May 29, 1969
Senior Bests chosen
Most Spirited....... ....... Joan Kline, Mike Garnett
Best Speaker................. Kathty Scott, Phil Bruce
Best Looking ....Marlene Feves, Paul Southworth
Most Likely to Succeed ....Teri Jones, Ben Prows
Cutest Couple............... Greg Walsh, Alice Bailey
Class Leaders ........... Dick Paulson, Robin Suwol
Friendliest...................Nancy Swett, Bill Flowers
Best Artist...................Craig Payne, Chris Wood
Best Vocalist....... Cindy Ludlow, Bruce Johnson
Best Build and
Figure ............. Mike Reinecker, Julie Francis
Best Dressed...... ........ Candi Laxton, Jim Hunt
Most Athletic........ .....Mike Naylor, Patty Jensen
Wittiest ............................. Liz Klonoff, Pat Lydon
Best Musician......... Reagan Crowley, Chris Earl
Most Intelligent .........„..„..„.......Kathleen Bennett,
Ralph Bakkensen
Seniors give remembrance gift to school;
cyclorama to be used for productions
by Joyce L. De Monnin
Traditionally the seniors have
given a gift to the school. This
year the seniors are giving a
cyclo-rama, which is for stage
productions.
The cyclo-rama, which
will be ordered over the
summer, is being paid for
from the left-over money
from the prom. Marianne
Peel, who was in charge of
the senior gift, stated that
Ruth Alcorn, senior class
advisor, had set up a budget
in the fall and all proceeds
were striving for .a good
senior prom, which, she felt,
they succeeded in produc
ing. The seniors sold rally
ribbons, which sold very
well, to raise money.
The cyclo-rama is a back
ground for the stage, which
comes in neutral colors. It is a
small curtain in three pieces
which conceals the actors who
are off stage. In addition, light
ing techniques can be used on it.
Betty Foster, drama department
head, stated that the cyclo
rama can be used for any kind
of set.
The seniors will be able
to buy only the back of it
but this alone will cost ap
proximately $200. It is
hoped that following classes
will put up funds to pur
chase the rest of the curtain.
Candy Laxton brought up the
idea of purchasing a cyclo-rama.
The suggestion was put to a com
mittee and then cleared by the
senior class counselors. Then it
was voted upon.
Other suggestions for the
senior gift included: a sound sys
tem for the auditorium, plaques
for the gym, another scoreboard
for the gym, and carpeting for
the multi-purpose room.
In previous years some of the
senior classes have given money,
donations to the organ fund, the
bulletin board in center hall, the
clock in center hall, and contri
butions to the universal gym.
Marianne Peel stated that
George Galati, activities direc
tor, would have the seniors pick
out a gift in the fall to avoid
complications. This year Dick
Paulson, senior class president,
didn’t want to buy it in the fall
because he didn’t know how
much money would be left over
from the prom, which was bud
geted at about $1,000.
Annual science projects
to deal with anything
related to living things
As an annual ending to biology
classes, science projects are
again evident. Mrs. Mary Mott’s
biology classes have prepared
varied science projects, and have
been presenting them this week.
ACCORDING TO Mrs. Mott,
her classes’ projects “could deal
with anything, as long as it could
somehow relate to a plant or an
animal. This leaves the field
really wide open,” Mrs. Mott in
formed.
KIM MARSHACK and Max
Salmenson, seniors in Mrs. Myra
Rose’s chemistry classes, “asked
for a project to work on. They
knew I needed models of mo
lecular structures, so they made
them for me,” Mrs. Rose ex
plained. “The boys used colored
styrofoam balls, beads, pipe
cleaners, and other various
‘dimestore’ items to construct
their models. They used the
book Teaching Chemistry With
Models, by R. T. Sanderson,”
Mrs. Rose commented. This book
shows the construction of vari
ous molecular structures, which
the boys used as their examples
for building their models of “wa
ter and its ions; a model of in
creasing atomic numbers; and
various crystals. They did a very
good job, and I’m really pleased
with them,” Mrs. Rose beamed.
THE GRANTONIAN
5
Students relieve teachers of duty,
provide rest for administration
How would you like to be
principal for a day? Is it true
that you can become a teacher
without going to college, even
before you’ve graduated from
high school? These things can
and did happen on Senior Ad
ministration Day, which took
place on May 21;
Doug Munhall became
principal, and during the
day he observed the classes
in action, with slightly
younger-looking people at
the teachers’ desks. He
commented, “All of the sen
iors seemed to be prepared.
They didn’t seem to have
any major discipline prob
lems.”
“Wonderful!” exclaimed Mrs.
Constance Person, English teach
er. “I think they should do it
once a month and have all the
seniors participate and take the
real responsibilities of teaching,”
she quipped, voicing her opinion
on the merits of the day.
Mary Hermens, a senior
who taught chemistry and
biology said, “I thought it
was a good opportunity to
see what it was like being a
teacher. You learned that
each class was different.”
“It was fun! I know I’ll never
go into teaching,” laughed Nan
cy Donigan, who took over Mrs.
Laura Jacobs’ business education
classes. “You know what a
teacher has to go through every
day, and why a teacher’s tired at
the end of the day. Teachers are
respected more afterwards,” she
concluded.
Mrs. Jacobs commented,
“I think it’s a good experi
ence for the students. They
find out exactly what a
teacher goes through, and
this gives them a different
insight toward teachers. The
seniors should be serious-
minded about it, as though
they really were teachers.”
Asked how she felt about sen
iors teaching her classes, junior
Kathi Rasch stated, “I thought it
was kind of fun and a change
from the usual routine.”
“We were attentive at
first, out of curiosity, be
cause he was a student, and
we paid attention later be
cause he was interesting,”
said Sue Panek, a junior,
commending the senior who
taught her English class..
Activities Director George Ga
lati stated that many of the stu
dents with whom he spoke were
“extremely tired at the end of
the day. One kid told me, ‘So
much background is required
because of the nature of the
questions. A number regretted
that they didn’t have enough
background, but not that many
17-18-year-olds have that much
background anyway.”
Last year, the program was
omitted from the schedule be
cause of a cut in faculty and
lack of funds.
Resurrection of this activity
took a lot of effort on the part of
the Senior Administration Day
committee: Margaret Fraser,
Patti Jensen, Linda Koppes,
Richard Russell, Chris Hannen,
Cathy Radford, and Donna
Howe.
They met the next day, and
concluded that Senior Adminis
tration Day is a meaningful ac
tivity which should be retained.