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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, May 14, 1997 Page '7 OHS retirements announced, An open house to honor retiring retir-ing Orem High School faculty and staff members Phyllis Be-stor, Be-stor, Roger Cawley, and Robert Mathews will be held Wednesday, Wednes-day, May 14, 1997, at 8 p.m. at the high school, 175 South 400 East in Orem. Bestor is retiring after 31 years of dedicated service to education. Cawley has served 33 years, and Mathews for 11. f r ( V i I . :. .-' I 'it " ' iaS f : - . . ; :l1 ; , s i - , . '" . . .- , t . ' ROGER CAWLEY : , I . L , ROBERT MATHEWS Jay Carey calls it quits After 26 years in law enforcement enfor-cement and over two years as the Orem Director of Public Safety, Jay Carey, has submitted sub-mitted his resignation to the City Manager. Citing personal and family reasons, he will retire from law enforcement. He expressed appreciation for the opportunity that he has had to work with the fine officers and staff of the Department His resignation will be effective May 16, 1997. City Manager Jim Reams said, "1 have appreciated Jay Carey's genuine interest and concern for the Orem community com-munity and the opportunity of ' f working with him." A search will begin immediately immedi-ately for the new Department Director. Russell Bishop retires Russell Bishop is retiring after a 40-year career of teaching. teach-ing. He started his career in the Salt Lake City School district and later moved to the Jordan School District where he taught for eight years and earned his Master of Arts from the University Univer-sity of Utah. He left teaching for two years to complete his doctoral doc-toral studies at the University of Oregon. In 1985, he joined the staff at Canyon View Junior High where he has taught Spanish for 13 years. He plans to travel extensively, extensive-ly, visit his numerous grandchildren spread across the nation from Portland to Virginia, Vir-ginia, work on family history, paint, fish on the first day of school each year (and at other times also), and, with his wife, fill a mission for his church. An Open House honoring Dr. Bishop will be at Canyon View Junior High School in the Faculty Facul-ty Room on Tuesday, May 20, 1997, from 2:30-5:30. - .m i A 'V '.''"V i C ' . Somewhere over the rainbow... 153 students two casts of fourt h t h Orem Elementary School recently put on a production of 'The Wizard of Oz", directed by third grade teacher Laurel Barham. Pictured are (front, left and right) Chad Edwards as the Tin Woodsman and Jake Collins as Toto. (Back, left to right) Nicholas Frandsen, Bryan Olsen (Scarecrow), Layne Goeringer (Cowardly Lion), Shannon Wilde, Angela Fischer (Dorothy), and Sean Seastrand (Wicked Witch of the West). FRANCES HATCH Frances Hatch retires Lakeridge Junior High School announces the reitre-ment reitre-ment of Frances P. Hatch, RegistrarCounseling Secretary. She graduated from Provo High School and attended Brigham Young University. During her senior year in high school and following graduation, she was an instructor instruc-tor at the Progressive School of Music. She also worked as a dental assistant prior to employment employ-ment in Alpine School District. For several years, she substituted sub-stituted for secretaries in elementary, junior, and senior high schools. In the fall of 1979, the district authorized the hiring of a full time counseling secretary in each of the secondary secon-dary schools. She was the first one hired in this poistion at Lakeridge Junior High School, and has completed eighteen years there in this capacity. There will be an Open House in her honor on Wednesday, May 21, 1997. It will be held at Lakeridge Jr. High School Media Center, 951 South 400 West, Orem from 3 until 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to attended. Community Carnival for Girl Scouts - The Search is on! The Utah Girl Scout is looking for every woman and girl in Utah who has ever been a Girl Scout any where in the world. If you were a Girl Scout at any time, please call between May 15-June 15 at our toll free number and let us know. 1-888-A-FORMER (236-7637). In celebration of the Girl Scouts 85th Anniversary, the Squaw Peak Service Unit is hosting a community Carnival on Saturday, May 17th from 1 until 4 at the Orem City Center Park on the Corner of 4th East and Center Street Ticket prices are 3 tickets for a dollar, one ticket per booth. For more information infor-mation please call 221-0780. PHYLLIS BESTOR Lakeridge Ledger by Ben Wanamaker Alpine Days, the final track meet of the season, was held this last Thursday and Friday. The highlight of the week was when Lindsey Steele broke the high jump record once again, this time jumping an incredible 5'9". She received an invitation to participate in the National High School Track Meet this summer in Orlando, Florida. She is now ranked in the top ten in the nation. na-tion. Other new records were as follows: Tiffany Strictland in the 1600 M., Jenni Cox in the 400 M, Kristi Anderson in the 3200 M, Michelle Garrett, Rachel Kocherhans, Natalie Bullock, and Nani Jones in the 4x400 Relay, Stephanie Leanite, Dixie Millet, Brooke Plothow, and Kathy Nielson in the 4x100 Relay, and Kathy Nielson in the High Jump. Congratulations to all of the record setters. All three girls track teams took first place in the meet. The 7th grade boys team took 1st and the 8th and 9th grade teams both took second place. Both of the band teachers will be holding end of the year concerts this week. Mr. Hill's will be Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Mrs. Roberts' will be this Thursday also at 6:30 in the auditorium. This coming Friday will be the annual ninth grade Lagoon , Day. Any eligible ninth graders need to pay $4.00 to their English teacher for the bus fee, and the admission to the park is $12.75. Orem High Class of 1967 to hold reunion The Orem High Class of 1967 is planning a huge 30-year Class Reunion. The 2-day celebration will be held in Park City at the Olympia Park Hotel, June 13 and 14. The fun will start at 6:30 p.m. on Friday with dinner, special spe-cial program, class picture, and dancing. On Saturday, there will be a farewell brunch at 9:30 a.m. Deadline for reservations was May 13, 1997. Call 1-800-323-1499 for more information. Please mention Orem High Class of '67 15-Reunion Plus. Local student graduates Paul Abegg of Orem has recently received his Master's degree for the doctor of musical arts at Michigan State University. Univer-sity. Michigan State University listed 4,799 degree candidates for the spring semester of 1997. 1 Randy Smith, Alyse Roper, Daniel Johnson, and Josh Peterson (clockwise from left) concentrate on controlling a robot's arm through syringe-manipulated pressure during a J unior Engineering State experience at Vineyard Elementary. , t . V"" ; it Launching rockets is an exciting part of the pilot Junior Engineering State program brought into elementary schools through Utah State University. Students enjoy "hands-on" experience in Junior Engineering State by REVA BOWEN City Editor If launching rockets, replicating replicat-ing hurricanes, guiding a Mars landrover, or manipulating robots sounds like your idea of fun, you would have enjoyed being at Vineyard and Westmore Elementary Schools recently for Junior Engineering State. ' 2 The pilot program, provided through Utah State University's engineering department, brings $250,000 worth of equipment to an elementary school for young students to participate in hands-on, hands-on, scientific experiences. "The philosophy," explained USlTs Steve Hardman, project coordinator, "is to try to bring as many hands-on experiences to the elementary students as possible. pos-sible. Some of these are things they wouldn't normally see until college." Lesson plans and videos, issued is-sued to teachers in advance of the Junior Engineering State, helped prepare students for the experiences ex-periences they had in the daylong day-long event There are math, history, his-tory, and engineering com ponents to the lessons, Hardman said. There are 38 different modules available for teacher presenters to choose from. At Vineyard, 28 different modules were set up. The school's 720 students stu-dents each visited six or seven presentations during the course of the day. Students at Westmore also had the opportunity to attend at-tend six or seven stations, Principal Prin-cipal Jim Melville said, and parents of the students were invited in-vited back during the evening to an open house where they were able to see what their children had learned and experienced during the day. Hardman said the Junior Engineering En-gineering State program is the idea of Mardell Parrish, who is the program director. At one point, the USU engineering program pro-gram was "dying", Hardman said, when the idea was formulated formu-lated to bring high school juniors to the university for hands-on scientific experiences. In two or three years, the formerly suffering suffer-ing engineering program "exploded". "ex-ploded". The Junior Engineering State program introduces even younger students to engineering and scientific principles in a fun and entertaining way. The program was brought to Vineyard through sponsors Collision Col-lision Safety Engineering, Inc., Valtek, and EarthTec Testing, Inc. A teacher's donation and PTA and school funds made the visit possible at Westmore, according ac-cording to teacher Beth Elmer. One of the most popular modules at both schools was one , 1 - - JV involving controlling replicas of the Mars landrover Sojourner, part of NASA's current Pathfinder Path-finder mission. A landing is scheduled for July 4, 1997, and the Sojourner will go to work inspecting in-specting the surface of the planet, analyzing rock samples, collecting collect-ing photographs, and sending information in-formation 500 million kilometers back to earth, Elmer said. "The students had 1,000 questions," ques-tions," Elmer noted, "that was what was so exciting for me --their --their burst of enthusiasm, and the good questions. Here we are at the end of the school year, and they are tired. But they studied for their state tests, and didn't even know it!" A tour of the activities at Vineyard found students launching launch-ing rockets on the east lawn and replicating the forces of gravity and centrifugal force to create mini-hurricanes in two-liter pop bottles. Mrs. Broderick led students through a discussion of ocean sounds, and demonstrated the use of an oscilloscope to measure sound. Using instruments such as whirring tubes and shaker sticks, the children pretended to make ocean sounds and saw what the sounds looked like on the screen. Working together as teams, students in the robotics module learned to manipulate syringes to control the movements of a robot arm. Various tasks, such as picking pick-ing up a ball or a pencil, were performed. The youngest students learned more about civil engineering en-gineering by driving little cars through a mini-city set up in the gym, complete with pedestrians, road signs, and a jail. At a bubbles module, Hardman said the children learned about geometry, geometric shapes, why bubbles pop, and how they are made. The "Sense & Nonsense" station sta-tion allowed children to guess what flavor of shaved ice they had to taste. Although the treats were all lemonade flavored, the students stu-dents saw how different colore and visual perceptions contributed con-tributed to conclusions that they were tasting lime, blueberry, punch, or cherry. The tasters also tested a popcorn principle: does the buttery snack taste different using the sense of smell compared com-pared to not using that sense? Vineyard assistant principal Tami Maldonado said the students stu-dents looked forward to the Junior Engineering State day and enjoyed it very much. Under the program, she said, teachers can receive university credit for teaching the units and creating a new unit using an idea of their own. BYU produces soundtrack CD from film "The Searchers" In the movie "The Searchers", Sear-chers", John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an obsessed man who tries to find his niece, the sole survivor of an Indian attack. When he locates her five years later among the tribe that kidnapped her, however, she does not want to be rescued. Edwards, Ed-wards, a tortured and anguished outsider, believes she has been ruined and decides to kill her. This complex 1956 John Ford film reveals much about prejudice and racism that remains contemporary. "The Searchers" surpassed the routine conventions of the western to become a venerated classic that repeatedly lands among critics' lists of top movies of all time. A major contribution to the film's success is Max Steiner's musical score, now located in the Film Music Archives at Brigham Young University. James V. D'Arc, an associate professor oftheater and film and curator of BYUs Film Music Archives, Ar-chives, says he wants to make the film works of composers available to others and spearheaded spear-headed the production of a CD about 'The Searchers". He says the CD the only one of its kind extends the reach of BYlTs archives. Accompanying the CD is a detailed 36-page booklet that provides an essay about Steiner and a track-by-track analysis of the music. Available from Screen Archives Entertainment, P.O. Box 5636, Washington, D.C. 20016-1236, (202-364-4333), profits from the $24.95 product will go to the Film Music Archives Film Music Preservation Preserva-tion Fund. D'Arc says he hopes The Searchers" inspires a series of original soundtracks released through BYU. The archive has made performing materials and original studio recordings available avail-able to companies for more than 15 years, but The Searchers" is its first CD. The composer, who began his career in 1930 with the western "Cimmaron", was almost as well known to movie audiences as any star of the silver screen by the early 1950s, according to D'Arc. " -4- |
