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Newspaper
Redlands Daily Facts
Location
Redlands, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1966
Page
7
RHS seniors graduate at Redlands Bowl before 5000 spectators in a moving ceremony marked by student addresses from Chris Campbell and Jim Fallows and a traditional alma mater, as 698 seniors receive diplomas and look toward college and military futures.
Redlands high school held its commencement with 36 girls in white carrying the traditional daisy chain into the Redlands Bowl. The Daisy Chain members, selected for top scholastic standing, included Susan Andrews and Patricia Bauer among others. Junior ushers also assisted with programs and seating, chosen for scholastic achievement, led by Christopher Arth and William Burke.
Airman Gary R. Oden, son of Mr and Mrs Willis R Oden, is stationed at Osan AB Korea. He organized night English classes to bridge language gaps between Americans and Koreans. Donations funded textbooks and teaching aids as about 30 students attend each evening with an advanced class formed.
Twenty two hundred paperback books collected by Red Lands junior high school students were sent to Norton Air Force Base for shipment to the Far East. The youths organized the effort with book committee chair David Wilson and members George Aranda Pam Tyree Joy McGee Mike Milligan Kathy Rouse Mark Young and faculty Da vid Farquhar and Richard Verdon.
The Yucaipa Adult Summer School announces eleven classes in art sewing psychology and fitness for women running June 20 to August 5. Director Vance Sims says registration is open enrollments in art and sewing capped at 18 for best instruction contact the Adult Education Office at 797 2521 for schedule details.
Fire crews battled two separate fires yesterday in the city. A grass area 40 by 50 feet near a pump house at West State Street by the American Legion Post Neo was burned after a 3:27 p.m. alarm. Three youths on motorcycles were seen leaving the scene. Earlier, Redlands High School parking lot flames consumed notebooks and papers on the first day of the school year, attributed to student exuberance.
The first practical phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, building on earlier German experiments that recorded sound on tin foil, marking a milestone in sound recording technology.
Three wheelchair bound Redlands High seniors received diplomas at last night’s commencement in a special ceremony. Ron Rostron, Patricia Culverhouse, and Frank Moore led the group as pioneers of the orthopedically handicapped program that began in Crafton school and expanded to the high school campus. Culverhouse and Moore are honor students with life memberships in the California Scholarship Federation and plan university and college enrollments. Two additional wheelchair graduates, Richard Arroyo and Greg Greayer, also crossed the stage as part of the event.
Redlands Rotary Club members and their wives join more than 14 000 attendees at the 1966 Rotary International convention in Denver Colorado. Delegates from 66 countries heard programs the week of events began last Monday. Redlands residents Mr and Mrs O J Fowler Mr and Mrs R P Merritt Jr Mr and Mrs Charles C Parker and Mr and Mrs Leroy Hansberger attended. The four couples plan to drive home June 25 with stops at Estes Park the Air Force Academy and Monument Valley.
State Sen. John Begovich, after losing a Democratic primary to Sen. Stephen Teale in a reshaped northern California district, offered congratulations on Teale’s 50th birthday but then quipped on the floor that he was sorry Teale “lived so long.” The remark ended with Begovich breaking up the upper House.
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