The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 November 1980 — Page 11
School news
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Is your cur ready far winter?
By ROB SCHUTT Old man winter is here. Are you and your car ready to face the hazards and challenges of winter driving? According to an article in Popular Mechanics, there is nothing better , for traction in snow and ice than tire chains. Be sure not to use chains on clear dry because it could reduce the life of your tires. According to the above mentioned article in Popular Mechanics, sand or rock salt will help to get your car feee if you don’t have chains. Clear the deep snow away from the front of your tires and spread the sand or rock salt there. This same article also gave some ideas of what you should carry in your car during winter driving. Extra clothing such as hats, and gloves would come in
Thanksgiving: Then, now
By CYNDI CLEVER If a 1621 pilgrim stepped into a time machine and arrived in 1980 to celebrate Thanksgiving, would he find many things different? Let’s find out. In 1621 the man of the house, or cabin, whatever the case may be, was required to bring home the turkey for the big feast. This he had to do through all types of weather, great dangers from wild animals, and unfriendly Indians. Then, when he arrived home with his freshly cut ‘Tom’, he was asked to chop off its head. The woman’s job took over from there. She had to pluck, clean, and roast this bird, and at the
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handy. Also, some emergency flares, hand, tools, collapsible shovel, and spare fuses would be good to have with you. Some people use different ways to get added traction if they get stuck in snow. One way to get added traction is to have some carpeting or asphalt roofing tiles in your car to place under the wheels. If your car would become stuck you would place a tile under each wheel with the rough side up. Then you would drive forward slowly until your car became free. This winter if you are going on a trip or just driving to town, make sure you are ready to drive in hazardous conditions. Also make sure you have something to get yourself free if your car gets stuck and something to signal others with.
same time be sure that all the other food that was to be consumed by her family, was being prepared. But today the times have changed. The man of the house, and sometimes the woman, still has to trot through all kinds of weather, and is still faced with great dangers, but now from wild running shopping carts to frenzied ladies at the grocery store, and now when the pilgrim gets home he does not have to worry about chopping off the head but what is the quickest way to defrost the bird. While in the old days the pilgrim women spent many days preparing the pies, potatoes and
Jobs ore hard to find By LONNIE BLACK Are you going to have enough money to pay your car payments? Are you going to have enough money to buy those S3O jeans or that new stereo you have wanted for a long time? There is a problem facing thousands of teenagers today — unemployment. Unfortunately unemployment is still on the way up. According to September 11, 1979, US News and World Report Magazine, pessimists point out that unemployment among teenagers (from 16 to 19) rose from 11 per cent in 1955 to 16 per cent in 1979. Many experts believe that youth, unemployment is high and has risen sharply. Nonetheless, they think that there is no need to be alarmed since so much of the reported unemployment is “voluntary” by which they mean that many young workers are quick to quit their jobs simply because they do not like their boss, or the work, or expect to find something better. On the contrary, they believe youth employment is cured in time as teenagers become adults. This problem is facing Wawasee High School students, too. According to the WHS Vocational Secretary, “Jobs just aren’t available for students. The job placement program at Wawasee has only placed four students with jobs this year.” She went on to say, "The reason jobs aren’t available is because so many adults are unemployed and they are taking the jobs that are normally jobs for teenagers.” Jerry Minton, DECA advisor at Wawasee stated, “Christmas time is when a lot of places hire students, but this year they just aren’t hiring. People who were working part-time jobs are working full-time jobs, making part-time jobs hard to find for students.”
vegetables for her feast, when all she has to do now is simply pop the food into her microwave, sit back and relax. There is also one other thing that is different, but only a little bit. In the pilgrim days, the pilgrims would look out their window and see the Redskins and Chiefs fighting one another. Where now all the Pilgrim would have to do is turn on his television set and watch the Washington Redskins play the Kansas City Chiefs during the Thanksgiving Day football game. So times have changed, some for the better and some for the worse. But the feeling is still there.
by The Wawasee Journalism Class
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Speech Club hard at work
By DARCI GILBERT “We have a gcbd chance of making it to finals this year,” says Stan Grabolwicz, Speech club sponsor. The speech team goes to a meet about once a month at a different high school in the area. Later in the year they will be going to regionals and then, hopefully, state competition. The club consists of four members, ,all of them sophomores, who compete in different categories. Steve Alford and Bill Dixon are in boys’ extemp. That is where
Orchestra: Big thing for lots of students
By KIM MC KIBBEN Orchestra is turning into a big thing for a lot of students at Wawasee High School, according to Miss Ganette Smith, director of Lakeland Community orchestras. She also noted that there are so many more students joining the program, that two full orchestras have been able to be established at Wawasee High School. The first orchestra is the symphony orchestra, which consists basically of seniors and juniors. The second is the concert orchestra, which consists of sophomores and freshmen. Another orchestra, “Avante” strings, is a specialty group consisting of the following students: Seniors Heather Beer, Josette Glon, Amber Lehman, Susan Naab, and Chris Wolferman; juniors Annette Beer, Cindy Myrick, and Suzie Schmucker; sophomores Angie Troup and Jill Wolferman; and
the judges give the student a national topic from Time, Newsweek, or Newsworld. Then the boys have 45 minutes to prepare a seven-minute speech on the topic. Bill placed second in the last meet at Fort Wayne North Side and Steve placed fourth. Eric Bartman is interested in radio broadcasting. He must prepare a two and a half minute newsprogram for the next meet. The judges then give him a situation to describe. Tammy Jessop will be doing a humorous or • dramatic interpretation.
freshman. Natalie Myers. This group is available for public performances such as clubs, social gatherings, meetings, etc. The orchestras have many activities planned for this year. The Christmas concert will combine both orchestras together to perform. The winter concert will allow both groups to perform individually. The spring concert will be performed by the complete orchestra. Dr. Mike Esselstrom, conductor of Elkhart Symphony, Elkhart Chamber, IUSB orchestras, and head of graduate music studies at IUSB, will be the guest conductor for the spring concert. Miss Smith stated, “I think both orchestras are doing a very excellent job and have really matured musically.” She is very excited about the growing number of students joining orchestra and hopes it continues.
Christmas is all around us!
By CARLA EASTLUND ‘‘Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . .” Yes folks, here it is November 19, and already Christmas is all around us. It’s amazing how Halloween falls in October, Thanksgiving in November, and Christmas in December, except that everyone seems to start preparing for Christmas sometime between the goblins and the turkeys. Almost every store you walk into is filled with wrapped Christmas boxes, bows, wrapping paper, Christmas trees, and decorations galore. Everything seems to be there, except for, extremely cold weather, snow, Santa Claus, and December. It makes one wonder if mothers’ are the people
.Max Grady demonstrates how many students can mysteriously lose their homework assignments, but fortunately save the books.
HOMEWORK -a natural disaster!
By MICHELLE WALL Would you believe of all the natural disasters in the world, there is one that strikes many people every day, that disaster is in the form of an eight letter word, HOMEWORK!! Somehow, it always manages to get assigned and never gets finished. Os course, there are quite a few good reasons for this. One really good one is, “Well, you see, I made it into a paper airplane, and on the way to school it was hijacked and* taken to Cuba.” Ok, sure, every teacher has always wanted to fly to Cuba to pick up a kid’s assignment. It happens all the time! The world of animals seems to have a great affect on homework too. From listening to some of these excuses, one would get the definite impression that an animal’s basic diet consists of math, science and English papers! Don’t people feed those animals?! One good thing comes from all this, however, we can at least see where the pollution problem
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responsible for Christmas starting in November. The reason this could be an explanation is because of that famous line they tell their sweet, little, innocent children: “If you don’t straighten up, Santa Claus won’t bring you anything for Christmas!” (How many times did you hear that when you were a kid?) r
Along with the people who begin Christmas in November, there are also the people who realize on December 24, that “tomorrow is Christmas, and I haven’t bought any presents yet.” Off they go to find all the things they have written on their list. However, what they don’t realize is that the Simon game they wanted sold out in the beginning of the month, the nice fuzzy slippers Mom wanted have
comes from. I mean really, according to kids, there are enough sheets of homework lying along side the road to start a paper mill. It would seem that nearly every car going down the road has a stack of books on the roof. But, remarkable enough, the books stay in place and only the homework papers are lucky enough to manage to get blown out. Well, at any rate, we have to do something to keep a smile on those teachers’ faces. Next time you find that you didn’t quite get an assignment done, try this one. Hand them a blank piece of paper and tell them that it fell into your bath water and when you pulled it out, all your hard work just ran off the page. I’m sure they’ll understand.
College bound students are reminded of the financial aid meeting to be held in the cafeteria annex at 7:30 tonight!
been gone for three weeks, and that new scarf Grandma wanted, well, that was something you just had to buy in November. So, here comes Christmas day, and what did this little shopper end up with? Well, consequently all that was left was a Tiddley Winks game, slippers that were two sizes too big, and a scarf that had purple and pink stripes with orange polka dots. That too, could be another explanation for Christmas in November. But, I get the strange feeling that if Christmas were actually moved up to the beginning of November, people would start preparing for it in the beginning of October P S. By the way, there are 35 shopping days until Christmas. Soccer! A popular sport By BELINDA BURKE the most popular sport in the world has just recently come into view of the American eye. What, is this sport? Soccer! Soccer as we know it today was first originated here in America. So why has it taken so long to catch America’s eye? Dave McVey, a soccer player for Elkhart Baptist Eagles, said that “Soccer hasn’t been in the media’s eye before now. Games such as football and baseball have been in the media s eye for a long time, but soccer is just catching their attention.” In public schools and colleges intermural soccer teams are being formed. Organizations, such as the YMCA and the YWCA are forming soccer teams also. But soccer is still only a “physical education requirement.” Dave also went on to say, “Soccer is big in non-state funded schools. This seems odd to most because of the high popularity on football, but soccer is a cheap sport that is easy to get started in.” Dave also feels that, “Soccer is just as rough if not rougher than football. Sometimes a player has to play 20 minutes before he can take a break. ” Rough the game may be, but it’s becoming more popular in America. Who knows, one day we may be watching “Monday Night Soccer”. Honor Society plans dinner By MICHELLE WALL The National Honor Society will hold its first progressive dinner Monday, Nov. 24th. The dinner will start at Susan Freeman’s home with hors d’oeuvres. Margie Gans’ will .be the next stop with soup and salad followed by the main course at Josette Glon’s house and dessert at Amy Reed’s. During the dinner, the NHS members will discuss the upcoming WHS Christmas Penny Pitch «to be held between December 15-19. The money that is raised will buy food for needy families in the Syracuse, Milford and North Webster areas. Photography has its ups and downs By JOHNSCHENKEL “A little to the left, 0.k., now stand still. No!, stick your tongue back in your mouth, now smile. Alright, I got it!” Photography has its ups and downs, but basically it is a fun hobby. There are some problems that may make you want to toss the camera out the window. You may be going out to take some pictures, and you think that you have gotten the best pictures you have taken, but you find out that you forgot to put the film in the camera or maybe the film didn’t advance, and you’ve got one exposure for all your pictures. Or sometimes your flash doesn’t go off and you get one picture all black. Maybe you’ll have to take a picture of some beautiful girls, and you’re so nervous you can’t stop from shaking your camera so you get a blurry picture. To top it all off, your film got exposed while it was getting developed. Photography has its good times also. People with the camera seem to stick out from everyone else, not just because of their, equipment but everyone seems to enjoy having their pictures taken just so they can “ham it up” a little. Sometimes you might get an assignment to take some pictures of some beauty contest, which makes it very enjoyable. All in all being a photographer is a lot of fun.
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