Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-09-25
High-SchoOl Highlights
No Double Sessions
Due at Gaihersburg


DR.. c. Taylor Whittier told
Gaithersburg Hig h School
P-TA last week that the new
Gaithersburg Junior High
School should be finished by
next September, alleviating
the possibility Of double ses-
sionS.
Gaithersburg High School has
three new courses this year: BIZ
ology II, Spanish III, and public
speaking.
Gaithersburg's Library Club
this year will be divided into
Junior and Senior divisions.
Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson High School has
four foreign exchange students
this year. They are: Renate Ja-
risch, junior from Munich, Ger
many; Veronica Scharapawa,
sophomore from Sophia, Bull
garia; Domingo Faustino Nils
Rudelius, a junior from Argen-
tina, and Jean-Pierre Hansen,
senior from Luxembourg.
All of them think that
Americans don't study as
hard as do students in their
native lands. And they also
think that taste in clothing
should occupy more atten-
ton of u. s. students.
WINS students last week OBJ
served a lecture and a film on
the stopping distances and reac-
ton times of motorists driving at
different speeds. The presenta-
ton was made by Wentzel Nor.
ris, a representative Of Nation.
wide Insurance Company.
Students who participated in
the demonstration were Bob Van
Nice and Susie Allstetter.
Sherwood
What do you think about salut.
ing teachers? Sounds crazy?
Well, they do it in Iran, accord.
ing to a Mr.. Guidanian, director
of Physical Education and Youth
Activities, of the Ministry of Edu-
cation, Iran. Mr.. Guidanian spoke
to Sherwood High students last
week, and reported that behavior
of American students is remark
ably good without the strict dis
cipline as enforced in Iran.
Sherwood High students
heard Donald X. Staley, new
president of the Montgomery
County Bar Association, de-
liver an address over the
schools public address system
on the occasion of COnstitu.
ti0n day. Staley has a daugh.
ter at SherwOOd-Susan, a
senior. His son, Bill, is an
allImnus.
Richard Montgomery
Total enrolment at Richard
Montgomery High School this
year has reached 97S. Students
there are busy setting up new
clubs and are looking for mem
bers.
A Junior class dance last Fri
day in the gym was a big hit
The Junior Jive" record hop at.
tracted loads of teens.
Damascus
Another record hop was spon-
sored by the Student Council at
Damascus High School Septem.
Der II. Tom Claxton, Of radio
station WINK. spun the records
for a large crowd of enthusiastic
dancers.
The Damascus Chapter of the
National Honor Society held its
first meeting of the 1889 school
year last Thursday. Up-coming
induction ceremonies will see out
standing stuSents become mem
bers of the Society. Current
membership includes Mary JoI
Watkins, Ellen Saylor, Connie
Mills. Clffor1 Burdette, and
Charles Rh.nehart.
Carver
Carverites are seeing double,
four ways, thege days because
there are four sets of twins, all
girls, enrolled.
Instigators CT it all are Joan
and JOSEF line Green, Ethel and
Elsie Johnson. Dora and Doris
Taylor and Ruth and Roberta
Hall. Get a load Of that simi.
larity in first names!
And Carver students are happy
TO welcome back Mrs. Ruby
Washington and Mrs. Alberta
French, who have been on leaves
of absence. Mrs. Washington re-
joins us after a stay in Indonesla
and a tour Of Europe and the Far
East.
Deputy County Attorney
Rourke-. J. -Sheehan spoke to- an