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Dateline: Southwest High 11 Outstanding Students Attend Music Clinic

By LAURA HENRY Eleven outstanding students in the Southwest High School Concert Orchestra attended the state Music Clinic held in Tampa, Jan. 12-14. Nine of these students played in the All-State Concert Orchestra. Fran Zocco and John Morrison were selected to play in the All-State Reading Orchestra and placed very high in the cello section. Three members of the Southwest Concert Orchestra took first chairs. They are Ronnie Schuler, first chair -- bassoon; Ruth Schildkraut, first chair-second violins, and Stan Sigismund, president of the Southwest Orchestra, first chair-typammi. Others included: Sally Lieux, second chair-bass violins; Ronnie Meyer, second chair-trum pets; Judy Eberly, third chair-clairnets; Linda Rolfes, fourth chair-first violins; Joan Sha-bella, fourth chair - cellos; Laura Beckwith, seventh chair-cellos. This competition is with students from the whole state of Florida. Dean Of Stetson Visits The dean and the symphony director of Stetson University, Mr. James Ped-ure, held audi-tions in the Southwest Or-chestra room for the top musicians of the concert orches-tra. Students qualifying are eligible to re-ceive scholar-ships ranging from $100 to $700, or full scholarships toward their college education. This was the first time for Dade County to have the Stetson Director come here to hear talented students. During the recent National Printing Week, the Printing Industry of Greater Miami, Inc., sponsored a competitive exhibit of student work submitted by most of the secondary schools of Dade County. The work was judged by members of the print-ing industry, and first, second, and third place awards were made in letterpress printing, linoleum block printing, and silk screen printing on both jun-ior and senior high school levels. Each first place award winner was given a $25 Savings Bond, and in addition he and his in-structor were honored guests at a banquet in the Everglades Hotel. Southwest High School General Graphics students re-ceived three awards. Winning first place in letterpress print-ing was Bill Suter. The award certificate was given because he "has represented his school with distinction, and is hereby com-mended for his ability and en-couraged in his efforts toward a high order of competence in Industrial Arts." Arthur Jovan received the third place award in letterpress printing and Mike Sizemore won third place in linoleum printing. Brilliance Shines An outstanding young senior at Southwest High is James Gray. James has, is, and will continue to make his mark in the world. As a junior he re-ceived the highest scores in the state on the National Merit Tests, and was chosen Out-standing Junior Boy. This year James is president of Math Honor Society, vice president of National Honor Society, and a member of Spanish Honor So-ciety. He was recently voted by his senior class as Mr. Suc-cess Bound. On Dec. 3 he took the Col-lege Board Exams at the Uni-versity of Miami Merrick Build-ing. When the results came in on Jan. 17, he found on the Scholastic Aptitude Test that he had made a 791 on the verbal and a 747 on the math. On the achievement tests he received an 800 in English Composition, a 766 in advanced math, and a 795 in chemistry. An 800 is the highest possible score. James has been interviewed by the registrar from Yale, and he hopes to attend Yale, M.I.T., or University of Chicago.

Clubs Send Three To White Springs

With $1500 worth of music scholarships in the balance, three area girls are brushing up on their do-re-mi's for the Feb. 11 auditions at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Fla. With their eyes trained on winning one of five scholarships are Meri Lee Bitz, 5801 SW 100th Ter.; Ina F. Porias, 425 Luenga Ave., and Lynne Crusan, a University of Miami student who lives on campus. In White Springs Entrans from all parts of the state are in White Springs this week to take part in the "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" auditions. The three area girls are among five persons represent-ing Florida's East Coast. At last year's contest com-memorating the late composer who wrote of the South, Miss Crusan was one of four runner-ups. A $500 scholarship is the top prize with four $200 scholarships for runner-ups. All three area girls are in-terested in voice and have sung in school and little theatre pro-ductions. Miss Bitz, a senior at Palmet-to High School, plans to attend the University of Florida to ob-tain a degree ir music education. Studied Voice She's studied voice for two-and-a-half years. During that time, she's sung in musicals at churches, schools and civic clubs. Miss Bitz is sponsored by the 8 P.M. Music Club. At the auditions, she'll sing Foster's "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair." Miss Porias, who sang at last year's auditions, has also select-ed "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair." She's sponsored by the South Miami Music Club. Miss Porias is attending the University of Miami on a piano scholarship. The senior is major-ing in voice and piano. She was active in chorus in junior and senior high school and chosen "most talented" and "one of the outstanding" in her high school graduation class. UM Senior Miss Crusan, also a senior at the University, has appeared with the Miami Opera Guild in "Rigoletto" and other produc-tions. She's a soloist in the choir at the Coral Gables First Method-ist Church and active in the Wesley Foundation on the UM campus. She's a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a music honorary sorority for women. The auditions are sponsored by the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission in cooperation with the Florida Federation of Music Clubs. The auditions will be held in the auditorium of the Stephen Foster Memorial Carillon Tow-er. That night, the winners will be presented at the "Jeanie Ball." MERI LEE BITZ

City's Mood Harmonious For Musician's Club

In a harmonious mood, the Coral Gables City Commission Jan. 31 unanimously approved conversion of an existing duplex to lodging house for the Music-ian's Club of America. The club, located at 314 Na-varre, had received the green light from the Zoning Board after no objections to the pro-posal had been made.

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Christopher Columbus Gets Holiday Invitation

By PAT GLEASON Bro. Paul Ambrose, assistant general to the Marist order, a position comparable to that of a cardinal in the priesthood, recently visited Christopher Co-lumbus High School on his tri-annual visitations to all the Marists schools in his Province. Bro. Paul, before an audience of the entire student body, gave us a little talk on his present trip. "So far," as he put it, "I have traveled by ox cart, bicycle, donkey, rickshaw, junk, jeep and by foot." The rickshaws and junk are self explanatory of the fact that much of his province is in the Far East. And also during his travels, he relayed to us, he had finally mastered the old and difficult art of eating with chop-sticks. It was also interesting to note that in such countries as China and Japan the students are hungry for any sort of knowledge that they can ob-tain. At the end of the program amid a deafening roar, Bro. Paul announced that since every school he goes to, no matter what language is spoken, they always understand what a day off means, and Americans are no exception. CCHS will get a day off some time in the future. And, he added, that if we aren't given this holiday by Bro. Benedict, principal, we were to get our Student Council to write to him personally and report such a misdeed. The first basketball game, or any other for that matter, ever played in the ultra-new Colum-bus gym was won by the home team. In a battle between the "Ka-dets" of Miami Military and the "Explorers", the Kadets had the altitude over the Explorers but this loss was made up in speed. Miami Military kept up a harsh attack through most of the game keeping the score in their favor, but slowly with a Columbus comeback furnished by Tim Korth, McCamerron, LaBlanc and Nat Ceglio, the Explorers met smooth water and sailed to win 54-45.

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