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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1957 THE BLACKBIRD, RQOKY MOUNT SENIOR HlGiEI SCfiOOL PAGE TIlRfiB Clubs Pick Officers, Make Project Plans 1 BOOKS Ol'liN — Senior Willard Batts, chairman of elections committee, helps sopiiomore Frances Cockrell and Nancy Harris register Note Exchange Notes Stars, Big League, Trips Thrill Teenagers Hearts By Carolyn Nickols Clubs have bsen busying them selves the past month with election of officers and planning of pro jects. (SOS — Officers for first semester are president, Gwen Currin; vice president, Judy Parker; secretary, Vickie Taylcr; treasurer Pat Thur man. Projects of this club are working at the refreshment stands at fcctball games and the selling of Blackbird license plates. GOOD SPORTS — Selling ritoons and making favors for the home coming are always two favorite projects of this club. However, with homecoming postponed, they put aside the completed work for a later date. Also they sold con fetti at the game with Garner. Of ficers are president, Sonya Hook er; vice president, Jutly Brown: secretary, Nancy Harlow; and treasurer, Molly Arnold. SERVICE CLUB — Stanley Vaug han leads the oldest service club in school a^ president this year. Other officers are vice president, David Williams; recording secre tary, Celia Brake; corresponding secretary, Honey McIntyre; trea surer, Frank Brake; and chaplain, Sam Mjer. This club is in charge of devotions in assembly and PTA meetings. One may also see this active clii1> selling football pro grams to help the athletic depart ment at each game. KUDOS — Each year this club sells book covers to protect school books. Also members can be seen around annual time distributing plastic covers, ordered by the stu dents, for the protection of year books. Officers ai'e president, Mit chell McKinney; vice president, Lee Bulluck; secretary, Patsy Daughtridge; and treasurer, Cecil Marks. MONOGRAM — Officers are pre sident, Haywood Edmundson; vice president, Haywood Evans; secre- “The Plan issued me 4,500 Hwam (Korean money) and a pair of rubber shoes and a bar of cheese last month. Thank you very KIM CHUNG JA (far right), senior class “child”, stands on the steps of the orphange in Kojedo, Korea, with teachers and friends. tary.Paul Eilers; treasurer, Alton Oakley. To become a member of this club one must have received a letter in some field of sports. BOYS ATHLETIC — President of this organization is Dorsey Daniels; vice president, Sandy Dalton; and secretarji-ti'casurer, Henry Vf’at- ers. DRAMATICS ■—■ Under the presi dency of Jerry Blankenship, this cl'jib plans a production before the year is over. Other officers are vice president, Ernestine Hollings worth; secretary, Ann 3IcCarver; and treasurer. Dale Stevens. MUSSETTS — This organization of Future Teachers of America is undertaking as its project to com plete the building directory for the school. President is Dottie Warren; vice president, Frances Collie; sec retary, Betty White; and treasur er, Virginia Meyer. Back-to-School Go PTSA Members Last Thursday night at 8 o’clock the RMSHS Parent-Teacher-Stu- dent Association held back-to- school open houses with Mrs. R. L. Parker presiding. The annual affair began in the auditorium but the pai’ents later went to their child’s classroom to meet their teachers. Parents fol lowed their children’s schedules. The purpose of this is to get aqu- ainted with the teachers. Officers for this year’s PTA are Mrs. Parker, president; Mrs. B. E. Fountain, vice president; Mrs. Winstead, Secretary; and Mrs. J. R. Batten, treasurer. Mrs. Grant’s homeroom, 204, had the highest membership. Out of her room fortji-three parents joined. The total number joining at this time is 522. much for all of them,” are the heart warming words of the senior class “child”, Kim Chung Ja. Kim is a 12-year old Korean War orphan and the third such child adopted by, local senior clas ses. She is in the first grade of Middle School and takes mathe matics and English. As parents, the senior class will send Kim funds and a Christmas gift. The adoption project requires $180 from the class treasury. This pays for a few articles of clothing and food. In the past years the senior classes adopted Janina Mitzina and Bong Dong Sool as their “child ren.” “Foster Pai'ents Plan” in New York handle all of Kim Chung Ja’s letters. They are always written in the Korean alphabet but a trans lated copy is also sent. Peggy, Lamm, class secretary, who cor responds with Kim, has already received four letters. MARIGOLD Service Station Gas — Oil — Tires — Tubes 2283 H. C. Worrell 203 Marigold Street Miss Diana Da.’'rin, pert, brown eyed, red-headed movie starlet was welcomed by sighs from the mas culine members of Hickory High in Hickory, N C., when she visit ed the school recently in connec- form School Girl.” How long has for mSchool Girl.” Ho wlong has it been since Rocky Mount was honored byi the visit of a Holly wood celebrity? Ray Lane, a senior this year at Junius H. Rose High School in Greenville, flew to Los Angeles and Hollywood where she used to live to visit a girl friend. While there John Wayne’s son, Pat, gave a party in her honor at his home. How lucky can a gal get? Tar-Highers see big game Albert Mason and Ed Lewis, stu dents of Tarboro High, attended the game this summer in St. Louis, Missouri, between the Mil waukee Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals. Most of us had to be satisfied with seeing it on TV. Lib Rogers, J. H. Rose High, Greenville, enjoyed an all-expense- paid trip to New York by winn ing three consecutive talent shows at nearby television station WITN. Television classes similar to Student’s Eyeview “Wal, Hello, Wal, hello thar. Ah hev a kwes- tion of which ah wood lak much ly ter ast year. Whut iz awl dis spitnick talk whut ah heers goin around? Peeples is alwez sayink sumpin about a satlak whut travels around the world. Whut ah wants ta know iz, why in the hang did tham Rus- sies send sumpin lak dat up fer the fun of it? Ah keeps reedin’ that tham Rus- sies beet us to the draw. Is we havin’ a knotest? If thar’s a prize anvolved, ah’m gonna see what ah kin do ta git me sum junk and nail a few parts together. Then ah’m gonna see if ah can’t send off a spitnick of mah own. They sez jou kin amost see the thang with your naked eye Wal, now ah’d lak to ask yous whut else iz yer eye if it hain’t naked? Ah fer one refuses to war no clothes over mah eje. those here are being conducted at Granby High in Norfolk, Virginia, and Hickory High, Hickory, N, C. Geometrji and English fU’e the sub jects taught by TV at Granby and U S. History at Hickory High. Student exhibits art work Perhaps some of the Rocky Mount High School students saw the fourteen oil paintings of Min nie Lou Creech (a freshman at neighboring Tarboro High) this summer when they were exhibited in the Outer Banks Gallery and Studio at Kill Devils Hill, N. C. Al though Minnie Lou has no profes sional training, her paintings re ceived warm recognition. Greenville Chief wins contest Congratulations are in order for Margaret Ann Harrell, editor-in- chief of The Green Lights, the high school paper in Greenville. Margaret recently placed first in an essay contest sponsored by TJie News and Observer and The Raleigh Times. By winning the local contest Margaret was eligible to compete in the nationwide contest in Dear born, Michigan. A full four-jear scholarship is the prize for the national winner. Spitnik” Ah also heer tells thet it kin record thangs. Wal, ah hates to informs them Russies but the thangs going too durn fast to re cord nuthing but wind and air; and whut ah asks you, is so im- pertant about wind and air? We gots plenty of thet down here. Thet spitnick iz fer folks whut hain’t got nothin to do but meke extry spechul decorated bowling balls. Ah gots mo’ to do then thet, lak a right now ah’m gonna step outside and see if I can’t hit thet tin can in one whang with my trusty slangshot. ‘Apparel That Appeals’ Carole Dreis Shop Registration Ends 80 On First Day With 80 names getting on the bcoks the first day, the annual SO registration took place the week of October 20-25. Registration was not held in separate rooms as previously done but all seniors, juniors, and sop homores who had not registered, did so in Miss Kate Parks Kit- chin’s office. In the morning be fore homeroom period, during both lunch periods, and after school there W'ere two people from the n. minations and elections committee present to register stu dents. Registration was mainly for sop homores and transfer students who had not had a chance to register before. One must register if ho wants to vote in class and student organization elections. Members of the nominations committee are chairman, Willard Batts; seniors, Gloria Gold and Henry Hinson; juniors, Haywood Evans and Kay Beach; sopho mores, Mark Daley, Mary Will Woodard and Sandra Brown. ALMAND’S Rocky Mount’s Exclusive Rexall Drof Store Soda Fountain Luncheonette CITIZENS COAL SUPPLY CO. Phone: 6-8116 l'ergusson’s Quick Service Laundary You Bring It . , . We Wash It . . . LEE’S Food Store S21 Hammond St. Starts FRIDAY NOV. 8 Elvis Presley In “Jail House Rock’* ^ ^ ^ Center Theatre Watch For PAT BOONE in “APRIL LOVE” Coming goon Thanks From Korea Kim Writes Seniors
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