The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 March 1982 — Page 10

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., March 31,1982

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School news

Bt Al - '■ :^^£So¥gb -8 \ WBKKKm ~ . ■ " ihii m| i»- - .% jßpplP* ' 0. • II yyyqWßg l ■■■■HBV BH AKT SHOW — The second Lakeland Community School Corporation Traveling .Art show will be held during the month of \pril with samples of work from students in elementary, junior high and high school throughout the corporation. The first exhibit will be at the First National Bank in Milford. March 3©-.April 13; then at the Counting House Bank in North Webster April 14-22; and finally at the Northern Indiana Public Service Company s Syracuse Branch. April 23-May 4. Shown above Mindy Young, a Syracuse eighth grader, is holding a wire sculptured unicorn made by Michelle Mignery. an eighth grade student from Syracuse; while Andrea LeGro. a Syracuse eighth grader and Denise Garner hold an oil painting painted by Anna Sparduto. a high school student. organized the exhibits. (Photo by Deb Fox >

traveling art show opens

The second Lakeland Com munitv School Corporation Traveling Art Show will be held during) the month of April throughout the communities of Milford. Syracuse and North Webstar Thej sampling of work from elemejntary. junior high and high school students will be exhibited at Milford First National Bank

\KT FESTIV AL — Third graders Tim Schwartz and Matt Haab admire students* art work at the Milford Elementary School \rt Festival held Saturday. March 27. A used book sale, chili supper and alcohol and drug abuse seminar were also held in conjunction with the art festival. The events were sponsored by the Milford Parent-Teacher Organization and proceeds went towards construction of a new school play ground. Tim is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Schwartz. Milford, and Matt is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin llaab. Milford, i Photo b> Terri Uhilcote)

Khodqn r~ tlmo ' __ *, "T. i*iiii '*_ii~ / Ift a ■ I cn|gpa TERRIBLE LIZZARDS — The first grade class of Jo Butler at Syracuse Elementary School has been studying a unit on dinosaurs. Based on their knowledge of the prehistoric reptiles the children designed their o»n version of the critters. Students are Esther Tobias. Selena Swihart. Mark Koselke and Bran dee Carlson.

March 30-April 13. North Webster Counting House Bank April 14 22. and the Syracuse Northern Indiana Public Service Company office Apnl 23-May 4 Ceramics, pencil drawings, pastels, soap carvings and weavings indicate the wide variety of skills taught to the students in their art classes Deruse Garner from Syracuse

Junior High organized the exhibit Art teachers contributing works are Josette Abrams. North Webster Elementary and Junior High Jim Zielasko. Milford Elementary and Junior High; Sail te Ringler. Syracuse Elementary. Mrs Garner, and Jerry Johnson. Nancy Glon, Cindy Bryant from Wawasee High School

Jeff Carrillo likes to draw

“I was always drawing,” explains Jeff Carrilio of Milford, an U-year-old fifth grader known for his clever cartoons and sketches “In second grade my teacher, Mrs. Cook, said she was going to have a drawing contest between two students and that's when 1 started practicing.” says the young artist. He copied pictures and cartoons out of books until he was confident of his skills. In fact. Jeff still gets a lot of his inspiration and ideas out of books and his mother. Flora, says if he isn't drawing, he's reading in his spare time. Jeff is currently enrolled in the "Up. Up and Away” program at Milford Elementary School for specially gifted students. He could read before he entered kindergarten and his mother says he learned by watching “Sesame Street” on television. The idea for his first cartoon characters were conceived byJeff and his younger brother. Joey, age 10-years-old. about two ghost-type characters named “Howler” and “Screamer" Howler is a magician and Screamer is a mechanic He adds captions to his drawings creating many humorous situations. One of the young cartoonist's latest strips are about a man and woman he calls ‘ The Engaged He says he named them this because the two are always engaged in some form of battle or fight His favorite professionally drawn cartoon character is Heathcliff the Cat Joey says of his brother Jeff. "Sometimes he's a pain because it's (drawing* all he wants to do " Jeff's younger sister. Ramona, age eight, says she doesn't draw very much like her brothers do When asked what he wants to be when he grows up Jeff an

CREATIVE DESIGNER — Josh Lantz. sixth grader at Syracuse Junior High, is holding the logo he designed for the Creative Arts Club. The logo will be used on stationery and posters advertising Creative Arts Club events. < Photo bv Morrine Haifacre)

Josh Lantz designs logo

Syracuse Junior High student Josh Lantz. sixth grader, has designed a logo for the Creative Arts Club The design is very impressive made of triangular and circular shapes with the letters CAC meeting in the middle. The Creative Arts Club will use the logo on stationery and posters advertising the clubs events Denise Garner, art instructor at the junior high, founded the club last year It combines the various arts, music, dance, drama and visual arts by having various artists from the community give demonstrations to the students

Hi /Ip gjMSL ' H ■• <_ jv, 1 -* V-' v. ;*: V'-“ • r USED BOOK SALE — Sara WUkinsea looks through the hook selection at the used book sale held at Milford Elementary School Saturday. March 27. from 3 to 7 p.m. In conjunction with the used book sale, an art festival, chili supper and drug and alcohol abuse seminar were also held. Proceeds from the events went toward construction of a new school playground. The Saturday activities were sponsored by the Milford Parent-Teacher Organization. < Photo by Terri Chilcotei

swered. “An artist, author and a stuntman — or an astronaut.” Judgmg by his dedication to his art work, it's more than likely he’ll succeed in whatever hie decides to do. 0 mm r^rr I w )

* Josh is the son of Sharon Lantz of Syracuse

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Wr fIV V 1 '"V ITU I \T —« dT/'L ™ r 4k t* v J - . 2 SBfMfi** 1 -- —„JH SPRING PUPPET SHOW — These Students in Cindy Kaiser's first grade reading class at Milford Elementary School recently presented a play entitled "Save My Place” and invited the kindergartners to watch the performance which included songs and handmade stick characters. Students and their rolls are: .Matt Wilkenson. narrator: Spencer Long, racoon and squirrel: Jeremy Price, rabbit and the big frog: and Anna Meyers, mouse and chipmunk. Malena Schmucker. absent in photo, played the bird and the three little frogs. I Photo by Morrine Halfacre)

£ jody %ar / • i.~4 1 WIZ KID COMPUTER — North Webster Elementary Sell—l fourth graders in John Cowens’ class designed and constructed a "live” computer called "The Wiz Kid Computer." One student sits inside the box and waits for primary-grade students to select questions from the computer question file. When the question is inserted in the input of the computer, the student inside must solve the problem with—t any aids. Questions were selected by Cowens' students from such subjects as spelling, health, science, reading, math, music, art. English and Indiana history . All prepared questi—s were taken from previous lessons studied from September through March. Pictured above are Samantha Borden. Jody Elliott. Justin DeSomer. Bobby Morris and Lisa Brindie. Inside the computer is Erik Stevens. (Photo by Terri Chilcote)

The first President to pitch a ball to open the baseball season was President William Howard Taft, on April 14, 1910. If a person started counting from the moment he was born and did not stop until he reached age sixty-five, he would still not have counted to a billion.

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