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FULL MOON Black History Month Volume 60, No. 5 ALBEMARLE HIGH NEWSPAPER 311 Park Ridge Road Albemarle NC 28001 982-3711 FEBRUARY 1995 by Shannon Homesley AHS has many students who work extremely hard to maintain good grades and they deserve to be rewarded. The school board has provided academic letter A’s for students’ letter jackets. The letters, however, for the past few years have been handed out at the end of the student’s senior year. This did not allow the students to wear their jackets with their letter before they graduated. So, finally, the school honors committee has decided that any jimior with a 33 GPA after the first semester is eligible for a letter. It is possible, though, to receive one your senior year also if you have a 3.25 GPA after the first semester. Now students can wear their letters for a year and a half and show off their intelligence. Juniors and seniors eligible for these academic letters were given their "A" at the honor roll tea on Friday, February 10. Amy Morehead is proud of her academic A and ¥fears it on her letter Jadcet. nirs. maskB, Daughter Part of Historical Events by Kellie Palmer and Mary Nance smith' AHS Congrafulafes Oufsfanding Vocafional Siudenis by Shannon Homesley At a marketing competition in January, Albe marle High School proved to have two outstand ing vocational students. Larry Lynch and Bryan Harris competed in the marketing competition and came out on top. Bryan won a proficiency (second place) in role play which allows him to advance to the state conference on March 2, 3, and 4. Larry also advanced to the state confer ence by wiiming a runner up in the comprehen sive exam, first place in Marketing Foundation, and two firsts overall in Food Marketing. Both Larry and Bryan had a 100 word written compe tency test on the master employee level. Also, they had a role play, which consisted of solving a customer related problem where the judge was the customer. To prepare for these contests, mar keting students do work out of the textbook, do practice problems, and practice role play exer cises withstudents, teachers, andmanagers. Larry has much experience in marketing from his job at Ingles. He is also the treasurer of DECA and plans to go as a transfer student to Stanly Com munity College as a major in Business Admini stration. AHS commends both Larry and Bryan for a job well done. f Larry Lynch and Bryan Harris show off their marketing trophies. Let *t iBnOu*! Mrs. Maske, vocational teacher here at AHS, was involved in a historical sit-in in a small, neighboring town. While attending North Caro lina A & T University at the age of eighteen, Mrs. Maske demonstrated her concern for discrimina tion by sitting at a previously all-white lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth, a store in Greens boro. To prove their point, the demonstrators had to be passive and nonviolent, as well as tune out the racial slurs and name-calling. From here on, Mrs. Maske and her fellow students from A & T walked daily to this store to break the racial barrier in eating facUities. In remembering this event, Mrs. Maske recaUs that she knew they were making history, but she did not actually think it would be nauonally declared. Following in her mother's footsteps, Kim Maske participated in the 35th anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C. with her aunt, Viv- — . MrTov Together, they remembered the Kim and Mrs. Maske have botii partici- > ' African-American history, pated in history-making events. P Eating In Style by Johnny Caudle For those of you who have not noticed, the AHS cafeteria has undergone some changes. In J^ecember restuarant style booths and new tables 'vere added to the cafeteria. The booths are able to sit four, six at the round •ables, and eight at the square tables. The tables ®r>d booths cost a total of $9,420.00 andwere '''orth it according to cafeteria manager, Nola fiurgess. She said that they didn’t lose any space ®nd the cafeteria can seal fifty more students. In near future, computerized cash registers will ^ added that will able the cafeteria to better serve students. by Shannon In Albemarle, snow is very rare and if by chance we do get it, kids arc extremely happy and ready to bust out of school and business owners start to worry about how good business will be that day. Stanly County recently had a small snowfall but it only amounted to about an inch once it started sticking and students onlv eot out of school an hotir early. Snow, however, has Homesley come to Stanly County and it has come thick. In February of 1980, Albemarle averaged twelve to fourteen inches of snow. But this happened when we were all pretty young and not yet in school. Unfortunately, we have not had a really deep snow since we started school and it is possible to count on two hands all of the times we have gotten out of school early for snow. Snow, snow, everywhere and not an inch to spare! Everyone Gets tlie BLues by Shannon Homesley Although assemblies at AHS come few and far between, the time has come for underclass men to line the rows and for seniors to march down the aisles. Every year, the Stanly County Arts Council funds a grant for one music act for our school. During fifth period on February 15, Skeeter Brandon andHwy 61 will be entertaining Albemarle’s student body. Skeeter Brandon, a blues artist, has produced two CDs that are de scribed as having ‘trademark vocals that are the kind that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.’ Blues music is enjoyable to every music listener, from rap fans to dead heads, because it is about the sorrows that everyone experiences in life. Everyone should be able to relate some blues song to their life and remember some sad incident that has happened. It is pos sible that Skeeter and his band can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
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