Volume 30 Number 2 Rocky Mount Senior High School Oct/November 2000
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It is very rare for two students in the
same town to be named winners of
The John Motley Morehead Schol
arship to UNC-Chapel HUl, not to
mention the same school. Yet, Tyler
Lester and Jennifer Chx beat the odds.
Both active members in our school
andcommunityJ^terandOrr were
among 126 finalists to be selected out
of876candidates nominated for the
award. To recieve this scholarship
students were selected according to
academic achievement, leadership
skills, physical and character traits.
Only 69 students in the U.S and Great
Britain recieved this prestigious
honor.
Principal Wayne Doll said
“I was overwhelmed with the pos
sibility that we could have one but
also two. We’ve had Morehead
scholars before, but we are continu
ing the tradition. Its simply unheard
of and a tremendous accomplish
ment. If you establish goals and
work towards those goals you can
obtain them. Jennifer Qrr and Tyler
Lester are excellent representatives
of our students here at RMSH”.
The Morehead Award
was established in 1951 by UNC
alumnus John Motley Morehead
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Blast From The Past
Justin Oswalt
On October 11th, Phillip Coumo fir>m
School is Fun Productions, came to
talk to RMSH students. The stu
dents, though, do not know his real
name. They just know him sinply as
“W^Diam”. W^am Shatespeare that
is..
Before the assembly began
he joked with the gryphon staff and
made sure to stay in chracter the
kvhole time. As the rest of the stu
dents came in they seemed dumb
founded that this dressed from the
sixteenth century, was telling them
weretosiL
As he began, he described
thetimesettingl588.He
{Shakespeare} had just been as
signed a special play for the queen a
and wanted students to help him
finish the play. He described the En
glish Theatre which was the only
form of entertainment
He had students come on stage to
help him act out parts of the plays,
such as Romeo and Juliet and
Hamlet The parts were easy mainly
just making appropriate faces bring
ing out the humor in the assembly.
Even our staff writer Elizabeth
MasingiU volunteered to show her
acting talent.Hearing a complaint
that Shakespeare used big word, he
asked “What is big words? To Be?
or Not to be?”
As the assembly closed, he encour
aged the students to use more
intresting and colorful language
whenever they write. The perfor
mance made an impact on students-
seyeral of whom have since been
caught reading Shakespeare’s
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Mike Easley was bom in Nash
County March 23, 1950. Easley
graduated fix>m Rocky Mount Se
nior High in 1968 where he was a
class officer. Easley attended UNC
and recieved his BA. in political sci
ence with honors in 1972. Easley
then graduated Cum Laude and
eamedhis law degree atNorlhCaro-
lina Central University in 1976.
Today Easley has been elected
goveroner deafeting Richard Vinroot
who had 46 percent compared to
Easley’s 56 percent
Another Rocky Mount Se
nior High tie in this election was Roy
Cooper’s tap for Attorney General,
Cooper’s daughter Hillary is a Junior
at Rocky Mount Senior High.
OpenHouse
Justin Oswalt
On September 14,2000, the Senior
High faculty, staff, and administra
tion hosted our parents at the first
semester openhouse. This is the time
for parents to meet the people run
ning our school, as well as meet with
the teachers.
The evening started early
for some parents and students as
Mrs. Charlotte Holloway’s computer
class brought the family to leam with
the students. Students invited their
family members to come and leam to
produce address labels on the word
processor. The students arid family
also created a “sUde show” Power
Point presentation with sounds and
graphics. Two of these were pre
sented via a projector to the entire
class.
“The purpose of this gath
ering is to promote family connec
tions with the school and to enhance
student learning,” stated Mrs.
Holloway. “One of the best ways to
leam a new principle is to share it
with someone else or to teach some
one else what you have learned.’ ’
While these students
shared what they learned with their
parents, the remainder of the parents
arrived in the auditorium for a short
presentation fi*om Principal Wayne
Doll. He introduced the administra
tion members and then went straight
into the facts. He reiterated to the
parents how much he enjoys being
back at Senior High and how he is
striving to have excellence.
“This is the Cadilac
SchooV’DoU added, “but it isa 1952
Cadilac.’ ’ He then went into the fact
that the school is in some disrepair,
but in due time, these problems will
be worked with and finally corrected.
As the parents were dis
missed fix)m the auditorium, the ad
ministration made time to talk with
the parents and also answer their
questions and concems as they
moved to their students first period
class. Mr. Doll even made time to
joke with a few of his previous stu
dents that were there that night.
Continued on pg. 2
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