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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.