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0 O O 10 MAIL TRIBUNt, Medford, Oregon. 6uj4ay, Je Iff JFoinraoDy ove ! E MRS. CLYDE KELL I Gold Hill Looking toward the future with determination develop an aptitude for de- gale ana parliamentary law, fnd to further his interest in few as a profession and be come an effective member of iociety is the goal set by Cavid Lyle Mack, 18. who fias received several scholar ships, including one to Har vard The winner of many speech contests, he ranked first scholastically in his class of 119 students, who graduated Degrees lrom Crater High, sfjftol June 5th. w He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert A. Mack, route 2, box 489, Gold Hill. Both his parents are0teachers, and they too, will graduate this" summer. Completes Third Year Mack is competing his third year as principal of the Hanby and Patrick elemen tary schools in Gold Hill-cPre- vious to that he was principal and seventh and eighth grade teacher in the Sams Valley school. He will complete his work for the degree of mas ter's in education at Southern Oreeon college in Ashland this summer. Mrs. Mack has taught her bachelor's in elementary -edu- cation this June at Southern Oregon college, Early in the fall of 1957, David decided that he was coiif? to win a college schol arsHlp. He wrote to some 40 colitis or information, and from these he selected four and applied for admittance and scholarshiD. They were Harvard of Massachusetts. Oherlin of Ohio. Carlton of Minnesota, and Reed college in Portland. Each of the col leges offered him a. scholar ship renewable fqr four years, and in(he case of the Har-vf-d scholarship, which was into graduate school. National Scholarship BesjSesckeuig admitted to HarvaVd college, Cambridge, Mass., he won a Harvard na- tional scholarship, one of only about 50 given throughout the nation. He plans to enter Harvard college this fall, where he will major in poli tical science and study eco nomics. He hopes to do grad uate work in law. He has wanted to be a lawyer since he was a small child,0 his father said. He has also been named winner of a $500 college schol arship awarded by the Ore- con State Labor Council for a paper written on labor rela tions. Presentation will be made at the gmncil's annual convention which will be held in Rosburg in August. He was one of sixstudents re ceiving the higlst scores in examinations submitted by more than 300 senior students in high, schools throughout the state for this honor. The annual scholarship program was pioneered by Oregon labor. National Honor Society David, a member of the school chapter of the National Honor Society, has won other academic honors this year in cluding a $500 scholarship from the iiational Association of Secondary School Princi pals, Washington, D.C. This scholarship was won in competition of 54,865 se lected high-ranking students, all senior members of the Na tional Honor Society, in moc than 6.800 schools throughout the nation. David credits his principal, Arth Strauss, for valuable information concern ing application for scholr shiDS. o Other current achievement include speech awards won in district, regional, and stt Future Farmers of Americ Contests. He won first plct in the state pubgfc speafting Contest at the stateP utur Farmers of 7Vmrica conven tion Bend. q His speech, "The Curse of Bigness," listed the values to the nation and its people as brought about by the family farm unit in contrast to the negative offerings of corpor ate farming. In the Northwest regional intra-state contest held in Helena, Mont., in April, using the same talk, he placed second" in competi tion with 10 other state win ners. Accompanied on Trip He was accompanied on the Montana trip by George Gil man, secretary af the Crater clfepter and the two advisors, Ed Griggs and Bill MacFar lane. Dave credits much of his FFA success to the advice and help given him by the two advisors. At the Bend convention, he was awarded both a rotating and permanent plaque as well as a $100 cash award. The State' Grange made the a-wards. Mack was chairman of the Crater FFA parliamentary team, which won second place at the state FFA contest in Bend. There were 82 chapters entered in the contest. The Crater chapter as a whole were given the master chap ter award. This signifies out standing achievement in the FFA. Others on the parliamen tary team, besides David were George Gilman, Allen Barnes. Bob . Lichti, John Caster, and Donald Denning. Dave was one of three youths from the Crater FFA to receive an award for State Farmer degree at the' conven tion in Bend. This award is given annually to only 2 per cent of all the Future Farm ers in uregon. utners irom the Crater chapter receiving this award were George Gil- man and Allen Barnes. First in Contest This spring he placed first in the district and state con tests in high school extempo raneous speecn tournaments held in Grants Pass and Eu gene. David said his activity of representing his school m speech and debate work to him is the ideal combination of educational leadership ex periences. He said his debate coach, Donald Lacy, is one of the most memorable persons he has had the privilege of knowing. Dave feels that it was because of his help that he has learned to be a better thinker, and even more im portant, he said, Lacy taught him to understand the im portance of intellectual hon esty besides enjoying the ac tivity. He also feels that his participation in speech and debate has contributed to his own development as a person. Mack said the secret to his son's achieving success in be ing an outstanding student and the winner of so many honors is probably in part due because he likes to study, and the fact that he put in be tween 20 and 25 hours each week on his home work. He enjoys reading, writing, peech and debate work. His favqrite subjects in high school were social studies, pol itics and government. . Interest Began - His interest in reading be- gaji as soon as he learned to read in a little country school house back in Colorado. It was 0 during his sophomore year in high school, that he won first place in the district competition for being public speaker for the Crater Chap ter of Future Farmers of Am erica. This really sparked his interest in speech work. His interest for dramatics as one of his mejor extracurricular activities also became a part of his high school since that year when he landed the lead $art in a school play. He played the part of Clfude the caretaker in a three-act. comedy last fall, Jinders Creepers." He also hd a roll in the one act play Submerged" presented re- cntly. At Crater High school, he was the Future Farmers of America State champion pub lic speaker, a co-valedictorian of his class, won second place the high hurdles in the in league meet, was state and district champion extempore speaker and came in third place in the Voice of Democ racy contest. Tim Limited David said with his partici pation in so many activities his time during the last year has been strictly limited for leisure hours. He also was vice president of the Dra matics club, reporter and president of the Future Farm ers of America and president of the Boys Pep club. At the time of David's birth, June 10, 1940, in Port land, his parents had left the teaching profession . so that Mack could accept an admin istrative position with the J. J. Newberry company. Be cause of the nature of his work, the Mack family travel ed quite a bit to different cities in the western states, during David's early years. His father was store man ager for the company in Ft. Collins and Pueblo, Colo. Pre vious to joining Newberry's in 1937, Mack attended Ore gon State college and the" Ore gon College of Education and was principal of a school in Alpine, Ore., for two years. Before their marriage, Mrs. Mack taught the fourth grade for one year at Camus Val ley, Ore. Early Education j David's early education be gan with four months of kin dergarten in Pueblo,' Colo. He started first grade and went through the fifth grade in Rye, a small mountain com munity in Colorado. Then the Macks moved to southern Oregon, where he entered the sixth grade at the Sams Valley school and went through the eighth. While in grade school, he participated in the three ma jor sports on the first team. He also served as student body president and editor for the school paper. His first big debate was with Susan Day on the Hells Canyon contro versy, while in the eighth grade at Sams Valley. Susan was his debate partner in the 1957-58 debate activities. Dave's farming activities started in 4-H when he was in the seventh grade. After entering high school at Crat er, while in his freshman year, he was reelected master of the Sams Valley Juvenile Grange" and served as vice president of the 4-H club. Early Morning Chorei He enjoys the early morn ing chores on his father's farm in the Sams Valley area, because those hours, he said have been for him a time to think, and a time for him to find out what he really wanted out of life. During the summer months he has worked in nearby orchards. Although David is inter ested in competitive sports, in high school he has limited his athletic activities to track, He won his letter at Crater in his sophomore year by win ning second in the league meet. David's brother, Herschel L. Mack is 15 months young er than he. They have been constant companions through the years, despite brotherly differences of opinions (com monly called spats), which David said have taught him some valuable, but hard, les sons in cooperation and hu mility. Their relationship has been that of devoted , pals, playing together, reading the same books and doing house hold chores as a team. Active in School Herschel is also active in school affairs being a . mem ber of the Crater chapter of the National Honorary Society and vice president for the 1958-59 year. He was a stu dent council member in his sophomore year, engages in speech and dramatics and has been a member of the Crater Jay V basketball team for the past two years. This spring he played the part of Huck Finn in Crater's production of Tom Sawyer. He is a sport enthusiast and will be a se nior this coming year. Both David and Herschel were delegates from. Crater to Boys State at Corvallis in the sum mer of 1957. Dave enjoys fishing but usually has a current events magazine handy if the fish are not interested, he isn't. His father and brother are Izaak Walton enthusiasts, going fishing whenever time allows. Mack has a great interest for gardening, and he and the boys farm and enjoy cattle raising. Other family interests include swimming. An inter esting fact is that Mrs. Mack is the barber in the family, giving her husband and the two young men their weekly haircuts. Church Attendance David is a member of the Sams Valley Community church and the Crater Bible club. His attendance in church and Sunday school has been regular sine his parents joined the Rye Community church in 1946 in Colorado. Every one m the Mack iamily at tends church together, and in August of each year they en joy together the Shakespeare plays at Ashland. The distaff side has no edge in the cooking department in their household since Mack and both boys like to cook and are at home in the kitchen. David has always been in terested in current events, government, . world affairs and politics. He is the only Democrat, although he calls himself a liberal independent now) in a Republican family. He says he feels his interest to world affairs is largely due to the encouragement ' given by his paternal grandfather, Chester G. Mack, of Oregon City, who is one of Oregon's ' , , 'V , ; j I'l ' 2035 S.W. 58th Avenut ' q 1 Ifillf V" f V I f ! f-5" Portland 1. Oregon , WJSM, f 1 ' : I M J Telephone: CApitol 2-2352 O A I GILBERT MACK FAMILY Members of the Gilbert Mack family, Sams Valley,are putting finishing touches on work for the school year. David Mack, second from left, standing, received honors at graduation at Crater High school, Central Point, Thurs day. Mack, second from right, will receive a master's degree from Southern Oregon college this year, and Mrs. Mack will re ceive her bachelor's degree. Herschel Mack, at left, is a junior at Crater High school. pioneer teachers and school principals. Offers Suggestions - David offers these sugges tions to freshmen: ,. Get your work finished on time, pre ferably a bit ahead of dead lines. 2. Remember you are working for yourself so al ways put forth some addi tional effort. 2. Do not hide your talents, develop them. 3. Engage in all the extra curri cula activities you can with out neglecting your studies. 4. Get along with your teach ers. They are always ready to help you. 5. If anyone is foolish enough to ask you to speak on any subject, be fool ish enough to do so. 6. De velop an interest in words and their meaning. Spend some money for a good dic tionary, then use it! 7. Read widely on state, national and world affairs take, an inter est in what our world is do ing. 8. Take all the speech courses you can. Speech teaches you to organize your thoughts and ideas. 9. 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