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Junior Miss Pageant To Choose Ideal Senior Girl The high school senior girls The winner of the state pawho will be competing in the geant will compete on the na1967 Park Ridge Jaycees Junior tional level with the winners of Miss Pageant were announced the 50 states' pageant assemtoday by Mr. Faulds Orchard, blies. America's Junior Miss chairman of the pageant com- Pageant will be held in Mobile, mittee. Alabama in March. Altogether The girls from Maine South more than $250,000 in scholarare Glennys Aaland, Jan Chris- ships are awarded each year topher, Jan Gabbert, Eileen to Junior Miss winners in the Heath, Julie Johnson, Sue Kott, United States. Park Ridge will hold its finals Sue Lindquist, Colleen Lynch, Kathy Metz, Marcia Miehaelson, at Roosevelt School auditorium Terri Miller, and Sue Nettel- on December 8, following a dress rehearsal and interview • horst. Also competing are: Linda held November 30. The finalPatchett, Margie Press, Pat ist selected on that date wiU Price, Judy Projahn, Beth Splin- compete in the Illinois Junior ter, Marilyn Stahnke, Linda Miss Pageant in Niles at the Story, and Cindy Wienckowsld. Mill Run Theater December 26From Maine East come Judy 30. She will stay at the Niles Samuelson, and Mary Scarnato. YMCA as a guest of the Niles Chamber of Commerce during The girls were chosen on the that time. basis of scholastic achievement, Park Ridge will be one of 40 individual conferences with the communities staging Junior • judges, poise and appearance, Miss Pageants in Illinois, and youth fitness, creative and per- one of 2,000 throughout the naforming arts, and general men- tion this year. More than 9,000 tal alertness. outstanding Illinois teen-agers The purpose of the pageant is were in the 1966 state competo recognize deserving girls and tition. to give them an opportunity to Last year's Park Ridge Juncompete for $4,500 in college ior Miss, Margaret Grant, statscholarship awards at the state ed, "The pageant is looking for pageant in which Park Ridge's a girl to create an image, not Junior Miss will participate. to fulfill one."

SC Plans Basket Drive, Sponsors Dance Dec. 16 student Council is presently concerned with plans for the Christmas Food Basket Drive, the AFS afterdance, hall monitoring, and results of Bnsy Signal sales. Food will be collected in homerooms for the Christmas Food Basket Drive from Monday, December 12 until Friday, December 16. Money wiU be collected for canned chickens during the week of December 5. Jim Goodale, chairman of the , Food Basket Drive, stated, "We hope to collect enough food to distribute between s e v e r a l needy charities. Council hopes to be able to deliver a food basket from every complex to a needy family on Saturday. •December 17." AFS committee will sponsor an afterdance after the basketball game against Maine West ' on Friday. December 16. The Royal Guardsmen will provide music. Tickets will be on sale for 25 cents each outside the cafeteria at lunch periods from December 13 to 16. Profits will go to-

Concert Features .'A Child is Born' "For Us a Child is Born," a Bach cantata, will be the featured number of the Music Department's annual Christmas Concert on December 11 at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Mr. Irwin Bell win conduct the combined Concert Choir. Girls Glee Club, and string orchestra in this number. A brass quartet directed by Mr. Gordon McLean will begin the programs with chorales and familiar carols. The Girls' Glee Club will be conducted by Mr. Walter Flechsig. and Mr. Lloyd Spear will direct the Orchestra. Decorations and ushers -will • be furnished by the Maine South Music Boosters. Mr. Donald Ed Strom, president, will speak. Courtesy tickets for either the 2 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. performance are being given to students of the Music Department for relatives and friends. Others wishing tickets may stop in the Music Department office in the performing arts wing of the building.

ward sponsoring a foreign exchange student next year. Applications are now available in the bookstore for any sophomore, junior, or senior boy or girl who would like to be a hall monitor during a full study period. "Busy Signal sales were very successful," emphasized J i m Goodale, public relations chairman of SC. Fourteen hundred thirty-seven were sold. A few Busy Signals are still available in the bookstore for 50 cents.

Vol. 3, No. 5

iiuifhjonlii^ Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, III.

South To Offer Two New Summer Travel Courses "Bon Voyage" will be the call of many Maine South students this summer, since many student abroad programs have been initiated. Our English Heritage, French, Spanish, Humanities Abroad, and History on Wheels are the summer school courses, each worth one academic credit. US History on Wheels, open to all incoming juniors, includes a two-week trip through the historic East. The cost, which includes tuition, transportation hotels, and insurance, is $275. All applications must be in the bookstore before December 15. For the third summer. South is offering Humanities Abroad. A student's only requirement is one year completed in regular high school sessions. As in the other abroad programs. Humanities Abroad includes two weeks of pre-departure orientation and six weeks of actual travel and classroom work. The travel portion includes study, observat i o n s, acquaintances, living standards in seven countries of Western Europe. The cost is $998.50, which includes accommodations, meals, and tuitions, and excursions. Mr. Paul Healy. Humanist, and Miss Hazel Anderson, teacher at Maine West, will be chaperones and will guide the tour. Spanish Abroad is being of-

Miss Kenyon Organizes New South Fencing Team Have you walked around the physical education wing recently after school and been startled to see a -woman coaching a boys' athletic team? Don't despair; you do not need glasses. It is Miss Karen Kenyon coaching the newly organized fencing team. Miss Kenyon has been coaching boys interested in the fencing team for two weeks. Since few of the boys have had any experience in fencing, practices mainly include instruction of basic fencing fundamentals. "Anybody can fence," commented Miss Kenyon, "with proper instruction." Fifteen of the forty-four boys who attended the first organizational meeting will be carried on the team. Nine team members will fence at each meet. Fencing meets have tentatively been scheduled with New Trier East, Niles East, and Niles West. The team will also participate in two fencing tournaments, including the state fencing tournament at Champaign on March 11. The first fencing tournament will be held January 14 at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus. When asked why a woman was coaching a boys' athletic team. Miss Kenyon replied, "I only know of one man here who is qualified to coach a fencing team, but the swimming and fencing seasons coicide. Besides, fencing is my specialty." For the past two years Miss Kenyon has coached the Illinois State University women's fenc-

December 2, 1966

ing team. She is the present chairman of the Illinois Fencing Division of Girls' and Women's Sports. Miss Kenyon is also a member of National Fencing Coaches Association of America, an organization with about two hundred male and ten female members. Does Miss Kenyon find it difficult coaching a boys' fencing team? "No," she said, "I enjoy it. It's really different."

fered as a summer school opportunity this year for the first time. The trip will be conducted by Mrs. Judith Luckett, Maine West language teacher. $920 is the cost and it includes transportation, room and board, school fees, and social activities and tours. To be eligible, one or more years of high school Spanish must be completed. Again this year, Maine South is offering French Abroad. Mr. Paul Griffith, language teacher, who has led the group the past two years, will be chaperone and tour guide again this summer. Included in the course is history, geography, Summer School Abroad continued literature, and French folklore. Charge for the trip is $920 and includes transportation, room and board, and school fees. "Our English Heritage" is a new program developed this

year by the English Department of Maine South. Miss Ann Carswell, English teacher, who has traveled extensively in England, will conduct the tour. Since it is strictly limited, as are all the study abroad programs, applications will be processed on a first come, first serve basis. The tour will emphasize the aspects of American culture inherited from England. Parents of participating students are requested by the sponsors, to attend a meeting early in April to listen to detailed descriptions of the trips. Deposits of $103 are requested at the time of applications. Applications for any of these summer school trips are available in the counselors' offices and the Personnel Office. They contain all itinerary and other information necessary.

US Must Face Reality Mandereau Emphasizes Jean-Louis Mandereau, t h e French consul general in Chicago, spoke at the Student Council Social Science Forum on November 22 about France and the Western .Alliance system, the Franco-American split, and Viet Nam. He suggested that the 1950 post-w^ar world situation had progressed so much that in 1966, Europe is economically, financially, and politically stable. France feels that the Communists today are less aggressive than they were sixteen years ago. Peace has been maintained through a balance of power, but this could be easily upset. Mr. Mandereau stated that the time has come to explore new relationships with the Communist bloc. France feels that American troops on her soil limit her national sovereigty. As a result, she has withdrawn from NATO and has asked the foreign troops to leave French soil.

. . . French Are Pro-French Mr. Mandereau emphasized that French policy today is not as anti-American as it is proFrench. Although he called France "independent," he maintained that France and America agree on the essential points of foreign policy. He stated that DeGaulle feels that in the long run French policy is in the best interests of .America and the world. Mr. Mandereau also stressed that United States should not interfere in the affairs of other countries. America can n o t adapt her views on the world situation, and this, according to Mr. Mandereau, is a basic fault of American diplomacy. In short, to the French, America is not dealing in 1966 realities. . . . US Follows Dead-End Road France feels that America is following a dead-end road in Viet Nam. It is felt that the United States' policy will not lead to extended freedom for the Viet Namese people. France hopes that our country wUl negotiate for peace in Viet Nam and withdraw her forces. Mr. Mandereau mentioned t h a t , contrary to recent r e p o r t s , France is not trading with North Viet Nam. In a summary of the FrancoAmerican situation Mr. Mandereau stated that Washington must "watch" the world situation and review her foreign policy. France and America agree on the goal of world democracy, but differ on the means to at' tain this goal.

V-Show Tryouts December 5-16

Dr. Clyde Watson, Miss Karen Tumbieson, and Mrs. Phyllis Hadfield judge cherry pies in this week's Betty Crocker cherry pie contest.

V-Show tryouts wUl be held after school December 5 through 16 in PA-101. A list of act captains and tryout times is posted on the window of Mr. Chastain's office. Act captains will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their acts before Christmas.


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