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2 B SUNDAY. DECEMBER It, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. SCHOOL NEWS Prospect School The grade school has fin ished its clothing drive. The clothing was sent to Knox ville, Tenn., where it will be given to needy children. Over 200 pounds was collected dur ing the two-day drive. Dean Boyer's seventh grade science class has almost fin ished erecting a eomplctc skeleton of a dog. Numerous specimens of wild life have been brought to school includ ing a western ring necked snake, western coral snake, alligator lizard, and pine swift lizard. Mrs. Marlcne Haddeiand's eighth grade class is working on building various projects out of plywood. Some of the things made are planters, garden decorations, and bird houses. In social studies the class is studying westward expansion, including the fight for independence in Texas and the California gold rush. Richard Pflugrad's 6th grade class i3 studying Latin America. Maps are being made in art to correlate their AT DUNHAM'S... 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The children found that seeds wore scat tered in several ways includ ing wind, clinging to the fur of animals and carried by water such as streams. The third grade is learn ing to write letters. Last week the class wrote letters to two sick classmates. Miniature Christmas trees made of sugar pine cones are being made for gifts by the fourth grade class. In social studies, the children are learning the location and boundaries of the early French, English, Dutch and Spanish colonies In America. Briscoe School Briscoe students are learn ing Christmas songs to sing together around their Christ mas tree in the gymnasium, Dec. 22. Another Briscoe Christmas tradition, carolling in the halls, will be observed the last week before Christmas. A different grade will sing each time before classes begin. The Briscoe school chorus sang for the December PTA meeting;, at the city school Christmas program, and will sing before our Christmas movie. Dec. 22. A turkey dinner in the cafeteria, room parties, and the coming of Santa Claus highlight the day before vacation. prised to discover that a geol ogist must be a chemist, a mathematician, and an histo rian. The first issue of our class newspaper was published be fore Thanksgiving. -We call it the Room Eleven Roundup. We are beginning to work on our December issue. Julia Cox, Linda Zanotto, Joyce Taylor, and David Par sons have brought interesting items from our closest south ern neighbor, Mexico, for our social studies unit. David's stuffed iguana has caused in terest m Mexico s animal life Mrs. Porter of the Medford Red Cross office outlined the Junior Red Cross program for the Briscoe faculty Dec. 5. The first school project for the Junior Red Cross will be to fill greeting boxes for chil dren around the world. Mrs. Gloria Thorpe is Briscoe's Rod Cross representative. Eagle Point High By Connie Hinks, San dra Wallis. Louilla Mason, Jim Ackerman, Bill Pfeifer, Judy DeHaven and Adene Jensen. New officers for Mrs. Marie Bjorlie's third grade are presi dent, Janice Franks; vice pres ident, Teresa Oden: secretary, Wilma Worth; room represen tative to student council, Ter rie McDougall. Our room fixed an aquari um and named the fish Bub bles and Pop Eye. Then Max Eidswick brought Breezy and Teresa Oden brought Gold and Silver. We have made an advent calendar for December. Each day a window is opened for that date by the person who made the picture behind it. It tells the story of Christmas. Mrs. Bowles made a pretty Christmas tree for the Decem ber PTA . She gave it to Mrs. Luella Morris' fifth grade. Flora Boozer is in Alabama visiting her grandparents dur ing the Christmas holidays. Linda Murphy has gone to Cal- ltornia. Our class has learned lo make many kinds of Christ mas tree decorations. Our new room president is Karen Cecil. Mrs. Phyllis Buell's fourth graders are planning a "Christmas for the birds." The boys are building bird houses, and the girls are making bird feeders from limbs and melted suet and "baking" suet, dry bread, and sunflower seed pies. Marilyn Thomas is the new president in Neil Richardson's sixth grade. Lu Fontaine was elected secretary, which is a big job because she will file our daily work and keep our progress folders in order. Christine Wiley was elected room representative to replace David Parsons, who was elect ed student body president. On Dec, 7 our class walked to SOC with the other sixth grade where Dr. McNeal told us many interesting things about geology. We were sur- "Guidance and Counseling Services Available in Eagle Point High School" was the program of the Parent-Teacher-Student association meeting recently. The Parent-Teacher-Student association now has a "Money March" to help classes earn money. This is done by con tributions from its members. The class with the most par ents attending the meeting will receive the money. The freshman class won the con test. Mrs. Doris Smith, senior girls counselor; Mrs. Stewart Hopper, dean of girls; Bill Hall, dean of boys; and Ken neth Vannice, instructor in freshman orientation gave brief talks on their counsel ing activities. Richard Traylor, Eagle Point High school principal. announced that the high school has hired a new teach er from Colorado. He is a major in English and is also wrestling coach. pated was given a Junior Red Cross membership card. Mrs. Frances Henry, school librar ian is the teacher representa tive to the Junior Red Cross. Connie Berryman is chair man, and her cochairman is Carol Adams. This is the first year Eagle Point has participated in this activity although the elemen tary school has been active for several years. Four men with strange in struments were seen on the school grounds recently, arousing the curiosity of the journalism class. They were found to be from Clark and Groff, engineers of Salem, and were surveying both the grade and high school sewer lines for connection to the planned city sewer system. Judo student Georgia Weid man and instructor . Larry Knulty were guests of the Eagle Point Girls' Athletic as sociation Dec. 1 to demon strate judo. Georgia is a 1959 graduate of the Eagle Point High school. They demonstrated hand holds, throws, and self de fense measures taught by the Medford Judo Academy. The name of each hold was given as it was demonstrated. Georgia tolk about the kinds of clothes that should be worn when beginning the lessons. She also explained the robe and other apparel she wore and how the white belt designated the lower class or beginner. She has taken les sons for one year. The black belt worn by Knulty repre sented the highest rank. The Girls' Athletic associa tion of Eagle Point attended a Girls' Athletic association volleyball-swimming play day at Klamath Falls recently. Mrs. Ardice Tilly, former English teacher at Eagle Point, was given a surprise shower recently, sponsered by the Sophomore Class. Approximately 30 girls at tended, including girls from all four classes, and women teachers. Mrs. Tilly will now live in Eugen.e, where her husband is attending the University, of Oregon. To take the place of Mrs. Artice Tilley, Douglas Harsh barger was recently employed as the English teacher in the Eagle Point High school. Harshbarger attended Colo rado State college for .four years and graduated wilh a bachelor's degree. He has previously taught English and coached at Drain, awl at Agate, Colo. A skating party sponsored by the Junior Red Cross was hold recently. Only those with membership cards were allowed to go on the school bus and get in for reduced rates. The Rollarina skating rink was the site of this event. The bus transporting the students left the school at 6:30 and re turned at 10:30. Approxi mately 50 students attended. More than 14 dollars was collected from contributions donated by Eagle Point High school students and faculty for the Junior Red Cross. This entitles the school to become ior Red Cross, and to receive the Junior Red Cross journal, a monthly magazine. Each student who partici- To acquaint the driver's training classes with the injur ies they could encounter in an automobile accident, first aid was one of the four sub jects studied during the first six "weeks period. Laws and regulations of the state, how the laws of nature operate and affect drivers and operation of the car were the other topics studied by the 17 students in each of the two driver training classes. Kalhy Meyer, second year student, Joan Callaghan, and Sonja Betts, first year stu dents, attended the Forest Grove speech tournament at Pacific university recently. They were accompanied by Glenn Foster, speech instruc tor. 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