Volume 59, No. 1
FULL MOON
ALBEMARLE fflGH NEWSPAPER
311 Park Ridge Road Albemarle NC 28001
982-3711
SEPTEMBER 1993
AHS Welcomes New Assistant Principal
By Laura Smith
If you’ve been wondering whose new face has
been brightening the halls of Albemarle High
School this year, it is our new assistant principal
Mrs. Alley. She comes to us from the Stanly
County school system where she taught second
and third grade at Millingport Elementary School.
Mrs. Alley previously worked for the State De
partment of Public Instruction in the Southwest
Technical Assistance Center as well as teaching
at Pfeiffer College in teacher education.
Mrs. Alley enjoys working with high school
students as well as teachers. She likes the cur
riculum and instruction at Albemarle and would
like to help teachers improve their instructional
strategies. Can you believe it? This is only her
fust year in administration. Mrs. Alley’s per
sonal opinion of the discipline at Albemarle is
that people need to be more responsible for their
own behavior. She believes that this new disci
plinary program will enable this to happen. So
far she has not had to deal with any major
disciplinary problems. Mrs. Alley doesn’t look
at discipline as being out to get someone; she
sees it as an opportunity to talk with students and
help them to understand
how to make the proper
decisions. Mrs. Alley has
aspirations of becoming a
principal one day.
Mrs. Alley is married
and she has two sons,
Travis and Tracy. During
her free time she enjoys C. Alley
riding horses and going to horse shows. She
sings at weddings and horse shows and is the
choir director at her church. She also loves to
cook and bake. We are very lucky to have Mrs.
Alley with us!
New Teachers Hit The Classrooms
As the 1993-’94 school year takes off, several
new faces are in the classrooms. A.H.S. has
acquired four new teachers this year, including
Althea Brigham, Paul Eason, Sheri Boger, and
Forrest Johnstone.
Althea Brigham, who works in the T.O.R.
room, teaches life, learning, and responsibility.
This is her first year teaching, although she has
"'orked in textiles for the past thirteen years.
Althea is a member of the
NySpc, Swing Phi Swing
Fellowship, Inc., and
Fayetteville State Univer-
Alumni Association.
She also coaches base
ball and basketball for the,
Parks and Recreation Dc- i
By Courtney Rogers
marie Middle School. She then leaches after
noon math comes here at the high school. Sheri
loves playing softball and participating in out
door activities. Originally from EastBend,N.C.
(near Winston Salem), she really enjoys her
students here at Albemarle.
Forrest Johnstone is a
teacher’s assistant and
helps in a variety of sub
jects. This is his first year
teaching and he is a gradu
ate of Pfeiffer where he
earned a B.S. in Business
Administration and a B .S.
in Economics. Forrest is
Brigham
Partment. She loves all
Varieties of sports, as well
®s talking to today's youth. Althea is manied and
has three children, ages 7,12,14.
Paul Eason teaches ninth grade civics and
^leventh grade U.S. history. He has previously
taught in New York
schools in addition to
Monroe High School.
Some of his favorite ac
tivities include photogra
phy, architectural models,
travel, and the opera. Paul
enjoys the students, staff,
P. Eason andcampushereatA.H.S.
Sheri Boger is a twenty-two year old Appala
chian Stale graduate. Her first three classes of
are spent as a resource teacher at Albe-
S. Boger
currently working on his M .B .A. at Pfeiffer. For
the past twelve years he has played basketball
and still does now on a recreational basis. His
wife is a first grade teacher at Central Albemarle
and his son just recently
turned three years old. In
response to the question
that many students have
already asked, “I am 6’9"
and yes, I play basket
ball!”
-Four other additions
to A.H^. this year are
Baxter Morris, Richard
Keener, Jack Caster, and Al Andrew, all
additions to the coaching staff. Another
coach, Ms. Julie Cochran, does not teach here
but b sponsor for JV cheerleaders. A de
tailed article and pictures of these coaches
can be found on the sports pages.
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F. Johnstone
Welcome to our 175 freshmen,
Class of 1997!
Congratulations to our 117 seniors,
Class of 1994!
Welcome Dr. Church!
By Shannon Homesley
Dr. William Church assumed responsibili
ties as thenew superintendent July 1. He brings
a wealth of experience to otir school. With a
B.A. and M.S. from Appalachian University
and a Ph.D. from Florida State, Dr. Church
spent 27 years in education, the last 10 with the
state department in Raleigh. Dr. Church be
lieves we need to focus on our English, math,
and science departments. Lowering class sizes
to workable levels and having students take
more advanced courses are two more of his
priorities. His goals for our school system are
to increase student achievement and school
involvement. Also, he would like to jwomote
safety and discipline. After working here for
two months, his general impression of the
Albemarle City Schools is a positive one. He
feels that we have good conditions of facilities,
an excellent faculty, and dedicated students.
Dr. Church and his family moved here from
Cary, N.C., near Raleigh. His daughter Kary is
asophmoreatUNC-ChapelHill. Judy, his wife
of 29 years, is a consultant with the Southwest
Technical Assistance Center in Monroe. Dr.
Church wishes he had more time to spend in the
schools to interact with teachers and students.
A message from Dr. Church to the students is,
“Be involved. It’s your school.”
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Dr. William Church
Coming to America
By Jamie
Albemarle High School has continued the
tradition of receiving foreign exchange students
this year. Masaski Hattori is an exchange stu
dent attending AHS this year.
Masaki is visiting from Japan, where he has
already graduated from high school. He ex
plained that school in Japan is very different
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from school in America. In Japan, high schools
start in the tenth grade where you attend until the
twelfth grade when you graduate. Each class is
approximately fifty minutes long. You are as
signed to one classroom where you stay all day.
The teachers change classes instead of the stu
dents. Students do, however, get a 10 minute
break between each of their classes. He also says
that students do not raise their hands to answer
questions; uistead, if the teacher wants an an
swer, he/she will just call on you.
As far as sports go, baseball is number one. In
high school baseball is the only sport. The
students play it year-round. Masaki is looking
forward to playing baseball in the spring. For
now though, Masaki is playing on the soccer
team. He says that in J^an football is very
impopular.
Masaki is enjoying our American culture so
far. If you would like to talk to him, just look
around campus for the short Japanese guy \yith
a big smile. By the way, he does like all of you
American girls! Go Masaki!
I Didn't Have That Book Report Done Anyway
By Shannon Homesley
The 1993-94 school year has introduced many
new changes in our school rules. One large one
is the new lock-out policy. TTie policy prevents
interruptions in classes. Teachers have been
instructed to shut and lock their doors as soon as
the bell rings at the begiiming of every period. To
you unlucky students still in the hall, you are not
allowed to go to class, but to a small room to sit
for the whole period, and not only do you miss a
funfilled fifty-five minutes of preaching, but you
also have to endure the humiliation of putting
your John Hancock on a piece of paper for ev
eryone to see. •
However, for those of you who think you can
go to T.O.R. to do your work, you are right.. and
wrong. For your first trip, you are able to do your
own work. Every time after that, though, you
leave your books at the door and journey into the
boring depths oftheTime Out Room. After three
strikes, you are out.. to Sahuday school.
So make sure you run to class and save your
one time of skipping a period for something
really important because it is the only one you
have.