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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1962
Page
11
Teenagers in Middletown schools embrace bright fashion fads from hair bows and bulky cardigans to plaid shirts and corduroy slacks. Girls favor pinks greens and oranges while boys move from blues to browns and greens with crescent coats and casual shoes.
Middletown High School seniors heard Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Kramer outline indictment through verdict and appeal in a government class. He described jury selection, discussed compensation, and shared views on capital punishment while noting fear of punishment and lighthouse Solace. Betty Bender led scorers with 23 points as the team beat Hamilton Taft and Madison earlier. volleyball tourney and A and B debate squads headed to Centerville. Elmo Lingrel featured in a pep assembly with cheerleaders and the Middie Band.
The Middietts intramural scholastic basketball team defeated Hamilton Garfield by a narrow margin in a closely contested contest observed by local students and staff.
More than 100 outstanding area high school science students, their teachers and principals, will be honored at a dinner in Cincinnati marking the International Edison Birthday celebration. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg will be the principal speaker. CG&E and the International Edison Birthday Committee sponsor.
Middletown High School hosts College Admissions Night on Wednesday at 7 30 in the auditorium with Mrs Harry Gerlack Miami University director of admissions explaining college admission facts followed by a Q A. Two new scholarships Gardner Foundation and Ellis National Foundation offer awards to 1962 graduates showing character achievement leadership and need with amounts up to 1 500 for national most valuable student awards and 73 as applicable renewable college scholarship.
Results from Fenwick High School show Raymond Fay top in algebra 1, with Joe Pettebaum for geometry, Jay Dobrozsi in algebra 2, and Richard Von Holle in trigonometry. An electric pegboard bulletin board in Sister Mary Roger's room lights when correct answers are touched. Junior students discuss American Colonial literature in two classes, led by Sister Mary Alberta and moderators Jim D Varga Jack Guastaferro John Kraft Pat Rossi. Sophomore journalism students plan entries for Writer's Digest contest with each student choosing a topic for a feature article.
A program for eighth and ninth graders at Amanda Junior High will be held at 7 30 p m next Tuesday night. Counseling director Bennie Donald says the meeting helps parents learn about the high school program of studies and the importance of parental help in choosing classes for the next school year.
Dayton report says surplus Air Force equipment donated to schools and education activities rose to 47 million dollars in the first half of the current fiscal year. The Air Force notes the program supports education and related activities nationwide.
The Madison High School current events test covered outstanding past events. Top scorers included Wanda Majors, Gilbreath, Judy Wells, Carol Littman, Rebecca Kilburn, and Richard Lawson with Sally Thornberry among the younger top performers. The Senior Class plans to attend the Patriotic Youth Rally at Cincinnati Gardens on February 28 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Larry Brandenburg met with the junior class to discuss prom financing. The sophomore class, led by Spenser James Bowling, proposed a carnival to fund the 1963 prom.
In Des Moines Iowa a service station displays a sign demanding a 3 cent deposit from unknown customers and a 100 percent deposit from some familiar customers. The notice underscores a pricing or policy practice at the outlet.
The University of Chicago expands a small town high school outreach to recruit rural students for admission, easing entrance barriers and offering financial aid. Beginning with 25 rural schools, the program grew to 530 schools, enrolling 19 freshmen in the following year, with Lavonne and nine others joining in 1960.
New Zealanders consume more than double the butter per capita compared with Americans, indicating a strong national preference for dairy fat.
Lavonne Johecheck, 19, from a 160 acre Barron County Wisconsin farm, excelled at Rice Lake High School, graduating first in a class of 161 in May 1960, as University of Chicago talent searchers find promising recruits from rural schools.
Ohio State University will receive 75000 dollars and Case Institute of Technology 50000 dollars under a 3 million program by the Ford Foundation to aid doctoral engineering students preparing to teach. The grants address a growing shortage of qualified engineering teachers.
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