Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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DebaTe Squad STarTs Year Wifh Defeafs The MSI-lS debafe squad, under The di- recfion of Mr. DeVere Taylor, fell be- hind in firsT couple of seasonal Tourna- menTs, Those being aT Pacific Universify, Soufhern Oregon College, and aT Lewis and Clark. BuT as The Team reached Linfield, Things looked up. The squad broughT back To Medford eighT Trophies. AfTer The Linfield Tournamenf, debafers prepared for disTricT, and broughf Med- ford more recognifion Through iTs seven parTicipanTs. AT sTaTe, STeve l-lorTon Took second for serious inTerpreTaTion, and Karin Dill Took fourTh in humorous in- TerpreTaTion, as Mike Saul did wifh Radio. TransporTaTion was provided on Grey- hounds, and rooms varied from beauTiful moTel rooms To unbelievably dusfy dor- mitory areas. IT was an evenTful year as debaTe sTudenTs read daily announce- menTs, accepTed local inviTaTions To speak, carried on class acTiviTies, and Travelled To speech TournamenTs in hopes of Taking anoTher Grand-SweepsTakes Trophy. ABOVE: Debaters Michelle Hicks, Kent Clinkenbeard, Mike Saul and Donna McGinTy listen To The resulTs of The disTricT Tournament RIGHT: Debafe parfners Karen Dill and Karla Thierolf prepare Their affirmative rebuTTal. I8 l K :ey-Q

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.A av' vnu.. -+-- -'2.'..+-...Q Twelve Years and STill Learning Our Language Books, papers, and lecTures are subiecTs Tor MSHS English sTudy. Required Tor Twelve years, sTudenTs develop a deep inTeresT in or an aversion Tor The course. Seniors spend Time in discussions of liTe. lThe brave, nevv world isn'T as Tar avvay as iT used To be.l Everyone reads asf signed books, sTudies grammar, wriTes and reads poeTry, sTudies novels, and Then aTTempTs To undersTand vvhaT has been read. ATTiTudes are expressed, opin- ions Tormed aand relaTed To The respece Tive subiecT. While seniors Took remedial English TesTs, iuniors sTudied The miracle oT language. Analysis of symbolism be- came maTerial Tor consTanT concenTraTion. A relaTively nevv course, The sTudy oT The mass media, encouraged The evaluaTion of Television, radio, and adverTising Tech- niques and relaTed Them To our lives. ExTra-curricular educaTion aT MSHS was dominanT as seniors accepTed The annual responsibiliTy oT Term-paper vvriTing, The lasT assignmenT oT a Tvvelve-year course. IV ABOVE: Becky Mclmyre prepares a Theme on The Brave New World

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X sw . is -N 1-2 :N .. WK if MW SH. su: 'EF-1 1 T il Journalism at MSHS Prepares Students for Bigger Things A feeder class for The Hi-Times and Crater classes, The journalism courses in i968-9 instructed students on The pur- poses and production of journalism ma- terial. Each individual found himself con- fronted with The writing of news stories editorials, features, and news columns 1 Exchange papers came weekly, and The journalism class used Them in various ways. Often The papers would be used as good and bad examples of lay-outs and make-up. They also gave MSHS journalism students an idea of what was happening on other high school and college campuses. Using movies as guides, The class learned how to Take and develop pictures, and each student Took several photographs and attempted to devel.op them. lt was 'then assigned that they use the picture to develop a feature story, M n it FF TOP OF PAGE: Journalism instructor, Charles Weidner listens To a students editorial. ABOVE: Londo Weter finishes a copy assignment for The years course requirements.