Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1977 Page: 5 of 15
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PORTLAND NEWS. Thur.dey, 0<« 6, 1977
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If you have visitors from
out of town, if you and your
family lake a trip if you
have a party or |{et together
of some kind, when you have
a wedding or anniversary,
when a new habv arrives in
DECA
Officers Are Installed;
New Members Initiated
sour family, when someone
is hospitalized if you or
yours receives an honor or
award these things and
others could all lie of interest
to sour friends and neigh
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such items
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Guild Presents Prize
The Branch Academy of Ballet Theatre Guild makes
presentation ol an afghan the group used in a lund raising
protect. Kay Anderson tsixth from left) won the prize Shown
from left are Ana Farias, theatre member and Miss Gregory
Portland; Tricia Stltes. theatre member, Sharon Schult.
theatre captain; Paula Branch, artistic director, Myra
Kline, guild president; Kay Anderson; Alexis Hernandei,
guild vice president. Babette Portillo, theatre co captain,-
Shelley Oliver, theatre member; and Kerri Jewell, theatre
member
Project FIND
Information Gathered
On School Leavers
For the past 'kvo school
years, Gregory Portland In-
dependent School District has
been one of five in the state to
participate in a pilot program
to enhance the location of
handicapped children
The school district this year
is rounding out the third and
final year of the program
Project FIND (Finding
Individuals Needing Direc-
tions! as the program is called
is based on studies which show
that public schools presently
are reaching only 60 per cent of
all handicapped young people
A report was released
recently by the school district
on the developments in second
year here tn the federally
funded program
One of the interesting fin-
dings by the administrators of
the program here was in-
formation which surfaced on
school leavers, normally
referred to as dropouts
From a compilation of 68
such school leavers, the project
staff was able to collect date on
70 youngsters who had dropped
school
Eighteen records were
unavailable. 17 personal home
visits resulted in acquiring
data that indicated
Police Report
A Light
Week
It was a light week for
Portland police as only 78
miscellaneous calls were
logged
One ambulance call was
made
Nineteen humane calls were
handled and four brush fires
were reported
Two accidents were
reported, one involving in-
juries and one in which no
injuries were reported
One arrest was made for a
person lietng drunk in public,
there were five burglary calls,
one theft reported and one case
of vandalism
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threathened parental leeling
toward survey workers, and 53
questionnaires sent by mail
resulted in only nine returns
A study of the 70 school
leavers was conducted by the
Project FIND staff in con
junction with North Texas
State University.
The study showed that 57 per
cent of the school leavers were
male and 43 per cent were
female. 66 per cent wen
Hispanic and 34 per cent were
Anglo
Age at the time they left
school ranged from two at 13 to
a peak of 18 at 17 years of age
Exit from school began at
grade four with one child and
peaked out at the 10th grade
with 18 leaving at that time
More than 70 per cent of the
school leavers had a good
disciplinary record while only
a little over 10 per cent showed
a poor record in this area
Sixty-four per cent of those
surveyed had been in regular
curriculum and 36 per cent had
been in special education
During their last school year,
some 30 per cent of the school
leavers had failed in no cour-
ses, 10 per cent had failed in
one course. 20 plus per cent had
failed in two or three courses
and about 17 per cent failed in
six or seven courses
Reasoas for dropping out of
school were determined to be
Lack of interest, 54 per cent;
marriage, 26 per cent , entering
the armed forces, eight per
cent expelled, four per cent:
and illness eight per cent
Of the 70 students. 20 had a
learning disability, less than
live were educable mentally
retarded and one was
emotionally distruhed
During this third year,
procedures and policies of
1’ioject FIND will be
developed further that other
school districts could ef-
ficiently replicate the model
here
School Menu
MONDAY Barbecue on a
bun. baked beans, old
fashioned potato salad, bar
cookies and milk
TUESDAY: Burritos. pinto
beans. Spanish rice, cabbage
slaw sliced peaches, hoi rolls
and milk
WEDNESDAY UNIVER-
SAL MENU I .a SaRna. but
tered broccoli, vegetable salad
with Italian dressing, fruit cup.
garlic bread and milk
THURSDAY Hamburgers
French fries, black-eyed peas,
tossed salad, chocolate cake
and milk
FRIDAY Chicken fried
steaks with gravy, whipped
potatoes Italian green beans,
stuffed celery, gelatin, hot rolls
and milk
DECA chapter at Gregory
Portland High School held
installation ceremonies for its
1977-78 officers and initiated 23
new members into the chapter
Wednesday morning. Oct 5
Conducting the installation
ceremonies was M S
DeGaish. vocational director of
Gregory Portland Schools
DeGaish discussed with each
of the new officers the duties
and responsibilities of his of
fice
Officers elected are
President. Frank llavelka.
vice president. Laura Vargas,
secretary. Debbie Kocab;
treasurer. Vicki Hall: publicity
director. Roxanne Taylor
parliamentarian. Rhonda
Schuster. sergeant at arms.
Gilbert Gonzales; senior ad
visors. Celeste Francis and
Malt McBurnett; and tunior
advisor. Andrew Cantu
The room was decorated in
blue and gold which are the
official DECA (Distributive
Education Clubs of America I
colors The tables were
arranged in the shape of a
diamond, which is the DECA
symbol On each table was a
blue and gold candle
The old members were in
strut ted to light the candles to
symbolize the entrance of the
new members into the chapter
Following the initiation and
installation ceremonies. DECA
members enjoyed cake and
punch In keeping with the
DECA theme, the cake was
also in the shape of a diamond
with the DECA inscription
A special guest attending the
ceremony was Ward McCain.
Distributive Education
consultant from the Texas
Education Agency in Corpus
Christi
Also, attending was Maynard
Abrahams, vocational coun
selor for Gregory Portland
School
I'm Short'
The burglars had lied and
gagged the hank cashier after er
trading the combination lo the
safe and had herded the other
employees into a separate room
under guard After thfy had
rilled the safe and were ready to
leave the cashier made a series
ol desperate pleading noises
through the gag Curious one of
the burglars removed the gag
Please take the books too."
the cashier pleaded I 'm at least
HD ODD short this week'"
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Shown from left ere Celeste Francis. Andrew Cantu. Roxanne Teylor, Laura Vargas, Frank
Havelka. Gilbert Gonzales. Vickie Hall, Rhonda Schuster, Matt McBurnett and Debbie
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M. S DeGaish (lett), vocational director. G P schools,
presents the gavel of ottice to DECA President Franh
Havelka
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Leveen, Paul D. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1977, newspaper, October 6, 1977; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871248/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.