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' iLast Thursday we went lo one of the "Lights on for
Education" programs, only to receive a strange greeting.
When we showed up in the library of Medford High school,
someone said "Oh, dear, we were hoping for another parent
and here you turn out to be only a reporter." Since we
knew at least half of the assemblage pretty well, and some
of them very well, we didn't mind. At that, we should have
topd up for our rights and reminded everyone that we are
both a parent and a reporter.
:As it turned out, we didn't do a very prompt job of re
porting on the meeting. For one thing, we went for informs
tion for ourselves as much as to report for others, and for
another, Friday and Saturday this reporter is a full-time
society writer and doesn't have an extra minute for "straight
news." In spile of the small attendance five up front
and about twice that number in the audience, it turned out
to be an extremely interesting session and this reporter
parent learned a good deal.
Attorney Frank Van Dyke was the first speaker on the
panel, and since he has served on a number of education
boards and committees, including the important Western
Inter-State Commission for Higher Education, what he had
to say was impressive. Mr. Van Dyke said Oregon is a
progressive state when it comes to education, and that there
is Increasing pressure from its citizens for improvement and
expansion of higher education facilities. He pointed out that
because California has an extensive junior college system,
and Oregon does not, large numbers of Oregon students
are. going lo our sister state for their first two years of
college. Before the time comes when California can' no
longer accommodate these students, Oregon better do some
thing, he advised. He pointed out that a good junior college
can offer further liberal education for the high school
graduate, terminal courses for those who want only two
years beyond high school and that the idea of an additional
two years of public school education is attracting more and
more support. . . ;
Attorney Van Dyke talked about Oregon Technical in
stitute, said it wasn't turning out to be the sort of institution
It was originally planned to be, and said "Oregonians better
take a long, hard look at what's happening In Klamath
Falls and decide if the school is offering what the stale
needs." He added that the new Portland State college is
growing rapidly, said the community college at Bend is
doing a good job and that residents of the Coos Bay area
are working towards a junior college for that area.
Mr. Van Dyke said in his opinion the graduate program
at the University of Oregon and Oregon State college should
remain and expand and that the liberal arts courses at
other schools should be strengthened.
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Then the Medford attorney gave way to Chester Squires,
SOC education professor, Ashland. Mr. S. said that it is
the aim of the teaching profession to provide a competent
teaoher In every classroom. The five years of higher educa
tion now demanded for those who teach on the secondary
and. higher levels will soon be extended to elementary
teachers, he declared. "No so long ago anyone that was
breathing could teach school," said Mr. Squires, wryly. "It's
no longer true." A national accrediting agency is being de
veloped, standards are rapidly being raised and the teaching
profession must assume the responsibility for policing its
own ranks, he added. As it is now, the profession has no
control over Its own standards, according to the Ashland man.
Also on the panel was Mrs. Maxine Smith, (often in
these columns as our good friend, Teacher Maxine) a former
Oregon Education association president and a member of
the state committee which planned the "Lighls On" pro
gram. Teacher Maxine talked about education and the wel
fare of children and youth. Two areas particularly need
attention, she said one being the children of migrant work
ers, and the other an expanded program for the retarded
child. She added that, contrary to the statement of some,
Oregon does need, to pay more attention lo migrant children
and instead of being complacent about the 1000 that were
enrolled in Oregon schools last year, should hunt out the
hundreds more that were missed.
. This teacher also said that there is need for betler educa
tion! facilities for children at Fairvlew home and that more
teachers need to be trained for this work.
Mrs. S. touched on legislation needed In Ihe field of con
trolling the distribution of obscene literature, for highway
safety rules, for a program to emphasize leaching about
the culture of other countries, for youth employment studies
and for recodification of Oregon laws dealing with children
and youth.
, Mrs. Lenore Zappel, MHS drama teacher, kept the ball
rolling with Introductions and DeVcre Taylor, speech teacher,
aparked a lively discussion period by asking if Oregon had
any real philosophy of education a blue print, or "Is
education Just growing In Oregon, like Topsy?" Someone
maybe it was Mr. Van Dyke asked "Are we spending too
much money on highway construction and too little on
education?"
, From time lo time we hear a parent complain thai teach
ers don't "just teach" any more that they exercise too
much control over the public school system, Of course, last
Thursday was just one instance, but of the 15 people at
this meeting, where there was much lo be learned about our
school needs, 12 were either teachers, or Ihe wives or hus
bands of teachers. Of the oilier three, two were parents or
we presume they were and the last was Ihe parent-reporter.
O.S,
Mademoiselle magazine's I960 Merit
Award winners, honored for signal achieve
ment during the past year: (1) Patricia Bath,
scientist: (2) Lynn Seymour, dancer; (3) Jane
Powell Rosenthal, archaeologist; (4) Eliza
beth Seal, actress; (5) Wilma Rudolph, ath
lete; (6) Susan Greenburg.i photographer;
(7) Lee Bontecou, sculptress; (8) Julie Isles,
fashion designer; (9) Elaine May, critic;
(10) Helen Jean Rogers, television producer.
Teen-Age Scientist Is Named
One of 4 Year's Young Women'
New York, N. Y. - Patricia
Bath, a Hunter college fresh
man, who has been absorbed
in science since childhood, is
the youngest of today's win
ners of a 1960 Merit Award
from Mademoiselle magazine
she has just turned 18.
For the 18th successive year
awards were presented to ten
young women under 30 "who
have already distinguished
themselves in their fields and
are expected to achieve even
greater honors," according to
Betsy Talbot Blackwell, Ma
demoiselle's editor-in-chief.
Cancer research became Pa
tricia Bath's field when she
was chosen while slill in high
school to participate in a sum
mer science training program
at Harlem hospital. There she
studied the effects of strepto
mycin residue on bacteria.
The results, indicating that
cancer is a general tearing-
down rather than a local
building-up process, were cor
related with studies by an
other teen-ager, Arnold Lent-
nck, and presented last fall
lo the Fifth International Con
gress of Nutrition. Her work
has opened up new and po
tentially fruitful avenues to
the understanding and treat
ment of cancer.
The achievements of the
other "young women -of the
year" (as they are featured
in January Mamcmoiselle)
range from headline perform
ance in sports and the lively
arts lo signal accomplishment
in archaeology, photography,
fashion, sculpture, They are:
L,ynn beymour, a 21-year-old
Canadian, who has be
come the newest and fastest
rising star of the Royal Ballet.
When the Sadler's Wells com
pany (later Ihe Royal Ballet)
came through her native Van
couver on lour in 1953, she
successfully auditioned for
their school, studied for two
years, then joined the louring
company. During these travels
her Odetle - Odile in Swan
Lake made a deep impression
on all who saw it. She re
turned lo London, no longer
a cygnet but a swan, Her
American debut last fall
prompted one critic to say
lhat her "inborn grace and
fluency" reminded him of Da
nilova and Alonso.
Jane Powell Rosenthal, a
museum curator and field ar
chaeologist who specializes in
pre-Columbian American cul
tures. After a trip to the Mid
dle East during her junior year
at Skidmore, she decided to
make archaeology her career,
learned field techniques at the
University of Arizona, later
dug for remains of Neander
thal man in Israel. In 1950,
as assistant curator of Primi
tive Art and New World Cul-
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tures at the Brooklyn Museum
she prepared a much-praised
exhibit, "Ancient Art for the
Americas." The Ford Founda
tion awarded her a fellowship
in 1960, enabling her to main
tain her own dig in the south
of Mexico.
Elizabeth Seal, a slightly
kooky 26-year-old English girl
who arrived in New York this
fall to become Broadway's
newest star. As Irma la Douce,
the fresh-faced darling of Pi-
galle, she melted the hearts
of the critics. Before her de
but here she was Irma in Lon
don. When a broken ankle
ended an earlier dream of a
career in ballet, she cut a
lively caper on a chorus line.
Ten years after her first mu
sical she is an international
star who "can act . . . can
sing . . . can dance like a
whirlwind.
Wilma Rudolph, who sprint
ed her way through the 1960
Olympics to become not only
the first American woman
ever to win three gold medals
but the only track or field
athlete of either sex to earn
that many in Rome. Crippled
until she was seven, she took
up basketball to strengthen
her legs and had become a
high school star before it was
plain that she was an in
credibly speedy runner. Now
at Tennessee Agricultural and
Industrial State college, Nash
ville;, planning to teach, she
keeps up an interest in crip
pled children. Her dignity.
poise and fine sportsmanship
have earned her world-wide
affection and respect.
Susan Greenburg, who ex
plores with a sensitive dis
passionate and witty camera
the world of the young today.
A graduate of Sarah Law
rence and Yale's School of
Fine Arts, she has caught
thousands of elusive moments
in life on American campuses,
has followed students to jazz
festivals, gone on the road
with Hie beats, photographed
the angrics in England, dope
addicts in slums, pocls in
their pads, painters in coffee
houses. She's now in Africa,
photographing wild game for
a Paramount movie and inci
dentally doubling for the star
in action shots.
Lee Bontecou, sculptress,
who is considered to be one
of the most exciting and origi
nal newcomers to the art
world by museums and pri
vate collectors alike. Born in
Providence, R. I,, she studied
at New York's Art Students
League, spent 1957 and 1958
in Italy on a Fullbright, won
an award for her bronze bird
sculptures and hud her first
one-man show in 1959. She
then turned to a radical form
of abstraction: canvas and
steel construction that "ere
ates a disturbing and eerie
poetry of space.
Julie Islos who designs sim
ple clothes in an unerring
tasle thai has no price tag
She learned her craft by ab
sorbing everything in sight
while she worked in public
relations for a designer and
as a fashion coordinator. To
learn how to design sports
wear herself, she went to its
best source, Italy; watched,
studied, practiced; then did
a' collection for an Italian
fabric designer that she sold
to American stores. For two
years she has done collections
for Mr. Mort Sportswear that
are remarkable for their
strong sense of fabric and
color.
Elaine May whose rumina
tive satire on every species of
human folly is a marvel.
When she and her partner
(now husband) Mike Nichols
go into the realm of political
comment they are the fun
niest and deadliest of critics.
They met at the University
of Chicago where, in an im-
provisational theatre, they be
gan their extemporaneous
deadpan play with phrases
and ideas. In 1957 they came
to New York, obscure and
broke; within weeks they
were being hailed locally,
then via television nationally.
Their opening on Broadway
last fall was a roaring success.
Helen Jean Rogers who as
a producer in ABC Televi
sion's Special Projects depart
ment has seen more of the
world in its more violent mo
ments than she ever reckoned
She left an instructorship in
political theory at Harvard
lo enter television because
she wanted a more active life.
She has since dodged bullets
in Poland, Bolivia and Cuba;
ridden elephants and walked
with Gandhi's spiritual suc
cessor in India; interviewed
the King of Nepal, and Castro
(not to mention serving as
his interpreter at a Washing
ton news conference); has just
returned from Africa . and,
who knows, may be the first
woman on the moon.
WAC Sergeant
To Visit Medford
A Women's Army corps
sergeant, Alberla A. Wurth,
will be in Medford Thursday,
January 12, to interview
young women interested in
joining the corps. Sgt. Wurth
will be at the United Slates
Army recruiting station al
the Post Office building.
To be eligible, women must
be high school graduates and
single.
Choice of career fields as
sures the applicant specialized
schooling or on-the-job train
ing in clerical, procedures
medical and dental, commun
ications, photography, stenog
raphy and supply fields. Ihe
earlier a young woman ap
plies, the belter are her
chances for obtaining her
choice of career field, Sgt
Wurth slates. Further infor
mation may be obtained by
calling Sgt. Warren M. Long,
SPring 2-5022.
Social Events
Women's News
Opera Cast
Announced
Final rehearsals are under
way this week for the fairy
opera, ' 'Hansel and Gretel"
which the Philharmonic Soci
ety of Southern Oregon will
present this week end. The
first performance will be Sat
urday, January 14, at 8 p.m.,
and the second Sunday after
noon at three o'clock.
Sylvia DeVoss will sing the
role of Gretel, and Lois Utter
back, Fresno, Calif., Hansel.
Sue Boe will be heard as the
mother, and Maynard Hadley
will sing the role of the fath
er. Violet Hunter will be the
witch, Julie Gandt is cast as
the Dew Fairy and Diana
Hunter as the Sandman.
The chorus of children who
are brought back to life in the
last act of the opera will be
pupils of Ray Lewis, vocal
instructor at McLoughlin Jun
ior High school. Angels who
watch over Hansel and Gretel
will be pupils from the Col
leen Hope Dance studio, and
Miss Hope is the choreographer.
Richard D. Werner, director
of the Philharmonic orchestra,
is rehearsing the orchestra
and Bruno Pellegrini has been
coaching the principals.
The Philharmonic guild will
serve refreshments between
acts. Tickets are on sale at
schools and the box office.
Bethel To Hold
Dinner, Dance
A number of coming events
are on the schedule of Bethel
69, International Order of
Job's Daughters.
The bethel will hold a din
ner dance at Rogue Valley
Country club January 13 from
7 to 11:30 p.m. Tickets may
be purchased from the line
officers, or the bethel guard
ian. Mrs. John F. North, be
fore the dance.
Installation of officers and
choir will be held Saturday,
January 21, at the Masonic
temple at 7:30 p.m. The public
is invited to attend. Practice
for installation will be held
that morning at 9:30 o'clock.
All officers and choir mem
bers are lo attend. It is stated
that a committee will be at
the temple Thursday, January
19, from 6:30 until 9 p.m. to
issue robes.
At the last meeting Fred
Purdin, representing the Scot
tish Rite Masons, sponsoring
body of Bethel 69, newest in
the valley, was escorted and
honored. Also honored were
L. R. Manning, associate grand
patron for Oregon; Mrs. C. D.
Elhart, past grand guardian
and Mrs. W. K. Suit, grand
guide.
Judy Fogelquisl, Annette
Flinn and Leslie Carpenler
were initiated.
Proficiency c e r t i f i calcs
were presented lo 18 mem
bers. A total of 22 members
have now passed the test.
Sunshine Girls
To Hold Party
Pythian Sunshine Girls,
Talisman Rosebud council,
will meet Thursday, January
12, at 7 p.m.
Because of the fog on De
cember 22, the council's meet
ing and Christmas party was
postponed.
The party will be held
Thursday after a short bust
ness meeting. Members are to
bring gifts not exceeding 35
cents in cost for exchange.
Applcgate - Recent visitors
in the Mason Anderson home
were Willard Parsons and Ed
ward Lillquist of northern
Idaho. The men are uncles of
Mrs. Anderson.
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Parents Group
Starts Project
Hornbrook - A plan lo land
scape and beautify the west
side of the Hornbrook school
yard was under discussion as
a yearly project when the
Parents' club held their first
meeting of the new year at
the schoolhouse Jan. 5.
The meeting was conducted
by the president, Mrs. George
Smith, with two teachers,
Mrs. Ruth Cummins and Miss
Phyllis Bird as hostesses. A
kitchen shower for the bene
fit of the school kitchen will
be held at the next meeting
on February 2, when the
hostesses will be Mrs. Morris
Wood and Mrs. James Dicki
son. Mrs. Ruth Cummins' third
and fourth grade room, won
the room count. A visitor at
Thursday's meeting was Miss
Marilyn Bruns, new Siskiyou
county school nurse, who ad
dressed the group briefly, and
answered health questions
pertaining to children.
Club Plans
Hobby Show
Talent - Talent Federated
Women's club, a member of
the Oregon Federation of
Women's clubs, will sponsor a
hobby show Saturday, Jan
uary 28, from 2 to 8 p.m. at
the Talent City hall. Anyone
wishing to display a hobby is
asked to phone KEystone
5-1045 or KEystone 5-2770 for
information.
Mrs. Charles Tuggle and
Mrs. John Baldwin have been
appointed co-chairman.
There will be no admission
charge. Ribbons will be
awarded. A silver tea, food
sale and bazaar are planned
by the club to be held during
the show.
Cal.ndar nonuea and: news tor
the society section of The Mali
Tribune must be submitted In
writing and deadline lor the bun
day edition t 1 p m Friday Dead
line for the weekly calendar 19 0
a m of the day of publication and
for week day news is 5 p.m. uw
dav before publication-
Tuesday:
6:30 p.m.-Medford Board of
Realtors and the Women's
Council, Dardanelles.
7:30 p.m.-Bethel 55, Mason
ic temple.
7-:tn n.m. -Night lighters
Home Extension unit, home of
Mrs. C. L. Walters, 855 Beau
i lane.
7:30 n.m.-Royal Neighbors
of America, Knights of Pyth
ias hall.
7:30 p.m.-Women's Associa
tion ot First fresoyicnaii
church circles: Candlelight-
Vesper, with Mrs. John Hatch,
944 Whitman ave.
7:45 D.m.-W i 1 s o n Park
Home Extension unit, home of
Mrs. Oliver Smeltz, 1049 In
grid st.
8 p.m.-Nevita chapter, Or
der of Eastern Star, ucnirai
Point Masonic temple.
8 p.m.-Pythian club of the
Pythian Sisters, home of Mrs.
Harry Bryant, 1312 Keaay
ave.
8 p.m.-Roguette circle, Mili
tary Order of Lady augs,
VFW hall. .
8 p.m.-Women's Guild of
Zion Lutheran church, church
fireplace room.
Wednesday:
10:30 a.m.-Medford Home
Extension club, Santo hall.
11 a.m.-Medford Townsend
club, Walker's Dreamland,
415'z East Main st.
12 n o o n-Mislleloe club
Girls Community club.
12:30 p.m.-Chapter AA of
PEO Sisterhood, home of Mrs
Oscar Heyerman, 125 Winema
Way.
12:30 p.m.-Women of Ro
tary, with Mrs. R. A. Naumes,
620 Oakdale ave.
1 p.m.-Little Garden' club,
home of Mrs. Walter Mar
quess, 889 Morrison ave.
1:30 p.m.-Oak Grove Neigh
borhood club, home of Mrs. E.
G. Trowbridge, 3237 Jackson
ville highway.
1:30 p.m. - Table Rock La
dies club, home of Mrs. Ever
ett Brown.
Town&nd Club
Starts "Write"
McdfcMl Townsend club
plans to oegin iu
"write." The club is ouseiv
ig a "write to your congress
man" week and members aia
all being urged to pen a let
ter urging congressmen to
work for the club's old-aga
pension plan.
The Medford club and aux
iliary meet each Wednesday
at 12 noon at Walker's
Dreamland, 415'a East Mam
street. A potluck luncheon is
held, and visitors are wel
come. Last week the auxiliary
membership chairman, Mrs.
Pearl Austin, reported two
new members, and four visi
tors attended the session.
Dancing followed the busi
ness session. Musicians wera
Mrs. Ellen Townsend, Aslv
land; Woody Murphy and Eu
gene Edwards of Ihe Jack
son Creek orchestra.
Valley View Unit
To Hold Meeting
Mrs. H. B. Chapman and
Mrs. Paul Creel will lead dis
cussion on "Understanding
People" with emphasis put on
family life and guiding the
adolescent, at a Valley View
Extension Unit meeting Fri
day, January 13.
The meeting will be at tha
Valley View schoolhouse at
10:30 a.m. followed by a pol
itick luncheon. Table servica
is required.
The meeting is open to
everyone interested.
Past Presidents
To Hold Meeting
Mrs. Primo Ciardi will ba
hostess for a meeting of past
presidents of the Ladies' aux
iliary, Crater Lake aerie, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, Fri
day, January 13. It will ba
held at her home, 40 Quince
street, at 1:30 p.m.
A business meeting will fol
low dessert.
Medford Lady Lions
Announce Meeting .
Medford Lady Lions will
meet at the home of Mrs.
John Henson, 2000 Wester
lund drive, Wednesday, Janu
ary 11 at 7:30 p.m.
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