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THE BELLES
OCTOBER. 1977
Intramurals System Is
Successful
Students cheer their teammates to volleyball victories.
Tennis Team Begins Season
The newly established
intramurals program has
gotten off to an excellent start.
Each hall elected represen
tatives who serve as the
“nucleus” of the program.
Miss Alexander is the head of
the group. The members of
her introduction to team
sports P.E. class are the time
keepers, linesmen, referees,
and score keepers.
For the past month each
hall has been playing spades.
The winners from each hall
have now been determined
and will continue into the
championship play. Each
winner will now play partners
from another hall until one
winner from the entire school
is established.
Along with the spades
tournament on the halls, the
volleyball competition is
going full force in the gym.
For the past two weeks the
gym has been the center of
activity from 6:00 until 8:00.
Each hall has had the op
portunity to play in com-
petUion against the other
halls. This week elimination
was begun and next week
championship play will begin.
Ping-pong is next on the
calendar of events. Everyone
hopes the enthusiasm will
continue throughout the
remainder of the year.
The St. Mary’s tennis
team, under the Erection of
Mary Lou Jones, is well into
the fall seasoa The members
who were chosen Sq;>temter
Sth have been in daily training
for a month and have played
five of their twelve matches.
Team captains Mary
Fondren and Lynn Jones
provide leadership for the
twelve other team members.
They are: Holden Anthony,
Marcy Anthony, Martha
Swimmers Promote Team
And School Spirit
Mrs. Sandy Sappenfield is
wcnicing on several ideas to
promote team and school
spirit. The new slogan for the
swim team is “Nobody does it
Better.” This will be wwn
proudly on the back of their St.
Mary’s Swinuning tee shirt.
Tuesday, Sq>temlwr 27, there
will be a Blue-White swim
meet. Thanks is extended to
the many pec^le who con
tributed their time to officiate.
The flnal score was a tie-Blue
42-White 42. The new
managers for the team are
Crickett Cassidy and Anna
Faircloth. They will attend
practices and meets to assist
Mrs. Sappenfield and the
swimmers. The team is also
craitinuing its light bulb sale.
Last Tuei^y the members of
the team went to many neigh
borhoods to sell bulbs and they
raised over $60. The team also
appreciates the school suiqmrt
th^ have received.
. The home meets are as
follows: Oct. 4 with Pfeiffer at
6:30 p.m.; Oct. 11 with UNC-G
at 4:00 p.m.; and Dec. 2-3, the
NCAIAW State Meet at NCSU.
Final wwd: The Swim
Team officially challenges the
tennis team to raise more
blood for the Blood Drive.
Dancing’s Her Thing
by Kathy Nanney
Among the new girls at
Saint Mary’s this year is a
junior with special talent. Her
name is Susan Fleming, and
her talent is Scottish dancing.
Susan has been Scottish
dancing (dancing Scottish?)
for 3% years, during which
time she has participated in
many exhibitions ai^ com
petitions.
She began Scottish
dancing at her high school in
Fayetteville with the Terry
Sanford Scottish Dancers. She
was in exhibitions at the State
Fair, and she toured with the
dance group. Among the
competitions she has been in
are The Grandfather
Mountain Highland Games in
which she won third medal for
the Sheaummtreuse Dance.
She also got a second and third
place at a competition in Red
Springs. Susan is presently
rehearsing with the Gillie
Callum groiq> at St. Mary’s for
Oie state fair competition in
October.
Boisseau, Nancy Burt, Princie
Dixon, Allison Hines, Ann
Jennette, Elizabeth Rasp
berry, Francis.Schultz, RutMe
Turner, Mary Jo Wan-
namaker and Dottie Wor
sham. Ten other girls are new
to the tennis team and to St.
Mary’s. Wimberly Burtcm is
the team manager.
The remaining matches
are: Tuesday, Oct. 11 with
Meredith Collie, Home 2:30;
'Thurs., Oct. 13 with UNC
Chapel Hill J.V., Away
2:30;Thurs., Oct. 20 with UNC
Wilmington, Away 2:30;Wed.,
Oct. 26 with Mt. Olive Jr.
College, Home 3:00; Thurs.,
Oct. 27 with ECU-Varsity,
Home 2;30;Tues., Nov. 1 vidth
Peace Jr. (Allege, Away 2:00;
Wed., Nov. 2 with UN(i
Wilmington, Home 2:00; and
Mon., Nov. 7 with Hi^ Poiilt
College, Home 2:00.
Sea Saints
Dance Groups Begin
Rehearsing
The three dance groups
are very excited about the
upcoming year. Orchesis, the
modern dance and ballet
groiQ) took in 3 members fcnr a
total of six. The new girls are
Sandra Keesie, Evelyn
Bruton, and Renie Rogriguz.
Orchesis is busily preparing
for the Fall Festival and
Oktoberfest - Parents’
weekend.
The Scottish dancers
added six new members to
their groiq>. These new girls.
Cissy Dais, Roseanne
Spearman, Kathy Herring,
Susan Fleming, Mary
Laurence Hicks, and Susan
Sargent, are working hard
with the old girls to get ready
for Parents Weekend and the
Fall Festival. In addition to
these events, the Scottish
dancers will also compete in
the International Dancing
Competitim at the State Fair,
Thursday, October 20. Last
year they came back with two
second place ribbons, and
they hope to do as well this
year.
The third group of dan
cers, Caperettes, took on 2
new members who are Betty
Lynn Walters and Cindy
Hdland. The group is now
composed of 3 seniors, 3
juniors and the two new fresh
men. They plan to dance at the
Fall Festival and Parents
Weekend and are now in the
midst of planning trips to
elementary' schools and the
prison. Future plans for
Caperettes mi^t include a
dance at N^ Hills for
retarded children.
Chosen
The 1977-78 returning Sea
Saints are Marion Stewart
(Pres.), Mary Hughes
Boyland, Ann Womble, Carter
Ward, Sherri Wilkie, Janie
Battle, and Carol Brown.
Many girls showed up for try
outs earlier in the year and
from these , 8 new girls were
selected. The new Sea Saints
are Sally Davis, Laurie Little,
Beth Gardner, Kathy Oats,
Ann King, G. Lee Lewis,
Alecia Sedwitz, and Lucy
Ryon. The flrst performance
by the Sea Saints will be on
Cictober 28 during Parents
Weekend.
Mrs. Sappenfield recently
took the Sea Saints to Rich
mond, Va. for Weekend
Workshop. Here, many new
skills were learned to help the
girls choreograph their
numbers. The main per
formance for the Sea Saints
will again be during the
Spring Show in April.
Everyone is practicing hard in
hopes that this year. Sea
Saints will be the best ever.
Morehead Nominees
Chosen
Students vie for volleyball championship.
The first interviews of the
Morehead Scholarship can
didates will be held this week.
A Morehead Award is “an
honorary award accompanied
by a grant of money to finance
the recipient’s undergraduate
study at the University of N.C.
at Chapel Hill,” according to
the scholarship description.
Several St. Mary’s
sophomores, whose names
will be released in the near
future, are in the process of
completing their resumes for
the scholarship judges.
The grant for each cdlege
y^r is $3,000.00 which covers
all initial expenses. Criteria
for award recipients includes:
evidence of moral force of
character and of capacities to
iMd and take an interest in
classmates, scholastic ability
and extra-curricular at
tainments, and must be un
married.
Personal interviews will
be held by the central com
mittee in Chapel Hill.
Directories
Sold
The senior class will begin
student directory sales in mid-
October. The booklets include
student listings with home and
school addresses and
telephone numbers and
faculty-staff listings. Students
Students’ church affiliations
which have appeared in past
directories will not be in
cluded. The price will be $1.50
per book and will be payable
by check. Members of the
senior class will visit all halls
to take orders.