The Full Moon
ASHS Being
Re-accredited
Vol. 38 —No. I
Albemarle Senior High School
Sept. 26, 1972
Brad Reveals What We Want To Know About Space
“I, personally, felt greatly
honored to be given the op
portunity to represent the entire
state of North Carolina at the 1972
Explorer Space Seminar.”
T^is was Brad Perry’s feeling
about being the only boy from
North Carolina selected to go to
the Seminar at Patrick Air Force
Base in Florida, July 16-23.
Each day held something in
teresting for the Explorers.
Monday began with Mr. Miles
Ross, Deputy Director of the
Kennedy Spacecraft Center,
giving an overview of the NASA
programs carried on at Kennedy
Spacecraft Center. The majority
of the day was spent touring the
Vehicle Assembly Building. The
Explorers saw a l^turn 5 vehicle.
They discussed the details of how
an Apollo spacecraft checked out,
assembled, tested, and made
ready for flight. They also viewed
the Apollo 17 launch vehicle
which included the three real
stages of the Saturn 5, and a
mock-up of the Apollo spacecraft.
Next the Explorers toured the
crawler transporter.
Tuesday was spent touring
historic complexes and studying
telemetry. The attendants toured
the lab and studied spec
trometers and electron scanning
miscroscopes.
Wednesday began with Mr.
Don C. Sheppard talking about
the advantages of unmanned
spacecraft. Some of these ad
vantages were demonstrated
such as mapping, weather, ob
servation, and communications.
Later there was a demonstration
on fire support equipment used
for hyperfolic fire control.
Next there was a special
briefing on the pressure garment
assembly. An actual suit was
used for demonstration and all
the special features and
maneuver restrictions were
pointed out.
MOONBEAMS |
Campus Communications
College Night was September
19 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Health Fanatics
Health Career officers for this
year are Debra Bryson,
president; Susan Mauldin, vice
president; Mary Emmons,
secretary; and Cathy Harwood,
treasurer.
The advisor is Mrs. Gloria
Bryson.
Roaring Circle
Student Lion for the month of
September is Lew Smith. Student
Rotarian is David Bryson.
Principle Assembly
Mr. Warren Hawkins, prin
cipal, called an assembly,
Monday, August 28, to assign
seats to homerooms and in
troduce students to assembly
procedure.
Seniors Shot
The Senior Class had individual
pictures taken Wednesday,
August 23.
Roll Call
Enrollment for the 1972-73
school year is seniors: 171;
juniors: 207; sophomores: 247; a
total of 625 students.
Thursday was the most im
portant day of the week. Mr.
Larry Thompson briefed the
Explorers on the Apollo
astronaut training. The rest of
the day included two tours. The
first one was of the Flight Crew
Training Building which houses
the fifty million dollar simulator
used to train Apollo astronauts on
both nominal and unexpected
flight conditions.
Apollo 10 Commander Thomas
P. Stafford discussed the detailed
operations of the simulator. The
second tour was of the Manned
Spacecraft Operations Building.
Later that day, the Exploreres
had a rap session with Astronaut
Thomas Stafford. He answered
all questions concerning areas of
space and gave details of the
Apollo 10 mission.
Thursday was the overall
climax of the seminar. The entire
day centered on the Apollo
program and ran parallel with
the studies Brad had earlier
made for the construction of his
mockup.
Friday, Mr. Robert Hock,
Manager of Apollo-Skylab
programs, briefed the group on
all the details of Sky lab.
This was followed with a
briefing by Mr. G. Merritt
Preston, Director Center
Planning Future Programs. He
described different proposals
under current investigation for
the space shuttle to be operated
by 1980. After this came the
Explorer Summation Sym
posium.
“This served as an unique
opportunity for the Exploreres to
tie in all of their week’s learning
into one detailed session of
Student Council
Makes Changes
The Student Council worked
hard this summer to prepare for
the new school year.
Student Council represen
tatives and alternates attended a
workshop August 15 and 16.
Led by Rodney Lee, Chuck
Gaskin, Q'ystal Waller, and Nona
Pease, officers; and Mrs.
Almond, advisor; Council
members met at Senior High to
get acquainted and discuss
projects for the upcoming year.
The students played a name
game and answered icebreaker
questions to get started the first
day.
Representatives discussed
activities for the coming year,
such as a Donkey Baseball game,
Teacher-Student Basketball
game, Fifties Festival, and the
Chocolate Sale.
The various money-making
activities revolve around the big
Student Council project for this
year: obtaining athletic facilities
for Senior High.
The Student Council along with
the coaches and Albemarle
Jaycees, will work to raise
money for a football stadium,
track, and baseball field.
Although the Student Council
cannot raise enough money for a
stadium in one year, the money
will go for a smaller item, such as
a scoreboard or press box.
Ideas for more projects came
from the participants at the
workshop. Officers assigned
committees to work on skits for
an assembly program.
This was the first Student
Council workshop held at Senior
High.
discussion,” Brad commented.
“During the course of the week
I saw many, many climatic
sights, but the greatest one of all
came at the time we were per
mitted to observe the Apollo 17
astronauts. Gene Cernan and
Jack Schmitt, as they practiced
one of their lunar walks for the
December mission to the moon.”
The day ended with a farewell
dinner with all the directorates
from Kennedy Spacecraft
Center. Each Explorer received
a certificate naming him an
honorary Ambassador of space.
Brad concluded, “The whole
week served as an unique learn
ing experience in which I was
able to further advance my
khowledge on space. I am in
terested in presenting programs
on my seminar in hopes of
helping the community have a
more detailed and accurate
knowledge of our nation’s space
programs.”
Faculty members, students,
and community members are
evaluating ASHS in order that it
may be re-accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools.
The school must be evaluated
in every aspect from the com
munity to the staff and ad
ministration, extending into the
curricular and extra-curricular
programs.
Serving as chairmen for the
various committees are Mr.
Warren Hawkins, school and
community; Mr. Kenneth
Frazier, philosophy and ob
jectives; Mrs. Mary Swanner,
art; Mrs. Doris Gehring,
business education; Mrs. Nancy
Gamewell, English; Mrs.
Mildred Deese, foreign
language;
Mrs. Irene Weydell, home
economics; Mrs. Betty Hatley,
mathematics; Mr. Tommy
Hauss, music; Mrs. Jo Bogle,
physical education; Mr. Chuck
Smith, sciences; Mrs. Nell
Westerlund, social studies; Mr.
Kenneth Edwards, special
education; Mr. Wallace Bourne,
trade, technical, and industrial
education; Mrs. Susan Almond,
student activities program;
Mrs. Swanner, Mrs. Kesler, Mrs. Hatfield, and Miss Davis make
plans for a big year.
Miss Martha Davis,
educational media services,
library and audio-visual; Mrs.
Jeneece Smith, guidance ser
vices; Mr. Vernon Lentz, school
facilities; Mr. Warren Hawkins,
school staff and administration.
School and community must be
completed October 5; philosophy
and objectives, October 25;
curriculum, February 8; and
other studies, March 1.
Persons on the evaluation
committee will visit Senior High
the first week in April.
Every school has to be re-
acrredited every ten years by its
parent association.
Ashcraft
To Compete
Kenny Ashcraft has been
named a National Merit
Scholarship semi-finalist among
15,000 students chosen nation
wide in competition for Merit
Scholarships to be awarded next
spring.
He served on Student Council
and played varsity football.
Kenny held a summer job at
Norwood Camping Resort and
plans to study electrical
engineering at N. C. State
University.
The semi-finalists received the
highest scores on the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
Test-National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test which was given
to high school juniors across the
United States last October.
Semi-finalists must acquire
high scores on a second test in
order to become a finalist. About
96 percent of the semi-finalists
are»expected to achieve this goal
and then will be considered for
one of the 1000 National Merit
$1000 scholarships.
New Teachers Move In
There are many new faces in
our faculty this year. Among
them is Mrs. Mary Swanner.
Mrs. Swanner teaches two
classes of art.
A graduate of East Carolina
University, Mrs. Swanner
majored in Interior Design.
While at East Carolina, she was a
twirler. In the mornings, she
works for Sherrill’s Custom
Interiors. Last year, she was
girls’ youth director at the
YMCA.
Mrs. Swanner likes to sew and
play golf. When-asked about the
students and school, Mrs.
Swanner replied, “The students
as a whole are a great group of
young people.” The facilities are
good and the art program will
improve with age.”
Mrs. Swanner resides at 216
Bogan Avenue with her husband.
Coach Charles Swanner, also of
ASHS; a cocker spaniel, Wendy;
and two cats, Raz and Taz.
La senora Ruth Livia Gomez de
Kesler, better known as Mrs.
Kesler, teaches Spanish I and II.
She was bom in Puerto Rico,
and explained “All Puerto Ricans
are American citizens. Not many
people know that, but it’s true.”
She attended the University of
Puerto Rico and worked for two
years with a Methodist Mission
school. Later, she was a tran
slator for the Federal Govern
ment.
Coming to North Carolina in
1957, she attended summer school
at Chapel Hill, among other
colleges— “You name it. I’ve
been to it.” Her teaching career
includes Salisbury, Lincolnton,
and Monroe.
Mrs. Kesler commented, “It’s
kind of hard to get back to work
after ‘goofing off’ for three
years.”
She and her husband, a
Methodist minister, have four
daughters and three lovely
grandchilren. They have a house
near Salisbury which they are
remodeling themselves.
About ASHS, Mrs. Kesler said,
“I am very impressed with the
school. There is a good at
mosphere here.”
Mrs. Helen Hatfield teaches
eleventh and twelfth grade
English and has a junior
homeroom.
Before coming to Albemarle,
she taught at Western High
School and Elon College. Mrs.
Hatfield has two daughters,
Melissa, a junior here at
Albemarle, and Shelley, who is in
the seventh grade at Junior High.
The Hatfields are residing in
the Dew-Ray Apartments near
Senior High temporarily while
building a house.
Although Mrs. Hatfield has
little free time between planning
a new home and teaching, some
of her favorite pasttimes include
reading, playing the piano, and
horseback riding.
Concerning Senior High, Mrs.
Hatfield says, “The school is very
attractive and neat and I’ve
found all the teachers and
students very friendly!”
Miss Martha Davis is the
librarian and Junior Class
sponsor this year. She will also
sponsor the Library Club.
Miss Davis graduated from
East Carolina last spring. Some
of her hobbies include
needlework, reading, and
traveling.
When asked how she liked
Senior High, Miss Davis replied,
“I like the school very much. All
the people in town are very nice
and friendly.”
Miss Davis said all the teachers
had helped her in many ways.
She welcomes all students to the
library throughout the year.
Crossroads Rates
First Place
Recently, an unprecedented
honor was bestowed upon the
Crossroads staff. For the first
time, the Crossroads placed first
in national competition spon
sored by the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association.
Placement in this contest is
much like grading in school. The
publication competes with itself.
Comparing the yearbook to the
yearbook a year ago, and using
basic standards set up by the
association, the yearbook is given
a certain number of points for
each section. The grand total for
last years’ Crossroads was 853
out of a possible 1000.
/This year the size of the
Crossroads is going to increase to
the college-size yearbook, yet the
price is going to stay the same.
This achievement is made
possible through attainment of
the advertising goal of $2000.