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Gables High Notes / Dance To Begin Homecoming Week

By LESLIE GROSS Homecoming Week for Coral Gables High will begin Saturday, Nov. 19, with the annual Homecoming Dance. At the dance, sponsored by the Student Council, the Homecoming Queen and her court will be announced. This contingent will reign for the week of homecoming festivities. Monday, Nov. 21, the Queen will again be presented at the pep assembly. The City of Coral Gables will learn of our activities via the homecoming parade, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 23. The parade, led by Gables' Marching Band and the Ponce de Leon Junior High Band, will wend its way from the First National Bank to Biltmore Way. The traditional bonfire at PBA field will add the spark to ignite school spirit. Finally, the climax arrives on the morning of Thanksgiving Day. Gables will be competing with Southwest High at PBA Field. The winner of the traditional game will receive the rotating trophy. Gables Acquires Language Lab Miss Eloise Patterson, head of the Spanish Department, announces that a language lab has been constructed at a cost of $3000. Its cost was defrayed by funds from Congress as a Co-operative Project under the National Defense Educational Act of 1958. The laboratory consists of 15 booths and a console, intended to aid the student to attain the ability to speak Spanish fluently. The Cavallette's, at their "Black Magic" dance, announced Bob Brennan as heart throb and Phillip Bailey and Richard Beatty as sponsors. The DARS, or Doctorate Associate Research Society, sponsored by Mr. Walter Bowlby, announces the following officers for this semester: president, Donna Finerty; first vice president, Mike Machtey; second vice president, David Rimand; secretary, Herb Bachelor; treasurer, Katie Kamp, and Historian, Leslie Gross. Cheerleaders have announced their sweetheart, Lief Erickson, and sponsors Bruce Fischer and Joel Eaton. Some of our Lain American students are preparing a collection of Latin-American folk dances to be presented to the student body late in November. Rehearsals, under direction of Lianne Acebo, are now underway in the Little Theater. Students Excel At Festival Ann Stockdale and Sandy Sheelian received outstanding ratings at the State Drama Festival. Gables High received outstanding ratings in both play production and reading. The Junior Class' "Showboat Dance" was held last Saturday and was a huge success. Tip Toppers, a Gables Girls' Club, began the year with a "get acquainted" party at Melissa LeWallen's house for 23 new members. The requirement for membership is a height of at least 5 feet, 8 inches. Under the leadership of Ann Grosholz, the girls have planned many new projects. On Nov. 5, they had a car wash. The near future will bring a rummage sale in order to earn funds for school prjects such as the Fashion Show and the Big Sister-Little Sister Tea at the start of the next school year. This year's officers are: president, Brenda Addison; vice president, Melissa LeWallen; secretary, Carol Brody, and treasurer, Debbie Olsen. FTA Holds Conference The Florida Future Teachers of America held their annual convention in Clearwater on Oct. 28 and 29 at the Fort Harrison Hotel. Coral Gables' 90-member club was represented by Carol Brody, Mary Llew Browne, Carol Haggland, Judie Miller, Gayla Reed, and their sponsor, Miss Elizabeth Mott. Mr. Daniel Finora and Mrs. Margaret Jefferson have announced that senior Ronnie Jacobson, along with five others, tested their skill against bowlers from Miami High yesterday. The club which got underway at the end of last month bowls every Thursday after school. Membership is open to all students from Gables High. The only cost is the 35 cents for bowling games. Transportation and shoes are free. College Night Planned Thirty to 40 colleges and universities will soon send representatives to Coral Gables High. They will answer questions about college life in general, and more specifically, about their individual institutions. All Gables students and their parents are urged to attend "College Night," Nov. 30. Quill and Scroll, international journalism honor society, has tapped four new members during the past week. They are Beth Finenco, Lin Holtzman, James McBarron and Jill Vollenhover.

Gasper Korvach Heads Palmetto Junior Council

By EUNICE TALL Gasper Kovach will preside over the first Palmetto Junior High Student Council this year. Elections were held Nov. 2 and final run-offs the next day. Other officers are: Laura Campbell, vice president; Barbara Baxter, secretary, and Hank Street, treasurer. Campaigning began Oct. 31. The candidates were limited to four large posters. The Junior high Student Council will consist of representatives from the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. It will operate on the same basis as the senior high Council. A need for a separate junior high Student Council was recognized last year when several problems and activities were discussed at the meetings that did not concern the junior high. National Honor Sciety The First Palmetto National Honor Society has officially formed. In an assembly of junior and senior students, members were induted by the members and the advisor of the Miami High School chapter, the oldest in Miami. Mrs. Ann Polack will be the advisor at Palmetto. At a later date an advisory council consisting of Principal Clyde Crabtree and four teachers will be formed. "Winter Wonderland" is nearing; That is the annual Palmetto Girls Council "Winter Wonderland" dance. This year the Miami Beach Deauville Hotel will host the senior high girls and their escorts in the Napoleon Room Dec. 21. The dance will be semi formal. New Girls Council grade level representatives and officers for 1961 will be presented at this time. Gene Roy's band will entertain during the evening. His band and members have played under a number of outstanding band directors, including Artie Shaw, Stan Kenton, and Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. Junior Orange Bowl Candidate Becky Pierce, one of Palmetto's junior high soloist majorettes, is one of the hopeful candidates for Junior Orange Bowl Queen. Last year Mike Cummins was chosen Junior Orange Bowl King and Dick Penn and James Williams were chosen princes from Palmetto. Officers of the Palmetto Senior High American Junior Red Cross, elected Nov. 2, are Susan Hill, president; Barry Thiel, vice president; Marjory Josephs, secretary, and Jeanne Pullum, treasurer. The main goal of the year is to get everyone at school to become a Red Cross member. Mr. Wayne Spring and Mr. Foster Smith, teachers, are advisors of the Palmetto chapter. Junior Classical League More than 60 pledges were inducted into the Palmetto Junior Classical League, Latin club, Monday, by charter members, officers and advisors Mrs. E. McBroom and Mrs. E. Voltetti, Latin teachers. One of the high points of the ceremony was a flaming red torch symbolizing the torch of learning and knowledge both classical and modern.

Gables Prowlere Entertain VA

"The Prowlers", a teenage rock and roll band, entertained at the monthly patient's birthday party at the Veteran's Administration Hospital. The party, sponsored by the American Red Cross, was planned this month by the Coco : Grove Women's Club. "The Prowlers," consisting of Jerry Laesser, George McLain, Chappie Ceserano, Bill Shanor and Wade Cole, are all students at Coral Gables High School. Refreshments were served and gifts distributed by Mrs, William Cox, 5737 Riviera Dr., Red Cross canteen chairman; Mrs. Robert L. Greene, 75 SW 53rd Ct., Red Cross entertainment chairman; and Mrs. Herbert Eayrs, 5830 SW 84th St., president of the Coconut Grove Women's Club.

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Area Student Receives College Bowl Award

A University of Miami student was presented a cash award during the third annual Academic Honoraries Luncheon held on campus recently. Theodore Provider, 20, of 2975 SW 26th St., received the first award from the General Electric College Bowl Scholarship Fund, a $175 gift to an outstanding senior. A chemistry and math major, Provider is a member of three academic honoraries: Phi Eta Sigma, freshman men's honorary; Delta Theta Mu, arts and sciences honorary, and Phi Kappa Phi, highest academic national honorary. The award will be made annually from proceeds of the $3500 won last year by UM's three-time participants in the College Bowl television show.

South Miamians Score In Debates

Two South Miami residents were among University of Miami debaters who swept to a record-making victory the Carolina Forensics matches last week. Teammates and debate partners on the novice squad, UM Freshmen Art Rothenberg and Ronald Shapo helped top their division. Rothenberg lives at 951 Sylvania B'vd., Shapo at 1600 SW 17 Ave. In all, the UM squad brought home a record five trophies, including victories in the varsity and novice debate divisions and the impromptu speaking.

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