EPITORIAL COMMENTARY
District Convention
Slated Here For April 2-3
Considerable attention has been
directed by the Student Council
toward the Western District North
Carolina Student Council Congress
which is to be held at our school,
April 2-3. Since we are the host
school, we believe our students
should be well aware of the re
sponsibilities that accompany a
convention of this size and na
ture.
Charles Morton, Student Coun
cil president, stated: “The pur
pose of the WDNCSCC is to give
the members of the hi^ school
student councils throu^out our
district widance in leading their
local activities by associating with
council members from other areas
in the district. Futhermore, this
meeting certainly develops a sense
of leadership and responsibility
through experience with fellow
council leaders who have simijar
situations at their respective
schools.”
Two officers of this convention
will be from Albemarle Senior
High: Tom Webb was elected vice-
president for this district in a
similar convention last year; Jo
ann Lisk, treasurer. This, how
ever, is the very beginning of the
responsibility placed on our fac
ulty and student body. Several
committee chairmen which have
already been appointed and have
been functioning for several weeks
are the following: arrangements
committee, Mr. Webb and Charles
Morton; clean-up committee, Mr.
White; elections committee, Mrs.
Young and Tom Webb; housing
committee, Mrs. Fry and Annette
Thomas; invitations committee,
Mrs. Young, Joanne Lisk, and
Charles Morton; publicity commit
tee, Mrs. Gamewell, Mr. Webb,
and Edith Johnson; registration
committee, Mrs. Helms and Mrs.
Community
Concert Begins
Members Drive
Students of 'ASHS are being en
couraged to buy tickets from the
Stanly County Community Concert
Association for the 1964-K ^ason.
Membership in the association en
titles a person to attend three con
certs in Albemarle and several
concerts in Asheboro and Concord.
If tickets are purchased during
the March 15-20 membership drive,
the student may attend the March
25 concert ctf Paul Kuentz and his
Paris Chamber Orchestra, featurj
>ng Adolph Scherbaum, the famed
Bach trumpeter. Tickets sell for
$4.
Students who are willing to
sell Community Concert Asso
ciation tickets for $4 will re
ceive a free ticket to the con
certs for the 1964-65 season.
Those students wishing to do
this may call Mrs. Ruth L.
Weemhc^ at YU-2^227.
The Full Moon
Carter; social committee, Miss
Brooks and Emalynn Helms; deco
rations committee. Miss Stasavich;
traffic committee, Mr. Frazier and
Steve Pinkston; and typing com
mittee, Mrs. Helms and Mrs. Car
ter. Assisting these will be a num
ber of junior high students as
well. Also, many students from
ASHS will be asked to serve on
these committees to make this con
vention a success.
Delegates will arrive in Albe
marle on Friday, April 2, for reg
istration from 11 until 12:45. Ses
sions will begin that afternoon.
Many students from our school
will serve as hosts to these dele
gates by providing accommoda
tions for lodging that night. Ses
sions will reconvene Saturday
morning and remain in session un
til'all business and elections have
been completed.
Dr. Amos Abrams of Raleigh
will be the keynote speaker for
developing the theme, “Climb
Every Mountain.” Over 225 dele
gates with their advisers are ex
pected to attend this convention,
which will be one of the most
important events slated for our
school; therefore, as the host
school, we should do our very
best to put forth an all-out effort
to make this Student Council Con
gress a most enjoyable and bene
ficial experience for its delegates
and advisers.
Teen Club
Announces
Committee
Seventeen ASHS seniors have
been elected by interested semors
to serve on a steering committee of
the Albemarle Teen Club whicli is
being organized for ASHS s^dents.
Their advisers are Mr. Bob Amos,
Albemarle city recreational di^-
tor, and Miss Carolyn Bishop and
Mr. Alex Gibbs, Amencan Prob
lems teachers.
The following are the committee
members: Joanne Lisk,
Sweet, Chris Koepcke, Frances M.
Wav J. W- Lisk, Jan Cla^ell,
Mike Shoemaker, Inez Furr,
Ke Harwood, Johnny Burleson,
Morton, Brookie Smith,
jSe Allen J^ Earnhardt, Mdie
Lane, Brown Bivens, and Frank
Reeves.
Thus far, these four committees
have been formed: rules and reg
ulations, program, membersh^
and publicfty. The ^rpo^ o toe
club will be to provide social ac
tivities for the young people of
Kmarle. It is hoped that it will
twssible to have such an ac-
^it^every month, later, extend-
prWevePy week. An eventual
ic tn 4ve a recreation cen-
fer for Albemarle youth. A dance
scheduled, for March is now in
the planning stage,
Vol., 31, No. 6 Albemarle Senior High School
Feb. 26, 1965
DECA Places High In District
CLUBS OF AMERICA
ALBEMARLE CH V
Achieving honors in the district DECA contest were, left to rirfit,
Whit Herrm, Pat Russell, Ruthie Dennis, Cathy SeUs, and Greg
Lowder. ®
Snuggs Named Co-Ed
Correspondent
Sue Snuggs, senior, has been
named Co-^ Correspondent for the
1964-65 school year, according to
Miss Margaret Hauser, editor of
Co-ed magazine. Her initial ap
pointment was made by Miss Bet
ty Brooks, home economics teach
er.
Sophomore Hop
Termed Success
Albemarle Senior High’s cafe
teria was the site of the annual
Sophomore Hop held for all sopho
mores and their dates Saturday,
February 13 from 7:30 until 11
p. m.
This year’s theme was centered
around a Valentine’s atmosphere
and was gaily decorated to suit
the occasion. Co-ordinating the ac
tivities were the Sophomore Class
officers: Bill Hartsell, president;
Beth Eddins, vice-president; Beth
Moose, secretary; and Katherine
Kelley, treasurer. Class sponsor
is Mrs. Neagle.
Committee chairmen for the an
nual event were Elicia Harwood,
decoration; Cindy Hamilton, re
freshments; and Edwin Sides,
clean-up.
Finances for the occasion were
taken from Sophomore Class dues.
Selected for her qualities of
leadership and her enthusiasm for
home economics, plus the fact that
she takes a constructive interest
in her home, community, and
church. Sue will serve as junior
adviser tc the editors of Co-ed,
national magazine for teenage
girls. She will keep them in
formed of activities at Albemarle
High School, as more than 4,-
000 other Co-ed Correspondents
throughout the United States and
Canada are doing for their respec
tive schools.
Sue is already working on a
questionnaire from Miss Hauser.
The questionnaire asks about her
appearance, likes and dislikes of
particular subjects, her future
plans, and also her personal
ideas. She is to write a para
graph concerning her ideas in a
certain field and return it along
with the questionnaire to Co-ea
magazine.
Miss Brooks presented Sue a
special Co-ed pin and card during
the fourth period, February 9, in
recognition of her achieved honor.
Herrin Advances
In State Contest
Four students from the Albe
marle Chapter of Distributive Ed
ucation won honors at the Second
Convention of the Eighth District
held in Rockingham, February 10.
Contests were conducted in four
different categories with nine high
Schools in competition. In ^
sales demonstration contest, Whit
Herrin walked away with fost
place. In the advertising contest,
Cathy Sells placed third, while
Greg Lowder took second place in
the speech competition. Also cap
turing a second place award was
Pat Russell for the D. E. Student
of the Year.
All contestants earned their way
to the State convention to be held
in Durham, March 19. Should
Whit win at the State Convention,
after being a first place winner of
his own district, he will be given
a free trip to Chicago for the Na
tional Convention.
Mrs. Sybil Brown, coordinator
for the Albemarle Chapter, accom
panied the students to the conven
tion.
Moonbeams
Lion And Rotarian
Congratulations to Bobby Gene
Lowder and Joe Earnhardt, Stu
dent Rotarian and Student Lion,
respectively, for the month of
February.
SAT
The Scholastic Aptitude Test
will be given at Albemarle Senior
High School Saturday, March 6.
Choral Contest
The District Choral Contest pre
viously held in Albemarle, will be
held at Wingate College March 5
for a seven-county district. Choirs
are permitted to choose the cate
gory in which they wish to par
ticipate, ranging in difficulty from
4 to 1. Mr. Fry has announced
that the Special Choir will enter
class 4; the Senior Choir, class
2; and the Sophomore Chorus,
class 2. Judges will rate i»r-
formances as follows: 1—superior,
2—excellent, 3—good, 4—fair, and
5—^poor.
Activities Materialize
For Junior-Senior Prom
Efird, Stambaugh NamedMerit Finalists
j^ARK STAMBAUGH AND
National Merit Scholarship omipeatu®-
finalists
Sally Efird and Mark Stambaugh
have been selected as finalists in
the National Merit Scholarship
competition, according to informa
tion received February 4 by Mr.
Webb who made the formal an
nouncement.
As finalists, they will be under
consideration for scholarships of
fered by tiie NMSC and by numer-
our corporations associated in the
program.
Sally is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Crayon C. Efird of 201 South
Fifth Street She is interested in
the field of political science and
plans to contmue her education at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Mark, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Stambaugh of Pfeiffer Col
lege Misenheimer, is mamly in
terested in math and science and
is undecided where he will con
tinue his education.
Plans are underway for the Jun-
ior-Senior Prom. The Junior
Class officers and the planning
committee have decided the theme
and the committees. April 9 is
the date that has been set.
The planning committee consists
of Sandy Kelley, chairman, Billy
Sikes, Alberta Doby, Reed Furr,
Charles Lefler, Joyce Story, Lx)r-
raine Davis, Cecelia Shankle, Bill
Trivette, Nancy Walker, and Whit
Morrow.
On the decoration committee are
Jean Ray, Tommy Smith, Bob
Townsend, Charles Lefler, Billy
Tucker, Lanny Lowder, Cathy Fre-
tina, Barbara Smith, Allison Har
ris, Barbara Lowder, Lorraine Da
vis, Sandy Kelley, Cecelia Shankle,
Charles Daniel, Joyce Story, Nan
cy Walker, Reed Furr, Whit Mor-
how, Billy Wilhelm, Debbie Arey,
Ned Hammond, Linda Lucas, Em
ily Hathcock, Emalynn Helms,
Lin Little, Sara Mabry, Jennifer
Taylor, Winnie Dry, Judy Lewis,
Roger Lowder, Joe Rabon, and
William Sherrill.
Dane Perry and Joyce Story are
co-chairmen of the props commit
tee which is composed of Tanya
Lefler, Tony Senter, Ginny Rogers,
Tom WeWj, Martha Garrison,
Charlotte Gantt, CJwen Boyd, &n-
dy Kelley, Buck Snuggs, Whit
Morrow, and Bobby Overcash.
Serving on the refreshment com
mittee are Mike Walker, chairman,
Billy Whitley, Eddie Mauldin, Di
anne Hill, Susan Hopkins, Bobby
Tucker, Judy Lewis, Linda Ritchie,
Gahlon James, and Nancy Ussery.
Lorraine is chairman of the en
tertainment committee. This com
mittee is made of Cynthia Free
man, Davis Smith, Ronnie Swan-
ner, Sid Smith, Mike Smith, Steve
Vanderburg, and Lynn Burleson.
On the chaperone committee are
Ginny Rogers, chairman, Teresa
Yow, Robbie Vick, and Vickie
Alexander.
In charge of guest registration
are Sheri Talbert, chairman, Mel
ody Peck, Barbara Peck, Rita
Furr, and Jan Deane.
The construction committee con
sists of Larry Garris, chairman,
David Earnhardt, David Almond,
Ricky Smith, Gerald Safrit, Tom
my McSwain, Mac Hendley, Buck
Snuggs, Jimmy Stockton, Danny
Lisk, Ellen Wilson, and Sam Tru-
ette.
Composing the art committee
are Grey Gamewell, Mitchell Holt,
Leon Helms, Robin Loeb, Billy
Sikes, Fredia Plyler, Mark Cook,
Charles Lefler, and Ruth HowelL