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VV'ednesday, April 22, 195S Daiing Experts Make Suggestions For Popularity With Opposite Sex THE^LACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT HIGH SCHOOL “Dating experts from Miss Edna McLaugimn’s psycliology class made a list of suggestions for dat ing after studying a chapter on “Your Success With the Opposite Sex.” The junior and senior members of the class considered the char acteristics, other than good man ners, that make for a pleasing personality. The boys gave their opinions on what a girl should Uo on a date and the girls told what was expected of a popular boy. Billy Kilgo thinks a good date should be able to hold up her end of the conversation. Pred Lee ad vises a girl to avoid being bossy. “A girl should act her age,” says Edward Cartee. Donald Bryan dis likes aggressiveness. Wayne Hux thinks a girl should avoid moodi ness. Don’t Smoke Jn Public Gradv Gardner advises girls not to smoke in public. “Show an In terest in the boy even If he is the biggest drip in the world.” says Andrew Hardesty. “Weno’‘ Pearce dislikes a date who lets her eye'.' wander around the room when dating a boy. Sheila Robbins thinks a boy should act his age. Gordon Wil kinson advises the boys to learn the value of sincere compliments. “Be easy to get along with,” says Peggy Alexander. Jo Ann Wmd- ham dislikes a boy who belittles a girl’s ideas and opinions. Girls Like Good Dancers Marj' Helen Melvin likes a good dancer. Barbara Ann Drake thinks a boy should avoid smoking con tinuously on a date. “Be a good sport,” says Peggy Strickland A good driver rates with Barbara Coley. Iris Spain advises a boy to be appreciative. “Don't talk about your past con quests,” says Beth Hurt. Beln? polite comes first with Christine Nelms. Monopolizing the conver sation Is a bad habit in Sylvia Best’s opinion. D E Gives Banquet Seventeen members of the D. E. department entertained their em ployers at the annual Bosses’ Banquet at Buck Overton’s, April 13. Animal shaped placecards, posters advertising establishments that employ D. E. students and decorated invitations carried out the circus theme. The local club has been active this year, as evidenced by the March report which shows that the students worked a total of 2,- 078 hours and earned $1,329.35 in that month alone. Members of the organization are Louis Booth, June Cockrell, W. K. Coggins, Nancy Eason, Bill English, Mack English, Manley Godwin, Robert Hardy, Bill Hare, Barbara Jackson, Doretha Joyner, Ray Langston, Bernard Manning, Ray Matthews, Durwood Murray, Dongh Newton, and Shirley Willi ford. Miss Jean Riddle is the in structor for the group. S O Rates Inquiry Mary Wilkinson, president of the Student Organization, recent ly received a letter from Winches ter high school, Mass. which read in part, “As the Student Council, is an important organization in our school, we would like to find out how it is rated in yours.” ' A list of questions concerning the student government was en closed. The students from Win- ichester were interested jn know ing from which classes the repre sentatives are chosen, how they are chosen and the amount of fa culty supervision given. Attend: ance, interest and student power were also listed as points of query. The letter also requested infor mation of disciplinary function'?, outstanding accomplishmerits, fu ture plans and experiments and the profit received by the memr hers and school as a whole. Mary says that she will get off- an answer to these questions in the near future. Lost,An Opener? Love Note? Coat? Try Lost & Found still: looking ror that can open er? Lost'-any love notes? Perhaps a Bq\;. iScput manual has wander ed. Has anybody considered look- at'. the collection of lost ar ticles the'Lost and Pound depart ment 'has collected? High' school students shed liter ally hundreds of personal belong ings during the school year and a vast majority of them wind up at the Lost and Pound office. Eins, Pennants Wander RMHS,students have lost every thing .from a school pennant to a 31ri 'Seout pin. Some mushy love notes have 'been turned in and— ell, it’s dull in the Lost and Poi;nd_’office sometimes—and hu man beings being what they are— a person has to have something to do. ' Hats,-, single gloves and even a belt hive managed to become separated from the owners. Three sweaters, two winter coats and a black vrindbreaker are occupying closet space at the present time. Glass.:, figurines, vases and can bpenefs haVe been turned in to the office. ■ ' ' ^ '.K^erchiefs Top List Ten ; kerchiefs, eight billfolds, five braciglets, a necklace, scatter pins; a tuTje of lipstick and face powdfe- art packed into a single dmwer.'-'i|\DUntain pens, lead pen- keys; glasses, rings, pictures and books round out the list of'-lost articles!; ■ ■ PAGBiS With The Students '^11;'- ■ claimed* by owners Tniich more quickly than other ar- ticlfeS: The dffice, which is operat ed by thS Student Organization, r.nciaimed articles over to the Thrift Shop at the end of the year. ths Sum Eight Climb Mt. Reach 26,493 Ft. I I Annapurna by Maurice Herzog To us living in the flat, coastal plain section of North Carolina the great desire to climb moun tains is incomprehensible. Men climb mountains because they’re there. Mountains are a challenge to climbers. The conquest of Annapurna, one of the Himalaya chain, was of interest to people all over the world. Annapurna is the highest mountain ever climbed. It’s high est summit is 26,493 feet. In the book the assault party was composed of Maurice Herzog, leader, Jean Couzy, Marcel Chatz, Louis Lachenal, Lionel Terray, and Gaston Rebuffat. These with Marcel Ichac, photographer, Jac ques Oudot, doctor, and Prancis de Noyelle, liason officer, left Prance the last of March, 1950, and reached India during the first week of April. Reconnoitering groups were cent out from the Base Camp to map a route to follow. After a route was found, camps were set Up at different heights. The high est being Camp V at 24,600 feet. Prom this camp on June 3, 1950 Herzog and Lachenal decided to try for the top. On the way down Herzog last his gloves and bv the time he had reached Camp II, his fingers were so frostbitten that he lost all his fingers on his right hand by amputation. However, plans are now being made for him to lead a party in an attempt to climb Mount Everest neitt year. I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to' be in spired, because nothing is so in spiring as the sacrifices thesq men made to fulfill a lifelong amhjtion. Girls Fade Bangs Boys Proxy Brows The peroxide urge has hit Goldsboro a little early this year. •Trie' girls have started fading their bangs . with peroxide, ammonia .and lemon juice. The boys’ favor ite spot, as reported in the HI ' cws, is the whole head and some ire even sporting “chemical” eye brows!'- ' There’s plenty of work to bemg a student. Ask any high school student. If you ask the right one, however, the reply might be, "Sure it’s work but it’s fun. B.7 now most of the seniors of RMHS have finished that long dreaded senior theme. June Cock- rell, pictured top right, is just completing her theme talk to Miss Kitchin’s third period English class. Her talk 'was one of the more interesting and why not? June illustrated her theme with some of Walt Disney’s characters, thus displaying her artistic talent. Here she is holding her version of Mickey Mouse. It’s worlc. but June knows how to make work fun. Bobby Patterson and Glenn WiUiams have some work of their own to do. Bobby takes shop and Glenn takes time out from gym to help fix a dent in Bob’s fender. It’s work all right, but get I a couple of boys together and it’s fun. ; After school’s out, there’s stil'i plenty of work to be done for ti-e ■ luuents. All studies forgotten, Ronnie Harrell, pictured lower right finds that this “after school” work can be boring sometimes, but with a job at the YMCA it’s not too bad. Those kids can take you^ Inind off your worries. Ronnie, •vorks every afternoon ancf up to'" four nights a week keeping boys, young and old, from “tearing the joint down.” Naturally there’s work to r:o at school when the students leave. Walter Howard, pictured lower left, tides up the old building Walter has been cmploj^ed at RMHS for three and a half years, w’orking many ho'urs a day clean ing up the ‘mess’ that students bring in daily. He enjoys work, especially sweeping. “Ur-uh-uh, don’t touch that dial—its time for Bobbitt’s Band- '” sfvs announcer M. G. Bobbitt, Jr. of Durham high This is the smooth way a ta’ented senior, according to The •:i-E(rket, introduces his two h,ci7r ^ookev program to the y;)dio audience. In our opinion, the ’dea of a teen-ager running a disc . ocke • shew is M-I-G-H-T-Y fine. Policemen in Norfolk, Va., re- ently received a frsnti'^ telephone i^all fx,om:Ei/distracted woman who straTig» looking car ■’d ng around and around the 'f!rk. The police investigated and n H»)~r^ent leamins-'to drive 'n the Maury high school training 'ar!.^ ■ — ./^ccoFdirir to the HicVory Twig, ■'lickory high plans hoM its Tuni'ot'-Senior in . Madison Fqi'^ire ■'■-a’-dpn this year. A Wild Bill Hickrp theme has been chosen -’nd Jd-hes his parreed to fumirh the music. Sounds cra?v, '^iih? A word to the wise then, paper came out on April 3, 1953! Jr. Hi Pupils Get Tips On HS Work Rising freshmen from the five local grammar schools had a chance to learn something about the new junior high school from the orientation committee, April 7. This committee, composed of Mary Wilkinson, James Chandler, Bobby Savage and Mariah Parker, -“xplained how R. M. Wilson jun ior high school will function. Mar iah Parker and Mary Wilkinson told the students of the different problems that will arise in junior high. Bobby Savage explained the difference between grammar school and high school. James Chandler spoke to the rising ninth gr-^'^ers about the right attitude. Pive members of the present fvochmen went back to schools from which they graduat ed. Jimmy Davis, Tony Turner. Katherine Batten. Norma Bulluck and Mariah Parker returned to Pannie w, Gorham. Battle. Wil- ' kinson, Bassett, and Braswell re spectively. Thev told of their ex periences as freshmen. Registration cards had been sent to all grammar school stu dents before the visits. .After the question and answ'er period, the students Vr>pw en^iio-h about high schoo'i nnd the subjects to fill out the forms. The rising sixth, seventh and eighth graders are planning to the hio-ii school plant some times in May. Y Collects Hangers Tri-Hl-Y and Hi-Y clubs com bined efforts last week to create interest in World Service Week. The campaign was brought to a successful end by the city wide canvass for coat hangers last night. Cl b members were asked to contribute $75.00 to the state fund for Y work in Burma and India. The project was explained to the students at the different class meetings. Posters and information On the work done by the Y we'te distributed to homeroom teachers. Announcements on the b'llletin, pictures in the paper, and spot announcements over local radio stations advertised the project; ■ A depository was arranged -at- school for coat hangers brought by students. Local citirens left b'-ndles of coat hangers on the nnvches Ip St night and these were collected by volunteers. SEARCH THE ADS W’that’s in the ads? How about reading to find out! You’ll fiad names. Names of the advertisers. Names of the merchandise. And more names! The truth is students’ names are in the ads this time. There are ten names scattered about in the ads. Could be yours. Anyone who can’t f'nd them should wear glasses. Here’s hoping’ no one needs those nose
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