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SCHOOL LAUNCHES FIRST ANNUAL CANDY SALE m Fund Raising Project To Beneiit All Organizations During a recent Student Council meeting, a bar where is it now? World’s Finest Chocolate appeared. All students of ASHS will par ticipate in a candy-selling proj ect beginning February 27 and lasting about two weeks. World’s Finest Chocolate Bars will be sold for fifty cents each in or der to make money for school clubs. Bob Eadie, salesman for the company, will present an assem bly program, February 27, to ex plain the campaign to the stu dents. Mr. Hawkins, after receiving many requests from club spon sors, concluded that the school clubs did not have enough money to function as organizations. After approaching the City School Board with a tentative budget, he received permission for the school to conduct one fund-raising project each year. Money will be used for school activities and will be proportion ed out according to need. Every student will receive at least one box of candy. A cash prize will be given to the top salesman, and the homeroom selling the most candy will re ceive a secret special privilege. Leading this school-wide en deavor, the Student Council will receive five cents from each bar of candy sold since it operates for the entire school. Miss Holshouser commented, “They’d better sell it,” while Mr. Hawkins concluded the idea by saying, “It’s for a good cause because we need it!” Happy HeaTts! The Full Moon Catch Cupid's Daits! Vol. 33 — No. 5 Albemarle Senior High School, Albemarle. N. C. February 3, 1967 MOONBEAMS GATB Representatives of the Employ ment Security Office gave the second part of the GATB February 2 to Seniors who are planning either to go to techni cal school or to go to work next year. Rotarian, respectively, for the month of January. Students Attend Youth Breakfasts Coming Assembly Theater-In-Education, Inc., a New York company of profes sional actors, will present a Shakespearean Production in the ASHS auditorium Thursday morning, February 16, at 9:30. The program will consist of scenes from The Tempest, Act II; King Henry IV, Part II; and The Merchant of Venice. ITED All juniors took the Iowa Test of Educational Development January 16 and 17. These achievement tests will be ma chine scored and results com puted on a national norm. The ITED enables the school to eva luate its teaching in each of the nine included areas. Lion And Rotarian Frank Russell and Steve Brown served as Student Lion and Foreign Policy Outlined At Convocation “Foreign policy is about you, in the most personal and intimate sense . . stated Secretary of State Dean Rusk according to the United States Ambassador 01- cott H. Deming, in a convocation held in the Mitchell Gymnasium, Pfeiffer College, Thursday, Janu ary 26. Forty-five ASHS seniors, ac companied by Mr. Bill Merritt, American Problems instructor, heard the diplomat-in-residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Deming outlined man’s re lationship to man and the current state of the United States in for eign policy. He pointed out that our foreign dealings are not far away and someone else s busi ness; “it is coming home to us where we live.” ^ . . The noted Ambassador stated that it is not generosity alone, a love of involvement in others ai- fairs, or an economic imperialism which leads us to provide assist ance to develop countries across the world, but our interest to en able free nations to remain free. To fight for political ^“dom is an innerited moral and political state of a country. . Presently serving as visiting Professor of Political Science at UNC, Ambassador Deming has held diplomatic posts in BankoK, Tokyo, Okinawa, and at the unit ed Nations since joining th^ta Department in 1943. In 1^ ^ was appoint^ as the States' first ambassador to Ugan da. Coach Raises Cain Intramurals are no longer a “wish we had” at ASHS, for this year, we’ve got’em. Coach Cain seems to have found a use for the frequently wasted peri ods disguised under the name of study halls. Under the new intramural program, boys get a chance to play basketball each Wednes day with their study hall teams. After several weeks of playing, these study hall teams will go into competition, followed by the selection of an All-Star squad which will get an op portunity to play the men’s championship faculty team. This intramural program is open to all > boys evcept the members of the Bulldog Var sity squad. Numerous Senior High stu dents attended a week of City- wide Youth Breakfasts sponsored by downtown churches January 23-27. The breakfasts were served in the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church. Speakers were scheduled throughout the week. Wade Smith, native of Albemarle, who is presently a lawyer in Raleigh, spoke to the students on Monday. Tuesday the guest speaker was Dr. Russell T. Montfort, a Wins- ton-Salem pastor, who has ap peared on many college cam puses. Nannette Minor, “Miss North Carolina 1967”, spoke to the students Wednesday, and Dr. John F. Anderson, Executive Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Church Extension, spoke Thursday. The final guest speaker of the week was Bobby Lane, a senior Psychology major and basketball player at Davidson College. Each of the speakers invited discussion during and after the assembly. Central Methodist, First Pres byterian, First Baptist, First Lutheran, and Christ Episcopal Churches sponsored the break fasts in the interest of the youth of Albemarle. A 20-student committee from the five sponsoring churches helped in organizing the week- long activity and selling the ad vance tickets. Bus transportation was pro vided from the Fellowship Hall to school for those students hav ing no rides. Editor To Attend Convocation Confab Linda Long, editor of The Full Moon will attend the Jefferson Standard High School Award Convocation press conference, February 18, at which Roger Stevens, Chairman of The National Council on the Arts, will speak. Newspaper editors from Meck lenburg and surrounding coun ties who attend the press con ference and convocation will also attend a luncheon for Mr. Stevens which will be conducted at Ovens Auditorium. Participants in the press con ference will be greeted by Marie Lewis, editor of The Rambler, of Charlotte’s Garinger High School, at Oven’s Auditorium. The press conference, which begins at 10:30, will enable each representative to ask Mr. Stevens two questions. The con ference concludes at II a.m., when his speech begins. Mr. Stevens is Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Chairman of the Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Six To Play In State Band Six ASHS band students have been selected to play in the All- State Band. Betty Trexler, Anne Ayers, Gerrie Watson, and Gail Fisher will perform in the sym phonic band; Jo Talbert and Douglas Freeman will be in the concert band. The above students were among the 400 who auditioned at St. Andrews Presbyterian Col lege, Laurinburg, N. C. Thirty high schools were represented from seven counties. The 112 that were chosen were selected on the basis of their knowledge of ma jor scales, sight reading, and general music ability. The judges for the auditions were the band directors of the South Eastern District. In preparation for the concert, the All-State Band Clinic will be February 24-25, Union Pines High School near Southern Pines. The six selected from ASHS will par ticipate in the clinic and in the concert on February 25. Nicholds To Participate In International 'Experiment' Jane Nicholds has been noti fied of her acceptance for the Experiment in International Liv ing. The Experiment is a non-profit, educational exchange program which works out of Putney, Ver mont. Each year it sponsors college, pre-college, and special interest group visits to approximately forty-five different countries throughout the world. As a member of the Experi ment, Jane will go to Vermont June 15 for a two-week period of intensive language study in Ital ian. Immediately following the language study, she will leave for Italy. Jane will be placed in a group of ten students her own age un der the supervision of an adult group leader. The members of the group will go to the same town in Italy where each will be placed in a different home. During the month-long home- stay, the members of their group and their host families will oc casionally visit points of local interest: historic sites, educa tional institutions, and industrial firms: they will also attend so cial functions. After the homestay, the mem bers of the group have the op portunity to repay the generous hospitality of their hosts by hav ing a member of each family be their guest on an informal tour of Italy, lasting from two to three weeks. This tour will include visiting large cities such as Rome, Venice, Florence, and Naples, in addition to other places of interest. Before leaving Italy, Jane and the other members of her group will return “home” for a final week or two with their Italian families. Although Jane does not yet know to which section of Italy she will go, she hopes to soon receive this information along with the names and addresses ot her group and of her host fami ly. Jane Nicholds studies various aspects of Italian life.
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