The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1981 — Page 11

School news

Jt nkgjlL [ ■ W<Wa_ j DINOSAUR ATTENDS SECOND GRADE — Kim Conrad's second grade class at Syracuse * Elementary School is currently studying dinosaurs. In one and one half hours the entire class worked together designing and constructing the gigantic Ty ranosaurus Rex dinosaur in the above picture. Ace Hardware of Syracuse donated the plastic for the project. (Photo by Kim Hieber)

Milford Lords and Lassies new name for 4-H Club

The Milford Lords and Ladies 4-H Club, formerly the Milford Junior Merry Maidens, met in the home of Vicki Wise on February 16at7p m The meeting was called to order by President Stacy Wall The American pledge was led by Vicki Foltz and the 4-H pledge was led by Suzette Hunsberger The roll call was then taken by Secretary Judy Wall with 11 members present The secretary’s minutes were also read and approved and a treasurer s report was given Lisa Hunsberger, health and safety leader, gave a report on “What to do m an Emergency " OM business was r discussed Members were reminded about dues and that enrollment cards are due March 1 with changes being due in April Mrs Hun sberger asked members if they were having trouble with any projects New business was discussed A skating party will be held Apnl 28

Wawasee senior writes about America

Susan Freeman, a senior at Wawasee High School, has placed 15th in the second distnet for a theme she presented last November to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1342 at Syracuse Students .in the competition were assisted by Alan Zerkel, a teacher at Wawasee High School Susan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Michael Freeman The following theme is her winning presentation MY COMMITMENT TO MYCOUNTRY When we are young we are forever saying what we want to be when we become adults —a doctor, a nurse, a fireman — we dream of our futures, but what we sometimes fail to realize is that our future is America's future, also — that what we do when we become adults, whether it be the cultivating of farmland, the welding of ? steel.’ or the practicing of politics, will play a distinct role in America’s future. This role is not determined for us by our country, either, as it is in the Soviet Union Take, for instance, two boys — identical save for the fact that one is born in Russia and one is born in the United Slates. The Russian boy’s future has been planned for him before he is able to walk or even to say his first words. His course in life has been laid out before him. His place in the country's future has been decided. But on the other hand, the American boy’s future is his own decision and his ‘commitment’ to his country will be what he wants it to be. what he makes of it will be hts own choice, and as it is his choice — so it is mine It a my responsibility as an American to make my role count - to do something that will aid and benefit the country - and something that will improve it. Hus is a responsibility that 1 look forward to and a challenge I know I can meet. 1 am privileged to be a part of America, and that alone is a debt that can never be repaid, a debt I owe to every man who ever fought or died for this country, who ever strove to improve this country, who ever loved this country but the debt does not weigh heavily upon me, fan* mu mi AmcncM ind

from 6 until 9p m The members will be told about the details of the party later. A bake and craft sale will be held April 11 from 9 until 12 noon The members will be making posters for it at the next meeting. Becky Flannery. Vicki W ise, Vicki Holderread and Stacy Wall will be responsible for the materials to make them Recreation was led by Karen Benning Devotions were given by Vicki Holderread with refreshments being served by Vicki Wise The next meeting will be held on March 16 at Vicki Holderread’s Officers for 1981 are as follows: President - Stacy Wall Vice president — Suzette Hunsberger Secretary - Judy Wall Treasurer — Danae Berkeypile Health and safety leader — Lisa Hunsberger Devotions — Vicki Holderread Recreation leader — Karen Benning Reporter - Marcia Evans

Americans have always met the challenges set before them. The debt I bear with ‘gratitude and pride*, for 1 am fortunate to have the debt at all I shall work to improve this country, as does everyone who loves it. I shall strive to make America everything it can be. for its potential is great. This is MY COMMITMENT TO MY COUNTRY - to work so that this great potential, this dream of every American can be realized. The future generations of Americans deserve nothing less than the very best we can provide for them It is no more than our ancestors did for us and no less than our country’ deserves. Just as our forefathers fought and worked to better America, so must we fight and work so that future generations can grow up to decide their own futures — their own 'commitment' to their country. Our legacy to them is a country that is free and strong, a country’ that is a land of opportunity and equality, a country that is a leader among nations, and a country that serves as a shining example of democracy. To secure this future for our descendents every American must work to his full potential. I shall work hard as true Americans always have, and I shall fulfill my responsibilities — the most important being making sure that the freedoms I have inherited as an American are preseved by having a voice in government. For unless we work to protect these freedoms there can be no America as we now know it, and a devastating toss such as that would be a loss to every man. woman, or child who ever enjoyed freedom or who ever dreamed of freedom, and without the dream there could , never have been an America — the America that we love and the America to which we owe so much. So 1 shall work and strive to pay this seemingly inswvountable debt —to fulfill my wuimi tment * to my country. Success accounts for much of the envy that folks generate.

Lakeland, school lunch menu March 2-6 MONDAY — Sloppy joes, buttered potatoes, fruit, cookie and milk TUESDAY — Beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, bread and butter, peanut butter fudge and milk WEDNESDAY - Tomato juice, waffles and sausage, hash browns, fruit salad and milk THURSDAY - Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttered green beans, jello, bread and butterand milk FRIDAY — Macaroni and cheese, ham salad sandwiches, broccoli, apple slices and milk Happy Bachelors to purchase flags The Milford Happy Bachelors 4-H Club held its January meeting in the home of Greg and Kathy Weiss er All dues were collected from the clubs 14 members and it was voted to purchase new flags for the clubs meetings Leader Dan Beer was to check at the 4-H office for the cost. The club them met on February 16 at the home of Jill and Jon Haab. President Greg Weisser called the meeting to order with the American pledge being led by Jill Haab and the 4-H pledge, by Lori Kammerer. Lori Kammerer read the secretary's report and the club then voted to donate toward the Kosciusko County International 4-H Youth Exchange program Treasurer Kathy Weisser will send the money donation and also pay the cost of the new flags The club was notified that there will be a roller skating party at Elkhart with the other Milford 4H clubs on April 28 Details will be given later There was a recreation activity and refreshmenu were served The next meeting will be at Dan Beer’s on March 9 at 7:30 p.m

a*. rr-'w B| I 'it • I aus I i 13 YEARS OF SAFETY — The Milford Junior High Safety Patrol Squad recently received an award for 13 yean without an accident at Itr assigned peat at the intersection of Emetine Street and SR 15 in Milford. The award was presented by the Chicago Motor Cfab. Milford Safety patrob in the front row are Rebin Wooten, Missy Evans, Sally Perales, Teana WaHs, Vicki Wise, Ronda McDonald. Angie Rico and Mariseia Melendez. , In the recend raw are C. J. Harwood, MWe Troup, Bob Hamilton. Karin Wuthrich. Becky Flannery, Staci Osteodorf, Denise Berkeypiie and Margie Parker. Pictured to the third row are Sponsor Phil Metcalf. Irma Garza. Jean Stump. Rhonda Amsden. Shanna Dimick. Stephanie JamieL Jada Alexander and Roberta Flannery. Patrols in the back row are Veronica Garza, Lisa Beer, Gilbert Rico, Susan Hamilton. Melissa Clark, Bruce Rogers. Todd Wilson and

Spring Music Festival culminates year of planning

By TERRI CHILCOTE Every March the Lakeland School Corporation presents a spring musical festival featuring musicians from elementary to high school. It’s a lot of work, but after it’s all over school officials can sit back and relax until next March, right? Wrong! As soon as it’s over, they start right in planning the next year's concert. “The whole thing starts in March as soon as the festival is over.” explained David Blackwell. Wawasee High School band instructor and festival chairman According to Blackwell, about 900 students are involved, eight instructors and 35 other people including bus drivers, custodians and administrators. And that takes a lot of planning Lakeland fourth and fifth graders and junior and senior high choirs, bands and orchestras present one hour and 10 minutes of music. This year’s music festival will be Friday. March 13, at 8 pm in the Wawasee High School gym. The theme is “The Golden Years of Oscar" and the concert will feature Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominating songs After the festival is over, the music instructors meet to discuss how they can make next year’s festival better Before the end of the school year, the theme is decided on. “We look for something that is of general interest to the public,” explained Blackwell. They also look for a theme that provides a variety of music. Selecting The Music While most teachers are enjoying their summer vacations, the Lakeland music teachers are reviewing music that will go along with the theme. "The songs need to be familiar to the public.’* Blackwell pointed out. He also believes the more familiar songs 16 gold medals for Wawasee music students Wawasee High School music students brought home 16 gold and nine silver medals following the Indiana All-State music contest held Saturday, Feb. 21. at Butler University, Indianapolis. Mike Vanderveer, Tammy Jessop, Scott Parker. Terri Smith and Bill Dixon received a first division rating in their Clarinet Quintet. Susie Schmucker. Sheli Miller. Darci Gilbert. Rhonda Elias. Tammy Jessop. Josette Glon. Annette Beer and Teresa Ogden received a first division rating as the large girls ensemble Receiving a second in the ensembles were Teresa Ogden, Tammy Jessop. Rhonda Elias and Darcy Gilbert. Those who received first in solo competition were Josette Glon. piano; Terri Smith, piano; and Teresa Ogden, vocal. Those receiving second ratings were Don Frew, vocal and French horn; Mike. Vanderveer, clarinet; Susie Schmucker, piano; and Sheli Miller, vocal. •• * • The surest way to enjoy life is to provide your own security by saving something every month.

hold more interest for the students. The teachers search for music that can be adapted to different age levels and both vocal and instrumental groups. AU this, said Blackwell, is more difficult than it seems. Sometimes the music they need is out of print or they can’t find music that is adaptable to different age levels as well as vocal and instrumental groups But the really hard, part, said Blackwell, is selecting the music for the concert’s finale in which the entire group participates. “In past years, we’ve even written our own songs to make it work," he revealed. This year’s finale is Roger and Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The first time the entire group sings the finale together is during the performance. This is because the rehearsal times of the individual groups are staggered; although, they have learned the number and rehearsed it many times in their classrooms. “It’s reaUy thrilling to stand up there and conduct it,” Blackwell expressed. In September, teachers make final decisions on music selections. It's decided which groups will perform which songs, keeping in mind the age of each group and level of difficulty of each number. Each group presents two or more numbers. The major organizational meeting takes place in October. “There’s a lot of planning that goes into that,” admitted the festival chairman. At the October County students distinguished at Purdue WEST LAFAYETTE - A total of 3,653 Purdue University students received distinguishedstudent rank for the fall semester of the 1980-81 school year. The students represented, scholastically, approximately the top 14 per cent of the undergraduates on the West Lafayette campus during the first semester In order to qualify for distinguished rating, a student must have a grade index of at least 5.5 (B+) of a possible 6 (A) in no less than 14 academic credit hours. The student may have no grade below 4(C). Listed by hometowns, the following are distinguished students : Carl Alan Bice. 506 West Emetine St.. Milford, in the field of management. Michael K. Brannock, 164 North Shore Dr., Syracuse, in the field of freshman engineering Beth Ann Burke, r 5 box 67 Syracuse, in the field of Hu, Soc SciandEduc Lisa Kay Gose. r 2 box 406 Syracuse, in the field of consumer and family science. Daniel Edward Hostetler. P.O. Box 175 Syracuse, in the field of industrial arts BS James Francis Krizman. r 1 box 149 Syracuse, in the field of agriculture James Calvin Schrock. 88 North Shore Dr.. Syracuse, in the field of civil engineering. Jennifer Lynne C. Smith, r 4 box 372-D, Syracuse, in the field of nursing. Mark Edward Stiffler, r 3 box 563 Syracuse, in the field of science.

meeting, school officials work out the countless details involved in putting it all together. These details include transporting students from each of the Lakeland schools to the high school for the rehearsal and performance, deciding who will sit where, cues, setting up 2,163 chairs and music stands for the * students in addition to chairs for the audience, arrangements for parking and equipment, recording and audio services, publicity, floor covering, clean up. etc. Since some students are in a combination of choir, band and orchestra, the program planners must figure out how to move these individuals from one group to anojhefwithout disrupting the progfam The legwork for most of the setting up falls on the custodians So to thank them, school officials have developed a clean up system in which everybody pitches in and takes only 10 minutes, according to Lakeland Curriculum Coordinator John I Naab. “It’s to thank our janitors for all the work they do setting up They’d be there till the next morning if they did it themselves.” he stated “It takes about one trip for everybody and it’s done. ” Christmas Breather The planners take a breather during the Christmas holiday season, but are back at it in January when they meet to see how plans are coming along. Students begin learning music for the festival when they return from their Christmas vacation. "It gets tougher and tougher each year, because the groups get larger and larger,” Blackwell pointed out. According to Naab, putting on the spring music festival takes total cooperation. “It’s team work of kids and instructors. All it takes is one person not doing what they’re suppose to do and the whole thing cracks up,” he stressed. Naab said one person couldn’t possibly organize the festival alone. Student Benefits So what do the students get out of all this? Blackwell feels the festival provides the opportunity for the students to watch each other perform. Younger students get a glimpse of the type of music the older students work on and this, hopefully, will encourage the younger ones to continue their music education. Blackwell believes the older students get a kick out of watching the younger students perform and reminiscing about their days in the lower grades. And for the seniors, it’s a particularly nostalgic time as they participate in their last Lakeland Spring Music Festival. Besides Blackwell, the other Lakeland music teachers who spend long hours preparing for the music event are Donna Jean Pollen, Milford Elementary; Karilyn Metcalf. North Webster Elementary; Virginia Ditmer. Syracuse Elementary; David Sand, Syracuse and Milford Junior High; Sue Miller, North Webster Junior High; Gannette Smith, corporation orchestra; and Steve Bailey. Wawasee High School Choir. The culmination of a full year of planning is about to come to a close when on March 13 about 900 students will fill the Wawasee gym with music. Then the whole process begins again for next year.

Wed., Feb. 25,1981 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

HfS5 ,a < '" . 1 KJ M Hl ! J ■rRL 1 ill 'ok J Mk'l /_) . Kr 1 ’•< AGRI-BUSINESS FARMER — Pictured above is John Nulf, 19, r I box 575 North Webster, demonstrating part of his Future Farmers of America' project in agricultural business. John works at Baker's Market in Syracuse learning about produce management. Some of the jobs he does include shipping and receiving, being warehouse foreman, daily inventory of records on produce, arranging and rotating produce, making deliveries, taking orders on the telephone, putting merchandise on display, pricing and caring for commercial plants and flowers during the season. (Photo by Kim Hieber >

FFA at Wawasee

By KIMHIEBER Future Farmer’s of America is celebrating their 53rd year of service this week, beginning February 21st and continuing through the 28th. Wawasee High School boasts 48 FFA members this year, of which five are girls. During the past three to five years membership included about 50 members. There are approximatley 11.000 members in the State of Indiana, making an estimated total of 500.000 youths on the national membership roster. Future Farmers is part of the high school vocational agriculture program. Kids are encouraged to have some type of project either in production agriculture, such as swine, beef, poultry and crops or agricultural business like companies producing farm equipment, garden centers or produce markets. Teens participating in the organization meet once per month all year long usually at the high school Membership is open to young adults until age 21. “Those members out of high school are striving for higher awards FFA stresses good farming records and activities which are the criteria to judging awards." explaihed Wawasee High School FFA Advisor Randy Warren. The judging contest helps devlope leadership qualities, with members earning different awards according to their interestsand levels As an organization, the FFA is divided into four levels: chapter, district, state and national. Each year, members pay dues, which are forwarded to the district, state and national level. The local chapter is selfsupporting through a yearlyschool test plot and a slave auction "We stand our own expenses. We do have test plot seed donations, but the kids have a budget and do the best they can.” Warren said. Wawasee High School-offers approximately 20 acres of land for test plots where the students corn varieties and yield. Last year 13 varieties were used to compare The test plot has sandy soil, common to this area, forcing the test plot results as accurate as possible. The local FFA group will prepare for the annual upcoming slave auction at the March meeting with the election of officers. Unlike numerous other groups, members raising money through Richard Steele on dean's list GREENCASTLE — A local area student at DePauw University has earned academic distinction on the first semester dean’s list Richard Steele, a freshman, is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Paul E. Steele, r 3 Syracuse. Students listed achieved at least a 3.5 (A ) or better grade average out of a possible 4.0 (straight A). During the first semester 411 of DePauw’s undergraduates — or only 17 per cent of the student body — won dean's list distinction. Announcement of the scholastic honors was made by Dr. Dodge Johnson, provost of the provate liberal arts university.

their projects keep the funds. Each individual may choose to reinvest the money in a project or spend the money for personal use “Parents are a very important part of FFA. They assist a lot by providing services such as driving, or a place to practice on livestock facilities, using equipment or whatever.” stresses Warren He continued, “Since I’ve been here I’ve had excellent community support. This is my sixth year. We have an annual parentmember awards in April whrre we recognize all the members and adult community members who hepled us during the year.” Although the local FFA chapter does not solicit funds, one year a Kiwanis group donated money for FFA youths to attend a national leadership conference in Washington D. C. The FFA Purdue invitational is this month, progressing to the county level then to the state. ‘The chapters compete against each other Last year we had a state winner in the proficiency award project called “Placement in Agriculture Production,”’ said Warren. The local FFA has had numerous accomplishments during the past several years. In 1978 one FFA member went to state, another year a judging team won in the state competition. Since Randy Warren has been FFA advisor, two judging teams have attended the national contest. Fourteen youths received the Hoosier Farmer Degree, the highest state award. “The Hoosier Farmer is a combination of FFA activities and projects with complete records. Kids fill out the award applications, with only two per cent of all FFA members ever earning the award each year,” explained Warren. Previously the local chapters held hayrides Officers gathered in the late summer and held cookouts Yearly optional FFA activities are the summertime -State FFA leadership camp, located south of Indianapolis, and the FFA State Convention. An FFA basketball team is currently formed and playing other chapters, which eventually competes in a district tournament. Girls may play, although Wawasee does not have any FFA women basketball players this year. < “Approximately 10 years ago girls were allowed in Future Farmers.” tells Warren. He added. “Those youths wishing to remain in FFA after age 21 are encouraged to do so, although they may no longer compete for awards. In some areas there is a young farmers group, but not here. There are other farming organizations in the county however.” Randy Warren enjoys advising FFA. He believes it’s part of the v curriculum with instructing vocational education, although vocational agriculture students are not required to become FFA members. "My interest is in agriculture and I enjoy working with the kids. Things left up to the kids concerning what they want to do, with the officers doing most of the planning and then dividing members into twelve subgroups,”; he tells. Future Farmers of America is not just for rural youth, however. With changing times some urban communities include FFA because of high school horticultureprograms.

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