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GRYPHON
Vol. 2 No. 1
Rocky Mount Senior High Rocky Mount, N.C. 27801
Oct. 2,1975
SRA OFFICERS STRIVE FOR GOOD YEAR — Corbi Bulluck, president; Paul 3rantley,
vice-president; and Boon McGee, treasurer; welcome all students. (Absent is Sally Davis,
secretary).
Committees Begin Work
Homeroom representatives
were installed by SRA
president, Corbi Bulluck, at the
first meeting on September 15.
After the new members were
sealed. Boon McGee, treasurer,
and Paul Brantly, vice
president passed out folders to
all homeroom representatives.
Each folder contained a copy of
the student constitution.
The newly seated
representatives then voted
unanimously to accept the
president’s cabinet. The cabinet
is composed of the chairpersons
of each SRA committee. The
committees are: Elections,
chairpersons Ken Bulluck and
Dee Rich; Traffic, chairpersons
Brad Shields and Herman
Bulluck; Fire Drill, chairperson
Trey Bulluck; School Spirit,
chairpersons Julie Ward and
Linda Williams; American
Field Services, chairperson Biff
White; Social, chairpersons
Patti Hutchisson and James
Wright; Student Store,
Chairpersons Linda Lay
ton and Sheila Pulley;
Human Relations, chairpersons
Beth Hodge and Jacqueline
Rowland; Publicity, chair
person Laura Hardy;
Publications, chairperson
M^rna Lowo, Hqusc ^nd
Grounds, chairperson Holly
Harris; Lost and Found,
chairperson Deborah Pittman.
The Traffic committee
reported that the Tillery
Building hall is still one way.
Trey Bulluck expressed
disappointment in the first fire
drill. His committee plans to
post exit charts in all rooms
which do not have them.
Julie Ward and Linda
Williams were pleased with the
school spirit displayed at the
pep rally.
The A.F.S. Committee is
keeping up bulletin boards in
the halls during the year.
Shelia Pulley reported that
the sales at the student store are
slower than at some times last
year.
The human relations com-
Hicks Leaves For Parker
Mr. Richard Hicks is leaving
his post as assistant principal to
take up the position of principal
at J. W. Parker Junior High
School.
The full-tinie, all-purpose
assistant principal and part-
COACH HICKS LEAVES — Mr.
Hicks is going to Parker Junior
High as principal,
time head basketball coach
learned of his promotion during
the first week of school. He was
to begin his job as principal of
the seventh-grade junior high
on September 25, 1975. The
previous principal, R. A. Batts,
has been the head of Parker
Junior High since its opening,
according to Hicks. Although
Batt’s new position is not
known, it is thought to be an
administrative post within the
Rocky Mount City School
system.
Hicks describes his promotion
to the principal’s job as “the
goal of every assistant prin
cipal.” On the basic differences
between the two posts, he says,
“Since junior high is still
secondary education, the goals
are the same.” He did mention,
however, that “the surroun
dings will .b« different. It is,'
however, a challenge. I am
looking forward to it.”
As to his position as head
basketball coach, Hicks said he
had no idea who would succeed
him. He stated that selection of
a new coach was an ad
ministrative affair and that he
had no voice in the matter.
One student commented on
Mr. Hicks’ departure: “He has
the natural ability to deal with
all students. He handles
everything so efficiently.” On
the same subject, a faculty
member said, “Knowing and
working with Coach Hicks has
been one of the pleasures of my
teaching days. Always fair and
concerned, efficient and highly
effective, he has won the ad
miration, respect, and love of
the entire faculty. We shall miss
him greatly, and wish him the
very best in his new endeavor.”
SEMIFINALISTS CHOSEN — Terri Gardner and Sandy
Wilgus have been selected National Merit Semifinalist for
197.5.
Merit Semifinalists
Are Selected
mittee spokesman said that
“Hey Day” is coming up soon.
Laura Hardy said that the
publicity committee is keeping
an up-to-date schedule on the
door of room 109. Each day a
new schedule of that days sports
events is posted.
The Assembly Committee
chairman said that the first pep-
rally of the year went very well,
and that the school will try to
have two or three more pep-
rallies this semester. When
asked about the present seating
chart, for the gym assemblies,
Paul said that “this is a trial
seating chart.” When told that
many people have expressed a
desire to be able to sit where
they choose at the gym
assemblies he said, “the S.R.A.
would like to see everyone be
able to sit where they choose at
the homecoming assembly.”
But he explained that this
would probably not happen. It
would infringe on senior
privileges.
Two RMSH students have
been named as Semifinalists in
the 1976 competition for
National Merit Scholarships.
They are among the 15,000 who
will continue in the competition
for some 30,000 Merit
Scholarships to be awarded this
spring. The nominees are Terri
Gardner and Sandy Wilgus.
Of the Semifinalists, who
represent the upper half of one
percent of the nation’s most
academically talented students,
an estimated ninety percent
are expected to meet the
requirements and advance to
the Finalist standing. The
recipients of the $1000 Merit
.ami. the ■Sour-noajr^
Merit Scholarships worth $1500
or more each year will be an
nounced in the spring of this
year.
Both nominees are members
of The Gryphon staff. Terri is
the editor and Sandy is the head
of the editorial department.
Terri is the secretary of the
National Honor Society, a
member of the Service Club,
and an SRA representative. She
studied French this past
summer at Governor’s School.
Sandy is the first semester
president of the senior class and
a guidance office assistant. He
went to Europe this summer
with the AIFS study group and
attended a workshop on Physics
and Chemistry in Action in the
.Uepartmeiil of Materials and
Engineering at N.C. Slate
University.
SAC REPRESENTATIVES PROPOSE CHANGES — Mary
Jo Best, Helen Wiley, Denise Alston, and Elizabeth Small
have ideas for the new year: among them a Junior High
Tennis program, and a wider range of electives and more
parking facilities at Senior High.
Board Gives Answers
Mr. Norm Thompson,
president of the Fox Run Neigh
borhood Council, appeared at
the September 15 meeting of the
Rocky Mount City School Board
to inquire what was being done
about the tuition status problem
of the Fox Run students
presently enrolled in the Rocky
Mount City School System. Mr.
Thompson asked why the city
school tax of $90 is so vastly
different from the $180 per
student tuition rate. Mr. Harris
explained that every property
owner in Rocky Mount pays the
city school tax whether he has
children or not in order to help
balance the cost of the school’s
services. The board will send
out a form letter to the parents
of the Fox Run students. The
letter will explain the tuition
rates and explain how the
payment of the costs will be
assessed.
Another issue brought up
before the board at the meeting
was that of the number of
students who have to stand up
on the bus to Candlewood. A
solution of requesting another
school bus from the state was
suggested. Dr. Currin explained
that a school bus has to have a
10% overload before the state
will consider issuing another
school bus to a school system.
Dr. Currin said that the number
of sophomores who will be
getting their licenses and
driving to school will help ease
the over-crowding on the school
busses.