FULL MOON
Volume 59, No. 5
ALBEMARLE HIGH NEWSPAPER
311 Park Ridge Road Albemarle NC 28001
982-3711
FEBRUARY 1994
Art Class Members Show Their Faces at School & at Contests
by Shannon Homesley
On Friday, January 21, seven ninth grade art
students traveled to Rockingham for the Junior
High Art Olympics. Once they arrived, they
chose three categories and started drawing. After
all that hard work, the AHS contestants came out
on top. Gary Her, Angie Vanore, Kong Vang,
Lowell Grooms, John Cresswell, Donald Par
rish, and Ricky Hopkins won many first, second.
Congratulations to our aspiring artists!
Second Quarter and Semester Honor Roll
The sccond nine weeks and the first semester ended on January 13. Congratulations to the 174
People who received honor roll.
9th grade Kirby Adcock, Danyel Bailey, Brandon Bivens, Tenaya Brown, Kelly Broyles,
Michael Bryan, Wesley Burris, Jeremy Clarke, Stacy Cosgrove, KrisU Dennis, Robert Doby,
Connie Edwards, David Efird, Katie Ellis, Stq>hen Eudy, Heather Freshly, Allen Furr, Devron
Katherine Garrison, Michelle Harris, Jennifer Hartley, Beth Hathcock,Gary Her, Jennifer
Holbrook, William Holt, Ricky Hopkins. AlUson Hudson, Jennifer Ingram. MeUssa Jones, Kerry
Kirkpatrick, Elsa Lee, Daniel Lewis, Jennifer Lowder, Erin Mauldin. Kelly Miller. James
Monroe, Greg Nahrgang, Michael Payne, Kelly Rakes, Susan Rose, Misty Rummage, Josh Sells,
^ason Smith, Tony Thompson, Marci Tucker, Angela Vanore, Dennis Wallace. Carolyn Griffin,
^aniie Kennedy. Tresshia Smith, Tabitha Taylor. .
*0th grade Stephen Anderson, April Bailey, Cedric Baldwin, Matthew Bowers, John Brooks.
'Alison Burpeau, Chris Burris, Susan Byrd, Kelly Carter, Laura CauWe, Stephanie Cooper,
Michael Crowder, Lisa Deppe, Ashley Efird, Shawna Euto, Renee Fink, Jason Hedrick, Mondar-
jj's Henry, Brian Herring, Grant Hopkins, Mary Jenkins, Chris Kubik. Josh Uwson. David Little,
^ric Lowder, Ginger McGill, Amy MiskeU, Kelley Morehead, Mary Nance, EIoim ^m,
^ison Pinion, Dustin Poplin, Mandy Poston, Lolita Rivers, Kristina Scott,
flephcn Smith, Ketan Vaidya, Beth Vanhoy, Ashley Whitley. Kendra Whittington, Ctas
Woodard, Annette Boysworth, Heather Braley, James Cotton. Sasha Eury. Jeamifer Lowder.
^omas Taylor. Beth Vanderburg. Uura Beth WhiUey. Gresham Wilhelm.
Uthgrade Stephen Allen. AlysonAlmond.SteveBost, Courtney Bowers, Andrew Bwl^n.
Burleson, Michael Carrickhoff, Kevin Carter. Jeremy Clark. Michael Greeny Kara GnfTi .
egan Hamilton. Kat Harris. Shannon Homesley. Dale Hopkins, Steven Houck, M^us Ingram,
^bbie Kimrey, Will Lisk, Eric Little, Aleshia Lowder, KeshaLowd«.
Morehead. Nong Moua, Jeff Nahrgang. Eric Niederer. Anna c ih rii
J'^sa Pleasant. Mitchell Potter. Aneshia Ridenhour. Deneshia Ridenhour. Heather Sm«h,M
Jtory. Marti Sullivan. Lee Timberlake. Molly Tripp. SamTuwnew. Mai Vang. Catherme Weber,
isty Whitley. Michael Davis. .. ^
grade Scott Anderson. Mary Jo Austin. Robby
*jrla Cauble. Jessica Dennis. Jamie Dunn, Elissa Freshly, Kevin Garr^n, . Pelt!
a Lee, Leigh Ann Mauldin, Jamie MeasmeT,Brigctte Myers, Hann cmjo, Brett
Pettit, Jason Phibbs, Elizabeth Redwine, Courtney Rogers, David Smth. LaiM
^P^ight, Emily Stonestreet, Marisa Tuzenew, C«idice Vanore, Ami Whitmore, MoUy Worth.
Jesse Owens: R Track Legend
by Kim Thomas
and third place trophies and numerous ribbons.
By the way. if you have seen Mrs. Hopkins
around the halls taking pictures of strange look
ing people, do not worry. It is only her art
students making plaster masks of each other. Be
on the lookout for clones of your friends and
classmates.
Jesse Owens, legendary gold medalist of the
1936 Olympics, is a role model for all young
people. Bom in Decatur. Alabama, in 1913,
young Jesse was the tenth child in his family. He
was bom an unhealthy child, with chronic bron-
cial conjestion. This and little heat in the winters
led to a powerful fight with bad fevers and
pneumonia. More so, he was always getting hurt,
and once, he stepped in a steel hunting trap.
However, these childhood misfortunes would
not keep Jesse Owens down. As the years pased,
he became interested in track and field and be
came one of the very few of his time to receive a
track scholarship to college. At Ohio State, Jesse
became widely recognized for his athletic abili
ties, and in 1936, he became a part of the U.S.
Olympic team . The Olympics, held in Berlin,
Germany, became a tool for Hitler to show off his
special handpicked white athletes. However,
Jesse Owens, fi'om a poor black family in Ala
bama, runined Hitler’s dreams of supremacy in
the track events. He became the first American
to win three gold medals and he set records in the
following events; 100 meters, 10.3 seconds;
running broad jump, 26 feet 5 8/10 inches; 200
meter, 26.4 seconds. Hitler left the viewing stands
and refused to acknowledge the great ability of
Jesse Owens. However, the German people and
the German athletes did recognize Jesse as the
outstanding person and athlete that he was.
Not only did he accomplish Olympic victory,
but he became noticed as something else among
The Quiz Bowi team is hard at work.
Fellows' Finalists
by Shannon Homesiey
The Teaching Fellows Scholarship is a
$20,000 scholarship for rising college students
interested in a career in education. AHS ap>pli-
cants, Jamie Measmer, Courtney Rogers, Eric
Burleson, and Brigette Myers, advanced to the
next level but are still only four of 650 students
left in the contest Only 400 students gel the
scholarship. The winners must teach in North
Carolina for five years to pay back the scholar
ship. Workshops in Charlotte and Asheville are
being offered to those who are district finalists.
Our four seniors should know in the spring about
their selection! Good luck to all of you rising
teachers!
his own people... a hero. In a time when whites
dominated everything else as well as sports, to
see a black man rise to the top was a sign that
times were changing. This recognition gave
Owens great influence, but he chose to use it in a
positive way - he used his influence to help
achieve world peace and ease racial tension. ‘To
gain power, you must use your mind and not your
fists” was a favorite saying of this great Ameri
can. Let us honor Jesse Owens during this month
of Black History and also during this month of
Olympic competition.
Jesse Owens-1936 Olympic Star
Brain Games
by Shannon Homesley
The AHS QuizBowlTeam has been working
long and hard during many Wednesday practices
for their upcoming contests. Marcus Ingram,
Kelly Carter, Amy Miskell. Jason Phibbs, Robby
Bailey, Catherine Weber, and Derek Cook, under
the supervision of Mrs. Grigg, competed at the
Hi-Q Contest at Davidson College on January
29. There were 64 teams there in all. They also
competed in the Stanly County Quiz Bowl Con
test at the Stanly County Public Library on Feb
ruary 6. The four county schools were the only
teams competing. So. to all you brains, may the
wheels of your mind keep turning.
Eric, Jamie, Brigette, and Courtney are
now students but hope to be teachers.