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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1958
Page
11
Local reports detail gatherings at Lynn Matheson and Amador High with students from Washington and Castro Valley Highs. Activities include dances, parties, beach trips, and club events, highlighting social life and student groups like Mother Daughter Banquets and the Teens activity canoe outing.
Valley High School will host Sparti Gras in the gym with senior class acts. Thursday and Friday at 8 pm showcase pantomimes, vocal selections, chorus lines, band and choir performances under director Guy Puccio. Special effects include black light with phosphorescent entertainers.
San Leandro High School plans to bring two more foreign students to the United States following Karin Wolf’s arrival last year. Prospective girls from Denman and Shel Hoy from southeast Asia would join two host families, the Walter McLeans and the Dave Beavers, whose suitability is being reviewed in New York. Peggy and Nancy Beaver remain students at San Leandro, while Dick Beaver recently graduated in 1957. Brice McLean also is an alumnus, having graduated in January 1938.
Kings and Queens of Schafer Park Teen Club plan a Friday variety show from 8 to 11 p.m. at Schafer Park School Hayward with acts from Hayward San Lorenzo and Arroyo High Schools. Admission 30 cents, under 12 35 cents. Contingent plans include a rummage sale to raise funds.
Six coeds at Sam Lorenzo High School carried bricks around campus on Thursday as initiates into the Girls' Block SU. The new members are Pat Crone Elizabeth Hartman Fay OConner Mikki Adams Virginia Dutra and Genevieve Stancer.
Marilyn Cheney and Sue Parker named general chairs for San Leandro High School senior ball on May 29. The event will adopt a Through the Looking Glass theme with the gym transformed into an oval space featuring oversized decor inspired by Lewis Carroll. Giant scenes, tiny mirror accents, a caterpillar, toadstool, fountain, and large scale playing cards will decorate the setting.
The Jamboree Teen Club schedules a May 12 roller skating party at Rollarena 15721 IE with St San Leandro. Hayward Area Recreation District sponsors the club which held an April 25 Barnyard Dance at San Lorenzo Community Center where Mike McGee and Susan Kobary won a special lemon dance prize.
Jim Smith student body president of Hayward High will take over mayor duties in City Hall replacing Frank Biggs. Stan Young will replace Doug Smith as city manager while leadership class participates in Student Government Day. Council posts go to Keith Bilter George Brown Barbara Bakke Pete Labrio Jim Rule Joe Stroud and Mike Rena. Twenty other students fill other city positions.
Valley High conducts student body elections with petitions open for president vice president secretary boys representative yell leader and head song girl posts. Campaigns run two weeks ahead of May 16 voting with candidate speeches May 17 in the gym and results announced at the Sadie Hawkins dance on May 16. Eligible Omiv students may vote at the polls.
The Castro Valley Hayward Kiwanis Club will announce a summer music camp scholarship at the Castro Valley Community Band Concert held in Hayward High School auditorium. The winner will be a Hayward High School music student enrolled in band or orchestra.
Musicians from Washington Union High School perform at the Berkeley Music Festival. Band Director William Cook leads both band and orchestra in the all day program with attendance by student ensembles.
Head yell leader Joan Huber and candidates for next fall's position Mardith Navone and Given Butler, with adviser Mrs. Marguerite Roberts of Hayward High School, attend a youth rally convention at San Jose State College. Other high schools send well leaders to exchange ideas on promoting school spirit.
The Washington stage presents Yodvil a May 14 15 in the auditorium at 8 11 p m featuring Princess Blackbow and her all girl Indian tribe. The plot centers on a pill peddler and encounters with Wild West characters. More than 200 students help produce the show directed by Joseph Roberts.
Last weeks runners up capture first with All I Have To Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers. Meredith Willson Music Man Broadway cast, South Pacific soundtrack, and This Is Sinatra Vol 1 tie for top album sales while David Seville Witch Doctor remains a strong second and Laurie London He's Got The Whole World nudges Twilight Time for third in a three way tie.
Livermore Joint Union High School girls Judy Flynn Marion Richardson Barbara Reitz Carol Besedict Darlene Russell attended a leadership conference at Asilimo last weekend accompanied by Joanne Brennan the associated girl student advisor. Transportation was provided by Mrs Arthur Grover and Ben Klus of PATS. The Livermore group joined a panel discussion Round Pegs in Round Holes on career choices with delegates from Associated Gil Students and exchange students from Austria Sweden Germany and Turkey attending and speaking.
The Associated Girl Students of Livermore Joint Union High School organize a Mother and Daughter Dessert and Fashion Show on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Junction Avenue Elementary multipurpose room to honor Mother’s Day. Forty three girls signed up. twelve chosen for modeling. Claudia Bothwell is general chairman with Gem committee chairs handling decorations, stage decor, fashion commentary, desserts, models, table favors, and corsages for mothers.
A government study cited by the Institute of Life Insurance finds that about half of high school girls marry by age 20 and nearly 90 percent by 30. Most working wives quit after childbirth, yet about 15 percent with young children continue to work. economic factors push families to save for college as children grow. The report emphasizes preparing for a career regardless of marriage plans.
Student body election will be held on May 2 at Arroyo High School with polls situated in each wing of the building.
Washington High School held an open house program where Huskies dominated the industrial arts awards. Top prize of 25 dollars went to the electrics project judged best. Students Stan Day Dale Lee Robert Souza John Tumath Gary Williams and Kyle Walker received ten dollar prizes for top class projects. Second place earned five dollars for Ellwood Keck Steven Passage Richard Rose and Mike Nordvik. Third place cups went to Steve Young Lee Shook and Melvin Holmes in the wood division. Other honors included print shop drafts and drafting awards for several students with merit certificates awarded to additional winners.
San Lorenzo High School held an assembly in the boys gym where candidates for student body offices spoke. Present officers introduced them, with time limits of 1.5 minutes for opposed candidates and 1 minute for unopposed. Voting will be Tuesday. all students may vote per student body president George Salmon.
Ten students from the political and judicial club at Castle Valley High will visit Judge Thorn in Foley's Municipal Court on Monday at 9:15 a.m. The field trip is sponsored by club advisor Richard Elliot, and will be taken by bus.
Castro Valley High School A Capella Choir earned one superior and three excellent ratings at the Vocal Music Festival held at San Francisco State College. Arroyo High School won superior ratings and tied in sight reading. Costa Valley High School, directed by Mrs. Phyllis Whagne, earned one superior and two excellent ratings for performance and one excellent rating for sight reading. San Lorenzo’s choir received superior and sight reading excellent ratings. The event, sponsored by the California Music Educators Association, featured 66 Northern California high schools and judges from Hollywood High, Stanford University, and Sacramento State College.
Amador High seniors have chosen a mystery comedy titled Stranger in Tre Night to be staged in the auditorium on May 15. The plot revolves around guests at the Boulevard Hotel who fear a murder among them, with the ensuing confusion driving the humor. Cast includes Daryl Halvorson, Dennis Krause, Mary George, Claire Trimmingham, Barbara Att, Taek Knox, and Mary Darrell.
Hayward High School Future Farmers of America members Buddy Edner and Jim Fletcher attend the annual FFA convention at California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo California during the weekend event.
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