Bulldogs Drop Close Ones See Page 3 The Full Moon The Future Lies Inside See Page 2 Vol 35 ^ No. 4 Albemarle Senior High School Nov. 26, 1969 Trio Attends State Meet In Raleigh Ernie Whitley, Ricky Carpen ter and Beth Kelley joined 800 other delegates in Raleigh, December 9, 10, 11, for the North Carolina Student Council Congress entitled Youth In Pur suit of Kxcellence. In three of the four general sessions, the ASUS delegates listened to speakers such as Governor Scott, Attorney General Morgan, and representa tives from the State Bureau of Investigation. The other general session con cerned the merging of the black and white State Student Council Congresses. Delegates debated the issue, and a final vote settled the plan for the merger. At a division meeting for Western, Eastern, and Central districts, candidates for state offices spoke to the voters. Discussion groups dominated a portion of the session. Groups attended by Ernie, Ricky, and Beth included elections, racial equality, honor systems, assem blies, and school spirit. Student Council officers from around the state conducted these discus sions. I>’oreign exchange students in N. C. also attended the C^ongfess. A banquet and dance Monday night served as entertainment. Juniors Hold No. Ill Juniors stage Spec-Talo-Scope as a chicf money raising project. The Junior Class presented Spec-Talo-Scope HI, their major money-making project for th ■ Jr.-Sr. Prom, November 14. Pat Courtney and Mary Ellen Hill, Hilda Baucom, and Patti Hopkins and Andrea Lowder participated in the dance cate gory. Melanie Morris and Beverly Kesler performed piano solos. Susan and Marion Andrew played a piano and clarinet duet. The Dance Band, composed of band members, entertained with two numbers. Dorothy Cotton, Debbie Lawrence, and Becky Jo Clark sang solos. Donnabee Brooks and ASHS majorettes displayed their baton twirling talents. Joy Preslar’s soliloquy and solo entertained the audien.ce. Billy and the Kids and the Dekades, combos also competed. The Illusions and the Originals sang two numbers each. John Howard, Carroll Lowder, and Jimm) Long performed one act. Libby Adams, Meg Anderson, Carolyn Nance, and Sue Ellen Beal presented a comedy skit. Susan Squires sang and accompanied herself on the guitar. Bobby Dobbs and Eddie Furr served as emcees for the event. Clubs Confer On Future Activities VICA Ends Gap VICA students from the four area high schools participated in a county wide meeting at Stony Gap Fish House, November 4, 7:00 p.m. Approximately 100 students attended the event, arranged to encourage all chapters and their individual members to work toward future accomplishments. The program included talks by state VICA Advisor, Adam Thompson and Johnny Jacumin, one of the two Regional Co- Advisors. Srs. Revoke Tradition In an effort to decide on the procedure for selecting Senior Superlatives, the Senior class met Wednesday, November 12. After debating the pros and eons of change, the class voted for changing the traditional pro cedure, but failed to reach a decision on method of change. Alternatives presented by class officers included recogni tion of 15-20 outstanding seniors, with or without classifi cation; nomination of students for superlatives with a run-off between the top 3. luiriher suggestions included a, nominating committee to select nominees to be voted on by the class. If one person gets more than one superlative, he must select the one he wants; this necessitates a run-off to fill the vacated superlative title. Optimist Club Awards Honor Lisa Lamb, senior band meni- I’er, received the annual Opti mist Band Award, October 24, at the AJIIS Stadium. Dallas l^iirham, president of the local Optimist Club, presented her with the award, a gold plaque. A member of the band tor six ye'ars and a trumpet musician, l.isa’s fellow band members Vi'ted her “most outstanding of the entire group ot senior com petitors. Lisa stated that she tenta tively plans to continue her ‘■’areer in Music Education. Rocky Funderburk suggested that the nominating committee should consist of eight black and eight white students. A discussion concerning the Crossroads’ place in the selection of superlatives also took place. Tom Wilson, Senior Class .president, commented, “Al though we were disorganized m the meeting, we did accomplish the major purpose of making the Seniors aware of'the problems. Now with their cooperation we, the officers, hope to reach a solution.” Class officers urged interested seniors to place suggestions for a better system in the suggestion box. FBLA Visit Business Area Is the business world the place for me? FBLA students examined this question as they participated in FBLA Da\, Thursday, November 6. Instead of attending school, twenty students worked all da\ in local businesses at a job ot their choice. They received no pay but hoped that through the experience they could better decide whether or not to pursue a business career. Participating students invited their employers to a luncheon in the school cafeteria at 1:00 p.m. Mr. Webb spoke to the group after lunch. Connie Holt ser\ed as I BLA Day chairman. The Albemarle- Stanly Count\ Chamber ot Commerce sponsored the day s activities. Brad Cook of Independence High School presided over the meeting as regional president. Fourteen students and four advisors met Monday night, October 26 to discuss plans for the county event and to arrange for publicity in their schools and VICA chapters. Mitchel Smith led the planning discussion which was held in the ICT room at Senior High. Dent Turner, Billy Lowder, Cris Ragsdale, Mitchel Smith, and Carrie Collier of ICT; Danny Holt, Bricklaying; and C. W. bourne, Jr., ICT Coordinator represented ASHS at the plan ning session. VICA, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, is the student organization for all Industrial Final Exanns Pre-San+a-Fy Sennester Exams After careful consideration for students and faculty, the administration reached the final dates of December 17, 18, 19 for first semester exams. Students v(,)iced their opinion prior to this decision in a school wide vote, following Mr. Hawkins’ presentation of pros and cons of the change. Advantages cited were to relieve tension during Christmas for students; to enable teachers to devote more time planning and grading exams; to eliminate the likelihood of school closing because of weather conditions; and to allow studies to resume after Christmas without inter ruption. Con points given were that more material will be covered for final exams; that teachers will not have enough grades for six weeks’ report cards; and that working students study time during the Christmas season will be cut short. The resulting vote from the students counted 428, pro; and 206, con. This is approximately a two to one ratio in favor of pre-Christmas exams. For taculty opinion, Mr. Hawkins discussed the issue at the weekly teachers meeting, November 3. A majorit)’ of teachers agreed with the stu- denti in that earl) exams are more practical. Education and Health Occupa tions students. All students enrolled in such programs are eligible for memberships. Each of the county high schools has four industrial vocational pro grams; ASHS has only two. Bookers Unite Students and sponsors repre senting library clubs from six surrounding counties met Wednesday, November 19, for the Twenty-First Annual South Piedmont District Convention. Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Anson, Richmond, and Stanly counties make up the South Piedmont District. Each school was allowed two voting members. Representatives arrived at 10:00. Following refreshments, delegates attended a morning session, including greetings and welcome, program, a discussion of business, and nominations and speeches of candidates run ning for president, vice presi dent, secretary and reporter. Candidates presented skits, put up posters, and passed out favors as part of their campaign. At 1:00 representatives ate lunch in the school cafeteria. Following the afternoon session, students voted, by secret ballot for candidates. The 68-69 officers, Melanie Morris, Presi dent (ASHS), Kathy Hill, Secre tary (West Stanly), Bobby Quensberry, Vice President (Central Cabarrus), and James Hutton, Reporter (A. L. Brown) retired and newly elected officers were installed. Members of the state execu tive board, (North Carolina High School Library Association), chose “All Systems Go” for the 1969-70 theme. MMM Inducts Eleven Modern Music Masters in ducted eleven students, Thurs day, November 13, during the annual assembly. . New members of the society are Charles Burris, l.ouise Cran ford, Randy Gore, Jimmy Long, Sara Manning, Tony Oettinger, Linda Sides, Donna Simpson, David Sutton, Cheryl Tucker, and Ken Wilson. Tom Wilson, president, opened the assembly, explaining the structure and organization of Modern Music Masters. Each inductee is required to perform before the student body as part of his initiation. Another requirement for membership is the service {>f an apprenticeship of two weeks in which members must pass a test on the Constitution of the society. The assembly closed with presentation of membership cer tificates and pins to each new member. Joy Preslar encertains at Modern Music Masters induction.

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view