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Damascus High Hosts
'62 Community Fair
Damascus High will be host
to the annual Damascus Com
munity Fair today and tomor
row.
The exhibits will range from
Future Farmers of America to
Future Homemakers showings.
The Home Arts Department
will feature interesting exhibits
such as needle work, sewing,
and canned goods. A Horse
Show will be one of the ex
hibits sponsored by the FFA,
and a flower show is to be spon
sored by the Family Commu
nity Garden Club of Damascus.
Miss Joy Shoemaker, senior
at Damascus, is chairman of the
household department.
Sponsors for the Fair are Da
mascus FFA and FHA, Mary
land State Fair Board, and the
Damascus High School. Follow
ing the fair on Friday there
will be the prize winning Baby
Beef sale at 8 p.m. Everyone
is invited to view the exhibits.
Over SBOO will be given in pre
miums.
Enrollment at Damascus
High School reached a record
high as a total of 647 students
registered for the 1962-63 school
year. This is the largest enroll
ment in the school’s history.
On Oct. 3, Mr. Gueta will
speak at an assembly in the
school auditorium. The subject
of the assembly will be fal
conry.
On Sept. 7. the Student Coun
cil sponsored the first dance of
the year, the Kimona Kaper.
Dick Denham was on hand dur
ing the evening to spin the
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Seniors List
Many Events
The senior class of North
-1 wood High School has announc
ed its program of class activi
ties for the 1962-63 year, listing
a wide \ariety of events for the
j 650 class members.
1 Edward Payne is class presi
dent, with Miss Ann Beusch as
faculty advisor. Representing
home rooms on the class com
mittee are Betty Domingus, Su
san Freier, Cheryl Hiers, Jeanne
Kudysh. Kevin Barry. Paul Men
zel, Kathleen O’Boyle, Dianna
Proudfoot, Sue Rochkind, Milton
Tupperman and Bobbie Cham
berlin.
Pat Griffin has been named
chairman of a committee to ar
range for a movie Oct. 5 in the
school gym as a means of de
fraying class expenses. The Se
nior Class Play has been sched
uled for Nov. 16 end 17, with
Carole Harmel heading the play
selection committee and Miss
Phyllis Cartwright serving as
faculty director.
discs, while a hearty crowd
; stepped lightly and started the
| school year out with enthusi
asm. The Student Council
i would like to thank all who
; helped make the Kimona Kaper
* such a success.
Seniors All Set for Season
These are the new Senior Class officers
at Northwood High School who have been
given a variety of activities to supervise in
the next nine months. From left, are Marilyn
SS Walter Johnson Sets Sails
For Luxurious Cruise Schedule
By Jill Karro
Climb aboard the SS Walter
Johnson for a year of luxurious
cruises to the isles of Chem
istry, History, English and spe
cial trips to the continent of
Tests.
Start the cruise Saturday
night at the annual welcoming
dance in the boat’s roomy gym.
Get tickets for $1.50, buy a few
cokes and dance to the New
ports Band from 8:30 to 11:00.
FANTASIA, the annual talent
show, is also a big event on the
calendar. Held the weekend of
Oct. 26, the theme is Halloween
and ghosts and witches will
abound aplenty. Emphasis this
year is more on a variety of acts
and less on story continuity.
Why is the show held so early
in the trip? It was switched
with the Senior Class Play to
give the hard-working dancers,
singers, musicians and stage
crews a longer break before the
all-school musical. Previously,
practically running the two to
gether accounted for many
classtime snoozers.
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Trofast. secretary; Edward Payne, presi
dent; Carole Harmel, vice president, and
Richard Bolirer, treasurer.
If you’d rather stand under
the lights then watch them,
come to Dramatic Club tryouts
on Monday afternoon (Sept. 241
in R. 220. Have memorized
either a dialogue or monologue
of at least 3 minutes. The ques
tion of costumes is up to you,
but, pleads President Alice
White, senior, “Don’t have so
many props that they get in
everybody's way”. Another bit
of caution from the same
source, “Make sure each person
in your skit has enough of a
part to be fairly judged.”
But if your place is behind the
lights, a meeting headed by
Schelly Rich, senior, for poten
tial stage crew members will be
in the same room on Sept. 20
after school. For further infor
mation throughout the year,
consult 220’s special drama bul
letin board.
Even a boat needs a govern
ment and the student govern
ments are organizing and plan
ning now for the year. Senior
Ellen Kotz’s Welfare Commit
tee is almost ready to start the
canned food drive. Although the
beginning isn’t officially until
the latter part of November,
Ellen says eager beavers can
start accumulating their food
stuffs now.
Recent Senior Class balloting
resulted in the election of 14
girls and nine boys.
Linda Loure, Mary Jo McCor
ceay, Betty Pritchett, Louise
Stephenson, Ginny Nerd 1e r,
Darlene Krouse , Mary Ruth
Allen, Jo Lynn Beniz. Cathleen
Crofott, Debbie Driver, Mary
Grahm, Peggy Holden. Lynn
Kassalow and Margaret Kidder
are, as the names might indi
cate, the 14 girls.
The male members include
Marc Newman, Tommy
Roane, Charlie Schaffer, Jack
Topping, Bill Wickner, Ste
phen Heibol, Chark Hardy,
Bob Brownell and John Fran
kel.
Montgomery County Regional
Student Council first Include the
brand-new position of Regional
Cordinator held by Junior Di
anne Levine. As Cordinator, her
Springbrook Set
For Big Season
Sept. 4 at 7:55 this year saw students pour from buses
and cars into the doors and through the corridors of
Springbrook High. Springbrook’s new crop of freshmen
along with her sophomore and juniors determined to make
this year even more satisfying and rewarding then last
year. As soon as everyone relearned the ins and outs of the
numerous hallways or became acquainted with them for
the first time, they settled down to organizing and par
ticipating in the first social and extracurricular activities
of the school year.
The first weekend was imme
diately proclaimed “football
weekend" and Friday afternoon
the rafters shook with the
echoes of our first pep rally.
The enthusiastic cheerleaders
led the bleachers full of stu
dents as we let them hear us all
the way over to Surratsville.
The members of the various
athletic teams were introduced
and given the hearty support of
every student, teacher, and fa
culty rpember. The football team
was also presented a huge good
luck horseshoe. Saturday after
noon we played our first foot
ball game of the season on the
Surratsville field and later that
night the players were honored
with a dance.
As students began to get
more in the groove of another
school year, they became even
more enthusiastic about the
many activities to be going on
this year at Springbrook. Thurs
day afternoon the bulletin
boards were mobbed as students
signed up for their favorite Stu
dent Council or grade commit
tee. They signed up for every
assignment is to run studies on
activities common to all the
County’s schools and be a sort
of clearing house among them
for ideas. To help keep them in
touch, Dianne Is editing the Re
gional Newsletter.
Another facet of this year is
service. Keys, one of WJ’s hon
orary service clubs, recently in
ducted new members bringing
the total up to about 30.
Seniors Steve Hopkins, John
Beebe, Johnny Frankel, Jack
Newman, Ken Cohen, Roddy
Whekins; Juniors Randy Ward,
Bret Hart, Lloyd and Lynn
Ethelridge, Eddie Kirk; and
Sophomores Bob Parks, Jack
Murphy and John Zalanza are
the inductees.
Selections were made on the
basis of grades, leadership, re
sponsibility, willingness to work
and faculty and member opin
ions.
thing from Building and
Grounds to the Prom Commit
tee.
One showcase in particular
commanded great interest as all
crowded to see the artists’ con
ceptions and suggests from vari
ous companies for the design of
the Springbrook ring. As orders
must be in within a few days if
the rings are to be delivered
around Christmastime, students
were invited to drop their own
suggestions as to design and
color of stone in a special sug
gestion box provided especially
for them.
Not only did students meet
new classmates and teachers,
but they had to cope with new
courses, new ways of teaching
old courses, and even new
school hours. The first day stu
dents were introduced to new
methods of teaching chemistry,
biology and math. Several new
courses were also offered for
the first time. Spanish, journal
ism, trigonometry, and driver-ed
were presented to Springbrook's
first eleventh graders. Students
also found themselves getting
up an hour to an hour and a
half earlier this year. Moans
and groans could be heard
throughout the school as every
one tried to accustom them
selves to the earlier hour.' How
ever, a pleasant surprise was in
store when the dismissal bell
rang at 2:30. An extra hour
after school was indeed wel
come!
Saturday the 15th, the Blue
Devils played their second foot
ball game of the year and after
a direct challenge from the
Peary Huskies, enthusiasm was
at its peak. It was the North
wood playing field this time that
was filled with spirited Spring
brookers answering Peary's
challenge.
Monday morning in home
room, the first official elections
of the year were held as stu
dents voted for their homeroom
representatives. Posters scat
tered over the school admon
ished students to choose this
important officer carefully as
he would be their main contact
with the Student Council and
administration.
County School
Bands Perform
At Maryland U.
Bands from two Montgomery
County high schools will Join
38 others from throughout the
State in the annual Band Day
program to be held Saturday at
the University of Maryland.
Representatives of Wheaton
High, directed by Joseph Jodi,
and Richard Montgomeiy, di
rected by Ralph Minnick, will be
among those who will be given .
noonday box lunches and then i
have the opportunity of partici-;
paring at halftime ceremonies
of the Maryland-Southern Meth
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ACROSS PROM COURT HOUSE—ROCKVILLE
I Brand New
Doors Open
At Whitman
By JANE FOSTER
Brand new Walt Whitman
High School, on Whittier Boule
vard, Bethesda, opened, Sept. 4,
in a state of near chaos. Work
men were working on the build
ing while students were running
around desperately, trying to
find their classrooms.
The building Is still not com
pleted, even though several
weeks of school have passed.
The gym, quite unique in that
it is in the shape of a dome,
will not be completed for sev
eral weeks. The science tabs also
are not finished as yet, but hope
ful teaohers expect them to be
ready by the middle of this
month.
Vistors to the school during
the open house held Saturday,
Sept. 8, were very impressed by
the attractive building. Most
visitors showed a great deal of
interest in the geodesic dome
gym, the only one of its kind
in the area.
Approximately 1,400 students
are enrolled in the school at
present. The school’s capacity
is 1,500. Enrollment is expected
to increase so rapidly that plans
for a new addition are already
being considered.
Although no clubs have been
organized, the football team has
been formed and has been prac
ticing since before the opening of
school. The team was to play
Its first game Saturday, Sept.
15, against Central High School.
Since the Walt Whitman foot
ball field Is not completed,. the
game was to be held at Richard
Montgomery, one of three
schools at which Whitman’s
games will be held this season.
Most of the games will be held
at B-CC, with one or two to be
played at Walter Johnson.
Organization of the student
council is under way. Candidates
for offices are now campaign
ing, and elections will be held
within the next week or two.
Part of the constitution was
drawn up before the beginning
of school by members of the
Summer Committee, a group of
students chosen from the vari
ous schools sending students to
Whitman. Members of this com
mittee are: Bruce Tift, Bob
Racusin, Cindy Mattson, Bruce
Frank, Kristie Hansen, Sue
Riecken, Jim Jamieson, Debbie
Deotate, Neil Raven, Jane Beck
er, Cindy Shipp, John Lee, Sally
White, Rick Vinograd, Julie
Pierce, Susan Finney, Amy Col
men, Dick Langley, and Billy
Teague.
In addition to drawing up the
constitution, the summer Com
mittee chose the school colors,
which are black, white, and
light blue. They also worked
strenuously in the library,
stamping, shelving, and carry
ing huge stacks of new text
books.
Ten temporary cheerleaders
have started training. They are:
Pat Lambert, Dianne Benoit,
Susan Mahana, Connie Aeber
sold, Kristie Hansen, Priscilla
Walker, Debbie Tobin, JuMc
Pierce, Diane Holt, and Jane
Hildebrand. Their captain has
not yet been picked.