as inexpensively as possible,” stated Mr. Read. “Maybe an ex-Grantonian would be to re-letter the pictures so “No matter what we decide to be willing to help us with the each has a uniform pattern,” ob do, it should be done well or not project.” served Carol. “The lettering is at all,” was Mr. Read’s final “The least we could do would too small on most of them.” statement. 143 election votes defeat amendments at 8 o’clock p.m. in the audi torium. Participating in the pro gram will be the senior, junior, and freshman choirs, the Royal Blues, and other ensembles. Mr. Kaza’s or chestra will accompany the choirs when they sing “The Hallelujah Chorus” and “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.” The first scene is “The Sen ior Salute,” which will feature “We Wish You the Merriest” and other songs. Next, the vari ous ensembles will perform to the theme, “An Old-Fashioned Christmas.” Following the ensembles will be the freshman choir singing to their theme, “The Christmas Express,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, “Still, Still, Still,” “Mistle toe,” “The Christmas Song,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” The junior choir will be ap propriately dressed in loud, bright oranges, blues, and greens for their theme, “A Mexican Christmas.” They will sing two Mexican Christmas songs, plus “Tiny Lit tle Baby Boy,” a fairly new Christmas carol. Carols of the nations will be presented by the senior choir, beginning with the Russian song, “Carol of the Bells.” “Sleigh Ride” and the “Christ mas Festival Overture,” by Le roy Anderson, will be presented by the orchestra, as well as Han del’s “Song of Jupiter,” and “The Messiah.” Toward the end of the pro gram all three choirs will com bine to sing “Let All Mortals Keep Silence,” “Sanctus,” and the traditional “Hallelujah Cho rus.” The Christmas assembly, which is the following day, December 19, will be a reduced version of the Christmas program. eelspread shorn from antique sheep by Sue Gottsch by Donna Lewis Over 100 years ago, some General Council’s five amend ments were defeated by 143 sheep took part in making a votes in the election last Friday. 19th century antique. A young The final tally was 1,275 NO- lady sheared, dyed and wove wool from these sheep into a votes to 1,032 YES-votes. pine cone patterned bedspread. This will mean that both Ex ecutive Council and General This bedspread was handed Council will keep all the powers down four generations and is that they previously held. There now a part of Mrs. Rose Ellen Sweet’s antique collection. will be no changes in authority. “My mother started it. There is a strong chance that Many of the things are my each of the five amendments grandmother’s,” was Mrs. may be brought up separately at Sweet’s reply to when the a later date, and voted on indi collection was started. She vidually. has followed in her mother’s Two representatives from both footsteps by adding any an Executive and General Councils tiques she can obtain by in visited the history classes during heritance or purchase to the the week of December 2-6. Each collection. representative gave his reasons One of the most interesting for or against the said amend ments. Dick Paulsen, of Execu antiques in this collection is a tive Council, commented, “In bedroom set consisting of a most of the rooms I visited, the dresser, washer and rocking students seemed to be wary of chair. This collection with hand- the amendments proposed. I had carved flowers, Greek keys, Chi a feeling they would not pass, nese pagodas and other designs and I feel it’s for the better that on it, won first prize in the Co lumbia Fair in 1893. they did not.” Two more of Mrs. Sweet’s prized possessions are a square grand piano and an JCa/nfuiA. JCafuMA, Aurora chair. The piano Friday — Basketball, South was made and hand carved Salem, there, 8:00. in New York in the 1870’s. Saturday — Wrestling, Cor The chair was hand made in vallis invitational, 11 a.m. the Oregon colony of Au Monday-Friday—Voter reg rora when this colony was istration, center hall. first started. Tuesday—Basketball, Wash In her kitchen there is evi ington, here, 4:00. dence of two centuries. On the Wednesday—Christmas pro floor there is an old replica of gram, auditorium, 8:00. the Franklin stove which Mrs. Sweet uses daily. On the walls there are Civil War guns and a cavalry sword. These were hand ed down from her ancestors. An old round oak table and two oak rocking chairs lie in the dining room. Along with these there is a hutch with some old dishes in it. The newest antique in the Sweet home is a furniture set. This set consists of two high- backed chairs, a love seat and a rocking chair. All are made out oak with claw feet and cushions made out of black tufted leather. Mrs. Sweet also has a variety of old mason jars, stiff collars, and old flowered rugs. These and all the others are kept in the farmhouse where the Sweets now live. This house is an an tique itself, for it was built by a homestead family when Port land was a growing town. The farm was obtained through the courts and Mrs. Sweet states, “What I really tried to do with it was to make it look like a turn of the century farmhouse.” Working frantically to meet deadlines are (sitting) Linda Pullen and Anne Ewing, standing are Marty Arnold and Kathy Radford, members of the Memoirs staff. XA/rkrlz- I ihh /I ▼VOrK nara, gills,
