ANNUAL
RMSH
HOMECOMING
NOV. 12
AMERICAN
EDUCATION
WEEK
NOV. 8-13
Published by the Journalism Class of Rocky Mount Senior High School
VOL. XXXVI—No. 3
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
FRroAY, NOV. 12, 1965
Parade, Game, Dance Will
Highlight RM Homecoming
Rocky Mount Senior High School’s annual Homecoming festivities will
begin today at 3:30 when more than 60 entries will move down Nash Street
for the Homecoming Parade. Other highlights of the event will be the
gridiron clash between Rocky Mount’s Blackbirds and the Durhattn Bulldogs
at the Municipal Staduim at 8 o clock, crowning of the Homecoming Queen
at halftime and the traditional Homecoming Dance immediately after the
game.
KATHY CHERRY
BEVERLY ROSSER
AFS Finalist Named
Kathy Cherry has been chosen compete first with students in
as North Carolina finalist in the
Americans Abroad program
sponsored by the American Field
Service. She was recently named
from Rocky Mount Senior High
with Beverly Rosser to enter
state competition for the ex
change program.
The juniors were named after
an interview with members of
the local adult and student
committees and members of
the RMSH faculty. Other stu
dents who competed in the pro
gram from here are Debbie
Sloane, Kathy Sprye, Kathy
Viverette. Bobbie Ch««h and
Caroljra ttaaaue
their own school before entering
state* competition. Kathy’s name
will now be sent to American
Field Service headquarters in
New York for final competition.
She may be chosen by the
headquarters to travel abroad
sponsored by the Rocky Mount
Chapter.
Each year the American Field
Service Committee in coopera
tion with the local adult chapter
raises money to send a student
abroad in the summer and host
a student during the school year.
Last year Ann Roibertson was
sent to Bra7i»T by Wie local
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Students must apply for the I foreign student sponsored by
program in their junior year and I the chapter this school year.
Nash County Nominates
Shearin For Morehead
Hugh Shearin has been chosen
by the Nash County Selection
Committee to represent this
area in competitiom for a More-
head Scholarship for study at
the University of North Caro
lina.
With him are John May of
Spring Hope High School and
Will Eason, III of Copper’s High
School. Clay Couch of RMSH
was named an alternate by the
committee.
Ten Rocky Mount Senior High
seniors were chosen as nomi
nees by the school. The nomi
nees were Mike Colombo, Shear
in, Couch, David Petway, Eddie
Baysden, Johnny Williams,
David Williamson, Johnny Hart-
ness, Charles Dice and Tommy
Gurley. Hartness, Dice and Gur
ley withdrew from competition
because of interests in another
school.
All boys nominated by high
schools in Nash County were
interviewed by the Nash County
committee composed of gradu
ates of UNC headed by chair
man Thomas Hicks.
The Morehead awards were
established in 1945 with a Trust
Indenture by /the late John Mot
ley Morehead. The stipend of
the scholarship is $1450.00 for
each of the four years the
scholar attends the University.
Qualifications laid down by
Mr. Morehead in the Indenture
include scholastic ability and
attainments; qualities of man
hood, truthfulness, courage, de
votion to duty, sympathy, kind
liness, unselfishness and fellow
ship: evidence of moral force
of character and of capabilities
to lead and to take an interest
in schoolmates; and physical
vigor, as shown by interest in j
competitive sports or in other
ways.
For the past two years Rocky
Mount Senior High School has
bad a student win a Morehead
Scholarship. In 1964 James Mc-
Chesney won a nomination and
in 1965 Douglas Sharer received
a scholarship.
Each year the Service Club
(of Rocky Mount Senior High)
sponsors the Homecoming Pa
rade giving the students a
chance to display their school
spirit, their decorating talents,
and the cars they borrow from
new car dealers around Rocky
Mount. For the first time this
year the Homecoming Queen
win ride in the parade. Stu
dents decorate the floats only
in the hour allotted after school
today.
The club awards first and
second place prizes and an
honorable mention for the best
entries. Judges for .the parade
will be Vernon Seichrest, Man
aging Editor of the Evening
Telegram; Mr. Colombo, prin
cipal; and C. M. Edson, past
principal and presently Direct
or of Secondary Education and
Special Services for the Rocky
Mount City Schools.
entertainment at the
game will be provided by the
RMSH Band directed by Frank
Hammond and drum major,
Jiihnny Hartness.
The band will play “Auld
Lang Syne,” “Sound of Music”
and the Rocky Mount Senior
High “Alma Mater.” Major
ettes wiU twirl fiery batons
during the exercises.
Also during halftime the
Homecoming Queen will be
crowned and the runners-up
will be recognized. Each year
the band sponsors the election
of the queen and the corona
tion ceremonies. ^
After the game students will
dance until 12 p. m. at the
Homecoming Dance. Members
of the Class of 1965 and stu
dents of Durham High School
have been invited to attend.
Dress will be semi-formal.
Annual Wins First Place
Members of the yearbook staff
returning from the annual Co
lumbia Scholastic Press Associa
tion Convention brought home
the news that the Hi-Noc-Ar
once again received a number
one rating.
The 64-65 yearbook judged, as
those of previous years, on style,
make-up, and content, was rated
number one in the group of
yearbooks from schools the size
of RMSHS.
Officers for the prize-winning
annual were Randall James, ed
itor; Kenneth Weeks, business
manager; Cecilia Dudley, Ad
vertising manager; and Way-
moutli Alien, circulation mana-
ger.
At the convention, the most
outstanding books were put on
display, and pointers were given
towards their improvement.
Classes in yearbook production
were held including one entitled
“How to Be Sure of a Medalist
in 1966”.
The staffers did not spend all
of their time in New York at
the convention. They saw two
Broadway plays, “Hello Dolly”
and “Drat the Cat”, and visited
the World’s Fair.
Among the exhibits seen at
the Fair were the VaUcan,
Paris, General Motors, Chrysler,
Billy Graham, and United States
pavilions.
Also, during their stay, they
visited Radio City Music HaU,
where they saw a performance
by the “Rochettes’” and pre
viewed a new satirical movie,
“The Great Race”.
The Hi-Noc-Ar began its an
nual suscription campaign Fri
day, Nov. 5. It wlM continue
through this weekend and Mon
day.
Play Will Be Murder Mystery
the suspect and will not reveal
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PLAY DIRECTIONS—Student director Kenneth Peacock, sitting,
directs characters who will appear in the December dramatics
production “The Unsuspected”. They are, (sitting), Donna
Ostercamp, (standing left to right) David Cockrell, aarence
Crumpler, Darcus Keeter, Ricky Phillips and Martha Leggett.
(Photo by Killebrew)
himself.
The play is adapted from the
novel. The Unsuspected, by
Charlotte Armstrong. It will star
only eleven of the dramatics de
partment’s students but will
deliver a suspense filled atmos
phere of colorful characters and
mixed identities.
Starring in the production,
Dec. 3 and 4, will bo Martha
Chambliss, Sue Farmer, Jimmy
McCullen, Jackie Langley, David
Cockrell, Clarence Crumpler,
Ricky PhUlips, Martha Leggett,
Donna Ostercamp, Darcus Kee
ter, and Cindy Sheppard.
This play will be unlike the
previous Edsonian productions.
It has only eleven characters
as compared to the 28 In last
year’s “Alas Babylon.” Mrs.
Hobbs, dramatics director,
states, “Even though the play
does not have as many charac
ters it wiU be equally as good
as and done in previous years.”
The three-act play will also
feature changes in setting. A
stauTvay, not used in several
years will lead to a balcony
crossing the entire back of the
stage. The gold curtain will not
be used in the production. Only
one set wiU be used in all acts.
RM Delegation
Returns From
SO Convention
Three Rocky Mount Senior
High students attended the 34th
annual convention erf the North
Carolina Student Council Con
gress, Nov. 7-9, at Walter Wil
liams High School in Burlington.
Eddie Baysden, Student Or
ganization President; Scott Mc-
CWtough, SO Vice President;
sophomore Hatcher Kinchdoe
were delegates representing
RMSH at the three day session.
Miss Kate Parks Kitchin, RM
guidance counsekjr and advisor
to the Student Organization, ac
companied the group.
Each year high school student
organizations which are mem
bers of the NCSCX:, the state
program consisting of business
sessions, discussion meetings, a
banquet and dance featuring a
well-known combo, and election
of the NCSOC officers. Drfe-
gates at the convention reside at
homes of students at the spon
soring high school.
Last year delegates from RM
SH were Brenda Allen, SO Presi
dent Bert Gurganus, and SO
Vice President Allan Gurgaivus.
Miss Allen, a candidate for
President of the NCSOC, was de
feated by a small majority. Al
ien Albright of Gastonia was
elected president for the 1964-65
session.
Dedegaites at the convention
discuss high school problems
and try to solve them in their
discussion groups. They learn
valuable information which helps
them as officers in their own
students organizations.
WE (K)OF£D
In the last editim The
Blackbird the pianiat for fbe
National Honor Society as
sembly was listed as Percy
Daughtridge. It should have
been Barbara Daughtridge.
The feature story on the
Distributiive Education De
partment which was supposed
to be in the last edition of The
Blackbird did not appear.
Later this year The Blackbird
will present a feature story
the DE students and their ac
tivities.