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% * Thurs., Feb 21, 1974 (Sec. 1) SANDY (Ore.) POST - 13 Camellia society presents show PBX operator keeps busy at Sandy High School was a retired housewife until she caught the "school bug" and enrolled in a concentrated nine month business course at Mt Hood Community College. While there she acquired skills in office work and became equipped w ith s e c re ta ria l abilities SUHS has found useful in so many ways. e ffic ie n t telephone lady at Sandy High A fo rm e r cle rk in the autom otive departm ent of Broadway Cab, Mrs Bradford Telephone operator, typist, m ail handler, and coffee maker, are just a few of the jobs assigned to E sther Bradford, the cheerful and As Mrs. Bradford puts it, "What I like about my job most is the change of pace every day. Whenever I come to work, I think to myself that there w ill be something new to learn today, something new to do ” Hired at Sandy High in Oc tober, 1972, Mrs Bradford had to learn the school's new PBX system for handling incoming and outgoing calls. With the exception of ca lls phoned directly to the district office at their special number, Esther B ra dfo rd manages every phoned request Sandy High receives. The job doesn’t seem to overw helm her, though, since she has experienced fast paced work before. Says Esther, “ I worked in a cannery on the production lanes for many years That’s a hard job which keeps you alert, so I ’m used to being really busy.” Mrs Bradford, who lives with her fam ily in Damascus, has instituted a system of filing those numbers w hich s ta ff m em bers may re g u la rly request She maintains a large vertical file on her desk that effectively eliminates callers from having to look up numbers every time they go through the school switchboard. Between calls, she sorts mail, types b ills , keeps special school records, performs those jobs easy to avoid because they’re time consuming and tedious. To Mrs Bradford, however, they are part of her school assign ment and she loves it. “ How could I ever get bored,” she excla im s en thusiastically. IL t «V i-Mc 4 t * * CHILDREN WALK, slip, slide and roll down the slopes at Government Camp. Last weekend’s festivities at theSki Bowl area brought multitudes of people to Mt. Hood's wintery environment. (Post Photo) “ Ballet Dancer", the Oregon Camellia Society's 1973 choice for "Camellia of the Y ear" w ill be featured at the society ’s 33rd annual show to be held March 8 and 9, in the tenth floor auditorium of Meier and Frank Company’s downtown Portland store The show is free and open to the public from 12 to 9 a m , and Saturday from 9:30 to 4 p.m. M r Olin Wills, show chair man , has issued an invitation to ca m e llia fans throughout Oregon and W ashington to enter their own best blooms, grown either inside or out. Bring entries to Meier and Frank’s F ifth Street door 8 to 10 a m Friday. March 8 Entrants need not be members. The Camellia Society w ill furnish all entry cards for use Separate classes fo r un protected blooms, and protected blooms w ill be of fered Plants must be grown by exhibitors fo r at least six months Decisions of judges is independent, final and not open to question Gibbed and non- gibbed. separate classes w ill also be available Silver awards w ill be given to best inside, best oustide. best reticulata or reticulata hybrid Blue ribbons w ill be awarded sweepstakes winners and best of show w ill receive the Pres ident’s Trophy. Rosettes w ill be given to best m iniature bloom, best species bloom, best hybrid bloom (not reticulata), best seedling bloom and best tubbed plant The Oregon Camellia Society presents the firs ’ flower show of the season in the Portland area. Film program at library " ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UPPER BUILDING NEWS SANDY HIGH School’s PBX operator, Esther Bradford, assists a caller in reaching the correct extension. The U pper Grade chess tournament began last Tuesday with 25 players, under the direction of Mr. Hanson. After five rounds of play the top four contestants w ill advance to the county chess tournam ent. F rom there w inners w ill proceed to the Oregon State J u n io r Chess Tournam ent. Hopefully Sandy w ill be well represented. Upper Grade rocketry ac tiv ity w ill soon be booming off the ground as M r Hanson recently received the rocketry permit from the state fire m a rsh a ll. Students are welcome to participate in the program. Cost of model rockets and engines w ill be paid for by the participants Launchings w ill be held once each week at noon from the grade school play for us called “ The Hippy Frankenstein.” Dean Barker wrote the play. The children created their own costumes, makeup, backdrop, and sound effects Mrs Barker, The Rev. Nuenfeldt, Mrs. H ertrick and M rs. Smale were special guests. We are s till watching “ M ulligan’s S tew "onT.V . each week for our health class. This week we are making collages of the state of Oregon and food products found here. We are also studying the kinds of food the astronauts used and trying some of them in our room. Thanks to m others of students in Mrs. Hazelett’s room the boys and g irls decorated their own Valentine cookies at their party last week. They had lots of fun doing it and made some very pretty and fancy decorations In health class they are seeing film s about foods they are studying. F irs t A id in s tru c tio n is keeping students busy in health class in M r Berglund’s room. In Social Studies they are studying the Ibos of Nigeria. return to school The Lady Bug Theater group presented “ Mr. Malion and the Garbage Dump” last Thursday as a special treat for the In termediate building students. The boys and girls really en joyed it, particularly those who suddenly became members of the cast! Cleaning up our en vironment was the theme of the humorous and well-done play. Student volunteers found themselves directly involved with M r Malion’s problem of getting ride of rusty cans, pop bottles, egg shells, tires, ctrffee grounds and other pollution problems while cleaning up his garbage dump our Valentine’s. What fun' Jeff Palmer from our room went to Alaska for a short visit. He brought back some souvenirs. B illy Broughton also had quite a trip —Mexico. We a ll are tra v e lin g to T im b uctu, A fric a , in our social studies class. ooo The children in Mrs. Sm ith’s and Mrs Wagner’s room en joyed playing bells for P.T. A. Friday night. In Mrs Wagner’s class the children are learning about workers who help to keep us safe and well. They are making a movie about these workers, ooo SECOND GRADE Mrs. Smith We surely appreciated the nice parties our mothers have given us this year. Mrs. Kasch, M rs N iem eyer, and M rs. Layton were in charge. Mrs. Kerslake made us a Valentine box with hearts for shingles and shutters Floyd Wheeler got to take it home to keep We read about Haiku, a poem that has three lines, but they don’t rhyme. LOOKING FOR A HOUSE? TRY THE CLASSIFIEDS A free “ Calendar of F un" film program for children w ill be held Thursday, Feb. 21, 4 to 5 p.m. at the Gresham Branch L ibrary, 410 N Main St Film s from three countries w ill be shown: “ Evan’s Corner" (United States), “ Punch and Jonathan” (England) and “ The Log R aft” (Norway). •Shade Making Supplies Decor Shade® 8. Make A Shade Decorative Pulls Windows and more ■ ■ ■ 29 E. Powell ■“ 666-2809 The initial meeting of the Sandy Grade School Budget Committee w ill be held in the cafeteria of the old building, 207 Pleasant Street, at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1974. The deadline fo r Sauuy Grade School board candidates FOURTH GRADE NEWS to file a certificate of nom ination is A pril 6, 1974 ( 30 Mrs Moore’s room reports days before the election on May “FOR THE QUEEN SIZE WOMAN* that Shari Underwood has 6th) . Certificate blanks may be moved to Milwaukie, Oregon obtained at the Sandy Grade The students have built some F e a tu rin g School district office FIFTH GRADE NEWS replicas of the homes of the The regular monthly Sandy Sixes Bushmen of the Kalahari and Learning math while playing Grade school board meetings 1 6 ^ - 32^2 the Yanomamos of Amazonia Bingo is keeping students busy are held on the second Tuesday while others made murals of in M r Flaskerud’s room. They of each month at 8:15 p.m. & the areas. Mike McMains won are s till hard at work on putting FIRWOOD NEWS the final playoff match in their the lawn mower engine back THIRD GRADE “ D igestion D rag S trip ’ ’ together but find some pieces Miss Salsbury competition. Mrs. Smale talked seem to be missing! Janet In science we have finished e PORTLAND... 1283*S.E.STARK and showed slides of when she Wunische brought her pet our four food groups unit and • VANCOWIR... SIS IL L 7*8 lived in Pakistan and India. monkey for a visit and the boys ended our volcano unit w ith a • ilK iM ... 132 LAST ISlfc AVL In Mrs. Beehler’s room on and girls really enjoyed wat bang—by exploding a m in i • MT.VUMM...MSLCOUWÍWAT Valentine’s Day, a group of ching him. The gas shortage is boys and girls put on a monster the subject of their bulletin volcano. The week of Feb. 11-15 | board, with students bringing we made Oregon booklets and a rtic le s fro m papers and learned some facts about our magazines. Most of it recently state, as Oregon was 115 years was concerned w ith the old on Valentine’s Day trucker’s fuel problems. We also made L in coln booklets to celebrate Abe’s SIXTH GRADE NEWS birthday Feb. 12. Our Valentine party was a Vicky Olson is a new member great success and we all had in M r Puckett’s room, recently fun! moving here from Minnesota. Two students moved away We re glad you’re here, Vicky. this month We were sorry to In Science the students in Mr. lose them. February Thomas’ room are studying In math we have two students 21st thru 24th atoms and molecules and how in Book 28 working on division they relate to energy. Students O thers are beginning are making periodic charts, multiplication in Book 23 - 24. SPECIAL PURCHASE illu s tra tio n s of atom s, ooo demonstrating atom fission and Mrs. Noble illustrations of internal com Twenty-six jolly little faces bustion engines. Sue are in our room to greet us each Nightengale has been sick with morning when we come to Child-Misses pneumonia. We hope she'll be school They belong to our Boys-todies all better very soon and able to gayly-colored hand puppets & Mens Just to look at their funny sm iling faces and strange hair I S C H O O L la Normally styles of bright stringy yam makes us want to pick them up. adíes Anchor Tieso Surfers & Kiddie Kedt We are looking over samples of SANDY ELEM ENTARY short skits that might be fun to Other - . JL Groups • • • • • • SCHOOL MENU do with our puppets. Some of us MONDAY, Feb. 25 have chosen skits and are Wiener Wraps trying to memorize the parts B O Y S & YO U N Ô We decided the cardboard Mixed Vegetables MENS “ fireplace" we used for our F ru it Cup part in the Christmas program Graham Cracker would make a good puppet M ilk theater There is plenty of room TUESDAY. Feb. 26 for several of us to stand out of Creamed Turkey sight behind it. on Biscuit In math we are having fun Values 1 3 .0 0 to 1 8 .0 0 Buttered Carrots w eighing bean bags and es childs, Boys A Men Cranberry Sauce learning how to read a scale We have just about figures out Applesauce Cake Z how to change fractions of a M ilk WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27 pound to ounces and ounces to fractions of a pound. Child S iz e s ------ Spaghetti We have a new g irl in our with Meat Sauce room. P atti Foust, who came Green Salad from Texas. We really like her Jello Cubes a lot and are glad she is in our Buttered Hot Roll room. Milk ooo Miss Fast THURSDAY. Feb. 28 V a le n tin e ’s Day was Chicken Noodle Soup celebrated with a fun party in Egg Salad Sandwich Miss Cast’s room A special Sliced Peaches thanks goes to our wonderful M ilk room . m others who were FRIDAY. Mar. I all sales responsible for the Dixie cups, Scalloped Potatoes OPEN a big variety of cookies and with Ham Chunks Mon. thru Thur*. candy besides punch. After 10 to 6 Green Beans refreshments we played a fun tout tot »¡ carb Fri. 10 to 9 Cinnamon Twist Adjacent Kitnows game called “ Elephant" and get. 8 :3 0 to 5 .3 0 others Then we got to open all Milk (¡MíU Í i » 1 8 -6 0 Nadeau's |Bwthdflÿ SHOE IVVTKIVIOaa Fighters W OM EN & GIRLS SCHOOL & DRESS SHOES ‘15"-‘16" ’8" ..MO" BOOTS 30% O ff A R IA L BUDGET BALANCER KEDS $4 88.$5 88 I LUNCH MENUli A G reat Buy BOOTS) A tO Dress Boots ’6 " ? 10" NADEAUS — 1 r 2410 S.E. 182nd at Division Rockwood Plaza 665*6805 F|NAL - - ■ ■ e t a R * * * 1 OMMetoOM
