RYPHON
Rocky Mount $>enior High School, Rocky Mount, N. C. 27801
Vol. 4, No. 5
December 2, 1977
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Mrs. Edythe Tweedy
Photo by Jerry Joyner
Tweedy Honored
The award for the Outstand
ing Secondary Counselor was
presented to Mrs. Edythe
Tweedy at the fall conference of
the North Carolina School
Counselors Association held
November 10-11 at the Hilton
Inn in Burlington, N. C.
Awards were presented to
the outstanding counselors in
the elementary, middle, junior
and senior high levels along
with the administrator and
legislator of the year awards.
The conference was designed
to give counselors across the
state the opportunity to hear
keynote speaker Dr. Jack A.
Uuncan, Counselor Educator ot
the Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond, Va.
The counselors attended work
shops related to current prac
tices and up dated their infor
mation and skills on such topics
as: Public Relations, Compe
tency Based testing. Licensure,
Career Development and Child
Abuse.
The conference is one of the
services provided by the North
Carolina School Counselor As
sociation, a Division of the
American School Counselor As
sociation and the American
Personnel and Guidance Asso
ciation.
Stondords Board Meets
“Reviewing the present poli
cy concerning promotion and
retention and seeing how grad
ing and placement affects these
is the purpose of the Committee
on Grading,” commented Mrs.
Raymond Doyle, Rocky Mount
City School Board member.
The Rocky Mount City
School Board recently set up
this committee to look into the
problem of promotion and re
tention. “The committee is to
determine whether the present
policy is satisfactory or not. If
not, the committee will recom
mend a new policy by spring so
the school board can approve it
for next year,” said Mrs. Doyle.
At this time, only one meet
ing has been held. At the
meeting, members discussed
promotion primarily in the low
er grades according to Mrs.
Doyle. Three school board
members; three members from
the central office; three princi
pals; and three teachers make
up the committee. Members
include: Mrs. Raymond Doyle;
Mrs. Fred Payne; Mr. R. D.
Armstrong; Mr. Roscoe Batts;
Mrs. Katherine Collins; Mrs.
Jeannette Pittman, Mr. Elton
Newbern, Mr. Doug Watts, Mr.
Richard Hicks, Mr. Jim Wright,
Mrs. Retha Arnette, Mrs. Flo-
rine Joyner, Mrs. Barbara Tay
lor, Mrs. Cleo Corbett and Miss
Ginger Murray.
“In my opinion, we are to
decide why students at the
senior high level aren’t reading
on a senior high level. We want
to make certain our students
can pass the state competency
test," stated Mrs. Taylor, a
member of the committee.
SRA Announces
Magazine Sales
In the recent magazines
sales, the 83 leaders of this
Student Government sold 152
subscriptions for a total of
$1313.31. This figure would
average to 1.8 subscriptions
and $15.82 per person if each
person had contributed; how
ever, only 47 people, or 57 per
cent of the officers, committee
chairmen, and representatives
sold even one subscription.
Of the four Student Organi
zation Officers, President Che
ryl Bryant sold two subscrip
tions for $19.00, Secretary Te
resa Everette sold two subs
criptions for $19.00, and Trea
surer Bruce Hayden sold two
subscriptions for $10.94. Vice
President Stephen Phillips sold
none.
Dee Whitley, Junior Class
President led the class presi
dents by selling three for
$38.94. Holly Kelly, Sophomore
President sold one for $13.56,
and Senior President Steve
Dickens sold none.
Fourteen of the nineteen
committee chairmen sold at
least one magazine. Hope
Reese, chairman of the School
Spirit committee led the cabi
net by selling 17 subscriptions
totalling $156.72. Karl Best-
wick. House and Grounds Co-
chairman followed with six for
$48.60. Gloria Pittman, Fire
Drill Co-chairman; Jan Prid
gen, House and Grounds Co-
chairman; and Audrey Cooper,
Publications Chairman; each
sold four subscriptions totalling
$46.00, $37.31 and $34.51 res
pectively.
Sheri Vines, Publicity Co-
chairman, sold three for $19.00.
Mark Pearsall, Fire Drill co-
chairman; Beth Hutchisson,
American Field Service Chair
man; Drew Peterson, Human
Relations Co-chairman; Steve
Ratchford, Publicity Co-chair
man; Kaye Batts, Elections Co-
chairman each sold two maga
zines for $24.45, $18.63, $18.44,
$15.76, and $14.81 respectively.
Toni Williams, Human Re
lations Co-chairman, and Toni
LaGrange, Student Store
Chairman sold one subscription
a piece for $12.00 and $6.99.
Janet Kitts, Social Committee
Co-chairman; Starletta Wig
gins, Lost and Found Chair
man; Kevin Beairsto and Chris
Howell, Traffic Co-chairmen;
and Clarence Wiggins, Elect
ions Co-chairman sold none.
Six Sophomore SRA repre
sentatives sold 24 magazine
subscriptions. Angela Boone
sold 11 for $70.71. Jonathan
Davis sold four totalling $30.36.
Connie Hinnant and Mary Bul-
luck each sold three totalling
$29.50 and $16.87. Chuck Har
vey sold two subscriptions for
$14.81 and George Booth sold
one at $6.98.
Twelve Junior SRA memb
ers sold 32 subscriptions adding
$261.74 to the total amount
collected. Chris Tant sold seven
for $57.24. Denise Enderly fol
lowed with four subscriptions
for $30.49. Marion Blackburn
also sold four at $22.88. Kate
Pierce, Beth Berry and Marsha
Thompson each sold three ma
gazines totalling $30.49, $26.98
and $19.97 respectively.
Susan Bandy and Karen Ver
non each sold two for $17.00
and $14.95. Kathy Callahan and
Melinda Stone each sold one for
$15.56 a piece, and Cynthia
Lloyd and Erica Byrd sold one a
piece at $7.81 and $7.00.
Ten Senior SRA representa
tives sold magazines. Jeff Hol
loman sold 15 for $135.33.
Karen Dudley and Terrie Con
ner each sold five for $88.00 and
$36.92 respectively. The re
maining seven each sold one:
Delores Cooley, $13.56; Debra
Henderson, $12.00; Amy Smith,
$10.00; Pat Warren, $4.98;
Rhonda Marrow, $4.97; Rhonda
Bridge, $4.95; and Michael Mar
tin, $4.00.
National Honor Society Accepts New Members November 29.
The new members are first row I to r: Keith King, Ma« Jackson, Mary Ward Robbins, Dawn Jones,
Kim Bali, Sue Williford, Pam Fisher, Toni LaGranice. Second row: Chris VsJentine, Allison Aldridse,
Gloria PittmM, Janet Kitts. R'venbark, Gordon McAdams. Stephanie Blanchard. Third row:
Kent Kmn, Cimon Barnes, Mark PearsaU, Clay Harris, Cindy Dixon, David Goff. Beckv Whitman
Martha Braswell, Robert Sheridan, Ronald AUen.