Clubs Around St. Mary's
As the end of the semester
various organizatimis
St. Mary’s tove been
engaged in selecting their new _
members for the FaU of 1978.
Jhe Circle, which pursues
fellowship among students
m>d encourages involvement
m school activities, has
initiated: Leslie Overton,
Nina Dooley, Elizabeth
Raspberry, Nancy Penick,
Foy Ragsdale, and Winy
Jmman as toeir new mem-
nnrs. Also at the most recent
walk, Dr. Watson was in-
nucted as the Circle’s new
advisor. The Beacon, a high
school honorary organization,
selected Paigal Brown, Gwyn
Cooley, Pat Lawrrence, Anne
Sigmon, Ruthe Turner, Lisa
^gsdale, Sophie Peeden, and
Ryrd Britt, to join them in
promoting school spirit and
^proving all phases of life at
St. Mary’s. Another honorary
organization at St. Mary’s
which recognizes and en
courages scholarship is the
school Honor Society,
lac new members for this
semester are Ruthie Turner,
*Ans Reeder, Sally King,
Auna Bland and Carol
“mining.
The “Spiders” a secret
Sroupat St. Mary’s consists of
®cpl»mores with one senior
Who is Madame Spider. They
crawled on October 3rd and
^cptured Elizabeth Davis,
Rctti Pittman, Snow Mason,
Ohd Cindy Holland as their
■lew spiders. The Undatettes,
?lso a secret organization,
^tiated Coles Hines, Grace
Brown, Lynn Lewis and Susan
r lemming as their new
members. Another secret
group, the Scoop Group, has
selected ei^t new members
to help scoop up information
concerning the happenings
around St. Mary’s. They are
Elizabeth Williams, Mary
Wilcox, Sophie Peden, Missy
Berry, Kitty Stephenson and
Jennifer Coble. ....
The Watts Club which is a
new organization, was started
by Dotty Worsham and
Elizabeth Raspberry to build
the spirit before special
events at St. Mary’s, such as
the Circle Walk, the Beacon
Walk, etc. Their new mem
bers are: Dotty Worsham,
Martha Kornegay, Susan
James, Sally Peeletier,
Elizabeth Raspberry, Tnaa
Kelley, Windy Tillman, Susan
Sargent, Jennette Carver,
Joan Andrews, Marion
Greene, Betty Smith, Si^n
Stanley, Luanne Reynolds,
Vickie Howard, Laura
Straden, Beth Gardner, MoUy
Burton, Kathy
Elizabeth Wilson, Alice Smith,
Fran Snyder and Vickie
Collins. They will be having
annual Watts trips ^ound
Ralei^ to initiate their new
members. .
The “Cold Cute” is a
musical groig) consisting of
seniors which dress in pink
Qveralls and blue shu*ts ^d
play such homemade in
struments as washboards,
maracos, bongos, the sH(^,
and the piano. The Cold
Cute” chose Clayton Plumlee,
Jane Hollindshed, Beth
Hemingway, Sally Adcock,
Windy Tillman, Ginny Gard
ner and Kathryn Powers as
their new members for 1978.
Actress Comes To Speak
On Alcoholism
by Nicole Pediaditakis
, St. Mary’s was honored to
Mercedes McCambridge
October 4, 1978. St. Mary’s
piano teacher. Miss Thomp-
®n got her through the
^erican Program Bureau,
U agency which has
Previously set up other
speakers for St. Mary’s. What
as looked for in Mrs.
«3**jbridge was how she
u as a speaker and if she
something to be admired
something l
r, such as her courage in
^Y?reoming alcoholism,
•iich today is an ever in-
^^sing problem. Her big
IK bit talent related to
i ® Kiris and made a big
***ipression.
, ,, The 60-year-old actress
hpp®^ .3bout her childhood,
all , ^gion and her parents -
{„ ®* which were important
aln u contributing to
^^holism. She made witty
mments pertaining to all
ast ®bove topics. She had
ibe students to look for
st_ in other people in-
tw'* chemicals. “If I know
have this loneliness
that u ^ doesn’t
. t help? Can’t we somehow
*?*P each other?” She had
ma^ ®oid that guilt was a
cause of alcoholism
guiu have to get rid of the
ca . know the biggest
®e of alcoholism is
hangovers - people are hurt,
guilty and want to get out d
it ” However, many tim« her
mannerisms and expenen^
as an actress rather than ter
difficult life caught the
listener.
held before her sp^lh^hen
the students weren t f^ih^
with her No one showed. The
such fine speakers.-
COMPETENCY TESTS
by Patti Drake
On November first and
second the North Carolina
Competency Test was taken
by all high school juniors
across the state. The tet
received much bad publicity.
Many parents protested
against it, claiming the test
was too difficult and that to
use the test as a basis on who
will graduate would be ex
tremely unfair.
I personally took the tet
and was amazed at the sim
plicity of it. After hearing and
reading how hard it was, I was
terrified before taking it. This
test was an insult to my in
telligence and to anyone else
at St. Maiy’s. I was disap
pointed after finishing the test
when I didn’t get a lollipop.
In my opinion, anyone
who can not pass this test
really doesn’t deserve to
graduate. It scares me to just
think about meeting someone
on the street who didn’t know
how to add 264 & 594 or who
didn’t know what to write on
the line marked ‘NAME’ on a
, library card; however, for
fairness sake, I asked some
other girls who took the test at
St. Mary’s what they thought.
The following are my residte:
Pam Lewis: !“It was totally
ridiculous and a total waste of
time.”
Anetta Jones; “I know
many people felt it was un
necessary, but when I saw in
the news how many parents
didn’t want their children to
take it, I knew it was
necessary to separate the
children who should be in
regular classes from those
who should not.”
Marsha Currin; “I thought
it was a waste of time and that
anybody who couldn’t pass it
doesn’t deserve to graduate.”
Margi Wilson: “1 thought it
was too easy.”
Mary Doris Dial: “I think
all students should take it
before graduating because the
future is in the hands of
today’s high school students.”
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St€uLeHt7
by Patti Drake
“I love it, no weekend or
weeknight curfews.”
“It’s alright, sometimes I
would like to be a boarder and
sometimes I’m glad I’m a day
student.”
“I like it, it’s better than
being a boarder because more
freedom and you don’t feel
like your whole life is revolved
around school. Less
responsibility being a day
student.”
“I think the day students
need to feel like they are more
apart of the school. I believe
the day students should be
exposed to the boarder’s life
more so we will know how it is
to have more responsibility.”
“I love it, more
privileges.”
“It’s a re. arding ex
perience.”
“It gives you the chance
to view college life but still
live at home.”
“We wouldn’t trade it for
the world.”
THESE THREE
THESE THREE - Three
men are my friends - he that
loves me, he that hates me, he
that is indifferent to me. Who
loves me, teaches me ten
derness; who hates me,
teaches me caution; who is
indifferent to me, teaches me
self-reliance.
-Dinger
.APPV
VING, I
students Liberated From Fat At School
Students may not pick up
U,eS^eoFj.Utar.Uon^
picking up an average six
h^Sier than their
arte of ten years ago,
countei^ar federal
For students wantog
get them dieXnt health
will provide basic dirt
SormaUon,*^ but the health
service at Marshall
University in Huntington, W.
Va fioes a step beyond. They
offer a free weight loss clinic,
where students sign a contract
to change their eating habits
for a certain length of time.
Exercise and nutrition are
also part of the program,
which is
cessful One student lost 20
^un?s in less than two
^“"Marshall’s food service
and PE. department took
dieting to the cafeterias and
the gym, with lectures on
exercise, junk-food, and low-
calorie nutrition.
The psychology depart
ment at Wayne State
University in Detroit is using
behavior modification
techniques in their weight
reduction clinics. The most
effective way may be their
requirement of a 25 dollar
deposit, which is returned in
$2 amounts at each sub
sequent meeting attended.
Other methods require
students to eliminate all ex
treme stimuli- at mealtime
(like tv, radio, or book), keep
a very specific record of what,
where and when food is eaten,
and hop on a scale at least four
time a day. At one session,
students are required to bring
along a member of the
household, who is urged to
give positive reinforcement to
the (heter.
A clinic survey found that
everyone had lost at least six
to seven pounds, - with an
average weight loss of 17
pounds, and that 75 percent of
the participants had main
tained the weight loss for six
months.
- College Press Service
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