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THE BLACKBIRD
Friday, Nov. 12, 1965
Brenda Allen Takes
Bunker Hill Election
DAR FINALIST: .
Brenda Allen
What ;‘enir>r girl possesses the
qualities of depDndability, ser
vice, ' leadership, and i>atriot-
ism? The senior class and facul
ty of Rooky Mount Senior High
Sch:»l ag.'.'ee that Brenda Allen
bf'^t represents this class as the
Daughters of American Revolu
tion tJ,tizen,
Each senii>r ' class student
voted for one, two, or three girls
whom they thought would best
ropresent the class on Wednes
day, October 1. Brenda Allen,
Martha Kincheloe, and Josephint
Vann were chosen as candidates
for this award. Faculty mem
bers who had workr-d with any
one of these girls at least one
semester cast a vote. They sc-
locted Brenda Allen as DAR citi
zen.
The basis of this selection
was: (1) Dependability, faith
fulness, loyalty and punctuality,
(2) Service, co-operation, cour
tesy, consideration of othors,
and civic activities, (3) Leader
ship; personality and (4) Pat
riotism; unselfish interest in
family, school, community and
nation.
PTA Sponsors Open House Here
The usual hurry-scurry of
classroom changes was magni
fied Tuesday night, October 26,
when the P. T. A. business meet
ing £ind open house was held at
RMSH. Although no record was
taken, most teachers agree that
the attendance was good.
The purpose of the open house
was to familiarize the parents
with the teachers and school
system. To do this, the parents
followed their son or daughter’s
daily schedule with shortened
periods. Each f)eriod lasted five
minutes with four minutes be
tween classes.
The parents were requested to
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bring $2 to help the P. T. A.
meet its budget ot $1056.49.
From this budget come such ex
penditures as P. T. A. Scholar
ship for Future Teacher, Senior
Day Dinner, Teacher Apprecia
tion Day Luncheon, A. F. S.
donation, and music for the
Homecoming and Spring dances.
The amount of money collected
was approximately $W5.
Members of the Kudos club
were stationed in the halls to
give any directions needed by
the parents.
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AFS DISPLAY—Ann Robeitson (left) and Dianne Mayo (cen
ter) exchang-e students display gifts broug:ht to RMSH in past
years to Gay Liles (rig-ht) chairman of the American Field
Service student committee. (Photo by Killebrew)
RM Exchange Students
Speak To Assembly
“You can always teU when
there is an American in the
movie audience. He’ll laugh at
the joke before the Brazilians
have time to read it.” Ann Rob
ertson made this comment Fri
day, October 29 during an
American Field Service assemb
ly program.
This assembly program was
held during activity period for
the entire school. Gay Lyles,
the American Field Service
Committee chairman was in
charge of the assembly. She
was introduced by Scotty Mc
Cullough, vice-president of the
student body.
Gay begcin by naming the
members of the American Field
Service Student Committee and
the officers of the adult com
mittee.
Emi Manabe, Rocky Mount
Senior High School foreign stu
dent from Takamatsu, Japan,
spoke next. She is a senior and
is living with Anne Townsend,
also a senior. Emi stated that
she was very happy to be here
and that everyone had been nice
to her.
Gay introduced Kathy Cherry
and Beverly Rosser as AFS
Americans Abroad candidates
from RMIK for next summer.
Kathy and Beverly had been
seated on stage and they both
stood when introduced.
Ann Rdberitson, AFS Ameri
cans Abroad from RMSHS this
past summer, spoke to the stu
dents about some of her most
interesting experionces in Bra
zil. She then called Eddie Bays-
den, president of the Student
Organization, to the rostrum
and she presented a statue to
the student ibody through him.
This statue was a representation
of the Christ statue located on
top of Corcovado Mountain in
the city of Rio de Janeiro, com
monly known as the Qirist of
the Andes.
Gay presented a history of
AFS committees in RMSHS.
Pictures of past AFS foreign
students were shown to the stu
dent body. Gay then talked
about gifts that have been given
to the school by some of these
foreign students and one given
by Mimi Munden.
Dianne Mayo was introduced
as a recipient of a $400 scholar
ship from the local ATS. Dianne
was a finalist in national com-
petions with AFS. She chose to
go to South America with Inter-
njatipnal Fellowship. Spending
the summer in Cali, Columbia,
Dianne had many invaluable ex
periences.
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Fresh Meats and Vegetables
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