Gaithersburg High Expands Vocational Education
Montgomery County schools boost career prep during National Vocational Education Week. Gaithersburg High offers cosmetology and auto mechanics with 40 students enrolled, featuring a two year program integrating shop work and classroom instruction. The curriculum emphasizes industry needs, state codes, and cross-state recognition for licensed cosmetology.
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G- Burg
Torch
General Motors
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Fred Neef
Boonsboro Vo-Tech Nursing Caps and Local Honors
Boonsboro High School students in the practical nursing program received caps marking completion of the pre clinical phase. Dr A Dowling spoke at the ceremony. Joyce Kline won the Hetty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow award, with state and national scholarship prospects. The Sophomore Class announced a play The Gimmick, to be staged in March. Patsy Smith crowned Miss Chieftain 1969, fundraising for the yearbook continued.
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Mie
Boonseboro
Anna Hamett
Sarah Rhodes
Tinda Wolford
Hagerstown Junior College
A. §. Dowling
Montebello State Hospital
Baltimore
Joyce Kline
Hetty Crocker
Hoonsboro
Ietty Crocker
Joyce
Alan
General Mills
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Andrew Boroccci
Jenny Motter
Green Harbaugh
Sam Burns
New York
Tob Moyers
Chartie Brown
Drake Maxey
Vickie Reeder
Charlie
Shirley April
Mary Barton
Jonn Younkins
Mike Mikkeléeen
Devil
Pameipter
Nitar
Ite Smareh
Sme
Nea
Saint Francis Prep honors student Thomas Albert Ham P
Thomas Albert Ham P of Blyatt, son of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Ss Hammond of 616 Biggs Avenue, earned academic honors for the first semester at Saint Francis Preparatory School in Spring Grove. A censor in his second year, he entered the prep in 1967. He belongs to the Spanish and Physics Clubs and serves as assistant business manager of the yearbook The Havel. He will graduate on May 24.
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the Havel
Brunswick Seniors Plan Junior-Senior Dance at Brunswick High
Virginia Phillips reports Brunswick High School seniors organize and host their annual Junior-Senior Dance for juniors on Friday February 28 with Mardi Gras theme and Rogues providing music. Planning and committees include decorations cleanup guest invitations and refreshments led by senior class officers and members.
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Judy Fry
Mary Wenner
de Ann Morrison
Jerry Reynolds
Whil Sowers
Sandi Spates
Frank Williams
Billie Grams
Kaye Mardy
John Wale
Shirley Hatcher
Jerri Hunter
Candy Lewis
Evelyn Holland
Linda Lake
Rae Haller
Barbara George
Lorrie Orth
Rhonda Metcalf
Wanda Capino
Students Teaching English at Thomas Johnson School
TJ students learn practical English through drama arts in grades ten to twelve. Drama students guide classmates in pantomime makeup demonstrations and theater tech tours while planning and performing original skits and productions. The program emphasizes self expression, acting, and studies in theater history and staging moods.
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Ford
David and
Lisa
Middletown Faculty Has Other Talents
Middletown High School teachers pursue diverse hobbies beyond teaching. Librarian Joanne Horine enjoys reading and horseback riding while several staff members pursue crafts, sports, travel, and collecting, including Frank Frushour refinishing antique furniture and Elizabeth Carter aiding home projects.
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Joanne Horine
Helen Zigler
Zigher
The Brick and the Rose Play Spurs Delinquent Boy Reflection
A school program highlights how theatre helps at risk youths. The Brick and the Rose shows a delinquent boy his family, gang life, drugs, and failed happiness. The audience, peers and staff, are thanked for supporting the production and its life-changing potential. Navid Curran Superintendent
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Science Fair Time Opens in Frederick County Schools
Editor notes call for full Science Fair reports from Frederick County schools. First fair set for West Frederick Junior High March 5 and 6 with judging March 5 and public viewing March 6, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Parents urged to attend. theme linking constructive student effort to better citizenship.
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West Frederick
Mare
Jaycees Sponsor Talent Search Opens Entries
Jaycees across Maryland announce a Talent Search for youths aged 12 through 19. Chris Malone, chair, says entrants may compete individually or as bands with a $500 state winner prize and runner up awards. Entries require amateur status and local Jaycee sponsorship with final judging on March 29, 1969 at Rockville Clinic Center Auditorium by an independent panel.
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Malone
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Informa Ton
Dean's List Honors For Catawba and Morgan State Students
Mrs. Harold S. Whales of Salisbury N C and 1968 Frederick High School graduate Deborah Wiley are named among dean's list seniors at Catawba College. Nine freshmen at Morgan State College Baltimore also make the dean's list with a 3 3 average, including Miss Ambush daughter of Vernon Ambush of Adamstown.
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Catawba College
Salisbury
N.C
Whales
William F. Wiley
Deborah Wiley
Fhanken Ambush
Morgan State College
Baltimore
Miss Ambush
Frederick High School
Mrs
Vernon
RED 1
Adamstown
Freshman James Schmersai Pledges at Gettysburg College
James Alan Schmersai of 607 Rosemont Avenue pledges to KappiNelta The Waobeamity at Gettysburg College where he studies as a freshman. The 137 year old college preserves historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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James Alan Schmersai
Rosemont Avenue
Fred Brick
KappiNelta
Gettysburg College
Getty Sharp
Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Noted in Almanac Facts
The World Almanac lists the 1755 Lisbon earthquake as one of history’s most famous events. It states that within six minutes about 100,000 people were killed and 12,000 homes were destroyed, highlighting its impact on philosophy and European thought.
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