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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1961
Page
7
The bop is fading as the Twist and other dances take the spotlight with the Continental Walk by the Rollers promising a hit tempo near the strolls. Annette Funicello's Dancel Annette offers instructions to dances like Rocka Cha and Glide, ideal for party icebreakers.
Delegates from five Long Beach public high schools and about 150 southern California schools will attend the annual California Scholastic Federation regional convention at Long Beach State College. Millikan High coordinates, LBSC leaders speak, and Seymour finalists are announced with two district award winners named.
Wilson Music Council presents the fourth annual Klub Kapers in the school auditorium Saturday at 7 p.m. Fourteen welfare clubs perform five to ten minute skits with entertainment between acts by Madrigals and Wilson ensembles. Three trophies award top clubs with judging by a panel, not audience.
Outstanding Jordan High students were honored at an awards assembly for scholastic abilities and achievements. California State Scholarship semifinalists include Norman Bross Max Butcher Frank Cope and others. winner may receive 300 to 900 dollars per year. Sharon Pride won Time Magazine Current Affairs Award, first time presented at Jordan. Gary Mills was a finalist for the National Merit Scholarship.
A color motion picture titled Richard 1 will be shown at Millikan High School as a free public program next Wednesday evening.
A school column surveys whether society shifts to teen tastes, noting teens drive fashion, media, and city life trends. Students Sue Turner and Sue San Elliott offer views on youth influence, while others warn of freedom versus responsibility as adults adapt. A Millikan High assembly viewed a color film of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Mayfair High announced nine seniors as winners in Bank of America Achievements Awards in specific and general fields. Gary Albers tops math and science, Jo Willett leads English and liberal arts, Karen Adams fields social studies, Joe Harkema in music, Dennis Curtis art, Sherry Gwin home economics, LaVonne Sage vocational arts, Judy Gooch foreign language, and Mike Cox laboratory science.
Sixteen Poly High seniors are among the 196 semifinalists in the California State Scholarship Commission annual awards program. They were chosen from 150 Poly applicants. The semifinalists include Steve Gilbert, Robert Menzies, Elizabeth Tingom, Jeffrey Fiskin, Bayle Emlein, Judy Stewart, Richard White, Susan Hansen, Greg Fuller, Eileen MacIndoe, Margaret Price, Lynn Gilroy, Peter Ross, Jack Gordon, Roberta Montine, and Dillon Scofield.
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