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Noos Voos
The Blackbird received a sec
ond place rating in the 30th. an
nual contest for student news
papers, Vvhich are members of the
CoK.mbia c.cholastic Press Asso
ciation. Ihe Blackbird was listed
In the classes of printed news
papers in senior high with 501 to
loi) pupils.
The Hi-Noc-Ar received a two
rating on last year’s book. This
year’s edition will be judged in
the faU7
Carolyn Loder, Faye Batts and
Minnie Williamoon were rated ex
cellent in the Greenville District
Music Contest Festival recently at
East Carolina College. They are
pupils of Miss Hazel Worsley.
Rocky Mount college students
recently making- Dean’s lists at
various schools include Tommy
Slater, Colgate University; Bill
Phillips and Harry Pearsall, Uni
versity of North Carolina; Janet
Williams, Barbara Jean Coley,
and Betty Ann Powell, Peace Col
lege; Betty Ann Cross, Queen’s
College; Donald Rooker, Duke
University; Phyllis Leggett, Geral
dine Worrell and Anita William
son, Flora MacDonald. Ellen Wil
liams made the honor roll at Flora
MacDonald. This requires a 95
average.
Airman First Class Vernon Cul
pepper was named the Outstand
ing Airman for the month of
March at Memphis Municipal Air
port. His name will be placed on
a plaque.
George Knight, Billy Colston,
Jimmy Davis, Lloyd Hedgepeth
.John Marriott, Patsy Pearce and
’carter JOedi'ick competed in the
general aptitude test for the Na
tional Honor Society scholarships
Delegates from approximately
45 schools in North Carolina will
arrive today and tomorrow for the
state convention of the National
Honor Society which convenes to
morrow morning at 10 o’clock.
Bob Hankins, the state presi
dent, from R. J. Reynolds high
school in Winston-Salem, will pre
side over the opening session. A
welcome to the delegates will be
given by Mr. C. M. Edson and
Mayor Jack Murchison, Rev. Leon
Russell, pastor of the First Metho
dist Church will deliver the devo
tional address.
Discussion Topics
“Our Personal Responsibilities”
is the* general theme of the con
vention. This is broken up into
four topics for ten discussion
groups. The topics are "Our Per
sonal Responsibilities in (1)
Building Good Character, (2)
High Scholarship, (3) Developing
Wise Leadership and (4) Giving
Unselfish Service.”
Discussion leaders come from
Franklin, Thomasville, Laurin-
burg, Needham Broughton, Lex
ington, New Hanover, Lenoir, East
Mecklinburg, Alvemarle, Green
ville and Central high schools.
Highlight of the convention is
the banquet at the Ricks Hotel,
Friday night, April 2. George
Knight, president of the local
chapter and state treasurer, will
act as master of ceremonies and
Reverend Gray Temple from
Charlotte, former rector of the
Chiu-ch of the Good Shepherd,
will deliver the keynote address.
After the bancuet, the assembly
will return to the *iew high school
auditorium where they will see
and hear the “Nutcracker Suite”
was given by the high school
choir under the direction of Prof.
H. T. Parry and the Valerie Sor
rell School of Dance.
Busy Day Saturday
Saturday morning the sponsors
will be honored at a breakfast at
the Ricks Hotel. Mrs. Marjorie
Stephenson, state sponsor from
Winston-Salem, is to preside. '
Saturday is the busiest day on
schedule. Elections for next year’s
state officers will be conducted
and scrapbooks of various chap
ters will be judged. Also at this
session all committee reports are
to be made.
Many students of the high
school have been working to make
this convention a success. Under
the direction of Miss Wita Bond,
the local chapter has been plan
ning this event for about three
months.
This year's state officers are
Bob Hankins from Winston-
Salem, president, Sue Gregory,
Rocky Mount, vice-president, Jean I
Stanback, Salisbury, secretary and 1
George Knight, Rocky Mount, |
treasurer.
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Sandy Thorpe, local junior, has
been paired with Thomas J. Wat
son. Jr., president of International
Business Machine Corporation, in
an advertising campaign by Boy’s
Life, the official Boy Scout publi
cation.
Radio Broadcasters
Adopt New Series
Radio Broadcasters Club start-
ee, March 27, a new series of pro
grams for the last fifteen minutes
of the show. These programs were
planned to acquaint the students
with the important activities,
plans, history, and projects of the
school.
On the first program Mr. Black
was interviewed concerning the
band clinic, which was held here
March 20 ■^ith selective members
of bands from the surrounding
area. It also included a tape re
cording of the clinic band.
Miss Kitchen will be interviewed
on group guidance, the different
topics discussed and the response
to them. Officer King will explain
Driver Training, the progress it
has made, and how many pupils
have taken it this year. Both of
these interviews will be on the
April 5 show.
Various talent will be displayed
by many of the ^tudenth April 10.
The sponsors ask that any undis
covered talent get in touch with
one of the Radio Broadcasters
This series will close with an
explanation of the high school
constitution.
Mr. Charles F. Graham is ad
viser to the club. Officers are
Craig Horne, president; Betty Sue
Cash, vice-president, Meena Buch
an, secretary-treasurer.
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French Group Gives Show
Mile. Dorothy Craighill’s French
class gave a fashion show last
Friday in assembly.
Val McMillan narrated the
show which had a setting of a
French sidewalk cafe. Seated on
the stage were “Frenchmen who
enjoying themselves at a cozy
cafe."
Girls modeling various styles of
styles of clothing were Gordon
Wilkinson, Ruth Sides, Penn
Stranberg, Jane Hatchett, Linda
Joyner, Pat JEdwards. Lady Ricks,
Becky Odom, Judy Brewer, Eliza
beth Smith. Doris Cooper, Peggy
Daniel, Nancy Newbold and Le-
nore Brown. They modeled dresses
from Daniel’s in Rocky Mount.
Boys escorting the girls were
Wlnky Hardesty, Harlon Mo.sely;
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F'inalists Announced
John Marriott, an outstanding
senior, competed for the John
Motley Morehead Scholarship
amounting to $1,250 each year for
four years. John was one of six
Addison Dixon and LaVerne
Strickland. •
Boots Pittman, Elise Williams
and Carolyn Lowder provided i '^oys chosen from the twenty-one
Sixteen Girls Chosen
At last the secret is out! After
hours of frantically countln.?
votes, the staff of the Blackbird
announces the candidates for the
1954 Beauty Court.
Here are the lucky girls selected
from the senior class: Gordon
Wilkinson, Elizabeth Vaim, Eliza-
been asked to be judge in the con
test, though no answer has been
received as yet. In the past, judges
have been A1 Capp, Charlie Jus
tice, Alan Ladd, Billy Rose, HaiTy
Conover. Jon Whitcomb and
James Street.
The name of the queen will re
music. Boots played two selections
on his accordion and Elise sang
two songs. Carolyn played back
ground music for the entire pro
gram.
Others taking part in the as
sembly were Gene Arnold, Martha
Bradley, Minnie Branch, Mimi
Brewer, Betty Sue Cash, Margaret
Daughtridge, Robert Daughtridge,
Peggy Jo Ged(Hie, Sue Gregory,
Nancy Hol^ngsworth, Joy Ann
Hayes, Kenneth Killebrew, Leah
Lee, Lucinda 'Oliver, Peggy Pettitt,
Jessie Pittman, Erwjji Robbins,
Louise Stallings, Joyce Stone,
Jean Thorpe, Mary Frances War
ren and Peggy Whitehurst.
Bobby Savage delivered the de-
tional before the assembly. Gor
don Weeks and Mar^» Jo Currin
played a trumpet duet after the
devotional. Bart Ritner was stage
manager with a crew of Jack
Hayes and Phil Wheeless.
northeastern North Carolina
counties to compete for the honor
and was a candidate against thir
ty-five others from the state.
Johi) went to the University of
North Carolina to take part In
three days of Interviews that
would result in the selection of the
scliolarship winner. Although he
did not receive the scholarship,
Rocky Mount is proud that he was
selected as a candidate.
Carter Hedrick, also a senior
has been named a winner of the
Wake Forest College Honor Schol-
orship, which amounts to $190 a
year for the first two years of his
college education. The second year
will be awarded on the condition
that he remain scholastically in
the top ten percent of his class
during his freshman year.
Mr. Edson will present Carter
with a certificate worth $190 on
Awards Day.
Club Plans Sunrise Service
beth Thqmpsoiv Peni^stran(^erg,, main a secret until the night of
’ the Junior-Senior Prom. At that
time she will be crowned in a
ceremony which is the highlight
of the dance. After the crowning
a figure.and other entertainment
will be given to honor the queen.
For the past five years the cor
onation ceremony, sponsored by
the Blackbird, has highlighted the
intermission of the annual Junior-
Senior dance. The Pirls who have
Janet Spain, Ruth Sides, Patsy
McAuley, Edith Ann * Johnson.
Candidates from the Junior class
are; Margie Parker, Leah Lee,
Betty James, Peggy Daniels. Doris
Cooper, Lenore Ann Brown, Judy
Brewer, Joan Brackett, Portraits
of the girls will be made by the
Barringers Studio.
As usual, the queen will come
from the senior class, while the
maid of honor may be chosen j been chosen as queen during those
from either class. Members of the
court may also be either juniors
or seniors.
Stewart Granger, famous star
of British and American films, has
years are Hazabelle Pearsall,
Nancy Yelverton, Robin Arring
ton, Petty Edmundson, Sarah Joy
ner, Janet Fulcher, and Dot Whit
ley.
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