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2 THE GRANTONIAN December 20, 19<58 One-one teaching tried; Fern wood students gain Wonder what it is like to be taught school on a one-to-one basis? Mr. Gerber’s sophomore English class has tried it out to day. They invited the sixth graders from Fernwood to come to school for the morning, and Mr. Gerber’s students each took one sixth grader and helped him in creative writing and poetry. “I think it works really well. I wish I would have had this kind of attention when I was in elementary school,” commented Kay Nickerson, alumni of Fern wood and a student that helped this plan start al Fernwood. “When you have this one-to- one student teaching basis you seem to learn more. You don’t mind listening to the kids be cause they aren’t that much older than you and know how to explain things to you the way you can understand it,” she con cluded. Carl Flemming, a sixth grade teacher from Fern wood, started this one-to- one student teaching pro gram three years ago. Kay Nickerson, Steve Russel, and Mark Gearhart, alumni of Fernwood, worked as sev enth graders at Fernwood and helped fourth and sixth graders in mathematics. These students helped raise the failing fourth and sixth graders’ grades up to letter grades higher. This proves that this system does work. These students also made a tape about student teaching, which has been used through-out the world. “I feel that this teaching system will bridge the gap between the grade school student and the high school student,” commented Mr. Gerber. These students are now soph omores at Grant and Kay Nick erson is helping with the team teaching program today. It is the first time it has been done here, and if it is a success it will be repeated. Letters to 'Santa’ answered Ever wonder where letters sent to Santa Claus end up? Letters addressed to the North Pole are given by the Post Office to the Salvation Army and the Meier & Frank department stores. When the Salvation Army re ceives these letters, they read each letter in search of any un derprivileged or needy children. When they get letters where the family needs extra help at Christmas, they make sure help is given. When Meier & Frank gets let ters addressed to Santa, they send a letter in return. In this letter they say that they have read the letter carefully and that they will try to get the child the gifts he asked for in his letter. This is then signed, “Your Friend, Santa Claus!” Some of the children in their letters not only include a com plete list of the toys they want, but also each toy’s price and where it can be bought. The lists vary in length from one special toy or item to many. Some children save postage and tell Santa what all the children in the family want in one letter. Library material 'curriculum oriented’ lum study of each class in the fering from previous years, school, according to Miss Doro books may be checked out on a thy Johnson, head librarian. 14-day basis rather than seven. Members of the faculty This is to cut down on the num and librarians select titles ber of overdue books. Also, mag from lists such as those pub azines no longer must be brought, lished by the National Coun back before first period, but may cil of Teachers of English, be returned any time during the The Senior High School day. Reserve books and phono Catalog, Portland Curricu graph records may be checked lum Publications and others. out on an overnight basis. Each month a buying list is Five cents a day is charged on compiled of new materials any overdue book, magazine or that have been evaluated pamphlet. For overnight mate and recommended by teach rial the charge is five cents a pe ers, administrators, and li riod. The library is open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. and anyone may brarians. Because our library is curricu use these facilities before and “Students who expect to com lum oriented, not all books after school, during lunch and plete their secondary school re which may be found in a public study halls, provided the mate quirements and enter college in library or book store are found rials available are used effec 1970 can now register to partici i.’ the high school library. Dif tively. pate in the 1969-1970 National Merit Program,” announced Elva Newcomer, college and scholar ship advisor. The first step for all students who wish to enter the nation wide competition is to take the National Merit Scholarship Qual ifying Test (NMSQT). The test will be given in the school at 9 a.m., February 18, 1969. Participating students pay a $1.50 fee. If an unusually prom ising student is unable to pay the $1.50 test fee, it will be paid by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) at the re quest of his school. When the NMSQT scores are reported, each participating stu dent will receive a handbook to help him evaluate his scores and compare his performance with that of the other high school stu dents across the country. The Robert Dewe hands stu highest scoring students in each Legion presents book dent body president Dave state will be named semi-final Edwards a copy of the “American Legion Story,” to be placed ists and will be eligible for Merit in the library for student and faculty use. Scholarship consideration. “Where can I find a book on metal arts?” “I need something on world culture, where can I find it?” These are questions faced by the library staff each day as hundreds of students bury their heads in the more than 34,000 books available in' our library. All of the books in the library are geared toward the curricu- Registration open for merit program LINDA PULLEN, speech student, tells a Christmas story to members of Mrs. Leona Prasifka’s first and second grade class at Hollyrood primary school. Christmas stories told to children during speech students' annual visit by Kathi McGregor AS DONE in the past, speech students have gone to grade schools in the area to tell Christ mas stories to the children. Ac cording to Mrs. Opal Hamilton, the following schools have been included in this project: Irving ton, Sabin, Hollyrood, Faubion, Fernwood, and Kennedy. The visits were started on Monday and continued until to day, with different groups of students going to a different school each day. The telling of Christmas stories to small chil dren seems to be a tradition at Grant. LINDA PULLEN, one of the many students participating in the story-telling sessions, stated, “I think it is really a lot of fun, for the small children involved JCamfijuA, JiapsLhA, December' 20— Basketball, Lake Oswego, at Colise um, 9 p.m.; Wrestling, at McNary, 7 p.m. December 21— Basketball, Grants Pass, here, 6:15 p.m. December 21-January 1— Christmas Vacation! January 6— Assembly. January 13— National Hon or Society meeting. January 14— Black Culture assembly. January 16— Election as sembly. as well as the speech students. The little kids really appreciate it, and seem to admire us for do ing it!” Linda said she can remember when she was little and high school students came to her grade school and told the tradi tional stories about Christmas. “I looked up to them and really enjoyed them telling the stories,” reminisced Linda. So once again students will tell stories and once again vis ions of sugar plums will dance in the heads of small children. Students invited to Portland State plays Members of thé Equity Actors’ Union are presenting a series of three plays — “Three Men on a Horse,” “The Gladiator,” and “The Old Glory”—at the Port land State College Theater, in Old Main Hall. Special student matinee prices are being offered. “Three Men on a Horse,” by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott, will run from January 17-February 2. The play is a comedy farce about the popular American pastime of gam bling. Erwin Trowbridge, a poet for a greeting cards firm, is anxious only to please his employer, pay his bills, and live his life. He has a hobby of playing the horses on his way to and from work, just for fun, and he always wins. He possesses this power because he does it just for fun — he never bets real money. When he is kidnapped by gamblers and forced to bet for money, Erwin loses his special gift and returns cheerfully to his old life. Running from February 7-13, “The Gladiator,” by Robert Montgomery Bird, is a blank verse romantic tragedy. The play tells the story of the slaves’ up rising in Southern Italy. Taking place in 73 B.C., the revolt was led by the Roman slace Spartacus, who escaped from a school of gladiators at Capua. He led a full-scale revolution which defeated several major Ro man armies before going down to ultimate defeat. “The Old Glory,” which will run February 28-March 16, con tains three short verse dramas by Robert Lowell, in which American history is treated as poetry. The three plays are “Endicott and the Red Cross,” a drama with elements of fantasy on the Puritan ethic; “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” a satiric com edy about the American Revolu tion, and “Benito Cereno,” a tragic statement of the Ameri can attachment to slavery. They are held together by the unify ing symbol of a flag. Matinee tickets, which are sold through the student body store, are 50 cents per performance. Evening tickets, which are $2 per evening, are sold at Stevens and Sons Jewelers, and the Port land State College box office. Season tickets, for $8, give free admittance to one play. Christmas by Barbara Anderson Someone asked me what-would- if somehow (Somehow) the snow that fell on Christmas Eve were hardened and could not be scraped away by anyone (Anyone) and all the people in their warm- and cozy boxes had to stay alone (Alone) and think about what-is-going- on-around-here and realize that even though December 25th comes once a year— the feeling is always (Always) there— Anytime Think If.
