i^OOL MOON
Volume 58, No. 7
ALBEMARLE HIGH NEWSPAPER
311 Park Ridge Road Albemarle NC 28001
982-3711
APRIL 1993
City, County Schools to Merge; Two New High Schools to Be Built
North Stanly, Albemarle will be combined to make one
iarge high school; 93-94 last year for AHS,
By Christy
The Albemarle City School Board in conjunc
tion with the Stanly County School Board has to
decided to merge and create two high schools out
of the four now in existence. North Stanly High
School and Albemarle High School will join
first, followed by West Stanly High School join
ing with South Stanly High School. Construc
tion on the new schools will begin as soon as
the merger takes place on July 1,1993.
7 Instead of building middle schools for the
county, two new high schools will be built and
the current high schools will become middle
Khools. .■ ■. ■ ■
Next year’s class of ’94 will be the last soiior
class graduating from each individual school.
Hendrick
The 1994-1995 school year will begin in the
newly constructed “mega-high”.
While talking to a local board member about
the issue, he commented that Albemarle and
North Stanly should get along great despite the
strong rivalries in the past "Now their hostilities
can be taken out on other schools instead of each
other. In fact, we are considering calling the new
school "Felicity Fountains High School" to indi
cate the peace and harmony we hope will exist at
this new 1500 student high school." New school
colors and a new mascot will have to be chosen.
A contest will be held later to decide this impor
tant issue. The Albemarle track and stadium will
continue to be used for the new school.
Hollywood Star to Visit AHS
By Tina Lee
On April 30th, the AHS students will attend
an assembly at two o’clock. The AHS faculty
along with Natasha Byrd, have been working
diligently on bringing Dudley Moore to Albe
marle High School. Natasha met Mr. Moore
while touring London in 1990 and they have kept
in touch ever since.
Dudley Moore is an actor and comedian. He
has starred in several award winning movies
including ArtAur, Micky and Maude, Santa Claus
the Movie, and Arthur 2 on the Rocks, just to
name a few. He will talk to students about how
to break into show business; he will also teU them
how he has made himself a millionaire without
much education. He believes that education is
not always the answer to being successful.
To prepare for Dudley Moore’s qjpearance at
AHS. each EnglishclasswiUviewaoneoms fa-
, nious movies. AHS looks forward to hosting one
Natasha met Dudley Moore In London. of Hollywood’s famous actor‘s, Dudley Moore.
BEWHrE op BHD BrEHiH
By Natasha Byrd
When students look ahead and picture this alcdwl will be punishment
year’s prom, what word leaps into their minds? will also s« m mo ^ ^ ^ expelled
P art Y111 The night is fuU of many memories. These snidrats will Though the
•jut if their plan involves a little hard core party- from school for ,^.y^bemarleHigh
mg. they may want to reconsidcr. As students measures may se«nux> cxt^e.^^j^^^^^^^^
enter the Agri Civic Center on May 15, they will
^lotonly be greeted by the festive decorations. A
"'8rm smile of one of Albemarle’s finest police
officers will welcome them with a breathalizcr
•"achine.
A mandatory breathalizer test will be given
^ ^1 students and their dates. Students refusing
lake the lest will be prohibited from entering
prom. Also, refusal to take the test will enact
in-school suspension stay of three days. For
Several years, the number of intoxicated stu-
*ienis at the prom has grown enormously. The
Albemarle High School faculty is no longer
8oing to endure the horrible scenes caused by in
toxicated students. If students arc planning to
the breathalizer, they can think again. Any
**udenti who take the test and show any signs of
School’s faculty feels this is the only soluuon to
keeping students safe.
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After next year, there will be no more gatherings of "AHS" students
Rise and Shine: School to Begin at 7:15.
By Leslie Morgan
Starting April 5, 1993, school hours will eryone to take advantage of daylight savings
become 7:15-2:00. This change will allow ev- time. It will also allow the spring sports to avoid
missing most of their classes.
With school starting at 7:15 it will be hard for
some people to get up this early. This means that
alotofpeoplewillcomeinIstperiodlate. Now.
if you have five tardies you either have your
parents to come up here and talk to Mr. Taylor (if
its your first offense) or you get sent to the bam.
Starting April 5th the people who are tardy
will have to come to school on Saturday.
Dejjending on how many times you are tardy
depends on how long you have to stay at school
onSaturday. Ms. Ward will still be the teacher of
this Saturday School. You will have to do work
fortheclassthatyouweretardyin. ThisSaturday
school is also for people who are absent Instead
of having to come after school and make up the
work you miss, you will have to come on Satur
day and make it up.
I think people will like getting out of school an
hour early, but will they like getting up an hour
early? This year is just a trial run for this, but if
it works well they will continue doing it in the
coming years.
Rshonda and Latwanya try to beat the
bell!
GET IN LINE AND WIN $50.00
By Wendy Smoak
You’ve seen it on the movies, you’ve
heard it on the radio, and now it can happen
to you at your own AHS cafeteria. You will
no longer be jealous because you weren’t the
10th caller or the 1000th customer. Today,
every 20lh student with a full lunch tray
during 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lunch will win $50
and an AHS t-shirt I promise, no strings at
tached.
The purpose behind this is that the cafe
teria workers would like to show its appre
ciation to the students of AHS. Recently
some of our cafeteria ladies visited some
other high school cafeterias in the area.
They said these other students were ‘'rude,
vulgar, immature, and demanding.” The
students did not clean off their tables when
they were finished, loud belches echoed
throughout the cafeteria, and they com
plained that the service was slow and the
food was not edible.
After experiencing such a honor, our
AHS cafeteria workers were so thankful our
students don't behave in such a manner they
wanted to show their appreciation. After
much thought they came up with the idea of
the $50 prize for every 20th student So.
good luck and enjoy lunch!
Christy gets ready for a different kind of
prom.