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PAOX FOUB THE BLACKBIRD. BOCKX SfOUNT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TUESDAY, AAPRIL 28, 1959 Clean Cars Help Fund NHS Sponsors Washday If you want to have you car washed and not have to do it your self, bring it to the high school cafeteria this Saturday, May 2, and we’ll be happy to do it for you!!! say members of the National Hon or Society as they work on their annual project. The price is only $1.25 for a complete wash and cleaning job.... guaranteed to please! Aside from washing tlie cars, the club will also sponsor a “taxi” service for those wishing to have a car washed but do not have the time to leave their car. A member of the so ciety will take the “customer” to liis appointment and will return for him. This annual project of the Na tional Honor Society was designed to raise funds for a $100 scholar ship which Is awarded each year to a deserving senior who needs financial help. Although a considerable number of cars have been washed n the previou-s weeks, the club still is far short of its set goal. The members hope that this Saturday will be the final day for washing cars; but if the demand is great enough, ano ther Satiu-day will be set aside. Flowers For Sale Corsages and boutonniers for those special Junior-Senior dates may now be ordered from members of the Good Sports Club. Every year this club sells flow ers for Drummond’s Florist and aeceives a share of the profits for its efforts. Thus iti increases its budget fund. Frannie Harrison Prepares For Trip “This is wonderful! I can’t be lieve I am reaUy going to live in a foreign country,” commented Franiiie Harrison about the fact that she was selected from a field of 4 finalists as the American Field Service Exchange student. Frannie, a tall, slim blond, has proved her abilities scholastically and othei-wise. On the basis of schoUuship, service, leadership and character she was tapped into the National Honor Society member ship. As a leader ana one who serves, ‘ this good-will ambassador” is now serving as president of the junior class and is a member of the Hi- Noc-Ar staff. Although Frannie’s “home away from home” has npt been an nounced, she and her family are busy making plans for her 2 months’ visit in a foreign land. ^Up She Goes!’ A Touch of Stardust... A Dash of Spring... and Cinderella Emerges! Now we don’t believe in fairy tales but we do believe that you’ll look like a Cin derella in one of our gorgeous evening gowns on the night of your big date of the year . . . the Junior-Senior. Stop by soon and take your time browsing through our complete selection of evening wear. /y/ j \ % •Svu to With the presentation ceremony tor the new class iflag over, David Williams and Honey McIntyre, senior class officers, with Vicki Odom, whose parents donated the flag, and Cleve Cherry, student organiza tion vice president, proudly place the banner below the U. S. flag and raise both to their places on the flagpole. Photo by Johnnie Harper Class Banner Waves Srs. Finally Get 'First' Under National* Flag “At last the senior class has ac complished something first,” said David Williams, president, at the dedication services during regular senior class meeting conducted on the senior walk to honor the rais ing of the new flag, March 26. David called the class to order and dispensed with the business. The band played the Star Spangled Banner as the United States flag was raised. The congregation made the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag. David gave the tribute to the class flag. In his address he stressed that this was the first class to have a flag, and that he was proud for the seniors as they were last in the magazine sales and had the least money for a junior-senior than any other class. He also stressed that this flag was their symbol and should be held in reverence as it flies below the most beautiful and sacred flag to us in the world, the U. S. flag. Honey McIntyre gave the his tory of the class flag and on be half of the class expressed tlhe deep appreciation and gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Odom who do nated the flag. The band played and the stu dents sang the new school song which has been recently adopted by the student body as the official school song. Miss Alma Murchison wrote the first verse and Bill Stan- cil the second verse. The music Vv’as adapted by Mr. Harold Parry. As the song was sung the class flag was raised to its new position (of Importance just under the U. S. flag where it now proudly flutters in the breeze for “The Class of ’59.” ‘Big City’ Provides Excitement For 3 Local Student Groups New York has been the destina tion as well as the source of much excitement for three student groups from Rocky Mount Senior High School this yeaa-,thus providing the opportunity to observe the thrill ing life of those living in the “big city.” Twenty-five members of the diamatics classfss have returned full of excitement and fantastic stories of events that Vv'ere “just fabulous.” Chaperoned by Mrs. Ada IIobbB^ drama.tics dirisctor, ftheBe students spent five days sight see ing, shopping, attending plays and taking in” in the New York gla- Nash Brick Co. Plant Locatcd At Ita, Tf. C. Smooth & Face Brick Dial 6-7030 Rocky Mount, N, C. mour. Various sights appeal to different persons iti different ways. To Jane Sutton and Sandra Brown Radio City Music Hall was “the most spectacular place in the world.” Mollie Daughtridge enjoyed visiting the “old, decrepit-looking building” known as the New York Police Sta tion. (The visit was by her own choice, of coui’se.) Although this New York visit was not the first for Dottie Lou Thorpe, she thoroughly enjoyed seeing the plays and meeting the stars per sonally. “Chinatown is the strangest look ing place I’ve ever seen,” was Mary Neal Scott’s remark as she returned home. “We even had some fortune cookies.” Carlton Harlow, rather than ex claim about the sights, seemed to enjoy walking on Broadway “There was so much to see.” Davis Brothers Merchants 126 S. Washington Street Rocky Mount, N, C.
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