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THE TWIG
OCTOBER 4, 1973
Blew program sponsored
The Raleigh Community
Relations Committee is
introducing it’s new program,
P H D. (Prevent High School
Dropouts). This program,
under the
of H.E.W., is
to prevent
expulsions, and
the Raleigh City
which IS
sponsorship
designed
suspensions,
dropouts in
through
planned
High Schools,
Neighborhood-based
activities.
This program has three
components, which are:
1. Counseling
2. Neighborhood-Parent
Organizing
3. Tutoring
COUNSELING: This
component along with
volunteer help will be
directing its efforts toward
students and parents of
students who:
A. are showing poor
behavior and are being
suspended from school;
B. who show poor
attendance in school;
C. lack motivation and
exhibit a negative self-concept
and attitude toward school;
D. and students who have
recently dropped out of
school.
NEIGHBORHOOD- PARENT
ORGANIZING: The
neighborhood - parent
organizing component will
primarily focus on:
A. bridging the gap
between home and school with
target parents. This would
include the arrangement and
promotion of conferences
during the school year with
parents and school personnel
(principals, counselors and
teachers);
B. working toward
improvement of parental
involvement in school
activities;
C. securing and
establishing regular
neighborhood meetings in
churches, homes, and
centers;
D. information
dissemination of school
activities to target and other
interested parents;
E. and securing
neighborhood facilities that
will allow individual and
group counseling, remedial
work for students as well as
workshops that school
personnel would be invited to
attend, to promote an
understanding of a positive
attitude between the
community and school.
TUTORING: This component
is designed to aid students,
who been suspended, expelled
or who have dropped out of
school, in remedial work.
Tutors will be composed of
students from the Raleigh
Colleges and volunteers from
the Raleigh community.
Along with these three
components, professional
volunteers who are experts in
working with the school and
the community will
strength to the program.
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Phone: 755-6129.
BUSINESS TEACHERS
MEET HERE
TO
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Chowan, Wingate, Gardner-
Webb, and Campbell. A
similar meeting is held
biennially by the host school
and the Council on Christian
Higher Education of the
Baptist State Convention.
The new putting green becomes a place for forty winks. The P.E.
department would like to see it used for golf, too!
]\CSL bachs bond
Jflaid of Cotton contest set
MEMPHIS - Cathy
Stratemeyer, El Paso, Texas,
has been named tour
secretary for the 1974 Maid of
Cotton program, the National
Cotton Council announced
today.
She will be working with
Tour Manager Janet Hawken,
a University of Arkansas
graduate from Helena who
has been employed by the
Council for two year.
Miss Stratemeyer
graduated earlier this year
from the University of Texas
at Austin with a degree in
communications.
Applications are now
being accepted by the Council
for the 1974 Maid of Cotton
selection. Girls who were born
in a cotton-producing state or
who have maintained
continuous residence in the
Cotton Belt since the age of
seven or earlier are eligible to
enter. Applicants also must be
between 19 and 23 years old, at
least five feet five inches tall,
and have never been married.
Twenty girls will be
invited to participate in this
year’s annual selection. The
new Maid will make her first
official appearance at the
Cotton Bowl Festival in Dallas
on New Year’s Day. She will
travel extensively throughout
the United States, Canada,
and the Far East for six
months. At the tour’s
conclusion, she will be
presented a new automobile
as a gift from Ford dealers in
the Memphis district.
Application forms may be
obtained by writing the
Council at 1918 N. Parkway,
Memphis, Tenn. 38112.
Deadline for entering the
selection is midnight, Dec. 1.
Placement office
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•repair service. Dial 467-8213 or
'write 209 Gordon St., Cary.;
Instamatics also.
Several recruiters will be
on campus in the next few
weeks. They will be available
to any student individually:
1. VANDERBILT
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
- October 9 from 1:00 to 3: (X) in
the Placement Office
2 AETNA LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY -
October 11 from 11:30 to 5:00.
The representative will speak
at lunch on insurance careers
other than selling.
3. MARINE CORPS -
October 12, all day. The
Marine Corps has a program
in the Women Officer
Candidate Corps which is open
to undergraduates. After
completing an 8 week summer
training course, financial
assistance is available.
Payments of $100 per month
for a 9 month school year are
offered. This means that one
would receive a total of $900.00
for the year and be required to
serve a total obligation of 3
years upon commission. More
information is available in the
Placement Office.
At an interim meeting
Sunday, the North Carolina
Student Legislature (NCSL),
which was modeled after the
North Carolina General
Assembly and represents
more than half of the state’s
college students, voted to
support a resolution backing
the November 6, $300 million
school construction bond
referendum.
The resolution stated that
“adequate educational
facilities are necessary to
provide students with an
environment which is
condusive to learning,” and
pledged that the NCSL will
“exert every possible effort to
promote the passage of the
(school board) referendum”
The resolution was passed
after Jim Blackburn,
representing a group called
“Sound Investment in
Tommorrows’ Education
(SITE)” revealed what he
called a “great
construct schools
areas of the state.’
NCSL Student Governor,
Walker Reagan, of Duke
University, sited the passage
of the resolution as “an
example of NCSL concern in
an area that is crucial for all
North Carolinians.” “We need
more schools now,” said the
student leader.
Cindy Snipes, NCSL
Interim Counsel member and
Meredith’s delegation
chairperson, urges all
students to vote on November
6 and to support the
referendum.
need to
many
in
Representative
needed! Earn $200.00 plus
each semester with only a few
hours work at the beginning of
the semester.
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