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
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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.
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