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KINGS AND QUEENS crowned at the Livingston Halloween Carnival
on October 19, at the school gym are Terrell Moody, 2nd grade and
Robin Standard, Ist grade (shown on left), selected for the lower gra-
Newton High Library Has
Greatly increased Service
For the month of October the
library served a total of 6646
students with 1931 books being
checked out. 968 Fiction Books
and 963 Non Fiction Books were
checked out. The largest number
of books checked cut in one day,
was on October 16 when a total of
161 books were checked out. The
largest number of students using
the Library in one day was Oct
ober 23, when 365 students came
in.
The Library Staff members
will attend the Gala District
meeting for this year in Monroe
on November 4.
The Library acknowledges with
sincere appreciation the gifts
of the following school clubs to
buy new books and supplies for
the Library: Alpha Tri Hl Y, Sr.
Tri Hi Y, Industrial Arts, Key
Club, and Library Club.
The Library wishes to ack
nowledge with thanks the gift
from Susan Lumsted and her
mother of 25 books which have
now been placed on the shelves.
We also are grateful to the Stu
dent Council for providing funds
for the purchase of 2 books, In
honor of Former State Senator
Jimmy Carter who spoke at Cha-
Freshmen Elected
To Oxford Senate
The Oxford College student
body recently elected Freshmen
Representatives to the Student
Senate.
These members are: West
Wing, Nancy Aertker of Ft. Lau
derdale, Florida; East Wing, Lin
da Sudderth of Marietta, Georgia;
Overall: Cyndy Magee of Cleve
land, Tennessee; Dowman, Tim
Stansell of St. Marys, Georgia;
Bonnell, Jeff Stewart of Winch
ester, Tennessee; Stone, Jeff Ke
hler of New Castle, Pennsylvania;
and Dickey, Julian Hutchins of
Greensboro, Georgia.
The Senate functions in mat
ters of student body administra
tion, setting and maintaining st
andards of student conduct, and
providing the means for cooper
ation in all facets of campus life.
Blue Key Fraternity Awards
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ATHENS, Georgia--Congressman Phil Landrum (seated, left) and State
Treasurer Jack Ray (seated, right) received awards "for outstanding
service to the University of Georgia and higher education in the state'
from the University of Georgia Chapter of Blue Key National Honor
Fraternity Friday night (October 18). Senator Herman Talmadge (seated
center), a former winner of the award, made the presentations at Blue
Key's annual Homecoming Banquet in Athens. Rullle Harris (standing,
left) was general chairman of the banquet. John Gordon Jr. (standing,
fright) is president of the University Chapter of Blue Key.
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Livingston Halloween Carnival Kings And Queens
pel exercises on Friday, October
25.
The paper drive by the Library
Staff on October 26 was helpful,
although, we did not realize our
highest hopes because of the
small amount of papers made av
ailable to us.
“We announce with regret the
loss of Susan Lumsted and Jo
anne Young from the Library
staff. We are happy to wel
come Kathy Joan Brooks to our
group,” stated Mary Dobbs, Re
porter for the Library Club.
“Know Yourself”
Was Gamma Tri-
Hi-Y Topic
"Know Yourself”. This was
the general topic which highligh
ted the second meeting of the
Newton County Alpha-Trl-Hl-Y
club.
The Meeting came to order
as usual and the regular
procedure followed. New and
old business was discussed. Un
der new business came the ele -
ctlon of a delegate to Youth As
sembly. Huanne Moore was ele
cted to represent our club.
The meeting progressed rap
idly and Gall Wood, Vice-Presi
dent, introduced the program,
entitled “Know Yourself.”
It consisted of a panel dis
cussion composed of: Miss Gl
oria Smith, acting as moderator;
Cindy Meyer; Libby Callaway;
Susan Bowden; Anita Hays; Ce
celia Smith; and Vickie Shepard.
The panel discussed several
problems confronting students
and youths today. Also, what
the resolve for these problems
would be.
The club enjoyed the program
very much. It gave everyone
the Idea, “To thine ownself be
true.”
Jane Exley then adjourned the
meeting, followed soon by the
bell.
Special VA assistance Is given
to veterans with limited educat
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des. Receiving the most votes for the higher grades were Judy
Johnson of the 7th grade and Ronnie Thacker from the 6th grade.
Proceeds from the contest went to the Livingston PTA.
Teacher Shortage To Ease By
1975, Labor Department Says
WASHINGTON—The nation
wide shortage of teachers is
expected to ease by 1975, per
mitting expansion and improve
ment in educational services,
the Department of Labor report
ed recently.
That’s a major conclusion of
an article published in the Sep
tember issue of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics’ Occupation
al Outlook Quarterly.
By 1975, the article notes, the
young people born during the
post-war “baby boom” will have
completed their own education
and are expected to enter the
teaching profession in record
numbers, If the proportion of
graduates going into teaching
continues along past trends.
At the same time, there will
be fewer pupils on hand in ele
mentary schools and only a mode
rate Increase in pupils in secon
dary schools, due to declining
birth rates.
As a result, there will be more
teachers than conventional teach
ing job openings. However,
shortages will probably persist
in some geographic areas, in ur
ban ghettos, in depressed and
rural districts, and in certain
subject fields.
A slight decline is expected
in elementary school enrollment
from 32.6 million in 1967 to 31.3
million in 1975.
A slower growth is expected
in secondary school enrollment.
By 1975, the secondary school
population is expected to amount
to 21.9 million, 22 per-cent more
than the 17.9 million in 1967,
a much smaller rise than the
45 percent by which the secon
dary school enrollment grew
since 1959.
Teacher employment require
ments in elementary schools,
projected on the basis of past
trends towards smaller class
sizes, will increase only 3 per
cent between 1967 and 1975. At
the secondary level, a 22-per
cent increase in teacher require
ments is projected based on a
continuation of the 1967 class
size through the 1967-75 period.
The average pupil-teacher ratio
in elementary schools was 27.4
to 1 in 1967 and is expected
to fall to 25.5 to 1 by 1975.
In secondary schools, the pupil
teacher ratio is expected to re
main at about 20 to 1 between
1967 and 1975.
At the same time, the number
of college graduates is expected
to continue climbing rapidly. If
the proportion of bachelor’s de
gree recipients meeting teacher
certification requirements conti
nues at the levels of recent
years (slightly more than one
third), the available supply of
teachers from new graduates a
lone should be sufficient to meet
projected demands. An additional
supply can be counted on as a
result of the reentry of former
teachers into the profession, wh
ich has accounted for about 40
percent of all entrants in recent
years.
The Quarterly article points
out that “as manpower con
straints are lifted, more com
munities may introduce or ex
pand kindergartens, nursery sc
hools, and curriculums for the
physically and mentally handi
' capped or the gifted. Programs
aimed at helping the underprivi
leged, the unemployed, and Army
rejectees may also increase the
demand for teachers as a re
sult of the knowledge that teach
ers will be a v a i 1 ab 1 e for staf
fing.”
“In addition, as an adequate
supply of teachers becomes avai
lable educational planners may
feel they can improve the qua-
lity of education by hiring ad
ditional teachers to reduce class
size. The resulting effect on
manpower requirements of such
action could be very significant.
More adequate supplies of tea
chers also wiH permit a more
careful screening of job appli
cants.”
The alleviation of the short
age of teachers in the 1970’s
should therefore result in the im
provement of the quality of educa
tion in this Nation’s elementary
and secondary schools, accord
ing to the article.
French Club
Elects Officers
The first meeting of “Le Cir
cle Francais” was held Wed
nesday afternoon on October 23.
This is one of the two smaller
French clubs in Newton County
High School. The original club
was divided because of the large
size and conflicting Interests of
the members.
A slate of officers were ele
cted for the 1968-1969 school
year. President will be Bubba
Hill, Vice-President is Randall
Allen, Secretary is Mary Hazel
Polk, Treasurer is Debbie Hays,
Reporter is Sandy Peterson, and
Devotional Chairman will be Wa
rren Christian.
After this Mrs. Fitzpatrick
entertained the club with some
French records by Sandler and
Young. The meeting was then
adjourned.
Get Married Before Voting Age?
Teen Students Split Their Ballots
Will today’s high school sweet
hearts be tomorrow’s young
newlyweds?
The odds are against it, re
ports the Institute of Life Insur
ance, which has recently con
ducted an attitude survey in
volving more then 1800 high
school juniors and seniors.
When it comes to early mar
riage, there’s a difference of
opinion between boys and girls.
A much higher percentage of
girls than boys said it was likely
that they would be married by
the time they reach their twenty
first birthdays.
These statistics make the
point. Forty-two percent of the
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Newton Cadet
Band Attends
Georgia Game
The Newton County Cadet Band
along with the majorettes from
the Blue Rambler Band were par
ticipants in the 13th annual Un
iversity of Georgia Band Day
festivities at the University of
Georgia-Houston football game
in Athens on Saturday afternoon,
November 2.
Seventy Georgia high school
bands, plus the Clarke County
Junior High School Band of Ath
ens and the Newton County Ca
det Band, totaling over 4,000
members played the pre game
activities before an overflow
crowd of 59,000. The mass
bands played Bristol and Tne
Swing March while the field was
taken over by majorettes from
the various schools performing
for the enjoyment of the crowd.
A stirring rendition of Amer
ica the Beautiful, by the bands,
directed by Roger Dancz, dir
ector of the University of Geor
gia Red Coats, was a fitting
climax to the activities.
Newton FTA Club
Met Wednesday
The FTA Club met on Wed
nesday, October 30. The meet
ing was opened by a very in
spiring devotional brought to the
club by Eve Morris.
G. W. Davis, one of the eight
FTA members that attended the
Conference for Exceptional Chil
dren on October 11, reported
to the club on the conference
and what they learned there.
Following G. W.’s very int
eresting and informative talk, a
few of the members that sub
stituted for some elementary
school teachers during the mon
th of October reported on their
teaching experiences. First Jac
kie Mathews told of what she
learned from teaching the second
grade at Palmer Stone. Next
Buster Davis told of his exp
erience teaching the fifth grade
at Livingston. To conclude the
program Pete Carter told of
his teaching the seventh and sixth
grades at Mansfield.
This meeting proved to be one
of the best meetings and most
enjoyable ones the club has had.
INFLUENCE OF THE FOREST
Throughout the ages, classic
architectural forms have been
inspired by the structure of the
forest. Trunks and branches
of trees served as the original
models for columns and arches
of earlier cultures.
According to the Southern Pine
Association, this influence still
lingers. With modern techniq
ues, the feeling and form of the
forest have been recaptured in
homes and large buildings with
a clarity unrivalled by the past.
girls in the survey said they
would likely be married by age
21. Only 14 percent of the boys
expressed the same expectation.
So, if this turns out to be true,
a high percentage of tomorrow’s
freshout-of-high-school brides
will be marrying (as is tradi
tional) boys who are older than
themselves.
However, the idea of putting
off marriage until after college,
military service or a few care
free years of work is popular
with high proportions of the
youngsters in the survey. Forty
three percent of the girls said
they would be likely to wed
between the ages of 21 and 25.
Forty-eight percent of the boys
said the same thing. So if these
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Adult Education Becoming Fashionable;
13-Year-Old Council Leading The Way
While nearly 55,000 elemen
tary, high school and college ad
ministrators and teachers are
trying to educate Georgia’s young
people, a much smaller group
is trying to educate the young
people’s parents.
With slogans such as “You’re
Never Too Old to Learn” and
“Learning Has No Age Limit,”
adult education is becoming fas
hionable.
Although it claims as indivi
dual members only 110 of the
several thousand administrators
and teachers currently active in
adult education, the Georgia Ad
ult Education Council, Inc., Is
leading the way.
A plus for the Council are
24 public and private organiza
tions and institutions that hold
group membership. The list In
cludes just about every group in
volved in educating and training
grownups today.
Three years into its second
decade, the Council is beginning
to assert itself with some auth
ority. In fact, the Georgia or
ganization has achieved such a
reputation nationally that it was
successful in bidding for the 1970
annual convention of the Adult
Education Association, U.S.
A. (The convention, will be held
in Atlanta.)
A handful of adult educators
met September 25-26, 1956, on
the campus of the University of
Georgia and set the standards
for the Council with this pre
amble:
“In the belief that only a vi
gorous, informed, and democra
tic people can remain free. . .
“In the recognition that among
a free people, learning for ev
ery citizen must be a process
continuing throughout life. . .
"In the understanding that the
capacity to perfect skills, to
enrich living, and to increase
social understanding and effect
iveness is ever present Inhuman
beings. ..
"In the knowledge that adults
through education must seek con
tinually new and better ways to
achieve these ends and ideals. ..
"We, who share these convic
tions, seek to build a stronger
adult education movement thr
ough this organization.”
The movement was built, but
13 years later the current pre-
Newton Baby Ram Cheerleaders
BABY RAM CHEERLEADERS are pictured above. Mascots in front are Sherri Capes (left) and Gi Gi
Capes. Middle Row (left to right)- Amanda Ginn, Jana Jackson, Susan McLaney and Pam Jackson.
Back Row: Donna Kitchens, Nancy 'Lott, Dawn Harris and Debba McGiboney. Not present for photo:
Jan Christian and Linda Herring.
classmates should marry—it
won’t be for a few years.
The survey which brought
these figures to light was done
by self administered question
naire in cooperation with teach
ers in high schools located
throughout the United States.
In general, the students ques
tioned came from "middle in
come” homes with a third in
dicating a family income of
SIO,OOO or more.
The answers to the “when are
you likely to marry?” question
divided themselves this way:
Girls:
2% already married.
8% likely to marry after high
school.
32% likely to marry between 18
and 21 years.
43% likely to marry between 21
and 25 years.
2% likely to marry after age 26.
13% don’t know.
Boys:
1% already married.
1% likely to marry after high
school.
12% likely to marry between 18
and 21 years.
48% likely to marry between 21
and 25 years.
15% likely to marry after age 26.
23% don’t know.
Higher percentages of the girls
than boys indicated interest in
early marriage (and, for that
matter, know when they want
to marry.) On the other hand
the boys in the survey tend to
be more old fashioned or tradi
tional about the role of a young
mother as a co-breadwinner.
The students in the survey
were asked if they agree wi’h
the following statement:
“A mother with young chil
dren can manage a career out
side the home without her chil
dren being adversely affected by
it, if she wants to work.”
About half the girls in the
survey agreed. Sixty-three per
cent of the boys disagreed.
sident of the Council, Dr. Ja
ck Lancaster, was saying, “The
role of adult education will be
even more challenging and de
manding in the future than in
the past.”
Dr. Lancaster, head of the
department of Extension educa
tion, University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, added, “I
can’t help but be excited about
the possibilities. ... To be
sure, the problems are going to
become more numerous and more
complex.”
The Council president said he
sees these problems as “oppor
tunities to search for, devise,
and create new, practical, some
times fantastic, sometimes even
exotic solutions.”
Dr. Lancaster believes that
influencing the changes and dir
ections taken by society is a
function of adult education.
“Notwithstanding our trends to
ward youth!’ tness,” he said, “it
is still the mature adult who
makes decisions, particularly th
ose that are far reaching in
their Impact on our lives.
“The role of youth education
is still that of equipping indi
viduals with the tools for pur
suing adult learning,” he con
tinued.
Dr. Lancaster, who will serve
as president this year and next,
wants to see the Council accept
the challenge to “provide a vo
ice, a sounding board, a dialo
gue for adult education” in Ge
orgia.
High on the list of priorities,
he said, is “discovering and pub
licizing the wide range of ad
ult education activities in Geor
gia’s institutions, agencies, and
organizations.”
Already, the Council has been
successful in coordinating the
programs of various agencies
and groups, and it has assisted
in several experimental and de
monstration projects. The fact
that the Council, through Its gr
oup membership plan, has bro
ught 24 different organizations
together in a cooperative work
ing relationship is considered no
small accomplishment in Geor
gia educational circles.
Expansion next year of a Co
uncil-sponsored communications
project, “Do You Understand
Me?,” is currently in the pro-
STAR Folders Now Available
In High Schools
More than 90,000 STAR fold
ers describing the 1968-69 St
udent Teacher Achievement Re
cognition (STAR) Program of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
are being distributed to high sc
hool seniors by State Superint
endent Jack P. Nix.
The 1969 State STAR Student
will receive a SSOO check from
Atlanta Gas Light Company, a
Pan American World Airlines
trip to Europe and a Chamber
of Commerce STAR Statuette to
be awarded at the Georgia Ch
amber of Commerce’s Annual
Banquet at the Regency Hyatt
House, Friday, April 18, 1969.
The State STAR Teacher will
receive a SSOO Sears Roebuck
Foundation Scholarship and the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s
ALF Statuette.
Ten Callaway Leadership A
wards -a week’s vacation at
Callaway Gardens, Pine Moun
tain, Georgia - will be award
ed to all district STAR winners
and their families. District wi
nners and Ist runner up STAR
students in each District will
also be guests of the Georgia
Chamber for an eight day ed
ucational sight-seeing STAR To
ur of Georgia.
Spelling Taught by Computer
Holding kids spellbound with spelling may be possible, pro
viding a computer does the instructing. And, the poor speller
who needs extra attention from his teacher may also be the
one to profit most from computer-assisted instruction.
This is indicated by newly tabulated achievement gain scores
for a group of 100 sixth-graders in three schools who spent 15
weeks learning their spelling via computer, while their fellow
students received conventional instruction.
The project was carried out by The Center for Cooperative
Research and was coordinated by Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
Thursday, November 7, 1968
gram-of-work mill. The pro
ject was initiated this spring
with four-hour seminars at four
colleges—Gainesville Junior,
West Georgia, Albany Junior and
Brunswick Junior. The Adult
Education Council hopes to of
fer the seminars at all junior
colleges in the state during the
spring of 1969.
Vice president of the Council
Is Earl F. Hargett, president
of Brunswick Junior College un
til June, 1968, and currently a
doctoral student at the Univer
sity of Tennessee.
Eugene Dyson, in charge of
public and governmental affairs
for Associated Industries of Ge
orgia, is secretary, and Miss
Annie J. Taylor, education dir
ector, Dental Public Health Ser
vice, Georgia Department of Pu
blic Health, is treasurer.
Directors are as follows:
From tax supported agencies
—Mrs. Cather in Kirkland, State
Department of Education, and
Larry Scott, State Department
of Health; from voluntary org
anizations--Mrs. Howard Nix,
immediate past president, Geor
gia Federation of Women’s Cl
ubs, and Mrs. Leßoy Wood
ward, president, Georgia Con
gress of Parents and Teachers
Association; from universities
and colleges—Dr. William L.
Bowden, University System of
Georgia, and Miss Dora Byron,
Emory University, and from me
mbership at large—Miss Mar
garet Walker, State Department
of Education; Robert Herndon,
Georgia Institute of Technology;
Miss Rebecca E. Davis, Clark
College, and Dr. P. Harris An
derson, Mercer University.
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“They’re going through
their bird-house phase now.”
STAR Students are named on
the basis of their scores on
the College Board Scholastic Ap
titude Test (SAT) and the scho
lastic average for the first se
mester of their senior year.
To participate in the STAR
Program, a student must take
the SAT given either Novemb
er 2 or December 7, 1968. To
be eligible for consideration, gr
ades for each part of the test
must be at least equal to the
latest available national average,
and the student must be a re
gularly enrolled senior in one
of Georgia’s accredited public
or private high schools, unma
rried, and in the upper 10 per
cent scholastically of his class
for the first semester of his
senior year.
"Beauty queens and football
heroes have long received ho
nor and glory," said Ovid Da
vis, chairman of the Chamber’s
Education Council, "while out
standing scholars and teachers
have been virtually unrecognized
until the Georgia Chamber ini
tiated the STAR Program in 1958.
STAR recognizes and promotes
academic achievement, honors
the teaching profession and ex
plains the merits of the free
enterprise system."