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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD, ORE. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1981 A 5 SCHOOL NEWS Medford High School Edited by Sandy Shugart. Staff: . Mike Callan. Jim Stiger. A total of 215 Medford High students have gained first semester honor roll status. A grade point average of 3.5 is needed for the honor. Ninety-five seniors made the honor roll, followed by 64 juniors, and 56 sophomores. Seniors who made a 4.00 GPA or better are Nancy Hin man, Carolyn Finch, Martha Simpson, De Anne Taylor, Dale Peterson, Judy Sims, Carol Dyche, Roger Harris, Karen Christensen, Richard Ragsdale, Marilyn Shepard, Jack Winchester, Mary Kay Harris, Frank Balch, Ann Barker, Jim Frake, Linda Hess, Suzy Thompson, Mike Phillips, Donna Hussong, Ralph Lobdell, Gillian Du Croz, John McKinley, Joyce Roelfs, Fred Lorish, Karen Simcox, Margaret Childers, Jack Webster, Beverly Geb hard, Craig Miller, Jerry Winetrout, Rebecca Rowan, James Schmidt, Charles Holt, ' Phil Humphreys, Joe Beatty, Ray Stewart, Aundre Knut son, Linda Samuclson, Nancy Brown, Gordon Falk, Janet Hucners, and John James. Juniors who attained a 4.00 GPA are Vicky Enders, Joel Gregory, Carl Washburn, Sandy Shugart, Nick Gier, Jill Barnes, Susan Elder, Carol Wiegand, Jim Albright, Jo Ann Johnson, Julie Latham, John Alansky, Marsha Wat son, Richard Knights, Nancy Duncan, Dennis Gaster, Shar on Dixon, Ellen Montgomery, Susan Garner, Jon Jensen, Frank Graham, Nola Shurt leff, Claudia Owen, Norma Jenks, Karen Ekberg, Nona Donabue. Alger Marsh, Sheryl Lynn Martin, Robert Rutter, Mike Higgins, and Wally Huff man. A 4.00 GPA was earned by Sophomores Heather Rode, Doris Young, Sue Jahn, David Warren, Garner Haupert, Martha Graham, Sharon Koblik, Judy Hueners, Charyl Carver, Larry Sander, Susan House, James Arthur, Susan Baize Kay Ruck, Sherron Smets, Leslie Van Gordon, Carl Farner, Todd Jones, and Georgia Mitchcl. ' Two Thespians, Beverly Gcbhard and Mark Goodman, were named finalists in the recent Oregon State High School Drama conference at the University of Oregon. Mark was second place winner in men's acting. John Kovenz, Medford High baseball coach, called a meet ing last week of all boys inter ested, in playing baseball this year. About 40 boys attended the meeting. Practice offici ally began Feb. 13. Return ing Iettermen are Dick Rags dale, Bob Quinney, Jim Barry, and Herb Wheeler. Other play ers who saw varsity action last year are Craig Laurance, Ray Stewart, Art Ruhl, and Tim White. Wednesday, sophomores and Juniors received registration handbooks for next year in Paint With Wonderful Paints... So Easy To Use! 3 TmUMttTn ? ' "n iitu mW S&H GREEN STAMPS, TOOI Medford Paint & Wallpaper Store 6th & Holly Acrosi From P.O. Phone SP 2-9321 their English classes. All stu dents were urged to take the handbooks home and to dis cuss the material with their parents. Registration began Feb. 13 and must be com pleted by March 10. Phoenix Grade School Mrs. Jane Germers' first graders have been reading about rockets and satellites in their weeky reader. We have learned that rockets carry the satellites into space. Also, there are many kinds of rockets. We saw a picture of the X-15, which is a rocket plane. Each child drew a pic ture of a rocket or a satellite. The boys and girls have been reading library books for our book club. We received two new books, "A Big Ball of String," and "The Little Lion." We are working on addition facts and learning the days of the week. The children in Mrs. Annie Gertsons" room are studying a unit on the farm and corre lating it with our reading program by using pictures, writing, art work and per sonal experiences. S h e r i Payne has the mumps this week. D e b r a Stockburgor brought a honeycomb to school Thursday, it had some honey in it. We have a new girl in our room, Ellen Pfoff from Perryton, Tex. Rhonda Sanders and Ray mond Ayers are two new stu dents in Mrs. Alice Swingles' room. With the prize money we received from having the most parents present at the last Parent-Teachers associa tion meeting we bought a hand puppet, his name is "Witty the Owl." He helps us when we do phonics. Mrs. Fern Walker's second graders are studying electric ity. They were interested in knowing that a current of electricity is kept moving by electrons being pushed out of the atoms. For an art project, appropriate to the season, the children will be making some Dr. Seuss animals out of red paper hearts, put on a white background. In our study of weather in Mr r.ertrude Wooten's room, we have been watching for signs of spring. We are try ing to accumulate enough ma terials for a bulletin board on the subject. So far, one pair nf hlne birds has been sighted We have some pussy willows in our room and some cat kins from a nut tree: We are looking for some jasmine. We have discussed me iaci mov the days are getting longer. Mrs. Allene Bessonette's third grade students are plan ning murals to illustrate stor ies from their readers. Through the courtesy of Mark Wilson our room was hosts to a family of Muo Musculus. The family consisted of the mother and six nursing in fants. Study of these animals consisted of observation and a question and answer period conducted by their owner. t m, i ..hMr Scott's third erade room the children made boats, cars, birds, animals and nih thlnes of modeling clay this week. For free play the boys have a game called 50" football. One boy kicks and nil the others try to catch the ball for scores. When one ann he is the kicker. The seven girls in the room are bringing their do' to school. For science we are learning about the moon and the stars. Lonnie Harris rode on the moon, which was a chair with rollers. A big can nn the floor was the earth, j T aurine Anderson was the sun. Mrs. Scott pushed the moon around the earth to show how the sun's light shines on the moon to make a full moon, half moon, the arior; and a new moon We also talked about rockets to the moon. In Martha Brown's third grade we have been learning to write personal letters. We wrote letters to our parents inviting them to Parent- Teachers association. In social studies we have been learn- FUNERAL INSURANCE The Oregon State Funeral Directors' Association (about 130 members) heartily recommends the Oregon Fu neral Plan Insurance to you. It's wise to investigate now. May we assist you? LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 C. M Litwiller MM ing how to be safe, and happy. We acted out ways accidents between cars and bicycles can nappen. This month our Read ing Tree is growing hearts, one for each book we read. Melinda Burrell, Vicki Rag land, and Andrea Nikodym each had over ten Autumn leaves for library books read last six weeks. Mrs. Brown read "Many Moons" to us. We are glad so many of us bought tickets to the play. For art we made crayon scribbles which we covered with black ink and had surprise colors for our schatch design. Come and see our art gallery. The science class in Mrs. Zuba Stacks room did an ex periment by balancing a yard stick on a small board ex tending over the edge of a table, an empty rubber bal loon was added at one end, and one filled with air at the other. It was decided and proved that air does have weight. Other experiments were done to show that air has pressure. We also proved that fire will not burn with out air, by placing a glass jar over a lighted candle and watching the result. Mrs. Ardis Pramann's fourth grade was pleased to find that this weeks S'. nd- ard School Broadcast was about Egypt and the Nile river. We have been studying about this great oasis in Af rica, and making large pic tures of desert life. We have found many stories about desert people, and decided to make a play about one story. The planning committee for our play are Mitch Burrell, Mona Abbott and Janis Bar ker. We have a new student, Donald Russell from Tor- rence, Calif. Elk Lodge, will be held Thurs day, Feb. 23. In appointive offices, Eagle Point will provide the health officers, 4-H agent for girls, veteran's service officer, civil defense director, secretary to the county court, and a lab technician. The elective offices for Eagle Point are circuit judge No. 2, county commissioner, district attorney, and the county school superintendent. The number of offices given to each school is based on the population of the school. The purpose of the student government day is to give junior and senior students the opportunity to complete the cycle of electing representa tives to county offices. Students will spend Thurs day with their respective officers, learning their daily procedure and the work they do. In the afternoon, students will tour points of Interest concerning county govern ment, including the court house and juvenile home. Ten new students have en rolled in school since the be ginning of the second semes ter, and eight have transferred or dropped. New juniors are Larry Clag gett, Salem; Marvin Case, Bill ings, Mont.; Dennis Hile and Marlene Peck. Now sophomores are Dewey Lockman, Phoenix, and Kathy Robertson, Crater High school, Central Point. Dennis Robertson, Central Point, and Kathy Cain, Bill ings, Mont., are new fresh men. Students who are transfer ring or leaving school are Dennis Sloan, Bob Adams, Florence Oscar, Nancy Atkins, Ricky Van Leuven, Bill Clark, Nancy Blackman and Jan Richey and Barbara Wilson. In Mrs. Agnes Rupp's room everyone is working hard to improve the weak spots that appeared on our last report cards. The "Leopards" have been the highest scoring team in our intramural basketball games. The students of Wallace Eri's room have started to study the western states. There will be reports on many historical factors of the west ern States. Ruth Watson and Stanley Watson will make an enlarged map of them. Doro thy Marquess and Stanley Watson have completed an en larged portrait of Abraham Lincoln. ! Karen Kelly and Larry Thomas have complet ed an enlarged portrait of George Washington. These pictures are being used as dis play for our bulletin boards. The intramural basketball games have met the halfway point as there arc about two weeks left. New officers for the second semester are; pres ident, Glcnda Daugherty; vice president, Larry Roy; secre tary, Ruth Watson; treasurer. Karen Kelly; sergeant at arms, Stanley Watson. school seniori planning to at tend college. The tests are required as a preliminary to attending any of the private and top rated colleges. Although no Oregon college will keep a student out of school if he has not taken the tests, the student may find some difficulty in entering any Oregon school except Ore gon Technical Institute and Eastern Oregon college. Alice Woolfolk, a senior at Eagle Point High school, re cently attended the fourth an nual 4-H Club Government conference in Salem. Alice was one of two delegates from the county. The other delegate was Terry Gail of Gold Hill. A total of 66 delegates attend ed the conference. i Commenting on the. 4-H conference, Alice expressed the feeling that by meeting legislative members and see ing them in session, she gained a clearer understanding of the statrVj government. "Curious Savage," written by John Patrick, will be pre sented March 2 and 3 by stu dents from the Drama club. The cast for the "Curious Savage" includes Mrs. Sav age, Narsga Pykkey; Fairy May, Ellen Hay; Miss Wilhel- mina, Loretta Whipple; Flor ence, Jjonna uoren; Lilly Belle, Glenda Albert; Mrs. Paddy, Nancy Walton; Sena tor Titus Savage, Glen Grat slnger; Jeffery, Wayne Os wald; Hannibal, Kenneth Paul son. The parliamentary team of the Eagle Point FFA chapter won over seven other teams in the parliamentary division of the district meeting at Pa cific High school recently. Members of the team in cluded Steve Geren, chair man, Elvin Hawkins, Don Pestka, Dale Vaughan, Ever ette Adainson and John Pat rick. Alternates were Dick Calloway and Victor Halsey. Steve Geren placed second in the public speaking contest. Elvin Hawkins received a trophy for third place in the "Better Farming Contest" in which he participated last .summer. Marvin Cothrin received third place in the "Farmer Cooperative Contest" spon sored by the Oregon Coopera tive Council. The new class officers for the second semester in Mrs. Kathryn Stancliffe's room are: president, Donald Whit man; vice president, Joan Dube; secretary, Judy Blake; treasurer, Lynn Thomas; ser geant at arms, JoAnn Smith. Our class was happy to wel come back Wayne Hartley who has been out of school with the mumps. Art activi ties have been centered around valentine decorations lately. A great deal of inter est has been shown in our shell collection and we have many different objects from the sea shore which have mo tivated many research reports. Charles Raymonds present ed a program of science and music for the National School assembly recently. He was as sisted by Steve Geren, vice president of the Eagle Point student body, in his demon strations. The fifth annual Pops Con cert of the Eagle Point High school band under the direc tion of Charles Martin was presented recently in the grade school gymnasium. Included in the program were several selections from current Broadway hits such as Rodeers and Hammcrstein's "The Sound of Music" and "Broadway". During the concert, refresh ments consisting of cookies and punch were served by Jackie and Joey Hume and Jaime Calloway. Approximately 100 persons attended. LEAVES IN HUFF Pueblo, Colo.-OIPD-The local welfare office reported Tues day that an elderly man who redeemed federal food stamps for a box of commodities left in a huff because he didn't get any trading stamps with the free groceries. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TP7HO SAYS the current crop of teenagers lacks senti- ment? Biggest selling valentine card this year in the Siigh school set showed a monster on the' cover and the legend "I may look like a dope . . ." The message concluded on the inside with . . . "but I'm smart enough to steer clear of you!" Runner-up beseeched on the cover, "Come fly away with me." Inside was added, "We'll use YOUR broomstick.' , A high-priced Hollywood star had just realized a Ufa ambition: he had atarred in a production of "Ham let." Backstage a raise friend assured him warmly, "You outdid yourself tonight, old boyl First time you've ever been funny without being vulgar!" There's a cute chorus girl at a local night club who avers she prefers a man with a will of his own provided, of course, that it's made out in her favor. 1961, by Bonnett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate 3 Bridge, Road Bonds To Be Separated Salem-IUPn-The House High ways Committee Tuesday or dered amendments to make a proposed S24 million Astoria Mcgler bridge and a proposed $4 million bond issue for Highway 42 clear and distinct from each other. The idea, according to Chairman William Holstrom (D-Gearhart), is that each would "pass or fail on its own merits." The two projects were tied together In a single bill two years ago. They remained re lated in measures introduced this session one to clear the way for the bridge, the other to "unfreeze" $4 million for Highway 42 by deleting a matching fund requirement. DISH WASHING Chicago - An average American housewife washes more than 2,500,000 dishes in a lifetime, or several stacks as high as the Empire State building. Guidance Workshop Set at College Ashland A guidance and admissions workshop, sponsor ed by the college entrance ex amination board and Southern Oregon college is being held on the SOC campus today. Dr. H. A. Cloer, director of guidance services, has an nounced. The workshop is being con ducted by T. Leslie MacMit chell and Robert G. Cameron, director and assistant director, respectively, of the regional office of the college entrance examination board, in Palo Alto, Calif. The workshop has been di vided into two groups to dis cuss particular cases of candi dates for college admission. The cases have been selected to illustrate admission pro cedures, test interpretation, and financial aid practices. College admission officers have been invited to partici pate as resource persons. A luncheon was served at the Mark Antony hotel at 12:15 p.m. with Dr. Arthur Krisman speaking on "The Honors and Advance Place ment Programs In Our College." CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS AGENCY Takes This Way of Thanking All of You For Your Loyal Patronage During 1960 and Looks Forward to Serving You Even better in 1961. - NEW LOCATION -1807 West Main Street Plenty of parking space. Former address for 12 years - 314 E. 6th St. Mimeographing Mailing Addressing Notary Public Bookkeeping Income Tax Service j Will pick up and deliver Work Call or drop ut a line Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1465 Telephone SP 3-7155 This summer, aptitude and achievement tests are to be given in Medford for all high Mrs. Litwiller I Ashland's Leading Funeral Director Sinci 1W In Lloyd Hale's room we have been drawing volcanoes or the colorful carts of Costa Rica. We are studying about Costa Rica and we note the many similarities between them and the U.S. The people that settled there were farm ers and the Indians that were there were put on reserva tions. They produce coffee, bananas, cocoa and sugar. We had our class meeting and elected our committees for our Valentine party. The class club held its reg ular meeting Feb. 7 in Mrs. Gladys Sloan s room. Ted Bar ker presided since the presi dent was helping in the of fice. Judy Hemingway and Claude Campbell presented the program in observance of Lincoln's birthday and Valen tine's day. Ted Barker, Mar lene Campbell and Marcia McGeary played piano solos. Dale Phillips, Judy Shearin, Becky Bertrand, Stephen Lewis and Judy Hemingway read poems and a song was sung by Karen Bolz, Linda Rasmusscn, Becky Bertrand Marlene Campbell and Marcia McGeary. The sixth grade Wake up rarintogo without nagging backache Nowl You can gel Ihe fast relief you need Irom nagging backache, headache and muscular aches and pains (hat often cause restless nights and miserable tired-out feelings. When these discom forts come on with over-exertion or stress and strain you want relief -svanl it fast! Another disturbance may be mild bladder irritation following girls arc learning volley ball wrong food and drink -often setting nHor ih rfirr.linn nf Mr. i UP a restless uncomfortable feeling. DeVore, our student teacher. ! v,??? A new girl in our room is ; to ease torment of nagging backache. 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