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To Visit in Local Homes
City Host to 34 Exchanges
Rocky Mount is to be host, July 1 and 2, to thirty-four
lor^gn exchange students who will be guests in homes
in the town and will be entertained during the two days
of their stay here.
At present, the Aimerican Field Service is looking for
homes in which the students will be housed.
At tile end of each scholastic
year, the exchange students, un
der the auspices of this Service,
are given a short tour of a section
of the U. S. before they return to
their European homes. Rocky
Mount has been selected as one of
the 8 or 10 special towns in the
South that they will visit.
While these European students
are here, planned entertainment
events will be sponsored by the
J. C.’s, local civic organization.
This recreation will include such
things as picnics and swimming
parties.
Students will represent some 29
nations and most of them will have
attended a New England school
this yiear.
Clean-Up
Week!
THE
BLACKBIRD
‘Slave Mart’ Here
As Latin Classes
Prepare for Feast
Shades of the old Fayetteville
slave mart!
It’s happened here at RMSHS—
Local Latin students have “sold”
themselves into “slavery” for five
rioys, for sum.s ranfrin? from fifty
ucruwi lo two aonars^iinS“iii(^
cents.
No, they aren’t disobeying the
Thirteenth Amendment to the
Constitution. With the permission
of their parents and the faculty,
the Latin students chose “slavery”
as preferable to any other money
making project for their annual
Roman Banquet.
Fixing the minimiun price for
the “slaves” at fifty, cents, the
students arranged for a profes
sional auctioneer, “Senatoir” Hugh
Ediwards, assisted by “Tribune”
Cleve Cherry to serve at (the auc
tions Thursday aJid Friday morn
ings, second lunch period, and af
ternoons, March 7-8
Bidding was hot and fast, as
teachers and students vied for the
“slavesi” of their dhoijae. Thiei
“slaves” are to work between the
hours of 8:30 and 4:00 for five
days, the week of March 11.
(See Slave Mart, Page 6)
Published by Journalism Class of Rocky Mount Senior High School
VOLUME XXVIII ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 12. 1957
BRIGHT LIGHTS AHEAD!
NUMBER 7
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Martha Ann Fountain, Carol Heck, and Molly Arnold want to
have enough clothes in case N. Y. has another blizard. Last year’s
delegates were in New York’s worst snow storm in years.
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Tops in CSLS
NHS Taps Seventeen
Seventeen students — 10 juniors
and 7 seniors — excelling in
character, scholarship, leadership,
and service, received the tapping
last Friday afternoon at the year’s
second National Honor Society
candlelight induction ceremony.
President Frank Wilkinson pre
sided at the tapping. Four other
members explained the society’s
cardinal principles. They were
Jean Edwardls, Larry Warner, Ed
ward Riner, and Faye Kirkland.
In selecting eligible students for
the ITOS, members of the society
firsit consider the scholastic re
cords. Afterwards they rate 1, 2,
3, 4 or 5 all the students having
a “B” average. No students are dis
cussed during any NHS meetings.
Teachers rate the students in the
same manner. After much averag
ing, a certain percentage of stu
dents with the highest general
averages are the ones to be tap
ped.
Seniors possessing the principles
and the required averages were
Judi Garner, Frances Gay, Caro
lyn. Langley, Bobbie Jean Pullen,
Elbert Robbins, Betty Lou Savage,
and Robert Wynne; juniors were
Jane Bradley, Judy Brown, Craig-
Daughtridge, Allen Cronenberg,
Gwen Currin, David Harper, Larry
Medford, Dan Robbins, Anna
Spruill, and Blount Taylor.
SO NEWS
Career Week in Action
Students Attend Discussions
Career-minded students are at
tending career discussion group
and learning more about the fields
open for young people today dur
ing the Career Week, March 11-
17.
For this week, activityj and fifth
periods are switched so the dis
cussion groups meet each day at
2:30 — 3:14.
Students attend the discussion
groups of their choice, and those
who do not wish to attend any
group go to the auditorium where
they are shown movies on voca
tions.
Six to nine groups are open for
students to attend each day. These
deal with fields ranging from
home making to mortuary. Sec
retarial iwork, FTBI and police work,
architecture, and nursing and
medicine lead the fields in stu
dent popularity, if group choices
mean anything.
Discussion groups are led by ex
perienced and able citizens in these
fields.
Delegates Hajiwood Evans, Jer
ry Daley, and Janet Bulluck will
represent Rocky Mount at the
Eastern District Student Council
Congress convention in Edenton,
March 29.
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CLEAN-UP-WEEK wUl be ob
served Marcsh 18-23, announced
Jerry Daley, House and Ground
chairman. Mr. Kelley Vester, city
sanitarian, will inspect and grade
the school before Clean-Up-Week
begins, and after the campaign he
iwill issue another grade.
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BEWARE STUDENTS! Henry
Hinson will warn jiou the first
time you' car is found parked
wrong or you’re caught speeding in
the parking lot, but the second
time this happens there will be a
fine of $1.00.
Don Harris Wins Scholarship;
Finahst for Two Other Awards
Delegates Travel
To CSPA Meet
“Country come to town” might
be the opinion of New Yorkers who
observe the 18 delegates from the
Hi-Noc-Ar and the Blackbii’d staff
ay;ending tihe Columbia iSbho-
lastic Pi'ess Association Conven
tion in New York, March 13-17.
Tomorrow night after a long,
weary but jubilant train ride the
“hicks” will invade Brodway and
the bright lights of Times Square
before the more serious business
of attending the convention. After
registering at the Hotel New York
er and spla.shing some water on
their faces, they will rush out a-
gain to take in one of the various
shows currently running on the
Broadway stages.
Wliile at Columbia the delegates
will attend general journalistic
meeting and clinics, Fdwaid Riner,
L-aiCor or The Blackbird, will leaa
a discussion group on “Page Make
up and Layout.”
Highlight of the convention ac
tivities for the delegates of both
staffs is ithe luncheon at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria on Saturday. At this
tune special awards are announced
and delegates have an opportunity
to meet noted guests and hear
famous speakers. The luncheon Is
the official closing of the conven
tion.
The Blackbird delegates also
plan to meet Prof. Charles Van
Doren, of the T. V. show “21”
(See Delegates, Page 6) I
When it comes to scholarships.
Rocky Mount seniors are tops, and
Don Harris has proved this by
winning the coveted John Motley
Morehead Scholarsihip of $5000,
the finalist position for the Angier
B. Duke Scholarship, and the Elks
Scholarship award.
Recently the Elks awarded Jean
Edwards and Jackie Williams the
Most Valuable Student awards.
Bach received a $100 savings bond
Also bringing honors to this
school ai'e Kelsejj McGee, who is
one of the finalists in the Ameri
can Legion Oratorical Contest, and
Jo Dare Williams, iwho is also a
finalist for the Angier B. Duike
Scholai'ship and the other winner
for the Elks Leadership Award.
About thirty students entered
the Civitan Citizenship Essay Con
test sponsored by the Civitan Club
of Rocky Mount, but no word has
been heard yet as to who the fina
list's f>r«»
Dates to Circle
March 15 Student-Parent
Game
March 19 . . .. Little Symphony
March 21-22 BPW Follies
March 28 PTSA Meeting
April 5 .., Community Concert
April 10 DE Banquet
April 6 . . Band Choir Concert
An Editorial
Who Are the Guilty?
citfzZsh?ra»o„^ «''= level
^ ^he authorities. He did
not though, because he was trying- to help further citizen
ship by asking the vandals to own up to their plundering
and make restitution for damages. If the guilty parties
do this, they will do one of the hardest things man doe'
—confess to being wrong.
tieJ ^^ej;he guilty ones? Many authori
ties place the blame for teenage crimes on the church
the school or the home. This of course, does not relieve
adults of their responsibilities too.
moLiL because it starts
molding the character of a person; then the church and
1 foundation or alter it. An
mSr“ ThP in® ^ fashioned in some
manner The home commences sculpturing with the clay.
By the bme a child enters the church and school, the clay
b,V institutions have a
to the forV ” attempt to change or add
student organization
f^rJhSfL, mischevious doings
ofthe ihoT