88 Minis Make Much Music
Seniors, juniors, and
sophomores are now par
ticipating in Mini-Course Week
1971. This new learning ex
perience will continue through
Friday, March 19.
All regular classes are
suspended as students attend
their “own” courses.
Advanced English III and IV
Classes planned the week under
the direction of Mrs. Nancy
Gamewell and Mrs. Diane
Hudson.
Representatives from each of
the other English classes
assisted.
Cosmetology students gain from Lynn Chivington’s experience.
The Full Moon
Vol. 36. No. 9
Albemarle Senior High School
March 19. 1971
COMING UP
Mini-Course Week
March 15-19
Sophomore Talent Show
March 23
Fifth Period
Choir District Assembly
March 25
DECA Convention
March 26-27
Student Council Assembly—
Roger Gramling, Speaker
March 30
Third Period
Modern Music Masters In
duction
April 6
Junior-Senior Prom
April 6
Easter Holidays
April 6-13
National Honor Society
Tapping
AprillS
Sixth Period
Sadie Hawkins Week
April 19-23
Fiddler’s Convention
Apri 24
Choral Groups Gather
Keith Nash and Ellen Mabry
served as chairmen of the
steering committee. Janis Holder
and Freda Hahn assisted as
secretaries, and Linda Almond
and Louise Cranford as typists.
David Carpenter worked as
publicity chairman and Libby
Adams served as secretary.
Students registered for six of
the eighty-eight courses offered
with the exception of Riflery.
This course was restricted to
juniors and seniors because of
excessive class enrollment.
Some courses are offered
several times a day. Self
Defense, Sex Education and
Supernatural are offered six
periods each day.
Knitting and Crocheting,
Yoga, Auto Mechanics,
Criminology, High Performance
Driving, Hypnotism, Psychology,
and Riflery will each be offered
four periods daily.
Courses going three periods
daily are Bible Study,
Cosmetology, Crafts, Drugs,
ESP, Hobby Bricklaying, In
tellectual Games, Satanism, and
Tennis.
Thirteen courses are offered
two periods each day. These are
Archery, Black Studies,
The 6th North Carolina
Regional Qinic will be held in the
ASHS auditorium, Thursday,
March 25. Dr. Lara Hoggard,
Kenan Professor of Music at
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, will serve as
clinician, assisted by the 90-voice
Carolina Choir.
The event is sponsored by the
Choral Music Department at
Albemarle Senior High with Paul
Fry, Choral Director.
An expected 700 singers will
participate from all area high
schools. Schools included are
Concord, Forest Hills of Marsh-
ville. East Rowan, and East
Cabarrus. Charlotte area schools
attending are Garinger, Myers
Park, South Mecklenburg, East
Mecklenburg, West Charlotte,
and Harding. Albemarle singers
will also attend.
Following the registration
period, sessions will begin at 9:00
Sophs Show Off
The Sophomore Talent Show is
scheduled for fifth period, March
23. Auditions for the talent show
were March 15.
Deborah Kerr and Susan Doby
will dance to “Big Spender.”
Brenda Burris, Bonnie
Chandler, and Beverly Sanges
wUl perform a free floor exercise
to music.
Entering the singing com
petition are the Girls’ Chorus,
singing “Come Saturday Mor
ning,” and the Sophomore
members of the Varsity Singers.
Terrie Daughtery and June
Fisher will perform a baton-
twirling act.
Joey Russell, Perry Mont
gomery, and Robert Whitley will
play in the music group category.
Possibly, other groups will
compete in the contest.
Masters of Ceremony for the
Talent Show will be Myron
Harrington and Jimmy Hesley.
The wiiiners of the talent show
will receive ribbons as prizes.
"Mama G” Makes It
The Full Moon staff is very
proud to report that Mrs. Nancy
I. Gamewell is one of the finalists
for the annual Terry Sanford
Award for creativity and in
novation in teaching and ad
ministration. The North Carolina
Association of Educators made
the announcement.
Mrs. Gamewell, who teaches
three classes of Developmental
Reading and the Advanced
English IV class, also advises the
journalism staff. She has a senior
homeroom.
She is married to Mr. Buck
Gamewell; and they have four
children: two daughters and two
sons. The Gamewells live in
Badin, North Carolina.
The finalists are the 19 winners
from the eight educational
districts in the state. A com
mittee of judges designated by
the Learning Institute of North
Carolina will name the recipient
of the award.
At the up-coming annual
' convention of the NCAE in
Charlotte, officials will announce
the winner and any honorable
mentions. The winner will
receive a cash award, in addition
to a bronze plaque.
To honor the contributions of
Governor Sanford to education,
and to recognize creativity and
innovation in teaching and school
administration in North Carolina,
officials established the award in
eight educational districts, set up
screening committees.
Each district winner will
receive citations descriptive of
the innovative approaches or new
programs.
Mrs. Gamewell, who attended
High Point College, has taught
school for fourteen years.
and continue until 12:00.
Arrangements are being made to
serve all visitors in the cafeteria.
Afternoon sessions will be 1:00
until 2:30.
After other school singers
leave. Dr. Hoggard and the
Carolina Choir will present a
concert for ASHS students at 2:30
p.m.
Dr. Hoggard is a nationally
known choral director, com
poser, and music educator. He is
permanent director for the North
Carolina Summer Institute in
Chapel Hill which is in its 19th
year. Many ASHS singers have
performed under Dr. Hoggard’s
direction in these workshops.
Townes Teaches
For Gehring
Miss Carolyn Townes, student
teacher for Mrs. Gehring, began
practicing March 1 and plans to
continue until April 30.
She is now completing her last
year at Barber-Scotia College in
Concord and will graduate this
spring. Her major is Com
prehensive Business; her minor,
education.
Miss Townes is active in her
college life. She is a member of
the Phi Beta Lamda, Swing Phi
Swing Social Fellowship, and is
serving on the yearbook staff.
She also received the title of Miss
Homecoming 1971.
Miss Townes plans to teach a
few years after her graduation
and then she wants to make
singing her career.
Miss Townes stated that she is
delighted with the students’ and
the teachers’ friendly welcome
and that the students are well
disciplined.
DECA, ICT
Laugh Together
DECA and ICT groups en
tertained and informed the
student body in an assembly
second period, March 2.
Patterned after the popular TV
show, “Laugh-In,” the assembly
consisted of skits, jokes, and
informative interjections about
the activities and purposes of
DECA and ICT classes.
David Smith and Tommy Holt
formed the Rowan-Martin team.
Debbie Lowder presented a
report on DECA and Steve
Lowder discussed ICT.
DECA teacher and club advisor
is Mrs. Sybil Brown. Mr. Bourne
is teacher of the ICT course.
O
The Student Council nominated
Brad Perry for the “Space
Seminar” program at Cape
Kennedy, June 13-20.
Brad, a sophomore, gained
much recognition in the Charlotte
Observer in his construction of an
Apollo simulator.
Eligibility includes the entry of
only high school sophomore
males. One high school
sophomore from each state and
ten from foreign countries will be
participants in the program.
Sponsored by the Hugh O’Brian
Youth Foundation and the
National Association of Student
Councils, this program was
designed to emphasize the im
portance of communicating the
future of space and space
technology to young people.
If Brad is selected, he will be
involved in technical seminars,
detailed tours of the Kennedy
Space Center, scientific
briefings, and group discussions.
An important part of his week’s
activities will be the informal
meetings with high-ranking men
in government, industry and the
space program.
Amateurs
Cheerleading, Christian Ethics,
Dance, First Aid, Golf Fun
damentals, Modeling, Painting,
Gourmet Cooking, Physical
Education, Sociology, Survival,
and UFO’s.
These courses are offered one
period each day: Alcoholism,
American Minorities, Art and
Music Interpretation, Astrology,
Astronomy, Cake Decoration,
Campus Radicalism, Cartoon
Drawing, Ceramics, Child
Psychology, Communism,
Comparative World Religions,
Computer Science, Contour and
Gesture Drawing, Creative
Thinking, Crossroads Seminar,-
Drama, Ecology, Embroidery
and Needlecraft, Electronics,
Family Tree, Fashion Design,
Fishing, Flying, Fortune Telling,
Geology, Guitar, Handwriting
Analysis, Hobbies, Humor-
Satire, Interior Decorating,
Journalism, Law Enforcement,
Mafia, Magic, Mechanical
Drawing, Memory Improvement,
Military Draft Laws, Military
History, Mob Violence, Motor
cycling, Oceanography,
Philosophy, Photography,
Sewing, Speed Reading, Stock
Market, Taxidermy, Theoretical
Physics, Travel, Vietnam
Seminar, and Warfare.
Moonbeams |
Jrs, Sophs Register
Juniors and sophomores began
class registration for next year
Monday, March 1.
Mr. Hawkins introduced the
material during announcements.
Teachers explained the
procedure further during an
extended homeroom period.
Act Up
Mrs. Hudson’s first period
English III classes experienced
drama and its applications in the
plays “Pygmalion” and “An-
drocles and the Lion.” The class
divided into two sections to work
on these plays and, after two
weeks- preparation, presented
each in the auditorium to be
taped, March 3 and 4.
“Pygmalion,” by George
Bernard Shaw, is taken from the
ancient myth. An Englishman
created a lady from a “draggle
tailed gutter snipe,” to form the
theme of the play. Jimmy Long
directed and the group selected
characters. Missy Campbell
performed the leading role with
an astonishing cockney accent.
The scenery for “Pygmalion”
consisted of several chairs, table,
love seat, piano, and back wall.
All costumes were of traditional
19th century England.
Rings Arrive
The Class of ’72 received their
rings Friday, March 12. Mr. Don
Bruce of the Balfour Ring
Company delivered them to the
class.
Actors Present Play
Wednesday, March 17 the State
Department of Public Instruction
sponsored a program of selec
tions from Shakespeare’s
“MacBeth.”
Students assembled third
period to view portions of the
play.
Professional actors and
possible members of the drama
department at the North Carolina
School of Arts presented the
assembly.
Leader Relates
Student Council is sponsoring
an assembly third period, March
30. Roger Gramling, guest
speaker, will speak on leadership
and student government.
' 1 Down, 2 to (io
Teachers distributed report
cards to students Wednesday,
March 17.
ITie sixth school month ended
Wednesday, March 3.
Only three more months, and
two more grading periods to go!
Sheila Russell directed “An-
drocles and the Lion” for
presentation March 5 and 9. After
reading through the play, the
group assigned character parts.
Tommy Holt played the title role
of Androcles, and Paulette
Barrier performed as the Lion.
Paulette’s costume was in
shades of beige and four pawed
topped by a lion’s head made
from a stuffed towel and ac
cented with pipe cleaner
whiskers. Other actors wore the
traditional Greek assortment of
colored sheets.