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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1967
Page
7
Linganore High School invites the public to an 8 PM freshmen sponsored Variety Show in the school auditorium. Students and teachers perform while faculty judge. Prizes are gift certificates from the school paperback book store. A bake sale runs in the lobby.
Middletown High School seniors rehearse for the April production Father Was A Housewife. Director Miss Elizabeth Palmer assists Mrs. Helen Zeigler. Cast includes Julie Seachrist and Doug Butler with a long list of classmates and staff roles.
Eleventh grade art students at Middletown High School created a nine by fifteen foot sensory mural in the art room as part of an actions painting unit. Under teacher Rodney E. Gates the group used paints cotton, newspaper and shaving cream, then attached soiled objects and props. A pear was added for scent and a gong-like device introduced for audio as the mural reached completion after a 30 minute session.
St Joseph's High School announced its Hearts Dance King Robert Eckert Queen Brenda Lowe Prince Eddie Buffington and Princess Kate Sanders on Feb 3. Winners are seniors Eckert and Lowe with promising futures at Mt St Mary's Emmitsburg and Mary’s College while Buffington and Sanders, from Taneytown, plan further studies and careers in sports nursing and cosmetology.
A new education kit prepared by the U S Office of Education offers information on federally supported financial aid programs for students in any field. Titled Financial Aid for Students Guides to Federally Supported Programs, the kit includes details on the guaranteed loan program and other Office of Education administered programs. Available by writing the Division of Student Financial Aid, Bureau of Higher Education, U S Office of Education, Washington DC 20202.
A fragment notes Moscow introducing the first Soviet miniskirt. The design features a hem only two inches above the knees, a bold contrast to British fashion that shows hems as long as eleven inches this season. The piece comments on radical and conservative fashion debates in Russia.
Benda Stup, a Damascus High School junior, was elected first vice president of the State Future Homemakers of America and automatically became president of the Montgomery Prince George's County region. She earned a trip to California and won the post after a January 28 luncheon at DuVall High School.
The Library Council of St Josephs High School in Emmitsburg sponsors a Book Jacket Contest. Seventh to twelfth graders may enter by designing a book cover and writing a brief summary. Prizes will be awarded to winners. Deadline is February 20.
Area schools announce Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow winners. Loretta Oland Frederick, Shirley Stroup Gov. Thomas Johnson, Christine Miller St Josephs, Ruth Smallwood Boonsboro, Kathy Jay Thurmont, Pam Lawson Damascus all placed first in school exams and advance to state and national contests. Sketches note their activities and college plans at Towson, Washington Hospital School of Nursing, University of Maryland, and Mt Marys among others.
Frederick High School sophomores sat the Metropolitan Achievement Test last week. Students completed sections in language mathematics reading social studies and science.
Judy Furie of West Frederick Junior High school is a 14 year old reporter for the School Notebook. Her fascination with human nature leads her toward clinical psychiatry and she balances her interests with pony care swimming ice skating and dancing. She is active in the Frederick Pony Club where she has won ribbons and trophies and serves as treasurer of her school's Future Teachers club while helping with the yearbook.
Susan Brust of Thurmont and Nancy Zimmerman of Walkersville are among Dean's List honorees. Cadet Michael Albert Powell of Frederick earned second honors with a 3.50 average at Randolph-Macon Academy. Cadet William Howard Bohn of Middletown made first honors with a 3.60. Powell attends Randolph-Macon and Bohn at Randolph-Macon Academy. Zimmerman is a Cedar Crest College senior majoring in political science in Allentown.
Virginia Harley Grove of West Second Street received a B S degree from St Louis University in St Louis Missouri at the February 5 mid year graduation exercises. She was among 513 students earning degrees.
Governor Thomas Johnson High School thespians invite donations of costumes and props for their collection. Junior Susan Fadley started the appeal to save finished designs and reuse them in future school productions. Donors may contact Mrs. Anna May Hughes or Susan for details.
Students from Mt. Airy Libertytown and RFD areas debate if romance and sentiment tie to Valentine’s Day now. They argue teens express feelings informally, prefer homemade cards, and view the day as increasingly commercial. A few defend Valentine traditions and personal gestures. Later, box office data notes 1966 highs for The Sound of Music and other classics, while The Birth of a Nation is cited as a landmark potentially earning over $50 million.
Jean Higdon was crowned Miss Chieftan 1966 67 at the February 4 dance sponsored by Boonsboro High School's Chief tan yearbook. Leonard V. Higdon of Knoxville, Jean is a chorus member and senior yearbook editor. Linda Mills finished second and sophomore Pat Smith third. Travners Ruppert, a WARK disc jockey, crowned Jean.
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