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PAGE TWO THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1954 From Your President It is my happy privilege to welcome you, old and new students, at the beginning of the 1954-55 school year to our Senior High. This will be our second year in the building and soon the new gym will be ready. Last year the students took perfect care of the building, of which we are all so proud. Let’s keep it that way! We have a good faculty and fine physical facilities. Our opportunity to learn is great. Take advantage of it and study, after all, we are here to learn. This year should be a good one, both scholastially and in our activities, and should make us very proud of our school. Your Student Organization will need your support, interest, and suggestions. Back up the Student Or ganization in all its undertakings. I think we will have a great year. WELCOME! The Staff joins with Sandy in wishing the students the very best year you’ve ever had in high school. Let’s get right behind him and make our school the oest in the State. Doing Your Share? Local students have the reputation of making one of the finest student bodies in the State. In order for it to remain so, the students must be behind it with interest and support. No business or organization can remain successful unless each of its members have a prolonged interest in his firm. In a school the athletic teams, school pub lication staffs, dramatic departments, and school clubs are similar to such business firms. These groups cannot do their best unless they have student back ing. Interest and support can be shown in many differ ent ways. At the present the football players are help ing set a fine athletic record by fighting hard to win each game, but they can’t do it alone. They need en- couragenient. They need to have the feeling that they are being backed. Here is where the students can pitch in and help win the game. By yelling and cheer ing, the onlookers can give the team the necessary “push” it needs when the going gets tough. In the same way the other “teams” in the school need the student backing. The students in these groups are doing their best to keep RMSHS labeled one of the finest schools in the State. Are you doing your share of the job? THE BLACKBIRD Official Publication of Rocky Mount Senior High Member of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association EDITORIAL, STAFF Editor Julian Aldridge News Editor Peggy Whitehurst Sports Editors Charles Bateman, Sonny Cherry Feature Editor Jimmy Moore Excliange Editor Martha Bradley Columnists Kathryn Batton, Henry Thompson staff Artist Sally Wicker staff Writers Woodrow West, Sylvia Poland Betty Cockrell BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Lucinda Oliver Assistant Business Manager Norma Bulluck Advertising Manager Ronnie Felton Assistant Advertising Manager Eddie Felts Like It? FACULTY ADVSER Mrs. T. D. Young Well, here is the first 1954-55 edition of THE BLACKBIRD, which the staff has tried to make a paper that you, Mom and Pop will be glad to read. We hope that you like the new, slick surface, along with the smear-proof ink and our approach to reporting the news which we know has room for improvement. Plans to have a better iupple- ment filled with the latest gossip and stories about many hitherto unknown, unpublished items about students and known characters. Ideas obtained last year from students have guided us in this first feeble effort to improve our paper. If you have any ideas that might help or other bits of infor mation that haven’t been publish ed, pass them on to us. We’ll con sider every worthwhile idea and we promise to use what we can. It is your paper. Help us to make it the best paper. What’d You Do If you were unlucky enough to be caught with a cassowary in the halls at school, what would your reaction be? Mimi Brewer says she would be embarrassed Billy McIntyre would go west Janice Frazier would crawl in a locker....Sandy Thorpe would leave town imme diately Ronnie Felton would stand still in amazement Mar garet Williams would laugh Bobby Savage’s reaction would depend on whom he is with What would Lucinda Oliver do? She’d enjoy It while it lasts! Carol Morgan says she would I'un ....Kenneth Cooke says he would hide his face and Barbara Jones says she would jump to the ceil ing. Won’t theit- races be red when these people learn that a casso wary is only a large swift flight less bird of the same family as the ostrich, but smaller, native to New Guinea and Australia. Published nine times during the year by the Journalism Class of Rocky Mount Senior High School. Subscription Rate $1.00 Faculty Sketches Ever ready to repeat an explan ation....full of wit and humor “measuring eyes’’ light up as two and one half inch grasshoppers are broui^ht into the room Our Biology friend....Mrs. Van! Dignified and usinesslike in ap pearance a book of knowledge when it comes to math...thought fully provided a fan for student comfort during those warm days.... Of course...who else, but Mr. Mac? A bundle of energy enthusias tic a very small package tied with a large smile right at home at a typewriter almost as large as she Mrs. Landis! Detenrination....skill perfec tion originality .... musical ability Mrs. Black! S Pi r I't" 'jr)»iro It heed'll S«'rrA Stfitoi-I What America Means To Me What does America mean to me? It means freedom—freedom to speak my own thoughts, worship my own God, and live my own life. Sometimes I feel as though I cannot fully appreciate or understand this gift, as I have never known any other kind of life. From freedom comes hope and from hope comes op portunity; and from these come the chance for every man to make his own life, whatever it may be. This to me is the greatest thing a country has to Dffer her people. Ed. Note. The above article written by Joan Backett was selected as one of the best essays on What America Means To Me received in the American history classes, i felt that no students words could be more meaningful than Joan’s, as she was born in Turkey and came to America at the age of twelve, at which time she received that priceless gift of American citizenship. School Begins With A ^Bang’ By James Ezzeile As usual, things began at the relatively new high school with a bang.” The first few days found the halls literally buzzing with stu dents lost in the msh and turmoil ol trying to get to their next class in the short time of three min utes. On the first morning, many sibhes of relief were heard as Mr. Edson announced that the first Vv’eek’s schedule would be shorten ed so the sc^ool day could be completed b i noon. But oh, that Mr. V.'eatherman! He really turned on the heat! 1 I>uring the first several weeks, SpeUing, Hard? Try This! So many students have com plained of the hard spelling course, that the staff has devised the following simplified spelling method. What do you think of it? The year 1954 would be devoted to the elimination of the soft “c” which is replaseable by “s”. In 1955 all other “c’s” would bekome “k’s”. Thus we sertainly would have no further korsern with kon- sonant. However, sinse it would still be found on all typewriter keyboards, we would use it as a replasement for ce bocersome “th.” Next, ce suffix “ing’’ would be attakked. Cis problem would be solved by removig ce exsess “in”. Surtain’vi you are beginig to see C' pi-ogre.ss v.’e are makig. 1958 would see ce end of al double kon. sonants, long nocig but exses bag gage. Now, cese cigs are realy shapig up! 1959 would be haled as ce yer to remove unesesary dubled vowels. Onse agan, words bekome simpler. In 1960, cose an- yig final “e’s” wuld disaper. In 1961, al “y’s” wuld giv wai to “i’s’’ and in 1962 cis sam “y’’ wuld tak c plas of “sh’’. Pinali in 1963 al “ph’s” and “gh’s” wuld bekom “f’s”. Cer iu hav it. Ten yort iers and evericig is rift. Spelig is somecig to be lafed at. Welkom to cbrift ag of komplet konkord in c mater of korekt spelig! the only word to describe what he was dishing out was that prolong ed — “whew-w-w-w-w.’’ Sopho mores said that last year about this time there was a slight breeze stirring in their school. Well, there probably was one over here then, to—but that was last fall. As the days grow into weeks, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and faculty members, with shirts and dresses soaked with perspiration, walked hurriedly through the halls '.viping brows with their handker chiefs and lugging the books from which their tree of knowledge grows. So my suggestion to you is— keep cool, keep wiping that brow and v;ait ‘cause footballs are in tlie air and soon the leaves will begin to turn and cool breezes of fall will be here. It’s News! If you have: eloped ■ been married bought a car “dyed” recently had a wreck got a new bojrfriend got a new girl friend been sick had a party. “popped the question” found a job started going steady been drafted IT’S NEWS.' Turn it in so we can print it!
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