Tbnrsd^f October 28, 1971
THE GRYPHON
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President, V. President Comment
On Happenings Around Campus
Senior Class Officers (from left to right) MacMelvin Knight,
Vice President; Mary Barr, Secretary; and James Davis, Treas
urer, exhibit their school spirit by participating In "Bandage
the ^Udogs Day”. Absent from picture, CecilDavis, President.
Senior Class Officers Aim
For A Great Final Show
*‘I w’ish I was a personal
friend to each student in the
school,” states Richard Bul-
luck, President of the SRA..
With vigorous enthusiasm,
Richard Bulluck, “the manwith
the briefcase,” has begun the
school year of 1971-1972, His
main desire is to overcome
what he cites as the greatest
obstacle this year: lack of
communication. Richard feels
that without good communica
tion among the students as well
as with the administration, all
is lost. As the above quotation
points out, he strongly fee Is that
he must know a majority of his
fellow students personally in
order to get his job done. He
would like to take this oppor
tunity to ask the students to
feel free to talk to him and ask
him questions or make su^es-
tions, “If you don’t recognize
me by my name or face, know
me by my briefcase!”
HOPES TO IMPROVE SCHOOL
As another objective for this
year, Richard wants to try to
make all students at RMSH
feel that their school belongs
to them and have pride in it
as well as school spirit toward
it. He sets his goal at reach
ing the apathetic students, those
that for one reason or another
do not participate in school ac
tivities or show anyenthusiasm
for them.
Richard hopes to launch a
series of programs to improve
the atmosphere at Senior High.
In doing so, he hopes that 3:05
will no longer signal freedom
from imprisonment within the
walls of RMSH.
This year Richard hopes that
the racialrelationships willim-
prove and more genuine feel
ings will develop among the
students. He hopes that friend
ships will become lasting, not
just “part time”.
STUDENTS UNCERTAIN
OF WANTS
Bruce Flye, Vice President
of the SRA feels that “the
students don’t know what they
want; they just want to com
plain and they don’t even do
that to the right people.” Ac
cording to Bruce, there are two
groups of people to complair
plain to: those you’re supposed
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will do something.” His advice
is “if you want to get some
thing done, go to the source.”
Radical as these statements
may seem, Bruce feels that
perhaps they will arouse indig-
natioa from the student body
and even if he is “put down”
as a result, student emotion will
have been aroused and there
might be a rise in loyalty a-
mong the students and toward
our school as welL
CLASSES MET
WITH PRINCIPALS
At the beginning of the year,
each class had separate meet
ings with Mr. Newbern and Mr.
Batts. Richard cites this as
“our great opportunity to get
used to our administrators”
and he feels that it was not
handled with “too much ma
turity”. Bruce comments that
he was disturbed by the con
duct of a minority of people
in each assemble. At the close
of the assemblies, severalpeo-
ple aplolgized personally to Mr.
Batts and Mr. Newbern and for
few days following, went by
their offices to apologise.
EXPERIMENTAL
ASSEMBLIES
Assemblies are technically
Richard’s and Bruce’s respon
sibility. A new policy has been
adopted this year to have as
semblies, or activity periods,
only twice a week. This poses
I a problem because the assem
blies are held at 3:05, when
everyone is ready to go home.
Despite the obstacles, Bruce
has been “encouraged to ex
periment,” He is sincerely in
terested in presenting interest
ing assemblies that are “cool”.
He would like tosolicitanysug-
gestions that you readers might
have. These suggestions would
be greatly appreciated and are
very likely to produce results.
' WALK-OUT OCCURS
On October 3, an all-school
assembly was held. During this
assembly, which was really a
pep rally, a mass walk-out oc
curred, When asked to comment
on this, Bruce said that he was
“upset” by it, but most of all,
“shocked”. This assembly was
worked out by Margaret Sheri
dan and Nelson Dunn and it
was unique in that there were
no teachers present. This was
not an oversight, because an
idea of a student assembly with
out teachers to supervise (there
were coaches present) had been
discussed with Mr, Newbern.
“This was our chance to show
our responsibility and ma
turity,” comments Richard,
Bruce points out that this mass
walk-out which occurred was
“the same as skipping”. He
also expressed disappointment
that there was so little respect
for the cheerleaders and the
football team as to merit such
behavior.
SCHOOL SPIRIT
Richard feels that school
spirit is now at a crucialstage.
“This time of the year is the
turning point. It’s now or nev
er; a or b, there is no c.”
He feels that last year’s level
of enthusiasm can be reached
this year but we must begin
now, “tomorrow may be too
late”. Everyone recognizes the
lack of spirit and we need
“people with the right attitude
to correct it”. Bruce comment
ed that “about half of the stu
dents are willing to give 100%
support to RMSH. But as for
the other half they could care
the other half, they could not
care less.”
CANDIDATES MUST PETITION
This year there will be no
nominating committee. Instead,
anyone wishing to run for an
office must petition in order to
do so, Bruce comments that
this “will be the biggest test
of school spirit,” There must
be someone interested enough
in holding an office to go to the
trouble of petitioning for that
office. This new policy will give
a greater majority of people a
chance to run for or hold an
office, but Bruce says that he is
“skeptical” as to whether or
not there will be enough re
sponse to make this new sys
tem work. Richard feels that it
is up to the incumbent officers
to use their powers to arouse
interest in petitioning for that
office. He wants to help raise
the prestige of being an officer.
Richard comments, “If you
need anything. Pm the man who
will try his best to get it done,”
If there are any comments,
good or bad, on this interview
with our President and Vice
President, please do not hesi
tate to make them. They will
count, SHOW YOU CARE,
As the curtain begins to faU
on the last performance of high
school life for the mighty Class
of ’72 one must “check out”
the leaders and their plans for
a swinging finish.
For the first semester, Ce
cil Davis, President; Mac Mel
vin Knight, Vice President;
Mary Barr, Secretary; and
James Davis, Treasurer, have
begun directlngthe Senior Class
for its last curtain call as a
part of RMSH. These officers
were formally installed by the
President of the SRA during a
Senior Class assembly. Each
officer pledged his support to
the Senior Class.
Cecil Davis, president-
director, formed a committee
for Senior Privileges as the
first phase of the operation. Af
ter successfully securing
certain rights for Seniors, the
committee Is working on other
means of recognization for Sen
iors, As President of the Sen
ior Class he installed all home
room officers giving them the
“final touch,”
Every performance must
have an assistant in case the
“main man” blanks out. Mac
Knight, assistant to the direc
tor, feels that this Senior class
is composed of the most ex
perienced students. “Because
of the talent and experience
Seniors possess, they will be
expected to take responsibility
and strive toward becoming
leaders.”
The show must have a rec
ord of the “happenings.” Mary
Barr has begun the perilous
task of writing down the events
as they hai^n. Once her pen
begins, it does not stop until
the last word Is said.
Every show must have money
to “keep on truckin’ ”, James
Davis Is busy preparing a fi
nancial report for the mighty
Class of ’72, Since an accurate
record is required, James is
checking his records to the let
ter.
Now that the show is on the
road, the Seniors must keep it
moving.
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