The
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Vol. 76, No. 12
U. S. Grant High School, Portland, Ore.
Christinas cards
used as program
December 12, 1969
by Neil d’Autremont
Out of the corner of your eye,
you can see the car in the other
lane inching forward, trying to
get an advantage. You sense the
light getting ready to change.
You bring up the revs. Green
light! Go!! You’ve got a fender
Associated Grant Girls send Vietnam cookies
plan, background
by Bob Gerber
Portrait of Christmas is the
theme for the Christmas pro­
gram scheduled for December
17. The format will be taken
from pictures on Christmas
cards.
The show will include the or­
chestra, band, freshman band
and the choir. Three hundred
students from Mrs. Janet How­
land’s choir classes will do a
scene from Chritmas cards.
Mr. Robert Hacking and the
band and orchestra will present
instrumental music whicr will
include Jesu, Joy of Man’s De­
siring, Adeste Fidelis and Sleigh
Ride. During the first part of the
show the freshman band will
perform a medley of German
Christmas songs called A Ger­
man Christmas Festival.
In the second half of the pro­
gram the orchestra will combine
with the choir and perform
scenes from The Nutcracker and
The Night Before Christmas;
Sanctuse and the ever popular
Hallelujah Chorus by Handel.
Of course all of this wouldn’t
be possible without the Stage
Crew, who will be in charge of
the building heat, lights, and
sound. The Stage Crew will sup­
ply the scenery for the produc­
tion which includes two stained
glass windows and a ‘stairway
and banister for the choir.
Racing rules explained—
traffic violators warned
NOW IF WE CAN figure out a way to mail a glass of milk.
Hundreds of homemade cookies are prepared for mailing to
troops in Vietnam by Associated Grant Girls.
Report cards culprit
Student mystery explained
by Janice Egger
The mystery of teenagers be­
ing grounded every few months
for unknown reasons has been
resolved. The culprit — Report
Cards.
Students that have been
blessed with F’s and D’s have
had the misfortune of being sent
to bed without their dinner and
sometimes grounded for a full
weekend, while their smarter
C-schedule system
friends with the C’s whoop it up
origin, uses clarified at the nearest hang-out. The out­
come of this is a never-ending
conflict between parents and
by Steve Dragoo
their offspring.
The C schedule is new to>
There are several techniques
Grant this year, but Grant isn’t being used by failing students to
the only school involved in this hide their grades from their par­
program, many other schools in ents. One: Tell your parents that
Portland participate in similar there was a mixup at school and
arrangements. C schedule is a you won’t receive your report
system by which each class is card for another week. Mean­
shortened by five minutes in or­ while your folks forget about it
der to have some time left at the and they never see the card. Sec­
end of the day for special assem­ ond: Get yourself a good eraser
blies and meetings.
and get to work by taking a
C SCHEDULE was first de­ typewriter and change that “F”
signed to enable the faculty to to an “A.” This way you con­
meet under the Oregon Compact front the folks with straight
Program, which meets the first “A’s.” As a reward you get the
and third Mondays of each use of the car over the weekend,
month, from 2:30 to 5:00 in the when you should be at home
afternoon. This program gives studying.
the faculty of Grant a chance to
Many mistakes are printed on
meet and discuss ideas on self students’ report cards. For ex-
improvement in the classroom.
The Oregon Compact Program
was designed as a means by
which teachers could be inter­ Experience, time,
ested in self improvement in the
classroom. It provides the teach­ cub-edition reasons
ers with a greater incentive to
Quick — what happens each
get together with other teachers year at this time? No, not that!
and discuss the problems at hand It’s time for the annual Cub edi­
whatever they may be.
tion of The Grantonian. Each
IT IS hoped that at a later year first year journalism stu­
date the new C schedule will al­ dents put out their first edition
low students to work on com­ of the paper for two reasons.
mittees with faculty members,
The first and most obvious be­
to discuss many of the problem
relating to Grant High School ing experience. The second and
less obvious reason is that it
and the general area of Grant.
C schedule was also designed gives the regular staff a chance
to allow for pep assemblies at to prepare for the Christmas is­
the end of the day without cut­ sue. With a few exceptions all
ting sixth and seventh periods copy in this issue was written
by the “cubs.”
15 minutes short.
ample a student that has attend­
ed school every day may receive
50 absences. Also an honor roll
student will receive all “F’s.”
There are of course the stu­
dents that confront their parents
with the original copy of their
card and are proud of their hon­
esty. If more had the bravery to
do this many problems would be
ironed out and a greater under­
standing between students and
their parents would be achieved.
by Anne Luthy
Cookies, cookies, cookies, doz­
ens of cookies all made by the
Associated Grant Girls to send
to servicemen in Vietnam. The
cookies were on their way De­
cember 4 so they would arrive in
time for Christmas.
Yesterday most of the girls
were seen dressed up in their
very best dresses and wearing
carnations which were sold in
the morning. A tea and fashion
show was presented for the girls
after school in the cafeteria.
Something new to be tried by
the AGG will be a caroling par­
ty December 18 at 7 p.m. The
Dad’s Club will accompany the
caroling group.
The meeting place is in front
of the school with the girls carol- '
ing in the Grant district.
Following the caroling partici­
pants will walk to Farrell’s for
treats. All girls are urged to
come and bring a bright, smiling
face.
The AGG will be selling mis­
tletoe corsages December 19, the
last day of school before Chirist-
mas vacation.
JtampjuA, JfafuUidL,
Tonight—
Dance, 8-10
Monday—
“C” schedule
General Council canned
food drive
Wednesday—
Christmas Program, 8:00
Thursday—
Christmas Assembly
Friday-
Grant at Marshall
on the guy! You beat him to the
next light and you triumphantly
smile at him. Surprise, it’s the
Law! You pull over and get your
license ready to show to him. He
takes your license, looks at it,
and pulls out his ticket book.
“You trying to earn one of
these?” he says.
“No, sir,” is your reply.
“Sure looked like it a minute
ago. You violated ORS 4-83.102.
Careless driving.
This could happen to you.
Drag racing, even burning
rubber is unlawful. The last
Oregon legislature brought
the Careless Driving law
into effect. This states, “No
person shall operate a ve­
hicle ... in a manner that
endangers or would be like­
ly to endanger any person or
property.” Anyone convict­
ed of this violation could
“be punished by imprison­
ment for not more than 60
days or by a fine of not
more than $250 or both.”
Officer Ernest F. McGuire,
member of the Safety Education
Unit of the Portland Police,
commented on the careless driv­
ing problem heri
Grant. “For
a big school like this, it’s doing
pretty well, when you consider
its size.”
Officer McGuire also stat­
ed that every month, the
Police compile a list that is,
in essence, the number and
type of violations by the
students at different high
schools.
Sixteen schools
make up the list.
Benson holds down first place
almosh every month. Grant
usually claims fifth or sixth. In
the month of August, however,
Grant students placed first in
moving violations.
“Most of our problems take
place at schools during the
school hours when the boys are
out in their cars burning rubber.
This causes people to call in and
complain. Then, directly after
school, they burn rubber going
home. Those are the only times
we get calls on teenagers playing
around with their cars.”
Art staff, primary students join smiles, talents
It’s give and get time as mem­
bers of the fourth grade class of
Mrs. Leona Hestmark at nearby
Hollyrood school share their en­
thusiasm with members of the
Art Staff.
The Art Staff is currently
involved in a project in­
volving the instruction of
these students in various
types of art that are of in-_
terest to a fourth grader.
Last week Laurie Tuttle and.
Denise Lasley spent the final
hour of the afternoon assisting
the students in the creation of
tissue paper mobiles. “They were
great, and really enthusiastic, I
was surprised!” exclaimed Lau­
rie. “I think it’s neat, it helps us
to get new art ideas,” explained
one glue-fingered fourth grader.
The Art Staff members
prepared
their
projects
ahead of time for samples
and then demonstrated the
correct procedures for the.
project. “The kids were
really fun to work with and
were much more imagina­
tive than we had thought
they would be,” Denise re­
lated.
The idea for the exchange was
started last year when Mrs.
Hestmark took a course in cal­
ligraphy from Mr. Read, the art
staff advisor. “I think that it’s a
fine idea. Possibly it will bring
Hollyrood and Grant a little clos­
er; it may help the children to,
IT’S REALLY QUITE SIMPLE ... Art staff member Sharon
McCarthy assists an eager fourth grader at Hollyrood School.
Drinking straw ornaments were the project of the day.
see that all Grant students do not
speed around in their cars or
stay in the park,”- commented
Mrs. Hestmark.
The students were allowed to
let their imaginations run and
were assisted only when they
raised their hands for help.
Senior Sharon McCarthy was
the “teacher for a day” Tuesday
as she helped the fourth graders
with ornaments for the Christ­
mas tree. The students were
quietly enthusiastic as they
worked on their drinking-straw
decorations. “I like it, all the
girls are fun to work with,
they’re nice,” giggled one pert
fourth grader who was working
on a star.
The over-all reaction to this
spreading of good will seems to
be the one expressed by a quiet
little boy who grinned, “I like
.it.”