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Illili:! nilillMIMlil“Look Out World,” title of the television program presented by Ada High during the school year, is a phrase from the popular song* “Hey, Look Me Over”— which pretty well sums up the purpose of the program.Betty Barton, music teacher who has been chiefly responsible for the program since it began appearing on KTEN-TV last year, and Lucretia Chapman, new high school speech teacher who is helping with the planning and organization of the program this year, describe the show as being designed as a vehicle for acquainting patrons with what is going on at the high school as well as displaying some of the varied student talents.The idea of a. student-produced show to be shown over the Ada television station was born in Chicago but it took three years for the seed of an idea to bear visual fruit.Elton Stewart, Ada High principal, explains that he has wanted to produce such a show locally ever since he was in Chicago some years back for a meeting and happened to turn on a Chicago TV station just in time to catch a portion of such a show that was presented by the high schools in that area.“But then we had to wait three years before we added a teacher to the faculty that had the background, skill and enthusiasm for all the work involved,” Stewart says.That “someone” turned out to be Miss Barton, who joined the high school faculty last year and assumed, among numerous other duties, the responsibility for the proposed TV show.It proved to be a big job, too, with many extra hours of work involved not only in the actual production and taping of a particular show but many other hours of behind-the-scene planning and preparation. Making the ;ob even tougher was the fact that last year the show appeared weekly, whereas, this year a little more breathing time is provided with the show scheduled only every other Friday (time slot is from 4:30 to 5 p.m. on Channel 10).But even with the number of performances cut down, Miss Barton is obviously grateful for the help of a trained, professional speech instructor. As an indication of some of the variety Miss Chapman will be able to add to the program are proposed future shows that will include drama-class cuttings of scenes from various stage plays and an old-fashioned melodrama during the spring semester.Although both MLss Barton and Miss Chapman readily concede that the program probably draws most heavily on students with dramatic or musical skills, programs are planned to include as many students as possible, and as many varied abilities and talents as will adapt to a TV type of presentation.“One of our hardest problems is finding some way to include our very top students,” Miss Barton commented. “Unfortunately the students who make the top grades and that the school is proud of aren’t always the type who speak easily on TV or have any kind of talent that can be displayed on TV.”One solution to this problem — and a highly popular one — has been the frequent use of panel discussion programs during the year. Topics of particular interest and concern for teenagers are chosen, ranging from a discussion of how much it actually costs to operate a car to the educational problem of student cheating.During the school year, four other high schools in the KTEN viewing area will have their turn in the TV limelight Miss Barton said letters inviting participation were sent to 45 different schools in the area but the only schools responding favorably were Byng, Lindsay, Caddo and McAlester.It was Byng’s turn before the camera when the show appeared this past week with the other guest schools appearing during the year. Byng had planned a puppet show as well as other brief features, all on a medieval, or “Camelot” theme. Mrs. Dorothy Milligan was in charge of the Byng presentation.The show is taped on the Tuesday before the Friday showing and is rarely retaped unless there has been a really major goof or too-deadly a time lag.“It certainly doesn’t always turn out to the most polished performance that appears on KTEN and the students definitely have to be prodded into speaking*mup when they know that the show is being taped,7* Miss Barton concedes.Despite the occasional stiffness of student performers, however, she recalls only one major flub that actually made it to the viewing stage.Seems one of the programs last year was devoted to the study of proper etiquette and to lend veracity to the student demonstrations a real chicken dinner was set out.The etiquette lesson went smoothly, and properly enough except that it ended a minute or two short of filling all the on-camera time. Students involved were unaware of this bit of leftover time and, thinking the cameras were turned off, almost literally dived into the chicken props — with all the voraciousness of the typical teenager.Result: A brief but effective episode illustrating non-etiquette capped off the carefully rehearsed etiquette demonstration.Plans for the year’s series of television programs are not the only fine arts projects under way at Ada High as the school year gains momentum.Among her other duties as speech teacher for the senior high, Lucretia Chapman is busy with preparations for the first debate teams Ada High will put into competition for several years.Miss Chapman said she hopes to have teams ready to enter the annual debate tournament held at Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee on Nov. 18.Debate, once a highly popular activity at Ada High, but neglected for several years mainly because of the lack of an instructor, is expected to regain lost ground with the addition of Miss Chapman to the facnltv.Although the program is very much in the rebuilding stage at the present with no definite assignments made for the teams that will represent Ada in debate competition, Miss Chapman says there is a great deal of interest in the program and she looks forward to a day when Ada High will once more produce some of the top debaters of the area.Another area of activity for the new Ada High speech and drama instructor is the preliminary planning for the school’s first major production of the year — the stage presentation of “Harvey,” the well-known invisible 6-foot rabbit.Tryouts were held Wednesday and Thursday nights for roles in the all-school play, which will be presented Dec. 7 at the high school auditorium.W/////////////////////W///W///:NOW THRU TUES.bill'llMovie Menu| McSWAlNE ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO,^ Dean Martin, Jean Simmons.Nov. 2*8. 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