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...much does it cost to attend a free U.S. public high school? Plenty, says Education Professor Errett Hummel of Portland (Ore.) State College. The average high school student in Oregon spends $238.46 a year on extracurricular expenses. The cost is the reason many students quit school, says Hummel...
...Hummel made a year-long survey covering 88% of Oregon's high schools. He found youngsters paying as much as $18 for a student-body card, $30 for other tickets, and $32 for class jewelry. Every dance steps up the bill. One father reported that it cost him $100 to dress his daughter for a prom that cost her date more than $20. The biggest cost: transportation. Though every school district runs buses, every teen-ager seems to want a car. The cost averages $65.28 a year and ranges...
Naturally, many cannot keep up. At two high schools, only one-third of the students can afford class jewelry. At another school near Portland, only one-fifth of the students can afford the junior-senior prom. How do the outsiders feel? Aside from moving or military service, notes Hummel, the main reason students give for quitting school in Portland is "to get work and earn money." Says...
...Price: $1,987. The French, taking part in the show for the first time, displayed sailboats ranging from the 13½-ft. Vaurien at $495 to the 18-ft. Corsaire at $1,975. West Germany also made its first invasion, enticed the outboard set with the 19-ft. Graves Hummel cruiser. It sleeps five, weighs only 620 lbs., speeds up to 37 m.p.h. on a 50-h.p. engine. Price: $1,899, f.o.b. New York...
...Kozol faces Ron Hummel in the 137-pound class. Crimson captain Bob Foster will wrestle Frank Stoever in the 167-pound class. Foster has won all his matches so far this season, and should win over Stoever, who is substituting for injured Tiger Donald Teegarden...