Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1971 Page: 3 of 19
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Keeping Up
With Kay
by Kay Presley
At this time, one can be
thankful for many things,
especially if one’s days are
spent at G-P high school. We
have a superstar football team
.1—„,fOC Knt nn state
Willi MICH ...
Christmas is approaching, only
ready for their six short days
till Christmas holidays, the
Young Life people are ready
tor iiieir sk' trip, and
the surfers are braving the
winter waves. I don’t know
what the kickers do this time of
year!!!!
The DECA Club and Kiwanis
have gone together to sell
Christmas trees for all the
Portland procrastinators!
In the Student Council
meeting on December 1, the
members made plans for their
upcoming slave auction. They
have set December 13 as a
tentative date.
The cast for the Drama Club
production “Incognito” has
been announced. Those in-
cluded are Patti Beilis, Robin
Fulton, Carol Prather, Kay
Pressley, Cindy Farrow, Missy
Newton, Rosemary Bazan, Jan
Cunningham, Terri Ackerman,
Pam West, Linda Hedrick,
Steve Bishop, Rodger Messer,
David Ernest, and Linda
Watson with Dana Migl as
assistant director. Other
members of the Drama Club
will make up the various
committees that aid in the
production. The play is set for
the early part of January,
although an exact date has not
been announced.
The Art Bazaar, set for
December 4, was canceled due
to weather.
District band tryouts were
held at Moody High school on
December 4. Our Marching 100
did its usual and walked away
with most of the honors.
The Business Club held a
meeting on December 2. A
committee was created to
decorate the bulletin boards in
the business rooms. I can tell
that that was a very pertinent
and vital meeting!
The Pep Squad had a
meeting on December 6. They
discussed plans for the game in
San Marcos.
The VOE took a field trip on
November 30. They went to
Security State Bank
At the Math Club meeting on
December 6, the members saw
a film on Transfinite and
Irrational Numbers.
Santa himself visited the
F11A meeting on December 6.
At their Christmas party, they
exchanged gifts and conducted
a general business meeting.
Miss Salazar still belives in
Santa!
Fall Examination
Schedule Released
Fall semester examination
schedule for Texas A&l
University has been announced
by Dr Mario A. Benitez, vice
president and dean.
Examinations will start at 8
a m. Dec. 15 and continue
through the morning of Dec. 22.
Saturday classes will take
examinations at 9 a.m. Dec. 18.
Evening class examinations
will lx1 conducted from Dec. 15-
21
Registration for the spring
semester will be held Jan. 12
PORTLAND NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1971
PAGE 3
Physicans Able To
Partake In Seminar
Via “Teleconference"
Although held in the medical
school auditorium, physicians
from 31 institutions throughout
South Texas, including those at
Taft Hospital in Taft, will be
able to take part in the seminar
without leaving their
hometowns by means via a
unique “Teleconference”
system.
Under the system, doctors in
towns outside San Antonio are
able to hear speakers, see
slides and take part in
discussions as if in the
auditorium.
Implemented last year by
Cutler, also the school’s
associate dean of clinical af-
fairs, the seminars, dealing
with com.nonly encountered
illnesses on a practical patient
care level, mark a new ap-
proach by the San Antonio
school to help extend the
medical education of doctors,
particularly those located
some distance from a medical
center.
Cutler has received in-
numerable letters from
physicians in small towns, such
as Taft, expressing the
usefulness of the information
provided by the seminars.
The current series of 18
seminars will be held every
other Thursday througn next
May 25.
Thanks to tremendous new
medical advances within the
past six years in the prevention
and treatment of these ab-
normal or irregular beats -
called “arrhythmias” - the
mortality rate has been greatly
reduced.
Such advances, including
new drug therapy and elec-
trical methods of literally
Season Tickets For
Javelina Basketball
Games Available
Season tickets to the Texas
A&I University home
basketball games still are
available to the Javelina fans
at a savings.
The Javelinas have 12
remaining home games.
Season tickets are $10 each,
and admission on a per-game
basis is $1.
The Javelinas have home
games remaining against St.
Marv’s and St. Edward’s the
defending Big State con-
ference co-champions, and the
nine Lone Star Conference
opponents.
Tire next home contest is
Monday night against St.
Edward’s
The A& I Athletic Ticket
Office is located in the Physical
Education Center and is open
Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. -noon and 1-5 p.m
Locals
Friday guests in the Ray
home were Mrs. Keith Speed
and sons, Mrs. Cora Prather
and Mrs. Charles Henderson
and daughters of Clute, Mike
Hawkins of Aransas Pass and
Cecil Hawkins of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker of
Red Springs and Mr and Mrs.
Shannon amt sons of Point
Comfort visited the Bill
Larkina in Portland. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Ray and Carrie
visited with them on Friday
night.
shocking the heart back to its
normal rhythm, will be the
subject of the sixth
therapeutics seminar spon-
sored by the San Antonio school
for the continuing education of
doctors at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 2.
FROM THE
BAND BOX
By SHARON DAVIDSON
After making the long trip
home from Victoria, forty-five
members of the Wildcat Band
were back on the bus at seven
o’clock Saturday morning to
travel to Moody High School in
Porous Christi. There they
in the
competed for a pot>u»w.. ...
All-District Band, with twenty-
three Gregory-Portland band
members earning a chair.
They were: flutes Brenda
Pritchard, Pam Hornbuckle,
and Norma Escobedo; Bb
clarinets Polly Marek, Janet
Schriefer, Robin Little, Anne
Paslay, Pam Laird, Kathy
Dugat, Sara Whitney, Cheri
Cessac, and Shirla Hutchins;
alto saxophones Sharon
Davidson and Keith Biffle;
oboes Jannelle Handelman and
Jil Yeiter; bass trombone
Dairy Queen
Walter Brauer; cornets Stev~
Hornbuckle and Beckie
Wieting; tenor trombones Rick
Schader and Rodger Messer;
and French horns Lisa Horine
and Rachelle Odom. Of these
twenty-three, sixteen are
eligible to go on to region try-
outs in Alice on Saturday,
December 18.
The Gregory-Portland
Symphonic Band has begun
concert rehearsals, with one
scheduled every Tuesday
night. Ranked fifth of all AAA
*—in the state last year, the
Udiiuu — «
Symphonic Band is a select
group of Wildcat Band
___u,__.
iiicuiucia.
Monday and Tuesday, the
Gregory-Portland Music
Department had solos and
ensembles on display from
Southern Music Company in
San Antonio. All schools in the
area were invited to come and
look at the display which
contains selections used for
UIL Solo and Ensemble
Contests.
— Portland
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Walters, Wayne. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1971, newspaper, December 9, 1971; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864171/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.